UTTERLY AND TOTALLY OF NO INTEREST would be how I would describe the former Dominion of Canada, now a semi-independent state and lulled into a sort of blissful ignorance of all things that have to do with the modern world since sometime around when the USA became independent from King George. I am told that American teachers of quantum physics use reference to Canada in order to explain multiple realities to their students, particularly the reality in which “everything looks like our own reality, but somehow something isn’t quite right.”
INDEED, I WAS CONVINCED that, after Captain James T. Kirk, Pamela Anderson and The Cowboy Junkies had escaped, nothing good was left in the great, white land. But, just as was true with Iowa, I was sorely mistaken. And on a grander scale. I had reckoned without the fact that the spirit of the Mounties lives on in Canada.
A COUNTRY WHICH HAS NEVER SAID ‘BOO’ to a goose, of which it apparently has many, came out, on the 20th of March, with the most extraordinary comment of recent times in international political give and take, involving “our very own” handsome George Galloway, leader of the Respect Party, Middle East envoy from Bethnal Green and hard-working, popular, maverick Member of Parliament since 1987.
SOMETIME TV CELEBRITY GALLOWAY, famous for telling Saddam Hussein, “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability”, recently led a convoy of peace- and friendship-loving, like-minded individuals to Palestine, but was interrupted en route by vicious Egyptians who found some fault in George’s purposes, attacking the convoy in El-Arish, pelting sun-tanned George and his friends with stones, and worse. I quote from the convoy’s organiser: "Vandals wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans. Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack."
“GORGEOUS” GEORGE GALLOWAY may not have been deeply upset by the “dirty words” cast upon him and his entourage by people he no doubt deems infidels, but those spoken by the otherwise taciturn Canadian immigration ministry must surely cut like a scimitar into his leather jacket-clad breast. Describing him as an “infandous street-corner Cromwell” and refusing him entry into the country must hurt much more than being dragged up before the US House of Representatives to answer charges for corruption.
INDEED, I WAS CONVINCED that, after Captain James T. Kirk, Pamela Anderson and The Cowboy Junkies had escaped, nothing good was left in the great, white land. But, just as was true with Iowa, I was sorely mistaken. And on a grander scale. I had reckoned without the fact that the spirit of the Mounties lives on in Canada.
A COUNTRY WHICH HAS NEVER SAID ‘BOO’ to a goose, of which it apparently has many, came out, on the 20th of March, with the most extraordinary comment of recent times in international political give and take, involving “our very own” handsome George Galloway, leader of the Respect Party, Middle East envoy from Bethnal Green and hard-working, popular, maverick Member of Parliament since 1987.
SOMETIME TV CELEBRITY GALLOWAY, famous for telling Saddam Hussein, “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability”, recently led a convoy of peace- and friendship-loving, like-minded individuals to Palestine, but was interrupted en route by vicious Egyptians who found some fault in George’s purposes, attacking the convoy in El-Arish, pelting sun-tanned George and his friends with stones, and worse. I quote from the convoy’s organiser: "Vandals wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans. Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack."
“GORGEOUS” GEORGE GALLOWAY may not have been deeply upset by the “dirty words” cast upon him and his entourage by people he no doubt deems infidels, but those spoken by the otherwise taciturn Canadian immigration ministry must surely cut like a scimitar into his leather jacket-clad breast. Describing him as an “infandous street-corner Cromwell” and refusing him entry into the country must hurt much more than being dragged up before the US House of Representatives to answer charges for corruption.
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