the future never looked brighter!!! http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=57228
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the future never looked brighter!!! http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=57228
don't worry, i won't return fire until fired upon... :)
I sincerely hope this is fake. I seriously doubt many Canadians would like this.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it's fake.
that is a misconception, Myth of the Flat EarthQuote:
yeah and once the earth was pretty sure to have been flat...
It's not fake, it's true.
There are very close bonds between our two nations.
The integration of our armed forces has been ongoing since the 50's and our battle group training is all designed around meshing with larger American units.
Infrastructure wise, Canada and the US are probably the tightest 2 countries on the planet and for sure we share the longest unprotected border in the world.
And, that being said not all of us are too happy about it.
But then I didn't vote for that tool Harper, his actions do not represent me or my interests.
This represents just another tie to a dying behemoth that Canada should be working to disentangle from.
Harper has little if anything to do with these machinations.
This was started by William Lyon McKenzie King and the deal was sealed by Lester B. Pearson and the finishing touches by Deifenbaker. It was a deal that ensured that Canada would not have to spend itself to death on military expenditures and instead it came under the rules of UN peacekeeping forces and as a NATO member, we were not required to have a full spectrum armed forces.
Everyone after Deifenbaker is merely signing off on plans that stem from the end of WW2.
Most, if not the greater majority of both countries have no idea about the ties that bind our countries. That's why you read so many magnificently stupid things about us two on the internet.
If nations were people, Canada and the USA would be blood brothers and England would be our parents with France being the Uncle we always liked, but he drank and smoked too much. lol
I am painfully aware of the "ties that bind us". And I dislike it. I dislike the united states. I have not particularly enjoyed the time I spent there. Although I know many Americans who are good people I am distrustful of American mass culture and wary of the influence the united states holds.
I can understand people disliking the cultural and political systems of a given country. But in reality, there isn't a whole lot of cultural difference between our two nations.
we all watch the same hollywood movies, have the same lifestyles more or less and live in highly similar circumstances as far as infrastructure goes.
as for people, well, people are people where ever you go and there are a great deal of disparate cultural idioms available in the USA and Canada.
Heck I live in Toronto which is comprised of some 65% recent immigrants! It is the petri dish of multiculturalism in the world!
It's not a melting pot like in the States where everyone is American first, then the heritage has some sort of play, whereas here, it is opposite. The heritage comes first, then the affiliation to Canada. That, I don't care much for, I would prefer that Canadians were Canadian first.
Even I used to do it about my Scottish heritage and I've never even set foot in Scotland. Which is probably a seat of racism/nationalism and misplaced loyalties in a great many peoples of the so called "new world".
anyways, America is a large country with a lot of different cultures within it. Canada, has 3 major cities and a few moderately sized cities and many small towns, but not huge gaps overall culturally due to our smaller population.
all in all, if you were knocked out in a small town in canada and transported to a similar one in america, you wouldn't notice much difference if any at all when you woke up. :)
I didn't say that american pop culture inevitably failed to entertain. I just don't trust it that much. The united states has a very specific agenda in the world and I'm not onboard with manifest destiny... so I look at the cultural exports of the USA as being suspect.
thats because the government created death metal to create enraged super killers to infest the rest of the world with distortion filled vocals and violent slam dancing.
I have to agree to a certain extent. Our banking crisis would have stayed ours if everyone else hadn't jumped on bord the uniquely American idea of buying high risk futures. Not that there aren't other nations with hair-brained investment tools and ideas, but that one was definantly ours. I guess we'll see if nationalizing banks actually sorts sh!t out. I can see the potential to do good things, but the potential for abuses is also there.
Its population is growing sick.
youth are exposed to thousands of murders on TV before they are 18. Yet, the culture is full of week men who neither grasp the realities nor consequences of violence because at the same time they've been sheltered.
The women are no longer feminine. The idea of being liberated mixed with joining the work force has made them more aggressive, because this is the trait that America rewards. Aggressive work habits, aggressive, actions and speech.
So now the family unit is out of balance.
Throw in tremendous consumerism, commercialism, insecurity.... yup. America is not what it used to be. Not for some time.
Thank God the rest of the world is going to $hit too and has its head up its a$$, so it doesn't seem so bad.
it's always darkest before the dawn.
How about a group hug? Just between us modern western democracies...all this doom and gloom is giving me gas.
The Cannucks have given us Pam Anderson....
jue faegoht
Or Mike Myers? Jim Carry? Martin Short? the Late John Candy? Lorne Michaels? ...wait, this list will be too long.
I don't see a problem with it.
The first part is dead wrong. The US has used all sorts of means including economic sanctions to get corporate culture (Pepsi, Tobacco, cinema) into regions where it didn't exist before.
The empire doesn't just use military means to alter the global culture landscape. The sad thing is that many people have bought into it.:( With the few exceptions, American culture, much like Canadian, in terms of media, is rubbish.
I've yet to see U.S. sanctions set up spacifically to force U.S. consumerism into closed markets. I have seen where the lifting of sancions put in place for other reasons have ushered in a flood of consumerism, but never has it been done to create the flood. It is also usually a two way flood, so to speek. The U.S. tends to be heavily influenced by our tradeing partners as well. The U.S. culture most people seem to detest isn't a purely American thing any more, and hasn't been since the end of WWII.
Are you suggesting that the religious fundamentalism on the upswell over the last decade in the USA is a syncretic responce to the involvement of the USA with countries like Saudi Arabia - where religious fundamentalism is common?
Yes, actually. Seeing others willing to kill us for our religious beliefs because thier religious beliefs tell them they need to has, indeed, rekindled may fudementalist groups. Given time and space, Americans tend to take the middle road and assume that everyone else is also on the middle road too. 9/11 forced many to rethink this belief. And the typical American knee jerk reaction is "If you are going to attack me for being christian, I'm going to be the best **** christian out there!"
See I find any sort of religious fundamentalism as a dangerous thing. The 9/11 excuse just doesn't hold water for believing that you have a duty to bring about the rapture.
Truth is that Al Quaeda did not target the USA for being Christian.
They targeted USA for being imperialist.
This doesn't make what they do right... but it is why some of us have trouble buying that it's a valid reason to run into the arms of fundamentalism.
well, the USA isnt christian anyways. a lot of it is, but there are a lot of us as well that are not.
They targeted us for supporting Israel
They also targeted us for being Christion and not "obeying the word of G'd"
They also targeted us for having troops in Saudi Arabia, their holy land
Like any fundamentalist, they are convinced they are right because they own the true words of G'd and that anything is acceptable because they are fighting those who dare disobey the word of G'd
All fundamentalists are teh same, it isn't the religion, it's the variation
Since you seem to have missed the very obvoius point.... "us" is the U.S. "We" as a society took that as a very personal hit, just as we took Pearl Harber as a personal hit. And that is enough of an excuse for those inclined to look for an excuse. I am not a bible thumper, but like every other human being, I have a tendancy to look for excuses. Much like you'd rather just blame and mis-trust Amrica for pretty much everything.:rolleyes: