Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, here is Mr. Chet Atkins performing Villa at the Ozark Jubilee (1958, 1:59).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
comming to a Country near you. This is what the government wants here as well. The CTRC is already eyeing legislation for control of the Internet.
Australian web filter to block 10,000 internet sites
AUSTRALIA’S mandatory net filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified “unwanted content”.
Some 1300 websites have already been identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
Communications Minister Senator Conroy revealed details of the Rudd Government’s proposed web filter as he called for expressions of interest from internet service providers (ISPs) for a live trial of the technology, the Courier-Mail reports.
ISPs will test ways to filter the web using volunteer subscribers. The trial will start before Christmas and is expected to last six weeks.
What’s the best way to control inappropriate web content? Comment below
More At: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24645676-661,00.html
The Tories are plotting to sell of crown assets, but excluding the CBC. What should they sell? I would love to see the CBC go bye bye, but I think it will take a bigger crisis than this to bring that monster down.
Traditional Canadian folksong. This song is often thought of as as a cowboy song from Texas, but Edith Fowke, a Canadian folklorist, found that it originated among British troops who went to Manitoba in the late 1860s to put down the Metis rebellion in North Dakota. It began as a song of military occupation. These days it would be seen as politically incorrect, as it was originally about “the half-breed who loved you so true.” It became popular in New York as “In the Bright Mohawk Valley”.
When I first bought a guitar at the age of 16, I got a little book of folk songs with a section at the back about how to accompany yourself on guitar. The shortened version of “Red River Valley” that I sing was the first song in this section, and therefore the first song I ever learnt to sing with guitar.
** Red River Valley of Manitoba **
Correction; that isn’t me singing.
Here is someone who can really do the song justice.
** Marty Robbins **
Harper finally admits what is obvious to most Canadians, that conservative ideology is not practical or pragmatic, especially when it comes to economic matters, and needs to be put aside for the economic good of the country.
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Harper tells party to put ideology aside in face of economic crisis
Conservatives must put ideology aside as they prepare to weather looming economic challenges facing the country, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper addressed more than 1,000 Conservative party delegates in Winnipeg Thursday night. (CBC)
“We face enormous challenges, and our work has only begun,” Harper told more than 1,200 delegates to the Conservative Party of Canada’s national policy convention in Winnipeg.
Harper told Conservatives they must be practical in their approach to the future and heed the concerns of all people, whether they support the Tories or not.
“We will have to be both tough and pragmatic, not unrealistic or ideological, in dealing with the complex economic challenges that confront us,” Harper said.
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Aside from being a lying, deceitful, opportunistic, rudderless, without principles, corrupt, petty, angry, hateful partisan… Harper may not be so bad after all. The more conservativism he throws out of the party, the more he trys hard to look like a pragmatic centrist Liberal looking out for the good of all Canadians, the more he appeals to me.
Not so sure the same can be said about readers here though. But keep forking over your hard earned dollars for this CHRC supporting, grassroots abandoning, corporate welfare doling, ideology aborting, MP bribing, in-and-out scamming party, folks.
Vit
That’s some fine pickin…Chet influenced lot of fine guitarists and that was good hear again.
Syncro
Ted….not to worry they still have a pink room waiting for you to sort out your priorities.
Cbc.ca has a story on their site regarding a bombing outside a synagogue in Paris way back in 1980. One of the suspects has been in Canada teaching sociology at the U of Ottawa.I’ll bet he fit right in .
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yet another inspirational lesson from the
“rainman school of social justice.”
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Lots going on today.
1. A couple of weeks ago, a woman was prevented from breastfeeding her baby in the water at a York region swimming pool. She intends to launch a “human rights” complaint. Apparently she was in the pool chatting with some friends, when her baby became cranky and she wanted to nurse it right there, as opposed to moving to an area away from the water.
The Toronto Star story yesterday says “The Ontario Human Rights Commission says breastfeeding women can’t be prohibited from feeding their babies in public, or ordered to move to areas considered more ‘discreet’.”
