Posted on 03/23/2014 5:27:20 PM PDT by markomalley
We like their fries...
YES! And I just had their TOAST for Sunday breakfast. The dry cleaner around the corner is French style. My favorite kiss is french.
Lafeyete...we are here!
Wait a moment.
I suspect from your ‘ nom de plume’ you may be of the coon ass persuasion. Which might make you FRENCH! He what's goin on here?
Whatta are you tryin to pull? ; )
You are absolutely correct. I would guess the people in favor of this in Canada is below 3%. It would be political suicide for a federal politician to suggest this course.
Dianne Francis wrote this book for one reason, to sell books. Even she doesn't believe it is possible.
War of 1812.
USA by any reasonable military balance of power should have had a cakewalk taking Canada. Embarrassing performance by our Army allowed the Canadians and Brits to kick us out, then counter-invade. Stopped by our Navy.
The Navy performed astonishingly well at first considering the imbalance of power. But was finally swamped by numbers. Poor initial British naval performance was probably due largely to over-confidence induced by repeated victories over low morale and experience European navies. US Navy was an entirely different matter.
The British small-force raid that took DC was another huge failure by US government and military.
America won Battle of New Orleans, and allowed this to convince them they’d actually won the war. An embarrassing defeat for the British Army, and one of the worst in its long history. In their defense, they’d never run up against anybody like Jackson.
As you say, a draw by any reasonable standard.
The war was a victory for the U.S., because we showed the world we were a nation not to be trifled with. If we had lost, the U.S. would've been a small country on the eastern seaboard of the continent and would've never taken the immigrants we did. We'd have had European countries always in our business, messing with us.
As it is, the war opened up the west for us, and we took Europeans as immigrants, NOT as conquerors.
I’ve often heard pop and couch in American usage, especially many years ago.
I live in TX and spend considerable time in Alberta and I believe this would work just fine. You could throw in SK as well.
The British Army had forts at St Joseph Island, Drummond Island. It was this knowledge that gave me to think of the British Factor in the struggle.
On a lighter note, a journal was kept on the Drummond Island which was American originally. The officer disliked the island, being a well bred British type. He also complained about the potatoes served and " a rather poor wine".
This the last territory annexed by Britain, who held on until 1827 to the island. A note was finally served which read that "if you do not leave immediately, we will come back with force of arms". The British left, leaving the cemetery and the unfortunate Irish soldiery buried there. Added to that the two chimneys of the barracks.
As a Canadian, as much as I admire many things about the U.S., I’m not ready to give up on Canada for the benefits (and costs) that would come with being part of the U.S.A. However, we could probably look at harmonizing certain rules and regulations that hamper cross-border trade and travel. Oh, for the good old days when one could travel back and forth without a passport, and with few hassles.
With all due respect to U.S. FReepers, I agree with that.
Ummm... No Thanks.
That’s too bad, but no different than how Canadians with convictions (even if they’re been pardoned in Canada) are treated when trying to enter the US. BTW, if you were truly interested you could get a chit (Minister’s letter of rehabilitation, or something like that) which would allow you. And which you only need to get once and is good for life. As opposed to the waiver of inadmissibility (due to criminal convictions, etc) for entry to the US - which costs USD$565, and the longest one granted (after getting them multiple times) is for 5 years. Oh, you can also “blame” the US and Canadian governments for sharing their federal police records systems, which allows border officials to find out about any convictions. We are probably the only two countries in the world to share information at that level - I’ll be that Mexico doesn’t.
I’ve often thought the same thing - when it comes to social welfare policies, the US is actually more socialist than Canada. More agencies providing more programs. Also, Social Security is bigger (per capita, I mean) than Canada’s OAS and CPP, combined.
Canada is slightly larger than the U.S.
Actually we’d have to decide how many Provinces there would be, not States. :)
Not bad.
Why not have some of each? And throw in a few commonwealths, territories and protectorates just for fun. For example, Montana would attract a lot more interest if it called itself an Empire.
We could do that, but what do we do with Washington DC ?
Outsource it to Bangladesh?
Valid point and one that must be contemplated.
Canadian liberal government legislation in 1995 required the registration of all firearms, including shotguns and rifles, not just restricted firearms such as assault rifles and automatic weapons.
No, but...
There has been talk in the past of some of the more conservative western provinces seceding from Canada and applying for statehood. It never got beyond talk, but it has been discussed.
If Quebec goes, they may go too.
Would you trade Upper New England for Western Canada?
54’ 40” or fight!
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