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Canada’s Oil Bonanza
Posted 06:58 PM ET
Energy Policy: Talk about alternative energy! Canada has the oil the American economy desperately needs — and then some. So why do we treat this and other energy allies like pariahs?
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=477192
Lorrie Goldstein has a great column out about the language of global warming soothsayers aka climate change doomsdayers aka environmental elitists aka hypocrites to an extent the world has never seen before!
Could someone,anyone please tell us here in SE Manitoba how to get some of that global warming stuff. It is so cold here today,I’ve had my woodstove burning all day.trees are barely in bud,my rhubarb leaves froze..please please come to Manitoba GW!!
Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear has a hilarious review of the Insight, the hybrid car from Honda. Have fun driving this, greenies:
Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.
Andrew Mizsak, clean your room! Father calls cops on adult son, member of the Bedford school board, for refusing his chores
http://unclemeat.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/according-the-report-andrew-was-sent-to-his-room-to-clean-it-he-was-crying-uncontrollably-and-stated-he-would-comply/
Sammy wrote: “Could someone,anyone please tell us here in SE Manitoba how to get some of that global warming stuff.”
Oh man, chill out, will ya? Everyone who knows knows that even cooling is due to warming, and visa versa.
Dude, “global warming” is now more accurately defined as “climate change”, wherein humanity is responsible for all daily weather, any variations from the norm, any new records set, volcanic activity, temperature variations due to ocean currents and solar activity.
If you don’t believe me, just ask Elizabeth May, David Suzuki, Al Gore or his soothsayer James Hansen.
1. Barack Obama’s major criteria for selecting a Supreme Court Justice: Visible Minority, Female, Lesbian.
2. Required judicial experience: Not Important
3. End result: Priceless!
I just learned something very interesting from John Batchelor’s podcast recorded yesterday.
Did you ever wonder where the Democrats were planning to get the money to fund their massive Health Care plan?
Well, it’s going to come from their new Cap & Trade System, which is going to tax EVERYTHING including fuel, vehicles, even cows! The amount of money they’re expecting to get from these new taxes is going to be MASSIVE.
And I expect they’ll cripple the American economy, and thus indirectly ours. 🙁
Robert W,
If you follow the stock market you will see that when the Dow goes up… Oil goes up.. That is strange don’t you think.. Does somebody think that the cost will be a 100% burden on the consumer.
Or the same people speculating on Oil are those holding the market up…. Manipulation was a crime!
The article still doesn’t get it right. They say that ‘center-left’ governments in Canada have been responsible for tax cuts. Which is certainly NOT the case. As anyone with the bad taste of 13 years of Liberal rule can attest.
Eco-fascism Explained. (And it ain’t pretty !)
[ Another ‘moderate’ Ernst Schumacher (author of the best-seller, Small is Beautiful)argues humanity’s plight results from too little time spent doing hard labour. This problemis exacerbated because “the whole drift of modern technological development is to reduce it further.” Schumacher asked us to: “Imagine we set our selves a goal in the opposite direction – to increase it (physical labour) six-fold.” Some heavenly day, “Even children would be allowed to make themselves useful, even old people.” Similarly enviro-pundit William Ophuls dreams of a day where agriculture is more labour intensive because “labour will be cheaper than energy” and because “horticultural agriculture” is “less ecologically damaging.” Hence: “a larger portion of the population will have to be ‘peasants’ in a low-energy steady state society.” Best-selling “post-industrial” author Robert Heilbroner refers to humanity as a cancer and claims in addition to war, over-population, and environmental damage there exists: “a fourth independent threat… the presence of science and technology as the driving force of the age.” He wants to end “the dangerous mentality of industrial civilization itself” even if this means sacrificing democracy. Bio-diversity’s main proponent, renowned professor and author, E.O. Wilson, is an orthodox Malthusian and Social Darwinist. Fellow bio-diversifiers include movement stalwarts Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown. Biodiversity is a post-modernist Darwinist hodgepodge where Nature is so complex only a handful of bio-wizards can grasp it. They will guide us dummies. Biodiversity is a political camp devoted to battling the planet’s aggressors – humanity. The Club of Rome has declared their enemy to be “humanity itself.”] Donald Gibson
“Increase physical labor six-fold” !!
