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dewlineSpeaking as a voter, how dare he?
"How dare who do what?", I hear you ask.
Asked and answered...
"People who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules do not have a taxpayer-funded lobby group. They don't have the time to hold demonstrations and they certainly don't make regular trips to Ottawa for news conferences." - Stephen Harper
FYI, here's the article from which I sourced it. If anyone can find the actual text from whence the original remark came, I'll post a link for that, too.
Personal opinion? I call that comment a 2-for-1 sneer.
I can't think of a single such person I know as fits those first three criteria, anywhere on this planet, who doesn't have a watchful eye on at least a dozen different organizations whose goals they either support or oppose. If introduced to anyone claiming to be such, I'll bet any amount or asset worth naming that I can prove such a claim inside of fifteen minutes with the right questions asked of them. That, or they've been living in a cave for as long as they've been alive. And even then, it's iffy.
Such people make the time one way or another to keep their eyes peeled and wallets ready, or else they know the rules they play by can be changed on a whim. So he's already insulted the intelligence and resourcefulness of every single one of us, no matter how we voted, as far as I'm personally concerned. Not to mention our sense of responsibility as individual citizens. So that's the first half of the sneer.
Not to mention what he's saying by implication about activists in general, including -- I believe -- his own supporters from the days when he ran with some of those lobby groups himself. And there's the second half.
Something else that's annoyed me, albeit in a more trivial way, as a Trekker.
Many of you will have heard about the JJ Abrams/Starfleet Academy report by now.
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm being annoyingly petty about this, but after the way Enterprise was left ill-finished, or more accurately, unfinished...well.
I think I'm going to be giving this a pass. First time I skipped seeing a Trek movie since the original.
(I know: it's odd, but it was only the second movie that really landed me. But that's another story...)
"How dare who do what?", I hear you ask.
Asked and answered...
"People who work hard, pay their taxes and play by the rules do not have a taxpayer-funded lobby group. They don't have the time to hold demonstrations and they certainly don't make regular trips to Ottawa for news conferences." - Stephen Harper
FYI, here's the article from which I sourced it. If anyone can find the actual text from whence the original remark came, I'll post a link for that, too.
Personal opinion? I call that comment a 2-for-1 sneer.
I can't think of a single such person I know as fits those first three criteria, anywhere on this planet, who doesn't have a watchful eye on at least a dozen different organizations whose goals they either support or oppose. If introduced to anyone claiming to be such, I'll bet any amount or asset worth naming that I can prove such a claim inside of fifteen minutes with the right questions asked of them. That, or they've been living in a cave for as long as they've been alive. And even then, it's iffy.
Such people make the time one way or another to keep their eyes peeled and wallets ready, or else they know the rules they play by can be changed on a whim. So he's already insulted the intelligence and resourcefulness of every single one of us, no matter how we voted, as far as I'm personally concerned. Not to mention our sense of responsibility as individual citizens. So that's the first half of the sneer.
Not to mention what he's saying by implication about activists in general, including -- I believe -- his own supporters from the days when he ran with some of those lobby groups himself. And there's the second half.
Something else that's annoyed me, albeit in a more trivial way, as a Trekker.
Many of you will have heard about the JJ Abrams/Starfleet Academy report by now.
Thanks, but no thanks. I'm being annoyingly petty about this, but after the way Enterprise was left ill-finished, or more accurately, unfinished...well.
I think I'm going to be giving this a pass. First time I skipped seeing a Trek movie since the original.
(I know: it's odd, but it was only the second movie that really landed me. But that's another story...)
