Political Shows...Anyone Watching?

When I started to get political, I watched Mike Duffy, CPAC, Question Period, and Don Martin. I listened to radio shows like Rutherford. I went to sites like Rabble, and quickly realized they were practicing freedom of speech, only for lefties. I finally found Free Dominion, and enjoyed commenting there. The first blog I found was Small Dead Animals, and I was instantly captivated by Kate's style. She was and is a refreshing voice for all things political.

I watched, I listened, I commented and finally, I decided to try blogging. I spent years blogging to myself mainly, but it was a great release for me, so I kept at it. Then I made the main page on Blogging Tories, and my page hits went up dramatically. All of a sudden, my voice was being heard! I still take it as a great honour to be a Blogging Tory.

As I evolved politically, I stopped watching political TV shows because of their bias and with a full time job, I just really don't have the time to listen to them. So far, I'm not missing much as far as I can see.

I would like to know what the viewing numbers are for CTV now that Duffy has left. The way they treated him was despicable and probably turned off a lot of people. He was popular until he became a Senator, then the lefties got nasty. Wasn't Liberal PEI involved again in slagging a Conservative? Typical. Same goes for CBC with Martin gone, what are the numbers for the new show? I suspect the viewing audience has diminished quite a bit. Are those numbers available anywhere? Only political junkies really care about these shows.

A typical day in my life, is dog pooling, work, make supper, help with homework, watch the local news, and then blog about something that bugged me that day. Who has time to watch the real Question Period, or any of the political shows? They come on here in Alberta at 3:00 while everyone is still at work. Nice Ontario bias by the networks. So they are catering to the Toronto audience. That is why the Liberal party only wins in Toronto.

Is anyone watching political shows anymore? Maybe the better question is: Why should we?

So, Let's Penalize Big Oil Shall We?

Every opposition party has demonized big oil, Layton even has a candidate who wants to shut the oil sands down. So, I say, okay Alberta, let's do it, just for one week.

Think of the CO2 we would not produce, we would be hero's to the environmental movement, heck let's do it for a month, or a year, that will clean up the smog in Edmonton...oh wait, Edmonton has never had a smog day, and CO2 is not visible. Maybe we should shut down the natural gas sector too, that will help the environment.

Or maybe you should watch this video to understand how much the rest of Canada benefits from big oil. I hope you are watching Layton, Dion, May and Duceppe, you obviously need to get a clue about Alberta.



102 BILLION dollars to Ontario!!! Wonder what even one day without an order from Alberta big oil will do to manufacturing in Ontario and Quebec. You can only slap Alberta around so many times, then Alberta will slap back, and we do have the power behind our punch. Why don't the opposition parties call for the DIRTY auto sector to be shut down, or taxed because of their polluting product? Chickens, hypocrites and union hags, all of them. I am tired of Alberta being the punching bag for the opposition parties. Alberta is always fair game during an election, but what would Ontario do without the 102 Billion from Alberta?

H/T to MaryT, who's comment on Friday lead me to this Rutherford/CPAC piece.

Grandma Tells CPAC What's What!

Too funny, Nic and Peter are busy trying to be non-partisan, then Granny calls, and tells them what's what!



Nic wants us to think talk at the water cooler is going to sink the Conservatives over cold cuts, and totally avoids any of the issues that Grandma brings up. Peter wants everyone to know that they handled the Garth situation, and Granny skewers both of them.

Go Granny!