Month: August 2022

If you haven’t read the latest screeds in the National Post by Rex Evil Eye Murphy and Lord Black of Swillharbour, don’t bother!

“Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities. It can be shocking, or ugly, or, to use the catch-all term so beloved of the tabloid press, controversial. And if we believe in liberty, if we want the air we breathe to remain plentiful and breathable, this is the art whose right to exist we must not only defend, but celebrate. Art is not entertainment. At its very best, it’s a revolution.” —Salman Rushdie, “On Censorship” 

Famed author Salman Rushdie, who has endured death threats from extremists for decades, was stabbed Friday before a scheduled lecture in western New York, according to state police.

A man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution, about 70 miles south of Buffalo, at about 11 a.m. Friday August 12/22 and attacked the 75-year-old Rushdie and an interviewer.

Mr. Rushdie was taken by helicopter to a local hospital, the state police said in a statement. His condition is not yet known. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an email Friday afternoon that Mr. Rushdie was undergoing surgery.

Skippy all suited up for a battle that reportedly is already won!

Court Painter seen breaking the news to Conservative Leadership Candidate & Freedumb Fighter Pierre Skippy Poilievre.

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home Raided by the FBI

“Taken together, this is one of the most significant, sensitive, and politically explosive actions the US Justice Department and FBI has ever taken — one of a tiny handful of times it’s ever investigated a president. Bottom line: The FBI & DOJ must’ve known they had the goods.”,tweeted journalist and historian Garrett Graff.

Trump supporters gather in front of Mar a Lago

Court Painter captures the moment!

The reason the gulls ride the thermals and circle overhead is so they can conserve energy while they watch and wait.

Former President Donald Trump gull spotting!

Court Painter seen with his portrait of US Attorney General Garland who is rumoured to be on the verge of rocking the gull spotters world big time!

Court Painter cannot be held responsible for rumours however remains hopeful the watching and waiting is about to end.

Excerpted from August 2 Atlantic article

Where Do the Democrats Find These Guys? A personal history of electoral losses By  Caitlin Flanagan

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taiwan Tuesday despite threats from the Chinese government that there would be “serious consequences” for the visit.

Pelosi’s gesture will go down in history as the Pelosi Poke

Prime Minister Trudeau is routinely offered portraits of himself as gifts: Analysis

By The Canadian Press  Aug 1 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been offered the gift of his own likeness some 17 times since becoming prime minister, including once by the president of China.

It is rumoured that Court Painter’s attempted gifting of numerous Prime Minister Trudeau portraits has been turned down because of their immense financial worth, storage & framing issues however reportedly not for reasons of aesthetics and cultural relevance.

The portraits, along with a myriad of vases and wine bottles and Star Wars paraphernalia, are among the more than 400 gifts — each worth more than $200 — that Trudeau has declared to the federal ethics commissioner since late 2015.

An analysis of the listings shows more than 140 gifts were offered to his spouse, Sophie, or to their kids, while 110 came from other countries’ heads of state or governments. 

Of those national leaders, the King of Jordan has been the most generous, presenting 10 gifts to Trudeau ranging from a handmade leather saddle to “sculptural plant vessels” to jars of honey.

The PM has had to forfeit 20 items, including three paintings of himself, because they were worth more than $1,000, but he has reimbursed part of the costs of two gifts — a Chinese e-bike and an Inuit etching — so he can keep them.

A former chief of protocol says the gift-giving is a normal, highly orchestrated bureaucratic affair and that Canadian prime ministers would just as soon not receive any gifts because of the potential for negative attention.

Attached is a selection of Court Painter’s portrait renderings of Prime Minister J Trudeau who reportedly is dearly loved in the western provinces and …well…just about everywhere in the Great Dominion.( this is a guess)