The Second Coming?

One shudders to contemplate how Globe and Mail letter writers might have interpreted Stephen Harper’s performing this Beatles’ song at the National Arts Centre:

If not a messiah complex (ah hah! the real hidden agenda), at least a scary devotion to global warming?
X-posted.
Update: Should Mickey I. perform a Beatles’ song, which one? Maybe this? The Mickster on the harp? Other suggestions invited:

But that song has, er, soul. Personal: yikes! Parlophone, old days…

38 Replies to “The Second Coming?”

  1. Russell at the G&M:
    “I get high with a little help from my friends” – and then put people in jail for growing marijuana plants, for using the very herb that caused that Beatles song to be written! What hypocrisy.”
    Never heard of natural high?

  2. And once again a letter with the out of context spun reference to the comment last year by PMSH wrt ‘tax funded’ ditzy-glitzy stuff and ordinary CanadiansIt was not about arts…but whats a little spin worth these days with lazy MSM who were doing the same yesterday?(‘tax funded’ being conveniently ommitted consistently)

  3. At the bottom of the Globe and Mail page reads the following :
    Comments have been disabled
    I’m pretty sure what they meant was:
    Commentors have been disabled

  4. Conservative logo soon come to your eggs and your food too new tax food laws:
    http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/conservatives-force-team-canada-to-use-tory-party-logo/
    because we can
    ========
    1) Stephen Harper is new god to help us all
    Harper relgion way photo:
    http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lecornichon.qc.ca/galeries_1/polcan/000047-stephen_harper.jpg&imgrefurl=http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php%3Fp%3D2835424&usg=__cpCN9tW4VTo7FRqZltrNecujVUg=&h=640&w=515&sz=78&hl=en&start=17&um=1&tbnid=9e0qVCgLFjfghM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dharper%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1
    3)
    Harper performed with a little help from his wife
    Laureen Harper tries to teach Muslim women in Canada how to change thier dress code to Calgary code of dress
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-performed-with-a-little-help-from-his-wife/article1311750/
    3) to see more photo please see more artist in Canada
    http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?p=2835424
    We love the art and we love artist not the Muslim
    owned companies because we hate Islam
    ( conservative party of Canada)-National post only tell the truth nothing except the truth
    http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/who-are-canadas-most-important-progressive-muslims/
    lol!

  5. now that ramadam is over can I eat bacon again.
    anyway, new poll up at CTV has CPC at 41 , liberals at 28
    looks like Iggy has just been handed a great big cup of shut the f k up.

  6. Ah but Mark, before the Second Coming you need Lady Madonna, if you want to put a theological twist on things.
    But then one shouldn’t be putting too much stock on the proposition that the government is going to come and save you.
    Yep those Conservatives have a mighty scary “hidden agenda”.
    new: Laureen Harper hasn’t told any muslim women how to dress, must be more ‘hidden agenda’ eh….?
    we’re talkng Beatles song’s for heavens sake.
    Cheers
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”
    Lady Madonna, children at your feet.
    Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.
    Who finds the money? when you pay the rent?
    Did you think that money was heaven sent?
    Friday night arrives without a suitcase.
    Sunday morning creep in like a nun.
    Mondays child has learned to tie his bootlace.
    See how they run.
    Lady Madonna, baby at your breast.
    Wonder how you manage to feed the rest.
    See how they run.
    Lady Madonna, lying on the bed,
    Listen to the music playing in your head.
    Tuesday afternoon is never ending.
    Wednesday morning papers didn’t come.
    Thursday night you stockings needed mending.
    See how they run.
    Lady Madonna, children at your feet.
    Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.

  7. i see a muslim version of the song.
    Bag Lady Khadr
    Children at your feet
    wonder how the terrorist make ends meet.
    monday night your making bombs in suitcase
    tuesday morning welfare never comes
    wednesday night its creeping in a burka
    thursday morning all about the system.
    see how they moan.
    bag lady Khadr , slimey as you be
    hope the little omar breaks his head..

  8. Iffy the ToothlessTIger asked: Poll*? What poll?
    When pressed by Jiggles, Iffy said:
    “Obviously, the people breaking in to the zoo, and not the tiger, are at fault. However, tigers aren’t people, and so dealing justly with a tiger is not the only consideration. Now that the tiger has had an interaction of this nature with a human, it may constitute a danger to the people working at the zoo who feed it and take care of it.”
    (CTV)
    …-
    *New poll puts Tories at 41%, Liberals at 28%”
    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091005/strategic_poll_091005/20091005?hub=QPeriod

  9. CTV poll has made a couple of things pretty clear:
    1) Quebec is a distinct society.
    2) Nobody has to kiss Quebec’s ass any more to get a majority.

