John Baird Says Boat Shouldn't Float

I doubt anyone really cares much what John Baird has to say, but his love of hearing himself talk, causes him to weigh in on the Canada Boat, that will be sailing to Gaza with much needed humanitarian aid.

"I strongly urge those wishing to deliver humanitarian goods to the Gaza Strip to do so through established channels," Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement Monday. Unauthorized efforts to deliver aid are provocative and, ultimately, unhelpful to the people of Gaza."

Baird said Canada "recognizes Israel's legitimate security concerns" and its desire to prevent the smuggling of weapons which may be used against its citizens by Hamas -a terrorist group that controls Gaza and has called for the destruction of Israel.

Save it Baird. The 60% of Canadians who did not vote for your government, tuned you out long ago.

John Baird as Foreign Affairs Minister. Haven't We Been Punished Enough?

It has been announced that John Baird will be the new Foreign Affairs minister.

If the international community was laughing at us before, they'll be downright giddy now.

Even his own party make fun of Baird's antics, one member calling him a "walking caricature".

Oh, boy!

Ode to John Baird: Johnny Be Quiet

Johnny Be Quiet

Down Around Ottawa in West Nepean
Hails a Harris Boy who is loud and mean
With a head full of spaghetti and a heart of wood
He plays the big buffoon and he plays it good
He never learned to be nice but he barks so well
It's time to send this pitbull to dog-gy hell

Go, go, go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
Johnny Be Quiet

He tried to privatize in Ontario
Costing us taxpayers a lot of dough
He fights against mass transit so we buy the gas
Always tryin' to prove that he's the biggest ass
He never has nothin' very smart to say
Darned if that fool doesn't say it anyway

Go, go, go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
Johnny Be Quiet

His mother told him "some day you will be grown up"
But he's now 42 and still acts like a pup
And more like a gorilla mated with a clown
A pitbull and a ferret and the drunk in town
Some one's science project didn't turn out right
So little Johnny Baird it's time to say goodnight

Go, go, go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
go Johnny go go
Johnny Be Quiet

The "Toronto Elite" Tell John Baird to Flick Off

When John Baird recently said that it was the Toronto Elite who were creating the controversy over the Gun Registry, it prompted Chris Rands to remind us that Stephen Harper was born and raised in Toronto, so was in fact our first PM from that fair city.

What I wasn't prepared for, and should have been when I blogged on it, was that some people from Toronto might take offense. They don't want to aligned with Stephen Harper. Fair enough.

We were only trying to expose the Conservative hypocrisy.

"Toronto" "elites" ... that's all it took to stir up Harper's base.

Well, a card carrying member of the "Toronto Elite" challenged Baird to explain himself.

Memo To John Baird from the Toronto elite

It pains me to say this, because I prefer to err on the side of respect for those who hold public office, but I think you are a dangerous man.

Well worth a read.

Good Job Baird. Reminding us That Canada Has it's First Prime Minister From Toronto

John Baird is trying to gain support for demolishing the gun registry, on the advice and behind the scenes manipulation of the American NRA, so he is once again falling back on the old "divide and conquer".

Toronto "elites".

Unfortunately for the buffoon, as Chris Rands reminds us, Stephen Harper was born and raised in Toronto. In fact according to William Johnson in his biography of the man, he was an "elite" from an upscale WASP neighbourhood. His father was an executive at Imperial Oil. Doesn't get much more "elite" than that.

Oh, oh!

Yet this is not stopping the Reformers from sending out fundraising letters to incite their base, with the tired old "coalition" nonsense.

John Baird is blaming “Toronto elites” for pressuring rural opposition MPs into switching their vote to save the long-gun registry. This, as Conservative Party strategists issued a memo to their supporters darkly suggesting the Liberal-NDP coalition is alive and well and fighting hard to save the controversial program. As next Wednesday’s vote approaches, the rhetoric over the future of the long-gun registry is escalating. The Harper Tories are trying hard to paint this as a fight between rural and urban Canadians.

Under the headline, “Michael Ignatieff’s Coalition is working hard to save the registry,” the memo says: “On September 22, MPs from all three parties will have a choice. Will they stand with their constituents – the law-abiding farmers and hunters unfairly targeted by the registry? “Or will they follow Michael Ignatieff and his Coalition partners who are determined to maintain the registry regardless of the cost and effectiveness?”

"Michael Ignatieff's Coalition"? The coalition was Stephane Dion and Jack Layton in 2008 and Ignatieff was the one who pulled the plug on it.

In 2004 the Coalition was Stephen Harper, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe. In 2000 the intended coalition was Stockwell Day and Gilles Duceppe.

These guys must really be getting desperate.