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Lawrence looks like Jack Palance after drinking about 80 oz of vodka.

One thing for certain, he thinks like a man who has just downed 80 oz if vodka.

His bleary-eyed smirk is dismissive of all things with which he disagrees. He has a great home at at the G&M

Is my hatred for elite leftists showing here?

Who is more ignorant, irrational, and stupid, Lawrence Martin or Jeffie Simpson, is a question that I ponder when I have nothing better to do,
i.e. very rarely. The answer would probably be Martin. Very occasionally, perhaps about once a year, a little sense and information wanders through Jeffie's "brain";
never through Martin's.

No doubt, after noting that the US is in turmoil, more so than Canada, Martin will go out and vote NDP in the next general election.

Mark - I cannot read anything by L.Lizard (Martin) on a full stomach. Later.

i am always amazed how we canucks tsk tsk the yanks for their reaction to 9/11. what would we have done? i cannot say for sure but when some terrorists kidnapped a diplomat and a provincial cabinet minister and then murdered the cabinet minister, we suspended basic civil liberties allowing arrest without charge, detention without warrant or trial and we called the army into the streets. not quite martial law as the civilian police were required to arrest you (const. luc trembley of the MUC was backed up by a platoon of RCR complete with heavy weapons section) but as close as i wish to come to martial law.
so, tell me again, which country over-reacted?

Mr. Martin should stick to doing what he does best, writing glowing tributes to Jean Cretin, and drinking quarts of vodka with the likes of Jim Travers.

It is reassuring that I am not the only one to deduce that Martin is a souse....as well as the other big guy on question with the gin-blossom for a nose.
Norm
The LIBRANOs will hunt you down and when they catch you---they will kill you.....for your thinly veiled criticism of TURDO.
911----The image that remains is not smoke etc----It is of Yaser Arafat with that "Oh Sh!t!!" look on his face. I think Arafat was more understanding of the situation than Martin.

@Norm
Yes the gov't did enact the War Measures Act for the FLQ crisis in 1970, but you've forgetten, we let most of the SOBs go to Cuba in exchange for releasing Mr. Cross. Some returned to Canada and were celebrated as heroes, when they should still be rotting in a prison.

Unfortunately that kind of inaction, and reaction still is the Canadian way. An example is the way the Anarchists in Vancouver were allowed to wander away last Saturday. If I was in charge of the riot squad there, I'd make sure that some of the squad had paint ball guns to mark the worst of the group, to allow them to be easily culled from the herd, and then have the misanthropes charged with everything in the book available: destruction of property; assault with a weapon (hurling a newspaper box into traffic almost wiping out a cylcist is one of the acts of violence I saw on TV); causing a disturbance; etc.

Everybody needs to understand this about Lawrence Martin:During the mid to late 1980's this filthy communist POS was stationed in Moscow and wrote PROPAGANDA for the SOVIET UNION.
He worked for the Globe and Mail and wrote glowing articles about how wonderful life was in the Soviet Union,all of which we now know was total bullshit.
He's the Canadian equivalent of Walter Duranty

Thanks for that heads up Mr.g. I did not know Martin was a shill for the Bolsheviks. Just thought he was local fellow traveller.

Martin Lawrence might want to interview some of my relatives that left the Soviet utopia in 1990 about the wonderful life they experienced for 70 years while close family members were arrested and given the Communist socialist version of the T4 treatment. Then again, he might not, as it might jar his ideology.

Martin, Simpson, salutin - i wonder what the average age of the G&M columnist is. Dinosaurs in real life.

Just looked it up in wiki:

Simpson born in 49
salutin born in 42
Martin born in 48

61 68 and 63. They have as much in common with the average canadian as the Who does with teenagers today.

I dunno. I was born in 1938 and find myself agreeeing with much of what goes on here. I don't think age has much to do with it. I don't think any of those guys had to make a payroll. That has a way of focusing one on the real goal.

So the American economy is in free fall mostly thanks the One, and we should have a Royal Commission? Sorry if I don't get the connection, but I guess in the Librano world view, we must always have a Royal Commission in the wings ready to waste even more taxpayer money. Oh wait isn't that what the LPC is best at?

"another royal commission on Canada's future economic prospects"? To study for a full year?

"To redefine Canada's global prospects, we must develop alternative strategies"?

Canada's prospects are excellent as long as the economy rewards the productive by getting government out of the way of individual decision-making.

Going for free trade is a "strategy", I suppose, and a good one. But he makes it sound as if government should be able to control all economic decisions if it wants. That's bad.

The economy is about catering to individual wants and needs -- what should be produced -- and entrepreneurs try to figure out what they think the public will buy. Government's job is to protect individual rights, not to make decisions about what should be produced.

I can't stand Lawrence Martin, my least favourite Canadian columnist of all time.

A Royal Commission is nothing more than a make work traveling road show made up of the same old political hacks who didn't do anything when the "problem" started.

Remember Ray Romino's dog & pony show? How much did that set the taxpayer back? And what did we get?