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2006-07-02 Great White North

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-02 10:59|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm instituting a new rule. Whenever I read a foreign article, I'm going to stop at the first use of the word "neocon". No foreigner (and damned few Americans) actually knows what a "neocon" is, but it seems to be code for "people I really hate".

I might miss some insightful articles on Leo Strauss that way, but I'm willing to take the risk.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-07-02 13:10|| 2006-07-02 13:10|| Front Page Top

#2 It is painfully apparent that, in George W. Bush's profoundly divided U.S., the population is rigidly split along ideological lines -- Republicans vs. Democrats, neoconservatives vs. liberals, warmongers with me-first sensibilities and all the wrong priorities vs. peace-lovers with social conscience and all the right ones.

Idiot

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-02 13:21|| 2006-07-02 13:21|| Front Page Top

#3 That will surely be the most pointless article I'll read anywhere today. Obsessing about obsessing. I learned one thing: it's Canada Day. In Canada I presume.

Posted by Glaitch Groting9149 2006-07-02 13:48|| 2006-07-02 13:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I also liked this bit:

On those rare occasions the U.S. opens its eyes long enough to realize it is not alone on the continent, when it does accidentally notice us...

The US knows very well it's not alone on the continent. We spend a lot of time thinking about Mexico, for example. Ms. Kennedy seems to be unaware that Mexico is in North America. Typical Canadian insularity.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2006-07-02 15:14|| 2006-07-02 15:14|| Front Page Top

#5 And what kind of name is "Canada," anyway?

Most people don't know this, but the name of the country is actually spelled Cnd. The confusion starts when you ask a Canuck to spell it. He'll invariably say "C eh, N eh, D eh.".

This has gone on for so long that people actually think it's spelled "C A N A D A" nowadays.

Hope this clears things up. { ;^)

Posted by Parabellum 2006-07-02 15:24|| 2006-07-02 15:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay, we've done with Canada for the year. (puts note in Blackberry for Canada Day '07)

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-02 15:28|| 2006-07-02 15:28|| Front Page Top

#7 A lot of Canadian energy in the late 19th and early 20th century went into defining themselves as "good" vs. the "bad" U.S. If we don't always pay attention, maybe it's because the one-note song is boring.

Posted by lotp 2006-07-02 16:07|| 2006-07-02 16:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's stop worrying about what they think.

You know, if those ugly Americans just south of you started to think that way, the rest of the world will start to become very worried, very worried indeed. Particularly since there's nothing that exists that could really stop them if they had the attitude.

Posted by Snetch Unater1043 2006-07-02 16:34|| 2006-07-02 16:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Good grief, what a pathetic article. Fred's in-line comments are spot-on and make the whole thing bearable ;)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-02 17:08|| 2006-07-02 17:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Canada? That's the section of Epcot between Imagination and Britain, right?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-07-02 19:37|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-07-02 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11 I hear prozac works for OCD.

Posted by 2b 2006-07-02 21:10|| 2006-07-02 21:10|| Front Page Top

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