  10. Letter to the editor content:
    ‘But in last year’s election Mr. Harper said he thought “ordinary people” share his dismissal of the arts.’
    What Harper said:
    “I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people, you know, at a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren’t high enough when they know those subsidies have actually gone up – I’m not sure that’s something that resonates with ordinary people.”
    Well, I see the difference!

  11. quebecers are shrewd voters. they are stymied at minority time but when the wind changes they like to be downwind where the money blows. they will vote to be on the gubmint side when the time comes and Iggy is booking his ticket to Boston.

  12. cal2
    why are you too angry
    I know you like conservative and they helped you alot that is good for you but they were not good with Muslim trust me but you did not get your right simply you fight for your right
    now muslim try to fight for their right
    do not see any complain personal, and each group has the way to fight for thier right
    as old Muslim idiom said:
    donkey is the same donkey
    One group conservative bomb Muslim never live to work
    and liberal are give the remaining still alive welfare cheq and subsided housing like Palestine to not work and who ever can talk have court order and who ever are bitches are working with big dirty pay cheq of Italian and German and Irish people who bought them to corrupt them and wear them Madonna dress of how to dance and entertain the men
    I am sorry her 4 husband I mean
    both are the same to us
    Again donkey is the same donkey
    Only change their dress code and cloth how to ride them
    Logo is different only
    I suggest to German chemical weapn who drop to Iran and Iraqi poor people to
    made new gas who can made them sleep not kill people like the one use in ZOO to disable animals
    I know may be bazar idea but you can spry ( not posisen) chemical to made 20,000 talben in Afganstan sleep them for few hours and arrest them quickly not to kill them
    this is take 8 days nto 8 years in Afganstan
    then you must know they plan to defame Muslim and not to caught any terroris people
    or find better solution to stop them
    all those ben Laden is product of republican party of USA by the way, they are not Muslim products
    IF any body bomb Canada you hate those people and you call those people terrorist too you must understand peopel view some times
    find quick to stop hate is to finish that pentagon made up war story
    Come on man do not hate Muslim these are true example of torture of Muslim in Canada
    Canada is sting now, address the problems, fix it ,not hide do not deny all facts .
    Can you handle he truth?
    I don’t think so!

  13. I don’t know about the Beatles but I guess new is playing Led Zeppelin albums backwards again (or reruns of Goldfinger). Sheesh, gas the Taliban so you can arrest them all…

  14. Great News. Monday Morning National Post. First section. somewhere in pages 1 to 6. Boffo snapshot of the iggiepoogpoopster. British dental work bared for combat, large, I mean a humungeous, LARGE, maple leaf soft-focussed way out behind Mikey, the leaf wreathed around Ig’s head like a halo.
    I don’t have the skills, but I see someone snapping a larger, Capital letter “C” ’round it all, blacken out a few of ig’s teeth, and you’ve got the new and improved [with librano content] logo for team Canada. With Count Michael EYE as hockey great, Bobby Clobber.
    And how about the doofusses being touted as possible new iteration of the Russian Count’s French Leutenant. Space Cadet Marky Mrk Garneau, sock puppet for the backroom boys and daisy and power groopes. OR we might have Pablo “Fuzzy Wuzzy” Rodrigues, who will likely play the role of CBC’s sock puppet run by Krista Erickson. I wonder about dudes hiding behind beards. . .
    OY.
    and
    VEY!!
    t.e.&o.e.

  15. set you free “Have you seen any mention of the fact it was a charity event?”
    __
    That may be, but I think it is fair to say that the whole comment was more nuanced than “Harper dismisses the arts” (which is how the remark has been widely interpreted)suggests.

  16. Rodrigues vs. Garneau — I would worry about either of these choices. I believe that what the Libs are looking for is a “Yes” man for Toronto. Either of these could fulfill that role — to the detriment of Liberals in Quebec. What is not being reported (much) is that Libs are pulling exactly the same stunt (making appointments from Toronto) in Renfres- Nippising – Pembroke — totally ignoring the local riding association. This is a Toronto-centric party and supporters elsewhere need to start paying attention to that.

