Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Spandau Ballet performing Chant #1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On) in 1981, (6:16).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Spandau Ballet performing Chant #1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On) in 1981, (6:16).
Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.
Sorry, the young Native I refer to above was on the CBC news.
Europe looks at Putin with prudence and respect, and at Bush with indifference
Which returns things to the old paradigm of the Putin-Bush relationship. It means that on Iran, energy supply, and painting America as the world’s culprit – over the weekend Dmitri Medvedev, seemingly Putin’s echo, called U.S. * economic egotism * the main cause of the global financial crisis – Russia does pretty much as it pleases and the United States pretty much keeps its mouth shut about it.
That is not exactly an American success story.
And now, concordant French voices say that Putin’s conversation with Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of May demonstrated his primacy, and the continuation of his policies.
** It put the dots on the i’s of the analysis that Medvedev is a kind of stand-in, ** said an adviser listened to by Sarkozy on issues relating to Russia. According to a second consultant, Putin ** talked as the boss. **
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/europe/politicus.php
============ International Herald Tribune..[NYT]
Putin only knows the iron fist. Honest reporters tend to end up stiff at the end of a needle.
The well educated and western minded Iranians at least have a chance to move away from extreme mullahs, Acmahdinejad and toward democracy. = TG
Canadian Radio Classics: Warman of the Mounted
Here is a wonderful “Radio Drama” script, with our pal “Lucy” as the star fighting “Black Jacque Levant”….enjoy!
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/06/canadian
Update:
“What is socialist Citoyen Dion’s immigration policy today?”
Abstain.
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“House passes controversial immigration reforms
Updated Mon. Jun. 9 2008 8:17 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
With several Liberals abstaining,”
Thats the best news i have read today & the best laugh i have had, Looks good on the CBC.
Ditto… and to think, the CBC must have thought they could get their way. This has to be the most hilarious gaff in the history of the CBC!
When days are long and the Conservatives are getting things done while hammering the snot out of the pathetic excuse for leader. When things are looking dim for the Liberals and their sychophants … trust the MSM to jump in. Like this
Canadian Press Push Poll which attempts portray the LIberals as being in the cat bird seat for an election.
batb,
Thanks for your usual common sense in your 7:35 am post. Those of us foolishly addicted to the CBC news, in spite of the damage it does to our sensibilities, will now face two weeks of hysterical posturing, a festival of political correctness that would make most people born before 1925 heave with revulsion. And for sure, most of the posturing and the politically correct speeches won’t come from actual or putative “victims” but from today’s aboriginal leaders, from the state apparatus and its hangers-on who are sponsoring the show and, above all, the usual array of media talking heads and the lefty professors. I probably won’t be able to take it and will, finally, have to tune it out.
But that won’t be the end of it. We will have five years to follow the so-called “Truth and Reconciliation” hearings across the country, and the CBC will be spending the bucks it couldn’t afford to keep the Hockey Night theme, on night after night of badgering Canadians about their hate criminal past.
No doubt that there will be genuine stories of people who truly suffered, perhaps many. There will also probably be some stories that are, shall we say “economical with the truth”. But the one thing there will not be is balance or any recognition that alternatives to the Residential schools would likely have been worse, and that any process of necessary acculturation would have claimed its victims. The good works actually accomplished by the churches will never be referenced.
I was hoping that after all the ambulance chasing lawyers finished having their way with the taxpayer, that this spectacle would come to an end, but this is not to be. The next stage will be nothing less than a gigantic, nationwide, lifelong HRC tribunal sitting, and all of us are going to be thoroughly ‘roo’d before it’s over, if it ever is truly over.
In spite of all that, if it could actually lead to a restoration of the well-being of aboriginal people and a functional relationship between them and mainstream society and institutions, it might be worth it all. But somehow I don’t think those things are going to happen and, if they ever do, it is very unlikely that this process will be the reason.
felis corpulentis: The good works actually accomplished by the churches will never be referenced.
You’re right. They’re the villain in all of this. As I’ve said before, no good deed goes unpunished.
The great irony in all of this, as the fat-cat lawyers get richer and richer, and the loonies slip through the Native recipients’ fingers (too many stories, now, of lives ruined or made worse by these payouts), is that the one almost exclusively Native diocese in the Anglican Church of Canada–the Caribou–went bankrupt a few years ago because of these claims.
Think of it: The diocese of the ACC, which perhaps was doing the most good working with Native people, and where they had their own Native Bishop, couldn’t afford to continue after the Native claims of abuse were enacted and they were bankrupted.
Unintended consequences?
The #1 obscenity in all of this–and there are many–is the posturing and getting rich of the lawyers. Apparently, they went around to Native bands a number of years ago, asking them if they wanted to make some big bucks, an action that would have had them disbarred when being a lawyer was an honourable profession.
Now that lawyering is akin to huckstering, these lawyers were allowed to sue the government for the so-called abuses at Native Residential schools. What very few people know–hey, members of the MSM haven’t exactly been “investigative” in their reporting when it comes to this issue–is that it was the LIBRANO$$$$ that involved the Churches when all this suing began. Chretien brought the Churches on board, because he thought they needed to share in the blame for a GOVERNMENT policy enacted 100 years ago.
Scratch a lib-leftie, whether in government, the media, or academe, and you’ll always find an anti-Christian bigot. Never mind that the Christian Church has probably done far more good for Native Canadians in the past few hundred years than the government ever has.
No good deed goes unpunished, as I’ve said, especially when you’re dealing with the bigoted, intolerant, and punitive anti-God brigade. Hmm. It seems to me there are precedents for this kind of behaviour–and I wonder that it seems to be lost on the chattering class crowd. Maybe they’d better get back to their history books…