Marginalized Action Dinosaur

Note the left will say that the Indians showed whitey where the trails are. They neglect to point out that in John Tanners case he was stolen first.  Also the suicide and other lifestyle issues are not new.  They go  back to the days that the Indians were trying to give us cancer by teaching us to smoke. Well not me but,…

Well before the 1830’s all that was going on.

So they make it seem like the only problems the Romans had were in Germany and they were somehow solved left out the internal rebellion and the Parthians.  Sounds like the Romans didn’t know they were beaten.

Then there’s Commodus dying in the bathtub instead of in the arena.

The Civil strife sounds like it would have made a good movie too.

The atlas of early Man

Jacquetta Hawkes

1976 Dorling Kindersley ltd London.

page 209

“When I call this typical Serbian masochism, he laughs and then shakes his head.  It was proving embarrassing to be sitting at Harvard commenting on your own country, as if you were a foreigner.”

Virtual War

P147

by LPoC leader Michael Ignatieff

Viking

pub 2000

So when he says that does it mean The US is his country, or Serbia?   Or is any country he’s visited more than twenty four hours his country.  does the libearl meaning of countries mean so little?  Yeesh in the book he claims to have lived in Serbia for a few years when it was part of The godless undemocratic republic of Yugoslavia.

Because throughout his book one thing is clear the soft power of losers is meaningless in the real world where the UN did nothing to stop the genocide or to stop Serbia from taking more countries than any other in Europe.

I could have added a line or two to the quote but that would not have helped the situation.

I like how there are exactly 3 mentions of Canada in the book.  @ if you don’t count the one about Vimy ridge.

Maybe if they had better usage of copper bronze or iron their Campaign to send whitey to death might have worked better.  Just because the schools will often not tell you these things.

What was happening in the Hupacasath historical record in 1541, are we really sure?  Lookout there’s a trail…..

PC lies below,

Come and get me, you fairies

Agreed:

Apparently it’s a “slap in the face of First Nations people” to list off some of the many things the Europeans brought to Canada.

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Judith Sayers, strategic adviser, Hupacasath First Nation and adjunct professor with the faculty of law at the University of Victoria, said the article is ignorant, and a “slap” in the face of First Nations people.

“It’s beyond belief that in 2009 such blatant racism is being allowed to be made public,” said Sayers.

“If the First Nations weren’t there when the white man arrived to give them food and tell them where the trails were, they would not have survived in this country.”

metronews.ca

meanwhile back to reality,

Showing them where the trails are indeed.

Or is it just possible that when the white man showed up there was an actual war going on.   More than half a century later the French tried another permanent settlement.  Many of them were shown trails too.

Who killed the Canadian Military

JL Granatstein

p 197-198

Phyllis Bruce books and HarperFlamingoCanada,

Hard to disagree I have known people in a herc to have to fly up north to bases whose names in the interest of national security, I dare not mention and who have to do it with like an engine out. With the engine out shortly after take off but since theres no one in better shape to go up there, they are told to carry on and like good soldiers er airmen they do. Then Dion’s plane landed in Montreal, but he’s rugged.

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While I was in the Army 9 years, 11 by the time the paperwork let me out I was never in a combat situation. I was taken aback by someone thanking me for putting my life on the line for them which was nice but the only real threat to my life was through alcohol poisoning. I think I was close more than once. Although I did go overseas to Germany and Norway. They never came down the E6 in Norway, eh. I also didn’t become a civilian within a week of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. Someone I know did.

Anyway I don’t have any “real” war stories but I will tell a bit about my Dad who passed away a few years ago. As one of hundreds of thousands of children in London he was evacuated twice during the war he never told me where or I don’t remember where he was shipped off to. They were to the country side though and it must have been a favourable experience as he moved us to a farm. Until we moved to bloody Winnipeg. Any way dad would always tell stories about dodging in and out the bombs on the way to school and when I was younger I thought he was just joking or maybe he saw one but truth is there was probably some time where something did fall from the sky somewhere nearby.

