Ashamed to be Canadian
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
Geez, ya could've at least spelled his name right. Here's a tip - drop your subscription to the Toronto Sun. Maybe Mulroney would've run down to sing a few bars of The Yellow Rose of Texas. Would that make you feel better?
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
Where exactly did you hear this? I've read all the major dailies today, and not one mentions Chrétien bowing out of going to Washington. Certainly it would have been nice to be mentioned, but it's clear that Bush was very careful about who was mentioned, and who and what was not mentioned. I think he was focusing on those countries whose participation is absolutely necessary to ensure this action is viewed as worldwide. Like it or not our participation is assumed. Further, there are some who believe that the U.S. is hoping for Canada, in its historic role as a mediator, to offer middle-eastern countries a back door for conversation and negotiation. People here know my views (likely not much different than John's), but it is clear that there is a HUGE diplomatic effort underway, alongside the troop movements. Here's a few links if anyone wants the Canadian perspective: National Post CBC Online
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
Actually, I thought one of you guys was finally going to confess to being ashamed of that tired-ass lighthouse vs Aircraft carrier "joke". X| "I never met anyone I didn't like" Will Rogers.
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Actually, I thought one of you guys was finally going to confess to being ashamed of that tired-ass lighthouse vs Aircraft carrier "joke". X| "I never met anyone I didn't like" Will Rogers.
Ah, glad you brought that up! What bothers me about the lighthouse thing is that the navy's discliamer pertains to a red herring. If you go looking on the web for this lighthouse 'joke' as you call it, you find a suspicious number of variations on a theme. If this is the correct version, why is the U.S military wasting bandwidth disclaiming this one? C'mon. We all make mistakes. This kind of calculated myth-information is really disgusting, and muchly insulting to the intellegence. Lighten up dudes. later oops - I spilt intelligence wrong - I'm in deep doo-doo now!!! :eek:
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Ah, glad you brought that up! What bothers me about the lighthouse thing is that the navy's discliamer pertains to a red herring. If you go looking on the web for this lighthouse 'joke' as you call it, you find a suspicious number of variations on a theme. If this is the correct version, why is the U.S military wasting bandwidth disclaiming this one? C'mon. We all make mistakes. This kind of calculated myth-information is really disgusting, and muchly insulting to the intellegence. Lighten up dudes. later oops - I spilt intelligence wrong - I'm in deep doo-doo now!!! :eek:
Man, lighten up, it is an old urban legend. http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/lighthouse\_tins\_more.html http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/questions/litehuse.html http://www.tiesplushumor.com/joke\_Pages/101jokepage.html http://chicagomedia.tripod.com/v03n22.htm http://www.nfldproducts.com/jokes/joke38.html http://www.btinternet.com/~snapps/12a98.html This link even talks more in depth about the origin of the joke which is prior to the 1995 date sited as when the documents were supposedly released. http://www.aliensonearth.com/misc/1998/nov/d05-001.shtml Repeat after me, "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
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Ah, glad you brought that up! What bothers me about the lighthouse thing is that the navy's discliamer pertains to a red herring. If you go looking on the web for this lighthouse 'joke' as you call it, you find a suspicious number of variations on a theme. If this is the correct version, why is the U.S military wasting bandwidth disclaiming this one? C'mon. We all make mistakes. This kind of calculated myth-information is really disgusting, and muchly insulting to the intellegence. Lighten up dudes. later oops - I spilt intelligence wrong - I'm in deep doo-doo now!!! :eek:
aaarrrrggggghhhhhh!!!!!! X| X| eh? "I never met anyone I didn't like" Will Rogers.
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Man, lighten up, it is an old urban legend. http://www.urbanlegends.com/misc/lighthouse\_tins\_more.html http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/questions/litehuse.html http://www.tiesplushumor.com/joke\_Pages/101jokepage.html http://chicagomedia.tripod.com/v03n22.htm http://www.nfldproducts.com/jokes/joke38.html http://www.btinternet.com/~snapps/12a98.html This link even talks more in depth about the origin of the joke which is prior to the 1995 date sited as when the documents were supposedly released. http://www.aliensonearth.com/misc/1998/nov/d05-001.shtml Repeat after me, "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". Tim Smith Descartes Systems Sciences, Inc.
