Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
October 2, 2001 - "Bill Clinton is suspended from the practice of law in this Court," the Supreme Court announced in a decision that came without comment or indication of how the nine justices of the high court had voted on the ruling. Clinton has 40 days to contest the decision. The Supreme Court gave no reason for its move. However in April, the former president paid a fine of $US25,000 ($61,500,000) and was barred from practicing law for five years in his home state of Arkansas.
October 16, 2009 - The former U.S. president is at McGill University to accept an honorary doctor of laws degree.
McGill....sigh.
Gus: ditto
Ahhhhh . . . Slick Willy, still milking the system as best he can.
Which currency conversion table did they use?
Bill Clinton is coming,roll out the cigars.
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Same thing occurred to me. For 2001, the NZ dollar ranged between US$0.44 and $US0.42 - how do they get 61 million out of that?!
$25,000US would be about 60,000NZ at the time. Seems like someone had some pretty fat fingers, and a poor copy editor.
Would that be the same Bill Clinton that bit her lip and raped Jaunita Broaddrick, according to her accusation?
Bright lights at McGill, eh?
Honorary Law degree just doesn't cut it. He deserves a Nobel!
I don't like the idea of handing out honorary degrees and I certainly don't like handing out a degree to that philandering pig.
As for McGill, they (among others) are pumping out spiteful little brats like these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTXw6zIHRQ
We really shouldn't be surprised.
Well, to borrow from Whoopi Goldberg, "It wasn't perjury-perjury. They weren't felony-felonies. It wasn't a disbarment-disbarment."
This is yet another example of the cancer of "progressive" values in Western Civilization.
Good Lord, for a moment there I thought Obama was awarded a PHd.
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Congratulations Former President Clinton. Well deserved for a former Rhodes Scholar.
And after that,he will be going to Regina to shake the hand of the "judge" who gave the sentence in the above post.You know,a&&holes of a feather,etc.Oh. And T will be there,slobbering at their butts.
If they wrote the story today, converted figure would be $33,758.69
Thanks for that link Osumashi - I had heard nothing about it on the news (not surprising). Their parents must be proud of them. We pay taxes to put these shallow little people through university? I hate to say it but it's time for a little more militancy on the other side of this argument.
Cheers, Larry Bennett.
What stuns me (but perhaps shouldn't as it happens so often) is that people think this is a perfectly ordinary and appropriate way to act (like T and his smugness). Does anyone have ANY sense of self-reflection? Does it make sense to sing childrens' songs at a speech others came to hear? Does it make sense to give an honorary degree, period? Does it make sense to bestow any honour on a philanderer and traitor?
We reward sloth, ignorance AND rotten behaviour. It's no way to live.
"T" - this coming Wednesday I will be in Saskatoon to see and hear the 43rd President of the United States of America - a man of principle and integrity and surely one of the best reasons I can thing of why your sorry ass is not kicked out of this free country back to where you need to be.
"T" - think about it. If you were the asshole you are in a country outside Canada or the US - well your sorry ass would probably be fertilizing next year's crop.
Awards, prizes, and honorary degrees are what the Left uses to give itself faux gravitas and validity. They are sacraments of the worshippers of the self, camouflage for their rotten souls. A radio talkshow last Saturday was about the numbers of honorary degrees given to leftist Supreme Justices versus the conservative Justices. The wise latina has already gathered several more honorary degrees than Clarence Thomas, and the old leftists that have been there a while have a score or more.
Giving honorary degrees to leftists like Clinton reminds me of what an old painter said about a young coworker's painting skills: "He'd paint over a turd, but he'd bleach it first."