Posted on 01/15/2011 4:45:40 PM PST by markomalley
If you’ve ever watched Bill Maher’s Friday HBO show, you know he holds a lot of resentment toward conservatives and their beliefs. But what’s his ideal vision for the United States?
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the outspoken entertainer offered a hint. He asked his guest Martin Short, a Canadian-American actor, if he noticed that Canada and the United States were drifting apart culturally.
“When you were a boy…things I think were different,” Maher said. “The United States and Canada were more alike. When you were skiing on the snowcap plains of Manitoba, but it seems like in that era the United States and Canada were more alike and the last 30 or 40 years, we’ve kind of grown apart. Canada is a country that has health care and not a lot of gun violence. And we’ve become just a more war-like mean, cramped conservative country. You think that’s true?”
Short explained that he viewed the countries as being incredibly close, but with different priorities.
“These two countries have an unbelievable closeness – I mean, we’re the aliens you don’t deport,” Short said. “I think it’s always been that way. We are a different country. We’re a parliamentary country. Thirty-six million people, and yet we’re the second largest country in the world. We’re big-boned as we like to call it. And you know, gays in the military passed in ’92 with no fanfare.”
Maher responded that he viewed Canadian society as being more evolved than American society.
“That’s what I mean, that’s how we’ve grown apart,” Maher responded. “The progressive things that we should have been doing in that time, Canada has done and we have lagged behind.”
Blame Canada.
Dope fried
Fur Shur.
(NOTE: My own ancestors gave up going to Central Saskatchewan to parlay for furs several hundred years ago ~ and it hasn't gotten better up there).
Frankly, Canada hasn't exactly "evolved".
I read an article years ago that said the US has always been more violent than, say, Canada; before guns became affordable people used other things or their bare hands.
Maybe it’s because of the “melting pot” aspect that Canada didn’t really have in a major way (except perhaps Quebec tho’ it didn’t attempt to integrate) altho’ they’re getting it somewhat now. Could say the same about Australia - pretty homogenous tho’ the mix got larger from the 60s as the immigration laws/quotas changed.
Interesting topic.
I am a bit disappointed to hear that from Martin Short...
Why can’t he just move there.... or something.
I swear that leftist brains are not connected to the mouth
Canada was able to let gays in its military because its military hasn’t done any heavy lifting since WWII. Sure, they have excellent special forces and snipers, etc., fighting with us in Afghanistan and Iraq, but otherwise, they are simply not even a military consideration. Their geography and proximity to the US renders their need for a real military (and not just a “social experiment”) slight. It sad to see what, in 1945, was one of the most impressive militaries on the planet become a handful of excellent troops (and otherwise irrelevant)...
Holy Crap! Canada has an army?
Conservative Albertans would then be with like minded Dakotans and Vermont's lesbians would have seat in Ottawa.
Why can’t Bill and the rest of his unfunny ilk just diversify Cuba or Venezuela . or better yet, Africa?
Set the example for us, Bill We know you wouldn’t be the least bit hypocritical, now would you?
While Canada is inching toward the right, in recent years (we have a minority Conservative government); the U.S. has been circling the bowl toward socialism, in the last couple of years. (I know that we were in that whirlpool, long before the U.S. — no need to point it out to me.)
* (Also, no need to point out the mixing of metaphors.)
Canada has a conservative Prime Minister. That we should emulate.
According to wikipedia -
Canada military - 67,000 - 26,000 reserves
US military - 1,430,895 - 848,000 reserves
It’s not even comparing apples to oranges. It’s like comparing watermelons to raisins.
Maher could call for the mass murder of Tea Party members and he’ll still get millions of fans.
This country is packed to the brim with the most worthless leftists you can imagine.
For Canada to spend money on its military would be about as idiotic a waste of money as can be imagined.
As long as the USA is around nobody else will be able to threaten Canada.
If the USA were to make a serious move on Canada militarily, they would be unable to stop it, regardless of what they might have invested in their military.
Given these two indisputable facts, what would be the point of Canada investing significant sums in its military?
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