Ok - "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". I guess you're right - but when a site claims it is an 'actual transcript' released by the 'Chief of Naval Operations' I'd say it crosses the line between urban legend and outright lie. Right then. For my penance, I will now go and read the entire archive of east coast Canadian lighthouse radio transcripts whilst smearing my body with Vegemite and rancid bacon fat and nibbling on raw whitchetty grubs (slowly) with 'Stranger on the Shore' speeded up from 33 to 45 playing loudly in the background. Geez - now I'm starting to wonder about the whole "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" thing... :confused:
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Ok - "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". I guess you're right - but when a site claims it is an 'actual transcript' released by the 'Chief of Naval Operations' I'd say it crosses the line between urban legend and outright lie. Right then. For my penance, I will now go and read the entire archive of east coast Canadian lighthouse radio transcripts whilst smearing my body with Vegemite and rancid bacon fat and nibbling on raw whitchetty grubs (slowly) with 'Stranger on the Shore' speeded up from 33 to 45 playing loudly in the background. Geez - now I'm starting to wonder about the whole "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" thing... :confused:
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
Well, be ashamed all you want, if it will make you feel better, put a bag over your head and walk naked through downtown Toronto. (I'm guessing you're either from or in Ontario by your message but feel free to insert your local main street here) I'm a proud Canadian and nothing our political "leaders" have done will affect that. I've often felt a great deal of pride from the acts of Canadians from all walks of life both locally in my own communities and public figures in the news, but guess what? Not one of them was a politician! While it was completely appropriate for the American president and local government to be there for the support and symbolism which is very important to people in any crisis, it's time to stay out of the way of the recovery and rescue workers who, I don't think anyone can dispute, have enough on their hands already without having to trip over the latest politician of the day that comes around. Who cares if Canada wasn't mentioned? Canada has always given support worldwide in a highly disproportionate amount relative to the size of our population. Through international aid and development, peacekeeping, the international land mine accords, accepting all those U.S. flights when the US closed their airspace the day of the terrorist attack at no small potential risk to our own population etc etc. The whole point about helping others is that you *don't* do it because you want to hear someone thank you for it. You do it because it's the right thing to do.
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
The big picture here is what is important. Let me remind you...over 5000 people are dead...who f***ing cares if the PM isn't mentioned in a speech. Lets quit complaining about petty things and realize what really matters. :|
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Well, be ashamed all you want, if it will make you feel better, put a bag over your head and walk naked through downtown Toronto. (I'm guessing you're either from or in Ontario by your message but feel free to insert your local main street here) I'm a proud Canadian and nothing our political "leaders" have done will affect that. I've often felt a great deal of pride from the acts of Canadians from all walks of life both locally in my own communities and public figures in the news, but guess what? Not one of them was a politician! While it was completely appropriate for the American president and local government to be there for the support and symbolism which is very important to people in any crisis, it's time to stay out of the way of the recovery and rescue workers who, I don't think anyone can dispute, have enough on their hands already without having to trip over the latest politician of the day that comes around. Who cares if Canada wasn't mentioned? Canada has always given support worldwide in a highly disproportionate amount relative to the size of our population. Through international aid and development, peacekeeping, the international land mine accords, accepting all those U.S. flights when the US closed their airspace the day of the terrorist attack at no small potential risk to our own population etc etc. The whole point about helping others is that you *don't* do it because you want to hear someone thank you for it. You do it because it's the right thing to do.
