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Red Ken Tossed Out

Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:39:36 am PDT

The reign of the terrorist-hugging, America-hating, communist mayor of London, “Red Ken” Livingstone, is history as the Tories chalk up a big electoral victory.

Senior Conservative sources said they would be “gobsmacked” if Mr Johnson did not win the mayoral contest and even Downing Street aides appear to have conceded that Ken Livingstone has lost. Confidence of a Tory win was boosted after one bookmaker announced it was paying out on a Boris Johnson victory hours before the official result is expected later this evening.

Paddy Power said the “mauling” Labour had received elsewhere in England and Wales suggested the Conservative candidate was on his way to City Hall.

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1 doppelganglander  5/02/08 10:40:00 am reply quote

Yippee!

2 NoSubmission  5/02/08 10:40:50 am reply quote

Hip Hop Hooray!

3 Peacekeeper  5/02/08 10:41:22 am reply quote

BIG JOHNSON IS RIPPING US OFF!

4 Kosh's Shadow  5/02/08 10:41:28 am reply quote

Red Ken shouldn't be too sad. If he learns Spanish he can be mayor of Caracas. Maybe Hugo could appoint him.

5 Jetpilot1101  5/02/08 10:41:39 am reply quote

Outstanding! I nice bit of news on a dreary New England day!

6 Sharmuta  5/02/08 10:41:56 am reply quote

Cool! Change I can actually believe in.

7 Bunker Buster  5/02/08 10:42:28 am reply quote

It's about bloody time. DLTDHYWTGLSY.

8 haakondahl  5/02/08 10:42:42 am reply quote

HIP! HIP!

9 Peacekeeper  5/02/08 10:42:49 am reply quote

Something new for the Imams to piss and moan about.

10 Bunker Buster  5/02/08 10:42:52 am reply quote

re: #8 haakondahl

HIP! HIP!

HOORAY!

11 NoSubmission  5/02/08 10:43:03 am reply quote

Good riddance. How long was he in office? Seems like forever.

12 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 10:43:27 am reply quote

Boris Johnson seems a bit of a buffoon, but he's gotta be better that Livingstone.....

13 LionFromzion  5/02/08 10:43:36 am reply quote

Pop the popcorn and watch the weasel's on the BBC tonight! Hooray!

14 jamsler  5/02/08 10:43:53 am reply quote

Don't let the door hit you in the ass as you go, you bloody twit!

15 Maximu§  5/02/08 10:44:33 am reply quote

OMG, we actually have some good news today....

16 Ward Cleaver  5/02/08 10:44:58 am reply quote

Piss off, you bugger!

17 winston06  5/02/08 10:44:59 am reply quote

This is good news. Brits need to get their country back

18 JammieWearingFool  5/02/08 10:45:23 am reply quote

Buh-bye.

I guess he just couldn't get enough of the transgender Islamist vote.

19 cinnabar  5/02/08 10:45:43 am reply quote

While Red Ken was over the top, I wouldn't be surprised if the Tory mayor is just as much of a tool. The torries have been spouting all kinds of anti-american pro-terrorist drivel in their role of Labour opposition to Blair. I only hope I am wrong and we don't hear anything of this guy. Thank goodness Red Ken is packed off to wherever old commies go to moulder and die.

20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  5/02/08 10:46:17 am reply quote

/dancing thru the streets handing out sweets

21 tommygum  5/02/08 10:46:33 am reply quote

Ah, Ken. We hardly knew yee.

/

22 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 10:47:10 am reply quote

re: #18 JammieWearingFool

Buh-bye.

I guess he just couldn't get enough of the transgender Islamist vote.

George Galloway has got that demographic locked up.

23 geematt  5/02/08 10:47:21 am reply quote

Can you imagine the meltdown in the newsrooms as the returns came in? Whole lotta heads splodin'!

24 JammieWearingFool  5/02/08 10:47:26 am reply quote

Any word how that freak George Galloway fared?

25 Tigger2005  5/02/08 10:47:58 am reply quote

Is there hope for the Brits yet?

Please don't tease us, mates.

