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December 2005
TOBACCO NEWS FROM CANADA Comments by Warren Klass President, FORCES - Canada Dateline - Federal Election “There’s battle lines’
being drawn. “Its worth noting here that Duffy recently wrote a column for the National Post in which he suggested Conservative voters tend to have a pessimistic and angry view of life, while Liberals…tend towards a sunny disposition and generally optimistic outlook on things.” —Lorrie Goldstein, Toronto Sun columnist, December 13,2005.
Two — count ‘em — separate Liberal Party strategists said on National TV that parents given an extra $25 a week under the Conservative proposal would blow it on “beer and popcorn.” All of a sudden there was a Canadian epiphany. The Liberal Party is out of touch elitists/social engineers. The radio call-in shows and Letters to the Editor are full of outrage. Why this is some kind of breathtaking insight is beyond me. I have just written a smokers rights column where I have said virtually the same thing for years. The anti-smoker PARASITE Industry is symptomatic of how the Liberals piss away hundreds of millions a year-outside the purview of the Auditor General, with nothing beyond a certain self-righteous delusions to show for their nihilism. And the Liberal Health Minister promised/threatened that this is only the beginning of their plans for Canadian smokers. And millions of Ontario smokers are telling pollsters they are planning to vote Liberal again. The latest national polls in the Grope & Flail are Liberal 36%. Conservative 30%. But in Ontario its Liberals 47%, Conservatives 29%. In the prairies Liberal support has fallen to 19%. The smokers in the rest of Canada have a “pessimistic and angry” opinion of their fellow Ontario smokers. Forces are going to be on its annual Christmas break from mid-December until early January. The election to end all elections in Canada is January 23, 2006. If anyone has a brief message you would like to share with your fellow Canadians, send me a plain text e-mail (no attachments, please) at wklass44@yahoo.com .Put in the subject line “Election comment.” Keep them brief, please. I don’t have the time to read a thesis. Dateline - Quebec City, Quebec “Nostrodamus? What team does he play for?” Don Cherry, on Coach’s Corner commenting on Duceppe’s proposal on first intermission of Joe Thornton 5. Leafs 4. I watched the Canadiens beat the L.A. Kings 3-2 on CBC French. “The country I come from is called the mid-west.” — Hibbing, Minnesota native Bob Dylan, With God On Our Side.
I think Duceppe’s proposal for a seven game series between team Quebec and the rest of Canada is interesting but too parochial. Duceppe wants to restrict membership in the Quebec hockey team to those born in Quebec. This is ridiculous. What about Sydney Crosby and Joe Sakic, the greatest Nordique ever? Both have deep connected roots to Quebec Hockey. Why not three teams? Team Quebec, Team Ontario, and Team Western Canada. I think a team from Western Canada would kick ass. Carmem Manitoba (Maple Leaf) Eddie Belfour in goal, Brandon Wheat-King Wade Redden (Ottawa Senators) on defense with Calgary native Dionne Phaneuf, (Calgary Flames), forwards would include Alberta born Jarome Ingilia (Calgary Flames), and Dany Heatley (Ottawa Senators). A three-team play-off would allow Sidney Crosby to play for Team Quebec and Joe Sakic (Colorado Rockies) to play for team Western Canada. In this scenario I would think Western Canada, because of its defense would be favored over the goaltending and fast-forwards of Team Quebec. An Ontario team with Thunder Bay’s Eric Staal (the Carolina whatever) and Ottawa’s Marc Savard (the Atlanta whatever’s) may well be the dark horse the rest of Canada roots against. Dateline -Toronto, Ontario “But you know something
is happening here, but you don’t know what it is.
