73 Replies to “Lorne Calvert: Give Me 4 Beers”

  9. What no POPCORN?
    I highly recommend beer brewed according to the Bavarian Purity Law.
    I believe the drinking age for beer in Germany is 16. In the company of parent or guardian this lowered to 14.
    For hard liquor the age is 18.
    I think Lorne is becoming a Bavarian. When will he don his lederhosen? Well “Oktoberfest” is coming soon.
    But no beer hall Putsches okay?
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  11. Maybe they are gonna serve the kiddies beer in a gay friendly atmosphere so’s they can express their sexuality while gettin’ drunk. Let them cross-dress as well.
    Hey it’s the NDP. The party of inclusiveness. No pervert left behind.

  15. “We believe that beer, music, and good conversation are an important step in building Saskatchewan”
    I can’t stop laughing!
    WLMR, good one.

  17. slow news day? your investigative powers are simply amazing, you have caught the SaskNDP feeding alcohol to minors, cue the fake outrage and requisite “commie” comments.
    curious what is wrong with 13 year olds getting involved with political parties?

  18. If I was an adolescent socialist growing up in Moose Jaw, I’d drink too. Probably a lot.
    But grok, you raise a good point. Maybe a 16-year old can start considering politics, but at 13 you think what your peers tell you to think. Waaaaay too impressionable at that age.
    Or perhaps that’s the point.

  19. Rabbit:
    That is the point. Here in BC when the NDP was in power they sent out a few trail balloons on lowering the voting age to 16.
    Too much oppositition so nothing came of it, but it told me that if they could have gotten away with it they would have.

  20. curious what is wrong with 13 year olds getting involved with political parties?
    The vast majority of 13 year-olds don’t have the maturity to understand the implications of a complex institution. If they were, don’t you think they’d be allowed to vote? The only thing these kiddies will be good for is preparing the picket signs and serving as human shields at their union-funded protests.

  21. There’s nothing wrong with having a drink while a 13 year happens to be in the room. If it weren’t wedding receptions would be real boring.

  23. Folks – this is an NDP government that has enacted some of the most repressive liquor laws in the free world. They audit restaurants to ensure they don’t sell more in alcohol than they do food, and mandate the menus one must have to get a license.
    So, when the party website encourages alcohol consumption among a group that includes a membership of minors, then it’s our right to mock them accordingly.

  24. Sean,
    “cue the fake outrage”
    I don’t think anyone is outraged. I think it’s kinda funny.
    Then again, you’d have to be pissed to belong to the NDP, young or old. It helps to numb that whole “reality and common decency” thing…

  25. Jose, a wedding reception with entire families socializing and a political party event for “youth” aren’t even in the same league. If I was having an event for young people, I’d have the brains to separate further the age groups. 13 years olds aren’t an intelligent match up with 25 year olds, especially if you are adding alcohol. It’s so ill-conceived.
    How you could out of an entire universe of equivalent situations come up with a wedding reception is beyond me. It’s bizarre.

  26. I started drinking beer at the age of 13 and look at me now.
    A 56 year old liberal neo-conservative with socialist leanings.
    The Chaos Confusion Frustration started during prohibition and look how wonky those cats were.

  27. I have a daughter who is twelve.
    1. No way on earth is she mature enough to get involved with politics
    2. If she ever attended a function where booze is served, either I should be charged, or someone is going to the hospital(and then I would be charged)
    It appears to me that the idiot dippers are trying to recruit at a young enough age whereas the brainwashing is more effective.
    Borders on child abuse, as far as I am concerned.

  28. And as far as function goes, I am referring to events geared toward youth, not weddings, etc.

  29. The reason kids this young aren’t usually included in a political organizations is because it just smacks of indoctrination. In this case we have the older “cool” kids mixed in to groom the young with their own political ideas. In the end you just get a group of young adults who’ve never had to think for themselves, but who can easy regurgitate a plethora of ideological talking points.
    Kinda sounds like the CBC’s mission statement, come to think of it, keep’em ignorant….

  31. Getting past the teenage boozing for a moment, doesn’t anyone find in weird that 20-somethings are included in the NDP’s political sandbox? At least two Canadians were elected to Parliament when they were under 25 fer chrisakes. Maybe the current crop of 25-year-old NDPers are too retarded to do anything but party it up with the teeny bopper crowd.

