LOL

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWaXvVYYzMI]Escalator safety is an important election issue[/url]

According to Fife Harper called the Ford brothers "a bunch of losers" last year. They were introduced as "two great sons of Etobicoke Center" at his rally this week. If Harper thinks two losers are great sons of Etobicoke, what does that say about what he thinks of the rest of the people in Etobicoke. I guess they are losers since they will still keep on kissing dear leader's ass even after knowing this 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/14/stephen-harper-rob-ford-doug-for...

The Dinner Party:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMrVeUoXHx8&feature=youtu.be

A Clear, Blue Choice

http://www.prairiedogmag.com/2015-10-15/a-clear-blue-choice/

bekayne, can you explain the joke of the picture above (post #122)?  I'm not getting it.

mark_alfred wrote:

bekayne, can you explain the joke of the picture above (post #122)?  I'm not getting it.

It's just Harper's expression, pose-everything about it.

bekayne wrote:

Wow that cover only makes Trudeau look a winner. And the population does prefer unicorns to satanic secret seances in the PMO which is the Conservative vision of the rule of Canada.

Mr. Magoo wrote:

I'm laughing though, at the Photoshopped implication that Trudeau is taking a selfie with the Unicorn.

#They'reReal #ITouchedOne #DoubleRainbow

I laugh at that until I realize this can be taken as a swipe at younger people who mostly do not support the Conservatives. When you parse the implication there is the idea that Trudeau is vain -- but also the use of technology of a popularity specific to a generation that does not support the CPC it is disturbing.

I'd have been happier if it were a hand-held mirror...

Mr. Magoo wrote:

Just for what it's worth, "selfies" aren't a technology.  We've had the necessary technology -- a camera -- for almost exactly 200 years.  It's only been for the last four or five of those years that a photograph of one's self doing a mundane thing, or a photograph of one's Starbucks cup, or a photograph of one's hamburger and fries has become a "thing".

That's partially a cost thing.  Back when each photo had a cost and couldn't be undone, people were more selective about what to take.  Now you can delete and redo with oodles of options (or so I'm told -- I don't have a digital camera).

But yeah, the unicorn photo was pretty funny.

Mr. Magoo wrote:

Just for what it's worth, "selfies" aren't a technology.  We've had the necessary technology -- a camera -- for almost exactly 200 years.  It's only been for the last four or five of those years that a photograph of one's self doing a mundane thing,

A gt-gt-grandfather of mine was a mason and builder at Newtownards in Ireland. On a prominant corner there he built a pub, installing over the intersection a carved head,... a stone "selfie" from the 1840s!

quizzical wrote:

Sean in Ottawa wrote:

Wow that cover only makes Trudeau look a winner. And the population does prefer unicorns to satanic secret seances in the PMO which is the Conservative vision of the rule of Canada.

I agree.

I said in another thread  I take the advertising of the Conservatives as subliminally for Trudeau.

his name with a check mark beside is the lasting image not the dumb ass commentary with it.

the focus on his hair is another. do you know how much time us raised in the 80's and 90's spend on our hair making it "nice hair"? make us feel close to him by all means if you wanna lose.

there are so many others and now this. i loved my little pony and so did millions of girls and boys my age and younger.

I agree with you on the advertising. The Conservatives in their lurch to the very creepy have served to make the Liberals appear more reasonable. They have discredited concerns about Trudeau and the Liberals and they have allowed the Liberals to get essentially a free pass as so many people are turned off by the tone of the attacks.

There are lessons here for the NDP -- in the last election this might have happened had the NDP focussed on the Liberals. By ignoring them the NDP avoided making them the underdog they became this time. As well, by leaving the CPC to attack the Liberals Layton was able to concentrate on the reasons people should vote NDP.

This election campaign has been the absolute most negative I have ever seen with none of the parties rising above. I am sorry that the NDP did not do this -- I feel it had the makings of a platform to do so. But it is too late now for anything but the lessons.

I hope that the leadership of the NDP will see fit to inject some more necessary optimism into the NDP message going forward over the next few years. We need that.

The NDP should understand that it is the absolute most invested in a positive impression of the capability of governance to be a positive force. When the NDP forgets this people tilt away from politicians and governments and policy and programs. We are the ones who need some positive vision to be able to hold our own on the political stage.

Layton understood this and he gave as good as he got but he always spread optimism about what we could do. We need more of that message.

bekayne wrote:

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5ckcTSYu8

Oh my. Very funny.