Rex Murphy's warning will be similar to the prediction of Lord Grey's at the onset of WW1 which he quotes in the article below:
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”
From NationalPost: .....“Put not your trust in princes” is not Eliot, but the Psalms. The “princes” of 1914 we now see for what they were — befuddled, arrogant and above all careless of consequences. Who has optimism that today’s leaders are any more wise or ready? Looking at events since the destruction of the twin towers in September, 2001, the inaugural deed of the current crises, who can draw coherence or logic from them. It has been a scramble and a tumbling from one event to the next since that awful day. And by one of history’s “subtle confusions,” as Eliot had it, Afghanistan and Iraq are tending now (and in Iraq’s case, is already there) to a condition more threatening than when the vast effort here in the West to confront terrorism began.....
The stuff happening in New Brunswick is indeed "a rude dismissal of Canada's generosity" as he says. But then why is the government not doing away with that generosity? That generosity is the root of evil on the reservations. It's a long article and you will have to access the link to read it in full as the National Post has become a bully enforcer and prompts with "Obtain a License?" every time I try to copy and paste. What brought that on NationalPost? Don't you want free advertisement of your brand name in blogs even if bloggers don't want to subscribe? Sheesh!!! Access and read the article and some of the thousands of comments too. Some are so acrid, it's like as if I wrote them. HAHAHAHAHA Here's one comment that has accumulated almost 600 "likes"
Delphicorc • 3 days ago − As well as Rex might so eloquently describes this latter day confrontation between native and government authority he appears to run out of space to delve into the issue of why. The fact of the matter is that First Nations (Indians) have been co-opted by very wealthy environmental groups to do the latter's bidding. No white or mainstream protesters could possibly get away with these kinds of violent stunts. As we have recently seen, exhibiting this degree of violence towards police merits getting shot and killed - but not, it seems, if you are native. Hence the need to hire natives (untouchables) to do the really nasty work that the environmentalists might otherwise get shot doing. I am not and would never suggest that the police should shoot in response but I do think in these circumstances when band leadership is violently breaching the law and the civil peace is threatened, that the government should seek the arrest of band leaders and seize control of the band administration. Anything less will inevitably lead to anarchy.
Rex Murphy writing at NationalPost: There was a very disturbing confrontation between police and native protestors in New Brunswick on Thursday. It was a violent clash, there were reports of several shots fired, police vehicles were set on fire, explosive devices were found, Molotov cocktails were hurled. All of which will now be bundled up into the usual charges from activists of settler brutality, the iron fist of the colonialists once again turned against peoples. Protests that end up with Molotov cocktails, the torching of police vehicles, improvised explosive devices exposed, and in tense standoffs between mobs of protesters and ranks of police, can only rarely be seen as justified protests at all. Most times they are righteousness on a rampage. They work against any cause for which they are set in motion.......
at the Globe & Mail. In my opinion, Mr.Murphy is one of the last clear-headed intellectuals remaining at the National Post. National Post used to be a bastion for conservatism, but sadly, not any more.
Rex Murphy writing at NationalPost: ....Because this column is written on Friday, I have no idea what luminary graces the front page of today’s weekend edition of the Globe & Mail newspaper. But I am still recovering from their choice for the marquee spot last Saturday, when I saw, gleaming at me from a newsstand, a full, front-page photograph of Al Gore. Such iconography suggests world importance on the scale of Nelson Mandela. Al Gore falls short of that level of epicness by several orders of magnitude. In truth, Mr. Gore’s star has been fading for years, which is why the Globe’s front-page looked a decade old. His eco-alarmism is stale. The urgency of his early appeal has decayed into mere stridency. The very subject of global warming has grown more complicated. Which raises the question of how relevant Al Gore is anymore. Has he been saying anything new to earn such a front-page tribute? As far as I could tell, out of the fogbank of predictable platitudes and eco-mush he served up to his eager Canadian interviewer, the big “news” was that Gore slagged Alberta and the oil sands. He accused Alberta and those who support its oil industry, and the thousands and thousands of Canadians who work at it, of treating the atmosphere of sweet Mother Earth as an “open sewer.” He insisted on the point repeatedly. Well, stop the presses indeed. Bashing Alberta is every lazy global warming environmentalist’s equivalent of morning prayer. Fort McMurray has been cast to play Hellmouth, the emblem of all that is..............
The Liberal party of Canada is a laughing stock. To think I used to once vote for these clowns, make me now cringe in embarrassment. The only intelligent and sane person, IMO, in the running for the Liberal leadership, was Martha Hall-Findlay.