Any way when I was in my late teens I became a Kinks fan and I played Arthur on the stereo, I doubt anyone reading this owns it but there’s this song “MR Churchill says” all about WWII and some of the British personalities. In there they recorded an air raid siren well I played and loud, Dad was in an instant panic looking around wild eyed until he realized it was the stereo. I had turned the volume up to make sure he heard it and now even though I never played it much around him thereafter I kind of felt bad that I had. You wonder the effect the war had on all the children in all the countries in WWII, hell here I am years after he passed away in some way feeling guilty for giving him a second or so of accidental panic.

I’m reading “No time to wave Goodbye” by Ben Wicks, which is a bunch of personal accounts of the children mostly from London who were evacuated and psychologically it’s probably the toughest book I’ve ever read. And I’ve read a lot of books. Like [people say] Stalin said if you have one death you have a tragedy if you have millions you have a statistic. I think it’s true, many times I’ve read accounts of the bombing in that war and none of them drew the response for me of reading peoples individual memories of the events. I do remember my dad saying you would go to all the soldiers and say got some gum chum mostly the Yanks and they would give. Or the collections of shrapnell which got lost somewhere. Or looking up and wondering if it’s one of ours. This was a constant theme in the book where usually boys could tell whose aircraft it was just by the sound.

Any way a lot of the evacuees went on to become famous from quite humble beginnings. Here’s one of the hundreds of accounts from the book,

I remember having tremendous difficulty with my mickey mouse gas mask, ’cause we all had to take a gas mask with us. The evacuation from the school followed a standard procedure for that time. All children going away were medically examined to weed out those kids with colds or whatever. I remember in that era there was a thing called impetigo… you kept catching it off the dirty kids at school.

There were no buses to take us to the station and I remember holding my brothers hand and taking this tremendous long walk, but they did take our little cases to save us carrying them. Cardboard cases they were. No sooner had we set off than the first step I took I stepped in some dog shit. Everyone was trying to figure out where the smell was coming from. So I’m going along and in those days there was a sort of itchy kind of pullover that you wore next to your skin and to this day I would never wear anything like that.

Anyway we marched off and were met by a group of great big WVS women in green uniforms. Everyone was very kind and very nice. I don’t remember the train ride but I do remember being led into a great big village hall and my brother and I being picked out by this wonderful woman who whisked us away in this big car, probably a rolls, to this great mansion with dogs and cats and it was lovely… Mrs Warner was her name…and we were there for 2 weeks my brother and I.

Unfortunately it turned out we were too far from the school so we had to leave the house. I mean I thought boy am I in for a great time here, and they took us away and they took us to another part of the same village. That was Wargrave in Berkshire. They were semi detached houses on the edge of the park. They didn’t look too bad, but they split up my brother and me up because of our age difference and put me with another boy who was six called Clarence. And we were put into this house and I was immediately aware that everything had gone wrong. I mean it was dreadful. The woman was asthmatic and the husband was a policeman and the whole atmosphere was obviously very, very different to what we’d left.

At first everyone was very nice and then the woman that had taken us there left and we sat down to eat. The woman said, ‘Here’s your meal,’ and she gave us a tin of pilchards [sardine's?] between the two of us, and some bread and water. Now we’d been in this rich woman’s house so we said, ‘wheres the butter?’ And we suddenly got a wallop round the head. From then on it started… not the husband he was never there…just her. What we later found out was that the woman hated kids and was doing it for the extra money. so that food was the cheapest meal you could dish up… a tin of pilchards and dry bread.

Clarence and I used to sleep together and poor Clarence used to wet the bed, ’cause he was a nervous kid. She could never tell who done it so she used to bash the daylights out of the both of us. So, of course, the more Clarence got hit the more he wet the bed. It was then we started to get locked in the cupboard.

We wern’t locked in the cupboard all the time, just when she used to go shopping. you see when we came home from school we were a bloody nuisance, she being asthmatic and all, and she had a boy of her own, about the same age as us, who she treated with kid gloves. In fact I think we were there to supply the money to give him the best of all possible worlds. We had no relationship with him at all. The only thing I remember about him was that he had butter on his bread. It struck me later that it was really that lower form of lower class snobbery and unbeknownst to me I was experiencing the British Class system. With the ‘filthy kids’ from London with the ‘funny accents’.

