At The Gods of the Copybook Headings:
The Cliches Are Coming Down Like Beaver and Moose
Charles Krauthammer tries to be nice to us…But when he has to write a column about Canada this McGill graduate lurches from one Canuck cliche to the next…
…Barack Obama could club to death a baby beaver on the front steps of Parliament Hill and still be regarded as a hero. Long winded editorials in the Toronto Star would hail the President’s decisive efforts to curtail beaver overpopulation, while the CBC would run a segment featuring a recognized beaver expert explaining how the President’s bludgeoning technique was both humane and efficient. Obama worship is just as obnoxious and irrational in Canada as in parts of the United States…
God, I love that man!
I like his lines:
“’We can’t continue in this state of limbo,’ he sort of complained, in what for a placid, imperturbable Canadian passes for an explosion of volcanic rage.”
and
“Canadians may have succeeded in sublimating every ounce of normal human hostility and unpleasantness by way of hockey fights, but that doesn’t mean we should take advantage of their good manners.”
Agreed, Canadian Liberals are as pathetically racist towards black people as thier American “chop up the black babies” counterparts.
Then of course they gush over black mediocracy as an over dramatic attempt to hide thier racism.
Krauthammer didn’t write about beavers. It was the blogger…
Krauhammer’s right this time,Obama owes it to us,and all his allies, to treat us with respect, something he rarely does as he suckholes to ME tyrants and dictators.
About that NG pipeline,though, we may have to pay some really substantial bribes to various Indian politicians to get that thing built.
Krauthammer was right and the Gods blogger is being a bit of a twit. Did Krauthammer say that Canadians are universally polite, amiable? Of course he didn’t. What he said was that of all the countries with which the US has to deal, Canada is by far its most stable, reliable and friendliest ally.
Krauthammer’s point, which Gods blogger seems to miss, is that the KXL fiasco is stupid even by the low standards of the Obama administration. Kerry’s incoherence over his own department’s report is incomprehensible by any standard. What Krauthammer has done is sum up for an American audience the full magnitude of the Obama administration’s idiocy on this file.
Since it was intended for Yank consumption, I appreciate every word that Charles wrote – the fact that it implied Canadians as a whole are pissed off, is (as GOTCH points out) a huge exaggeration.
The average Canadian has his head planted firmly up his arse, and is too (pick one) stupid, cowardly, ignorant, or uncaring to give a damn about the state of affairs.
So keep up the good work Charles, and we’ll pray that ‘bama (a)reads your column and (b)doesn’t Google “support for Justin trudeau”, lest he find out just how shallow and stupid Canadians actually are.
“Obama worship is just as obnoxious and irrational in Canada as in parts of the United States…”
The point.
Although Krauthammer indulged in a few stereotypes, I found it kind of funny. Certainly dosen’t take anything away from his arguments. Gods should take a valium.
It’s good that this debate is in the 21st century because if this aversion to oil happened 100 years ago we would still be traveling on wagon rut roads and be knee deep in horse shit. Eliminate the more than 6000 products made from oil and put all the tree huggers and native activists as well as the politicians that support them on some Island with whatever is left. Preferably on the Queen Elizabeth Islands or even Baffin Island to show how compassionate the sane people are towards the mentally challenged. Darwin’s law will take care of the rest.
http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20from%20Petroleum.htm
Krauthammer is as naive as the 60% or so of Canadians enamored with Obama if he thinks respect is forthcoming. Even if we weren’t talking about the OIL INDUSTRY, Canadians are a nation strongly affiliated with the British colonial empire and as such no more deserving of respect from Obama than the US Constitution and at least half of the US population. Obama is not a President of a “United” States but always a partisan, scheming, deceitful progressive. Fortunately for him he can get things done under the cover of a fawning media and a greater institutional left unified in purpose unlike his opposition ranging from conservative progressives to libertarians, all with long knives to use on each other while appearing as unified as a herd of cats.
Sure, Krauthammer’s expressed view of Canada and Canadians may be a bit quaint and over-complimentary, and he tends in the article to conflate “Canada” and “Canadians” with “Canada’s interests” in the governmental and economic sense, but other than that his column is spot-on, as usual.
To answer G of the CH’s question: No, I didn’t wince a little, too, when I read “What more reliable source of oil could we possibly have than Canada?”
Charles Krauthammer was complimenting Canada while b***h-slapping Obama. I’m okay with that.
Charles writes well.
Obama is doing Canada a favour.
By dithering, twisting, stalling as he does, he makes it plain.
Alternative lines of sale are in our national interest.
These 5 years of stalling have cost Canada billions.
More delay, more stranding of Alberta crude.
So what happens if the next president of the USA is even more delusional?
