Stephen Harper's Maj Gov 2011

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He's gone.
 
TORONTO, Feb. 28, 2013 /CNW/ - "In light of recent remarks made by Tom Flanagan at the University of Lethbridge, CBC News has taken the decision to end our association with him as a commentator on Power and Politics.
While we support and encourage free speech across the country and a diverse range of voices, we believe Mr. Flanagan's comments to have crossed the line and impacted his credibility as a commentator for us".
Jennifer McGuire
General Manager and Editor In Chief, CBC News and Centres.
SOURCE: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Tom Flanagan - early dementia?

I don't think so. He was reiterating views he expressed some years ago. It's a reminder that he and some of his peers in "The Calgary Club" aren't small-c conservative at all. They're actually quite radical - fundamentalists in their own way if not necessarily in a religious context.

[lagatta]

One often sees such radical libertarianism on US boards - even boards on topics other than politics. A different strand of rightwing "thought" from the Focus on the Family types.

[Holly Stick]

He's been on leave from University of Calgary since January and will stay on leave until he retires in June:


http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/statements/february2013/flanagan


Basically he seems to be gone from everywhere (Globe & Mail didn't have a statement I think, do they still have columns by him?)

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In Flanagan's apology statement he said 'poor choice of words' I call B.S. he parrotted NAMBLA, where he has a membership, it states under Purpose -  NAMBLA rejects the widely held view that sex between adults and minors is always harmful, arguing that "the outcomes of personal experiences between adults and younger people primarily depend upon whether their relationships were consensual."[10]
[/size]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association

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He's been so cranky and testy  in the past few weeks on P&P that I was wishing he'd be let go. Gerald Caplan said on P&P tonight that Flanagan has had a lot of weird ideas come out on that show - extreme libertarian views that go right over the edge.
 
I can't help but wonder why CBC hired him in the first place.
 
 

[Debra]

NAMBLA and child sexual abuse is not new to these right wing fucknuts.

Suppose that there is a starvation situation, and the parent of the four year old child (who is not an adult) does not have enough money to keep him alive. A wealthy NAMBLA man offers this parent enough money to keep him and his family alive – if he will consent to his having sex with the child. We assume, further, that this is the only way to preserve the life of this four year old boy. Would it be criminal child abuse for the parent to accept this offer?
Not on libertarian grounds. For surely it is better for the child to be a live victim of sexual abuse rather than unsullied and dead. Rather, it is the parent who consents to the death of his child, when he could have kept him alive by such extreme measures, who is the real abuser.

Walter Block [Frasier Institute 1980's]

Source

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Holy Christ! 

[Toedancer]

This is going to stick on Harper 


http://www.themanitoban.com/2009/11/flanagan-speaks/500/


2009 - Flanagan cited the example of Stockwell Day suggesting that a lawyer by the name of Lorne Goddard, who had defended a client accused of possessing child pornography, believed the same thing as their client — “that the lawyer himself believed that it was OK to have child pornography.”[/size]Flanagan then continued, saying “But that’s actually another interesting debate or seminar: what’s wrong with child pornography — in the sense that it’s just pictures? But I’m not here to debate that today.” [/color]

[Holly Stick]

Two many articles on Flanagan to post, but Stephen Lautens has a new poster:


https://twitter.com/stephenlautens/status/308724115311849472

[Toedancer]

A disgrace and an insult to parliament-ex-finance officials launch scathing critique of tory budget secrecy


Of course the devoted bots say 'but they're old liberals'.


Porter's donations to the Cons


Harper can wear this too! Tip of the iceburg.

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I'm LMAO at MacLeans headline Harper may step down


Not once in the article is it mentioned the shit is about to hit the fan.

[sparqui]

From the article:

Stephen Harper is one of the smartest political tacticians ever to live at 24 Sussex.

They should put an end to this ^ and the brilliant economist myths. Harper is a cheat and bully. He is the Lance Armstrong of Canadian politics but without a foundation that contributes to the public good.

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Penashue quits, will run in byelection. Incomplete records, corporate donations, blames it on an inexperienced
volunteer. Why is he even allowed to run again if he broke the campaign donation rules? What a weasel! Between this and Cote wanting charges laid in the robocalls, things don't look good for Harper.



http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/03/14/pol-peter-penashue-stepping-down.html

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Penashue is useless. CBC is saying he had nothing to do with the Muskrat Falls project, that it was Harper's decision to make the multi-billion dollar loan available for the hydro project. On CBC's P&P right now the Con shill is saying Penashue was responsible for the TransLabradorian Highway and something else - but he refused to give any answers in the House about the many failures of the Search and Rescue crews based in his riding. Penashue was absent from the House a lot. I think the Liberals will win the byelection unless the Cons steal it again.