If only cyberspace could show the slobbering drool
Click here for the best piece of sycophancy and fartcatching I have seen in a long while. Written by Warren Kinsella, a senior liberal party apparatchik, it details the latest event where Iggy saying nothing receives the adulation from a thousand people willing to pay big bucks to hang on his every word.
The fix is in and it didn't take long: a report from http://gonorthumberland.net/
Cobourg's new community centre will include a YMCA aquatic centre and therapeutic pool. The Y's board of directors has voted unanimously to re-locate all of its recreational and educational programs to the proposed Darcy Street site. Councillor Bob Spooner, who sits on the Y's board, says the existing Elgin street building is too small. He says it's quite cramped and there's a shortage of parking Spooner says the Elgin street facility will eventually be sold.
This must be the quickest alliance ever formed, unless the powers to be had organised it before time, long ago. Does anybody else think that the public has been left behind on this one?
Tucked away in this commentary is an idea that has been kicking around for a long time, and one that I support. That is the "left", whoever they are, the left has never defined itself and has been subject to all kinds of definitions by others, should buy the National Post. Having got a mouthpiece they could then push from the left their ideas, which have been uncannily correct lately, into the public domain with much more force. But even more important to those of who care about ideas the article from Lawrence Martin wonders why the NDP's message about National and Economic affairs has been so accurate and yet ignored by the ruling class.
A friend emailed me to ask what I think about the Afghanistan law about restricting womens' rights. I don't think much of it from what I have read, but Karzai is obviously pandering to electoral pressures. The only answer seems to be that the US should acknowledge it is backing the wrong horse and set up another puppet President. Sorry to be so flippant about a serious subject but I will refrain from telling you all what I really think as it gets into killing sacred cows and invovles the "myth of the military" and the bull***t about why we are there wasting millions everyday.
This must be the quickest alliance ever formed, unless the powers to be had organised it before time, long ago. Does anybody else think that the public has been left behind on this one?
Tucked away in this commentary is an idea that has been kicking around for a long time, and one that I support. That is the "left", whoever they are, the left has never defined itself and has been subject to all kinds of definitions by others, should buy the National Post. Having got a mouthpiece they could then push from the left their ideas, which have been uncannily correct lately, into the public domain with much more force. But even more important to those of who care about ideas the article from Lawrence Martin wonders why the NDP's message about National and Economic affairs has been so accurate and yet ignored by the ruling class.
A friend emailed me to ask what I think about the Afghanistan law about restricting womens' rights. I don't think much of it from what I have read, but Karzai is obviously pandering to electoral pressures. The only answer seems to be that the US should acknowledge it is backing the wrong horse and set up another puppet President. Sorry to be so flippant about a serious subject but I will refrain from telling you all what I really think as it gets into killing sacred cows and invovles the "myth of the military" and the bull***t about why we are there wasting millions everyday.
5 comments:
What surprised me in the fuss about the proposed law in Afghanistan is the rather naive view that what gets written down and passed into law makes much difference in the daily lives of the people who live there.
Making favourable, fair laws is only part of the process of achieving justice, and it seems to me it doesn't happen until the sea change in attitudes has already ocurred. The law just plays catch-up with what is actually happening on the ground.
Until not too many years ago the rules right here in Canada stated that women were property of their fathers, then husbands, and couldn't own property in their own names. We're not so far away from that kind of thinking, and methinks it will take a few hundred more years before the entire world is up to speed on that one.
DJO
OK so the Town and the Y cooked up the whole plan behind the backs of all of the rest of us, then sprang it on us all done and dusted, wrapped up in a big red bow.
WHY? Why the need for secrecy? What are they trying to hide? What is so special about this project that allowing regular townsfolk to participate would only spoil its specialness?
This kind of thing just makes me suspicious. There's more going on here than it looks like on the surface, that's for sure.
All theories welcome! Wild eyed as well as sensible, bring it on.
DJO
Quite a few years ago women were chattel in The West. I'm not willing to sit on my butt and wait for a few hundred years while the rest of the world reaches our civilized level in this regard.
I'm considerably more proactive. I do not regard all cultures as equal. They are not. I aggressively support the liberation of women throughout the world to the level enjoyed in The West. If that tramples on cultural norns of this or that culture -- tough.
Humanity is better served, social evolution is better served with the participation of all human beings.
Retro cultures need to be actively subverted, and the better parts of Western culture proselytized more rogourously.
The West has florished, in part, because the max liberation of women.
Sorry, I'm not laissez faire about abandoning women in other cultures to their fate. Hundreds of years is way too long. It is a formula of the lazy. Active programs for undermining and subverting many aspects of non-Western cultures need to be implemented now & with rigour
Does this mean the seniors, lawn bowlers,and soccer players have to join the "Y"??????
You catch on quickly.
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