Very well said. Although I'd like PJ to keep his clothes on. David
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Ok - "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". I guess you're right - but when a site claims it is an 'actual transcript' released by the 'Chief of Naval Operations' I'd say it crosses the line between urban legend and outright lie. Right then. For my penance, I will now go and read the entire archive of east coast Canadian lighthouse radio transcripts whilst smearing my body with Vegemite and rancid bacon fat and nibbling on raw whitchetty grubs (slowly) with 'Stranger on the Shore' speeded up from 33 to 45 playing loudly in the background. Geez - now I'm starting to wonder about the whole "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" thing... :confused:
Actually, for penance, you can't leave your igloo for a week and we will only give you seal bones after the sled dogs have a chance to chew on them. If you do it again, we'll make you stay in the igloo for the whole six months of daylight. ;P So quit teasing the Americans, eh. "das leid schlaft in der maschine" -Einstürzende Neubauten
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
I don't mean to offend anyone but seriously we should drop loans to other countries and charge some damn good interest. We have help everybody in some form of war or finacial crisis and what do we get? 99.9% of the world hates our guts. Finally Britian (Whatever they are officially called) has sent warships to the Arabian Sea, I say its about time! We bailed them out of WW1 and 2 they could at least help. And we even armed Afganistan (Stupid Move) and know they are using it against it us! *Disclaimer* This message was typed in a moment of rage and should not be taken offensively unless you are personnally responsible for being a/an ________________ to the U.S.. -Matt Newman :suss:
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Ok - "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". I guess you're right - but when a site claims it is an 'actual transcript' released by the 'Chief of Naval Operations' I'd say it crosses the line between urban legend and outright lie. Right then. For my penance, I will now go and read the entire archive of east coast Canadian lighthouse radio transcripts whilst smearing my body with Vegemite and rancid bacon fat and nibbling on raw whitchetty grubs (slowly) with 'Stranger on the Shore' speeded up from 33 to 45 playing loudly in the background. Geez - now I'm starting to wonder about the whole "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" thing... :confused:
Just like official virus alert from IBM. Ever notice that it is the exact same guy from IBM that "sends" them out and the only difference in text is his discription of the virus? -Matt Newman :suss:
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I don't mean to offend anyone but seriously we should drop loans to other countries and charge some damn good interest. We have help everybody in some form of war or finacial crisis and what do we get? 99.9% of the world hates our guts. Finally Britian (Whatever they are officially called) has sent warships to the Arabian Sea, I say its about time! We bailed them out of WW1 and 2 they could at least help. And we even armed Afganistan (Stupid Move) and know they are using it against it us! *Disclaimer* This message was typed in a moment of rage and should not be taken offensively unless you are personnally responsible for being a/an ________________ to the U.S.. -Matt Newman :suss:
Matt, I understand your feelings, but you have to understand, as your government obviously does, that 300 million people have to be careful about how they dictate world politics to more than 6 Billion. I was running the math through my head earlier today and said, wow, $30 Billion a year in humanitarian aid (and the US Defense department's budget is $ 850B/yr) would double the annual income of all of the 1 Billion people in the middle east. Think about it. How happy would you be to have your salary doubled? I'm not in any possible way trying to justify what happened on Sept 11, but you have to appreciate the stakes if you're going to appreciate the situation. David
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Matt, I understand your feelings, but you have to understand, as your government obviously does, that 300 million people have to be careful about how they dictate world politics to more than 6 Billion. I was running the math through my head earlier today and said, wow, $30 Billion a year in humanitarian aid (and the US Defense department's budget is $ 850B/yr) would double the annual income of all of the 1 Billion people in the middle east. Think about it. How happy would you be to have your salary doubled? I'm not in any possible way trying to justify what happened on Sept 11, but you have to appreciate the stakes if you're going to appreciate the situation. David
David, I have not checked lately but I do not believe that our defense spending is even half the figure you cite. The last time I paid any attention to it (circa 1992) is was about 350 billion. Our department of health and human services (which also manages social security) is at about a trillion dollars and is *by far* the largest department in our budget. The truth is that most of the world could live in weatlh and prosperity if those who could would simply adopt our economic model (Instead of us trying to adopt the other model of high taxation and inane government programs). The Islamic world controls most of the world's most valuble resource, oil, which generates probably more wealth per capita for that region than any other region in the world. There is absolutely no excuse for *anyone* in that area being poor. It is the greed of the people in control of those areas and not US "greed" that is the issue. The US is in an absolute no win situation around the world. We are most certainly damned if we do and damned if we don't. For example, we are told that we bungled in Afganistan by arming the natives and letting them fight the aggressors themselves, but than we also bungled in Kuwait by sending in troops and doing the fighting ourselves. Obviously, there is no answer. People are going to continue to rip on us no matter what we do. In all honesty, I believe that the US should simply launch a full scale surprise nuclear attack against the entire planet. If the world wants something to bitch about - give them that. And we Americans could just get back to living in our quaint little Jeffersonian democracy. "I never met anyone I didn't like" Will Rogers.
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
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Our Prime minister, Jean Chretian, is a moron. He thought it was more important to be at a political fund raising dinner in Toronto, then to take a 90 minute flight be in Washington for US President Bush's message last night or to go to New York to show the Americans that all Canadians sympathize, support and stand by our American friends. It's no wonder that Canada, the US's largest trading partner, and in my opinion, it's closest friend, was not even mentioned in Bush's speech last night. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize to our American friends for this moron's actions. A not so proud canadian. --- Better to be silent and thought the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it!
