Jeers: to the party that can't get anything right. Federal Liberals were on the defensive last week after posting a submitted picture of Prime Minister Stephen Harper being assassinated. The picture showed Harper's face superimposed over a famous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby. Also taken down was a picture depicting Harper with his arm up the backside of a cow. How about a picture of Michael Ignatieff wielding a stick for his own back? And here's another question: are the websites of federal political parties all run by teenagers?
Jeers: to scary numbers. The influential Seafood.com website - its editor, John Sackton, is regularly asked to analyze fish price issues in this province - is giving some threatening news about Japanese seafood products. While the website says Japanese seafood inventories in October were the lowest they've been in a decade, fishermen and processors shouldn't hope for a big price jump with the demand needed to fill the freezers. The site says the market demand for seafood in Japan is falling, and wholesalers are talking about an overall seven per cent decline in prices in the coming year. In 2008, close to $300 million in this province's fish product exports went to Asian countries, Japan included. Hold on to your socks.
Cheers: to hyperbole. It's nice to know when someone has your back, especially when other people are chipping away at you. So, it's time to guess the party affiliation of the following speaker in the House of Assembly: "God forbid, if we lose the leadership that we have right now, that is certainly the envy of all of Canada, as I have travelled within the country itself, I have heard time and time again: God, we wish we had a premier like yours. So God forbid that we would lose him as a leader at this particular time. I will say this, that at some point in time, I suppose a lot of people expect that we will lose him, but my idea of it all is that we should mummify him and keep him in the seat and do not let anybody know in Newfoundland and Labrador that he is dead. I think just having him here, we will do much better than if we had somebody else in that chair. So I will say that there as well. I have said that, actually, publicly at times. I say it with some type of jest, because I am not sure if he would want to be mummified and put in that chair, but in the meantime, I would like to have him there myself, because I have all the admiration in the world." You guessed it: it's a Progressive Conservative. It's Government Services Minister Kevin O'Brien, saying a few words about King Tut - no, sorry, Danny Williams.
Jeers: to technology reaching into every facet of our lives. Here's cabinet minister Kevin O'Brien again, trying to answer a question in the House of Assembly: "I would like to clarify some questions that the Honourable Member asked across the House in this committee stage. If I have the indulgence of the House to use both my BlackBerry and a few written notes that I made in regard to the questions asked where I can get them right and actually, hopefully clarified." Now, just who was on the other end of the line?
Cheers & Jeers
- Published on December 21st, 2009
- Published on July 1st, 2010
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Staff ~ The Telegram
Jeers: to the party that can't get anything right. Federal Liberals were on the defensive last week after posting a submitted picture of Prime Minister Stephen Harper being assassinated. The picture showed Harper's face superimposed over a famous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby. Also taken down was a picture depicting Harper with his arm up the backside of a cow. How about a picture of Michael Ignatieff wielding a stick for his own back? And here's another question: are the websites of federal political parties all run by teenagers?
Jeers: to scary numbers. The influential Seafood.com website - its editor, John Sackton, is regularly asked to analyze fish price issues in this province - is giving some threatening news about Japanese seafood products. While the website says Japanese seafood inventories in October were the lowest they've been in a decade, fishermen and processors shouldn't hope for a big price jump with the demand needed to fill the freezers. The site says the market demand for seafood in Japan is falling, and wholesalers are talking about an overall seven per cent decline in prices in the coming year. In 2008, close to $300 million in this province's fish product exports went to Asian countries, Japan included. Hold on to your socks.
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- Darrell
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:34:27
Jason W from Channel, NL I suspect you are one of those Federal Liberals.
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- Jerome
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:33:40
The first common-sense statement I've see from Taxpayer II since .... well ever.
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- Darrell
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:25:11
Chris from B.C. , now you Liberals are saying my parents are criminals, go figure. Actually I was dropped on my head.
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- James
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:20:57
No one is calling Hillier a war criminal. He's just throwing out red herrings to help cover up his actions -- which, now that you mention it, are war crimes. Jeers to the federal Tories and their cronies (Hillier included) for trying to sabotage due process.
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- Taxpayer ll
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:20:55
O'Brien is a tool.
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- Jason
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:19:11
I see we have a simple minded fool here named Darrell who can't tell the difference between the military and the government. Thankfully he's got just one vote to throw away. The two are supposed to be separate darrell or you'd be living in Nicaragua where there has been civil war for decades because one political party pulls the militaries strings. Is that what you want here...a dictatorship? I find it funny how people are criticizing these photos of Harper but turned a blind eye to the image with the pooping puffin which depicted Ignatieff with a assault rifle pointed a Dion, nor do they mention the bullet holes all around on image of Dion on the CPC website. Silly me, I thought the Reform-Conservatives were in power. I think the editors are all as stupid as Darrell the dictator from Nova Scotia. Go to school Darrell and learn what critical thinking is in case you ever have a thought of your own.
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- Winston
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:18:31
I'm not sure that 'hyperbole' is the right word to describe Mr. O'Brien's remarks in the House of Assembly. 'Panegyric,' or ???????????, is perhaps a better fit. 'Hyperbole' suggests that he was not being sincere in his encomium. Or are you trying to suggest that such ministerial praise of the Premier is not genuinely sincere?
