Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be the best conservative in North America, especially considering the RINO status of most US Republican candidates running for president this election cycle.
Harper won conservative cred this week by proving he’s not star-struck by celebrities and is more concerned with the real work of governing his country. Proving he’d rather by his concert tickets online rather than in person from a band leader, Harper spoke out this week saying that “meeting with Bono,” the frontman of Irish rock band U2 turned political activist on worldwide poverty, was “not a priority” for his administration.
“I’ve got to say that meeting celebrities isn’t kind of my shtick, that was the shtick of the previous guy,” Harper told the Reuters News Service in a dig at his Liberal predecessor Paul Martin, who met Bono regularly. “I hope we do it at some point but my principle focus in public policies is not kind of to meet celebrities.”
Too bad this guy already has the top job in Canada, as I fear we need his type here in the US; he’d be a fine model for US Republicans to follow. Harper was kind enough to say he likes U2’s music.
Paris Hilton was released from jail after serving only three full days in Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles. The star of E! channel’s The Simple Life apparently conned guards into becoming concerned over her mental health and well-being by refusing to eat and crying herself to sleep every night. Some guards and medics fretted over whether she would give into a total nervous breakdown or even become a suicide risk.
Dollars to donuts, Mr. and Mrs. Hilton witnesses similar behavior by Paris, now 26, about 10-15 years ago, when attempting to ground her to her room. Yet because she is viewed as a young, wealthy, white socialite, her temper tantrum theatrics secured her early release to “house arrest” for the balance of her 23-sentence, reduced from an original 45-day sentence.
Meanwhile, her Samsonite luggage hasn’t even grown cold in the lockup’s personal affects locker and the big scandal is the question of whether someone old, poor, and non-white would have received such sympathetic treatment.
Here’s a hint: NO!
Does anyone with half a brain (which still puts them well ahead of Ms. Hilton) think Paris was suicidal? Unlikely. And at least the judge and prosecutor aren’t buying it: she’s been ordered back to court on Friday (today) for a review of her release, and may even be sent back to jail.
I’d recommend not letting her have dessert with her meals, either; a tactic which, if employed by Mr. and Mrs. Hilton some years ago, might have steered Paris clear of such narcissistic behavior.
Another shining example of Hollywood Idiocy.
