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excellent article... watch the left implode now... lol
This from the Canadian Press, which apparently, is a bit more
objective than our own press and politicians.
George Bush, the man
David Warren.The Ottawa Citizen
Sunday, September 11, 2005
There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. I'm
tempted to say that the only difference from Canada is that they
have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am
often pleased to discover things we still get right.
But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If
something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't
even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for
the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in
Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory
being that, when you're in real trouble, that's where the adults
live.
And that isn't an exaggeration. Almost everything that has
worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has
been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under
several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable
Lt.-Gen. Russell Honore, it was once again the U.S. military
efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale
beyond the capacity of any other earthly ins ution.
We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one
feckless government after another that has cut corners until
there is nothing substantial left. We don't have the ability even
to transport and equip our few soldiers. Should disaster strike
at home, on a big scale, we become a Third World country. At
which point, our national smugness is of no avail.
From Democrats and the American Left -- the U.S. equivalent to
the people who run Canada -- we are still hearing that the
disaster in New Orleans showed that a heartless, white Republican
America had abandoned its underclass.
This is garbage. The great majority of those not evacuated
lived in assisted housing and receive food stamps, prescription
medicine and government support through many other programs. Many
have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety,
without input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they
elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school
buses that could have driven them out of town parked in rows, to
be lost in the flood.
Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth; and
sooner or later we must acknowledge that welfare dependency
creates exactly the sort of haplessness and social degeneration
we saw on display, as the floodwaters rose. Many suffered
terribly, and many died, and one's heart goes out. But already
the survivors are being put up in new accommodations, and their
various en lements have been directed to new locations.
The scale of private charity has also been unprecedented.
There are yet no statistics, but I'll wager the most generous
state in the union will prove to have been arch-Republican Texas
and that, nationally, contributions in cash and kind are coming
disproportionately from people who vote Republican. For the world
divides into "the mouths" and "the wallets."
The Bush-bashing, both down there and up here, has so far lost
touch with reality, as to raise questions about the bashers'
state of mind.
Consult any authoritative source on how government works in
the United States and you will learn that the U.S. federal
government's legal, cons utional, and ins utional
responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural
disaster, was zero.
Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient step of
declaring a disaster, in order to begin deploying FEMA and other
federal assets, two full days in advance of the storm fall. In
the little time since, he has managed to co-ordinate an immense
recovery operation -- the largest in human history -- without
invoking martial powers. He has been sufficiently presidential to
respond, not even once, to the extraordinarily mendacious and
childish blame-throwing.
One thinks of Kipling's poem If, which I learned to recite as
a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge that it drives
postmodern leftoids and gliberals to apoplexy -- as anything that
is good, beautiful, or true:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise .
Unlike his critics, Bush is a man, in the full sense presented
by these verses. A fallible man, like all the rest, but a man.
excellent article... watch the left implode now... lol
"left implode"
Seeing what's been in the news these last hours and weeks, it's the Repubs who are imploding.
oh yeah the left imploded ages ago.. you can tell by their no new idea agenda.
Great find Hookdem. That's the first of its kind that I've seen from a foreign country. Thanks for sharing it.
"If you can keep your head when all about you"
dubya has been to the Gulf region what, 8 times?, trying fake conern? He's looking for the head he never had screwed on in the first place.
"blaming it on you;"
HIS people ed up, HE's the dubya-in-chief, he supposed to take the blame, it goes with the job. He refuses all accountability until absolutely forced to say it, then he slimes others, scapegoats HIS FEMA director, and tries to "move forward".
"don't deal in lies,"
dubya and the Repubs are pathological, criminal liars, willing to sacrifice military lives for their lies. The smoke-and-mirrors competent, macho BS has been lifted and smashed. dubya and Repubs have ed themselves good.
"don't look too good, nor talk too wise"
The Mission Accomplished flyboy theatre was truly "too good" to be true (was a ridiculous lie).
"wise" and dubya are two items that aren't on the same planet.
And since when is Canada a "foreign country" ??
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I'm Canadian...and I don't share the same idelogies as this writer. Just like the US we have very differing opinions on the matter. Am I a bush supporter....no, I wouldn't have voted for him. He admitted his fallacies with Katrina and now the healing will start. That's all you can ask of anyone.
Hi there,
Will you please explain to Boutons that Canada IS, in fact, a foreign country?
Don't waste the effort.
I've had Medvedingaling IGNOREd for months for his Spurs forum trolling.
Looks like his politics is equally ed.
Here's an old one many of you may not remember from Canadian Gordon Sinclair back in 1973. It had some nice music playing in the backgroiund while Sinclair was narrating but I can't remember what it was.
The Americans
The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. It has declined there by 41% since 1971 and this Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.
As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtse. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.
They have helped control floods on the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges and the Niger. Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of those countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
When distant cities are hit by earthquakes, it is the United States that hurries into help... Managua Nicaragua is one of the most recent examples. So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans.
I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
Come on... let's hear it! Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tristar or the Douglas 107? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all international lines except Russia fly American planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or women on the moon?
You talk about Japanese technocracy and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the moon, not once, but several times ... and safely home again. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them ... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
When the Americans get out of this bind ... as they will... who could blame them if they said 'the with the rest of the world'. Let someone else buy the Israel bonds, Let someone else build or repair foreign dams or design foreign buildings that won't shake apart in earthquakes.
When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name to you 5,000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.
Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Our neighbours have faced it alone and I am one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are en led to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.
I hope Canada is not one of these. But there are many smug, self-righteous Canadians. And finally, the American Red Cross was told at its 48th Annual meeting in New Orleans this morning that it was broke.
This year's disasters .. with the year less than half-over… has taken it all and nobody...but nobody... has helped.
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm
Gordon Sinclair
Radio Station CFBR 1010
2 St. Clair Avenue West
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans
i've worked with the canadian military... nothing, nothing like ours... i've worked with many armies.. hands down...the u.s. military is the greatest in the world!
Is that something to be proud of?
damn straight...
Boutans has me on ignore....great....what's the world coming to.
And he accused someone else of having a "closed mind"!
That is just one article from a predominantly socialist country.
But the Canadians sent rescue crews within 24 hours of the disaster - I guess they felt bad about kicking all those Arcadians out of Canada.
It's Acadians and it was Nova Scotia.
Well, I have been ticketed by the spelling police.
And Nova Scotia is part of Canada now; I don't know from what province the rescuers came.
Please don't take it as "ticketing". I just happen to have done a lot of studying on the Acadians. Their story is truly sad.Well, I have been ticketed by the spelling police.
And Nova Scotia is part of Canada now; I don't know from what province the rescuers came.
mmm A Canadian Republican... a Repudian?? or Canablican?
Funny, no mention from the writer that the military does the lion's share of first-reponder work because they get a lion's share of your and mine tax money to buy expensive toys with.
*cough**cough*Bull !*cough*National Response Plan*Cough*Stafford Act*Cough*Consult any authoritative source on how government works in
the United States and you will learn that the U.S. federal
government's legal, cons utional, and ins utional
responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural
disaster, was zero.
Regurgitating some fecal matter there Dan?
Almost everything that has
worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has
been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under
several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable
Lt.-Gen. Russell Honore, it was once again the U.S. military
efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale
beyond the capacity of any other earthly ins ution.
Well said. I have always been proud of having been a soldier, and know the quality of the people who are and have been servicemembers.
AS for the rest of it:
Yawn. The guy makes some smug comments on American urban poor and has as much to back his position up as Bush did on WMD's.
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