tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post140507768774871831..comments2024-03-03T17:01:57.876-05:00Comments on Montreal Simon: The Burning Planet and the Icy Hand of the ConsSimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-67916461292279038502011-12-01T02:16:53.579-05:002011-12-01T02:16:53.579-05:00hi Local949...yes Cameron's Cons and our grote...hi Local949...yes Cameron's Cons and our grotesque government have a lot in common. Both are rabid ideologues, both are union bashers, with their heartless austerity programs they're both leading their countries to economic disaster. And of course they're both determined to torch the planet. The good news? Once their day is over, they won't be back for a generation...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-74517485599101213142011-12-01T02:13:04.289-05:002011-12-01T02:13:04.289-05:00hi Just Call Me Rick... you know I've never th...hi Just Call Me Rick... you know I've never thought about it that way, but I see your point. Calling it a Canadian government would be extremely inaccurate, as well as highly embarrassing. Better the Cons should take all the blame. When it comes to putting them on trial that should prove extremely useful... ;)Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-49975378977302352292011-11-29T10:35:30.563-05:002011-11-29T10:35:30.563-05:00Fools rule ... and now with their little BP Murdoc...Fools rule ... and now with their little BP Murdochian Shell lying Cameron friends in the UK's high places, i.e. 'U.K. secretly supporting oilsands campaign: report'<br /><br />{ http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/William+Marsden+book+Fools+Rule+About+politics+climate+change/5589597/story.html }<br /><br />'David Cameron vowed to make the coalition government "the greenest ever"'local949https://www.blogger.com/profile/17318542175533670896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-51197499411539488172011-11-29T06:25:51.824-05:002011-11-29T06:25:51.824-05:00I reverse my position and now think it totally app...I reverse my position and now think it totally appropriatew that Harper changed the "The Governement of Canada" to the "Harper governement" on its letterheads. We as canadians want no part of this shame.Just Call Me Ricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-64891197063076890852011-11-29T01:38:36.703-05:002011-11-29T01:38:36.703-05:00hi Karen...thank you for your kind words and pleas...hi Karen...thank you for your kind words and please believe that I do not consider older people people to be the enemy. I work with them every day and I simply adore them. Even though they sometimes give me a hard time. ;)<br />I was only taking those words from what Frank Graves said the other day in this article:<br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/is-a-liberal-comeback-mission-impossible/article2250088/<br /><br /><i>Mr. Graves says that, because of demographic fault lines, Canada probably has the world's deepest generational gulf, making it increasingly a country of old, white people who vote Conservative and young multicultural people who don't vote at all but have values that differ markedly from those of older people (including, maybe especially, their immigrant parents). It's a gulf that risks delegitimizing the country's democracy and short-circuiting the generational transfer of political power.</i><br /><br />The fact that this situation exists is really the fault of younger Canadians for not voting. So I'm really being harder on them than anybody else. But I guess I'm going to have to make that more obvious. My beautiful Canada includes young and old, and everybody in between...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-15057868689771879352011-11-29T01:31:23.925-05:002011-11-29T01:31:23.925-05:00hi anonymous...I personally and passionately hope ...hi anonymous...I personally and passionately hope that any occupy movement in this country will remain unarmed. For guns can do nothing against the power of peaceful protest. All we have to remember is that we are more than them. And use that to our democratic advantage...Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15309809679331128837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-80177561510638992482011-11-29T00:23:26.727-05:002011-11-29T00:23:26.727-05:00Hey Simon, I love your blog. I love your love of t...Hey Simon, I love your blog. I love your love of this country, and I share it. I share your deep pain at these injustices. I love your love of young people and your fierce protection of them, and I share that too. Simon, I am a middle aged white chick. While I accept that I am complicit in the mess we are in merely from having been born in the time I was, I AM doing all I can. I work hard at being a responsible citizen of this planet. I am involved in everything I can be involved in to help fix this mess. <br />You are a tolerant, loving man and by no means is your anger misplaced. But not all old white people are evil.karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11131927710530023725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23253782.post-29543024637002520322011-11-28T23:50:37.581-05:002011-11-28T23:50:37.581-05:00The people we don't usually like to think abou...The people we don't usually like to think about are biding their time. Once they can buy guns with no registration, they can buy hundreds and nobody will know. They can distribute them to others with no accountability. "Occupy" was not armed. The next wave of protest against the Harperreich will be. To the teeth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com