26 Citizen Duck  5/02/08 10:48:26 am reply quote

Ah, so sweet! Going to be a great weekend :)

27 bill-tb  5/02/08 10:48:29 am reply quote

I blame global warming .... All increased CO2 does is raise taxes :-)

28 alegrias  5/02/08 10:48:44 am reply quote

But can Boris reverse Britain's four-wife per mahomedan welfare cash payments?

It's time more clear eyed folks stepped up to the plate & cut welfare cheats off.

Margaret Thatcher's spirit must live.

29 shug  5/02/08 10:48:45 am reply quote

Change!

30 bosforus  5/02/08 10:49:32 am reply quote

My ancestors were Tories. Glad they've finally shaped up.

31 alegrias  5/02/08 10:49:44 am reply quote

re: #12 coquimbojoe

Boris Johnson seems a bit of a buffoon, but he's gotta be better that Livingstone.....

* * *
Hope he's not a Jesse Ventura type who ends up nuttier than when elected.

32 Bloodnok  5/02/08 10:50:19 am reply quote

I didn't know Red Ken was a newt fancier. Somewhere PG Wodehouse is smiling....

From Wiki: "He is known for his enthusiasm for keeping and breeding newts."

33 LanceKates  5/02/08 10:50:29 am reply quote

As horrible as "Red Ken" is, what do we know about the guy who won?

I'd hate for an anti-american communist to be replaced with a quasi-anti-american socialist...

Not that the mayor of London has much sway in American foreign policy..

34 flydiveski  5/02/08 10:50:31 am reply quote

Just curious, is this guy's wife named Natasha? Labour should have run Moose and Squirrel against them, rather than some moron like Livingstone.

35 FrogMarch  5/02/08 10:50:58 am reply quote

Hopefully Red Ken can retire in style with all of that filthy lucre he successfully snatched from his "oil for food" glory days.

36 Kenneth  5/02/08 10:51:00 am reply quote

re: #21 tommygum

Blimey! Now that I've got the sack, you blokes mind if I stop 'er for a cuppa?

37 MJ  5/02/08 10:51:03 am reply quote

He can now join Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Jihadi preacher and Jew-hater and move Qatar.

38 formercorpsman  5/02/08 10:51:08 am reply quote

Would any lizard from Britain like to opine as to why this occurring?

Up front, I am not well aware of London politics, but do you think the voters are concerned about terrorism?

Any other issues?

39 Silhouette  5/02/08 10:51:39 am reply quote

Yay. May he be thrice Lord Mayor of London.

40 NoSubmission  5/02/08 10:52:30 am reply quote

re: #34 flydiveski

Just curious, is this guy's wife named Natasha? Labour should have run Moose and Squirrel against them, rather than some moron like Livingstone.

Moose and Squirrel. Now that was funny.

41 Kenneth  5/02/08 10:52:56 am reply quote

re: #33 LanceKates

The new mayor of London is a Tory, but he's not much of a conservative. An improvement but not a huge one.

42 alegrias  5/02/08 10:53:15 am reply quote

re: #33 LanceKates

As horrible as "Red Ken" is, what do we know about the guy who won?

I'd hate for an anti-american communist to be replaced with a quasi-anti-american socialist...

Not that the mayor of London has much sway in American foreign policy..

* * *
London is a great center of mahomedans, think of all the Indians & Pakistanis who live there with dual citizenship. Saudis too.
Karl Marx lived there & wrote his awful stuff.

43 Lady Mondegreen  5/02/08 10:53:56 am reply quote
a newt fancier


Some orange juice for Mr. Spink-Bottle Livingstone

44 macofromoc  5/02/08 10:54:47 am reply quote

I can't believe there's no picture of him in that cat costume licking milk off that other reality contestant. That should always accompany any red ken story..

45 Bloodnok  5/02/08 10:55:14 am reply quote

re: #43 Lady Mondegreen

Some orange juice for Mr. Spink-Bottle Livingstone

precisely!

46 Sharmuta  5/02/08 10:55:26 am reply quote

Based on the election results from all over Britain and Wales, it looks like the people are fed up with business as usual. They've sent a resounding message, and, thankfully, they didn't do it by electing fascists like they did in Rome.