  17. Texas Canuck
    My background is chemistry that is reason I said that suggestion. the same drug can used in Zoo, to stop wild animal, there is tear gas bomb for crying enemy ,now there is drop can made them sleep not dead and soldier can have mask, I am not army to know detail you do not need to kill to win the war, Even Muslim criminal are human there is too many way to not kill them and finish this war in world war II we faced 50 million dead over 4 years and can they did something to save more lives, yes they could but they did not now this is too late, we are in present time so many device to end the war in less person from both to kill ,they hold war so long to defame Muslim and not kill too many people and let them escape to other land and do more terrorist activates then we can save their life in different way, but just do not tell those Dick Cheney to create the one chemical gas can work it., instead of find water torture stupid device to ask them what? where is mountain map in Afghanistan is? Dick Cheney has dilution of Vietnam War and torture of Mr. McCain time I guess, we all get noble price to save more live people, just finish this bloody war in all world link to Muslim that is my point
    -www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXrNlZhL12w
    -://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykd-syzZ4ZY
    -://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI9sPW6_Le0
    ===

  18. Last comment: “The arts and culture are how we define ourselves as a people.”
    When the hell are people going to realize that arts and culture needs less tax dollars to mature and grow. I have culture, I live in a culture, I help grow my own version of culture and so does every free willed Canadian. What I need less then some government trying to feed me what they feel my culture should be, is taking my hard earned money and giving it to artists who feel they are entitled to be artists.
    You wanna be an artist? take a risk and try to make money at it. It should be no different than any other small business model out there.
    I fricken hate those fluffy artist types.

  19. Knacker
    our Kate (SDA’s)is an (great) artist, and she ain’t getting by on gov’t hand outs, she makes her own living!!!!

  20. Gym: “our Kate (SDA’s)is an (great) artist, and she ain’t getting by on gov’t hand outs, she makes her own living!!!!”
    That is my point. That is how it should be. She survives by her talent which she worked hard to create and provides a service which people are willing to spend money on.
    I do not appreciate being forced to give money through tax dollars to people I do not care to see, watch or listen to. I come home and play my guitar and hand drums and create music, if I feel I am good enough I will put my ass on the line to perform, but this is all possible first by working my butt of all day. I find it to be very disrespectful to me.
    My comments are not to all artist, only to those who feel they “deserve” my money.

  21. “The arts and culture are how we define ourselves as a people.”
    Now there’s a warm and fuzzy statement if I’ve ever seen one. Proclamations such as this go unchallenged because it sounds so profound and … well … warm and fuzzy.
    But wtf does it mean? Seriously … wtf does it mean in terms of real life?

  22. Posted by: biffjr. at October 5, 2009 11:22 PM
    I’m gratified it wasn’t just me that noticed the vacuousness of this statement. That’s the kind of person who votes Liberal. Their world view is informed by this kind of shallow, vapid thinking.

  23. “”The arts and culture are how we define ourselves as a people.”
    Yeah, biffjr. I don’t think you can call it culture unless it is actually supported by some segment of the population. That’s were commercial success becomes an indicator.

  24. Muslims need to be run out of Canada now!
    Every time “new” speaks I hate Muslims a little more. That means something in my world because I live and work 90% of my time in Muslim countries.
    And yes “New” they think I’m the greatest thing since Kuskus was invented – how delicious no?

  25. Iggy supports the return of Omar Khadr to Canada.
    join forces with the first family of Canadian Terrorism . Mama Khadr and the bag ladies and now the eldest ready with his government paid lawyers . has their ever been and immigrant family that has cost us so much and contributed so little, nay, contributed so much to the negative.

  26. 1) Nowhere man – Pretty obvious at the moment.
    2) Come Together – A plea to his party.
    3) Tax Man – he’s a Liberal ain’t he?
    4) Don’t Let Me Down – An ode to Denis.
    5) Day Tripper – Then back to Harvard.
    6) Across The Universe – Iggy’s words are flowing off like restless wind inside a letter box.
    7) Baby You Can Drive My Car – Oops that was meant for Ted Kennedy.
    8) Fixing A Hole – where the Ray gets in.
    9) Get Back – Another reference to his many foreign residences.
    10) Help! – no explanation required.
    11) Hello Goodbye – See 9
    12) In My Life – Oops that was to do with Obama’s self absorption. ‘Scuse my second senior’s moment.
    13) Tell Me Why – Still waiting for your answer.
    14) We Can Work It Out – An ode to Bob Rae’s minions.
    15) Yesterday – And the day before that. And the day before that – they just keep looking better the further back you go.
    16) You Won’t See Me – After the next elections.
    17) You Never Give Me Your Money – A How do you expect me to run an election?