However, a couple of letters today say the pool owner was required by law to prohibit the activity, otherwise the local public health officials could shut it down: no food or beverage except water is allowed in the pool, and breastfeeding is considered a food or beverage (and we all know how narrow and by-the-book bureaucrats can be).
I am sympathetic to the view that a hungry baby should be fed as quickly as possible, but moving a few steps away to somewhere “discreet” is not exactly an imposition, and it is irrational to consider it some kind of “human rights” issue.
As with the Gator Ted’s incident where a man who was using medicinal marijuana was prevented from doing so directly outside the bar because of regulations, i.e. the law, the OHRC may well end up judging this case in flagrant disregard for the laws of the land.
The HRCs clearly have no regard for the law or genuine human rights, and innocent people who are put in a Catch-22 situation are being victimized by them.
Abolish. Them. All.
2. Margaret Wente in today’s Globe writes about the current issue of Toronto Life, whose cover story is on Aqsa Parvez, the teenaged girl who was allegedly murdered last December by her father and brother in a so-called “honour killing”.
The magazine has been taking flack over the piece to the effect that it is “racist” and “Islamophobic”. But the complaints seem to be coming from feminists who “insist there is no connection between misogyny and culture”, as Wente puts it.
While violence against innocents (not just women) is endemic in many human societies, there are degrees. Can we please send these hypocritical feminists to live under Taliban rule for a while? They have shown by their anti-war stance that they have no regard for the rights of the women of Afghanistan. Maybe the brutal thugs of the subhuman, backward Taliban “culture” can knock some sense into them.
3. A Barbara Kay column in the National Post yesterday discusses university students who think they should get extra marks for “trying hard”, reflecting effort rather than achievement. A few letters in response have been published today.
Does this not seem to be the logical extension of the way grade school students have been taught for a couple of decades?
I actually think self-esteem is quite important, but you get it from actually achieving things, not from shying away for fear of failure, which is what the schools are imparting.
One of the problems with a monolithic education system is that when it screws up, the catastrophic effects continue for years without correction. We need to get away from the cult of public education, starting at least with a voucher system so parents and students can choose their schools. That way, the schools opting for teaching methods that leave students illiterate upon graduation will hopefully end up closing their doors.
4. Lindsay Lohan was chided for calling Barack Obama the first “coloured president”.
Can somebody please explain the difference between a “coloured person” and a “person of colour”?
Since the two terms mean exactly the same thing, it is clear that the whole point of this kind of “political correctness” is to force obedience to arbitrary authority. The gulag awaits! Dissent will be crushed!
5. The Canada Pension Plan Reserve Fund dropped $10.3 billion dollars during the early weeks of the recent stock market travails, from $127.7 billion to $117.4 billion, July to September.
While most private funds are having problems in the meltdown, the fact remains that individuals should be able to manage and be responsible for their own money.
The conservative policy convention is this week right? Where do I go for information? YouTube videos?
Sheesh. Common sense, which is not so very common these days, says eating Cheezies in the pool is not quite like nursing in the pool. Personally, me and my babies always liked a quiet spot to eat.
nv53, the boobs have been out in full force since the Obama campaign started. What’s an extra 1 or 2 in swimming pools?
Apparently, we are all going to freeze!!
Suzuki- Come save us all and tell us again how bad we are being just by breathing!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085359/Global-warning-We-actually-heading-new-Ice-Age-claim-scientists.html
Barbara Kay’s NP article about the entitled, spoiled brats we’re turning out is a must read.
It starts at least in kindergarten and continues all through grade school, where there are virtually no consequences for infractions of the numerous Behaviour Codes. It seems a full time job for the parents of the miscreants and the appeasing administrators to coddle the little darlings. (Teachers are hung out to dry.)
And have people here noticed the lousy “service” these spoiled brats provide? (One, who was serving me when I bought my new cell phone, kept text messaging during the transaction. At least he was polite–unusual–when I requested that he stop.)
We’re in trouble. Entitled, spoiled brats in adult bodies are dangerous.
Breaking News: All Gone.
