Sam “Hollywood’s MP” Bulte’s greatest
contribution to the copyfight may be the phrase she coined at the January 11th all-candidates meeting in a
heat-of-the-moment outburst in response to being asked to take Michael Geist’s Copyright Pledge: “Pro-User Zealot”.
(Come to think of it, my greatest contribution may be having the presence of mind to capture the outburst on video and disseminate it. I can live with that.)
Should you want Ms. Bulte’s soon-to-be immortal words are in bumper-sticker form, wait no more — this CafePress site is selling them!
They’re not yet purchasing zambonis in Hell, but they’re donning
windbreakers: One of Accordion City’s alt-weeklies, eye, is saying what I said after the last election — the best possible outcome might be a Conservative minority:
Our
fondest hope is that the Conservative momentum falls short of a
majority. A Harper minority may actually be the best possible result of
this election: with no right-wing allies in Parliament, the
Conservatives would be prevented from instituting the nightmarish
aspects of their agenda. Harper would be forced to work with Layton and
Gilles Duceppe (given that a Conservative coalition with the Liberals
is unthinkable) on more temperate shared goals such as parliamentary
and electoral reform, environmentalism and, perhaps, decentralization.
It’s not ideal, but it’s also not Armageddon.
Dan over at BlogTO is “throwing his weight” for the same result.
Melanie McBride over at Chandrasutra writes about Tom Flanagan, who seems at first blush to be a Wal-Mart version of Karl Rove. Or perhaps he’s a Zellers next to Karl Rove’s Target. I’m sure there’s an apt metaphor somewhere.
She also touches on a very important topic: a lack of understanding
that we out here in the east have about western Canada (and probably
vice versa). What’s not helping is the prevailing attitude on either
side, each happy to maintain the worst possible viewpoint of the other.
By the bye, I’m not the only Kickass Karaoke regular who’s out there fighting the good fight: I caught Mike D’Abramo (second face on the page, better known to Kickass regulars as “Mike D.” from Youthography (a youth-oriented marketing/communication firm run by fellow Kickass Karaoke regular Max Valiquette) talking on CP24
about their work in trying to get young people out there to vote. As
Mike says, you’re Canadian too, so make sure you have your say!
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You’re correct – it goes both ways. I wrote a letter in to the Kelowna newspaper about their IV drug problems, which they published with the headline “Kelowna no place for a lady” … people wrote in to tell me to “go back to Toronto” and that the problems all come from “back east”. They’re not ready to accept that the place is set up like Rio, with the rich up in the hills (most of homes that were at risk during the fire were built too far up into the treeline) and the poor in the crumbling, neglected “downtown” … they leave these problems to the cops and the Hells Angels. Social programs? What’s that? I’m not payin!It’s a different mentality out there. And that’s why you’ve got guys like Stockwell Day representing these places.
The contemptible thing about Karl Rove, I think, is not so much that he’s effective, or that he works for the wrong team — it’s that his favourite tactics are the lowest form of slime politics. The Conservatives have not seemed to me to copy his style.
This is what she posted on her site under “Members of Canada’s Creative Arts Community Support Sam Bulte” in red.
So we’re extremists now. Those people just don’t believe in debate do they?
She reiterated these same comments on an episode of Goldhawk Live. You can probably still catch it if you’ve got Rogers On Demand. I posted some further thoughts about the panel discussion she “participated” in (more like “tried to take over”) over at http://www.byte.org