Those cold, heartless Conservatives

(Reposted from BLY - Dec. 27/11) Who knew Social Justice was part of the Harper 'hidden agenda'?

Server problems at BLY today.

Thanks for your patience.

Server Update

Blue Like You is now on hiatus for the summer.

I may add a few backup posts to this site at some point. Also please remember that BlueLikeYou2 is an alternate site if we run into server problems again.

Have a great summer!

New Server being set up

If you clicked on your Blue Like You bookmark and ended up here, please don't be alarmed. It is a temporary situation until things are set up on a new server.

Please feel free to use this post to discuss the budget, etc.

Thanks for your patience.

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Update

The new server may be ready soon. Hang on for the ride!

Of protests and civil disobedience

(Reposted from Blue Like You June 6, 2011)

At first I was planning to protest Brigette DePape's protest by ignoring it, but some interesting angles are aligning.

Namely we have a front page story in today's National Post about 62-year-old Linda Gibbons who has spent 10 of the past 17 years in jail for being too close to abortion clinics. She has just been released and is trying to behave long enough to be able to visit her elderly mother. Then she vows to continue her protests and civil disobedience and will probably end up back behind bars as a consequence of her actions.

And what happened to Brigette DePape as a consequence of her protest and advocacy of civil disobedience in order to 'Stop Harper'?

She was immediately fired from her job as a Senate Page which was due to end in two months anyway. Now the job offers are flooding in, including one from Public Service Alliance of Canada. and even one from Michael Moore! Well I guess that's not so surprising.

I would love to ask both women how they think their protests will accomplish their respective goals?

In Linda Gibbons' case I suspect she is hoping to save one tiny life at a time; possibly by offering counsel to women on their way in for abortions.

But Brigette DePape is not happy with the election results and wants to "Stop Harper". I assume she realizes that this is a majority mandate and that there won't be another election for four years.

So how exactly does Ms. Pape intend to "Stop Harper"? Is that not some kind of implied threat? I hope some brave journalist out there has the cojones to ask her that one.

Issues with BLY

Another outage today at Blue Like You.

No idea what the problem is now but thanks for your patience.

Update: May have to find a new server. Could be down for a while.

This is what strong leadership looks like

(Reposted from BLY - May 27, 2011)

Prime Minister Stephen Harper continues to be unequivocal in demonstrating Canada's support for Israel - (via MSNBC) - Canada takes firm pro-Israel line at G8 summit:

...Diplomats involved in Middle East discussions at the G8 summit said Ottawa had insisted that no mention of Israel's pre-1967 borders be made in the leaders' final communique, even though most of the other leaders wanted a mention.

"The Canadians were really very adamant, even though Obama expressly referred to 1967 borders in his speech last week," one European diplomat said...

There are times when straddling the fence simply isn't an option, and a firm stand must be taken - even if it means standing alone and losing a seat at the UN Security Council.

And as L. Ian MacDonald points out, Prime Minister Harper has real street cred now.

Let's hope some of the other world leaders learn by example.

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Update

PM announces new maternal, newborn and child health initiatives - PM's website

PM attends the G-8 Deauville Summit in France - Great pics on flickr

MUST-WATCH! Janice Stein on Power & Politics - around the 7 minute mark. (H/T Fay) Actually the whole clip is worth watching.

PM plays key role at G8 summit - Tim Harper, Star. (With a great pic of the PM going barefoot in the sand! - Was he drawing a line?)

Lieberman thanks Canada PM for objection to 1967 borders at G8 - Haaretz