Rose's Cantina

Candice Bergen seen here with Cabinet colleagues I'm trying to give up politics for the summer but the politicos just won't leave me alone. I live in the riding of Ottawa South, the homestead of Premier Dad and Premier Dad's Dad. Now, because Daddeo fled the coop in fear of reprisal from angry Ontarians, I must confront a byelection. I struggle with Ontario politics every time there is an election and this byelection will be no different. I've been a life long Liberal, brainwashed at the tender age of 23, made to wear orangey-red t-shirts and get hit upon by paunchy old lawyers. I was a true believer back in my youth, but became cynical in my thirties and disappointed in my forties. Now in my fifties, I could give a shit. But vote I must. Still, voting against the Liberals when you've been one for so long is akin to murdering your parents. So I'm going to give Kathleen Wynne a chance because I will never, ever vote Conservative and cannot b...

I find it quite rich that Diane Finley is following Vic Toews' public relations strategy to sell the government's plan to raise the qualification age for Old Age Security to 67 from 65. She spoke to the Canadian Club yesterday and singled out a table of youngsters -- who no doubt had their tickets paid for by the Tories -- and suggested we oldsters should sacrifice a little for the up and coming generation. Finley took the opportunity to use young people as a human shield, just as Vic the Dick Toews had used children to protect him from those who were against his plan to have cops hack into our emails. "The total cost of benefits will be increasingly unsustainable for tomorrow's workers and taxpayers," she said. "And it's the next generations of Canadians who will have to shoulder the burden." In other words, we are unfairly burdening our children and grandchildren because of our impending slackery. Wait a minute, there missy. I suppose ...

I want to thank Vickileaks for exposing Vic Toews for what he is. A first class douche bag. The guy is getting all up in our faces, telling us that we're on the side of the child pornographers, because we don't support letting the cops read our private correspondence and check out what we put on Facebook. Mr. High and Mighty. Mr. Moral Centre. Mr. Family Man. Meanwhile, according to the leaks, Vic the Dick impregnated the babysitter and humiliated his wife of 30 years. Now he's asking for privacy. Accusing the opposition of snooping in his own personal underwear drawer. Some men think it's okay to be sleazoids, flinging their privates at all comers, while carving out for themselves the moral high ground. I was married to one of those guys. It's not okay to hurt the people you love and humiliate them while going to church every Sunday. And it's not okay for politicians to preach morality to us and then ask for privacy when they commit adultery, ...

I have this really disturbing image in my head of Vic Toews talking to reporters using toddlers as a human shield. You see the government wants to give up your email info to the cops and its reasoning is that this invasion of privacy "will protect children from predators". It's sort of like giving cops the excuse that they can search your car because your back headlight is broken. While I do have some respect for law enforcement, we also know that cops can be heavy-handed at times and can push the envelop when given a new toy. Remember that poor unarmed Polish fellar who bought the farm after being tasered to death by the RCMP? If you can't trust cops with a taser gun, how can you possibly trust them with your Facebook photos of your kid peeing, naked on a beach somewhere? Or laying on a bear rug? I'm not saying you should be posting these photos, but stupidity isn't pedophilia. Despite what we see on tv, cops don't always get it right. Poor ba...