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Dishonest – and dumb – in either language

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A Liberal ad on a woman’s right to choose.

Citizen [citizen?!?] Rosalie says, “I’m 31 years old and and I can’t conceive a return to 1950’s laws”. In the original: “J’ai 31 ans puis je peux pas concevoir qu’on retourne à des lois des années 50”. Concevoir? Conceive? Hello? Don’t they have editors over at the Liberal party, or do they enjoy looking dishonest and stupid?

Wow. I’m, er, slightly older than 31 years old and I can’t imagine a sillier ad on such a non-issue. Seriously – the only people NOT talking about abortion are the Conservatives…

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Rebecca wonders: My French is pretty rusty, but it sounded like she described herself as “panicking.” Wow. Will the people who BBQd Lawrence Summers for suggesting that maybe, just maybe, women don’t enjoy high level math studies to precisely the same degree as men, now freak out at the Liberals, who appear to think that we’re driven to fainting spells and shortness of breath at the suggestion of a policy debate?

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Andrea is concerned because every time I come to PWPL she begins talking–without my clicking play. I therefore keep hearing how she just doesn’t understand how abortion and the rights of the fetus have come back to haunt her in 2008–short answer, my 31-year-old friend–because those questions never went away. In any event, they aren’t present in the political debate today by any stretch of the imagination. She is fear mongering about a bill that has died–C-484, the Unborn Victims of Violence bill–and that Stéphane Dion, the leader in whom she puts her faith–was not present to vote against. When I consider the abortion rate in Quebec, significantly higher than the rest of Canada–this is a seriously “off” ad, in poor taste, politically dishonest, and playing on a deplorable social situation in that province.

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Tanya thinks this is again all part of Stéphane Dion’s ONLY campaign strategy. And someone should sit this 31-year old Québécoise down and explain that the Liberals were the only party to table a private member’s bill this past year in efforts to further restrict access to abortion. “Oh! Not Stéphane Dion’s Liberals!” Yes. I’m afraid so.

I love it…

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… when liberals (and Liberals) silence their women. It’s so dashed progressive.

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Andrea adds: The story notes that “Krieber can’t be relied upon stick to the campaign script.”

Because that script has, er, been working so well thus far? Getting off of it seems like the only positive out. But they aren’t silencing Krieber because she’s a she. If Krieber were running, they’d silence Dion. (At this point, I bet some are wishing they could do just that.)

Schlafly slaps down feminists

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Oooooh. Go read this. My fav quote:

The feminists resent Sarah because she’s the exact opposite of Hillary Clinton. When the liberal media sharpened their knives against Sarah, some chivalrous McCainiacs cried foul about media unfairness, but we didn’t hear any whining from Sarah. Sarah has been successful because of hard work and perseverance, not because she’s a woman, and she’s not going to pull any crybaby act now. Sarah didn’t need any Equal Rights Amendment, which Hillary is still promoting even though it was declared dead by the Supreme Court 26 years ago.

h/t Michelle Malkin

Dumping your kids in daycare is good for your social status?

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I don’t get it. Gordon Brown is promising a free daycare spot for every 2-year-old in what is billed as a scheme that “will play a central role in his drive for ‘upward social mobility’, which he intends to put at the heart of government policy.”

Huh? The only way that could work is by costing so much folks who are already upwards, social-mobility-wise, end up paying so much more in taxes to pay for this thing that they are dragged down to the level of, well, folks who are lower, social-mobility-wise.

Oh, wait. I think that’s the plan:

At present, three and four-year-olds receive up to 15 hours of free child care a week. The new plan to extend this to two-year-olds will take several years to introduce and could cost more than £1 billion a year, according to government sources. They admit that the scheme would need “significant additional resources”.

Ministers have already announced a smaller scheme aimed at the parents of 20,000 two-year-olds from the lowest-income families. The new policy, for which pilot projects will be announced imminently, could eventually include up to 600,000 children a year.

Your duty to decrease the surplus population

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Especially if you’re old and suffer from dementia:

Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock.

The veteran Government adviser said pensioners in mental decline are “wasting people’s lives” because of the care they require and should be allowed to opt for euthanasia even if they are not in pain.

She insisted there was “nothing wrong” with people being helped to die for the sake of their loved ones or society.

The 84-year-old added that she hoped people will soon be “licensed to put others down” if they are unable to look after themselves.

That’s supposed to be ‘ethical’? Yikes. I’d hate to see what she considers morally abhorrent.

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Rebecca adds: Those who don’t know history may not be condemned to repeat it, but they do seem to be condemned to remain too stupid to know whom they’re imitating. As to people being a burden on the NHS (which is more properly understood to be a burden on the British people) – how long until someone tallies the cost of a second trimester abortion against the cost of a lifetime of care for someone with Down’s Syndrome, and declares it a moral imperative to abort babies diagnosed with it?

Good, but not enough

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So the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario backed down from its ridiculous proposal that would see doctors punished for taking their moral and/or religious beliefs into their practice. Good, but not nearly enough, says Fr. Raymond de Souza:

Good for the OMA for not advocating some middle way between a healthy recognition of human rights and the diseased approach of the OHRC. But more aggressive confrontation of the OHRC’s overreaching is necessary. It is not enough just to prevent the cancer from spreading, which is what was achieved yesterday. It needs to be eliminated.

Professional groups such as the OMA — those representing writers and clergy, for example — have been sounding the alarm on the human rights commissions for some time now. There needs to be a corresponding sense of urgency from Canadian governments, whose statutes sustain human rights commissions. Provincial ministers of justice have been largely silent. The federal minister of justice, Robert Nicholson, a good man who surely knows better, has been disconcertingly reserved in regard to the abuses taking place on his watch. The federal government’s irresponsibly lackadaisical approach sends signals to otherwise respectable bodies, like the CPSO, that the OHRC and similar bodies are not to be challenged.

That needs to change–otherwise we shall eventually be whistling past the graveyard of Canadian liberty.

Didn’t take long

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Stéphane Dion warns against a Conservative hidden agenda. They never get tired of that line, do they.

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Tanya adds: Dion said, “So I want to ask him: how far is [Harper] more right-wing than Canadians?”

Like, all Canadians?  The short answer to that question is that he’s more right-wing than some and less right-wing than others.  (I never went to politics school ‘n stuff, but I think that’s why, like, democracy exists…no?)

 

My take on this is that Dion isn’t very liked.  But if he can get Liberals to hate Harper enough, they’ll come out in droves to vote.

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