6092...Damn Catholics!!!

Cannot trust them.  That's what Gordon Gee, the bossman at Ohio State University, sorry, The Ohio State University, one of the biggest universities on the planet, had to say about my people.

                       

Seriously Mr. Gee?  Like it is 2013 not 1913; you'd would think educated Americans like yourself would know that us papists [Papists?] are not a threat to the American way.

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6091...Ed Journal Echoes WFDS

Seriously, check this out, as redone in yesterday's Toronto Star.

This is an edited excerpt of an editorial this week in the Edmonton Journal:

For someone who grew up in the public eye, Justin Trudeau demonstrates a shockingly bad appreciation of political optics at times.

If the federal Liberal leader hopes to build upon his party's still largely unaccountable surge in the polls, he will need to undergo some dramatic growth of his own, both in tactical acuity and in his ability to communicate a credible and unifying vision for this country. The us-versus-them tenor of his comments on the weekend in defending Quebec's weighted Senate advantage over the West shows just how far he has to go.

In an article that appeared in Montreal's La Presse on Saturday, Trudeau rejected calls by the federal NDP to abolish the unelected upper chamber in the unambiguous language of a loyal Quebecer. "We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and six from British Columbia. That's to our advantage," Trudeau said.

It's an attack ad that writes itself. Long-suffering Grits in this province must have been left, once again, holding their heads. Is there any question why the Liberals have only four MPs in the West?

Yet that Liberal brand is in ascendance and the midterm Conservatives appear listless and in perpetual damage control. It is all the more confounding then that Trudeau would make himself the target of the deep public cynicism that Stephen Harper is so keen to deflect from the Senate soap opera. But he has clearly done so.

The freshly minted Liberal leader got a pass last month when his musings following the Boston bombings were spun and misquoted by the Harper partisans. He has earned rightful praise for his temperate and good-natured handling of the Conservative attack ads unleashed soon after his victory. But there is nothing prime ministerial about pitting regions against each other.

What have I been saying Justin Trudeau?  STFU.  Please.

The stakes are too high.

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6090...Sixty Years; Same Job

Imagine.

Sixty years; same job.



Queen Elizabeth was crowned QEII on this day sixty years ago.

It's a living, eh?

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6089...Death Warrant For Harper's Brand

That, word for word, is the headline of Rex Murphy's article in The National Post this day.

I call bullsh*t.

Problem with Mr. Murphy and virtually all the anglo journalists [I don't read french newspapers unless I am in deepest darkest La Belle, Les Promenades in Gatineau for example, and canna find something english to read; I am another example of our school system failing its students] is they live in the now.  Only.  Methinks that our beloved Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is a Sun Tzu guy and thinks more long term.



Remember Mr. Murphy he has two more years.  That is a longgggggg time.

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6088...You Pay Legal Bills For Senators

At least one Senator.  Patrick "I bleed when pretty boys hit me" Brazeau.



"Senate officials confirmed to Global News that 'legal assistance in the amount of $4,000.00 was provided, under the Policy, to Senator Brazeau in relation to the work of the Subcommittee on Living
Allowances and the related audit'."

Interestingly yesterday "...evening Brazeau’s office told Global News that 'Senator Brazeau was not given any money for legal fees.  Nor has he billed the Senate for his legal fees.  The Senate is asking him to reimburse them for their legal fees.'"

Who would be lying in this instance?  

LOL.

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6087...Chuck Norris In Ottawa

Kornicky from BOB FM had his Kodak out.




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6086...The Sun On Rob Ford

WFDS