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Today's Soviets oughtta sink that piece of shit carrier in Syria and be done with it.

King, you crack me up.


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But the surviving high scoring ace of WWI, from both sides, was a Frenchman: Captain Rene Fonck, with a total of 75. And shot a Verney-Carron double . . . probably not at Germans, however.

I'm hoping he sends the Muslims packing.

King writes about the past greatness of the Canadian military, while tirelessly advocating policies that have seen it's destruction. Never one to understand there is a cost to be paid for holding a particular view, King wants to have his cake and eat it too!

LR, There are many, many Canadians embarrassed by the behavior of our current and past governments in shirking our responsibilities regarding our armed forces. Our current PM seems determined to boldly blaze a trail back to the idiocies of our military misadventures of the 1960's, 70's and 80's. A past so self absorbed and self congratulatory they have yet to understand the utter uselessness of their efforts, all the while congratulating themselves for their "post nationalism" and commitment to UN Ideals.

I want to barf just for having to had to write that stuff.

That isn't going to stop the fall. The downfall started with Hart-Celler Act in 1965. Oops, I should clarify some will win some will loose. You loose.

James, what uselessness of Canada's military efforts are you referring to, please? Canada was obliged to engage valourously and unsuccessfully in post-war UN and NATO missions, as did our allies. You acknowledge Canada hitting above its weight in the world wars. What responsibilities have we shirked? We commanded the Libya air war, chose the hottest spot in Afghanistan, both with unsuccessful consequences with terrorists in ascendancy. We're in action with the Kurds, with NATO allies on Russian border, 600 special forces committed to Africa. Elucidate, please.

Enough with the thread hijacking. King, start another "Canadian Military" thread if you want to, stop attempting to divert this thread with a different narrative.

Would be happy to King. The "uselessness" I am referring to would be that of UN sanctioned "peacekeeping". Making peacekeeping, under the auspices of the UN, the single most important aspect of what our military does.

It's the Canadian circle jerk, currently being revived by PM Zoolander (and the woman behind the man, Gerald Butts), constantly patting ourselves on the back for Pearson's Nobel Prize winning bit of idiocy. "I know!" exclaims Lester. "Let's create circumstances where regional conflicts never get resolved!"

Oh, and in the meantime, lets de-fund our military and shirk our NATO responsibilities because you know, those arrogant rubes south of our border will do it for us.

You will note I specifically referred to the 60's through the 80's. A period of time when that [censored] Trudeau senior held sway, admiring and cavorting with dictators. A governmental mindset his son seems determined to bring back.

The 1990's and 2000's, which you used to refute me, were when our government was run at the top, Chretien and Harper, by men, not communism's useful idiots, Trudeau 1 and 2. Trudeau jr is about to get eaten alive by Trump and his people. This is going to be Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution writ large and I can't wait.

Go read Lawrence Solomon this morning for the real story on what's going on.

Ken

Sorry if you feel I have been feeding the troll but I'm doing my best to both refute King's silly claims while bring the thread right back on topic.

Lawrence Solomon | January 23, 2017 | Last Updated: Jan 23 8:00 AM ET



�Trump is not a true conservative,� #NeverTrumpers charged for months, even after Trump won the Republican nomination for president. Maybe not. But no conservative can be dismayed by the agenda Trump has begun to roll out today, his first Monday on the job following his inauguration. As far as true conservatives are concerned, Trump is pretty much batting a thousand.

Believe in small government? The Trump team plans to unveil a budget in the next 100 days that will propose more than US$10 trillion � yes, trillion with a �t� � in cuts over 10 years. Based on the Heritage Foundation�s Blueprint for Reform, the Trump team � peopled by some of the very same researchers who drafted Heritage�s blueprint � have gone beyond anything Republican fiscal hawks in Congress have contemplated.