Tis why Suzuki is so in love with Castro.
“Labor will be cheaper than energy”.
Tax the later enough and it will be !
“A larger portion of the population will have to be peasantry” Except, of course, for Gore, Suzuki and the eco-elites.
“He wants to end “the dangerous mentality of industrial civilization itself” even if this means sacrificing democracy.”
The kicker !! a la Maurice Strong’s destroy the economy through One World Governance.
“Fellow bio-diversifiers include movement stalwarts Paul Ehrlich and Lester Brown. Biodiversity is a post-modernist Darwinist hodgepodge where Nature is so complex only a handful of bio-wizards can grasp it. They will guide us dummies.”
Albert Gore being the Supreme bio-wizard, heh!
http://www.ecofascism.com/review16.html
Woo Hoo, I just got linked to but none other than Mark Steyn himself! The hit counter will be spinning tonight!!!
P.S. If you haven’t done so already, do listen to his “Brass Balls” podcast. Important stuff there!
Stubby Music
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx6TrCEIo8s
The Making
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r-xXTX-QFk
I hope Conrad Black gets his hearing before the Supreme Court before Barack Obama changes several judges.
I also hope if his conviction for fraud is struck down he doesn’t have to go through another trial for obstruction of justice (see article in today’s National Post).
Iggy’s News Service, aka the Main Stream Media, aka MSM, continues to pump out Free Attack Ads on behalf of Iggy/Liberals.
While the Conservative Party members pay for its ads, the IggyLiberals do not pay for the MSM’s attack ads.
MSM does not even provide a disclaimer: This is a Free Attack Ad on behalf of the IggyLiberals.
A specimen of the IggyLiberals Free Attack Ads here:
“Nasty politicking sidelines issues critical to Canada
The StarPhoenixMay 19, 2009 3:04 AM”
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More from Liberal Iggy’s News Service.
This Free Attack Ad from the MSM features a pic of Lawrence Martin, a failed/bitter-faced scribbler/hack.
Why so glum? Martin knows he will never receive a Senate seat.
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“Sun King of subterfuge”
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Our Enemy, The State.
G-M runs this today.
The comments are worth reading.
Sample this one from “Ashok Sharma from Canada”. Barf Alert.
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“Time to right some wrongs”
TOM FLANAGAN
For the first time in a long time, human-rights commissions are on the defensive. The Harper government is taking away pay equity from the Canadian commission and University of Windsor law professor Richard Moon’s report has recommended repeal of the commission’s right to interfere with free speech.
Both federal and provincial commissions are suffering blowback from their unsuccessful attempts to muzzle media gadflies Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant. Mr. Levant, in particular, has declared a jihad against the commissions, drawing attention to the one-sided nature of the legislation under which they operate. For example, commissions pay expenses for complainants but not respondents; successful respondents cannot sue complainants to recover costs; commissions allow complaints for the same alleged offence to be lodged in multiple jurisdictions, amounting to double jeopardy.”
Another Excerpt:
“Every one of these was an exercise of governmental power. Political majorities undoubtedly approved at the time, but public opinion did not relocate the Japanese or send Indian children to residential schools. Governmental authority did, backed up by the coercive monopoly of the state. Authorizing a government agency to stamp out discrimination in the private sector is truly setting the fox to guard the henhouse.”
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Watch for the white liberals and Liberal Iggy’s News Service to attack the RCMP, Conservative PM Harper, the use of tasers, and you.
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“RCMP launch drug raids at Kanesatake reserve
CBC.ca – 46 minutes ago
About 200 RCMP and Sûreté du Québec officers are involved in drug raids at Quebec’s Kanesatake Mohawk community Tuesday morning.”
