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Quinn, I would need a whole

Orlando — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:22:42 +0000

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Quinn, I would need a whole team of psychiatrists to help me figure out why. No offense, but it's freaking cold up there. And I don't like your beer.

When Governor-General

acanuck — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:55:22 +0000

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When Governor-General Michaelle Jean greeted Obama on his arrival in Ottawa, she reportedly reminded him that his popularity in Canada (about 90%) exceeded his U.S. approval rate.
Obama replied something like, "Great. If I screw up as president, I'll have a country I can move to."
So your proposal is not out of the question.

Poor Guy ! A touching story

BrianSkuse — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:09:52 +0000

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Poor Guy ! A touching story .

That could have been any of us !

Just don't burn the White

matyra — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:37:02 +0000

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Just don't burn the White House again.

Excellent! And lest you

dijamo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:55:50 +0000

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Excellent! And lest you Canucks think America has nothing to bring to the table, you can oust Harper and Obama will be the President of the United States of AmeriCanada. I love it when a plan comes together!

Danger alert! He's on tour

The Old Grouch — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:25:16 +0000

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Danger alert! He's on tour again...

Are you people ever going to

The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:02:51 +0000

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Are you people ever going to stop your insufferable gloating over the War of 1812? 'Tween that and having the better half of Niagra Falls and the alarming news that you've now developed fully functioning deliverable newkyaler weapons, its enough to make us want to invade you again. Third time's the charm. We'll pencil it in for after we're done with the other two wars we're in (including the one your in with us).

Throughout most of the 1960s,

acanuck — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:48:28 +0000

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Throughout most of the 1960s, Canada was a reluctant nuclear-armed power.
It bought into the U.S.-made Bomarc anti-aircraft missile system, which worked best when fitted with nuclear warheads. It was assumed Russian bombers would come over the Pole in streams, and a 7-kiloton aerial blast would take out many aircraft at a time.
Canada operated the missiles, but the warheads remained U.S. property. So American approval was required to arm and detonate them. The system obviously never saw action.
One of Canada's two Bomarc bases was at La Macaza, Quebec, and concerned antiwar students from Montreal used to organize picket-style protests up in the north woods. Ah, those were heady days.

When we were kids, we used to

quinn esq — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:50:21 +0000

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When we were kids, we used to enjoy hiking up the DEW line. Remember that? Distant Early Warning system in case the Russkies came over the Pole?

Anyway, we'd get bored, nothin' much to do on a weekend, so we'd hike up to the DEW line, then dare each other to touch the electrified fence with a stick. Sparks EVERYWHERE! So cool! And then the B-52's would come roaring overhead, and we'd all flop on the grass and giggle.

Well, it WAS good fun... until you guys took out Vladivostock. Man, did my Mum give me a tanning.

Won't do THAT again.

We're gonna have to phase it

quinn esq — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:45:07 +0000

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We're gonna have to phase it in. First five years, all newcomers get free podiatry.

That outta hold things 'til we can train up enough psychiatrists to handle Orlando.