UNTALENTED ARROGANCE

The defunct Cobourg Daily Star, aka, Northumberland Today, published an editorial entitled Untalented Ignorance, March 25. It was the usual holier-then-thou bland gland excretion that one expects from anti-U.S. bigots, with their parting shot: "Someone might remind them Canada was in both world wars years ahead of the Americans. And, the last time they tried to invade us, we bloodied their noses."

My talented wit with language, as usual, is just too much for the estrogen sisters of Northumberland Today to bear, so my letter was unpublished. Fortunately, the internet & blogosphere provides this end-run to my beloved followers who like spice with their reading, and not just the same old pap dished out at more than a dollar a pop by NT. Herewith is the rejected letter:

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Untalented Arrogance would better describe the editorship of Northumberland Today. Just once, it would be a pleasure to read an editorial that demonstrated some independence and opposed the flow of the Canuckistan zeitgeist.

--Some nasty ole Amuricans hurt my tender feewings.-- Oh grow up, and grow a few layers of skin while you’re at it.

It’s lucky for the late night Doodle Dandy Quartet that our all powerful, corrupt Human Rights Commissions can’t get a hold of them and shake them down for mocking a protected minority’s decrepit defenceless department; after all, us weenie whiners are only one-tenth of them hootin’ hollerin’ hegemonistas south of our border.

Canadian Idol. Canada’s Next Top Model. Who is doing the copy-scatting around here? It would be far better if we emulated and passionately embraced the robust freedoms that USAmericans enjoy, most notably free speech, the FIRST amendment, after which all else follows.

There’s nothing like a wee bit of puerile comedy that 26.5 Canadians actually watched at 3am to bring out the hand-wringing self-righteous tut-tuts of Smugistan.

Someone should remind our holier-than-thou editorialistas that when the First World War broke out, the subjects of the Royal Family in Canada had no choice but to join in. Canada was not a grown-up independent nation. Oh, yes, we were eager beavers to join WW2, not for Canada’s defence, but for the defence of The Empire. As far as the bloodied noses in 1812, the Canadian colony would have been a walkover if it weren’t for the personnel, munitions and skills of the Union Jerk wanting to protect its business interests.