Boswarlos Daily

A Prequel For Obama?

Fox News reports U.S. Military Helicopters Launch Attack Inside Syria

The entirely predictable Syrian response may be a few days premature. Perhaps they hope that there will be regime change in the United States of the sort they arrange regularly in Lebanon:
....Syria's Foreign Ministry said it summoned the charges d'affaires of the United States and Iraq to protest against the strike. "Syria condemns this aggression and holds the American forces responsible for this aggression and all its repercussions. Syria also calls on the Iraqi government to shoulder its responsibilities and launch and immediate investigation into this serious violation and prevent the use of Iraqi territory for aggression against Syria," the government statement said.

William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jerry Rubin: No Mystique For Lesley Duncan

This is Mr. Rubin , British singer Lesley Duncan's 1971 song. It nails the privileged, sheltered anarchists of 1968 Chicago squarely to the wall of classist hypocrisy, where they remain today:

Well you're stirring up hatred and you make me ashamed
I really do think that your soul must be maimed
You're trying to tell me it's them or it's us
But I tell you there's no way if we don't build on trust
The world has gone rotten so do what you must
But don't forget love Mr. Rubin, Oh no don't forget love

Well to your kind I know I'm just one of a crowd
But I hope that you'll listen I don't like talkin' loud
There's a strange lack of vision that's driving you on
There's times to be here you say and times to be gone
And the times that we live in must surely be wrong
But don't forget love Mr. Rubin, Oh no don't forget love.

There's a change due to come and you know it
And you think it's your duty to fight
But it's people like you who's gonna blow it
While you're standin' there blacking the light.

Obama Antidote: Orwell uncensored

George Orwell:.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Ray Guy: Newfoundland Icon

VOCM:"Long-time columnist and Stephen Leacock Medal winner, Ray Guy, will launch his latest book this week. But he says "Ray Guy:The Smallwood Years", is certainly not his memoirs. Guy says it's a collection of columns, pieces, commentary and stories written in the 1960's and 70's during the height of the Smallwood years.Guy says he is especially proud that His Honor, Lieutenant-Governor John Crosbie, wrote the introduction. The official launch is Thursday evening at Chapters, St. John's, from 7 until 9."

That man was afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted when it was a lonely, uncomfortable task.

Mark Steyn on Barack Obama

Refreshingly insightful Canadian expatriate Mark Steyn opines on Barack Obama at National Review Online:

"Nothing in Obama’s resume suggests he’s the man to remake America and heal the planet. Only this week, another of his pals bit the dust, convicted by a Chicago jury of 16 counts of this and that. “This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew,” said the senator, in what’s becoming a standard formulation. Likewise, this wasn’t the Jeremiah Wright he knew. And these are guys he’s known for 20 years. Yet at the same time as he’s being stunned by the corruption and anti-Americanism of those closest to him, Obama’s convinced that just by jetting into Tehran and Pyongyang he can get to know America’s enemies and persuade them to hew to the straight and narrow. No doubt if it all goes belly up and Iran winds up nuking Tel Aviv, President Obama will put on his more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger face and announce solemnly that “this isn’t the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew.”

Howard Dean channelled through a multicultural Chicago political careerist equals the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. Obama is the darling of staff rooms everywhere. It's just the bitter lunch bucket crowd that evades his spell so far. Populism will have to get beyond the gated borders of the Range Rover cadre before Obama gets to take the Oath of Office.

American Climate Hysteria Echos Canadian Content

Kathryn Jean Lopez on Alaska Drilling on National Review Online:

"McCain, Lieberman, Warner and everyone else should take a deep breath and listen to Bjorn Lomborg, author of Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, who says the legislation before Congress “looks set to be a massive subsidy-fest that would achieve very little for the environment, at great cost.” He warns: “Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”

Lomborg says that instead of frenzied regulations and expenditures, “We need the technological solutions that will allow our societies to transition cost-effectively to low-carbon energy by mid-century. McCain could recognize that this is a century-long problem which needs century-long, smart solutions.”

In other words — cool it. Drop the gimmicks. Stop getting freaked out by Al Gore. Let’s be smart and think creatively rather than as a herd of panicked sheep."

Very little distinction exists between the climate conformists on either side of the border. Practical conservation, which any farm family learned and practiced a hundred years ago, is eclipsed by city-slicker solutions that read like plot lines from the old television show, Green Acres. Eva Gabor may have been Al Gore's most influential 'new media' mentor.

Mordecai Richler from 1995: No Apologies

In 1995, Saturday Night had this from Mordecai Richler, the late great iconoclast:

"As I remember the terror bombings of Coventry and London's East End, never mind Hitler's 'final solution', I do not feel obliged, as seems modish these days, to apologize for the firebombing of Dresden."

Javex Nostalgia

Quebec hospital linked to C. difficile deaths cleaner now: officials.

.....The institution east of Montreal now produces a daily report on infection rates, has hired new permanent cleaning staff and juggled its budget to allocate more funds for disinfection procedures,.........

Floridian Illogic

The National Post recounts the popularity of Floridian illogic: The results of prosperity are classified as the basis for prosperity.

"[ Richard] Florida’s work in urban studies, economics, and cultural and technological innovation has captured the attention of millions with his books The Rise of the Creative Class and The Flight of the Creative Class about the integral role of creativity in the growth of cities.
Mr. Florida has said the multicultural nature and gay-friendly attitude of Toronto has and will continue to attract many of the world’s most creative and innovative thinkers to Ontario’s capital and stimulate economic growth. "

Grand Bruit: Horseman, pass by

Grand Bruit, my mother's birthplace, remains one of Newfoundland's most beautiful harbours, but now without a school, come September.

In the cool evenings of August, as the visitors get down to their last few hours spent home in Grand Bruit, the passage of many eras will compound again, as it has so many times before.

My mother was an alumnus of that school. My father taught there.

The metropolian world moves on. 'Equalization' is another profanity that will not brave the winterlude in Grand Bruit.