Posted on 09/02/2004 1:34:33 PM PDT by quidnunc
A man in Michigan wrote to me last week and said, "Please go to hell or stay in Canada, whichever you prefer."
His suggestion arose because of remarks made here about Democrat John Kerry, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the general state of the American media.
Now I have news for the man in Michigan. Recently, I succeeded in staying in Canada and simultaneously visiting hell. I have been watching coverage of the Republican Convention.
There are many horrible ways of inflicting pain on oneself, but this has got to be one of the worst. You get agitated and then worried that you're getting all those side-effects that you're warned about on those American commercials for prescription drugs headache, nausea and hypertension. Your stomach churns, you turn numb. You learn that Vice-President Dick Cheney is now America's granddad.
The tactical point of this Republican convention is to show the allegedly "compassionate" side of the Republicans. It's working. What makes a viewer particularly nauseous is watching the television media roll over to have its tummy rubbed by Republicans.
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(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
From reading your past comments I'm assuming that you don't share the writers sentiments.
The only difference between France and Canada is us.
That's a safe assumption.
Tuesday evening it was Arnold Schwarzenegger telling implausible stories about the Soviet menace in the Austria of his boyhood, and extolling the United States as if it was the only country with jobs, business opportunity and freedom of the press
Somebody needs to remind this guy that the Canadian government has banned FOX news.
Canuck vomit at its best.
NFP
For a country who supposedly hates the United States, they sure do spend an awful lot of time obsessing over us.
Quality of the food...
Oh goodie. Well, then, Ms. Doily, er, Doyle -- SUFFER. With a pain threshold that low, you deserve nothing but derision, you pathetic girly-man.
Listen, you Socialist--our per capita income and standard of living is still better than Austria. Perhaps the "guarantee" you mention is worth about as much as a nice pile of bovine excrement.
Hey, Canada, STFU! Without US you'd all be speaking German, Russian, or Japanese as would the rest of the world. And without US you'll all be bowing to Mecca someday while some doofus armed with a sword lops off the limbs and heads of those who refuse to convert....
No, No, the difference is as simple as #1 and #2. But when they are gone the relief is the same.
Canada? Canada? Home to mediocre beer, crappy academics and lousy medical services. A 'country' that who can't field an army, navy or air force to protect its own borders. If the author has so much contempt for America why doesn't he stay on his own side of the border? Some people just can't understand what is staring them in the face. Sheesh!
If I owned Canada and Hell, I'd live in Hell and rent out Canada.
After subjecting myself to the entire DNC - with brief pauses for the bathroom, meals and fighting the need to slam my head against the keyboard repeatedly, I can honestly say I'm in a position to outline the difference between the two.
Disjointed attempts to use musical notes to create the appearance of coherance and monotone presentations aside, if you DID suffer through the entire DNC, you might come away with the idea that appeasement, the murder of babies and the glory of the gay lifestyle are the epitome of American values.
If you HAVE watched the entire RNC thus far, you can see they are not.
Now you know the CBC and CTV will only show mommies and little girls - they would never show anything of substance to upset their placid, laid-back nanny-driven population.
Perhaps some will enjoy the AlJazeera take on the GOP frolics - imagine all those short skirted women!
They wish to keep insulated thank you and we should be grateful they "allowed" any soundbites they did from the evil empire to the south.
The Globe and Mail should stick with heavy subjects like school lunches and flu shots for winter.
I would like the satisfaction of telling this SOB, John Dole, to his face to go to hell!!!
Anglo-Canadians in the Pacific and Eastern time zones undergo a form of state-mandated brainwashing from the moment they are born, through which they become incapable of normal adult responsibility for their own safety and survival. Similar to the lamented Dodo bird, they will be rendered extinct in the near future, displaced and/or assimilated by Oriental, Indian, and Middle Eastern immigrants. French Canadians, in spite of their many, many, many faults, recognized what was happening in the 1960s, and walled-off the rest of Canada as quickly as possible. They're French, but not completely stupid. The author of the article, on the other hand, is completely stupid.
Canada is irrelevant and no where near the "beacon of hope" the U.S.A. has been to people all over the world.
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