Posted on 10/24/2004 2:50:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
bttt
as the novelist and Internet maestro Roger L. Simon says, "the more committed we are to it, the shorter it will be."
If Steyn says this about someone, I had better go look him up.
Yep, Kerry doesn't get it. Mark Steyn is right on target as usual.
I think you and Teresa are on the right track. I've been doing that for ages. When I get a prescription for painkillers after having a dental procedure or some other thing, I always ask if I can have a martini instead. Most often, the answer is yes, and it's cheaper and more fun.
A broken leg was a 2 martini event, but still..... :-)
BTTT.
Wow! I knew Steyn's column got around, but they have it in Hell, too?
Too bad all the idiots who want Kerry and his "free health care" won't ever read this.
BTTT
One thousand Americans are killed in 18 months in Iraq, and it's a quagmire. One thousand Quebecers are killed by insufficient hand-washing in their filthy, decrepit health care system, and kindly progressive Americans can't wait to bring it south of the border. If one has to die for a cause, bringing liberty to the Middle East is a nobler venture and a better bet than government health care.
These are serious times and the senator is not a serious man.
succinct
***..."After Watergate, many politicians discovered that investigations were something that got you headlines," she said. "What John Kerry did was aimed solely at getting attention. He has no record as a legislator or a leader, and his investigations were consistent with his record as a left-wing follower."
Mr. Kerry came to the Senate by way of the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, Massachusetts' largest, where his nonstop media appearances as a prosecutor earned him the moniker "live-shot Kerry." And while he has used his Senate seat to bring attention to a number of headline-popping issues, including the Iran-Contra scandal, drug trafficking by then-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and the illegal financial dealings of BCCI, there was little legislative follow-up....***
Kerry's a show horse not a work horse.
Bump!
As an ex-Canadian, I can give a simple answer to your question: Queen Elizabeth is The Queen Of Canada. When Canada became a country in 1867, it chose to retain its links to the Mother Country by the expedient of retaining the monarchy. The Fathers Of The Confederation originally wanted to name the new nation The Kingdom Of Canada, but the British government was afraid of offending the United States, so it insisted they choose something else. They picked the term Dominion and it fit the country like paper to a wall. The Governor-General is the representative of the Queen when The Sovereign is not in Canada.
Canadians tend to be polite and submissive to authority. It explains both their loyalty to the monarchy and their left-wing politics. When you live in a country where you instinctively trust authority, you're not going to find much wrong with government and there's greater acceptance of a role for the state in social affairs. That's why Americans are different from Canadians and why Americans are wary of too much government intrusion into their personal affairs.
Canada is a constitutional monarchy. The Queen can act only on the advice of Her Ministers. And the Royal Veto was declared by the first Prime Minister, John Alexander MacDonald, to be obsolete and has never been exercised. Everything The Queen does can be done only with the consent of and in the name of the Canadian People, through their Parliament.
Wow! I knew Steyn's column got around, but they have it in Hell, too?
"I'm very sorry. Mr. bin Laden died and left no forwarding address."
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