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“[Ontario Liberal]McGuinty Halts Campaign Against Feds
Premier Dalton McGuinty is suspending his campaign for fairness against the Federal Government” (cfra)
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“The Telegram – St. John’s, NL
Williams pulls ABC site down”
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“29 Oct 2008 … From Angry in the Great White North. … I’m just happy that Dion/Green Shift is gone”
14 year old wears ‘McCain Girl’ t-shirt to school to find out how tolerant the left is.
From the Chicago Tribune: (via ibloga.blogspot.com)
Catherine Vogt, 14, conducted an experiment in political tolerance at her Oak Park middle school and learned some valuable lessons. (Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo / November 12, 2008)
As the media keeps gushing on about how America has finally adopted tolerance as the great virtue, and that we’re all united now, let’s consider the Brave Catherine Vogt Experiment.
Catherine Vogt, 14, is an Illinois 8th grader, the daughter of a liberal mom and a conservative dad. She wanted to conduct an experiment in political tolerance and diversity of opinion at her school in the liberal suburb of Oak Park.
She noticed that fellow students at Gwendolyn Brooks Middle School overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama for president. His campaign kept preaching “inclusion,” and she decided to see how included she could be.
So just before the election, Catherine consulted with her history teacher, then bravely wore a unique T-shirt to school and recorded the comments of teachers and students in her journal. The T-shirt bore the simple yet quite subversive words drawn with a red marker:
“McCain Girl.”
“I was just really curious how they’d react to something that different, because a lot of people at my school wore Obama shirts and they are big Obama supporters,” Catherine told us. “I just really wanted to see what their reaction would be.”
Immediately, Catherine learned she was stupid for wearing a shirt with Republican John McCain’s name. Not merely stupid. Very stupid.
“People were upset. But they started saying things, calling me very stupid, telling me my shirt was stupid and I shouldn’t be wearing it,” Catherine said.
Then it got worse.
“One person told me to go die. It was a lot of dying. A lot of comments about how I should be killed,” Catherine said, of the tolerance in Oak Park.
But students weren’t the only ones surprised that she wore a shirt supporting McCain.
“In one class, I had one teacher say she will not judge me for my choice, but that she was surprised that I supported McCain,” Catherine said.
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The next day she wore an ‘Obama Girl’ t-shirt. Guess what happened?
So Warren “I was part of Adscam” Kinsella is on Iggy’s team.
Any news yet on his job ? Providing advice on how to ridicule Christians ? Defending Jean “I was in charge while the Liberal Party stole $40 million” Cruton’s legacy ? Liaison to his love buddy Obama ?
There are more than 2500 delegates at the convention in Winnipeg.
There are also a few green with envy Liberals floating about, Marlene Jennings for one. She looked stunned but her tongue still worked.
Sorry for your predicament ted. Feeling better after your dump?
OK . . think I figured it out. Iggy starts off his campaign by going stuck on stupid postal – so Warren is providing political guidance – apparently his “expertise”. Warnout is so 90’s, so old, so passe.
“Ignatieff takes the low road
National Post Published: Friday, November 14, 2008
Liberal MP Michael Ignatieff opened his campaign for the Liberal leadership on Thursday with a full-on assault aimed at Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his fellow Conservatives, accusing them of a range of political crimes. After announcing he is not running against fellow Liberal candidates but “against Stephen Harper and the Conservative government,” he charged them with dishonesty, incompetence and something close to bigotry and racism.”
http://tinyurl.com/6z9sg6
The natural end result of socialism: The PET Cemetery.
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“Starving Zimbabweans raid food lorries
Ten 30-tonne vehicles carrying private imports of the staple maize meal at the Zimbabwean side of the Beit Bridge border post were besieged by hundreds of Zimbabweans desperate for something to eat. Witnesses said that the crowd ripped the stolen bags open to stuff the uncooked cereal into their mouths.
“I have never seen anything like this in my life,” said a rancher from southern Zimbabwe. “I couldn’t imagine in my wildest dreams I would ever see Zimbabweans so hungry.
“Piles of bags of maize meal were on both sides of the road and people from all over the district came streaming in and I saw some breaking open the bags and eating it raw.
