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On June 11, 2004, Margaret Thatcher attended the state funeral for Ronald Reagan. She had suffered a series of small strokes in recent years and was advised by her doctors to not engage in public speaking, so her pre-recorded eulogy was shown to the assembled mourners instead. Eloquent, dignified and touching, here’s Margaret Thatcher’s memorable tribute to Ronald Reagan.
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  4. A week or more back here on SDA, was a feature on Jackie Evancho. Never had the time then to watch the vid, but just saw she was a guest on tonight’s Leno.
    After seeing that, I had to go into the SDA archives to see what I missed.
    Absolutely amazing talent!

  5. Ronaldus Magnus and the Iron Lady, two fo the greatest of our time.
    Who will be next, will it be someone who returns us to our freedom loving roots? Who will slay the mad moe murder cult? Who will bring us back from our death spiral to replacement 2.1 births per woman’s lifetime?
    Is there a greater question..?

  8. EBd, The sound on the video is really weak. But,upon seeing Margaret Thatcher,my first thought was that the strong recognize the strong.Which is an admirable trait.

    Likewise the strong recognize the weak,and they exploit them. Islam,Obama,and our progressives come to mind.

  9. Yeah Wallyj, we could sure use more public figures with the strength of conviction of Margaret Thatcher.
    RT: Here’s a superb column – “I think, therefore I’m guilty” – by Melanie Phillips about the criminalization of *opinion* in Britain. After providing some quotidian examples –

    Dale McAlpine, a Christian preacher in Cumbria, was carted off by the police, locked in a cell for seven hours and charged with using abusive or insulting words or behaviour after telling a passer-by that he believed homosexuality was a crime against God.

    Harry Hammond, an evangelist, was convicted of a public order offence and fined for holding a placard saying ‘Stop Homosexuality, Stop Lesbianism, Jesus is Lord’ at a street demonstration in Bournemouth — even though he was attacked by members of the public who poured soil and water over him.

    Pensioners have even found the police on their doorstep accusing them of ‘hate crime’ for objecting to the local council about a gay pride march or merely asking if they could distribute Christian leaflets alongside the gay rights literature.

    – Phillips notes:
    “The taunt of ‘phobia’, or irrational fear, is used along with outright accusations of insanity to place rational dissent beyond the pale. As the former Today programme editor Rod Liddle recently revealed, a BBC apparatchik said to him of Lord Pearson of Rannoch and other Eurosceptics (whose views happen to be shared by half or more of the population): ‘Rod, you do realise that these people are mad?’
    “Just such a charge was made by totalitarian movements from the medieval Catholic church by way of the Jacobins all the way to Stalin’s secret police.
    “In similar vein, the rational anxieties of millions about mass immigration or militant Islam destroying the culture of the country are held merely to demonstrate that ordinary people are racist bigots or Islamophobes.
    “The great gift bequeathed to us by the 18th-century Enlightenment is the freedom to disagree. This is now in eclipse. The intelligentsia — the supposed custodians of reason and intellectual freedom — has turned itself into an inquisition, complete with an index of prohibited ideas.”
    Do read the whole thing.

