tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post5516630562605560558..comments2023-10-25T07:29:40.789-02:30Comments on UNCLE GNARLEY: DOUG LETTO BOOK A WARNING ABOUT WEAK LEADERSHIPDes Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02566013585647491614noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-24195706986895348782015-04-27T21:07:07.641-02:302015-04-27T21:07:07.641-02:30"the risks of electing diminutive men and wom..."the risks of electing diminutive men and women to high office"<br />This is not a real risk we need to worry about. Des would be distracting us like poor dimi-Davis has to, if he was progressive cucumber party leader. Ed Hollett would be slightly better at liberal Ballgames and someone quicker than him would wear the bow-ties and blog out his shortcomings. Why not put Tom Baird in the NDP leadership position and see how easy it is to play King Ludd then! Or, put Chris Bruce in the position and Poof!, he is no longer the taxable-earnings Robin Hood of Town. The augmentative 'super'-risk to fragile democracy is in fostering inadequate community response and accepting weak 'celebrity' journalism. Dr. 'Who Letto democracy die', should get in his TARDIS and and visit us in 2015. Don Dunphy's body is being used as a soapbox by Lynn Moore (crying for cop jobs) and Simon Bono (sulking for a suited boards), and others, to push for 'more work' and 'more oversight'. Letters-analysis indicates an idiopathic streak of political patronage, but not necessarily a sociopath's badness/coldness towards us, or the dead Dunphy? One solution not offered by the politically-motivated: We should add civilians to the force to cope with much of the work that does not require an expensive, trained armed officer, and provide a trust-fostering buddy system below budget. A big strong assertive person is not always the answer. Not even in the oil patch - see the life and times of Neil Young, lately. The Great Depression of the 1930s was a lark for millions of non-diminutive people in North America. In Newfoundland, where a democratic government was replaced by a British-controlled commission, the thousands of people living on free Costco samples still had their sense of sustaining hyperbole, living on a rock with no soil. As the situation worsened, a voice arose amongst the poor. Pierce Power, a shy leader of unemployed workers in St. John’s, led a poetry slam against Newfoundland’s business and political Elmo's, Bert's and Ernie's. He was so diminutive however, despite his strong lyrical expression, that his myth merged with that of the little people. http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/social/book4/cover.htm<br />John McClanenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235138415013046381.post-16589440090839210372015-04-27T08:24:59.755-02:302015-04-27T08:24:59.755-02:30The comparison between the 20's and the period...The comparison between the 20's and the period from 2006 to 2013 are erily similar. Massive increases in public spending, lowering of income taxes, and the increased dependence upon a single source of revenue. We are not where we were in 1932, but we should be ashamed of how the government of the last 15 years have spent silly. It was an opportunity to provide a lasting legacy of debt reduction, and long term sustainiblity. It was an opportunity squandered. <br /><br />This is a good review. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com