A couple of fun catches in the local media:
On Saturday, the always good, entertaining, anti-idiotarian (nod to LGF) columnist Pete McMartin (Vancouver Sun – a CanWest paper) alluded to temperature the way I and all sensible people usually do. My last reference was last week, when I spotted a “Dion Dart” automobile, and said it “Gets 50 miles to the gallon (that’s quatre litres par le kilomètre for you liberals)…”.
Here’s how McMartin put it in his Saturday column:
…When we got off our plane in Jacksonville, Fla., it was 6:30 p.m. It was 90 degrees Fahrenheit outside. (I’ll be giving all temperatures in Fahrenheit since we were in the U.S., and also because the Celsius system is stupid.) …
And thus he is OK with me.
Also on Saturday, another example of anti-idiotarian thinking and rather brave public expression was in our even more local rag, the Delta Optimist (also a CanWest paper).
Readers—especially liberals—LOVE it when I make a point of referring to former socialist NDPer but now a Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh as “Ujjal Dosanjh, who sounds very much like a communist to me…”.
A letter to the editor writer wrote (and the paper actually printed!):
Deltans don’t need another Liberal toady representing area in House of Commons
The Delta Optimist
Published: Saturday, June 14, 2008[…]
Whoever coined the defeatist slogan, “If you can’t beat them, join them,” must have been a Liberal. Red certainly is the colour of communists (Bob Rae and Ujjal Dosanjh) and harlots (Belinda Stronach and Elizabeth May) as they coalesce in the cesspool of fashionable moderation.
We already have one Liberal toady representing us in Victoria to our detriment. The last thing Delta needs is a fickle Liberal toady in Ottawa who will offer only tepid criticism in private but publicly deliver the fatal blow to this community, sacrificing us on the altar of the abstract “national” interest and assuage her tormented conscience.
Steven Austin
And that’s worth six million bucks to me.
Almost immediate P.S. – Since a modicum of decorum and avoiding a lawsuit is also worth six million bucks to me, let me state categorically that I wouldn’t personally describe Stronach or May as “harlots”. Although the liberal media have taken to honoring and lifting up the stature of the lowly hooker (or harlot) by tendentiously referring to them as “sex trade workers” (because that’s how liberals think), I certainly don’t think either of those named women are “sex trade workers”. Possibly “charlatans” was what the writer actually had in mind.
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