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"chicken bone? Watermelon seeds?...LOL" Brilliant. Let's show the world how witty and utterly comical us Freepers are. Geez...

Yeah. But I think she’s gonna’ be toast over all this, esp. when the McCain camp seriously chimes in...

@DocT111

RE: “...and my thoughts are not His thoughts...”

Got that right.

“The Dems are acting desperate.” ???

Oh...right...okay...whatever...

@yooling.

I’ve already bought my Kleenex, and I expect I’ll be using it...

Lemme get this straight: did you just say “victory in Iraq” within a year and a bit?

My god...this board just never changes. ^^insert confused cynical pissed off smiley here^^

Did you take the BROWN acid? I thought that went out with the “Woodstock” generation.

If you want to help the cause, try thinking a little less lysergic...

"STFU you russky! Boeing jets are selling like hotcakes around the world because that damn AirBusCamel keeps crashing and they can't seem to get any newer models actually built! I don't know about you but when I fly I don't particularly like the faint smell of burning electrical wiring."

The faint smell of burning electrical wiring? "Smells" like you're talking about Swissair Flight 111, which was a McDonnell Douglas MD-11.

And, sorry...NO aircraft from ANY manufacturer are "selling like hotcakes" at the moment.

Relax, Sparky. The thread's back on track. That said, there's nothing more I can add that hasn't been addressed above; even that IV pump looks good (though I'm sure the thick, delicious, frothy head that a pint of Guinness produces might clog it up some.

Oh, wait...there is one thing, since you insisted on bringing it up over the course of several rants. I just got back from a six week vacation (Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands) and didn't encounter one case of anti-Americanism. Not one. Nada.

Now, is this because I'm just a regular who gets on OK with folks, and most people are pretty decent folks themselves, as we're all quite basically alike (esp. in the west ie., Canada, UK, EU, Scandinavia, etc.), OR...do you simply watch too much TV/spend too much time on the internet, and are completely convinced the entire planet hates Yanks, right down to the last citizen? If the latter's the case, perhaps you should travel the world and prove them otherwise, no?

In the meantime, I'm quite enjoying my duty free British Dunhill ciggies, though they were still quite expensive (but much tastier than Camels). Thanks for asking.

Now, tell us what you really think, Candor7. :)

Another *Note*: This thread has absolutely nothing to do with Bush, the election, or the war on terror. Seems to me there's, oh...a couple of thousand threads to choose from for that. It's almost as if you're neurotically spamming threads...(mods?)

I was gonna post on topic (just got back from the UK/EU where yes, I shopped some duty free), but not if this is where it's heading.

What a load of rubbish. Canadians get their news from the same sources everybody else does. (AP/CNN, etc.)

I hearby announce a one-thread moratorium on making fun of Canada.

I agree. I've been reading some reports/interviews with some of their regular seamen on board ship. Sure, they've got medical supplies, diving teams, etc., but they're also prepared to do anything asked of them. The regular crews are eager to hit the ground running, digging through muck and debris, any nasty/grissly stuff like body recovery, whatever they're asked.

I consider this good, honest, APOLITICAL help from friends and neighbors, and for that: THANKS CANADA.

"I must say . . it's bad form to lobby for a new stadium while the dead bob still in the water, don't you think?"

You may have noticed, this thread doesn't actually *link* to to a story or news item, just what somebody apparently *heard*. Therefore, nobody's really "lobby(ing)" about anything, "don't you think?".

Good thread. About freakin' time somebody said it. I've been very, VERY disappointed that some Freepers just couldn't hold it back for a few hours, if not at least for the DEAD FOLKS in the OTHER GULF STATES.

I'm not going to link to other threads here; go look for yourself. Some very appalling comments in the past 48hrs.

"New Yorkers were tough, determined, resolved, didn't loot, helped others, didn't complain, whine, sit around like helpless babies, expecting 'gubmint' to do everything..."

What a false, ludicris analogy/comparison. All of Manhattan was NOT under ten feet of water. Had it been, it would have been a very different story.

And your tone towards fellow Americans is sickening...

"Hundreds of people have been voluntarily zapped by the device..."

One would think they'd test it on cows first! However, if people are actually lining up to be zapped, zap away!!!

"Hundreds of people have been voluntarily zapped by the device..."

One would think they'd test it on cows first! However, if people are actually lining up to be zapped, zap away!!!

Are we to conclude from his sanctimonious prattle that Harries thinks Canada should be engaging, not only in good works, but also in bad works, non-good works, silly works, macho works, mindless works, or, more likely, pretentious works that would give it an appearance of having military strength that Canada (like Australia) does not and never can have in a world in which U.S. power is utterly preponderant in every way -- except in putting down insurgencies?

Brilliant observation. Kinda' thought of it that way myself. An obvious Aussie poseur, yet the article was written by a Canadian. Too funny.

Last time I was skiing up in Whistler, BC (I'm from WA state and visit Canada all the time) the entire town was just teeming with Aussie expats. You name it: waiters/waitresses, hotel and bar staff, ski lift personnel, etc. None of them were planning on going back home anytime soon. Could it be they were in Canada hiding out from this Owen Harries dude? Fosters and ski bunnies a little more appealing than invading the Solomon Islands, perhaps?

Way too funny...

Are you trying to engage me in some kind of pis*ing contest between the Australian/Canadian military? Well, don't bother. I'm American.

Re-read my post. The original article is about the divergent policies/philosophies (at least, according those interviewed) between the two countries GOVERNMENTS. Yet, right out of the gate, the first half dozen posters started ragging in on NOT ONLY the Canadian government, but Canadians in general, and (what COULD be misread as) members of their active military itself, who are currently engaged WITH US in Afghanistan.

I could care less if Australia has 10, or 10,000 troops in the ME/Afghanistan. Same goes for Canada. And Poland. The fact is, they're all there, FIGHTING THE FIGHT. AS ALLIES, as well as individuals.

But other point I was trying to make is, and please READ THIS CAREFULLY: If there's some 19yo Canadian kid/grunt stationed in Kandahar, who volunteered to sign up DESPITE the shortcomings of his Liberal government, and just happens to be reading FreeRepublic and some of these comments on his or her laptop at this very moment, THEN I as an American, and a freeper, am deeply offended and embarrassed by those same comments. And for that, I deeply apologize to any Canadian military who may be reading this (and any part I had in it).

If you want to slag off the Canadian government, go ahead. Have a ball. But don't slag off the kids who are there helping out. That's just (for lack of of a better term): pathetic.

I believe I also mentioned something about RESPECT re: the above.

Got that? MATE?