tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post3986996678765427670..comments2024-03-28T03:54:21.932-04:00Comments on Canadian Cynic: The Steve and Weepy ShowCChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-75729903070373138032008-05-14T05:13:00.000-04:002008-05-14T05:13:00.000-04:00Guess once Widdle Stevie's done, American tourists...Guess once Widdle Stevie's done, American tourists won't be able to pose as Canadian tourists in order to avoid foreign wrath anymore... <BR/><BR/>That stupid bastard doesn't realize that being respected for integrity and honesty beats being feared and hated. All right-wingers seem to be like that: there must be something just a wee bit off in their brains.<BR/><BR/>One day, maybe we'll have a pill for that.Dana Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00890312745525306991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-86549670164441361762008-05-13T16:04:00.000-04:002008-05-13T16:04:00.000-04:00Why does President Harper have that silly banner o...Why does President Harper have that silly banner on the podium giving the slogan of the photo op? Shouldn't he use the GWB style one, plastered across the backdrop?liberal supporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129945625510633921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-29944387520903289092008-05-13T14:34:00.000-04:002008-05-13T14:34:00.000-04:00But this will still go up as a Con accomplishment ...But this will still go up as a Con accomplishment at Crux.mikmikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00366766734839522162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-78951938043888991352008-05-13T13:00:00.000-04:002008-05-13T13:00:00.000-04:00The Torch folks are all over this ... thing. I enj...The Torch folks are all over this ... thing. I enjoy the question of where the strategy is in the Strategy... <BR/><BR/>Honest right wing people are so rare..Cameron Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13457101409245763699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-9190699379656582562008-05-13T10:25:00.000-04:002008-05-13T10:25:00.000-04:00As such, the speeches are the strategyOh why are y...<I>As such, the speeches are the strategy</I><BR/>Oh why are you leftards so "literal minded"? Always needing a report and a study. Always demanding things be thought through. Next thing you know, you'll be wanting everything to go through the discredited tendering process. Can't you just sit down, shut up and watch us grownups hand Boeing 8 BILLION dollars for military aircraft without the boring bother of getting bids?<BR/><BR/>You don't support the troops! <BR/><BR/><BR/>Maybe this is how they intend to avoid the possibility that strategic information could be leaked by some minister being blackmailed by his moll's ex. If they don't have a clue themselves, then there is nothing to leak.liberal supporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01129945625510633921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-81750567343702432552008-05-13T08:34:00.000-04:002008-05-13T08:34:00.000-04:00"It is not a 'document' like a white paper - it is...<I>"It is not a 'document' like a white paper - it is the vision delivered today for long-term planning for the CF," he added. "As such, the speeches are the strategy."</I><BR/><BR/>Heh. Missed that.<BR/><BR/>Christ, I'm always assuming that <I>someone</I> had to do some amount of homework to identify needs and problems in order to propose a policy; I mean the rest of us have to do that in our jobs whenever we even <I>think</I> of spending any money.<BR/><BR/>All along, I was wondering: "beef up our military and be a player for...what exaclty?" Well, judging from the <I>Zeitgeist</I>, the money is spent, and then, we go looking for a conflict to justify the expenses.<BR/><BR/>Not to begrudge the military the resources it needs to do what it is asked to do, as a citizen, I will not go along with this. Even if I supported the (arguably immoral) sensibility that military expenditures are largely government subsidies to industry (which is anti-free trade), I'm not always sure Canadian money is going to Canadian industry.Ti-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06620550471437012866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-27546935546472757022008-05-13T03:07:00.000-04:002008-05-13T03:07:00.000-04:00So..."Canada's defence strategy for the next 20 ye...<A HREF="http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=646a6b9d-f383-4518-9b6d-31333cbbb57f" REL="nofollow">So...</A><BR/><BR/><I><B>"Canada's defence strategy for the next 20 years will be based on speeches by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Peter MacKay given Monday in Halifax.</B><BR/><BR/>In a highly unusual move, the Conservative government will base its entire future rebuilding of the Canadian military on Mr. Harper's 10-minute speech and Mr. MacKay's 700-word address.<BR/><BR/><B> No actual strategy document has been produced, nor will be produced, according to government and defence officials.</B> Neither speech went into any specific details about equipment purchases, costs or timelines or how the future strategy will unfold. Both speeches presented more broad-brush approaches to defence.<BR/><BR/>Asked about when the actual Canada First Defence Strategy was going to be released, Jay Paxton, Mr. MacKay's press secretary replied: "It is a strategy that you heard enunciated by the Prime Minister and Minister MacKay."<BR/><BR/><B> "It is not a 'document' like a white paper</B> - it is the vision delivered today for long-term planning for the CF," he added. "As such, <B>the speeches are the strategy."</B></I><BR/><BR/>... the Kelowna Accord was scrapped because they considered it as something the Liberals 'scribbled on the back of a napkin'.<BR/><BR/>"A highly unusual move"? Understatment of the year. <BR/><BR/>Ti-Guy, they're <B>both</B> insane.Frank Frinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05727863730658037306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-25023544925807656802008-05-12T23:58:00.000-04:002008-05-12T23:58:00.000-04:00PSA: all I can say is - hear, hear!PSA: all I can say is - hear, hear!Real_PHV_Mentarchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03128624329790456529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-16675058606400162922008-05-12T23:15:00.000-04:002008-05-12T23:15:00.000-04:00This pledfge ammounts to an increase of what? 1.3%...This pledfge ammounts to an increase of what? 1.3% of the GDP from 1.2%? ANNNNDDD..... It's not indexed to inflation. So all this really is, is a promise that we will not cut, and a promise to keep with the capital expenditures that we need before the entire CF rusts out (Seakings, 30 year old trucks, 20 year old aircraft, 20 year old naval vessels, etc etc etc...).<BR/><BR/>You are right on this, it is a shell game. But the whole Bernier thing is not worth the effort. It is a non-event.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and a lot of our international reputation does come from our "Peacekeeping" efforts. That is inescapable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-85375112599115677012008-05-12T23:07:00.000-04:002008-05-12T23:07:00.000-04:00It was a rather cute stunt to use the military as ...It was a rather cute stunt to use the military as a prop - aren't the cannon folder supposed to be neutral?<BR/><BR/>As for insane? Maybe but he sure does seem to like playing little boy soldier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-84849131856333572422008-05-12T22:08:00.000-04:002008-05-12T22:08:00.000-04:00Yo yo yo...don't you be playa hatin' now.Peace out...<I>Yo yo yo...don't you be playa hatin' now.<BR/><BR/>Peace out!<BR/><BR/>Stevie-D, the P to the M to the C-A-D!</I><BR/><BR/>...let's face facts; our Prime Minister is <I>insane.</I>Ti-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06620550471437012866noreply@blogger.com