Ibn Warraq and Michael Weiss, Inhuman Rights
The UN’s Human Rights Council, friend to Islamists and tyrants everywhere
Stephen Schwartz, The Myth of the Moderate Taliban
As the Taliban, its Afghan detachments swelling with local jihadists, penetrates deeper into an apparently-collapsing Pakistan, politicians and media around the world, amid visible paralysis, are “rediscovering” the brutality of which the South Asian radical Islamists are capable. As with other varieties of the same fanatical ideology, many foreigners appear shocked at the bloody atrocities wreaked by the zealots; yet we hear from the Obama administration confused claims that Taliban “moderates” may somehow be separated from the diehards and rallied to the side of the U.S.-allied regime in Islamabad…
“Bring Sri Lankan refugees to Canada, Ottawa urged – Globe”
The screed from the Globe is naught but the fetid breath of Liberal PET’s multiculturalism.
It’s a failed “vision” from the past; a hoax/welfare scheme from Nanny State.
Judge not the good intentions of the transnationalists; judge the end results.
The end result is HotelCanada with many rooms crowded with tourists.
Multiculturalism is buried in the PET Cemetery.
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“Immigration to the West is based on lies too.
Politicians and their echo chamber in the MSM claim that immigration is necessary because of its putative economic benefits. Yet study after study shows that the public costs of immigration far exceed the alleged economic benefits.
In France, the State spends 71,76 billion euros on the social costs of immigration, and receives back 45,57 billion in the taxes the immigrants pay, for an annual deficit of over €26 billion per year. In Great Britain, an amnesty for illegal immigrants would cost taxpayers £1million per each of such 450,000 foreigners, for a paltry total of £450 billion. Yet politicians and cardinals support the amnesty because it’s “morally right,” and thousand of addled Pods march in London to support the amnesty on grounds of its purported fiscal benefit. In the U.S., amnesty for the (low estimate) 12 million illegal immigrants will cost the taxpayers at least $2.6 trillion, not to speak of social capital depletion, yet U.S. Congress and U.S. Presidents (GWB, BHO) can’t wait to pass the amnesty.
Even the few politicians and journalists who take a principled stand against immigration lie – probably to themselves in the first place.
They lie by pretending that their objection to illegal immigration is because of its illegality. But the damage is not a consequence of the illegality but of who the immigrants are. The legal immigrants cause the same social problems as the illegal ones, because they come from the Third World and, in Europe particularly, the Muslim world.
Here a second lie comes into play, for no Western politician would dare to point out that beneficial immigration can be easily separated from the harmful one not by the criterion of legality but through the shibboleth of culture.
Culture can be reliably correlated with the quartet, and only the full quartet, of race, ethnicity, religion and social class, formal education being a prime component of class in modern times. But to do that would be to commit the dreaded crime of “discrimination.” In Meccania, one cannot discriminate on pain of severe penalties. But the ultimate peril is to Meccania itself.
Reality will continue to discriminate, no matter what Body Snatchers say or do. And a clash between a reality-averse ideology and Reality has the same pre-ordained outcome as a test crash between a knockoff car and a wall. It’s only a question of the speed, acceleration, mass and distance of the lying car from the solid wall.”
More here:
“The Pinocchio regime
The grand Body Snatcher (1) project of erasing race-ethnicity-religion-culture-gender distinctions does not, of course, erase them. It merely, in the manner of a babbling baby, starts calling da-da what was previously doo-doo, as if through this onomatopaeic transfiguration shit could be turned into father.
This would be a joke, were the Snatchers not in control of the West and its destiny. Because they are, real doo-doo is being packaged as Fatherland’s Wonderful Joy of Diversity, and we eat it. Literally.
There have been several known cases of jihad-by-feces (hat tip Atlas Shrugs). The latest is Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, an Algerian unemployed chemist in England who was given to walking about with a laptop bag concealing a weed sprayer. Daifallah used this contraption to spray a mix of urine and feces on food, wine and books in stores in several British towns. There was a stockpile of this stuff in his home, in plastic bags marked with the names of different British target cities.”
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/391
Now this is a smooth move, the banks have learned well from the Dems.