  27. Knight 99

    Every time “new” speaks I hate Muslims a little more…because I live and work 90% of my time in Muslim countries.”
    let me guess you sound jewish Natanyahoo speaking with his dear hollycost wife now !!!
    are you jewish made up story of your made up story country named Israel I am sorry hollycost
    what are you doing in Muslim country if you hate Muslim that much
    spying Muslim for NatahYahoo new country to border it!!his wife want more land of Muslim perhaps and Madona too
    you jewish only can fool Harper goverment to give land to live in Canada and alsafa jewish who steal muslim business food
    alsafa thinks canada is new israel perhaps
    and Hiller Weston is new momy supermodl for him perhaps
    come on stealing is stealing
    this can be land this can be id theft
    this can be money theft this can be any other reason
    always theft has reason to hate good people
    I guess
    I never buy the story I am muslim from Saudi lets go to Afganstan and free land and steal it since bin Ladne family are in construction business he knw he could get the landa nd rebuilt and become new saudi arabi made up story for him that is only land theft I call ben laden family
    for Natanyahoo also I called it land theft hollycost nothing more than that
    being jewisha nd muslim and any other BS to made you excuse to steal peopel property and land and
    LOBLAW PC stealing so many businss is only BS theft nothing else
    do not steal the vote too put your logo on it
    do not hate Muslim or jewish hate theft only in all kind of shape of it
    ha ha ha
    lol!

  28. Conference delegates say Canada risks implication in torture
    After a week on the hot seat over Canada’s role in the possible torture of Afghan prisoners, the Harper government came under fire again this weekend at a conference on torture.
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/news/story.html?id=b2173517-7254-42c3-8678-01e6b93300ac
    This is not what I made up story this is what media talk about conservative only name in Canada for people who hate Muslim no matter what!
    http://ziofascism.net/blog/?p=567
    http://ziofascism.net/blog/?p=1599
    http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/demandapology.htm
    http://rjjago.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/who-are-canadas-most-important-progressive-muslims/
    ===
    ===
    I think Taliban matter or who named Taliban is under question
    Some of those 20000 now fighting
    I only can guess
    Can be some drug dealers
    Some ben ladne look for free land to construct in Afghanistan to take over land of poor afghani
    Some can be worst theft murderer criminal
    Some can be only victim of war who their family died in bomb attack and now are mad of lost
    Some can be innocent children only we could give them to Muslim foster kid house since they are there because their family is in war zone like khaddar And some are confused Muslim can be there
    When you hear some one is Taliban, Must separated those group
    Since each has different way to tread them and face them
    Therefore: We need to act separately, We can ask Muslim country to involve
    Some with less criminal act can be relocated to new Muslim country like Yemen and under three years supervision and some can be jailed and then transferred
    Some must be arrested ,Some must be find army to get them,We can not bomb them all in once, Definitely end Taliban need Muslim country to deal with them
    majority of taleban can not live in India since the are Hindu can not come to Europe or USA since they hate them they can not live mix country of half Muslim half are drink alcohol like turkey
    They must transfer them in country like Kiewit and like Yemen and like Saudi to be under Muslim law and to study reason for their extreme hate and how we can end the war in Afghanistan
    Those Muslim people who can not handle deal with no Muslim and hate them or involve terrorist actives should ban to come to live this country since they can not handle this hate and I mean if some one involve in terrorist actives can not live in no Muslim country like USA
    Must sent them back to Muslim country under supervision or
    I agree with some of comments since they can not hold their angry to not do any criminal activities
    for at least 15 years probation period or so on
    we need Muslim country input to end Afghanistan war because some of sheikh are misguide them in religion that must take gun to do such thing or do suicide bombing is illegal by law of Islam and any other religion as well. Misleading mismanagement and lack of good government to address the problems in detail you can not kill all with different reason for their protest as well
    Ban all torture in country and ban execution in all Muslim country for 15 years until people and government can find better to help them since some are brain wash for use of politic to do illegal job
    What I mean all execution in Islam country has rules that if country is too much theft you can not execute the laws since are too many criminal involve here this law in Islam must review by scholar one more time . Muslim are tired of Muslim wahabi who embraced and use Isalm as shelter to do other things we are not wahabi and we do not want to be one.
    Stop all kind of torture against any human being even if they are guilty of some crime. Find different way to help them. Period
    I believe Omar khadder is beter to live in Muslim country like Yeman or kewit for probation of 15 years if he is fine he can back since he was in jail for long that 15 can cut from his probation period to back to Canada. since some extremist muslim can not handle to see differnt group to live with them. muslim and nonmuslim must find way to better communicat with each other
    again this is my personal opinion i may be wrong

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