47 LanceKates  5/02/08 10:55:45 am reply quote

re: #41 Kenneth

The new mayor of London is a Tory, but he's not much of a conservative. An improvement but not a huge one.

So it isn't as much of a celebration of getting a conservative there, just a celebration to be rid of Red Ken.

Ok. That's what I was wondering.

48 alegrias  5/02/08 10:56:12 am reply quote

OT: Did you see where the suspect UN World Food Program is sitting on billions, yet pleading for more $$$!

49 wolfie  5/02/08 10:56:18 am reply quote

re: #32 Bloodnok

I didn't know Red Ken was a newt fancier. Somewhere PG Wodehouse is smiling....

From Wiki: "He is known for his enthusiasm for keeping and breeding newts."

Dang! At first reading I thought you meant Newt, as in Gingrich.

50 Squirrelguy  5/02/08 10:56:44 am reply quote

re: #40 NoSubmission

Moose and Squirrel. Now that was funny.

No it wasn't.

51 chinesearithmetic  5/02/08 10:56:44 am reply quote

The people who laugh at us behind their hands beat the people who spit in our faces, I'm so excited already.

52 Kenneth  5/02/08 10:57:11 am reply quote

re: #38 formercorpsman

All across Europe the move is away from the socialists. Terrorism, immigration, high taxes, unemployment... the left is getting blamed for all these things.

53 winston06  5/02/08 10:57:26 am reply quote

re: #46 Sharmuta

I am just a bit afraid of the head of Tory party Mr. cameron. He seems to be a naive person. Hopefully I am wrong

54 tommygum  5/02/08 10:57:35 am reply quote

"I send lady spy to moose and squirrel with package which is really bomb. Door gets stuck. She can't get out. Who gets blown up? Me." Boris Badinoff. Local 3, Villians, Thieves and Scoundrels Union.l

55 see bs  5/02/08 10:57:38 am reply quote

.......Another one bites the dust......

56 Squirrelguy  5/02/08 10:57:50 am reply quote

re: #52 Kenneth

All across Europe the move is away from the socialists. Terrorism, immigration, high taxes, unemployment... the left is getting blamed for all these things.

Well duh! The left IS to blame for all of it.

57 formercorpsman  5/02/08 10:58:11 am reply quote

re: #52 Kenneth

Kenneth, are you accross the pond?

If I'm not right back, I'm not being rude, just working.

58 CyanSnowHawk  5/02/08 10:58:56 am reply quote

re: #48 alegrias

OT: Did you see where the suspect UN World Food Program is sitting on billions, yet pleading for more $$$!

It takes lots of money to let that food rot, do you have any idea how expensive warehousing rotting food is?

59 alegrias  5/02/08 11:00:32 am reply quote

re: #52 Kenneth

All across Europe the move is away from the socialists. Terrorism, immigration, high taxes, unemployment... the left is getting blamed for all these things.

* * *
Zapatero's re-election in March disproves your claim, unfortunately.
Where are the brave Europeans supporting NATO actually FIGHTING terrorists in Afghanistan? We just had to send in US Marines to Helmand Province, where Prince Harry served until recently.

And here in the US, the left blames Pres. Bush for all these things.

60 mrkwong  5/02/08 11:01:18 am reply quote

Damn, this is sweet. Okay, it's not like the Brits just elected Berlusconi, but even a sidestep to the right is a healthy measure - and it's nationwide.

Whatever help Blair was in Iraq, 'New Labour' had a whole lot of Old Labour troglodytes embedded therein, and the rest of the Labour government has been beavering away full-time on the surveillance nanny-state.

Now it's time to go point out to the Livingstone acolytes on the SF Board of Supervisors, with their congestion-charge plans and their tongues firmly up George Galloway's ass when he came to town, what just happened to their hero.

61 LanceKates  5/02/08 11:01:50 am reply quote

re: #58 CyanSnowHawk

not to mention the security you need to hire to keep the starving people away from the food.


I seem to remember another group of people with food for the poor who would not let them have it.

He blamed America. They shot down one of our blackhawks.

62 JammieWearingFool  5/02/08 11:01:58 am reply quote

re: #44 macofromoc

I can't believe there's no picture of him in that cat costume licking milk off that other reality contestant. That should always accompany any red ken story..

