Bud Talkinghorn: Pork , Veterans, Protest & More

Hamilton--The city that pork built

Surprise announcement: Tony Valeri, Liberal MP from Hamilton, has brought a $1.6 million Christmas gift from Canadian taxpayers to support skills development in (dramatic pause necessary here) the steel industry. Tony's gift to his constituency is to prove that he is no piker, as the Copps faction contends. See Sheila Copps used to have the hand on the ladle for dishing out the pork gravy. Tony, in what some call "The night of the Burnt Bacon", dethroned Sheila. She was Deputy Prime Minister and handled the giant soup ladle as Minister of Heritage--aka Min. of Pork. Well, the possibilities to waste your tax dollars were endless. Besides granting some Lesbian porn film, "Bubbles Galore", a hefty amount--starring a faded American porn queen, at that--she massaged every loonie-left artistic group in Canada. That film, costing Canadian taxpayers around $300,000 in today's dollars, was never shown by CBC nor any television station. Surely, some members of the public, other than the Angry Lesbian League of Canada, should have had some right to critique the film. For that money Sheila could have sent 200,000 households a free copy of it. However, despite handing every pseudo-minority group big slices of the pie, she never forgot her roots, and Ham-ilton was justly rewarded. There was even money for Copps Coliseum, if I remember correctly. [That decision must have been taken by someone obviously not connected in any way to the Minister or our ethics commissioner, undoubtedly, would have intervened . . . wouldn't he? NJC]

Now Valeri's pork is being used only as a sample here. I mean $1.6 million? That is not even a decent Adscam contract. Still, it does add to the total of $143.2 million that the Liberal porksters have shovelled out in the past week. The buying-of-the-votes brigade have left the gate and are full hurtle.

Besides bundles of cash given to "needy" constituencies, we have Martin giving out a million or so to erase the indignity done in World War Two of interning 700 of them as alien threats. This, in spite of the fact that Brian Mulroney, personally, had apologized to the Italian community about any government error made. The apology was accepted and nobody demanded money--to my knowledge. The frenzy of porkification can only reach epic heights as the Liberals now realize that they are bereft of reasons for re-election. The next time your municipality gets a fat cheque from the Liberals, take a moment to think of the reasoning and timing behind it.

© Bud Talkinghorn

buying-of-the-votes -- Wouldn't that be repeating themselves, Bud?

porkification -- Where is the former Minister who would have been expected to deliver the pork to his community in the past?

Also, I believe it was Paul Palango who wrote a book (circa 1989?) which included a large segment on Hamilton Harbour -- dredging irregularities? scandal? Check; it is not his book on the RCMP, The Last Guardians, but a previous one, I believe. NJC



Quebec negotiates an extra $500 million in federal transfers CNEWS, Nov. 11, 05



Tories threaten Goodale's fiscal update Nov. 10, 05 -- Love the Liberals' use of words like "update", "initiative" and "investment"

Code words for "more pork"



Informative

For Valour: Commemorating the Sixteen Canadian Servicemen awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous bravery during the Second World War 1939-1945

Canadian War Museum


Photo: War dead

The Memorial Hall



Help for 'forgotten' vets?




Military seeks $12.2B Scroll down for another post on this today.




Hey, Kid, Need a Ride to a Protest Rally? Larry Elder, Nov. 10, 05 -- via Newsbeat1

Incredible

World Can’t Wait—an anti-Bush, anti-war group, recently staged nationwide protests. The organization coordinated rallies in Chicago, Seattle, New York, San Francisco—and Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Unified School District took things a step further. [. . . . ]

The music teacher excitedly told the class about a “song” someone e-mailed him. He decided to serenade his class by singing the ditty a cappella: [. . . . ]

Do scroll down to the song -- and these kids, like many of Canada's, cannot read adequately.

You see, politicking in the schools is okay -- as long as it is for the left party.





Inspiring -- remember

Blackfive: Last Night I Met A Hero -- via newsbeat1


"I support the troops, but not the war":

Then you don't support the troops. Once US troops are deployed in a foreign war and you actively protest and attempt to undermine the government's prosecution and even rationale for the war, you are no longer supporting the troops. [. . . . ]

Right!




Tolerant, eh?

Muslim crowd burns 2 churches in Pakistan


Note, the absence of the T-word; they're termed "militants". What do you suppose those directly affected call them? Terrorists? Militants? Misunderstood immigrants who are the subject of so much discrimination that they cannot get an education or a job . . . or the first large immigrant groups to be in thrall to a mindless brutal vicious murderous cult?

Militant activity continues in Kashmir Ashok Sharma, Nov 13, 05

[. . . . ] India has long accused Pakistan of allowing training camps of Kashmiri militants, who are fighting for the region's independence or merger with Pakistan. New Delhi says the militants regularly cross into Kashmir from Pakistan, either with the connivance of Pakistani troops or with their tacit approval. Islamabad denies the charge.

[. . . . ] Saran quoted Singh as telling Aziz that: "Infiltration continues, violence continues." [. . . . ]

You're not supposed to notice but you might be interested.

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