“Then it started to rain so it will go rotten, but people will eat it anyway. The world must know people are starving here.””
http://preview.tinyurl.com/5avrkm
Yesterday on Charles Adler radio show, a McMaster University (Hamilton, ON) student was on and explained that on Nov.11 at 11am he ask his teacher (A woman) to stop class for a standing moment of reflection.
“Not everybody believes in that” the teacher opined
The student got up anyway, followed by approximately 1/3 of the class.
After about 45 seconds or so the teacher said: “OK let’s get back to work, we are busy”
The guess host of the show (Adler was off) was livid.
“Does’nt that teacher understand that because of our brave men and women…” You know the rest.
This is the second such incident at McMaster’s in the past few years apparently.
I’ll stop here, my blood pressure and all…
It’s a good think WK is back on the team. He will turn it into a smear machine and sicken Canadian voters. He really can’t help himself.
Feds pondering Bailouts for the Big 3, Bullcrap.
I agree with the the taxpayers federation get your act together first, When you see Headlines in Bourque that says GM pays out $$Millions ON $$Millions for Viagra as per an agreement with the UAW. Which in turn gets added on to the retail of a vehicle, Is the CAW recieving the same?
“GM spends $17 million on Viagra”
Bourque Nov14/08
UAW & CAW you want to keep your jobs then take a look at what your making $$ & producing, Maybe the ordinary Joe would be able to buy if you starting making a product that is affordable, Unions are sending this country into Ruin.
A few thousand wolves hunting the billions of sheep. An Excellent example running at INFOWARS.com. Snake oil for sale, come one come all.
“You take your hard earned retirement savings to a Wall Street firm and they tell you that as long as you “stay invested for the long haul” you can expect double digit annual returns. You never really know what your money is invested in because it’s pooled with other investors and comes with incomprehensible but legal looking prospectuses. The heads of these Wall Street firms have been taking massive payouts for themselves, ranging from $160 million to $1 billion per CEO over a number of years. As long as new money keeps flooding in from newfangled accounts called 401(k)s, Roth IRAs, 529 plans for education savings, and hedge funds (each carrying ever greater restrictions for withdrawing your money and ever greater opacity) everything appears fine on the surface. And then, suddenly, you learn that many of these Wall Street firms don’t have any assets that anybody wants to buy. Because these firms are both managing your money as well as having their own shares constitute a large percentage of your pooled investments, your funds begin to plummet as confidence drains from the scheme.”
“(All current prices are intraday on November 12, 2008):
American International Group (AIG): Currently $2.16; in May 2007, $72.00
Bear Stearns: Absorbed into JPMorganChase to avoid bankruptcy filing; share price in April 2007, $159
Fannie Mae: Currently 65 cents; in June 2007 $69.00
Freddie Mac: Currently 79 cents; in May 2007 $67.00
Lehman Brothers: Currently 6 cents; in February 2007, $85.00”
INFOWARS.com
http://counterpunch.org/martens11132008.html
For the – “Where the foxes caper unmolested” file
two of the BBC’s biggest stars lost their jobs after engaging in obscene telephone calls to the actor Andrew Sachs, known to the world as “Manuel” in the legendary comedy series Fawlty Towers. …
in late October Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross, two popular British television and radio personalities, devised a skit for BBC Radio 2 in which they would record a series of messages on the answering machine of the aforementioned actor Andrew Sachs, who had failed to appear on their show. (Americans will remember Brand as the lewd and disrespectful host of the MTV Awards in September, who memorably referred to President Bush as a “cowboy retard.”)
In the process of taunting Sachs by ansafone, the two men engaged with repulsive detail in describing Brand’s sexual encounter with the granddaughter of 78-year-old Sachs. The program was pre-recorded and a wise editor clipped out an indescribably execrable section about Brand and Ross masturbating the actor, but the portions of the program that did transmit on the nation’s airwaves constituted veritable garbage. …
Of course, Sachs complained to the corporation but very few listeners did the same until the Daily Mail newspaper expressed its outrage …
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/decency-dying-a-painful-death-in-british-culture/
Hey Ponzi, buy beer.
You get a better return on your money when you return the cans.
