Recall Dalton! Sadly, unlike California, Ontario has no such recall law. However, this talk of taking him to court I could really get behind.

Do people just not read? The Overhaulin’ guy isn’t alone. Here’s a guy who writes about having seen a Maury show, leaves comments open, and next thing you know he’s getting “Dear Maury” letters. What the hell is wrong with people?

Tax-and-spend Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin jumped to the defense of his provincial tax-and-spend Liberal cousins today lumping blame for yesterday’s provincial budget on the previous conservative government. Attempting to draw a link between federal Conservative leader Stephen Harper and former provincial Conservative premier Mike Harris, the PM has stepped up his trash-talking of Harper’s campaign of lower taxes. Meanwhile, the question on the minds of Ontarians in the weeks leading up to the federal election is, “can anyone trust a Liberal ever again?”

So a guy writes a post about the TLC show Overhaulin’ on his weblog and leaves comments open for the post. For some reason, that weblog post appears as the first result when people google the word “Overhaulin.”

Enter the rednecks. Apparently there are a lot of people out there that can’t distinguish between a show’s official site and a weblog post. Chaos ensues:

hello. we watch you show all the time. i would like to see is i could get you to do my son truck.

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i need a over haul on a 1985 ford bronco it’s rusted out it would be a good project truck

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How does one apply to have husband’s old car be a canidate for makeover. He has a 66 VW bug and never has the money or time to fix it up.

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Dear Overhaulin,

My husband and i love watching your show when it on and were not working.We have a 1977 oldmobile cutlass that still runs ok but my husband says he wants to do this and that to it but doesn’t have the time would you please let me know if you would help and how money will it take me to get you to overhaul our oldmobile to suprise him.

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LOVE THE SHOW!!!1977 Buick Century, 2-tone (brown and cream), all original components, but crappy speaker job. No rust, nice paint, nice interior, runs well. If interested in overhaulin’ it, I’m in Florida…please get back to me.

And, of course, there’s all-caps guy:

MY WIFE HAS A 65 MUSTANG THAT NEEDS A LOT OF WORK. WE TRY TO FIND THE TIME AND MONEY BUT OTHER THINGS ALWAYS COME UP…

It goes on and on… in the words of the only sane poster, “These people really have to forget about the cars for a bit and work on their reading comprehension skills.”

It just got more expensive to live in Ontario. A lot more. The first provincial Liberal budget in 14 years was tabled today, and Ontarians are outraged.

And rightly so. Whatever the Fiberals would have you believe, make no mistake about it – today Ontarians have been served up a steamy heaping load of broken promises and massive tax increases. (Premiums, Levies, whatever… it’s a tax increase)

First on the hit list were, of course, smokers and drinkers. With an increase of $2.50 on a carton of cigarettes, 15 cents on a bottle of wine and 45 cents on a case of beer, Ontario’s sinners are the first to feel the pinch of living under Liberal reign. But don’t worry sinners, you’ve got lots of company.

Next the liberals hit Ontario drivers with a $25 increase for licence renewal fees. Don’t drive? Don’t worry, we’ve got something for you too! How about health care premiums? Low-income earners will pay an additional $300 a year, going up to $900 for high-income earners.

Need glasses? Those eye exams are no longer covered under the provincial health plan. Physiotherapy? Chiropractic? Delisted. No doubt about it, if you live in Ontario, you will feel the hit.

Now with all the extra money coming in, you wouldn’t be expecting the Liberals to at least balance their budget this year, would you? Hope not, since they’re planning on running a $2.2 billion deficit. Oh, and they expect to continue running a deficit until 2008.

Remember the Balanced Budget Act? The one that forces politicians to run a balanced budget or give up a portion of their own salary as a penalty? This year it will cost members of cabinet about $9000 a piece up to about $17,000 for the Premier, but don’t worry about them. They plan to scrap this legislation so they don’t have to pony up for the next three years of deficits.

Aw hell, what did anyone really expect from a provincial Liberal government anyway? I’m just glad I didn’t vote for them. At the very least, maybe traditionally Red Ontarians will wise-up and oust the federal Liberals this year so at least we’re not being bent over by two levels of government.

Seven Reasons you should vote for anyone but Paul Martin.

Everyone knows that when dealing with unruly children, rewarding bad behaviour is a dangerous practice. Paul Martin is not exactly a humble guy to begin with. If, after all the obfuscations, reversals and lies, after the sucking and blowing, after the breathless arrogance, the terminal condescension, and the deadly elitism where secrecy has been routinely chosen above openness and smug cliques preferred to average people, this crowd is voted back in, how will they ever be held accountable again?

As expected, the federal Liberals are trash-talking the Tories for campaigning on tax cuts in the coming election. Stephen Harper is proposing significant cuts that would benefit middle and low-income earners including reducing the personal income tax for those making between $35,000 and $70,000 from 22 to 16 per cent.

Liberals are crying foul questioning where the Tories will get the money to pay for these cuts and accusing them of drawing from social programs. Social Programs like the Liberal Gun Registry, the Liberal Ad Scandal, and any number of other Liberal-induced billion-dollar hemmorages, we hope.

With gas prices soaring in these recent weeks (I saw 93 cents per litre this morning), the federal treasury has seen a huge injection of cash in the form of GST being collected on the higher gas prices. The Liberals have taken exception to the Tory proposal to cut GST on gas priced higher than 85 cents per litre and have responded by vowing to spend the extra money on equipment for hospitals instead. Uh, yeah, right…

We think the Liberals could be in for a rude awakening this June and that the Conservative platform of tax cuts could be the death-knell for this scandal-plagued Liberal government. One could only hope.

And he’s keeping a weblog.

Pixar is at it again. This looks unbelievable.

It comes as no surprise that legislators are revisiting the question of the legality of filesharing in Canada, which until now has been sort-of vaguely considered legal, but this is ridiculous: “The Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage has also called for changes to the Copyright Act to make Internet Service Providers (ISP) subject to liability for copyright infringements.”

Holding ISPs responsible for the actions of their users is like sending a subway operator to jail for theft commited by its riders. Should ISPs also be held responsible for the actions of Pedophiles? How about members of racist groups?