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What Canadian problems could be solved by a beer?
- July 31, 2009 9:50 AM |
- By Your Voice
U.S. President Barack Obama hosted a beer summit at the White House in Washington on Thursday in an attempt to calm racial tensions and nationwide debate raised over the arrest of a black Harvard scholar by a white police officer.
The trio rubbing elbows around Obama's picnic table will include Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge, Mass., police.
The brouhaha started July 16 when officers responded to Gates's home after neighbour Lucia Whalen called 911 reporting two men with backpacks trying to force open the front door.
What Canadian problems could be solved by a beer? Who would you invite to the "summit"?
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Comments (11)
Unemployment. If everyone started drinking beer regularly, there would be more jobs at various micro-breweries springing up all over the country to fill demands for fine pallatable brews.
This would then trickle back to Agriculture where there would be more demand for farms to grow multitudes of hops to supply them. A win-win situation.
If everyone in Canada had a beer a day, there would be a lot less uptight anal retentive people in our country.
We could move mountains!!!!
Do you think a certain political leader could handle Canadian beer, we would have to supply the H. P. stuff from the states.
Three would go for beer but one would want sherry.
No problems can be solved with the gesture of having a beer together.
I've drank a brewery full and didn't solve a single problem.
nope... no problems and what's worse is that you'd think you'll wake up to a hangover but the sad fact is... you'll wake up to reality.
Declining Canadina beer sales.
Slugs. Beer kills slugs.
Those four guys drinking beer in DC did not "solve" any problem if that is the basis of this question.
BO and beer didn't 'solve' anything - it was a big charade...imagine the reaction if Bush had done the same thing? - who has more class now?
There is a group that frequents my hometown bar that probably has most of the World's problems solved by now (phone 'em up), however, for an official Beer Summit you would need to have it chaired by none other than his Highness and beer aficianado, King Ralph Klein.
Maybe they could drink several and a fist fight will break out when they get drunk and don't agree - alcohol solves nothing and sooner or later brings on violence .
Never mind the beer...
If Jack Layton, Michael Ignatief, and Stephen Harper would all sit down, smoke a couple of joints and just mellow...so much of the idiocy would just fall away and maybe they could actually do some good as a collective group instead of petty arguing.
But have those 3 bozos sit down and drink beer together? ...in typical (and historical) Canadian fashion, they'd all just beat each other bloody in the parking lot once the beer ran out (Stevie would lose!).
Cursing, red & blue lights, yelling women, the usual atmosphere!
I think that they should all have a few brews and discuss why on earth the case became such a big deal when racial stuff like that occurs everyday outside our front doors.