  11. Ziffy’s Stealth Separatist Coalition is “exhausted”.
    The socialists in Canada are “confined to the opposition benches”.
    We must ensure the Separatist Coalition socialists remain there.
    Behold* the ““intellectual exhaustion of the left”.”
    Leftist quacker Riley counsels a Stealth Separatist Coalition:
    >>> “Layton also risks feeding into Harper’s “coalition” scare if he pursues attempts at collaboration with the Liberals and the Bloc too ardently — a dynamic the wary Ignatieff seems to recognize.”
    …-
    “How the left lost it”
    “With its representatives confined to the opposition benches nearly everywhere in Europe, the left is increasingly unable to propose a real alternative in a world where ideology is progressively disappearing.”
    “European left-wing burnout
    “The whole European left should storm Sweden,” urges Le Monde in an editorial. Sweden, the “cradle of modern social democracy and of the most successful welfare state of the past half century”, has been rocked by a “double political earthquake”: the far right’s entry into parliament and the Social Democrats’ abysmal score at the polls. In an effort to explain the decline of the European left, Le Monde spoke with Italian linguist Raffaele Simone, who attributes the “triumph of the right just about everywhere on the Old Continent” to the “intellectual exhaustion of the left”.
    The left “doesn’t seem to have understood a thing about the sea change in civilisation wrought by the victory of individualism and consumption”, and until quite recently it “refused to discuss mass immigration and illegal immigrants”. Le Monde argues that the controlled immigration “needed to keep the welfare state going in our aging societies presupposes a huge integration effort that hasn’t been made”. But there may be a price to be paid for integration, the Parisian daily suggests: “Will the European-style welfare state survive by doing less in its traditional domains – health care, pensions – and more to tackle its new task: integrating immigrants?” For Le Monde, that is the crux of the message from Stockholm.”
    http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/344131-how-left-lost-it
    …-
    *Taliban JackNDP’s “exhaustion”.
    Warning: Riley rants.
    “Layton keeps calm and carries on”
    “After the close vote on the gun registry this week, NDP leader Jack Layton talked about “building bridges,” healing the rural-urban divide and collaborating with other parties to fix the much-misunderstood databank.
    His tone was calm, his detailed suggestions (coming soon in the form of a private member’s bill) sound practical.”
    “Layton also risks feeding into Harper’s “coalition” scare if he pursues attempts at collaboration with the Liberals and the Bloc too ardently — a dynamic the wary Ignatieff seems to recognize.”
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/business/Layton+keeps+calm+carries/3571128/story.html

  12. This maybe old news to some but these clips caught me off guard.
    Here are two clips re Obama’s aunt in Boston.
    “President Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango The System Took Advantage Of Me – wbztv.com.wmv ”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APFmDIyDQOs&feature=related
    Part 2 gets better
    “President Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango ‘This Country Is Owned By Almighty God’ – wbztv.com.wmv ”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBzjLnO-e3o&feature=player_embedded

  14. And seated next to Thatcher, Mulroney. Great days….
    Posted by: Mark Peters at September 24, 2010 7:33 AM
    ____________________________
    Respectfully disagree.
    Mulroney gave us the birth of the current gun control law (Kim Campbell’s C17, which quickly morphed into C68 in Liberal Alan Rock’s hands, and gave us the disaster of C68)
    It was Mulroney who opened the floodgates of immigration
    There were other policies that were a key part of how Canada evolved into it’s current nanny state form. Not all of the blame can be put at the feet of Turdeau and Cretin.
    It was Mulroney who turned the PC party into Liberal lite, created the conditions of its demise, and ushered in the Chretien era. The only good thing I can say for him is that he led to the birth of the Reform party. He had majority status and failed to pursue a conservative agenda.
    So….
    Thatcher yes.
    Reagan yes.
    Mulroney…. no thanks.

  16. “It was Mulroney who turned the PC party into Liberal lite, created the conditions of its demise, and ushered in the Chretien era. The only good thing I can say for him is that he led to the birth of the Reform party. He had majority status and failed to pursue a conservative agenda.
    So….
    Thatcher yes.
    Reagan yes.
    Mulroney…. no thanks.”
    Posted by: old Lori at September 24, 2010 7:52 AM
    Summed up perfectly!

  19. I’m with old Lori (7:52) on that one, Mark. I’ve frankly never really understood why Mulroney, who’s yet another millionaire lawyer from Quebec with connections to PowerCorp, is so revered by a subset of conservatives.
    RT: In a post titled How Broadcasting Bias Works British journalist Nick Cohen describes how Radio 4 provided a ‘sham’ set up to a putative ‘debate’ about prisons in which ‘no one disagrees’ on the essential issue at play. In a single sentence Cohen manages to nicely sum up the CBC (think of how the statist Andrew Coyne is positioned as the representative of “the right” on the the “At Issue” panel) in a nutshell:

    “Debates are between people with opposing views. If they’re not, we call them love ins.

