Sorry it took me so long to get today's post up, but I have an actual job, in the real world, unlike the public sector leeches who got bonuses this year.About 98 per cent of eligible managers in the Ontario Public Service received bonuses last year, despite assurances from the cash-strapped government that it's serious about freezing pay in the broader public sector.Note that only 98% of these m
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted August 15th
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Have you noticed? We have an NDP government here in Ontario. Yeah, yeah, Wynne is Premier and everything, but let's not kid ourselves; we know who's setting the agenda. We had a bunch of NDP budget demands that were agreed to, a LCBO strike that was averted through Lord knows what kind of concessions, the head of the OLG getting unceremoniously dumped to head off the building of a casino that do
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted 9 hours ago
I'm a religious and racial minority, and I have to say that there is nothing funnier than watching a white liberal attempt to show how enlightened and free of prejudice they are and fail horribly (and they always fail horribly). I pity my European-born Christian friends who will never know the sublime pleasure of standing there with a smile on your face as you listen to some pasty
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted 3 days ago
So another provincial election is concluded, and another high-flying opposition party cruise controlled their way right back to the opposition benches. This opposition party, the BC NDP, thought they were going to appeal to people's better natures. Fatigue with the reigning BC Liberals was going to drive a wave of change. They didn't need to stoop to gutter politics and pulling other people down
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted 4 days ago
Thomas Mulcair's ravings about a 30-year old conspiracy by the Supreme Court to screw Quebec have been getting a lot of column inches recently. For some reason, it's news that a member of the NDP suspects that powerful people are secretly plotting to harm those who can't defend themselves.The prevailing explanation is that Mulcair is Quebec-pandering in an attempt to outflank Trudeau, and
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted May 2nd
Hold on to your Gravol, because it's time for yet another nauseating edition of everyone's favourite Ontario political timewaster, "Is The NDP Going To Plunge Us Into Yet Another Election"? You might recall last year's "high-stakes" showdown over the budget when the NDP made a similar show of force before the fact, and then decided to be bought off with a new tax on the rich, and then prete
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted April 26th
Let's have a little talk about the rapidly increasing number of Principled Conservatives who think that supporting Justin Trudeau is the new super-cool thing to do. (I really hate how everything is all about him, everywhere, but the point has to be made.)Last week, a random musing by Le Petit Prince about how raising tariffs was bad caused the National Post's cup to run over at th
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted April 22nd
OK children, can anyone tell me what Not-so-Silent Bob Delaney, the Liberal MPP for Gas Plant-ville, Ontario, did wrong when he compared the decision to cancel the gas plant to the first attempt to land a man on the moon? That's right! He should have blamed it on conservatives, by saying that we didn't complain about the cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral, so we have no right to complain about
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted April 18th
The coronation of Justin Trudeau has brought several thoughts I've been kicking around into focus. Up until now I have made the (hopefully) understandable mistake of thinking that the left is interested in things like equality, empowerment of the disenfranchised, justice for those that cannot defend themselves, and the like. They have said they believe in these things and I have believed the
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted April 16th
Progressives who read this blog may or may not be surprised to learn that we conservatives circulate stories about our encounters with various progressive politicians, like ghost stories around a campfire or discussions about the one that got away. Here's a story we tell about Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario, and person who likes to talk about having "conversations" with others.There is
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 30th
As it is with us on the right, there are two basic types of progressives- those for whom the goal is a more equal society- the Principled Progressives, analogous to Principled Conservatives, and those for whom power is the only goal. The first group are the workers who are deeply committed to ideals. They truly believe that it is possible to create a world where poverty, racism, and oppression are
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 28th
So I finally got around to watching that new OPSEU video- the one that is supposedly an attack on Tim Hudak. The last time these people put together an anti-PC Party video, it was a $20,000 exercise in surrealism that nobody but me even paid attention to, so that's what I was expecting this time around. Funny thing is- this one isn't an attack on the PC's. It's an
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 24th
So, Reader's Digest is referring to the Second Coming of Trudeau. This is not a joke. Yep. The thin red line between "saviour of the Liberal Party" and "actual son-of-God Saviour" has disappeared. Get used to it, because this will be happening a lot in the next few years. They are going to make this man into the literal embodiment of divinity. And Canadians are g
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 19th
Today I was reading another litany of sins committed by The Powers That Be against the Virtuous Poor, and all of the things that need to happen to remedy these crimes, most of which involved vast sums of tax dollars being transferred into someone else's pocket by the government. And I was feeling all guilty. Then I thought to myself, "You know what? If we gave into all of their demands, th
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 11th
I come before you today to bury Hugo Chavez, not to praise him. But let us strip away for one moment Chavez's odious politics, if that is possible, and look at the man for who he was. Here is a guy who essentially imposed his own vision of the way things should work on everybody, with such complete ruthlessness and fury that everything was swept before him. To his defenders, here, in some fo
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 7th
This has got to be the greatest Toronto Star mistake since I noticed this back in 2011. Aha! The NWO does exist, and it's in power at Queen's Park! Oh, and how come Wynne's talking about releasing more documents? I thought Chiarelli said all the documents had been released before? It's a total swerve!
