Conrad Black Blues

Subject: Conrad Black Blues
From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 10:14 PM

There gotta be a song here.
Shackles& Chains, I Got Stripes, or maybe Bye Bye Blackbird.

Subject: RE: Conrad Black Blues
From: bobad
Date: 10 Dec 07 - 10:26 PM

Now known as Con Black.

Subject: RE: Conrad Black Blues
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 01:06 AM

There are some interesting comments in this Candian Press article which would fit well in a song, imo. Some examples:

Canadian Auto Workers economist Jim Stanford saw "so much poetic irony and justice in this that I'm sure anyone with a left-wing bone in their body has got to be celebrating."

Stanford took satisfaction from the comeuppance for Black, who renounced Canadian citizenship to become a British lord and consistently deplored what he saw as Canada's socialist softness.

"Politically, to see someone who did so much to undermine the sense of collective good in our country, to see him go to an American jail for several years in the country whose socioeconomic model he worshipped, is just so fitting I can't find words for it."

I'll bet Mudcatters can, though!

Subject: RE: Conrad Black Blues
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 06:47 AM

Fats Waller's "Black and Blue"


RtS

Subject: RE: Conrad Black Blues
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 07:09 AM

I'd try and post a little ditty on the lines of a new con Con, but I'm too busy laughing my ass of at the story!!

So, in about 6 years time, will he be Ex-con Con (or 4 1/2 with good behaviour)?

LTS

Subject: RE: Conrad Black Blues
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 10:51 AM

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071211.wblack11prison/BNStory/ConradBlack

Subject: RE: Conrad Black Blues
From: Doc John
Date: 11 Dec 07 - 05:04 PM

We need a sort of framework of a song here - insert Conrad Black, Jeffrey Archer, Tony Blair (eventually) as required.
Doc John