You won’t believe who I ran into today
Okay. I started a new job running deliveries for a produce transportation company today. I was on Granville Island, minding my own business. When I spotted out a recognizable figure walking down the street. IT WAS REX MURPHY! I had to confirm is identity by asking him if it was who he was. He said yes he was Rex. And I told him he was my hero (one of them). He had the biggest smile on his face. I had to make his day, because he made mine. Anyway. Later.
June 14th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Rex is a Neo-Liberal or Neo-Conservative.
1) He called Layton the most overrated politician (in reality, he’s very underrated, and often unfairly smeared).
2) He said we’re not allowed to debate Canada’s foreign policy in Afghanistan once troops have been sent (basically a Bushian authoritarian argument).
3) He said environmentalists are insane for comparing the destruction of the ecosystem and earth’s natural atmosphere with the Holocaust. It could very easily be worse, if destructive and hot-toxic pollution keeps being pumped out by the megaton indefinitely.
People think he’s left of center, but he’s only ran for Anti-NDP parties. He uses prestige jargon and overly dramatic tone & posturing to make his narrow views sound elitist, unquestionable, and untouchable.
June 15th, 2007 at 1:21 am
1) I agree with Rex that Layton is overrated. He’s an irirating voice on the issues and will never do good for Canada.
2) You leftist fools always have to brand Bush with authoritarianism. What’s with that? Socialism has proved to be far devastating and authoritarian then the Bush Administration. Rex supports our troops. I support our troops.
3) I quote from his commentary on CBC’s website: ‘Tony Blair, George Bush and Stephen Harper and their response to global warming as worse than Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of the Nazis.’ That wasn’t wise to say on May’s behalf. He later went on to say, ‘In a purely literal sense, perhaps she did not, but if you are preaching a sermon in a church on global warming, you are not chatting loosely with friends in a coffee shop, and invoking Chamberlain and appeasement in reference to those who do not share your views makes it fairly clear you want to invoke the unqualified moral authority of what followed appeasement, the Holocaust, on your side of the rhetorical ledger.’ You really can’t use that argument to lure support for a noble cause for climate change awareness and to fight it.
What’s wrong with being anti-NDP? They have done anything for us but ran several provinces into financial ruin.