Trashy's World

Fine. Maybe it’s damn cute to see Obama’s daughter sneaking up on Dad in the Oval Office. But are we sure it’s her? Isn’t this the type of thing that bin Laden would try? Disguise an operative as his kid and then sneak up on him unaware that Sasha was really Mohammed el Mohammed – crack assassin for the Taliban.

Look at the pic on the right? Is that JFK Jr.? Or was it a KGB spy doing some advance work before that fateful car ride in Dallas?

Yet ANOTHER case where it seems like the Presidential security detail afforded to Democrat Presidents is a little less vigilant when compared to GOP Presidents.

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In today’s G&M, Lawrence Martin is exploring a topic that is along the same lines as one that I discussed in a posting a little while ago. Ignatieff and the Grits have been presented with a perfect opportunity to latch on to an issue that can define them from the ReformCons -  the American portrayal of our health care system.

It would be a natural fit for Iggy to defend Obama’s proposed program and universal health care in general. Both men are liberal,  well-spoken members of the educated class.  One would think that Obama’s team would welcome such an ally.

As Mr. Martin says:

These are rocky times on the bilateral front. Trade volumes are declining, border fences have gone up. Financial tumult has walloped America and its paramountcy is challenged, at least to some degree, by Asia’s rise. This country can’t ride its coattails as it used to.

These are big challenges for big thinkers. We expected Mr. Ignatieff to respond by unhesitatingly seeking a close alliance with a liberal President whose popularity in Canada is enormous. Mr. Obama is a busy man but surely, given his contacts, Mr. Ignatieff could have received entry to the Oval Office by now, as opposition leaders before him have done.

It is not too late to hitch his wagon to this train; but Iggy and the Libs should not wait very long into the fall sitting.

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Every now and then – just for comic relief – I go to America’s top source of spin to see what those little minds are spooning out these days.

Came across this story this morning which has me once again wondering why there are a gazillion otherwise sane folks out there who put their heart, mind and faith in the Catholic Church.

The home of the Fighting Irish is granting President Obama an honourary degree and will have him address the graduates. Being a Catholic university, the church is completely apoplectic about these going ons.

‘The proposed granting of an honorary doctorate at Notre Dame University to our president, who is so aggressively advancing an anti-life and anti-family agenda, is rightly the source of the greatest scandal,” said Archbishop Raymond Burke, who is the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, the Vatican’s highest court.

In a move that somehow resembles sanity, the University is sticking with their plans.

After initial criticism of the invitation, Notre Dame University President Rev. John I. Jenkins called Obama an “inspiring leader” who follows in a long tradition of presidential guest speakers. He added that the invitation does not mean universal support for Obama administration policies.

And here I thought that the church was all about love, tolerance, respect for everyone – and all that mushy stuff.  I guess it doesn’t extend to a black President who just happens to be left of Attila the Hun on the social democratic side of things. He’s even a christian! And from what I read, a pretty steadfast one at that!

Whether or not you support the freedom of a woman to choose or not, ranting on against the choice of a University offering a sitting President an Honourary Degree is not the way to convince others that your view of the world is the right one.

Universities have traditionally been the vanguard of free expression  – whether the school is secular or not. This is a symbolic act that is an expression of the institution’s admiration of a groundbreaking President. This venomous and rabid rant is doing nothing but further exposing the Middle Ages mentality of the vatican.

He blamed loose morals for legislation that would allow same-sex marriages and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, which states have implemented to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

“At the root of the confusion and error about marriage is the contraceptive mentality which would have us believe that the inherently procreative nature of the conjugal union can in practice be mechanically or chemically eliminated while the marital act remains unitive. It simply cannot be sold,” Burke said.

“Loose morals”?  “Contraceptive mentality”? Does this guy know how ridiculaous he sounds?

I don’t know about you, but the vatican could use a visit by some Mexican pigs!

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