Thursday, September 22, 2011

What To Do On A Lazy Afternoon

...to bore yourself to death.

Why you can watch the live coverage of David Cameron's visit to Ottawa. The most interesting part of it is watching all those guards in their red uniforms and big furry bearskin hats, wondering if any of them will pass out from the heat. So far, so good. Good thing it's September. But they do have to engage in some silly feet stomping leg-work as part of the pageantry. Cameron must feel right at home.

Now he's gonna make a speech in the House of Commons. From the Mother of Parliament to her Daughter. Hip! Hip! Rah! Rah! God save the Queen and all that!

(Who needs TV? Coverage of this event is available at CBC and at C-PAC, both accessible via the net). Of course, other people have more interesting things to do, I'm sure. Still, I like that we're still attached to Mother England.

PS: Interesting factoid - the first time a British PM spoke before the Canadian House of Commons was in 1941, December 30. Winston Churchill gave his "Some chicken. Some pot." speech.

Interesting. Speech is over now. What I kept hearing, even though Cameron didn't mention it, was the death of the NDP, or at least their ideology. I wonder if Cameron's salute to Jack Layton at the beginning of the speech was a calculated, if subliminal, message.

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3 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

For anyone interested, Churchill's full speech to the Canadian Parliament is available online. Can't remember if it's CBC Archives or somewhere else, but a quick google ought to locate it.

I watched the video of that entire speech. Churchill was awesome. Speaking of how Allied troops would conduct the war, he said, "While we won't descend to the German and Japanese level of barbarism...if anyone want's to 'play rough', we can 'play rough' too!" The Japanese Army certainly found that out from Allied troops on the offensive in the Pacific campaigns. 'No surrender, no prisoners, brutal total war? OK, you got it.'

Vis a vis the War on Terror, specifically in Af-stan, somebody ought to transplant this Churchillian attitude into today's Western leaders. They have hobbled our troops with self-endangering Rules of Engagement to avoid the proverbial accidental, unintentional molehill of civilian casualties (thank you, corrupt Afghan Pres. Karzai and anti-West Western MSM!) when the Taliban and Al Qaeda deliberately inflict a mountain of civilian casualties.

September 23, 2011 9:52 am  
Blogger Louise said...

"...somebody ought to transplant this Churchillian attitude into today's Western leaders"

Yup. Bunch of wimps we are today.

September 23, 2011 10:27 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Found it. CBC Archives, it is. Strange they haven't taken it down, they're so anti-war, anti-soldier.

September 23, 2011 11:08 am  

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