Gone will be dozens of agencies and programs providing corporate welfare, such as the Department of Commerce�s Economic Development Administration, the International Trade Administration and the Minority Business Development Agency. Gone will be numerous government-owned or backed housing and mortgage agencies such as Fannie and Ginnie Mae, and Freddy Mac, which helped create the housing bubble and the subsequent financial crisis. Gone, too, will be largess from most federal departments, and much of the red tape that now bleeds industry of profits and productivity.

Like privatization and free markets? The power-marketing authorities that now provide electricity to rural areas will lose their subsidies and be operated by private parties, to end the distortion they now cause in power markets. The postal service would lose its subsidies and be required to operate in the free market in competition with any firm that wants to vie for its customers. The Bureau of Reclamation that now subsidizes special interests through its allocation of water rights would be eliminated, with water rights instead being allocated by competitive bidding. Federal lands will be open to energy, mining and other resource developments.
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Don�t like being lectured about white privilege, radical feminism and other politically correct propaganda funded at taxpayer expense from public broadcasters, arts organizations and government funding bodies? The Trump team plans to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and to altogether eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities, which feed the philosophies that deride and undermine American patriotism and American exceptionalism.

Trump plans to honour the many campaign promises that he made, and that conservatives care deeply about. Obamacare will be repealed and replaced with more market-oriented approaches, such as health-care allowances, which will let Americans control their health-care purchases, and the ability to buy insurance across state lines. Personal choice is also coming to education where school vouchers and other private sector innovations will be allowed to flourish as alternatives to the public school system that has failed America�s children so thoroughly. Almost the entirety of Trump�s domestic agenda � in financial reform, in labour reform, in telecommunications, in Supreme Court nominations and in fighting crime, including by building that wall � reads like a conservative�s wish list.

Away from home, Trump also bats about 1.000 with conservatives. As reiterated in his inaugural address Friday, he vows to eradicate radical Islamic terrorism from the face of the earth. On Israel, a core conservative issue, he remains determined to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and to protect Israel against its enemies, whom with Barack Obama�s encouragement had engineered the recent anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council.

Because the UN is so hostile to the U.S., Trump � to the delight of conservatives � gave notice that America�s deference to the UN would change as soon as he took office. He�ll eviscerate programs that undermine America�s interests, starting with the UN�s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the mastermind of much of the climate change hysteria that the world has endured over the last quarter-century. The UN, which now receives almost a quarter of its funding from the U.S., will be forced to reform, failing which it risks going the way of its now-defunct predecessor, the League of Nations.

To accomplish what many view as the most ambitious conservative agenda ever proposed by an American president, Trump has assembled a dream team of a cabinet � not a squish among them. To almost everyone�s surprise, Trump freed these hardliners to oppose his policies in public as well as in private, as seen in their Congressional confirmation hearings where they unapologetically dissented from Trump�s views, and with his blessing. No need for cabinet solidarity under Trump; the buck stops with him, and everyone�s welcome to know it.

Trump will in all likelihood fall short in implementing his agenda � all presidents do, given the fierce lobbying that special interests will unleash on members of Congress, who ultimately hold the purse strings. And some Trump policies will doubtless offend conservatives. We do not yet know how his trade protectionism will play out, or whether his US$1 trillion infrastructure plan can escape being riddled by pork, and running up the federal debt.

But even if Trump ends up batting .500, he will go down in history as transformative, a president who rivals the ultimate conservative president, Ronald Reagan. Trump may indeed not be a true conservative, as many have feared; he may be adopting conservative policies not from ideological conviction but from a businessman�s bent of doing what works. Either way, #NeverTrump is dead; conservatism in America lives.

LawrenceSolomon@nextcity.com

Funny how no one in the media ever describes Obama and his minions like Holder as "Far Left" or "Socialist Hardliners", yet that's what they were.

Here's your hat, what's your hurry? Tailights in the street!

So glad these pricks are gone.

It's been a long 8 years (no, make that 28 years) and I'm glad to be here! (Tip of the hat to Amarillo Mike)