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted March 2nd
Glen Murray was pinned down in Queen`s Park yesterday over whether snow is being cleared from highways fast enough. And when he was, he was careful to say two things:1) The problem of snow being cleared isn`t a problem- it`s opposition small potatoes2) The real problem is global warming, which is big and important and complicated and which the Liberal government is focused on fighting, so please d
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted February 28th
In physics, a singularity is a location where the ways in which you measure data everywhere else don't apply. A black hole is a singularity. Trying to understand what goes on in a black hole using conventional logic will not work.When we look at things like the Idle No More movement and red squares in Quebec and Ontario's ballooning deficit, we say things like, "I don't und
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted February 23rd
It's getting close to the Oscars, and I mentioned Avatar a few posts ago. You all remember Avatar, right? That enormous cash cow with the big blue aliens and the over-the-top environmental message from a few years ago? The one that took in huge amounts of money from stunned moviegoers as it hammered home the message that consumerism and exploitation is evil? Or am I describing any one of the thou
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted February 20th
Privilege. That horrible, horrible word. Nothing grinds the gears of those who subscribe to the Guillotine Doctrine- the perpetual soaking and draining of the rich to feed the ambitions and desires of the poor- than the idea of privilege. If you're the sort of conservative who just adores making leftists mad, you can't do much better than talking about how privilege is awesome. Try&nbs
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 30th
So yesterday, the OLP Toronto contigent, seeing that Pupatello was on her way to running away with it, quickly put a stop to that with a series of deals. Can't be letting the voters decide anything now, can we? Hey Liberals, how does it feel to have a handful of people yank away everything you've worked at for months in an instant? Are you just going to take this lying down? Of course
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 27th
Ezra goes toe to toe with anti-free speech person Arun Smith. Required viewing for every goddamned one. Go. Click THIS LINK. NOW. DO IT. The preceding smackdown has been brought to you today by Sun News, a.k.a the only network that can be counted on to do stuff like this. But if they don't get their CRTC licence, people like Arun Smith will go unanswered. You know it's true. So: Get of
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 23rd
I have news for people frothing at the mouth about the Arun Smith situation at Carleton this morning. This guy is the cat's paw. For OPIRG, or some other group of greyheads. Laughing at how this guy is a 7th year university student obscures the larger issue. There was one in the Ford case. There's always one. What Mr. Smith wrote is what all the rest of those who subscribe to the
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 23rd
On this blog, 2012 was a year dedicated to the analysis of Liberals in all their various forms. The goal was to determine the reasons why Liberals are the way they are, and what sorts of things drive them to be that way. And, because being analyzed freaks them right the hell out. This analysis led to the creation of a list of Laws for Liberals that was an attempt to capture the sort of thinking th
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 18th
You know, I'm getting real tired of people being shocked and angry when the McGuinty government demonizes them for not playing by rules that they just made up. Not only should these people have recognized that the Liberal government has played this game with the public so many times that it's impossible to keep a count going, but if it's so important to them that the government treat them
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 7th
He does not like Laurel Broten's slam! He does not like it, Sam-I-Ham!“You cannot expect that it will be business as usual in schools going into the new year,” said Sam Hammond, the head of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.“You cannot legislate goodwill and you cannot impose goodwill upon my members,” he said.“You will not erase the stain of Bill 115 by simply repealing
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted January 3rd
2012 was an amazingly crap year for conservatives, the crappiest I can remember in a long time. We saw the Wild Rose blow their brains out. We saw Rob Ford get sacked time and time again. We saw the Red Squares take control of the Quebec government and relatively conservative premier Jean Charest get tossed. We saw McGuinty quit halfway through a half-hearted attempt to cut spending and
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted December 29th
So, this video is basically the Ontario Liberals. Poor bastard worked for Duguid for years and gets tossed like this to save Minister Dingbat's hide.Why am I reminded of that scene in "It's A Wonderful Life" where George gets screwed by Mr. Potter and almost ends up going to jail?