Rex Murphy writing at the NationalPost: The liberal leadership pantomime continues this week. It is one of the most curious political phenomenon of our time, a contest without friction, a competition without a real choice. This is the emptiest trial for what used to be the most prized position in Canadian party politics that we have ever seen. Mr. Trudeau is, in percentage terms, 10 times ahead of his nearest “rival,” polling among Liberals with 75% of the likely vote for leader. Joyce Murray, in second place for that same post, polls at 7.5%. What meager drama it may claim is either odd or pointless. For example, there was a minor flare when the Trudeau team requested to delay the deciding vote while they re-attempted (we must assume they already tried) to convince the multitudes of his Twitter-horde into actually signing up to vote. His request was quickly granted. And that was it for the excitement, the suspense of the unknown. At this stage of the “race,” there is no way, minus a rewind of the Big Bang or Mr. Trudeau filming himself chain sawing a redwood to fall on Elizabeth May’s house, for him to lose. He is the Liberal party’s only story and he knows it. The party knows it too. What elements of actual testing are there in this leadership contest (and I use that word as loosely as is possible)? Where’s the contest in this contest, the political manoeuvring? Where’s the suspense? We’ve had the hair restyling story, the only other thing that might have upset the applecart, so the makeover angle is exhausted. So the only question left is this hollow one: whether Justin Trudeau can get more online votes with an extra week tacked on to the charade than he would get without that week. In other words, the Liberal leadership has been reduced to Mr. Trudeau, effectively, running against his own Twitter account, a novelty of limited fascination to even the most obsessed. He is not asking for this stall in the vote to rescue his campaign, because of some crisis, or to escape some deadly collapse in his lead. He asked for a week’s extension so that he can win by an even greater number than he would win otherwise. He is running up the score against himself, for no other reason than that he can. Mark this. It is unique. Neither memory nor experience can supply me with a parallel where a leader with an insurmountable lead has asked for a delay in the vote to increase that lead.....
At Murphy's article there's this great comment from a "gamaa":
gamaa The OHRC in the throes of an agonizing multicultural fracas, pitting two of it’s pet protégés {militant Lesbians and righteous Muslims } in a tug-of-war.... Oh my ~!?!Will the wise Babes Hall, like King Solomon, call for a ‘ razor ’ sharp sword to split that precious baby in half { splitting hairs to save face } ?????
HAHAHAHAH
Another good one, in reply to a comment from someone who thinks the lesbo is right, we have this:
Thomson1 So when you walk into a female beauty salon and ask for a brazilian, they must oblige? Take off your clownshoes and get over yourself, defending such obvious stupidity simply demonstrates your own self-righteous incompetence.
..I knew it was a glaring gap back on the day it all became official. Where, oh where, in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms was the clause or reference dealing with the cardinal human right of Toronto women to have their hair cut by the Muslim barber of their choice? It was not there! Not a word. The Charter was nude of any connection, any allusion or annotation: no references to bangs, teases, shampoos or styling, clippers, scissors or shaving brushes. Tonsorially, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was a total hairless bust. Thus, by great omission, did a terrible injustice creep into the world. Has not the right to get the haircut you choose at the establishment of your insistence been a cry of the human heart since the age of the hairy — and I must say unkempt — Neanderthals? Haircuts, trims and shampoos have been a grand theme of freedom for all of us over the eons. On the lips of liberty has always been a prayer for just the right haircut from the barber of your choice. Patrick Henry’s great call — Give me a ducktail, or let me cut my own — still sends shivers up every waxed enlightened back. Was it not the shout of the barons on the fields of Runnymede, in 1215 before the granting of the Magna Carta? “Trim the back, easy on the sides and a little off the top — or give us death!” And are not their names recorded in the ground-breaking Marie Clairol Book of Fabulous Perms and Human Rights?...............
Rex Murphy, Canadian, CBC TV personality, writer, journalist
"Those clod poles, ne’er-do-wells, vandals, punks, thugs and assorted clueless dolts who smacked people around, piled on others, fought with and sought to injure police, set fire to cars, broke into stores, trashed and looted at will in Vancouver last night – are all a pathetic pack of cowardly destructive losers. An older generation, not bent by the winds of political correctness would rightly have called them the scum of the earth."
"To be a serious Christian in modern Western culture is to be the favoured easy target of every progressive thinker and every half-witted comedian. It is to have your sensibilities and your deepest beliefs on perpetual call for taunts, mockery and desecration. At a time when all progressives preach full volume for inclusivity and sensitivity, for the utmost care in speech when speaking of others with differing views or hues, Christians, as Christians, are under a constant hail of abuse and disregard. There is nothing too low or too vulgar."
