Those shoes were made for walking his ignorant ass back home to America.
Here’s a more informative report on the insult added to injury of Bush & Co.’s recent visit to Iraq courtesy of the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). Are there any actual reporters left in America?
Bettie was remarkable for the contribution she made to the sexual revolution. Although her photos were taken mostly in the ’50s, she certainly was a part of the revolution by way of the display of her photos in military barracks and garages. She endured harassment, mental illness, multiple unsuccessful marriages and time spent in an orphanage as a child but managed to persevere through all of it.
Thank you, Bettie.
Canada has chosen a new Liberal party leader following on the disaster that was Stephane Dion. Michael Ignatief, a former Harvard professor of human rights and former member of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, was recently anointed to lead the Canadian Liberal party to the next election by any means possible, including torture.
Here’s a summary link to a 2005 article by Mariano Aguirre detailing some of Mr. Ignatief’s reasons on why torture is so much more preferable than any other method for igniting the fires of democracy around the world.
The world no sooner gets rid of one by free elections, and another pops up to parrot the idiocy. I suppose Canadians must now prepare to be picked up off of their cold winter streets and rendered to a vacation spot of their choice in a warm climate, where brutality and torture come highly recommended by Mr. Ignatief. After all, winter is now upon us in this northern clime, and a warm-weather respite is well-deserved by all.
Let’s hope that the Canadian electorate has the common sense, come their next Federal election, to show Mr. Ignatief where to shove the eternal sunshine of his spotless mind.
A leap second will be added to the last day of 2008 to ensure that atomic clocks “keep up” with the slowing of the earth’s rotation.
The Parliament of Canada has been prorogued — i.e., the current session has been discontinued or suspended — by the Governor-General. Unlike the tin-pot dictatorship described as Canada by some media asshats and assorted members of the official opposition, Parliament will continue in January under Prime Minisiter Stephen Harper, at which time all elected representatives will have a chance to defeat the government in a House vote. Democracy lives.
So much for a crisis in a frozen teapot as presented by Canadian mainstream media. The media will have that time to anoint a new leader for themselves, since they have such an extreme dislike for Mr. Harper.
Thanks to thetyee.ca, here’s an explanation of how Parliament works:
Canadians never vote directly for a “government.” Instead, we elect a member of Parliament in our local constituency. It is only after 308 individual MPs have been chosen that the process of forming a government begins.
The Constitution Act of 1876 doesn’t even mention the prime minister or political parties. MPs are everything.
How MPs organize themselves is entirely up to them. This is why two MPs are able to currently sit as independents; there could just as easily be 308 of them. Most MPs have organized themselves into groupings known as parties. This simplifies the process of forming government but doesn’t change the constitutional pre-eminence of individual MPs.
There is just one basic requirement: The government must at all times enjoy the confidence of the majority of MPs in the House of Commons.
By unwritten constitutional convention, the Governor General calls upon the leader of the party with the most MPs and asks him or her to try to form a government that enjoys the confidence of the House. When that party holds a majority of the seats, the result is a foregone conclusion. This gives rise to the illusion that parties win the “right to govern.” But they just get to try to form a government first, and happen to have enough seats to deliver.
Things are different when no party emerges from the election with a majority. Again, the Governor General calls upon the leader of the party with the most MPs and asks them to try to form a government that enjoys the confidence of the House. To obtain that confidence, the newly designated “prime minister” must persuade MPs from other parties to provide their support. If he or she fails, it is open to another party (or parties) to indicate that they can get the job done — whereupon the Governor General will let them try.
Since the 308 individual MPs whose preferences drive this process are directly elected by Canadians, all of this is entirely democratic. — thetyee.ca, Michael Byers
Harper’s biggest problem is the Canadian media, who have a strong dislike of how he deals with them. He plays his cards close to his chest. There are no leaks to media favourites to get out the party line, such as there were under previous governments. This eats at them like a bout of listeria from their favourite deli sandwich, resulting in their characterization of him as confrontational and deceptive. Of course, through transference, the opposing parties have picked up on this line and have adopted it as their crie de coeur, resulting in a dog-chasing-its-tail routine that is quite amusing.
The new darlings of the Candian MSM are the Liberals, the New Democratic Party, and the Bloc Québecois, who, in the media’s collective mind, must be the annointed alternative to Canada’s existing government. The trouble with that is that Canada can’t afford to have them. Fortunately for all of us, the media doesn’t govern, although it likes to think it does.
Go.
Yours truly,
Canada
Canadian politics and the Parliamentary system can be quite amusing.
Presently, following an October election, Canada has a newly chosen minority government in Ottawa. Not happy to have been left out of the proceedings, two parties who were not elected to form the government have chosen to get together in erstwhile “band of brothers” mode and defeat the government elected by the people. Not having enough seats in Parliament to do this on their own, the two parties have chosen to include a Québec separatist party in the agreement to support their merry band.
The leader of the “coup” will be a man who is a citizen of France. If that isn’t enough to gall anyone – sorry, Charles – the man who would be king was soundly defeated in the recent election. Having had his ass handed to him, this doofus has previously announced his intent to resign as the loser leader of his loser party in May of 2009.
Allow me to summarize, if you will. The governing party defeated all others to form a minority government. Those who were defeated have chosen to oust the newly elected government and thus take over governing themselves, with a leader who is a citizen of France. They will do this with the support of a Québec-only separatist party.
Most Canadians are upset with the proceedings as they have been occurring, so it should be interesting to see if there will be much interest in the House during the next roll call of votes. Personally, I can’t see the erstwhile band of brothers doing anything more than making fools of themselves, but I’ll just have to wait and see. Were this just about anywhere else in the world, Canada would now be in the midst of a bloody revolution, but fortunately for all, that’s not the case.
In the meantime, it’s business as usual for everything else, while the Canadian MSM gnashes its teeth and tries to convince us all how everything is going to hell in a handbasket. Good luck with that.