Rex Murphy is not very impressed with the Shiny Pony's recent utterances:
It wasn't a slip of the tongue. (Oh, there's a phrase he could play with.) It was the signature of an unserious mind, not to mention a mindless hit on the pilots of Canada's military, to paint them so glibly as extensions of some macho ethos.
We should expect more -- both in class and thought -- from a national leader, especially when he is speaking in the context of the miseries that have been inflicted by one of the most sadistic collection of terrorists the planet has ever offered. How will they be stopped but by force?
Events do not have a single dimension. The daunting complexity of world affairs, and their intertwisted moral ambiguities, is a hallmark of this new wild world of ours. Straight-line answers are available to none. Dealing with those ambiguities, having the maturity and depth to deal with them, is what we in Canada, and elsewhere in the world, want in our leaders.
This is not the first time that the Liberals' default despisement of the Canadian military has come to the fore. This past gem from them comes to mind.
h/t Harry M. & Mark L.
Update: This comment from SDA regular 'Occam' is brilliant:
Rex postulates that MP Zoolander's gaffes reveal an "unserious" mind. I would quantify that by stating that mini-me Trudough's mindless juvenile gaffes reveal a political party which is now perpetually "not serious" about the important affairs of the nation or its people - they are so detached from the actual agendas and mechanics of providing good government, they have fielded a litany of inept/naive doofus losers as PM bait in hopes of hoodwinking the public so they can gain power - not to govern, but to plunder the public treasure for themselves and their patronage cartel.
The LPC is not a political party or a government in waiting - they are a kleptocratic brokerage cartel which sell political influence/privilege for personal and organizational gain. Governing responibly and well has been off the Liberal cartel's radar for generations - it shows in their un-serious policy planks and ass-clown leaders.
"Humanitarian intervention" is nonserious psycho-babble that belongs in preteen encounter group therapy, not federal cabinet foreign policy. This is a Rump paty which survives solely on the low info voter and cannot be taken seriously as a governing alternative.
Gotta love Rex. A real journalist in Canada? Aren't many of those left - mostly just Shiny Pony's fan club.
Andrew Coyne also had a dim view of ... hold on, if Obomber is The One, then Trudeau must be The Other One ... Boy Wonder. Now if Obomber is Batman, then Trudeau is Robin. Hehe.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Coyne+Liberal+Leader+Justin+Trudeau+stance+against+Canadian/10260825/story.html
Rex is right on again. The fact the likes of Craggie Oliver and others of the same ilk find the penis joke to be something we should find amusing on such a severely serious issue is astoundingly reprehensible.....time for Oliver and Newman as well to disappear from public broadcasting if they find that amusing or let that go unchallenged.
Another sign we'd be a laughing stock and worse if he ever became PM. The LPC better wake up and rein in this 42 year old juvenile, take him to prep school.
He is starting to resemble the last character that Heath Ledger played.
"Why so serious"
Hey, the Pony's suggestion that Canada confine its role to humanitarian has merit - it's cost effective!
Evidence based medicine will confirm that useful and effective humanitarian aid to beheaded folks is really cheap!
turdo la doo almost makes turdo la first seem somewhat masculine.
These are the people that are voting for Justin Trudeau -
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Andrew Coyne retweeted
Jon Rode @JonCRode · 5h 5 hours ago
@acoyne We do not need to be in a combat role. Why are we obsessed? Why must be continually beat the war drums? We have strong allies 4 that
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Who else is betting lifetime welfare recipient? After all, we have taxpayers 4 that.
The left are mentally ill.
yes, the total aid required is sending a white sheet. how much can these cost by the gross!!
I read the comments on the article at the link. One or two of them (from both sides) addressed the point of Rex's article but most were just folks chanting slogans. Youtubeian?
I'd love to have a few beers with Justin. I'm sure he's a great guy. As for dumb... he's probably more intelligent than I am.
I don't like his philosophy. In addition, measured as a tradesman, he's an apprentice who should have chosen a different trade. I frequently didn't agree with Chretien and frequently very disagreed with his father but they were journeymen. I respected them and was often proud of something they did or said.
If the Liberals win the next election, and I fear they might, he will be our Obama.
