The War Room

PARANOID GUESTS, VIOLENCE, SIGNS AND GELDOF

Happy New Year to all of our readers. We certainly hope you had a joyous and wonderful Christmas.

A few thoughts...

We just finished entertaining a friend of ours and his wife who recently accepted a job as a drama professor at a university just outside Dayton, Ohio. You remember Dayton, Ohio? The place where Les Nessman from WKRP was from. He told me that when he and his wife first moved there in September he was so terrified of getting shot that he kept his doors and windows double bolt locked every night.

Now, being terrified of getting shot in a small town outside Dayton, Ohio is like being terrified of being shot at the Shaw Festival at Niagara on the Lake. Lordy. He totally bought into all of the Toronto anti-American rhetoric and really believed most Americans in every American city were going around with a gun ready to blow everyones's head off. He said it was because of George W. Bush and the new American culture down there.

Now, I love my friend but dear God. I know Torontonians are brainwashed but is the average one really that...off? The fear he had was just plain silly. I told him Toronto was far worse than many American cities and most Torontonians are merely paranoid about America based on propaganda. I do not think I made a difference.

Some other friends also visited including the one who is the campaign manager and 'spy' for a local Liberal Party candidate. She said she was terrified that her political career would be over if they lost the election. I remained silent when some others in the room expressed concern for her career.

Does that make me a bad person?

As for the murder and random shooting spree in downtown Toronto on Boxing Day, words cannot express the horror. Sadly, most Torontonians will see this as an excuse to abide by Paul Martin's hand gun fraud.

David Miller again proved he is a mayor not worthy of the title. He is driven by ideology, not compassion. There is a gun problem in Toronto to be sure but until the people realize that it is really a gang problem and that it is cultural I fear nothing will change and the victims will continue to increase.

Do you think either David Miller or Paul Martin lost any sleep over this crime except for how it might affect their careers?

Please keep Jane Creba in your thoughts and prayers.

As for the Trust Fund scandal; it will not matter to most Torontonians, but I am noticing more Conservative signs than in the last election; even in Toronto. That bodes well for the rest of Ontario.

I think the Liberal vote will turn out. The average Canadian leftist is TERRIFIED of Stephen Harper. Again, I add that most of my friends are in the arts so that makes them a notch or two more paranoid and hedonistic than the average Toronto voter...but they will climb through a blizzard to keep the 'Christians' out of office.

On the plus side...

The Conservatives I do know (and I do know a few) are more psyched up than ever before. One friend of ours works for a major Toronto daily as a journalist and 'outed' himself before Christmas. He lives in a major NDP-Liberal riding in the east end and proudly put a Conservative sign on his lawn and joked about how he calls his NDP neighbour a 'pinko' every morning. Stories like that warm my cockles...especially at this time of year.

As for reality...

There is hope but I am still not allowing myself to indulge. If that 6-8 point poll spread isn't closed in the next 12 or so days...

Finally, kudos to Sir Bob Geldof for taking a job as a consultant for Britain's Conservative Party on issues of poverty.

Geldof has, in the past, shown respect to both Pope Benedict and President Bush on life issues and he has proven he has no time for the empty anti-Christian rhetoric or anti-conservative partisanship of most in the entertainment industry. He is obviously someone who marches to the beat of his own drum in the best possible sense.

He is an inspiration to all true artists.

posted by Nicol DuMoulin @ 11:16 PM