That's was Galloway.

63 Sharmuta  5/02/08 11:02:10 am reply quote

re: #53 winston06

“I think these results are not just a vote against Gordon Brown and his government, I think they are a vote of positive confidence in the Conservative Party,” he said. “I think people see a party that has changed for the better, that is united, that’s got a strong team of leaders and increasingly they are looking to us, trusting us, to speak out on the issues they really care about - in terms of improving schools and improving our hospitals and dealing with crime on our streets.

This is from Mr. Cameron- it doesn't sound naive to me- sounds like he and his party have a better idea what the electorate is really looking for in terms of the issues that are important to them. But maybe it's because I see the term "crime in our streets" as code, since the J word is verboten.

64 macofromoc  5/02/08 11:02:23 am reply quote

Oh, my bad your right

65 alegrias  5/02/08 11:03:27 am reply quote

re: #58 CyanSnowHawk

It takes lots of money to let that food rot, do you have any idea how expensive warehousing rotting food is?

* * *
You're right. Somehow, I think the UN Food Program doesn't spend our money on warehousing "food" for Phakestinians for example.

Remember how lizards calculated they were shipping hundreds of pounds of "flour" per person--highly suspect, are the UN Relief Workers/Food program people.

66 Kenneth  5/02/08 11:03:33 am reply quote

re: #57 formercorpsman

Nah, I'm up in Canada. But I try to keep up with the news from the motherland.

67 maddogg[deleted]  5/02/08 11:03:56 am
68 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 11:04:17 am reply quote

re: #62 JammieWearingFool

That's was Galloway.

I have been looking through British papers, but haven't found out if Galloway was given the boot...Any info on that? Labour lost 300 seats, the Tories picked up 278, so that's better....

69 wolfie  5/02/08 11:04:21 am reply quote

re: #53 winston06

I am just a bit afraid of the head of Tory party Mr. cameron. He seems to be a naive person. Hopefully I am wrong

From what I've read (not much!), it sounds like he is less of a conservative than even McCain. But I still think these electoral trends are good, in that they show a rejection of the way the left is handling things.
But if the conservative parties of Europe do not offer some kind of improvement, what then? (I hate to think about it.)

70 Kosh's Shadow  5/02/08 11:05:08 am reply quote

re: #65 alegrias

* * *
You're right. Somehow, I think the UN Food Program doesn't spend our money on warehousing "food" for Phakestinians for example.

Remember how lizards calculated they were shipping hundreds of pounds of "flour" per person--highly suspect, are the UN Relief Workers/Food program people.

Of course they needed tons of "flour" per person. The ammo hidden under the flour is heavy.

71 mrkwong  5/02/08 11:07:44 am reply quote

re: #59 alegrias

* * *
Zapatero's re-election in March disproves your claim, unfortunately.
Where are the brave Europeans supporting NATO actually FIGHTING terrorists in Afghanistan? We just had to send in US Marines to Helmand Province, where Prince Harry served until recently.

And here in the US, the left blames Pres. Bush for all these things.

Okay, it's inconsistent. The French took a healthy step, the Italians just mopped most of the Left right out of national government and gave Berlusconi the tightest control he's had yet. We need to be careful because in parts of the East the 'conservative' choice is the old Communists.

The Left in the US (and everywhere) blames President Bush for their smelly socks and genital warts, so who cares what they think?

72 nyc redneck  5/02/08 11:07:49 am reply quote

now, this is some change we can get behind.

73 alegrias  5/02/08 11:08:01 am reply quote

re: #70 Kosh's Shadow

Of course they needed tons of "flour" per person. The ammo hidden under the flour is heavy.

* * *
Kosh, exactly. And yesterday some Phakestinian who worked for the UN relief outfit as a school headmaster was outed as a terrorist too, after dying in his 'metal' shop hit by Israeli strikes.

Send them packets of seeds to grow their own eats in those greenhouses left behind by the Quartet.

