Last week we looked at a case of domain squatting and lack of preparedness for one Liberal candidate, current Minister of Finance, Ralph Goodale.
Ralph finally gets a web site going, two weeks into the campaign
When we last looked for a Goodale campaign site, http://www.ralphgoodale.ca/ was showing a page indicating that no site was yet defined there, and other Goodale domain name combinations had obviously been hijacked.
Candidates: you knew an election was coming up ages ago – there’s no excuse for not securing domain names well in advance, particularly for long-time politicians. If you don’t make the effort, some teenager will.
After today’s Conservative announcement on military support party leader Stephen Harper said to reporters that he would not NOW send Canadian troops to Iraq.
Duh. Did anyone expect him to say anything different, NOW? Of course not.
The real story is that Harper was ready to jump in bed with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice and the even worse neoconservative ideologues behind the lead faces – Wolfwitz, Feith and others – they were going to go into Iraq no matter what the evidence was, and so they did, against the evidence, against the will of the world.
Harper may claim he was hoodwinked (he has not as yet) into supporting the war in Iraq but the fact remains: Canada would be at war with Iraq right now if Stephen Harper was prime minister at the time.
Canada deserves better than this.
Stephen Janke – weblog:Angry in the Great White North is in the news this week for creating a website www.kidsnotbeer.com to offer a petition in response to Liberal communications guy Scott Reid’s popcorn and beer comments.
Personally I think Reid’s comments show off what an sullen little moron he must be, but newsworthy? To this degree? Not really. Thumbs up to Mr. Janke for getting some publicity out of it himself, and thumbs down to the media for describing Mr. Janke simply as a “father of four”.
Indeed, Janke is a father of four, but after browsing his blog, one has to wonder if he’s just as ideologically or pathologically sullen as Scott Reid. Mr. Janke is an ideal representative of the ultra-right which has slowly been taking over the Conservative Party, characterized in general by extreme positions on:
- Homosexuality and their place in our society
- The Iraq war (in favour), and anyone that criticizes it (he attacks)
- Muslims, and by inference anyone that isn’t Christian, characterizing Iraq and terror as ”the product of an entire civilization (Islamic)”
After all, what kind of person would write 116 posts on Iraq war objector / mother of dead Iraq war soldier Cindy Sheehan? 116 fairly venemous posts, on balance, over the space of time between November 27th 2005 and August August 4, 2005? That’s 115 days – a post a day. Wow, talk about obsessive… I grew rather sick of reading this drivel after three or four posts.
So yes indeed – Liberal communications guy Scott Reid deserves to be roasted for his comments, but, by entering the public fray, so does kidsnotbeer.com creator Stephen Janke.