If Trudeau wins Canada loses. Not only that who will really govern when it's obvious he is far from being capable of governing. It has all the earmarks of a disaster of major proportions for all this country has accomplished and stands for.
His father did enough damage with his Charter and multiculturalism, giving power to unelected supreme court judges along with the jack boot HRC's, basically taking away/interfering with a basic right like freedom of speech. All in all these policies make some more equal than others as decisions are handed down and accepted by cowardly politicians who refuse to make tough decisions to protect their political ambitions.
Rex postulates that MP Zoolander's gaffes reveal an "unserious" mind _ I would quantify that by stating that mini-me Trudough's mindless juvenile gaffes reveal a political party which is now perpetually "not serious" about the important affairs of the nation or its people - they are so detached from the actual agendas and mechanics of providing good government they have fielded a litany of inept/naive doofus losers as PM bait in hopes of hoodwinking the public so they can gain power - not to govern, but to plunder the public treasure for themselves and their patronage cartel.
The LPC is not a political party or a government in waiting - they are a kleptocratic brokerage cartel which sell political influence/privilege for personal and organizational gain. Governing responibly and well has been off the liberal cartel's radar for generations - it shows in their un-serious policy planks and ass-clown leaders.
"Humanitarian intervention" is nonserious psyco-babble that belongs in preteen encounter group therapy, not federal cabinet foreign policy.This is a Rump paty whic survives solely on the low info voter and cannot be taken "seriously as a governing alternative.
Exactly, and if this empty suit becomes prime minister he will try to make Maurice Strong happy and finish the job of turning Canada into a Venezuela north.
Have to hand it to Rex. He sure knows how to slap down a simple minded buffoon like Justin.
If the Liberals win the next election, and I fear they might, he will be our Obama.
Unfortunately that's quite true.
Perhaps Justin and his fellow traveller Rick Salutin could enlighten us as to what sort of humanitarian assistance can be given to the dead or to those enslaved by ISIS and thus beyond the reach of any humanitarian organization.
I'd always understood that an ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure. Justin obviously believes otherwise.
Perhaps Justin believes we should be providing garlanded wreaths for the beheaded, abortion services for the raped, and tents for those driven from their homes and that by doing so, all will be well in his sheltered little world.
Wow! Did you ever say it well.
The sad part is that the media is and will continue to provide cover for this totally inept moron.
"As for dumb... he's probably more intelligent than I am."
Man. Now that's what I call self-loathing.
They will not only provide cover, most of the Canadian MSM will idolize him like royalty - a celebrity. The sheeple want a celebrity election circus, and the MSM is more than happy to oblige. A year from now I expect there will be the largest social media organized group ever, of low-information voters going to the polls to vote for Canadian Idol if they can find the time away from tweeting about KimKardashound.
It appears that an unintended consequence of the electronic age has hastened the prophesy attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
We have the opportunity not to duplicate the Americans' mistakes.
Rex Murphy is spot-on, as usual.
Doctor: This is the worst case of beheading I've ever seen.
Justin: So what are you saying..?..
Doctor: We were unable to attach his head bit to his body bit.
Justin: Speak French/English man, I'm not a scientician!
Doctor: *rolls eyes*
Canada's...."tradition of providing humanitarian aid..."
Only since that Soviet mole, Lester Pearson, invented "peace-keeping" after the Suez fiasco. The Libranos have been trying to emasculate the Canadian military ever since.
Prior to that Canada's military had a venerable reputation/tradition of being "storm troopers" as the Germans styled theirs after. That's why the Canadian Army got it's own dedicated beach at D-Day.
"Only since that Soviet mole, Lester Pearson,..."
Excellent. I thought I was the only one that thinks that.
I refer to "True-Dope-ia" as the 'Right Honourable Sheriff of Blazing Saddles' of the Frat House Party.
Excuse me while I whip this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0wKf8KEYnY
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
belongs to those that show up.
Penis jokes are the stuff of Charlie Sheen sitcoms.
Rex certainly nailed JT on this one. It might just stick for the final year of the election campaign.
The irony.
They basically condemn PMSH for acting against ISOL's but somehow can't mention that Obama is doing the same thing.
Funny how they conveniently neglect to point this out even to the extent of trying to assign blame to a guy that hasn't been in the White House for 6 years.