74 Fasternu426  5/02/08 11:08:20 am reply quote

I dunno why it made me think of this....
Bye Bye

75 Pope Insouciance IV  5/02/08 11:08:47 am reply quote

re: #62 JammieWearingFool

That's was

76 nyc redneck  5/02/08 11:09:40 am reply quote

re: #75 Pope Insouciance IV

Good thing my garbage pail was nearby. It caught all the vomit.

i bet even saddam was repulsed by him.

77 song_and_dance_man[deleted]  5/02/08 11:09:57 am
78 loppyd  5/02/08 11:11:09 am reply quote

I love the smell of a good mauling in the morning.

79 alegrias  5/02/08 11:11:36 am reply quote

George Galloway's American nemesis, the lovely Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, may still beat the not so funny leftist tax cheat Al Franken!

Please support Norm Coleman's bid for re-election in Minnesota--he was courageous and outed the UN Oil For Food cheaters & debated icky George Galloway.

80 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 11:11:49 am reply quote

re: #62 JammieWearingFool

That's was Galloway.


The respect party doesn't list him as a win.... Who knows, they haven't listed him as a loss either.

81 Earl  5/02/08 11:12:11 am reply quote

No doubt Toronto mayor David Miller is crying now that his political mentor has been deservedly turfed out in London.

Note to Miller: PC-suffused leftist lunacy on the Council of a major city only is tolerated for so long (too long in Livingstone's (spit) case).

82 jetpilot1101  5/02/08 11:12:14 am reply quote

re: #79 alegrias

George Galloway's American nemesis, the lovely Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman, may still beat the not so funny leftist tax cheat Al Franken!

Please support Norm Coleman's bid for re-election in Minnesota--he was courageous and outed the UN Oil For Food cheaters & debated icky George Galloway.

Do you really think Al Franken can win?

83 Sharmuta  5/02/08 11:12:30 am reply quote

re: #69 wolfie

But if the conservative parties of Europe do not offer some kind of improvement, what then? (I hate to think about it.)

Then the fascists try to fill the void.

84 J.S.  5/02/08 11:12:32 am reply quote

re: #68 coquimbojoe

George Galloway right now is out and about campaiging...On April 22, 2008 he was hit on the head with a stress ball (the attacker was arrested, and Galloway was hospitalized.)

85 BulgarWheat  5/02/08 11:12:56 am reply quote

Red Ken, kicked to the curb like a cur. How profoundly good and right that is, how satisfying.

Let the celebration begin London, free'd from the jihai-shill, liberty hating communist, boot licking scum bucket, Red Ken.

Fire up the grills and open the taps. Big fun in Britain tonight!

86 mrkwong  5/02/08 11:13:04 am reply quote

re: #68 coquimbojoe

I have been looking through British papers, but haven't found out if Galloway was given the boot...Any info on that? Labour lost 300 seats, the Tories picked up 278, so that's better....

This was local council elections, don't think it had anything to do with Commons seats except insofar as it shrinks Labour's national base for the next parliamentary elections (which I gather Gordon The Useless can stall for a while.)

Galloway sits for Tower Hamlets, which pretty much seems to be Islamabad-on-the-Thames anyway, so it'd be hard to get the guy out with anything but a large canvas bag and a CIA jet.

87 Pro-Bush Canuck  5/02/08 11:13:17 am reply quote

I could never get a handle on that guy. He seemed to be having too much fun to be taking it all seriously, but who the hell really knows? Maybe he was the next Josef Stalin, or maybe he was like the Russian "boomer" commander (now retired) I've come to know here in Canada, who would never have launched, and who reveled in the absurdity of it all.

88 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 11:13:48 am reply quote

re: #84 J.S.

George Galloway right now is out and about campaiging...On April 22, 2008 he was hit on the head with a stress ball (the attacker was arrested, and Galloway was hospitalized.)

Read that. Felt schadenfruede.

89 Kenneth  5/02/08 11:14:07 am reply quote

re: #81 Earl

You hear Miller has asked the province to give him greater executive powers? He can't stand having to work with the elected city councilors.

90 FrogMarch  5/02/08 11:14:20 am reply quote

re: #44 macofromoc

I can't believe there's no picture of him in that cat costume licking milk off that other reality contestant. That should always accompany any red ken story..

That was Galloway and I was thinking of Galloway too. regarding my post # 35.