“Congress is moving to limit the penalties on riskier borrowers, who have become a prime source of billions of dollars in fee revenue for the industry. And to make up for lost income, the card companies are going after those people with sterling credit.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/business/19credit.html?ref=business
Nevada Governer Slams Obama’s Refusal to Meet With Him
Gibbons had demanded a sit-down meeting following Obama’s controversial statement that companies shouldn’t book trips to Las Vegas if they have received federal bailouts.
http://www.foxnews.com:80/politics/elections/2009/05/19/nevada-governer-slams-obamas-refusal-meet/
Robert W:
1. Barack Obama’s major criteria for selecting a Supreme Court Justice: Visible Minority, Female, Lesbian.
2. Required judicial experience: Not Important
3. End result: PRINCESS!
Right?
(Via SWJ; NYT warning) Helene Cooper, Ex-U.S. Envoy May Take Key Role in Afghan Government
Zalmay Khalilzad, who was President George W. Bush’s ambassador to Afghanistan, could assume a powerful, unelected position inside the Afghan government under a plan he is discussing with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, according to senior American and Afghan officials.
Mr. Khalilzad, an American citizen who was born in Afghanistan, had considered challenging Mr. Karzai for the presidency in elections scheduled for this summer.
But Mr. Khalilzad missed the May 8 filing deadline, and the American and Afghan officials say that he has been talking with Mr. Karzai for several weeks about taking on a job that the two have described as the chief executive officer of Afghanistan…
A classic bit of fear mongering from the BBC:-
‘Prepare for a heatwave’ UK told.
Yet in the body of the article they write:-
“The Met Office says it is too early to tell whether it will be a very hot summer this year, but the signs so far are that it will be warmer than our last two summers and conditions could well trigger its heatwave warning system.”
Uh,wasn’t last summer cooler there?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8057528.stm
Veritas Odit Moras*.
Herewith, the natural end result of socialism.
CTV/MSM’s headline is a model of the Big Lie of socialism.
The “speaker”, as the MSM terms the Speaker, is the Speaker.
The ex-Speaker said: “[ex-] Speaker Michael Martin told MPs Tuesday that he would step down on June 21 in an effort to maintain “unity” in the House.”
The “unity”, ex-Speaker Martin refers to, is the unity of the collective, the Nanny State, the dead-end of socialism.
This resignation is but a chump’s demise; the socialist Prime Minister and his government must be gone.
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“British speaker quits over expenses scandal
For the first time in more than 300 years, the speaker of the British House of Commons has resigned amid public outrage over expenses filed by Members of Parliament”
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*Truth hates delay.
White Liberal Guilt.
*”I’d like to be a liberal because any guilt I would normally feel for what used to be considered deviant, irresponsible behavior may be assuaged by merely advocating the expenditure of other people’s money on whatever the cause du jour is.”
“But if Ted himself could never find a way to apologize for his role in Mary Jo’s death, the kindness of his family members nearly made up for it.
“I’ll never forget [Bobby Kennedy’s widow, Ethel’s] words,” Gwen reminisced. “She said, ‘God has a plan for us all, and Mary Jo is in her rightful place in heaven.'””
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“Book: Ted Kennedy could not find the words to confess in meeting with Mary Jo Kopechne’s parents
In “Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died” – out today – author Edward Klein reveals that Ted visited with Mary Jo’s parents twice following her death, but could never find the words to confess how the 28-year-old died.
“Ted had us come to his house in McLean [Va.], saying he wanted to talk,” Mary Jo’s now-deceased mother, Gwen, told Klein. “But [the visit] was uncomfortable – for all of us. Ted led us to believe he was going to explain what really happened. But when the time came, after plenty of small talk, he said he just couldn’t talk about it. It was very puzzling. Twice we drove all the way down there [from Pennsylvania], and twice he couldn’t talk about how our daughter died.”
Mary Jo Kopechne was killed on July 18, 1969, when Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Martha’s Vineyard’s Chappaquiddick Island. Although the senator swam to safety, his passenger, Mary Jo, drowned in the car. Kennedy left the scene and didn’t contact authorities until the following day. He eventually pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a suspended sentence of two months in jail.
