What Would We Do Without National Crises?

Don't forget. Crises are invented so Liberals can fix 'em. Because you never want to waste a good crisis.

The lieberals would crash and burn if this country had a real national crisis. PM Harper has shown Canadians how to properly handle an international crisis and I am sure he would do well in the event of a real Canadian crisis.

Reminds me of that old Russian speaking of the communists. "They pretend to pay us, but that's ok we only pretend to work".

A liberal could truthfully say we only pretend to solve crisis because they are only pretend crisis.

Fade to Chief Wiggum typing his magical report on his invisible typewriter.

Rob C said: "an international crisis".

Where is the crisis?

Links, please.

But of course, dahling: since we Canadians are among the fortunate few in the history of the species to live under crises-free circumstances and conditions, some Canadians thus must make up crises to keep satisfied that part of their brain that isn't satisfied unless it's handling crises. It takes (1) a fundamental understanding, and (2) a lot of work, to (3) deny false crises ~ people don't like being called out, and you have to bludgeon your autonomic crises circuits to quell them. Start by ignoring as much news as possible, and by caring about as little news as possible, cancel all your media subscriptions and delete all your media bookmarks, and you will know more than you do now, for as Thomas Jefferson said: The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I remember the photo of Chretien in MacLean's magazine on September 11/2001. He stood there with his shoulders shrugged and his palms out in a "what do you expect ME to do look.

On the night before the 1995 Quebec separaton referendim he went on TV & begged Quebecers not to separate. THAT'S YOUR PLAN?? - TO BEG?

When these assholes are cronfronted with aREAL crisis they fall apart.

The solution the public sector depression is to fire half of them. The remaining half would need to work at twice the pace, giving them the satisfaction of a job well done. Repeat as many times as needed until the depression goes away.

The best solution to obesity is abject poverty, we can elect an NDP majority and achieve that in a year or so.

Actually, I believe that the depressed government workers and the obese are the same people.

I have seen them.

Why not be depressed and fat? 30 years of nanny indoctrination would do that to any civilization, why should Canada be any different? Getting paid to sit on your a$$ is a paying job with benefits.

How can it be a crisis when there is no such thing as a public servant? Useless twits sucking off our money,yes,but public servant?Hasn't existed for 30 years,right around the time Turdeau got in (or maybe they should be called pubic servants,cause they are are just blood sucking parasites?)

You forgot dementia. This was our greatest health crisis Jan 4th of this year, but I guess we have moved on already.

No Ardvark, we've just forgotten.

Don't make me choose the "crisis" I should care least about.
If a government worker is depressed then perhaps they should look for a job elsewhere, assuming they can find one.

I'd be depressed too if I were a public servant working under the tyranny of the Harper government or should I say regime and its oppressive tactics and policies.

"I'd be depressed too if I were a public servant working under the tyranny of the Harper government or should I say regime and its oppressive tactics and policies."
Yeah but first you should move out of mommies basement and then again who would take over your paper route?

T you would be depressed if you had a job so don't draw such a fine line about things you have no knowledge of.

Oh, T, stop being silly! If living under the "Harper regime" has gotten you down, move to North Korea.
Actually, dementia IS a serious problem. As our population is dwindling and the baby-boomers are aging, we'll have fewer people to pay and care for the aged.
Just my thoughts.

Socialism in "crisis".

The natural end result of the religion of socialism, the religion of the stomach: is cannibalism next?
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“Haitians Revolt Over Quake Response (”Corpse Roadblocks” Erected To Protest Lack of Help)

Desperate Haitians have set up roadblocks with corpses in Port-au-Prince to demand quicker relief efforts after a massive earthquake killed tens of thousands and left countless others homeless.

Angry survivors staged the protest as international aid began arriving in the Haitian capital to help a nation traumatized by a magnitude 7.0 quake that flattened homes and government buildings.

More than 48 hours after the disaster, tens of thousands of people have clamoured for food and water and help digging out relatives still missing under the rubble.

Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, says he saw at least two downtown roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.

