We Did It, Brad Removed

From the NDP web page as their Director of Communications.

Media Contacts

Canada’s NDP
Joanne Deer, Director of Communications
(613) 236-3613 x2228

NDP Leader
Karl Belanger, Leader’s Media Officer
(613) 995-6767

NDP Caucus
Ian Capstick, Caucus Media Officer
(613) 995-8259

A correction that was not there yesterday or earlier this morning.

Reminds me a little of the Stalin School of Falsification; now you see Trotsky, now you don't.




Of course Brad is still being the caucus mouthpiece, so my criticism still stands. New Communications director or not.

The Deer has to prove herself, and one way will be to see what happens to Brad. But don't expect too much, she has only been on the jobe since October. October.

And they only changed the NDP Web Page, today. Today being December 19. That's a pretty sttep learning curve for such a simple thing. Hello appointed in October and only chaning the web page now. And only after we blogged about it in the context of Brad's numerous failures.

Joanne is also selective in whom she emails, I still didn't get her missive she sent. I blogged, got email address, comment space. Hmm selective in whom she communicates with.

Hey Joanne I am on the email list, and party donor list, Blogging Dippers list, email you guys regularly with comments. Did I mention I am on the PAC? Hey.....

Yoo Hoo over here. Waving at ya.

The NDP communications gurus still don't get it. Hello, the blogosphere is important. And just assigning your inept crew to blog occassionally , from your own convention or the Liberals, is pathetic and patronising to real Dipper bloggers.

And shows you still agree with Brad that blogging is irrelevant to the NDP.



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Bumph And Grind

Liberals under Dion got big bumph in Quebec. So much for the "Dion Hurts Us In Quebec" campaign. And this was before he announced Iggy as his Deputy Leader, he could do no less for the Leadership front runner.


The pro-independence Bloc Quebecois campaigns only in French-speaking Quebec and the poll put support for the party in the province at 44 percent, compared to 31 percent for the Liberals and 13 percent for the Conservatives.

But not good news for the NDP. Their message just isn't getting out. Clearly the Liberals mushy muddle has appeal to NDP voters. Not hardcore dippers, but Buzz types. Down six points from November. Ouch.

The message, repeated again by Jack yesterday, that the NDP Makes Government Work, is just not resonating. Though irony drips off the phrase when you see it in print. Maybe they should change it to Harper Promises,We Deliver.

Angus Reid Global Monitor : Polls & Research

December 19, 2006

(ARGM) - The opposition Liberal party holds a slight advantage in Canada, according to a poll by Ipsos-Reid released by CanWest Global. 36 per cent of respondents would vote for the Liberals in the next federal election.

The governing Conservative party is second with 34 per cent, followed by the New Democratic Party (NDP) with 13 per cent, the Bloc Québécois with 10 per cent, and the Green party with five per cent. Support for the Grits dropped by two points in a week, while backing for the Tories increased by the same margin.

Canadians renewed the House of Commons in January. The Conservative party—led by Stephen Harper—received 36.3 per cent of the vote, and secured 124 seats in the 308-member lower house. Since February, Harper leads a minority administration after more than 12 years of government by the Liberal party.

On Dec. 2, former environment minister Stéphane Dion became the new leader of the Liberal party, defeating academic Michael Ignatieff in the fourth and final delegate ballot with 54.7 per cent.

Yesterday, Dion said his party would not support a call made by Bloc Québécois leader Giles Duceppe to topple the Harper government over its handling of Canada’s military role in Afghanistan, saying, "I don’t understand the Bloc’s position at all. It doesn’t seem very useful to me to want to bring down the government on that in February as Duceppe is proposing. (...) We’ll prepare for an election, but it doesn’t seem to me that Canadians want an election in the middle of winter."

Polling Data

What party would you vote for in the next federal election?

	Dec. 14	Dec. 7	Nov. 2006
Liberal	36%	38%	29%
Conservative	34%	32%	37%
New Democratic Party	13%	13%	19%
Bloc Québécois	10%	11%	9%
Green	5%	5%	5%

Source: Ipsos-Reid / CanWest Global
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,004 Canadian adults, conducted from Dec. 12 to Dec. 14, 2006. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

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Devils Dictionary Redux

Originally published on my page at Bloglines

With apologies to Ambrose Bierce who had the original idea.


My definitions of some popular words and phrases.

Devils

Dictionary

Redux

Alberta: See One Party State Anarchism: marxism without marx Anarchist: feline domesticus Anarcho-Capitalism: Feudalism by any other name Athiest: Squatter (See GOD) Calgary: largest American City north of the 49th Parallel Capitalism: see slavery Capitalist: a merchant/banker with mercenaries who steals common property to make it their own Capitalist Planning: cutting your nose to spite your face Capital Punishment: 'legal' murder of those who oppose the capitalist. Communism: a good idea whose time is to come Consumer: a worker suffering a commodity fetish Creationism: the belief that the earth is flat and Alley Oop is a historical character Cynic: a suicide that doesn't know they are dead Democracy: will that be Coke (tm) or Pepsi (tm) Economists: if you lined up all the economists end to end they still would not reach a conclusion. (George Bernard Shaw) Endangered Species: A socialist in the USA Europe: The Holy Roman Empire Existentialism: Marxism with Hope FreeMason (AAFM): An upperclass Englishman pretending to be a Scots Tradesman GOD: The Landlord of the universe Knights Templars: gods bankers, says it all (also see capitalist)

Maoism: Stalinism with a human face

Marx: I'm no marxist.

Moron: A perjorative used by Warren Kinsella to refer to someone smarter than he is.

One Party State: a country or region ruled by one political party and its leader, Cuba, North Korea, Alberta

Opportunism; Buzz Hargrove

PC: Progressive Conservative,

Unless you live in Alberta where it means Party of Calgary

Plagarism: Ayn Rand (noun, improper) whose 1938 novel Anthem reads suspicously like an english translation of WE by Yevgeny Zamiatin published in Russian in 1920. Rand was Russian.




Plagarist: Premier Ralph Klein of Alberta

Political Economy: them that has the gold makes the rules

Piracy: proletarian resistance to capitalist colonialism

Pirate: a motely crew of anarchists, rebels and freethinkers

Science: Magick made respectible

Social Democracy: socialism for liberals

Socialism: "state capitalism with electricity" V.I. Lenin

Satan: " the First Rebel " Michael Bakunin

Satanism: Catholicism without guilt

Slavery: the origin of capitalism

Stalinism: meet the new boss same as the old boss

Strategic Voting; See Opportunism

Syndicalism: the heretical idea that workers can run society themselves without bosses or the state.

Technocracy: Engineers rule!

Trotskyism: 4 people are on an island, one creates a central committee and the other three form factions.

Wage Slave: I Owe, I Owe, it's off to Work I Go


Witch: heretic and anarchist (Chapter 1, The History of Witchcraft, by Montaque Summers)

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