Klein writes of the incident, “The burden of guilt sat on Ted’s chest like an anvil. He desperately wanted to relieve himself of the guilt, but in the end, he couldn’t find the words to express his feelings. And, in fact, he would never find expiation for his guilt.””
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/05/19/2009-05-19_kennedy_could_not_find_words_to_confess_kopechne.html
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“”I wish I were a liberal
American Thinker ^ | May 19, 2009 | Nancy Morgan
Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:39:52 AM by vietvet67
I wish I were a liberal, because then everyone would like me. My family would start talking to me again, and chances are, my ex-husband would want to renew the marriage vows he broke when I started spouting conservative opinions.
I’d like to be a liberal because it’s ever so much easier to allow others to form my opinions for me instead of researching an issue myself. That always gets me in trouble, especially when the facts I discover diverge from the latest politically correct consensus.
I’d like to be a liberal because then I’d be rewarded for all my shortcomings and nothing would ever be my fault. I’d be an important cog in the wheel of social justice, and a cherished warrior in the current fight for equality.
If I were a liberal, I would be free to have sex whenever and with whomever I want — and be considered ’empowered’ to boot. I could abort any inconvenience with nary a thought because my rights to my body trump the life I would have suctioned out of me.
I’d like to be a liberal because any guilt I would normally feel for what used to be considered deviant, irresponsible behavior may be assuaged by merely advocating the expenditure of other people’s money on whatever the cause du jour is. Very cool. Especially since my stock portfolio has tanked.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253787/posts
Toxic Chinese drywall accused for health problems in Canada,US
chris montgomery canwest news
*imported to canada between 2001-2006
at least 929,000 sq metres
O’Narcissist* >>> “the far left’s reaction to Obama’s reversal has been ultra-politicized and just short of maniacal.”
**”This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
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*”Far Left Furious Over Obama’s About-Turn on Abuse Photos
Until recently, the Department of Defense was set to comply with a 2003 request from the American Civil Liberties Union which would have required the United States to release a “substantial number” of photographs — there are reportedly upwards of 2,000 — depicting the abuse of detainees at military prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Obama, having already released the so-called “torture memos” from the Bush era, initially flirted with the idea of allowing the release of these photos, as well — that is, until the institutional realities of his office got the best of his conscience.
In justifying his reversal, Obama correctly stated, “The publication of these photos would not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals. … In fact, the most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and to put our troops in danger.” This turnaround was both prudent and perspicacious, and should be commended.
Dishearteningly, however, the far left’s reaction to Obama’s reversal has been ultra-politicized and just short of maniacal.” …”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254050/posts
**O’Narcissist’s sole legacy:
“The “small people”, the “rank and file”, the “loyal soldiers” of the narcissist – his flock, his nation, his employees – they pay the price. The disillusionment and disenchantment are agonizing.
The process of reconstruction, of rising from the ashes, of overcoming the trauma of having been deceived, exploited and manipulated – is drawn-out.
It is difficult to trust again, to have faith, to love, to be led, to collaborate.
Feelings of shame and guilt engulf the erstwhile followers of the narcissist. This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/71124
Liberal Iggy’s News Service, aka TORedStar/MSM, puts out another attack ad.
Iggy’s News Service provides/disseminates Free/No Charge Attack Ads on behalf of Iggy/Liberals.
The Dead Tamil Tigers is a proxy political organization of the IggyLiberals.
Meanwhile, where is LibIggy*?
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“Canadian Tamils urge Harper to speak out”
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/636378
*LibIggy is here: The Man From Nuance.
Iggy has not deserted the Iggy/McGuinty-Liberals-TalibanJackLaytoNDP-Dead Tamil Tigers Coalition.
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“Statement from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on the reported end of fighting in Sri Lanka
The reported end of fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Government of Sri Lanka are events to which the Government of Canada must respond, as we have long called for, with increased humanitarian aid and support for reconciliation. The government should also accelerate processing of visas and refugee claims for people seeking to flee the fighting and establish a new life in Canada.”
(lib.caca)
Batb: You topped my joke! Kudos!!!
