Events of international neverhappeneditude
We will also be preparing to welcome visitors here for events of international significance in the next two years: in 2009, the 100th anniversary of the historic voyage to the North Pole of Captain Bob Bartlett of Brigus...Pop quiz: on what date in 1909, exactly, did Bob Bartlett reach the North Pole?
Bob Bartlett.
North Pole.
When?
posted by WJM @ 2:58 PM
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Speaking of fiction dressing up as fact, I like this line:
"As a result of our collective efforts to wrestle down the deficit, to ratchet up growth and to reach an agreement that fulfilled the promise of the Atlantic Accord, we are – for the first time in our history – poised to come off equalization very soon."
It has a distinct whiff of bulls**t, since our current surplus is being driven almost entirely by resource revenues, from deals made by previous governments.
Geoff. Surely you misunderstand.
These are our golden years. The fact that these revenue streams are entirely as predicted in the Great Royal Commission Report, such predictions are to be dismissed. They are heresy. Why just today, Danny raised the price of oil to $108/barrel. It's him. Not us. Not the resources, and certainly not anything done before his arrival that could possibly be the root of anything good.
As for Bob Bartlett, Wally, you, too, are confused:
Bob Bartlett never made it to the North Pole. But that was then, this is now. We are Proud. Strong. Determined. And that pride strength and determination is on a go-forward and a go-backward basis. Bob Bartlett's failure was part of the old history of newfoundland. That history, like giveaways, and hedonistic liberalism, that's all erased now. Bob Bartlett has now reached the pole. I'm sure there's a pink white and green piece of fabric there to prove it, too.
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