    I’m still waiting for an actual conservative – as opposed to an old-school, deeply socially entrenched Red Tory – to, erm, represent on the CBC.
    Like that’s ever going to happen…

  21. Hey kids: Ezra Levant, conservative Canadians’ modern-day equivalent of Henry Armstrong, has yet another great post up, this one on subject of the Canadian hypocrite nonpareil: the CBC’s David Suzuki.
    Ezra’s essential point is dead-aim true: the term “ethical” needs to be reexamined at this point. You’ve seriously got to wonder just how many times the acolytes of the holier-than-thou crowd need to be told about the multiple homes and large families of people like Suzuki, the gargantuan, massively carbon-burning homes of people like Al Gore and Thomas Friedman, and the jet-setting, massive carbon-burning international jet-set lifestyles of Sting and Bono and Sean Penn and uncounted others, before it finally starts to sink in that these people not only self-righteously preach standards that they don’t even begin to conform to, but egregiously violate the standards they preach to the Nth degree.
    These hypocrites are merely misanthropists who assume the mounted position overtop of the maggots they openly despise. Who’s got a tour bus idling for them while they preach to people who are just getting by about how vile and unsustainable their lifestyles are? Hint: It’s not us proles who are supposedly the problem.
    COAB.
    The English language needs a much stronger word than ‘hypocrite’ – just as a way of gently introducing the subject matter at hand.

  22. I am with old Lori, Joe Molnar and EBD regarding Mulroney’s inclusion in a list with Thatcher. Mulroney was nothing but a Liberal lite. He betrayed the west to suck up to his Power Corp friends.
    After the Mulroney era, I swore I would never vote for a Red Tory again if I could help it.

  25. Zeppo, the unloved Marx brother, is not the only one who can link to the Telegraph blogs.
    While I was whining the other day about how I didn’t win $50.00 to give to charity I mentioned that I’ve learned since the Haiti earthquake how important it is to look into charities: How much do they spend on overhead? What do they actually do?
    Okay, St. Bono the Great of U2’s “anti-poverty foundation”, ONE, spent a whopping 1.2% of its incoming donations in 2008 on actual charity, apparently because it is an “advocacy organization”. You know, like the Humane Society.
    As Damian Thompson points out, “(ONE) does a remarkable job of fighting poverty within the ranks of its employees”.
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100055143/the-wheels-are-coming-off-bonos-bandwagon/

  27. batb – most of them just look older. Pat Benetar looks great. For Bob Dylan and Keith Richards…. There. Are. No. Words.

  28. Queen Hatshepsut King of Upper and Lower Egypt
    Framed by steep cliffs and poised in elegant relief is the mortuary temple of Deir Al-Bahri, known in ancient times as the “Most Holy of Holies”. We now know more than ever before about the plans and ideas of the remarkable woman who built it, says
    Jill Kamil
    http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/1016/he1.htm

  29. Black Mamba: ” … most of them just look older…” um, and wasted!
    Though, I admit, the women fare better. As for Dylan and Richards and Jagger and Tyler and Cooper … welllll … 😉

  30. Check out The Left on Campus below. Great video — and deals with far more than just what’s going on on campus. What’s happening at Hahvahd is a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere. This prof (Harvey Mansfield) is right on.
    Check it out!

  31. harrumph!…the bobster looks great…a certain dignity….gasp splutter …how dare you…
    please don’t make me withdraw my unqualified conviction that zimmie could craft that simple yet ineffably profoundly omphalic phrase “white man’s wind’ into an anthem…..
    ‘the answer my friend
    rests in the white man’s wind’
    ….and so on and so forth…
    now show some respect for the immortals…

  32. Where is Maggie when we need her? Mulronie doesn’t deserve to hold the door open for her. He squandered his majority to turn the Conservative Party into a big spending clone of the Liberal Party, overrun with corrupt Quebecois politicians, who now are making a mockery of our democracy in their stupid BQ party. I wish we could vote them off the island.

  33. I really don’t care what Dylan looks like (though maybe his wife or girlfriend does …) 😉
    ‘Love his stuff, though.

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