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Tories scrambling

Jason ramblingWith the recent cabinet shuffle, it now seems the Tories are scrambling to regain lost support. In several road to Damascus conversions, the Harper Conservatives are desperately trying to look like born again environmentalists, multiculturalists and not war hawks. New minister of the environment John Baird in fact was heard stating the priorities of Canadians have changed in the past year in that they want action on the environment.
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Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic

Jason ramblingSo as expected, Stephen Harper has shuffled his cabinet. Presumably he has done this to prop up sagging Tory fortunes in the polls. Key to this is the replacing of Rona Ambrose with John Baird in the environment portfolio. Harper is likely hoping that Baird will have better luck selling the Tory's environmental non-plan to Canadians than Ambrose had.
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YAM...

Memes
What Fantasy Archetype Are you?



The Mentor
You are the prestigous Mentor! You're akin to Gandalf (Lord of The Rings), Merlin (ARthurian Legend), Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars), Aslan (Narnia), Door (Neverwhere), Dumbledore (Harry Potter) and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander (Wizard's First Rule). You are wise and knowing, and know that there is not much time left for the Unlikely Hero to defeat The Totally Wicked Villain. Only you know the true motives and past of The Villain, so it's up to you to teach the Unlikely Hero all he has to know. Be careful as you'll invariably regret not telling The Unlikely Hero things sooner rather than later. You like teaching and often care very much for others.
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Is Stephen Harper killing Canadian conservatism?

Jason ramblingIn my reading of the various media and blogs out there the question comes to mind is Harper doing for the Conservative Party of Canada and conservatism in general what George Bush is doing for the Republicans in the US? Garth Turner thinks that Canadian conservatism has a much different flavour to it that the flavour that Harper is presenting. Turner's thesis (and this could just be sour grapes) is that Canadian conservatism tends to be more progressive socially and conservative fiscally. This got me thinking about what Harper is doing to the face of Canadian conservatism and what damage he's inflicting on the CPC while he's doing it. The big question is does Harper's vision of Canada resonate with Canadians?
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Kettle calls pot black and other Harper follies.

Jason ramblingSo we have Stephen Harper saying that Gilles Duceppe is using the troops in Afghanistan for political ends after Duceppe threatened to pull the plug on the Tory government. After all, it's only Stephen Harper who can threaten elections and use our troops in Afghanistan for political ends. The depths of hypocrisy that Harper will stoop never ceases to amaze me. Harper spends much of the summer and fall making everything a confidence issue, daring the opposition to topple his government. Now, when they begin to call his bluff, Harper gets all hurt and starts name calling. Not to mention how Harper and his merry band would use the troops in Afghanistan in an attempt to silence critics of their policy there.
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New stuff here at Evilness

Jason ramblingI've added a plug in to Geeklog, the software that runs my blog. This allows me to put files up for people to download. Now my primary reason is so I can share some of my photography, since my D50 creates rather large files and just putting the photos up here on the blog would create download time problems. So click on the My Downloads link at the top of the page and enjoy.
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The evil Briggs-Myers Personality Test

Memes
Crackpot - INTJ
46% Extraversion, 60% Intuition, 66% Thinking, 60% Judging
People hate you.

Paris Hilton hates Nicole Richie. Lex Luther hates Superman. Garfield hates Mondays.
But none these even rates against the insurmountable hate, people have for you.

I mean, you're pretty damn clever and you know it. You love to flaunt your potential. Heard the word "arrogant" lately? How about "jerk?" Or perhaps they only say that behind your back.

That's right. I know I can say this cause you're not going to cry. You're not exactly the most emotional person. You'd rather spend time with your theoretical questions and abstract theories than with other people.

Ever been kissed? Ever even been on a date? Trust me, your inflated ego is a complete turnoff with the opposite sex and I am telling you, you're not that great with relationships as it is. You're never going to be a dude or chick magnet, purely because you're more concerned with yourself than others. Meh. They all hate you already anyway.

How about this- "stubborn?" Hrm? Heard that lately? All those facts which don't fit your theories must just be wrong, right? I mean, really, the vast amounts of time you spend with your head in the clouds...you're just plain strange.

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If you want to learn more about your personality type in a slightly less negative way, check out this.

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The other personality types are as follows...

Loner - Introverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Pushover - Introverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Criminal - Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Borefest - Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Almost Perfect - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Freak - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Loser - Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Clown - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Perceiving
Sap - Extraverted Sensing Feeling Judging
Commander - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving
Do Gooder - Extraverted Sensing Thinking Judging
Scumbag - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Perceiving
Busybody - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging
Prick - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving
Dictator - Extraverted iNtuitive Thinking Judging




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Ezra tries deflection.

Jason ramblingIn one of his columns, neo-con wing-nut Ezra Levant questions Stephane Dion's loyalty to Canada. This is such a red herring you can smell the stench from here. In point of fact, it's hyper-hypocritical of Levant to do so. Why? Ted Morton.
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Private health care more expensive than public.

Jason ramblingFor years now we've heard the neo-conservative elements of society complaining that public health care is too expensive and that the private sector could do a much better job for less money. Well here's proof that the market can't do the same job for less money than the publicly funded health system. Seems the super-whahoo private emergency clinic can't make a profit on what the government pays for emergency procedures. Funny how the private sector can't do the same job the public sector can for less money.
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Who should be PM poll - Mk 2

Jason ramblingSo with all the parties with leaders in place, a new poll! If the election were held today, who would you like to see as prime minister? So click here to get to this site's main page and the poll is on the right hand side.