Three columnists who are part of our ProudToBeCanadian team have been busy writing out their lucid thoughts for our Saturday reading. All three are now posted—in the columnist section of course.
Here’s my (probably ineffectual) effort to condense what they wrote into snippets:
Mike Adams writes a letter to Dawn, in the middle of the night. He’s got body parts on his mind, and wishes he didn’t.
[…] Dawn, I want you to conjure a vision of the “angry and promiscuous Vagina Warrior” you mentioned in your letter. Then, I want you to gather together at least three other women who feel like you do on this issue. Then, I am going to ask you to do something very difficult. I want you and your friends to dress like the angry feminists you criticize.
Wear your oldest pair of blue jeans, preferably without washing them for at least one month. Then, put on a white “wife beater” tank top. Do not shave your arm pits for several weeks (this one is optional) and under no circumstances are any of you to wear a bra (not optional). Use black magic markers to put slogans like “F—- Bush” and “F—- men” on your tank tops. Then get some “Vagina friendly” buttons from the Women’s Resource Center and place them on your outer garments. Wear no make-up except for thick mascara. Top it all off with a black leather-studded dog collar from the local pet store. Fit it tightly around your neck. Then, you should be ready to go.
Salim Mansur conjures up another beautifully-written piece, this time concerning the so-called “center” of Canadian politics.
The “centre,” in my view, is really the Montreal-Ottawa axis of interests which binds Canadian government and business in one seamless flow of people, policies and money.
There may be on occasion separatist governments in Quebec City, and all sorts of blinkered malcontents running provincial capitals. Their cacophony, however, shows in contrast how effectively the centre is administered by a narrow coterie of fluently bilingual elite—more efficient in the art of bureaucratic management than the Family Compact which once ran Upper and Lower Canada in the early 19th century.
Meanwhile, Steve Milloy is warning a huge bank that they better not cave to the (even huger, in a way) environmentalist industry.
What makes the stakes so high is that banking giants Citigroup and Bank of America have already caved in to RAN, following a similar poster assault near the home of Citigroup Chairman Sanford Weill in 2004. If J.P. Morgan Chase joins these capitulating capitalists, then that means the three largest financial services companies — ? thus, virtually an entire industry — will have ceded control of a portion of their businesses to anti-business activists and turned their backs on many in the developing world.
J.P. Morgan Chase has so far held out against some of RAN’s more appalling tactics like rounding up second graders from Mr. Harrison’s hometown in December, and transporting them to J.P. Morgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters to protest the bank during school hours — a stunt aptly described by Terence Corcoran of Canada’s National Post as “ideological child abuse.”
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