The thing below is both funny, and a coincidence.

A coincidence because a DNC guy was in here yesterday, and I told him (a) I once reviewed West Wing for CBC, and said I didn’t really like it because nobody in politics is ever as smart as the characters on the show, or is walking around and talking so much, and (b) everyone in Ignatieff’s office was obsessed with West Wing, which suggested to me that they were headed for a thumping, which they were.  Because they secretly considered West Wing to be what really happens in politics.  Um, no.

Funny, because it is.  A bit too long, but it makes its point (over and over).

Now, start hectoring me, West Wing maniacs.  If you must know, Star Trek is really the best politics series: fly in, convert the locals (by force, guile or good looks), dress it up as “values,” and then fly away.  That’s politics.

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Publish anti-Muslim material: it’s free speech.

Publish anti-Kate Middleton material: it gets your newsroom raided.

And some wonder why large swaths of the world mostly detest us.

Wonder no more, etc.

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…and this statement shows that, when it comes to self-government, the Harper cabal are a bunch of damned liars.

“Canada’s great experiment in aboriginal self-government is about to collapse – or, at least, it certainly looks that way for a Yukon first nation that has successfully managed its own affairs since 2006…

As it happened, Stephen Harper was scheduled for an unrelated visit to CTFN territory in August to tout his vision for Canada’s North. While federal bureaucrats threatened to undermine self-government, Mr. Harper arrived for a barbecue. During the requisite photo-op with CTFN’s leaders, the Prime Minister quietly assured them he had been informed of the funding issue and had instructed his minister to look into it.

On the road leading to the barbecue, a group of locals had assembled a peaceful protest. A member of the Prime Minister’s security detail marched over to ask what they were up to. “Exerting our aboriginal rights and title,” he was told. “Oh,” he said, “I thought you were going to dance for us.”

The Oct. 1 deadline looms, and a precedent is about to be set. There is still time to decide whether it will stand for bullying or for fairness.“

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With more CPC and NDP cowardice here.

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…which means I am walking around King Street East in make up.

I wouldn’t get away with this in Bancroft.

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All is forgiven.

“…And during a friendly chat with Chicago residents, [Ford] ended up mistakenly saying Manitoba was across from Detroit — rather than Windsor.”

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Interesting read on plummeting water levels.  Tells you plenty,

On the lake I’m on, up North, the water used to touch the bottom of my dock.  It’s now so low, my tin boat can slide right under the dock’s lowest point.  My bigger boat is pretty close to doing likewise.

Reminds me once again that, when someone tells me global warming is a myth, I’m in the presence of a goddamned fool.

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Quote:

“Enlightened Liberals—both of them—felt they wanted a dramatic change from the Pearson brand of poker politics, a candidate who could re-establish public trust in the party and reawaken confidence in itself. As soon as Trudeau hinted that he might be available, historians smelling of water biscuits, lobbyists desperate for credit ratings, the usual whisky priests and progressive thinkers of every vintage began coalescing behind his candidacy.”

My God, that man can write.  What a giant he is.  Newman leaves everyone else behind in the dust.

(Oh, but my counsel to the candidates I’ve advised always remains the same: Peter C. Newman is a journalist, first and foremost.  You enter into a room with him and his tape recorder at your peril.)

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“Those people”? Which people is he referring to?

No answer will be forthcoming, but it probably doesn’t matter.  I now think that Mitt Romney is well and fully done, like dinner.  Game, set, match, etc.  You can’t write off half the United States of America, and then expect to become president.

Barring some cataclysm that hurts Obama, I’d wager that’s that.

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