And a Happy Dominion Day!
(I refuse to call my my country’s national holiday by a name that sounds like the brainchild of a marketer at the Real Canadian Superstore*.)
Have a safe one, be good to my guest authors and I’ll be back early next week.
Before I go – thankyou for the emails and kind comments over the Mark Steyn reference to SDA at Right Wing News. It’s a good thing I already have a world class ego.
Re: Canada Day…
I’ve been trying to write a satirical version of “God Bless the USA” by Lee Greenwood.
http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/proudtobeamerican.html
Naturally, the refrain is “I’m ashamed to be a Canadian”… And you can have lots of fun with the word “free” and the line about “the men who died”, but I’ve got writer’s block.
Anyone want to play “exquisite corpse” and write this one line or two at a time?
Hey, where you going? Come back here. I was just directed to this site yesterday thanks to Mark Steyn and you’re leaving already. Sigh. 🙂
Don’t panic, Chuck. The commenters here will give you lots to read.
Have a safe and happy trip. I’m heading your way tomorrow. Well, to eastern and then western Manitoba, anyway. Not too far from the SK border. Is the air freer there than here in Ontario? I can hardly wait! Sane people surrounding me. How will I cope? Where will all the vehement anger go? The intense disgust when people open their mouths and I bite my tongue to bleeding in order not to shout them down?? No one deserving of my sarcasm. I can feel the knots of tension releasing already!
What Media Bias?
Nothing like a gratuitous slap at the United States to spice up some �Odd News� from Reuters: World�s oldest person celebrates 115th birthday. (Hat tip: MosheK.)
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch woman who swears by a daily helping of herring for a healthy life celebrated her 115th birthday on Wednesday as the
oldest living person on record.
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, a former needlework teacher, was born in 1890, the year Sioux Indians were massacred by the U.S. military at the Battle of Wounded Knee.
LGF
Herring chokers at Reuters.
Im planning on flying a cauckistan flag upside down all day to let the people know of my disgust with what used to be the best country in the world. Now its a place I hang my head in shame when someone asks where I am from.
Anyone want to play “exquisite corpse” and write this one line or two at a time?
And I’m sad to be Canadian
Where Big Brother looks after me
And I won’t forget how Cretien lied about the GST
Nat. Post:
“David Dodge, governor of the Bank of Canada, said “thank God for the U.S. current account deficit” as it helps fund one of the world’s main sources of growth.”
Is Dodge Canadian?
Watch AdScam Martin dump Dodge by 3 July, 2005; sorry, make that 5 July, 2005. Don’t wanna upset the George Bush guy.
Dodge is gone ASAP; the Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Interesting post on the future viability of the CPC.
http://www.la-mancha.net/archives/000939.html
Thoughts?
mazz: re Reuters: they kept reporting that there were storm clouds over the Vatican (oooh, remember “pathetic fallacy” from high school Shakespere?) during the papal election. weather reports and photos depict a clear blue sky.
And so forth. You’re incredible Sioux quote is just another one of their classics.
Oh, and that Cretien line in the song was perfect!
I wonder if Kalen Porter would sing that song for you Kathy S. Kalen (I hope I have spelled his name correctly) is from a ranch outside Medicine Hat; he was voted Canadian Idol last year and HE IS INCREDIBLE. He can sing anything, he only has to hear a song to sing it because he has ‘perfect pitch’. He has not been given air time as he is from Alberta and he is a rancher’s son but this song with Kalen’s help , would be played all over North America.
Have a nice Dominion Day everyone. Hang ANY flag but the flag of the Liberanos. The red ensign if you have one. The flag of the Liberano’s is not my flag – and it is not the flag of the soldiers of the first world war who first used it (the Maple Leaf) as a symbol of the Dominion of Canada.
What are we to do to show our disgust? I cannot listin to those stomach – turning bilous commentators on MSM continue to rip into the Conservative Party of the Dominion of Canada and our honerable leader without fury clouding my day. I am SO SICK of their fear and the mean, sicking way they strive to install their views and values in the minds of Canadians. Do they think we are stupid?
I was at a fishing camp in Lake of the Woods, Canada, when I was in high school in the ’70s. When Dominion Day came around I asked the Native Guides what it meant and what happened on that day. After much discussion, the answer was “Don’t know, it was before we were born.”
Im planning on flying a cauckistan flag upside down all day to let the people know of my disgust with what used to be the best country in the world. Now its a place I hang my head in shame when someone asks where I am from.
Flying the flag is recognized internationally as a sign of distress. I think given our present condition as a country we have every right to fly the flag upside down.
*Flying the flag upsidedown
*Flying the flag upsidedown
Sorry for the double post.
Dr. Johnson: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Ambrose Bierce: Patriotism is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
The flag of the Kingdom of Azania is an elephant’s ear; right or left ear? (Hat tip: E. Waugh)
1 July will be a regular working day for me. After all those years in uniform it’s sad that I feel I have nothing to celebrate.
A LONG WEEKEND
Posting has been very light here over the past week and that will continue for a few more days since we’ve got a few national holidays ahead of us, and all three of them have some significance for me: Special…
2020 Vision: What will Canada look like in 15 years? (The Cheshire-cat nation)
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On 07/01/2005 8:39:07 AM PDT � 23 replies � 402+ views
The Toronto Star ^ | July 1, 2005 | Richard Gwyn
We are in the grip of a disturbing malaise, marked by poor leadership and a consequent lack of vision Canada today resembles a marathoner who has run with quiet competence to near to the head of the pack but who now is seized by doubt about whether he can sustain the pace � indeed, whether he might have to drop out entirely. This doubt isn’t about where we are today. It’s about where we may find ourselves the day after tomorrow � in around 2020, the year the Toronto-based Dominion Institute has chosen as its measuring stick for Canada’s future…
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Gwyn, an avatar of Truedough & Trudopia; clawing his way back to sanity; a mea culpa from the erstwhile socialist. Tough, Gwyn. Have a terrible day, Gwyn.
AdScam Martin after the bill thing: “We are a nation of minorities.” Is this to which Gwyn is referring? A nation of people without chests.
Gwyn has fallen out of love with the Librano$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Hey, “maz2” –
I’m a bit out of touch with our dear demented Dominion’s political pundits what with being way over here in the international backwater of London.*
Does Gwyn still sport that ludicrous Beatles-cum-kitchen bowl haircut?
* Which, as you can imagine, is strictly Sleepy Hollow compared to the vibrant, bustling, world-class cosmopolitan centre of global importance and imperative that is Ottawa.
“Mr Blair? George Bush is on line 2.”
“Have him hold, I’m far too busy talking to Paul Martin on line 1.”
As if.