Not to mention the "brazilian crazy cow" thing some months ago... X| Furor fit laesa saepius patientia
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Ok - "Sometimes a banana is just a banana". I guess you're right - but when a site claims it is an 'actual transcript' released by the 'Chief of Naval Operations' I'd say it crosses the line between urban legend and outright lie. Right then. For my penance, I will now go and read the entire archive of east coast Canadian lighthouse radio transcripts whilst smearing my body with Vegemite and rancid bacon fat and nibbling on raw whitchetty grubs (slowly) with 'Stranger on the Shore' speeded up from 33 to 45 playing loudly in the background. Geez - now I'm starting to wonder about the whole "Good luck Mr. Gorsky" thing... :confused:
Wasting Vegemite like that will lead to a beating with a Nulla Nulla. :-D Michael Martin Pegasystems Pty Ltd Australia martm@pegasystems.com +61 413-004-018 "Don't belong. Never join. Think for yourself. Peace" - Victor Stone
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David, I have not checked lately but I do not believe that our defense spending is even half the figure you cite. The last time I paid any attention to it (circa 1992) is was about 350 billion. Our department of health and human services (which also manages social security) is at about a trillion dollars and is *by far* the largest department in our budget. The truth is that most of the world could live in weatlh and prosperity if those who could would simply adopt our economic model (Instead of us trying to adopt the other model of high taxation and inane government programs). The Islamic world controls most of the world's most valuble resource, oil, which generates probably more wealth per capita for that region than any other region in the world. There is absolutely no excuse for *anyone* in that area being poor. It is the greed of the people in control of those areas and not US "greed" that is the issue. The US is in an absolute no win situation around the world. We are most certainly damned if we do and damned if we don't. For example, we are told that we bungled in Afganistan by arming the natives and letting them fight the aggressors themselves, but than we also bungled in Kuwait by sending in troops and doing the fighting ourselves. Obviously, there is no answer. People are going to continue to rip on us no matter what we do. In all honesty, I believe that the US should simply launch a full scale surprise nuclear attack against the entire planet. If the world wants something to bitch about - give them that. And we Americans could just get back to living in our quaint little Jeffersonian democracy. "I never met anyone I didn't like" Will Rogers.
* Instead of us trying to adopt the other model of high taxation and inane government programs * US has one of the highest tax rates in the world. Most of middle-east have virtually non-existant income taxes. But, then government makes money from selling oil. It should be noted that US involvement in world affairs started at the end of WWII. Oil and keeping Russia at bay were the US interests. They were not interested in human rights or anything. Saudi Arabia/Pakistan has no human rights. Why are US allies with them? US was not interested in the area, when most of the area was British colonies and was not opposed to colonial rule also. When the British left, they bungled along with the local people in the transfer of power. Palestine/Israel, Pakistan/India are examples of this. I think what these issues need is for the people of these regions to solve their problems themselves. The development of these areas have been hampered to a large extent by the terrorist activities and instability due to issues from a flawed transfer of power. India have lost 2 Prime Ministers in assassinations, has had four wars fought on its soil, with Pakistan and China. It also has a very large illiterate population, which cannot take advantage of the economic policy that you are talking about. Btw, India is as liberal and democratic as US or UK. But, it will take many more years before the rural population of India will start thinking about anything other than getting their daily food. India's economic capital, Bombay, was bombed in 13 locations killing 2500 people by Islamic terrorist organizations. There has been overwhelming evidence produced by Indian intelligence that the chief co-ordinator of these attacks - Dawood Ibrahim - lives 2 blocks away from Pakistan President, Pervez Musharaff. India has appealed to the international community to take this up with Pakistan. But, there is very little that can be done as long as Pakistan has military support from China and United States. The large majority of Taliban training camps are in West Pakistan. The terrorists trained there do terrorist activities in Kashmir on a daily basis and the Indian army is on war with these people for the last 15 years. Many times, Pakistani troops have also been killed along with militants in encounters with Indian Army inside Indian territory. It should be noted that till 1 day before Pakistan tested nuclear weapons, United States said that Pakistan was not building nuclear weapons. India had nuclear capability from 1972 and never used