“It’s getting ugly out there. People are fed up with getting no help,” he says.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2428610/posts

I'm sure someone has reminded them that aid was mobilised as soon as First World countries heard about the disaster. Perhaps they should direct their anger at their corrupt government.

lol @ Louise 8:12.

"tyranny" of the Harper regime?

That's the tyrant who could be out of office if the opposition had cojones somewhat larger than rice grains. However, since outside the Bloc, the NDP and the Liberals realize more Canadians actually like Harper and the Tories more than they do the worn-out policies of the left, and that their parties would probably lose both votes (and funds) and seats if they forced an election, they posture and bluster, but ultimately do squat.

But Harper's the tyrant. As Dr. Evil would say "Riiiggght".

I'm not sure how something as avoidable as obesity can be a crisis.

Anyone who says they can't lose weight by eating less and performing regular exercises doesn't understand basic science and lacks will power.

Obesity sure wasn't a problem in the concentration camps.

As far as public servants go, I would gladly take my money back so they can find another more satisfying line of work.

Yep, there is no crisis in this country other than those trying to create one.

“It’s getting ugly out there. People are fed up with getting no help,” he says.”

I'd be a smidge more sympathetic if I saw a one TV-photo-news image of Haitians banding together to, you know, help themselves. Probably just me, all I've seen are people sitting around or wandering aimlessly.

As to health "crises" the baby boomers are getting to that age, so gods help us all we'll have to hear of the rising number of cases of X, Y and Z and how it's all so horrible to get old until we have the united urge to strangle every last one of them for some peace and quiet.

"dignity"? they've heard of it!

An old coach friend of mine had an athlete who was always struggling with his weight. The kid finally came to him , and asked for help. The kid said he couldn't lose weight because he had a diet problem. The coach replied, you don't have a diet problem, you have an eating problem.

Obesity is a disease that must be fed.

Other moms wonder how my wife is able to stay much smaller than them, she tells them "Very simply, I don't let pregnancy be my excuse to gorge and sit idle". I love my wife and her attention to her and our kids health.

It's very frustrating to constantly hear the so called experts and do-gooders blaming t.v., video games and fast foods as the problem to obesity. These are symptoms not factors.

Bec @ 8:00 pm, Go visit the former Soviet Union states and see the results of 70 years of "nanny state" indoctrination. It will take another 70 years to get many of these people out of the habit of waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

This tells the tale on Obama and his Marxist posse.

http://allthenewsthatfits.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/rahm-emanuel-dont-waste-a-serious-crisis/

Rahm Emanuel, President-Elect Obama’s appointed Chief of Staff and Mouthpiece To The Press shared their plans for the Obama Presidency.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”

The purpose of flogging these "crises" is to stir up public support for more taxes and government measures to deal with them. Of course, most government measures are worthless and many tax dollars are wasted. But that doesn't stop the socialists.

I miss the H1N1 crisis.

I'm sure someone has reminded them that aid was mobilised as soon as First World countries heard about the disaster. Perhaps they should direct their anger at their corrupt government.

Well said.

I'm pretty certain that it takes some time to turn otherwise-tasked ships around to get to a natural disaster trouble spot.

Helicopters bringing emergency supplies and workers to distribute them have to come from *somewhere*, and the ships have to be loaded.

Sheesh.

So if Liberals forget everything that they do very quickly, and if we're all gonna get dementia...

What will their children tell the doctors when they're asked if they've noticed any changes in their parents' memory?

I submit exhibit A in giving some perspective.

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2008/02/14/catherine-mcmillan-a-modest-proposal-for-curing-a-whiny-nation.aspx

Thank-you again Kate for this point of view piece that I refer people to on a regular basis.

Haiti, now there is a crisis.

Darfur, now that is a crisis.

We have, as a country, abdicated personal responsibility to the point of even forgetting what the concept is.

Maybe it should have been, or still could be someday, the Charter of Rights, Freedoms, Privileges and Responsibilities.

I had something to say about the oncoming epidemic of dementia, but I'm damned if I can remember what it was...

I thought the H1N1 crisis now was what to do with two million surplus vaccine doses. Can't pour 'em down the sink y'know. Regulations against that.