Archive for June 21st, 2012

This land is our land!

- June 21st, 2012

Ted Turner is crazy.

I just wanted to get that on the record.

Turner is crazy, loco, off his rocker.

Now given the industry that I work in, I work for an all-news television network, I kinda owe a debt of gratitude to Turner.

This man changed the face of television news forever when he launched CNN. So due to that, I kinda owe Turner for the job I have now.

But between launching CNN and today – he lost his mind. It could have something to do with marrying Jane Fonda, but I can’t be certain.

Turner has long been an environmental zealot and has said some outrageous things in the past that have proven he’s lost it. Read more…

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VIDEO: Glenn Beck – The Gods of the Copybook Headings

- June 21st, 2012

One of the more powerful moments in Glenn Beck’s speech last week in Toronto was his passionate reading of Rudyard Kipling’s poem, The Gods of the Copybook Headings. Give it a listen, ponder the words and what they mean for us today and share this with your friends.

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COLUMN: Fatah – Send Bob Rae to head the United Nations to bring it back to its ideals.

- June 21st, 2012

 

 

Bob Rae for UN Secretary General

By Tarek Fatah

Nearly every morning we wake up to the dreadful news coming from Syria. Dead bodies of children, throats slit, mass graves and a sectarian inter-Islamic fight that is a repeat of medieval monstrosities Damascus has witnessed since the 8th century. Thousands have died in this 21st century slaughter by a bloodthirsty regime and its pretty-boy dictator, yet we sit — unable to do anything. Read more…

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COULMN: Kinsella – In politics, authenticity isn’t just something. It’s everything.

- June 21st, 2012

Clark fails to fake authenticity

by Warren Kinsella

INLAW, B.C. — Here in British Columbia’s Slocan Valley, a 10-hour drive east of Vancouver, a useful lesson in political authenticity.

At Sissies diner on the main drag — where dusty pickups fill the lot, the Doors and Bob Seger are playing inside and the food is pretty amazing — nobody seems to be fretting about the ultimate fate of B.C. Liberal Premier Christy Clark. Read more…

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