The Grope & Flail crow publicly on CBC about how a record number of Canadians are turning to the Grope’s web site for election, anti-Harper news. www.globeandmail.com. Yawwwwn. There are 8 million stories in The Naked City this has been one. The Toronto Red Star is not quite panicking. It has so far been uncharacteristically restrained in its expected hysterical coverage of Stephen Harper. Stephen Harper is an Economist. The definition of an economist is a “boy good with numbers who didn’t have the personality to be an accountant.” The latest Red Star Poll found Liberal support dropped 5% and Conservative support dropped 2% after a week, where the media unceasingly criticized Harper for proposing a free-vote in the Commons on same-sex marriage and a 2% cut in the GST. The Lunatic Left are gravitating for now to the NDP and the Greens, the Marijuana Party, etc. What does this mean? Who knows? There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them. Finally last and least from the Big Lemon (New York is “The Big Apple”. It was Allan Fotheringham who first called Toronto “The Big Lemon”). Someone sent me a copy of an Academic Economist actually trying to be funny in criticizing some hair-brained scheme of Physicians For A Smoke-Free Canada and the media reaction to the Imperial plant closures. I’m not going to bore readers with the Academic Minutia that actually supports what Forces Canada has long advocated. There are 8 million stories in the Naked City. This has been one of them. Dateline -Toronto, Ontario “Some were dreadfully insulted and quite seriously that such an immoral character could be “A Hero Of Our Time”…others shrewdly noticed that the author had portrayed himself and his acquaintances…A Hero of Our Time, gentlemen, is not the portrait of an individual. Rather, it is the aggregate of vices of our whole generation in their fullest expression.” — Lermontov. “C’mon Girl. Time to put on War Paint.” — Jayne Russell to Marylyn Monroe, in a movie.
Vol. 2. is without Downtown and all the really good stuff. It was part of a gift suggestion, I made to my friend involving a Birthday/Anniversary/Valentines Day present. The Best of Petula Clark. Vol 1&2. The Best of Dusty Springfield (Vol 1 & 2) was a more appreciated suggestion to a different ex-wife. My friend’s ex-wives were all Liberal voters, even though two of them were smokers. Then there was the ultimate Bitch From Hell: an anti-smoking Bitch originally from Ottawa. A real card-carrying Liberal. A Daydream Believer. Not surprisingly her replacement was a smoker-and twenty years younger, 50 pounds lighter, and much less inhibited. How did he meet the Bitch From Hell? She responded to an ad I wrote for my friend: ”seeking Divorcé. Nice tits, no kids, no cats.” I actually got along with her for a while. I once asked my friend: “Doesn’t the Politics, and the friends that go with this of this drive you crazy?” My friend described her consciousness raising/yoga group friends as “real visions, 300 pound Lesbians.” It was sort of like Harriet Nelson joined Crusading Ontario Witches and Lesbians For Taxpayer Funded Abortions and Smoking Bans. The Shelia Copps/Carolyn Perish/Carolyn Bennet wing of The Liberal Party. I was married to two Liberal voters. Not that bad but Liberal voters nonetheless. Both nice, ladies. Honest. Ex-Wife #1 was a never smoker, but everybody in her family smoked, so it was no big deal. Made a bundle in tobacco stocks. Ex- Wife #2 was a former smoker who quit when she got pregnant with our children. She actually voted for Brian Mulroney until we split and has been voting Liberal ever since. We stayed married for as long as we did because she said: ”I don’t smoke anymore, but I’m not a nut about it.” After we split she exclusively dated smokers. She finally quit dating a few years ago with the comment: ”I’m tired of putting on “War Paint” as you call it.” I digress. I was playing the Petula Clark CD when I came upon track 5: Who Am I? I’m dedicating Who Am I? To all the Toronto Girls out there who keep the Liberals in power: “The buildings reach up
to the sky. I long to wake up in
the morning and find everything has changed. All the dreams that I
believe in let me down. < Back To "I read the news..." > |
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NEWS FROM CANADA
December
14 - For the benefit of American readers and Canadians living in a cave
(about 47% of Ontario voters according to the latest poll in the Grope &
Flail), Duffy was the author of the infamous “beer and popcorn” comment
that has surprisingly captured the public imagination.