Tory Redux

Author: Jon Siemko

  • Harper’s Sense of Humor

    Our Prime Minister in private is a pretty funny guy ,it’s too bad we don’t get to see the lighter side of Harper.

    From BC local news

    “Stephen Harper continues to impress me,” said Nanaimo-Alberni MP James Lunney. “People don’t see him the way we see him, he has a terrific sense of humour and he’s able to analyze from so many different angles.”

    He said it’s unfortunate there are increasing security concerns and he’s had to become less accessible.

    “There’s some real nasty people around.”

    He added that the Prime Minister doesn’t get to show his humour, such as his skilled impersonations, because of the worry of offending someone.

  • Michael Ignatieff on War

    Michael Ignatieff  from 2004

    Michael Ignatieff of Harvard University concluded, war had become “a spectacle”. It had transformed itself into a kind of “spectator sport”, one offering “the added thrill that it is real for someone, but not, happily, for the spectator”. Even for the participants, fighting no longer implied the prospect of dying for some abstract cause, since the very notion of “sacrifice in battle had become implausible or ironic”.

    Does Michael ignatieff still think modern warfare a spectacle. And sacrifice in battle ” implausible” and “ironic”.

  • Working Towards a Conservative Majority

    Yesterday I was canvassing in one of the hotly contested races in the GTA. It was a great experience  getting involved in my local campaign. I want to encourage every grassroots supporter to get out there and help out any way you can. This will ensure that we all wake up to a conservative majority on May 3.