Proudly Canadian, Eh! Raise A Toast And Save The Whining For Another Day

The Calgary Sun ^ | 7-1-05 | Jose Rodriguez

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

"Contrary to what our American cousins might say, the lightbulb was first invented by Canadian Henry Woodward who sold the rights to his patent to Thomas Edison. "

But Woodward's electric light simply didn't work and never could have worked. Edison found the key to making it work.

Don't worry too much about who invented what.....I have found that the Canadians have this much-ingrained "inferiority complex" about themselves -- that means they have to constantly claiming they're "better" than other people....it's irritating but really quite harmless....

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

A friend of ours who is Canadian said the BIG sport he grew up with, and played a lot, was CURLING. Looks boring to me.

I tried watching curling up here on TV, but, honestly, it is a lot like watching paint peeling...there IS a degree of skill in the sport, but it fails to keep my attention span for very long....

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

So it did. Now it is relegated to being sent aloft in creaky helicopters and to sea in leaky submarines. I submit that the difference is that the government of Canada used to care about that blood...and now it doesn't.

I agree....as I mentioned to someone else in this posting, the Canadians still honor their "brave" soldiers from 50 YEARS AGO as they have no "brave" soldiers defending and dying for freedom today....

[NorthOf45]

I submit that the difference is that the government of Canada used to care about that blood...and now it doesn't.

... the liberal/leftist portion that is.

[NorthOf45]

I agree....as I mentioned to someone else in this posting, the Canadians still honor their "brave" soldiers from 50 YEARS AGO as they have no "brave" soldiers defending and dying for freedom today....

It is a very different time we live in now. However, we still have very brave soldiers who ARE dying for freedom. Afghanistan is no Iraq, but we have seen seven losses there.

[cmotormac44]

never compare the men who serve in their military with the type of government a nation has---Canadians were as brave and sacrificing as any at Normandy--I was there with them in a US Coast Guard naval unit and have the greatest respect for their navy and army men---God Bless the Canucks

[NorthOf45]

I just read your profile ... God bless you.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Thank you for your patriotism, honor and service. May God bless you.

[JCEccles]

The blood of young Canadians helped liberate Europe in the two big wars.

And they should be justly honored for their sacrifice.

But in the grand scheme of things, Canada's burden was light. It has always been light. The United States has always done the heavy lifting. It was US industrial might that defeated the Nazis in World War II and the Soviets in the Cold War. Canada's contribution, although welcome, was relatively modest.

Canada was already committed to defend Great Britain before the US ever got involved in World War II. But Churchill never said to the US, "We're okay. We don't need help. The Canadians are here and have everything under control." But when the US declared war on Germany Churchill was ecstatic beyond belief. He said he knew at that moment that the Nazis would be defeated.

Canadians can move without insult through Western and Northern Europe because there is a common socialist conceit that binds Canada to these dying cultures. US citizens are insulted because the US is the most powerful nation on earth, unafraid to use its power to oppose tyrants, and power tends to inspire resentment among the failed and formerly powerful.

Canadians are ignored because Canada is considered inconsequential and harmless by tyrants the world over.

I pray the US will not follow Canada into decline.