On Obama and the Press
"They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.” "
"For I really don’t want the courts — or their illegitimate human rights commission cousins — to get any further into the business of telling us what’s offensive and what is not, and fining people for speaking their minds."
"The death of an ambassador, the storming of the consulate, the actual attack itself, got drowned in the fever of denunciation about a 14-minute film.
Innocence of Muslims, in the view of everyone from Barack Obama, to Hillary Clinton, to Susan Rice, the US Ambassador to the UN, was one of the most contemptible and vile sets of moving images ever to convey images and sound.
And yet, here in the West, mocking the fervour of religious “believers” (Christians, especially) is almost an official sport in entertainment and artistic circles — from Saturday Night Live to shows that are actually funny. And so the outrage and unction of Hillary and Obama on this file simply didn’t ring true."
"It’s one of the unglamorous but efficient virtues of our federation that — usually — we manage to keep our fractiousness on low boil. A well-cultivated taste for moderation and a reasonable middle way is justly lauded as an element of the Canadian character."
“As long as one Newfoundlander wants to harvest one seal, to make a flipper pie, or to use the pelt to make one of those splendid sealskin hats – on with the Hunt! Doing otherwise would be a surrender of our character as Newfoundlanders, and an apology for the rigorous and demanding way of life we have known, and which has earned us tenure here for half a millennium.”
"But there is no virtue in pursuing a process you otherwise despise, in imitating the grievance hunters and professional rights’ collectors. A real man can take what is passed out — verbally or otherwise — without running behind the judicial skirts."
“The manner of politicians, their mode of dealing with each other, is another fertile source of weariness and cynicism.“
“Riots should not be written-off as pranks. Mayhem shouldn't be passed over as the actions of a violent few. Tearing the heart out of a city, ripping up its stores, despoiling its reputation and setting its citizens for a while in a state of fear - should draw the just, angry and full attention of the state. Those who riot should learn the hard way that it's not a free game. That their violence and lawlessness isn't a freebie – they have to pay for it.“
On Israel Apartheid Week
“It is an inverted moral calculus that tries to persuade the world to demonize one state that tries its civilized best to abide in a difficult time and place, and rides merrily by the examples and practices of dozens of states and leaderships that drop into brutality every day without a twinge of regret or a whisper of condemnation.“
On Dalton McGuinty
"But something else may be going on. People’s contempt for actions of this sort may be so deep that for a while it remains unspoken. Arrogance and self-interest on this level leaves most normal people speechless. They resign themselves to the sleaziness and corruption of the game. They learn to quietly despise politics. At that point, in a democracy, all are losers. And make no error: It was the Ontario Liberals this time, but once in power, every party, from the Tories to the Greens, is capable of acting in the same way."
On Affirmative Action
“Everybody acting like affirmative action hires are something to be ashamed of and denied, something rudely pushed aside as unthinkable, is baffling. In every other context, affirmative action and its attendant policies and protocols are looked upon as the secular world’s highest forms of public virtue. Companies and institutions boast about their so-called equity policies and minority placements. Does not every university, in every hire, on every bulletin board, and in every online notice — spell out every so proudly that applications from minorities and special groups will be given “special” attention, or are specifically urged to hire. Does this not right historical wrongs? Is this not part of enriching the educational experience?
And yet, any suggestion that a particular individual may have benefitted from these wonders of our modern age is treated as a slap in the face to said individual. How can a policy be a triumph in enactment but an insult in execution?“
On Harper and company
“For a much-disciplined crew, they can be sloppy. Which, at least from one perspective, is curious. This government shows much better out of country than in. Harper is an impressive performer at international events. He has a relaxed manner, a sureness of touch and statement, and a sense of ease we rarely see when he gets back home. Harper abroad, however much it wounds his enemies to acknowledge it, is an impressive Prime Minister.“
the rest are dreamily experiencing the tingle up their legs just thinking about Obama in a second term.
Canadians should be proud that we have many journalists here, primarily the SUNTV opinionators and journalists who have been talking and writing about Benghazi from the time the 2nd 9/11 happened. Sadly, that's not the case in Obama's America. The Press is in Obama's camp, completely and totally.
Rex Murphy writing at NationalPost .....One reason is obvious. An administration bragging that bin Laden is dead, and that his surviving al-Qaeda lieutenants are quivering in fear, doesn’t want a successful attack on one of its diplomatic compounds to be attributed to the very terrorist group it claims to have tamed — not two months before an election, certainly.