Anyway, as Clarence wet the bed more and more we started to get locked in the cupboard more. Like even when she and the son went to the pictures, in the cupboard we’d go. Then we started getting locked in the cupboard as a punishment. At first when we got let out we’d be shouting and screaming, till we realized that all that did was get us locked back in the Cupboard again.

Meanwhile, my mother, who knew none of this, could not get down to visit because of the travel restrictions. And being on her own – my father was in France in the Army – made it even more difficult. Eventually Clarence and I were covered in sores, but they were on our bodies. Obviously we were let out of the cupboard to go to school and of course we never said anything, but one of the teachers picked up on us and realized that there was something radically wrong and sent us to see the doctor. And of course the woman we were staying with had given us very long socks to hind the sores on our legs. I mean we were covered in them.

At the same time Clarence had a broken arm. This had happened when we were coming out the the cupboard and the woman had hit him with a tennis racket. She told the school that he’d fallen over. You see, you have to remember the confusion of that time. There were hundreds of thousands of evacuees and these children were extra to the system, and unwelcome and looked down on… the nearest I can think of, it would be like trying to evacuate black kids into Alabama white families…

Anyway, they sent us to the doctor and the doctor examined us. The woman tried to answer by saying, “Well you know doctor, these evacuees come with these sores and I’ve not been able to stop them.”

They got my mother by sending her a special pass to get her on the train, and the incredible thing was that my three-year-old brother was staying with the district nurse and when they found him he was in a cupboard He’d been in there for two days. In the same village.

My mother arrived and my mother is tough. She nearly killed this woman before taking us back to London.

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/michael_caine/filmography.html

Those who want to push a nationwide daycare program on the children of Canada would do well to read the book.

The Gimme Gang of the arts community insists time and again that the economy benefits from the taxes handed over to culture and the arts. It’s another lie. For every dollar handed to the arts, a dollar must be taken away from another sector of the economy. We “create” nothing by funding the arts. We only stimulate one part of the economy at the expense of another.

The implication from the Atwood’s and Hepburn’s is that if you don’t believe in publicly funded arts you must be an arts hater. It’s another loony left lie but it plays well in places where people trying to make their way as artists or entertainers feel that your money really belongs to them.

The debate over arts funding is a worthy one and one which this country needs to have. But it ought at least to be based on the truth. If the Star and the Globe can only use lies to back up their arguments, one wonders how strong those arguments really were in the first place.

http://www.cjob.com/blogs/Nighthawk/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10009303

If people love the arts so much they would pay for them, I went to see Passchendaele twice so far, ok once I got a free ticket.

Those guys in the mall who make the paintings everyone buys don’t get ‘arts’ money. Nor do doctors.  I’d rather big government got taxes for doctors and left the “Arts Snobbery councils”[from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy]  to the private sector.

This is a Movie Review of Passchendale, by Paul gross where he directs, is the main actor and made everyone lunches. I’ll try to not give too much of the plot away. The opening scene is one that was told to him by his granddad I’ll give a hint, it involves a bayonet. It was also kind of funny because he was there for the premier and so were all the media hounds so to speak and while you are in the theatre with signs on the walls warning about Jail time if you have a camera I think I was the only person in the audience without one. I’d like to thank Pendragon Games and hobbies who shilled out for my ticket.

I don’t remember all the sponsors but there was Can West, the Winnipeg Free Press, and the Dominion Institute. Among many others.

My favorite comment by Paul was that Canada was a nation forged in combat. This opposes the liberal vision of Canada where they think the only thing that makes us Canadian is that unlike the rest of the world we have hospitals. It also shows why it’s important when children are growing up that they be properly indoctrinated into hockey fights.

This is what set the movie off and inspired him to start it 13 years ago though the writing started 7 yrs ago. It’s a section of the regimental history of the 10th Bn CEF by Daniel Dancocks. It’s cool when he says the plot comes from an obscure book that I also own.

