Mark Steyn: 'Let's Roll' sounds positively unCanadian

National Post Online ^ | December 13, 2001 | Mark Steyn

[bulldog905]

Mark Steyn, and Neil Young are two Canadians who have done their country proud in the wake of Sept 11.

Do not judge all Canadians by the socialist moron(s) who lead the country, and by it's far left media.

[Cicero]

A country that makes good beer and good hockey players can't be all bad.

[Travis McGee]

I haven't heard the song on the radio yet, I hope it's a hit.

[D-fendr]

Another Steyn keeper, thanks.

I haven't heard Neil's song, "Let's Roll," but it sounds good enough to redeem him for "Southern Man."

[speedy]

I am happy to see this article in a Canadian paper. We should be the most natural of allies -- in their everyday lives, Canadians live pretty much exactly the way Americans do -- but it seems that constantly these divisive issues come up in a way that make places like England or Australia appear to be more favorable to us. But Canada gave us Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe and more comedians per square mile than any country on earth, and for that (among other things) we remain grateful. Thanks for posting this, and I can go about my night with a warm feeling for the many good pro-US Canadians who don't get much press coverage here.

[jejones]

Whoa! That's some fine writing both by Steyn and by Young. Thanks.

[mickie]

Todd Beamer's wife was on TV recently, and she said the the United Way refused to give her any funds because her husband didn't die in the WTC.
He and the other brave young men possibly saved the White House and God knows how many other people........but were not in WTC......can you imagine that kind of stupidity?

[bootless]

That is unbelievable! This nation owes a debt of gratitude to the heroes of Flight 93.

Excellent column, as always.

[bulldog905]

The foiling of the hijackers of 93 began the transformation of Osama from a jihadi to a jihas-been. True, he might yet come up with something new, but invention and improvisation are the hallmarks of a dynamic culture not a fetid, stagnant one, like Islamofascism.

Where does he come up with bon mots like these?

Steyn's prose is a pleasure to read!

[bootless]

He's got a great mind. He's on my Top Ten list of most admired writers.

[Grassontop]

the United Way refused to give her any funds because her husband didn't die in the WTC.

Isn't that United Way organization the ones who funds for abortions? And also, United Way should recognize the fact that this man died for a cause and that cause was for the people of the United States and their freedoms and liberties! His family should be entitled to full benefits, but United Way does abort babies, so their priorities might be a little disenchanted! Grassontop

[Grassontop]

P.S. Correct me if I am wrong about the United Way for I can always stand correction if I'm wrong! Grassontop

[m1911]

Three months after the war began, the contours of the new world are emerging: An American "hyperpower" (as David Warren noted yesterday) able to project itself anywhere it wants, militarily, economically, culturally; below it, a second tier, entirely vacant; a little further below, a cluster of medium powers -- Britain, France, Germany, etc. -- united in an ersatz federation defined mainly by its somewhat snooty attitude to the rawer liberty of the American Republic; and way, way, way down at the bottom of the list most of the Arab dictatorships, economically, technologically and culturally utterly irrelevant.

Rare to find someone who makes this leap, without condemning it. His dismissal of China, Russia, and the Pacific Rim is interesting, since someone in that ignored group will be the next high-danger opponent to Pax Americana.

[alcuin]

. . "Canadian rock legend" . .

"Rock legend" would suffice, with the quotes omitted.

Good post.

[Bill Rice]

You can listen to "Let's Roll on VH1.com

If you click here, you can download "GoldWave", a small program that lets you record giant hi-fi wav files. ( It's about 800K)

I had to play around with the "options-controls-volume" tab from within Goldwave to get it to record the right input, but a cd quality stereo wave file of this song is less than 50Mb.

Anyone have something to do this and make an MP3 instead?

I'd like to hear or download that new Charlie Daniels song "This flag ain't no rag".

[general_re]

If you've got the wav file, you're halfway home. If you have the mp3 dll files installed on your system, you can open the wav file, go to "save as" and select "mp3" in the dropdown box marked "Save as type:". Select the quality of the mp3 in the box below that, and away you go.

Goldwave is a neat little program - I've played with it before...

[Bill Rice]

Well duh - I guess I should read all that stuff that comes up on those sites when I download!

Thank you VERY much!

At my old job we had a lot of florescent lights. The AM radios just buzzed, so I used the internet to get Rush Limbaugh. Since I was always getting called away from my pod, I used GoldWave to record the whole show. Each day was something like 300Mb. I worked in the IT dept, and had a killer system. When I left, I had several 20Gb drives filled with Limbaugh shows.

This was back when Algore was trying to steal the election and after work, everyone would gather round my pod and listen to parts of that day's show.

BTW - Everyone in the IT dept was for Bush. We used to talk about how that was because democRATs were to stupid to be geeks and do what we did for a living. It's been that way everywhere I've worked - no pinkos at all in IT, so there may be something to that!

[Tarakotchi]

>A country that makes good beer

Yeah, Harp Lager

[SpencerRoane]

. . "Canadian rock legend" . .

"Rock legend" would suffice, with the quotes omitted.

No kidding. Being a Canadian rock legend is kind of like being the tallest building in Wichita.