The furious spin of the first few days, and in particular the absolutely empty claims put forward so vigorously, and without qualification, by Ambassador Rice, might constitute more than an error. They may prove to be deliberate efforts to smother what really happened in a cloud of misinformation. There is an air of subterfuge on this story. And as is well known since the days of Richard Nixon: It’s not the crime — it’s the cover-up.....
That's telling the knuckleheads what's what as only Rex Murphy can !!! Great piece of writing ... and you gotta go read the whole thing. The vid below on environmentalists is from 2007. And, just for fun a vid slapping Justin Trudeau is also included.... just couldn't help myself although that vid has no relevance to the subject of this post.
.....Outside Fort McMurray, it is impossible to escapethe furor over the Alberta oilsands. Its product is routinely described, lazily and slanderously, as the dirtiest on the planet. The Premier of Ontario, a province that owes much of its prosperity to its huge automobile industry shivers when he looks at Alberta, mutters about the dark forces of the “petro-dollar,” and implied (until he was scolded and half-recanted) that somehow Ontario’s fretful financial state is Alberta’s fault.
It’s almost a fantasy disconnect. Dalton Mcguinty can throw billions at General Motors and urge the feds to do the same, all to save the automobile industry. He ignores that four decades or more of Ontario’s prosperity wasn’t founded on windmills: It was based on gas-guzzling cars and trucks.
Down in the States, Fort MacMurray is the green lobby’s ultimate bogeyman. Environmental groups raise money by attacks on the oilsands. Fort McMurray and the Keystone XL pipeline that would take its bounty south. This rhetoric has even made it into presidential politics. The shameless and high-gloss National Geographic put out a hit-issue deploring the oilsands as the ultimate “polluter.”
Are Canadians falling for this propaganda, too? The bounty of our country has made us complacent, even smug, about the resource extraction that makes it possible. Canada is at the very forefront of the world’s developed nations. Our schools, hospitals, universities, arts and industries are at the very top of the chain — all because we have the energy to drive an economy that can support these great boons.
Yet how easily we bite the hand that feeds us. “Environment” has become a narrow, bitterly focussed word turning exclusively on hurts or despoilations of nature, magnifying the slightest alteration or disturbance of “the natural” as an unspeakable sin..........
You are amongst the chosen who can understand the Sarah Palin effect. I know that other bloggers have blogged about this article from the delightful Mr.Murphy.... but this happens to be MY Sarah Palin week, so you can expect a lot of Palin here the entire week. Keep away from my blog if you are not a Palin supporter. I thank ye, in advance, for your consideration.
Among the many delightful characteristics of Sarah Palin is her seemingly unfailing capacity to capture Barack Obama's angry attention. This week, she criticized his new nuclear policy. Obama responded by saying "I really have no response to that," which was, I think we'll all agree, an awkward prelude to his ... response. He went on with: "The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues." Well, colour me huffy.
The last time anyone else checked, neither is Barack Obama. Chicago politics is no richer in seminars on the finer points of nuclear politics than those of Alaska. Nonetheless, adverting to Sarah Palin's presumed incompetence -- not just on nuclear issues, but on anything -- will garner automatic applause and smirks of condescending approval from vast swathes of American public opinion.
Sarah Palin irritates, agitates, angers and annoys some of the self-appointed finest minds of America to a point long past reason. She has been the target, since the night she walked on stage to speak at a Republican convention, of some of the most savage commentary that the great republic has seen since Richard Nixon.
The great difference, of course, is that Nixon earned some of his venom. He practised political hardball. He was a remorseless partisan with an appetite for political vengeance.
And he received some he did not earn, by virtue of a personality -- secretive, bitter even in success, humourless, cold and anxious -- that made him, fairly or otherwise, a target for the cruellest and most unrelenting attacks. But in any event, he was the President. He had been in politics for a full generation. For those determined to hate him, there was a large field to till.
But Palin is not the president, nor has she been. She's been a presence in American national politics for only about two years. She is a cheerful human being, with a large family, an apparently easy-going and normal husband. She has a personality that would sell corn flakes -- if not grow them. What career she had in Alaska, she earned. She's at home indoors and out, radiates human warmth, seems to have some balance about herself, and has displayed over the last year or so a considerable fortitude under an avalanche of mockery and hatred. For the final stroke of this cameo I should note she is smart -- smarter than 90% of the people who make a point of how rock-stupid they know she is.
She, by rights, should be queen of the feminists. All that self-reliance, her takeover of Alaska politics, the rocket ride to a Vice-Presidential ticket, a public career she blends with her family life-- these seem gold-standard credentials for a real feminist. But official feminism derides herewith an unspeakable intensity. Her early critics were not beyond the inane claim that she was somehow not really a woman.