Now here’s a dark view of the World A.O (After Obama) …
I assume this is written for comedic effect only … though I wouldn’t mind seeing a Night of the Living Dead film starring Radical Leftists like Janeane Garafalo in the starring ghoul roles!
In today’s N.P. France’s Carla Bruni-Sarkozy critic-
izes comments made by the Pope on the African AIDS pandemic; re: use of condoms. She says “I was born
Catholic, I was baptized, but in my life I feel profoundly secular …. I think the Church should evolve on this issue”. She doesn’t mention that she is married to a divorced Catholic (making them both adulterers) or that she is seen internationally as a glamourous slut. (okay, woman of loose morals). A French constitutional historian says that “It’s unprecedented for a
First Lady to criticize the Pope” and that “such comments are not opportune” It should be added that the man who is Pope has more wisdom in his little finger than Carla has in her entire volup-
tuous and much used body, and that it is the Pope’s place to make such comments.
A Truth Ad: Red Tory, er Red Liberal Dhalla Iggy and his Liberals
are exposed as collaborators with the outlawed murderous Tamil Tigers.
Iggy and his Liberals are a Vichy party.
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“Canadian Liberal Party’s Unholy Alliance with Tamil Tigers
CANADA’S LIBERAL PARTY IS REMINDED ALMOST DAILY ABOUT THEIR UNHOLY ALLIANCE WITH TAMIL TIGERS(sic)
Hardly a day passes these days in the Canadian press reminding the people of Liberal Party’s unholy alliance with the supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
David Astor, replying to an alleged security scandal brought against the Canadian government by the country’s Liberal Party said that this was the same party who mollycoddled , Tamil Tigers who are “one of the most ruthless terrorist organizations in the world.”.
Writing in the National Post newspaper Astor said, “Give me a break. This is the same party that coddled the Tamil Tigers’ Canadian supporters as part of its larger plan to ingratiate itself with targeted ethnic communities.”
He wrote: “Leading the charge on the file, with breathless claims about Canada’s security interests, are the Liberals. Give me a break. This is the same party that coddled the Tamil Tigers’ Canadian supporters as part of its larger plan to ingratiate itself with targeted ethnic communities. In case anyone has forgotten, the Tigers are one of the world’s most ruthless terrorist organizations. And as the National Post’s own Stewart Bell has reported, much of their funding originates in Canada.”
“It took a change of government before the Tigers were declared a terrorist organization in Canada — something many in the international community, senior Canadian diplomats and well-informed commentators (such as Martin Collacott) had been demanding for a long time.”
“Does one man’s careless conduct rise to the same level as a whole political party’s systematic coddling of supporters of a known terror organization? Why, all of a sudden, are the Liberals getting on a high horse and trumpeting “national security”?”
http://www.sinhalaya.com/news/english/wmview.php?ArtID=15357
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: “I think the Church should evolve on this issue.”
Yeah, right, Carla.
“Evolution” in this instance means more deaths due to promiscuous sex. That’s “evolution”? ‘Sounds more like sliding down the slippery slope.
Mr. Speaker: The Honourable Member from Woody Allen has the floor.
Some Honourable Chickens: Cluccluccclucc …..
The Honourable Member from Woody Allen:
Mr. Thpeaker:
“I thought of that old joke, y’know, the, this… this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, “Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy; he thinks he’s a chicken.” And, uh, the doctor says, “Well, why don’t you turn him in?” The guy says, “I would, but I need the eggs.”
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“Now MPs call in a psychiatrist to deal with the ‘stress’ of the expenses furore
A psychiatrist has been made available to counsel cheating MPs who are ‘stressed’ by the expenses scandal.
The therapist has been retained on-call because of concerns that some politicians are close to mental breakdowns following scrutiny of their claims, the Mail understands.
At least half a dozen MPs have been reported to the police following allegations that they have committed crimes by fiddling their taxpayer-funded allowances.