He got a real long standing ovation at the end which I liked, I guess most of us were happy with the movie.

The Movie

This has an awesome hand to hand scene it is portrayed realistically enough for me. And kicks ass, Stallone and Schwarzenegger could take some notes. not only does it have an awesome fight scene it also has more mud than probably any movie ever made. My one disappointment is that one of the soldiers in Passchendale the battle vs the movie fell off one of the duckboards and his horse he was leading pulled him out of the mud by his webbing to save his life.
The movie picked on brits which is funny because until quite late in the war, most of the so called Canadians spoke with a British accent.

There were no Arty emplacements made of concrete, and they had to make them because they artillery would dissapear into the mud otherwise. And the lewis guns the ones with the magazine on top didn’t jam enough. Plus I loved the bit about Canadians being called storm troopers. This was what the Germans called their elites “Stosstrupen” in the march 1918 offensives that came close but no Monica Lewinsky.
It also contained some romantic twists which unlike most of the movies I’ve seen of late DO NOT involve homosexuals. Did I say it was a romance? Too many minutes devoted to it in my thinking but, I always think that.  Yet if you want to go for popcorn and to the bathroom the best time to do it is when they are back in Calgary.

One of the interesting paradoxes is that after you see a fairly down movie they run live footage from WWI and the people in the film Huns and Canucks all seem happier than in the movie, I brought this up with the trouble maker I was with and he came up with a good rationalization.

It was pointed out that there was a distinct lack of gas masks during the fighting, I’d add to that there was no one carrying sacks of mills bombs around like so many stories tell.

I should also point out much of the humour was bang on unlike H2G2 where they missed some of the punch lines. I hope the general audiences get them when it goes to general release, we were after all a crowd filled to the brim with actual soldiers and ex military farts like me.

They brought up in the movie how it wasn’t yet possible to lock up germans which again is curious because they did lock up Ukranians and there is yet to be a cheque to apologize.

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After the movie the 2 main actors stayed and did a question and answer session for about 45 minutes. these are kind of random and less coherent than the above.

He pointed out that this isn’t just a movie it comes with an entire educational package which is kind of cool.

As I said the opening scene was one based on his conversation with his granddad. One of the things his granddad said was that his war was essentially 30 guys on either side of him, thus there are no divisions in close order march slogging up the ridge.

One of the stats he pointed out was that 1 out of 10 Canadians served overseas. 1/10 of them died and 1/2 of them were injured. It never hit home with me how devastating that was until i was in the museum in Wawanesa where they have the list of all who served in the wars well in WWI every single soldier who signed up was either killed or wounded theres a lot of little towns that were similar.
One of the themes of the movies is a crucifixion of a Toronto seargeant in 1915 where he was cruicified to a barn door near was it Kitcheners wood with bayonets. Paul Gross thinks it’s malarky, that it could have just been artillery or something and goes to great pains to work that into the movie. I’m not so sure. He goes on to say they were just soldiers but I can see “just soldiers” doing that. Hell you have people in Winnipeg locking people in sheds and setting them on fire whats the big deal. This also leads to some cross symbology that might get him in trouble with HRC’s.
Paul Acknowledged that if you get anything wrong in a military movie you will get a pile of mail. I think he used the example of someone wearing a medal on the wrong side. His son was also in the movie though he didn’t say much I think he’s the youngest actor there and he’s on the hun’s side. The film was also filmed on what was the sarcee base near Calgary, which is ironic because when it was a base it was undoubtedly where many of the men in WWI would have trained given the 10th was the Calgary regiment.

The film was done in mud, well some of the 21 million that the movie cost, one of the things they did to save money was to use fewer digital effects so theres someone who seems healthy and loses a limb well they wanted to use digital graphics to render it invisible but went for a smoke bomb instead which Paul called a grade 3 magic trick. The arty does some brutal things to people in the movie.

One of the women asked how do you do the blood: Food colouring mixed with syrop then a small electric charge [a squib] there’s a leather pad under the squib so it doesn’t hurt you.
He was also very frank about what the soldiers went through he said they all thought it was tough to go through it. They would apparently work the set for 12 hours a day but to stay there for weeks like the soldiers did he doubted he could cope with. So he’s not a braggart.