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- Darrell
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:15:51
JEERS to the Federal Liberals who are telling the Taliban that Canadians, Canadian Soldiers and General Hillier condone torture and beatings. Get on side Federal Liberals, Canadians don't condone torture. Except Ignatieff, who publicly praised torture. The Taliban will only fight harder if the Federal Liberals continue to scare them about torture.
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- Eli
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:15:31
I wonder if Kevin O'Brien rehearsed his charitable comments to his Furher while compiling his mileage expense between St. John's and Gander? It was weird. Can't wait to see what he cost us this July and August. Last year he made the equivalent of the average Joe's salary.
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- Darrell
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:15:07
JEERS to the Federal Liberals, who are branding General Hillier a war criminal.
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- Joe
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:14:16
Kevin O'Brien is the epitome of brownnoser,
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- Chris
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:12:02
Darrell. Conservatives never engage in logical and/or civil political discourse. They feel that ridiculing their opposites (in this case, anyone who doesn't subscribe to the Conservative doctrine) and attaching ridiculous monikers (repetitive and childish) is a sign of intelligence, and political savvy. As to ex-Gen. Hillier, I was an ardent fan, until I watched him before the Commons Committee, being bombastic, and thoroughly unbelievable. And yes, Darrell, I am a Liberal, and I doubt if I would ever became stupid enough to vote for an intolerant, homophobic, mean-spirited, evangelidelusional (not a word) party. Iwould suggest you GROW UP.......
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- Chris
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:10:24
Darrell.....They shook you when you were a baby, didn't they?
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- Tom
- - July 2nd, 2010 at 13:09:11
Taxpayer 11 from Nl you're right. A tool by any other name is still a -----
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- Darrell
- - July 1st, 2010 at 20:23:42
Jason W from Channel, NL I suspect you are one of those Federal Liberals.
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- Jerome
- - July 1st, 2010 at 20:22:27
The first common-sense statement I've see from Taxpayer II since .... well ever.
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- Darrell
- - July 1st, 2010 at 20:11:17
Chris from B.C. , now you Liberals are saying my parents are criminals, go figure. Actually I was dropped on my head.
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- James
- - July 1st, 2010 at 20:04:06
No one is calling Hillier a war criminal. He's just throwing out red herrings to help cover up his actions -- which, now that you mention it, are war crimes. Jeers to the federal Tories and their cronies (Hillier included) for trying to sabotage due process.
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- Taxpayer ll
- - July 1st, 2010 at 20:04:01
O'Brien is a tool.
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- Jason
- - July 1st, 2010 at 20:00:59
I see we have a simple minded fool here named Darrell who can't tell the difference between the military and the government. Thankfully he's got just one vote to throw away. The two are supposed to be separate darrell or you'd be living in Nicaragua where there has been civil war for decades because one political party pulls the militaries strings. Is that what you want here...a dictatorship? I find it funny how people are criticizing these photos of Harper but turned a blind eye to the image with the pooping puffin which depicted Ignatieff with a assault rifle pointed a Dion, nor do they mention the bullet holes all around on image of Dion on the CPC website. Silly me, I thought the Reform-Conservatives were in power. I think the editors are all as stupid as Darrell the dictator from Nova Scotia. Go to school Darrell and learn what critical thinking is in case you ever have a thought of your own.
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- Winston
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:59:56
I'm not sure that 'hyperbole' is the right word to describe Mr. O'Brien's remarks in the House of Assembly. 'Panegyric,' or ???????????, is perhaps a better fit. 'Hyperbole' suggests that he was not being sincere in his encomium. Or are you trying to suggest that such ministerial praise of the Premier is not genuinely sincere?
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- Darrell
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:55:35
JEERS to the Federal Liberals who are telling the Taliban that Canadians, Canadian Soldiers and General Hillier condone torture and beatings. Get on side Federal Liberals, Canadians don't condone torture. Except Ignatieff, who publicly praised torture. The Taliban will only fight harder if the Federal Liberals continue to scare them about torture.
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- Eli
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:55:03
I wonder if Kevin O'Brien rehearsed his charitable comments to his Furher while compiling his mileage expense between St. John's and Gander? It was weird. Can't wait to see what he cost us this July and August. Last year he made the equivalent of the average Joe's salary.
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- Darrell
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:54:26
JEERS to the Federal Liberals, who are branding General Hillier a war criminal.
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- Joe
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:53:04
Kevin O'Brien is the epitome of brownnoser,
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- Chris
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:49:00
Darrell. Conservatives never engage in logical and/or civil political discourse. They feel that ridiculing their opposites (in this case, anyone who doesn't subscribe to the Conservative doctrine) and attaching ridiculous monikers (repetitive and childish) is a sign of intelligence, and political savvy. As to ex-Gen. Hillier, I was an ardent fan, until I watched him before the Commons Committee, being bombastic, and thoroughly unbelievable. And yes, Darrell, I am a Liberal, and I doubt if I would ever became stupid enough to vote for an intolerant, homophobic, mean-spirited, evangelidelusional (not a word) party. Iwould suggest you GROW UP.......
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- Chris
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:46:22
Darrell.....They shook you when you were a baby, didn't they?
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- Tom
- - July 1st, 2010 at 19:44:21
Taxpayer 11 from Nl you're right. A tool by any other name is still a -----
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