Can we allow our only trade route to be in such hands?
Even the most disconnected canadian voter can comprehend this chokehold USA politics has on our economy.
Even NPD and Libtards can be brought to understand, if we link welfare to oil income.
And the anti-environmental aspect is so appalling, what these American environmentalists do not want to help us canadians to clean up the biggest (natural) oilspill known to mankind?
What a bunch of planet haters.
Very comments etc…
The smart thing to do would be to refine it ourselves, but I suppose that makes too much sense.
Obama’s affection for a foreign country is inversely proportional to its value as an ally.
Baby beavers?
“These five years of stalling have cost Canada billions” and conclusively
demonstrated what d****d fools most Canadians are. With the Bakken producing
cheaper oil than the oil sands, I would say that the interest in the Keystone XL
pipeline will be minimal in the US if the thing is ever built.
Eh? “Obama’s affection for a foreign country is inversely proportional to its value as an ally”? Maybe this should be rethought taking into account US relations with us, with
Israel, with Egypt, and with Iran.
John Lewis-
From the standpoint of the enormous US petrochemical industry in Louisiana and Texas, the addition of XL Alberta crude to the pipeline system leading to those refineries creates a buyer’s market. The US would stop Canadian crude to benefit a state whose total political heft amounts to 2 Senators, and one Congressman vs 43 Congressman and 4 Senators ( of LA and TX ) ? I doubt it.
The Hammer has spoken.
Canada is emerging as a major player on the world stage now that America’s influence is waning. Loathe as Obama is let this pipeline through (and I think it should just built over the border and everything- f— Obama) and is glad it hurts both Americans and Canadians.
The featured blogger misses one point slightly: not every Canadian thinks the world of Obama, just the d-tools.
Can we post links these days? This one i totally apropos to this story is is my reader Tip of the week at least.
California Getting Record Volume of Canadian Oil by Rail
Yes, getting some oil sands oil down to Neil Young’s current neighborhood.
Very sorry about the typos. It’s great story at the link though.
Don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth, eh? Don’t be a hoser.
We Americans probably have a stereotypical idea of Canada. But anybody can be clumsy and gauche when trying to give a compliment. Don’t let it put you off your Tim Horton’s.
Maybe the Krautster should have mentioned curling instead of moosies?
No more Canadian cliches than American cliches in Canadian articles about the US. The solution to the problem is to get the Northern Gateway pipeline built as fast as possible and start exporting Canadian crude to world markets.
Refining crude oil in Canada makes a lot of sense when one is thinking in terms of antifragility but doesn’t make conventional economic sense. Conventional economics is based on “efficiency” and this means having all of ones refineries on a coast where hurricanes like to make landfall. Considering that conventional economics is totally incompetent at handling black swan events (which, unlike the real world, are exceedingly rare in the world of mediocristan where Gaussian statistics resides) it would be wise to tell the “efficiency” experts where they can shove their analyses and build refineries in Alberta. Yes, they will make gas more expensive in the short term but when the next big hurricane hits the Texas and Louisiana coasts, Canadians will still have gasoline.
“A seal walks into a club….”
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. plans $5 billion in capital investment at BNSF Railway Co known as Buffett’s Railway,this year. Why? Because the Railway hauls crude oil from a captive market that has no alternative to get there product to market due to a lack of a pipeline. Profits are huge. Buffett is a huge Obama and Democrat supporter. Obama has been delaying the Keystone XL pipeline for years. This pipeline will haul Canadian and Bakken oil. And now you know the rest of the story.
Loki >
“No more Canadian cliches than American cliches in Canadian articles about the US.”
Exactly.
Canada today is about yellow taxis and turban’s mixed with the odd Islamic hate rally just like anywhere else in the modern western world.
The US needs to STOP stereotyping Canada as anything other than a Liberal handout ghetto with a militarized national police force, socialized Health Care and media, along with generally crappy third world everyday service and attitudes.
So suck it up American’s, we aren’t that nice neighborly cousin to the north you think we are and damned proud of it.
when there is not enough fuel to run the tractors and produce food guys like barryo and all his supporters won’t have to worry because they will not be there.
He is not the ‘hammer’ … He is the Kraut-Man plain and simple … say it …. The Kraut-Man. Get used to it …. All he lacks is a cape.
Americans for a long time had this perception of Canadians as David Niven with a less cultured accent. Ice Road Truckers solved that problem, I think.
It is certainly the case that Obama would rather screw over America’s closest and most important ally to protect one of his closest allies: Warren Buffet.
Don’t know about a poor mans Niven. More like Dudley Doright, actually.
Or so I’m told…
Sad to say, watching Bomb Girls on NetFlix really showed Canada in a very positive light… and then I remembered that the show is set during World War II.