More details here

Passchendale, the movie, Canadian Expeditionary Force at war!

Now go see the movie!

[update]

I saw it with civies last night and one of the things I noticed was that there was no one leaving while the credits were rolling as long as they showed old footage.  Which never happens.

Also one of the big issues this election was that we should give more money to the arts well one of my friends ‘R’ rattled off was it 6-8 war movies about Australians and  about Canadians 1 this is it.  Next time arts groups want money ask them why they refuse to make Canadian war movies.  Canadian Taxpayers have funded movies about black American lesbians.  I guess thats more important, to the arts snobbery councils.

The MSM whose share value has plummeted by 50% this year also has a review. I think they don’t like it because there are too many whites males.

This MSM doesn’t like the religious imagery.  I think the CHRC should be sent after them to spend a year finding out why they hate Christians so much no matter how many dollars the defendants have to put up.

One of the thing’s I’ve often been perplexed by is the Canadian need for immigration, it’s like no one ever read a book to see if population increases or decreases in the past were good for “we the people”. If you think it’s a good thing that it may cost a million bucks for a house in Toronto that doesn’t even have a parking spot while the average wage in Canada is 31k/yr [marginally higher than that in Toronto,] read no further.

This has nothing to do with immigration even though it has everything to do with immigration, so if you want to bash immigrants this isn’t the place well unless you count the Irish, is Riel about? But if a population increase hurts the peasantry is it something a democracy should aim for?

I picked Britain because the book is well detailed as many UK records are on file going back to the doomsday book 1000 yrs ago. There’s also a continuity, oh and it’s a book I happen to own, I bought it in Windsor castle.

I go through ups and downs of the population and how when pop bursts up times are tight and when it goes down times are good. Well the encyclopedia does I just quote. Now if a bursting population is bad why do we want it you may ask? When I was born in the 60’s our population was well under 20 million.

I went through the Oxford history of Britain from the black plague until kind of close to the present. One of the untold stories about the plague is that after it when the population dropped,

Note back 500+ years ago they were paying women more than men because of a scarcity of labour! Feminists should want to stop all immigration tomorrow. Do the rich know this? I think they do. Immigraton might not be good for we the people but it is good for they the champagne clinkers. And like Paul Martins upcomming book book sez

The Liberal Party had always relied on large corporate donations, while the Conservative Party drew more of its funds from a vast database of small donors.

Now who wants immigration the party of the rich, sweet. You may accept the pat on the head and accept that a bursting population is good but is it really? Would you rather live in a stone house or one made of straw like they want?

Course those entitled to their entitlements want an ever growing tax base for themselves.

But why would we want to be better off if immigration creates wealth why is Toronto 7 % unemployed? Canada 6.1% Winnipeg 4.2.

Imagine the King being worried the servants wanted excessive wages. Imagine how happy it made the servants. Now imagine immigration for the express purpose of ruining it for the peasants but you hate them right? Well someone hates the peasants.

Rising population inflation and unemployment, imagine all that at the same time. Kind of the opposite of when the pop is falling and they have deflation and can pick and choose employment. But it’s a good opposite ask anyone who supports immigration.

Real wages dropped by 57% woo hoo, more airplanes with newcommers needed. Vote Dion!!!

Population increased living standards dropped, population declined and the opposite. Thats not what the CBC says.

Growing population and underemployment do you see a trend? Luckily I do not.

Thus a growing population blah blah blah. I like how in Aldenham and Hertfordshire, they needed welfare for some reason I’m wondering if a family has on welfare for hundreds of years.

Static pop low food prices vs rapid population growth and I’m wondering will anyone read this? No wait Rapid population growth and low wages. Well it’s a good thing if you are a rich liberal and Paul; martin admits in his book its the real rich who support the liberals.

Wealth, then the Irish showed up, say no more, must have been something to do with the beer.

I’m done now. You get the point, or you don’t think in a so called democracy that I’m allowed charter right 2 which Steacy admits is an American concept. That’s why George Washington put it in Trudeau’s Charter of rights.

