The blog post where I sound like a conservative

A lot of people, Liberals and non-Liberals, are bashing the budget for having essentially "nothing" in it. It seems a hobby today for Liberals to self-immolate over Dion's decision to support the budget. Of course when people say there is nothing in a budget they mean no new, big, suprising, expensive announcements. Because budgets, of course, still have everything from pretty much every past budget in them (except for green auto rebates and a certain foundation).

It seems we have become so used to prosperity and big announcement budgets (damn, I'm sounding like Andrew Coyne here) that we forget there was a time when governments had to decide what spending to cut in budgets. So it is very much not true that this budget had nothing. There is some important new spending in this budget. Hundreds of millions of dollars for students and the auto industry. That is not nothing. Tax-sheltered capital gains (I'm not saying that's a good thing). You might not like the budget, or what the government is spending money on, but it is not the government's job to surprise Canadians with new extravagant spending in every budget.

/end conservative rambling

Anonymity

Waiting for Finance website to load is frustrating. Meanwhile, on the CBC site, further evidence why news sites should not have comment pages:

Reader Comment by J Simpson

What's done, is done. Nothing is going to change that, the families will have to deal with it without the taxpayers spending obscene amounts of money.

2nd Pickton trial may not go ahead, families told

Disgusting

Douchebag of the week

Financed by the Bank of Ma and Pa

You really need to pick up the paper version of the Globe with the giant photos to realize what a douchebag this Kieran Thomas is. Boo f***ing hoo, a couple makes only $170 000. Without Mommy and Daddy "I would have had to wait until I was 30 or 35 before my first condo." On Thursday I am flying to Vancouver just to punch this guy in the junk.

Afghan vote

I could be wrong, but this whole Van Loan Afghanistan thing does not seem smart to me. Are the Tories losing their strategic edge?