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Seriously, I'd cut loose from Ottawa and get stuck in on some serious emergency management on the provincial or even local level. Any task force you put on this should have half a dozen emergency responders, half a dozen engineers, four or five managers. . . And one lawyer. In a separate office.

My usual response to "Why is the government doing this and not (whatever)" is "Some of us are smart enough to multi-task," but in this case. . . WTF? Priorities, people.

Y'know. . . there's a cool American invention called the "helicopter." They're expensive, but I don't recollect anybody saved by one ever bitching about the cost.

That's so obvious that there's no need. . . check that. The need to state that is a tragedy.

And even after that. I'm sorry, but I'll have no truck with "supporting community organizations." Martin Luther King didn't have government support. Neither did Cesar Chavez. Nor Susan B. Anthony (suffragette). It amounts to the government favoring one view over another. The business of...

As the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) ad slogan used to be, "Reach out and touch someone."

You could be right. Like I said, you're a lot closer to the reality, and I'd be a fool to dispute you with only a couple of moths and a used condom in my shot-locker. And yeah, now you mention it, I recollect Harper folding the vets into the general social welfare system. At the time I...

OK, I read his Wikipedia article. I hope the town of Zwolle has a statue of him, the enemy who saved them from being levelled by an artillery barrage by accurate, intelligent reconnaissance. THAT was his greatest feat. Any thug can kill. A really, really capable thug can kill a lot of...

I'll look him up. Much as it may offend those who've slotted me as a "lefty," both sides of my blood and my own life experience do like the story of a hard man.

Yep, I pretty much calculate he just rared back and flang a thunderbolt, and later told HQ it was a rifle shot, not admitting that he was a son of Odin. Y'all got some of that blood up there.

Like I said, for reasons I plain cannot calculate, but are clearly there, you guys are the best. Full stop. Y'all can do more with a basic hunting rifle and a quality scope than we (or anybody else) can do with custom furniture, computer-assisted whatever, and high-tech doo-dahs. Nothing but...

Will you FUCKING get ON WITH IT!

You know I respect you, Serryah, and I'm not going to sit here in Washington and dispute your perceptions. Still, seems to me True Dope is a bit (for values of a bit = a lot) more aggressive in pushing his orthodoxy.

Hey, I know we just met And this is crazy But take your multicultural tolerance money And spend it on ambulance service maybe

OK, sorry if it offends your natural Canadian modesty, but your snipers are the best, bar none, in the world. As an American, I don't understand why it comes out that way. We have ten times your population, and like you, we have a hunting tradition that includes long shots. Against smaller...

Need better bud, man.

I'll defend it. Heckling public officials is a right. Maybe not real productive, but it does no harm. On the information reported, the hecklers did not interrupt or delay any proceeding or any work of the government. They expressed their disapproval and their opinions. They did so crudely...

Hope so. Still, it's kinda funny to hear somebody who does that talk about how unacceptable threats of violence and intimidation are. Be like hearing Donald Trump (or Justin Trudeau) talk about it being unacceptable to touch a woman without her consent. . .

For "threats of violence and intimidation" it's hard to beat invoking war measures against your own citizens.

While I'm leery of giving the GG that kind of power (the Queen has dissolved Parliament in Britain as well, at least once), it's actually the same theory that we both use for high judges: life tenure and insulation from politics for a person of proven neutrality and. . . well, maybe not...