91 coquimbojoe  5/02/08 11:14:35 am reply quote

re: #86 mrkwong

This was local council elections, don't think it had anything to do with Commons seats except insofar as it shrinks Labour's national base for the next parliamentary elections (which I gather Gordon The Useless can stall for a while.)

Galloway sits for Tower Hamlets, which pretty much seems to be Islamabad-on-the-Thames anyway, so it'd be hard to get the guy out with anything but a large canvas bag and a CIA jet.

There's always hoping....

92 song_and_dance_man[deleted]  5/02/08 11:15:12 am
93 mrkwong  5/02/08 11:15:42 am reply quote

re: #86 mrkwong

Galloway sits for Tower Hamlets, which pretty much seems to be Islamabad-on-the-Thames anyway, so it'd be hard to get the guy out with anything but a large canvas bag and a CIA jet.

Quoting one's own post, what bad form...

And for what it's worth, if anyone wants to establish a charitable foundation to create a comfortable but completely secure and isolated island onto which we can place Jimmy Carter, Ramsey Clark, and perhaps a few others like Mr Galloway, I'll throw in $100.

94 wolfie  5/02/08 11:15:59 am reply quote

re: #83 Sharmuta

Then the fascists try to fill the void.

That is what I fear.
If the center cannot hold,........

95 DesertSage  5/02/08 11:16:35 am reply quote

OK, finally Red Ken is gone!

/And some people still insist that there is no God.

96 Pro-Bush Canuck  5/02/08 11:18:39 am reply quote

re: #89 Kenneth

So what is going on with Lizard luncheons now? I've missed at least 4 or 5, but my schedule should permit my attendance during the glorious Spring season in Toronto...

Haven't seen WriterMom online for a bit, but that's probably since I'm barely here myself these days.

97 wolfie  5/02/08 11:19:51 am reply quote

re: #93 mrkwong

Quoting one's own post, what bad form...

And for what it's worth, if anyone wants to establish a charitable foundation to create a comfortable but completely secure and isolated island onto which we can place Jimmy Carter, Ramsey Clark, and perhaps a few others like Mr Galloway, I'll throw in $100.

You have an intriguing idea there. We set up the island, and then we invite all of these Elders (ahem!) to a giant Peace & Justice Conference. Then we leave 'em there, where they can blabber perpetually among themselves, "solving" all of the world's problems.

98 Kenneth  5/02/08 11:20:22 am reply quote

re: #96 Pro-Bush Canuck

WriterMom has been in Israel. She was posting from there a few days ago. She should be back in Toronto soon. Yeah, we should get together & shoot the breeze.

99 JammieWearingFool  5/02/08 11:20:40 am reply quote

re: #68 coquimbojoe

I have been looking through British papers, but haven't found out if Galloway was given the boot...Any info on that? Labour lost 300 seats, the Tories picked up 278, so that's better....

This is all I could find on him.

In London, voters were also electing the 25 members of the London Assembly, the body that holds the mayor to account.

Eleven of its members are elected by proportional representation – raising the possibility that George Galloway, the anti-war Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow and former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, could win a seat.

There is also a chance the far-right British National Party could gain its first seat.

100 Ward Cleaver  5/02/08 11:20:48 am reply quote

re: #97 wolfie

You have an intriguing idea there. We set up the island, and then we invite all of these Elders (ahem!) to a giant Peace & Justice Conference. Then we leave 'em there, where they can blabber perpetually among themselves, "solving" all of the world's problems.

Excellent idea!

101 Frank_Mtl  5/02/08 11:20:49 am reply quote

Great!

102 kynna  5/02/08 11:21:12 am reply quote

Well, this is happy news, but I've been bothered by some of the Tory statements as well. It seems nobody over there truly has the UK's best interests at heart. Kinda like our own politicians. Sadly. :(

103 Kosh's Shadow  5/02/08 11:22:03 am reply quote

re: #97 wolfie

You have an intriguing idea there. We set up the island, and then we invite all of these Elders (ahem!) to a giant Peace & Justice Conference. Then we leave 'em there, where they can blabber perpetually among themselves, "solving" all of the world's problems.

It can be run by the UN. In fact, we should move the UN there as well.

