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May 2007

Politics

One gear, and it is reverse.

The Regressive Conservatives, under Hugh McGruff, are truly stuck in the past. First it was the use of the word “crime fighters” which is a call-back to the hay-day of organized crime. Then it was the grand idea of new prisons as a solution to crime problems which the same mentality that has been kicking around North America for too long with far too few results. Now these conservative dunder-heads have reached up their ass and pulled out the Winnipeg Jets.

That’s right. Bring back the Winnpeg Jets. Why? To keep the youth in the province. Tory thinking is that in order to keep Manitoba young, Manitoba need to have an NHL franchise.

What should be happening, you might ask? Simple. Nix the crime-fighter and prison pledge and forget the Jets. If it were economically viable and sound then a private sector group would have approached the government. Not the other way around. Never the other way around.

What should happen is there should be more money invested in green technological research and development. More money should be invested in univerisities and colleges to increase new, emerging and green technology. This would draw youth to the province and provide jobs. All the while working with Aboriginals and tying the environment to their historic claims to the land. A partnership between the Manitoba governemnt, aboriginals and youth.

But the tories have only one gear and it is reverse. Everything the Hugh McGruff has suggested reaches into the past and tries to paint it as a new and exciting idea. But nothing is new. Nothing is exciting. It is a repeat of “All in the Family” but the voice of the Progressive is silenced and no one is laughing at Archie.

[Update] They are talking about this on CBC as I write this and one comment made me smile, mostly because I agree. The caller suggested that before we bring back the Jets we should bring back the Atlantic cod or the Prairie Bison. He suggested the youth that would stay here because of a sports team only go “Rah-Rah-Rah” and that we shouldn’t want those youth. And he is right. We want youth who want to create and make the province something worth-while. Sports is not really a drawing factor.

What a stupid suggestion it is that this would re-vitalize the province.

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Hugh McGruff

In a world full of super-villians and ultra criminals thank god there is Officer Hugh McGruff on the case. With Hugh watching over you, there is nothing to fear. Unless you take into account that two Rottweilers attacked another dog as the owner was walking it just the other day. And then the Rottweilers’ owner ran away and is hiding? What is Hugh going to do? Chase after those dogs? And then HE would be put down.

What can I say? Big dogs can be scary. And Hugh McGruff is a big dog.

Hugh McGruff

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"The Jetsons" are not the future

Hugh McFayden and the PC Party of Manitoba have rather stupid planks on their platform. I mean who would vote for this?

Tories add new jail to election promises

Yes, it is a rhetorical question. Everybody knows that jails are for criminals, and everybody knows the only way to reduce crime is to rid the visible world of people who have, at least once, been known to have committed a crime. Once we have rounded up all the bad guys, the roughly 97 of us who are too smart to be caught will be living in Paradise.

Good Grief. This is not how things actually work.

Why, oh Dear God, Why do the Conservatives continually look to the same solutions every time a question arises? Rather than shovelling money out for more police (or “Crime Fighters”) and building fancier prisons why not spend some money looking for reasons why crime occurs and then battling that problem? Or looking for creative answers rather than using tired and re-used, regurgitated (and then re-ingested), do-nothing, solve-nothing, problem perpetuating so-called “solutions”?

Everytime I ask myself such questions, I pause, take a moment, and realize that Conservatives are, by definition, stuck in the past. Their [beta-max] tape is running on a constant loop and the future always looks the same. (Looks like the Jetsons.) Thing is, however, that the tape is going to wear out soon and they may have to learn to think for themselves.

On another front, the whole Canadian Hockey Team Captain shinanagins going on in the House of Commons is absolutely rediculous. What are we going to have next? An inquiry into steroid use in Baseball or, to culturally translate, Lacrosse?

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For Manitoba, For a Change

I guess this time Hugh McFadyen has decided to try and work for Manitoba instead of against it. Too bad his platform, ideas, party, and philosophy don’t agree.

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