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted December 21st
Hey guys, I haven't been blogging for a while.....trying to do real life stuff, so maybe someone could tell me....I heard there was some kind of strike yesterday, or something? I must have been distracted by the noise of everyone trying their absolute best to tell themselves, "At least it's not as bad as Mike Harris.....At least it's not as bad as Mike Harris...."It's totally true, though.
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted December 19th
Oh goody gumdrops. A possible teacher's strike on the horizon. Good thing Dalton and his government prorogued the Legislature, though. That won't come back to bite them at all. What's that? Recall the Legislature, you say? But.....Sandra Pupatello said we'd all have to wait for her to win her byelection first. Don't worry, though. I'm sure it'll all work itself out.
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 29th
The law is the law. That's for sure. But what's also for sure is that a group of people who don't like Ford politically got together and said, "We're going to get this guy, and we're going to get him at the first possible opportunity." They could have said, "Yeah, the guy screwed up, so we'll let the voters punish him." But they weren't going to take any chances with the electorate. No,
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 27th
How do we know that Dalton's mumblings from months past about Flaherty sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, insofar as the Finance Minister pointing out that Ontario is a financial basket case, are a load of crap? Well, just ask Dalton's brother David, who just recently told the entire province of Alberta to go crawl back into their holes.The McGuinty Bros., and t
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 22nd
So Adam Radwanski informs us that Harinder Takhar may be running for Liberal leader at the insistence of Sikh organizers who have been "leaning heavily" on Takhar to "publicly give voice to policy issues they want to put on the radar." Nobody, least of all Takhar himself (who doesn't appear to have any opinion on the matter), thinks he will win, but clearly that's not the point. Th
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 20th
Something about Gerard Kennedy's "game-changing" call for a spending limit on the OLP leadership race didn't sit well with me. And after pondering it for a few days, I finally figured out what that was. You see, the federal Liberals have been down a similar road before....and it didn't end well for them.....As he prepared to step down as prime minister in 2003, Jean Chrét
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 20th
So Robert Benzie, Queen's Park person for the reliably Liberal Toronto Star, is annoyed by NFL refs who ignore the infractions committed by one of the teams on the field. You know what, I'm just going to leave this one here. You guys have fun with it.
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 19th
"Ontario’s legislature was getting so ill-tempered before Premier Dalton McGuinty prorogued it, it was beginning to remind Dr. Eric Hoskins of his charity work in war-torn countries.“I can tell you as someone who has worked in war zones around the world it was getting to be a very uncomfortable place, the legislature,” Hoskins said Tuesday, defending McGuinty’s decision to prorogue as
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 13th
Now, if there's one group of people I understand, it's Toronto Liberals. And let me tell you; if you weren't born there and you think your local species of Liberal are a group of arrogant, spiteful human beings who think the world begins and ends with them, you may be right, but as bad as they are, they cannot hold a candle to Toronto Liberals. The reason why there are four- count 'em, four-&n
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 12th
Someone pronounces it "Poop-a-tello" in this video. Tee-hee. We've got two Toronto Liberals already declared for this thing and another Toronto Liberal (Kennedy) thinking about it. If Sandra here beats all three of them, that'll be hilarious. (Sousa is from Mississauga and out there, they need to cancel power plants to hold onto seats, so he doesn't count.)And if Sandra thinks that just becau
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 8th
Thank God it's over. Thank God that for at least the next few days, I don't have to listen to Canadian politicos derping on about an election taking place in the next country over, as opposed to what's going on up here. Oh, and, uh, great job, Republicans! You were so, so close. You really gave it your everythings. It would be foolish, absolutely stupid, to change anything. When Obama
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 6th
I haven't been posting lately because my real job is very busy, and the U.S. election coverage has gotten so overwhelming, so completely in-your-face, that it hardly seems worth talking about Ontario politics. (We will get to the OLP race, and soon.)However, I will comment on one aspect of the race that has become increasingly clear, and that is the fact that the entirety of Obama's appeal
The Clown at Midnight | more | posted November 5th
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