- (Note - Heh...Mr. Stockland lists, verbatim, a number
of our Headline stories in his commentary below. Too bad he doesn't have
the professional ethics to give proper site attribution, let alone to apparently
bother to read...and attempt to objectively evaluate...the extraordinary
material in the articles he lists. His mind is made up...don't bother
him with the facts! He notes: "Out of Body, Not Out of Mind"
as "(my particular favourite)" Well, Mr. Stockland, that 'particular
favorite' of yours comes from that trashy tabloid institution known as
BBC News...)
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- No one knows for sure where former Alberta New Democrat
leader Pam Barrett went on that recent out-of-body experience in her dentist's
office.
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- Wherever it was, she blazed a trail through cyberspace.
A report of Barrett's experience has been posted on a Web site with the
headline "Leading Canadian Politician Resigns after NDE (Near Death
Experience) In Dentist's Office."
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- Quibblers might point out that, as leader of a two-socialist
caucus in the Alberta legislature, Barrett was hardly a "leading Canadian"
anything. But such stickling for accuracy is made moot by other links sharing
the Web page with Barrett's tale.
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- Stories available to curious browsers include (I'm not
making these up):
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- - "How Microwaves Can Beam Voices Directly Into
the Brain"
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- - "UFO Shoots Beam at Four Boys"
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- - "Multi-Witness UFO Sighting Over Hollywood"
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- - "Is the Bank of England Hiding Billions in Cuban
Gold?"
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- - "MSG -- The Deadly Mouth Aphrodisiac"
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- - "Alien Invaders are Stealing Our Brains"
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- - "Out of Body, Not Out of Mind" (my particular
favourite)
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- Figuring prominently in such tabloid wackiness is probably
not quite the way Barrett imagined her political career would end. But,
what the heck, it gave her 15 minutes of cyberfame. It beats a trip to
the dentist. Well, most trips to the dentist, anyway.
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- If Barrett had managed an astral travelling side-trip
into the Crystal Ballroom at the Palliser Hotel on Friday, she might have
considered another come-back. She would have heard Premier Klein praising
her to the skies during a fund-raising luncheon for Calgary Currie MLA
Jocelyn Burgener.
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- "I didn't agree with anything Pam said, but she
was always honest," Klein effused for several hundred members of the
city's Tory power crowd.
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- The premier added he always knew where he stood with
Barrett. This made her much more enjoyable as an opponent than Liberal
leader Nancy MacBeth who, he noted, comes with her own evil "twin
sister" named Nancy Betkowski.
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- "You have Nancy MacBeth here and Nancy Betkowski
over here. She says one thing as Nancy MacBeth and another as Nancy Betkowski,"
Klein said acidly, referring to his former Tory colleagues' celebrated
changes of party and name.
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- At least when Barrett returned from her out-of-body experience,
she didn't bring back a clone.
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- (snip)
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- Only people who look dull ever get into the House of
Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there. - Oscar Wilde
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- Dictators always look good until the last minutes. -Thomas
Masarykhe
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