104 Pro-Bush Canuck  5/02/08 11:22:31 am reply quote

re: #98 Kenneth

WriterMom has been in Israel. She was posting from there a few days ago. She should be back in Toronto soon. Yeah, we should get together & shoot the breeze.

My "axis" is Bay/College through to Queen West, around Spadina, pretty much daily. I'm also in Dallas and New York for a few days this month.

105 Yankee Division Son  5/02/08 11:23:48 am reply quote

BRAVO CHAPS! Well Done!

106 alegrias  5/02/08 11:23:51 am reply quote

re: #82 jetpilot1101

Do you really think Al Franken can win?

* * *
Minnesotans can be notoriously moonbatty, "progressive" leftist laborites. When their previous pro-marxist Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash, democrats ranted at his wake like at a San Francisco rally. The backlash elected Senator Coleman.

It would be a travesty if Al Franken were elected to the Senate from Minnesota to continue taking liberties with our country, after he crashed AIR AMERICA using your tax dollars.

107 wolfie  5/02/08 11:24:40 am reply quote

re: #103 Kosh's Shadow

An absolutely splendid idea! Splendid!

108 Sharmuta  5/02/08 11:24:44 am reply quote

re: #82 jetpilot1101

Do you really think Al Franken can win?

The latest poll shows Coleman in a comfortable lead, then there's the latest scandal. The MN Senate race for dems is starting to mirror the national race as two other candidates are considering not letting weird al walk away with this nomination.

109 alegrias  5/02/08 11:24:46 am reply quote

re: #83 Sharmuta

Then the fascists try to fill the void.

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You know, there are centrists & moderates in this world.

110 Pro-Bush Canuck  5/02/08 11:24:53 am reply quote

re: #105 Yankee Division Son

BRAVO CHAPS! Well Done!

Heh.

Lot's more where he came from. It does feel good for the bad guys to lose ground now and then, however.

111 Paul Atreides  5/02/08 11:25:09 am reply quote

He needs to go live with the terrorists he loves so much. As with all liberal scum, he likes his comfortable living too much to do so.

112 Kenneth  5/02/08 11:25:13 am reply quote

re: #104 Pro-Bush Canuck

I'm languishing in Scarborostan, but I am happy to get downtown for lunch.

113 Miss Trixie  5/02/08 11:25:44 am reply quote

Afternoon, Lizards.

As usual, poster Ayatollah Khomeini (sp?) had a great post on this topic this morning - DT #535 and I'll paste it here.

*applause*

Europe Shifts

In the last few years Europe has taken a hard turn to the right. The expected accent of Boris Johnson, a charming witty train wreck of a Tory (I mean that in the nicest way) to oust Red Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London is a case in point.

No one is really talking about why this shift in political tastes. Of the largest countries in Europe, only Spain has a socialist government. Sarkozy, Prodi and Merkel are almost certain to be joined soon by Brittain's Cameron.

The reason for this sea change can be summed up in a single four letter word: fear. At hoem and abroad, Europe feels tremendous insecurity. The impact of unchecked immigration, lawlessness on the streets of Europe and the threat of domestic terrorism has finally sunk in. In Europe you are now free to express any opinion so long as it is not critical of the EU or Islam. Thank you Labour said the voters, we are now Tories. The daughters of Britain are prostituted by illegal immigrants, the sons are beaten to a pulp for asking directions in Bradford. Even the Austrian basement dungeon story resonates with European voters who see criminals being tapped on the wrist while people are afraid in their own homes.

The socialists have zero credibility regarding crime and national security. The Brown government is busy planning to build whole new cities for immigrants while the cost of a home has become utterly unaffordable for the average Brit. Then there is the small matter of a Police Departement that has become a useless bureaucracy, spending 30% of their time filling out forms from the simplest arrest. Meanwhile, up from a mere 500 (500!) residents of Britain so dangerous they require permanent Police Counter Terror monitoring are now 2400. Meanwhile, Labour appointed judges refuses to deport open supporters of Bin Laden for fear of what might happen to them if they were no longer safe in the UK. The danger such a person represents to the citizens that pay the Judge's salary are less important than the right of al Qaeda to have secure ope