The Mail reported this month that three unnamed backbenchers were said to have been placed on ‘suicide watch’ by Labour whips.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1184656/Now-MPs-psychiatrist-deal-stress-expenses-furore.html
July 18, 1969
An alternate view of what happened that night:
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar WildeTeddy’s back in the tabloids. According to the New York Daily News, among others, The National Inquirer is reporting Kennedy fathered a son 21 years ago with a Cape Cod woman half his age. The Kennedy camp denies everything.Of course the tabs have resurrected the June 1969 scandal of
Chappaquiddick — déjà vu all over again.And I guess it’s time to tell the version I heard, supposedly from a horse’s mouth, of what really happened there almost 37 years ago.
First a recap. Ted Kennedy’s car went off a bridge and into a pond after a party for Bobby Kennedy’s campaign staff on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha’s Vineyard. A passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne (Ko-peck-nee) was subsequently found drowned in the car.
Kennedy claimed he dove repeatedly into the dark water but couldn’t find her. Then, disoriented and hurt, he gave up. On it’s face, a routine if terrible tragedy. But Kennedy and his handlers inexplicably waited 9 hours before reporting the accident.
The media frenzy was ferocious. There were claims Kennedy was drunk and that he and his staff engaged in a massive cover-up of the accident and the cause of Ms. Kopechne’s death.
Kennedy eventually pled guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident and the case was closed. Justice may not have been served for Mary Jo Kopechne, but many felt partial justice was achieved in the destruction of Ted Kennedy’s chances to mount his own presidential campaign.
I was a carefree college student that summer of 1969, doing the European tour. When the scandal broke we were in Italy. A sidebar: it wasn’t until we returned to the states that I learned the young woman’s name was not Mary Jo “Co-pa-chine-eh” as had been widely reported in the Italian media.
Fast forward a few years to my post college life in the political arenas of Pennsylvania and Washington. I met a woman who was, to say the least, in the thick of things at Chappaquiddick. She told me her story — one that makes the most sense of the 9-hour lag in reporting the accident, the most critical and damning factor in the whole mess.It comes down to this. The party was filled with young girls star struck by the older power brokers with whom they were atypically socializing. Mary Jo in particular had a crush on Ted Kennedy. Everybody was drinking heavily.
At some point in the evening, feeling more than a little under the weather, Mary Jo wandered outside, saw Kennedy’s car and crawled into the back seat to sleep it off.
At some later point, Kennedy and the woman who told me this story got in his car and headed for a more private party a deux. They were both, shall we say, plastered.
After the car went off the bridge, Kennedy’s primary goal was to get his female companion the hell out of the picture. His wife was at home, after all, and pregnant to boot.
Here’s the punch line: they didn’t know Mary Jo was in the car.
Which provides the most locigal explanation for Kennedy’s seemingly evil callousness in not trying to save her. And the troubling time lag as aides scrambled for damage control, not realizing that something far worse than casual infidelity would hit the fan.
My source’s anonymity was protected. But her conscience was far from clear. I hope after all these years she’s realized she was little more than a naive kid dazzled by a powerful figure with feet of clay. And that she had plenty of company. From those who gravitated to the first Kennedy in power all the way up to Monica.There are dozens of theories, reams of material, reports, hypotheses and even websites on what really happened at Chappaquiddick.
I didn’t make this one up. I wasn’t there. So I don’t claim this is the Emmes. I’m just reporting the story I was told. We’ll never know. After all … wait for it … there’s too much water under the bridge.
Re: “I’ll never forget [Bobby Kennedy’s widow, Ethel’s] words,” Gwen reminisced. “She said, ‘God has a plan for us all, and Mary Jo is in her rightful place in heaven.'”
Did Ethel Kennedy really say this? How unutterably repulsive. What if hubby had shot someone? Or what if anyone had shot someone? Including her? What if Hitler killed six million Jews — would they be in “their rightful place in heaven”? I don’t think so. But then, Hitler wasn’t part of her family, so he doesn’t get off the hook.
As for the story immediately above, which theorizes that Ted didn’t know Mary Jo was in the car, if that were true (and I pass no judgment, since it’s the first time I’ve heard it and it has at least an air of plausibility), then Ted has been living under a cloud unnecessarily for 40 years, because surely few people have thought him completely innocent. Relatives notwithstanding.