Any way if you were wondering why we have immigration well,… the people who want to pay lower wages and collect higher rents have an answer.

We don’t need immigration people try to guilt you into it. But we really don’t, in fact it’s bad for “we the people”, the people all our leaders claim to be in touch with. So in touch they’ve never bothered to track in the past whether population increases were good or bad! They just say it’s good and assume we will not know.  In a democracy you are not supposed to have blood on the street to stop these things, Jack Layton claims to care for the little guy but he really doesn’t. Do you Jack?

Now a few decades ago when the economy had stagflation this surprised economists, [so my texts said] well I contend inflation is in part based on how many people you have if you double the population you need more food, shoes etc. Thus it need not be part of an over heating economy.  Just one where the demand side
Also to add a Canadian angle when we had the highest population of immigrants was just before the great depression started in 1929.

Cheers,

M.A.D.

Mr. Martin added that he still cannot understand why Mr. Chrétien decided to prohibit donations of more than $5,000 to political parties. The Liberal Party had always relied on large corporate donations, while the Conservative Party drew more of its funds from a vast database of small donors.
“The law’s debilitating effects on the [Liberal] Party were gradual; they were only fully felt after I was replaced by Mr. Dion. He is the one, to my regret, who suffered most from a law that was intended to harm me,” Mr. Martin said.

I knew that it would hurt them, the day it was announced all the liberal bobbing heads who now want more money should be happy. And if the masses don’t support them maybe it has something to do with their far left policies, I wonder if he mentions homosexual marriages in the book.  Poor babies the ultra rich they rely on are not to be had, ha, ha, ha, ha…

Mr. Martin also does not mince words when it comes to former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli, saying the announcement of a criminal probe into the matter of income trusts was the key moment of the 2005-2006 campaign.
“The only question is whether his action can be explained by ineptness or whether it was a premeditated malicious act. In my view, no one can be that inept,” said Mr. Martin.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081006.welectionmartin07/BNStory/politics/home?cid=al_gam_mostview
Kicked Arse speaks out, calls the book release in essence a malicious act no one can be that inept.   Heh,

Yep. Uh-huh. Notwithstanding the fact that Paul Martin didn’t even bother to show up to oppose those election finance changes, on June 11, 2003 – notwithstanding the fact that he was the one who cooked up the get-Chretien Gomery Pyle Circus, thereby tanking the Liberal Party in the polls; notwithstanding the fact Chretien repeatedly offered to stick around to take the heat on sponsorship, as per sworn testimony of Martin’s own Clerk of the Privy Council, on February 29, 2004

http://warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry081006-090401
sorry I had to throw this in somewhere I’ve had it kicking around for a while before the election and it’s almost over.  In his book he says he likes Pinocchio noses.  Here at M.A.D. we even do what our enemies want, just to help out.

And within hours of the election being over he was on his way back east. He also denigrates Randy White because he’s an immigrant but it’s not racist because he’s white. And any endophobic bigot will tell you thats ok. Tolerance is not an option.

Page 11 of kicked Arse

by most beloved Warren Kinsella.  I stole this book off the tax funded diversity transprogressive enriching taxeaters of Winnipeg.

what they mean  is they are as curious as hell but if it makes their friends look bad they will say nothing hence when they get hundreds of replies they are silent.  thery deserves the blogs eating away at their audience  like tooth decay.

Why don’t we know who paid for trudeau’s pool? YET!!!  I bet if Mulrooney had one just show up Krista Erickson would have been all over it like a married guy at the CBC.

Why did they have to wait for foreign papers to cover it?  Why would bored journalists wabnt to grab copies of something they are bored with.  And every time the left are caught they get bored quick I think the CBC has one post on Paul Martins 161 million tax dollars, I bet Mulrooney would have loved to have faced the same amount of scrutiny. If only he could have been so bored.

Canadian Newspapers the inside story

Hurtig,

P 201

Roy MacGregor

I’m bored of anything that looks bad….

If I had a nickle for every time someone said that.