Welcome to the PostModern World – Episode #11
“Judge allows $2 lawsuit claiming mind control”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=952316
NANAIMO, B. C. – A judge has refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit brought by a B. C. man who is seeking $2-billion in damages from Microsoft, Telus, Wal-Mart, the RCMP and other defendants over alleged brain-wave control, satanic rituals and witchcraft.
…Jennifer Millbank, a Nanaimo lawyer hired to represent Microsoft in the case, said that Mr. Rose’s two-page statement of claim is “nothing short of bizarre” and that it would be “impossible this would ever be a case for trial on the merits.” But Judge Wilson, while admitting the case was “certainly an unusual one,” said he had to be convinced there was nothing in Mr. Rose’s claim that could be litigated…”
The post-modern philosophy that there is no objective truth and that everything is relative is fairly harmless when restricted to the academic ivory tower and deconstructionist arts and literature courses, but the genie just won’t stay in that bottle.
Right now, we can all enjoy a good laugh at this crazy guy, and the wacky judge who is willing to discuss the merits of his zany science fiction case.
But in 10 years, it won’t seem so funny.
Vitruvius: (not Vit, you declasse yankee abbreviators): thanks for the Chet Atkins clip. The phrase “plays cleeeeen as country wattah” in the Lovin’ Spoonful’s Naishville (sic) sums it up eh?
BTW, I had a 20-30 minute chat with John Sebastian in Los Angeles a few years back. He was performing solo at a musical instrument merchants convention there. I attended as a guest of an old friend who was in the biz at the time.
Mao Stlong’s Nightmare: Jeancula* Sidewinder.
“The leading Canadian businessman in China was Jean Chretien’s son-in-law, Andre Desmarais, and the leading company operating there was his Power Corp.”
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“The Perfect Trap
Less than a week into his new job, Giuliano Zaccardelli lured Jean Chretien into a confrontation. Then he presented the PM with an offer he could not refuse;
Newly appointed RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli refused to elaborate on the “sophisticated criminal organizations” he referred to in his inaugural Sept. 7, 2000 press conference. But many reporters knew what he was referring to: Project Sidewinder, the joint RCMP- CSIS investigation that had begun eight years earlier following discoveries of irregularities at the Canadian consulate in Hong Kong.
As investigators followed the trail, they became concerned about the apparent links between the Chinese government, Chinese criminal triads, and leading Canadian business leaders and politicians. There were leads that investigators were eager to pursue back to Canada, but the controversial on-and-off investigation had been wound up without charges years earlier in puzzling circumstances. Yet it would not die.
For police and intelligence insiders, the inexplicable demise of Project Sidewinder was perceived to have been the latest and best example of politicians influencing police investigations. The leading Canadian businessman in China was Jean Chretien’s son-in-law, Andre Desmarais, and the leading company operating there was his Power Corp.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=957679
*Jeancula:
http://archives.vigile.net/05-4/13-cornichon-jeancula.jpg
I just heard the most unbelievable interview on CBC: Jian (rhymes with Dion) Ghomeshi interviews Super Dave Osborne.
1. Super Dave is funny. Not amusing in an ironic, detached, yet socially conscious way: funny. Who knew?
2. SuperD., who apparently had never heard a CBC interview before, figures out the CBC style and deftly skewers it in real-time. “What are you a school teacher.” One of Jian’s co-personalities was clearly enjoying Dave’s style more than the usual fare. I wonder if she’ll be back.(I noticed I haven’t heard from Claire Martin (the weather wonder woman) since her bit of a politically incorrect riff.
3. Jian (rhymes with Dion) took it well.
podcast here (not posted as of noon, Friday): http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/pastpodcasts.html?42#ref42
video here: http://qtv.blip.tv/rss
The fact that Chretien is a crook is nothing new.
But this article in the National Post, about Chretien’s dealings with the RCMP to effectively get them to stop an invesigation into corrupt immigration practices in the Canadian Chinese consulate, are mind-boggling. A political interference in the legal processes of Canada.
Why? For his own personal benefit; Chretien is allied to PowerCorp and they have enormous business interests in China. Chretien didn’t want these interests affected by a criminal investigation and trial about corruption in China and Canada’s role in that corruption.