  33. Drunk 13 year olds; comes closer to explaining the Regina Manifesto than anything up to now.

  34. Perhaps the beer thing is just a marketing ploy to attract more young commies….er….Dippers.
    Even with a plethora of impressionable youth, eager to hop on the latest anarcist/anti-globalization/anti-capitalist bandwagon, there are far too many left leaning political parties all competing for the same crop of young lemmings.
    This could be an example of “if you built it, they will come” type of strategy, notwithstanding the fact that the ball diamond has been replaced by a “minors only speakeasy”.
    Ah, how hypocracy abounds in the ranks of the modern day socialist!

  35. Funny, I don’t ever remember making good decisions when beer, music & conversation were involved. Something about impaired thinking. Sure solves a lot of mysteries. The redneck beer gut crowd isn’t who you think it is!

  37. Even taking the 13 year olds out (let’s be generous and say they meant 18, ’cause a 3 ALMOST looks like an 8), and appeal to beer as being an important political step sounds juvenile and pandering. When I listen to political leaders, I’d hope for more vision than getting tanked.

  38. That last sentence was probably just thrown in to make themselves sound a little less desperately unhip than the rest of that, er, manifesto, very nearly screams out loud. The CBC’s occasional attempts to find an audience of non-pensioners have the same feel to them. But the obvious legal goof shows just how hard the strain of looking plausible to their intended audience really was on whichever SYND committee wrote- or more likely assembled- that declaration.

  39. I don’t know what’s worse – when Bob Rae and company ran things into the ground here or what’s happening in Saskatchewan now. For Saskatchewan’s and Canada’s sake, I hope they get their sorry butts kicked…

  41. Even though I look for any chance to slag the leftoid idiots, I do hope that it was a typo, and that they mean 18, not 13.

  42. Kate: “it’s our right to mock them accordingly”
    It’s your right to mock them (or anyone else for that matter) under any circumstance, whether it makes sense or not.
    Are you suggesting that they’re serving alcohol to minors, or just hoping that commenters will take care of that? Why not just come right out and accuse them of it, and save all sorts of time?

  45. “Why not just come right out and accuse them of it, and save all sorts of time?”
    Aw, where’s the fun in that? I believe the plan is to irritate you as much as possible. Seems to be working.

  46. The 13 is no error. It’s repeated in many places on…
    http://www.saskndp.com/people/about_synd
    I don’t take this seriously – it’s just kids being kids, and presumably beer is not being served to 13 years, or to older members when 13 year olds are present.
    I am just surprized that 13 year olds would be allowed into any political party when (IMHO) they are not yet able to think critically about what they are being exposed to, and have not developed much resistance to “the madness of crowds”.
    So what is the age limit is for the youth wings of other political parties?

  47. The 13 is no error. It’s repeated in many places on…
    http://www.saskndp.com/people/about_synd
    I don’t take this seriously – it’s just kids being kids, and presumably beer is not being served to 13 years, or to older members when 13 year olds are present.
    I am just surprized that 13 year olds would be allowed into any political party when (IMHO) they are not yet able to think critically about what they are being exposed to, and have not developed much resistance to “the madness of crowds”.
    So what is the age limit for the youth wings of other political parties?

  48. Dean S: “I believe the plan is to irritate you as much as possible.”
    This I believe.
    The truth of the matter is that I wouldn’t mind seeing erosion of NDP support at the federal level. At the provincial level in Saskatchewan I don’t feel passionately one way or the other.

  49. Last I knew, according to some Liquor Acts
    A minor serving in the Canadian Forces may consume beer from a glass in a Mess.
    I had a CO years ago that said No to underage drinking in the Mess.
    I photocopied the relevant section and sent it to him. “Old enough to die, old enough to drink”
    Asshole didn’t like me after that. Meh, feeling was mutual anyway.

  50. It’s ironic that 13 year old children are not considered responsible for their actions when they commit crimes, but are considered “mature” enough to belong to the NDP.
    As for the beer comment in “Who we are”, another example of immaturity.

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