Today’s list of ridiculousness…
1-Lincoln would have ordered Mario Dumount shot!
The young leader of the ADQ party in Quebec, tired of the PQ’s neverending referrendum strategy, has come up with a new solution to give Quebec pseudo-independence. The Action d�mocratique du Qu�bec wants the province to become an autonomous state within Canada with its own constitution and sole power to collect taxes.
Pause for hollow laughter.
Mr. Dumont said Quebec would also not be reluctant to act unilaterally, such as in giving Hydro-Qu�bec the green light to proceed with projects that haven’t been approved federally.
Hmm…always nice to advocate illegality as government policy. I’ll try not to say sedition too loudly…
And here’s the proposal that makes my eyes bug out: according to the ADQ, a Quebec constitution would comprise the provincial Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Charter of the French Language and a section about citizens’ responsibilities.
My first response? Anything with the words “citizens’ repsonsibilities” chills my blood in a fascist sort of way.
My second response? Didn’t they try this in France about 200 years ago? As I recall, that all turned out rather well…
We could just arrest him and shoot him for treason, but that would be a waste of a good bullet.
2-Walt Disney is dead AND red!
You don’t believe me? Here’s an excerpt from The Globe and Mail:
Forty-five years ago, during the Maoist era, Chinese people were ordered to kill rats as part of a hygiene campaign.This week, Walt Disney Co. announced it had entered into a partnership with China’s Communist Youth League to promote Mi Laoshu, or Mickey Mouse, whose Chinese name means rat as well as mouse.
The California-based entertainment giant is organizing “outreach programs” through the Youth Palaces run by the Communist Youth League to teach Chinese children about the travails of Daffy Duck and Goofy, how to draw Mickey, and the many other delights of North American consumerism.
I could add some commentary to this…but what would be the point? Could it possibly be more ridiculous? Disney is already a brainwashing-marketing machine in the United States, but it seems to be falling by the wayside these days…probably due to the fact that Wal-Mart is now the much more successful brainwashing-marketing machine.
Luckily, China — being hungry for new ways of indoctrination and profit-making — has opened the door for a Disney renaissance. Now everyone is happy, and instead of those giant placards of Mao, smiling benevolently down on everyone (in a creepy, old man sort of way), giant placards of Mickey, Donald and Goofy will shine from the sides of new office towers as the world comes to visit Beijing for the 2008 Olympics.
It’ll be just like a Florida vacation.