When will Chretien and the Liberal Party ever be forced to confront the truth? That they used the political system, and the Liberal Party, to advance their own financial interests – the interests of PowerCorp, andn the Desmarais Family?
Note also, another article in today’s National Post, about how PowerCorp is behind the current Liberal leadership race, setting up Dominic LeBlanc, as the fall guy between Ignatieff and Rae. LeBlanc, whose godfather is Chretien (heh) is expected to drop out after the first ballot and throw his delegates to Rae. Rae is a member of this PowerCorp group.
Who says we don’t have our own political mafia? Who says we can’t be as corrupt as any other country?
Toronto Mayor Miller – Violent crime by blacks is all whitey’s fault.
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Toronto Mayor David Miller added that society must ensure that entire groups of young people feel don’t feel excluded.
“You put a gun in the hands of somebody who is angry, who feels alienated, who feels discriminated against, and that is impulsive, you’re creating an incredible risk for society,” Miller said.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty said he will consider the report’s recommendations “very carefully” and will look at it as a blueprint for an action plan.
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081114/youth_violence_081114/20081114?hub=Toronto
Greatest Dog Escape
http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/animals/Greatest_Dog_Escape/#210412
pete :
Yup welcome to the soon to be Obama Nation. Pretty soon like in Alberta you will have unbderground presses for the books banned from publication by our ardently Socialist MSM, library’s & Neo-Marxist book burners.
Yes U Tube is your only option in the land of nod.
STOPIGGY.
Commenter Observant at Angry’s blog* has posted this link** to a G-M article from 2006.
Excerpt from article:
“This iceberg wants to be our next prime minister, so what lies beneath the surface — why, for example, he says he doesn’t want to hurt other people and yet so often in the past has done exactly that — becomes important to know.”
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“Being Michael Ignatieff
He’s known for his charm, good looks and big ideas. But he also admits to ruthlessness. He has hurt those who loved him most. And after decades abroad, he now wants to become the leader of this country. Michael Valpy peels back the layers to find the man beneath the brilliant surface.”
**http://tinyurl.com/o9sfr
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*”The National Post alone in reporting on Michael Ignatieff’s ignoble comments”
http://stevejanke.com/archives/278130.php
Good news: Interim-leader Liberal Citoyen Dionky “sheds” jobs; “budget shrinks”.
Pink Slips Dionky.
In spite of the gloomdoomers, Canadians are having “a much better performance than expected –“. The “experts” are wrong again.
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“Manufacturing sales up in September: StatsCan
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada reported Friday that manufacturing sales edged up 0.1 per cent to $52.2 billion in September — a much better performance than expected — after a sizeable decrease in August.”
http://tinyurl.com/6luucg (ctv)
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“Liberal leader’s office sheds staff as budget shrinks
OTTAWA — Stephane Dion has laid off 11 staff members in the Opposition leader’s office as Liberals continue to feel the ripple effect from last month’s electoral drubbing.”
http://tinyurl.com/5mptu4 (ctv)
Thanks, Me No Dhimmi, I appreciate your taxonomical propriety.
Caption this:
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/1114RaeIggy.jpg
mv53: “Can somebody please explain the difference between a “coloured person” and a “person of colour”?” — Good question. It is obviously political correctness, but in this case, I think it is quite misguided. If someone is disabled, one is supposed to say “person with a disability”, rather than “disabled person” — to emphasize the person part, rather than the disability. Fair enough. But to extend this to a racial characteristic I think backfires. Being “coloured” is hardly a disability. coloured should equate with other adjectives, such as tall, short, rich, blonde, fat — whatever. One would not say a “person of fat”. Also, you can’t contort the adjective “white” into that phrase either. You can say “white person”, but cannot say “person of white” So what PC does in this case is to say that the fact of being coloured is not just a description, it must be treated as some sort of exceptionality. It’s subtle but the problem comes in because of the unconscious messages that are sent when these awkward rephrasings are used. In this case the unconscious message would be that one does not want to mention that the individual is coloured. I do not think this is the right path to equality.