It's more than just a COLD WAR or partisan prejudice but a suppressed item from the "Verona Files".
Perhaps slightly OT, regarding media influence, but I recall a conversation with a German Luftwaffe pilot....he remarked that the nickname, widowmaker", attached to the Lockheed F104 was a Kremlin induced media creation.
It was a Soviet inspired whispering campaign because the Reds were scared of it. Remarkably effective lie, the F104 was prematurely retired despite an excellent safety record.....better than the F86 in fact.
As a low level strike fighter, it was replaced by the F4 and Thunderchief simply because they had more modern avionics....eg "look down shoot down" Dopler Radar.....
Apparently no F104 pilot ever referred to the F104 as a widowmaker, rather..."missile with a man on it", "zipper", even "lawn dart".....
Pearson betrayed our British allies over Suez but it won him the Peace Prize and ever since then the media have never tired of bringing up Pearson's and by extension Canada's peace-keeping prowess at every opportunity.
Here's H.L. Mencken's take on diplomacy:
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
So well written! Excellent points throughout. Thank you!!
The kid is quickly becoming a caricature of himself. Don't you just love the pictures of him...lower lip, licked to shine, eyes slightly squinted to show ...whatever. The Conservatives should let him talk and use his own words against him. Lord help us if this vacuous no mind is elected. He will be the puppet whose strings will be pulled by the back room boys. \I love the comment made on another link by another reader.."Trudeau sr.."just watch me" Trudeau jr. "just let me watch".
Trudeau, un leger (a lightweight) when it comes to entendres, as well, may, eventually, be just a more protracted version of Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, the two previous Liberal leaders who also never made it to 24 Sussex Drive; well, ideally, again, anyway.
He would just get a more indefinite term of captaincy before the Liberals will once again be forced to start from trick one.
So You Think You Can Lead... for a while?. He won't wait as long as Bob Rae, that's for sure; but then who would?
Statesmanlike and leaderlike he's not. He's more like, " Did ya want fries with that, dude? "; that's if he's not having another expletive-laced tantrum. That is way more likely for the incorrigible forty-two year-old lad; the videographers' bloviating sound bite that keeps on giving
sasquatch "As a low level strike fighter, it was replaced by the F4 and Thunderchief simply because they had more modern avionics....eg "look down shoot down" Dopler Radar....."
In Canada the CF-104 Starfighter was replaced by the CF-18 Hornet.
The F-4 Phantom and F-105 Thunderchief were contemporaries of the F-104 all being introduced in 1958. Canada did not use the F-4 or F-105. The CF-105 was the Arrow.
Canada wasn't allowed to call the F-18,the "Hornet" as it was explained at the time by the DoD,the French version of Hornet is "Frelon" which can also mean "drone", as in the old meaning of the word.
So, we renamed it the CF-18, no Hornet allowed.
The best description of Justin Trudeau I have seen is the frequent reference to "Chance,the Gardener" from Jerzy Kozinsky's novel, as Trudeau seems like Chance, bewildered at the complexity of life outside The Garden,where he spent his entire charmed life.
If only Peter Sellers was alive,I would hire him to play Justin,he'd do a better job of it than the incumbent.
The only thing ones needs to know about Justine I'd this. In his non answer to a perfectly reasonable question: "Do you agree with the governess position that convicted terrorist should have their citizenship revoked.?". Answer: " Next Question please"
That reply sums up everything you need to know about this spoon fed diletante.
With the Liberals, it has always been about being in power and utilizing absolutely everything to get and stay there.
Cough, ahem, Bull sh*t,cough, cough. Have many former coworkers that flew/worked on the CF-104. Ruskies had nothing to do with nicknames. It also wasn't designed as an "air to dirt" delivery system as the Canucks in Europe needed for their tasking, but like now we made do with what we had at the time. It took two to three countries to turn the damn thing around but it did go fast.
been there, done that, got the T shirt.
per ardua ad astra
And not one CBC type has had the ability to ask the One, "To whom should the aid be sent?" Directly to ISIL? Because we all know that is where it will end up.
If the cast of Friends were put in charge of the country, you'd still have a better chance than with the Liberal's SS Minnow on its 3 hour tour.