Tonight’s featured amusement en route to the tips is a 1960s televised performance of an old English folk song about tragic love. Backed by the Clancy Brothers, including Liam on nylon-string guitar, here’s the late Tommy Makem standing up to sing his heartfelt rendition of The Butcher Boy.
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Via Blue Like You, here’s a good opinion column in the Windsor Star by a fellow named Chris Vander Doelen. Excerpts:
“The furious energy being devoted to blocking the federal government’s plan to shorten the federal census shows there’s a lot more to the issue than meets the eye.”
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“It’s patently obvious why government and its legions of apologists want us to cough up telling details about our lives. It’s to tax us more efficiently and to enable their social engineering.”
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“The long parade of census defenders neglect to acknowledge that they nearly all work for government or rely on government for income. Teachers, mayors, economists, police, doctors, ‘activists’ – all public sector.”
It’s hard to believe they’re all gone now. Nice one EBD.
From the what took them so long files:
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/08/12/man-wearing-burqa-robs-bank/
Remember all the shots Bush took for playing golf?
“According to unofficial presidential statistician Mark Knoller of CBS News, Obama has left the White House to play basketball 16 times so far, in addition to the countless times he has played on his home court. He’s shot 44 rounds of golf, gone fishing and played tennis. Total sporting-related events hosted at the White House: 45. That’s about six times the number of news conferences he has held.
“He’s been to see the Nationals twice this year, the last time in June with Malia and Sasha to see the Nats play Obama’s White Sox. Last week, he took Sasha to see the Washington Mystics of the WNBA at Verizon Center.
“Obama’s foes have mocked him for playing golf more often than his sports-mad predecessor, who played only 24 rounds during his entire eight-year presidency. ‘Obama skips Polish funeral, heads to golf course,’ was one Washington Times headline. Liberals who once mocked George W. Bush’s ‘watch this drive’ moment on the golf course now speak of the need for Obama to clear his head.”
Meanwhile, Nova Scotia Energy Minister Bill Estabrooks also weighed in, saying Charest appeared to be opposing what he called “a good shared partnership” between two other provinces.”In my opinion, the premier of Quebec should mind his own business,” Estabrooks said in an interview Thursday.
Williams said he expects that the federal government will make a decision that does not bow to another province’s wishes.
“The Quebec government has always had a sphere of influence. I think that’s waning,” he said.
“I think Canadians are finally wising up to the fact that Quebec can’t blackmail Canada because it has a certain number of seats. … Quebec has a legitimate place in Canada … but when we have a situation when one province is deliberately trying to thwart at least two other provinces, and indirectly affect four other provinces, that’s sad.”
I commented (on SDA about 2-3 months ago) about this change of relationship after PM Harper and his entourage met up with the man with the new heart in Sin John’s and there was no sabre rattling or any media spotlight before, during or after the visit. The next shoe to drop will be the allocation of the 8.5% share of Hibernia that the feds purchased from Gulf Canada back in the day to keep the Hibernia project alive. Its investment has been repaid in full and has returned over a billion in profit to boot (I think that was the tip I placed about the return the feds had gotten from their Hibernia investment). The NL govt. has given its approval of the Hibernia South expansion so there’s plenty of oil that’s going to be flowing in the future & this gifting will happen before there’s a barrel of oil realized from those new wells (which is quickly approaching).
Then you have the federal contribution that’s going to happen at Point Lepreau Nuclear Plant to the tune of about 4-500 million for the refurbishment. PEI will vote blue cause the will be surrounded and feel like they are going to get shutout.
If the Tamil refugee crisis plays out well for the feds, that gives them their foothold in BC. AB & SK are in (see oil & gas) & rural ON will be the same (don’t forget the seat redistribution additions in 3 of 4 of those provinces). Then there’s Quebec. What will they do? Revert to their isolationist tendencies or will they recognize that their sphere of influence is waning?
Be sure to watch the video if you can (6 mins 13 secs). He lays the pipe pretty effectively.
Re: “It’s patently obvious why government and its legions of apologists want us to cough up telling details about our lives. It’s to tax us more efficiently and to enable their social engineering.”
That’s been my take since I first posted here on the issue. I wonder if columnist Chris Vander Doelen reads SDA?
Or as a letter writer in the National Post put it on Thursday, “all this census information is necessary so that the functionaries can plan programs that will empty my wallet.”
from previous 9-11 events , they plant mosques as markers. and now this.
http://bigpeace.com/cderussy/2010/08/12/u-s-state-department-is-building-mosques/
Naw, say it isn’t true that the CBC supports the Liberals in Ottawa.
Liberal communicationa head for Iggy, Mario Laguë dies in a car accident. Sad! CBC closes the story to commenting.
Helena Guergis, who is five months pregnant, and still a bona fide independent MP is involved in car crash with no serious injuries! The CBC opens up the gates of hell for all of Canada to go after her with derogatory comments.
Naw–we don’t favor the Libs at CBC!!