We just passed by the 71st anniversary of VE Day, where oh where are the leaders like those of the war period? Plus speaking with parents about the Wynne government screwing them on autism funding. Facebook suppressing conservative news, the government taking extra HST on car purchases and an animal welfare bill no one should support.
“where oh where are the leaders like those of the war period”
Dead. All of them. Replaced by a bunch of Boomers and their offspring.
Trump to Kelly: “I have great respect for you, that you were able to call me, and say, ‘Let’s get together and let’s talk.’ To me, I would not have done that.”
A large part of the problem (as Brian Lilley well knows) is that legal chill has either discouraged conservatives from speaking the truth as they see it, or in some cases has actively prevented them from speaking even if they wish to continue.
If people can’t speak the truth, then they can’t become leaders and those who do become leaders usually display the lack of resolve and the moral ambiguity associated with years of practice of speaking in code or avoiding the truth altogether.
Canada’s “omerta” code of silence now even extends to speaking about Fort McMurray. Imagine, we can’t even speak to each other about a natural disaster (or was it natural? inquiring minds want to know). We can’t talk frankly or openly about certain power groups, lobbies or special interests.
The hosts of this website know what I mean by that.
At some point, we will need to do two things — call out the other totalitarian group (Canada’s hundred or so neo-Nazis have nowhere to hide but what about our million or so communists?) and then we need to bring a moral equivalence of these two groups, if it is socially necessary and cohesive to silence neo-Nazis, then why is it not equally important to remove communists from places of power and influence?
The reason is, of course, that there are too many of them to make it easy and those with the most power either sympathize, or are too stunned to realize what they are dealing with.
Not going to feel too sorry for the autism mother when services for us autistic adults are almost non-existent, or impossible to access if they do exist.
Now you know what our life is like.
autism.
apparently there is a new term for aspergers which I was born with. it’s a 2 edged sword, immense recollection for detail on a broad list of topics (except sports) at the same time my pace of absorbing information is no better than half the average.
but I survived, no thanks to certain ‘educators’ who ‘taught’ early and often the way to get by is kowtow. explains the current leaning in post secondary to ummm, the ‘safe space’ dialogue
MB government under NDP, using the cover of increasing pharmaceutical coverage for squeaky wheel diseases like AIDS, stealthily slashed coverage for other debilitating diseases like Parkinson’s, while bragging about the former as though it represented the total picture.
I’m not referring to school, which is completely different.
I mean services that address adult needs, which here in Ontario is impossible to access unless you meet [outdated] criteria: namely, you have to be below a certain IQ threshold, and I’m not, so I cannot access it.
If the autism mother thinks it’s hard now, wait until her child reaches the teen and adult years. She’d better start advocating for her child’s adult needs now, or discover the hard way what autistic adults already know later, when new needs arise, and there’s nothing for her to help her son.
Oh, and that other woman who spoke of waiting for a diagnosis? You think 2-3 years is long? Try nearly ten years. That’s how long it took me to get mine.
give it rest for kristes sake. If you can post on here it ainät all that bad
People like you are utterly clueless as to what people like me deal with.
Just because I can “post here” does not mean “it’s not that bad”. Posting comments tells you nothing about someone’s world.
Don’t be so presumptive.
Such leaders still walk amongst us,mostly keeping their own counsel and steering clear of the raving lunatics who hold office.
Why attempt to educate people who embrace their own destruction?
Why seek abuse from state minions?
The laws of human reality have not changed, Kipling put it beautifully.
“The Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us …”
Currently each crisis is made worse by the government authority, paid to be ready for such occasions, then dealt with by the people on the ground.
Then the government expert claims credit,writes up a Standard Operating Procedure and gets promoted.
The next crisis the fugue is even worse.
The damage is compounded and the government expert blames 1 Climate Change or 2 Incompetence by the actual workers failure to implement an unworkable useless plan or 3Act of God.
Never will the diversion of public assets to pay useless people to perform useless actions,senseless rituals and self enrichment be acknowledged.
Ask yourself, Who in their right mind, will seek public office?
You?
Any one you know and respect?
Yes, you are quite correct. Well said.
I met a fellow a few years ago, who DID run for high political Office because he thought he could make a difference. After several years he confessed to being utterly frustrated because the people in charge do NOT want to do anything to upset the status quo.
When they talk about change,they just mean “change” for them, from being a nobody in private life to being a well paid nobody in Parliament and a third rate celebrity with a great pension to look forward to in retirement.
The fellow resigned after a couple of terms, disillusioned and defeated.
Anyone who pines for “the great leaders,the statesmen”,need only look at the harsh education systems that produced those leaders and statesmen.They don’t exist any more.
Can you imagine one of today’s “safe places and trigger” students in the great schools of Britain in the Victorian era!