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bud abbott was the greatest straight man ever. I watch thus and other A&C skits on youtube with my kids - they love almost as much as i do.

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yet again... special k gets his a$$ handed to him...

"But in the interest of accuracy and authenticity, I'd like to point out to Warren that
it was his dearly beloved Michael Ignatieff who lived in the U.S. for 30 years, and
voted proudly with his pen from his public pedestal for former President Bush's
foreign policy on the war in Iraq and coercive torture techniques against enemy
combatants. Sadly, it wasn't just one x. Many a letter was used by Ignatieff to
celebrate the Bush doctrine."

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Paul martin flapping his gums, this won't surprise anyone. http://www.infowars.com/former-canadian-prime-minister-give-up-your-sovereignty-to-make-the-world-work/

Here is something that can liven up a blog. In good humor of course.
He is not a Mohamed.

The Qur’an Challenge!
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/scrowder/2009/02/20/the-quran-challenge/#respond

one small point... i should have included the last line of my post...

"Now Iggy actually split his time abroad between England
and the United States... but you take the point here."

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The chronology of the Canadian of Convenience - Michael Ignatieff:

Born of Immigrant parents in Canada and who then took him elsewhere when he was 6 years old.
Returned at 11 years old to attend private boarding school in Canada.
Remained to get his taxpayer subsidized further education at Canadian Universities for a few years and worked for two years at the University of BC where he was turned down on his request to become an Assistant Professor.
Left Canada and for the next 36 years lived in the UK, other parts of Europe and then the United States for 6 years.
Was "enticed" by Liberal backroom boys, Toronto lawyers, to return to Canada to save us from our heathen selves as our saviour and PM.
The "enticement" included a nice little visiting professorship , courtesy of the Canadian taxpayer at the University of Toronto while the plot to parachute him into the Liberal leadership role was unfurled to where it is today.

All told - the man is 61 years old and has spent less than 15 years in the country he now wants us to think he "gets",
Oh yeah.

Sorry - that should be Ignatieff was taken from Canada when he was 6 WEEKS old and did not return until he was 11. His formative years were not even here.

Obama was here for 8 hours, does that make him eligible for a premiere job? :)

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"lorraine says... Returned at 11 years old to attend
private boarding school in Canada."

more specifically... "upper canada college"... which is,
i believe, the most exclusive and expensive private
school in canada.

not exactly a champion of the common man.

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On a completely non-political note . . .

I'm just finishing up babysitting my uncle's little Shih Tzu for 3 weeks. Not being a pet owner myself, it has been a strange experience at times.

I has one pressing question: Do you think that dogs understand the concept of a telephone? In other words, when you're walking around with this small object up to your ear and apparently talking to yourself, what do you think the dog is thinking?

Robert; you can't task us with a question like that. Good God man, have some empathy.

Bakwa, Afghanistan Air Strike on Insurgents Hide out

http://rightwingvideo.com/?p=673

Warning: bad ambiance, colorful language

'Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor

'Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

'The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site....

'...The recent error doesn’t change findings that Arctic ice is retreating, the NSIDC said...'

Patti Hoffinger will appeal her firing from the fire department. Patti states that "I just have a desire to serve the people" Well Patti maybe you can serve the people at a local bar, where you might be a little more at ease with the surroundings.

posted earlier. stimulus canadian style. the feds and province are giving gm and chrysler billions of dollars in aid. revenue canada has placed a 500 million dollar lean on the chrysler plant in brampton and are looking for about a billion in taxes. only in canada you say.

A&C: timing like that doesn't come from rehearsing over the weekend.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov...at least that's how he signed his love notes to me, the big romantic.

Robert. Riddle me this: What's Hello Kitty, a boy or a girl? It stumped me. (I learned later it's a girl, sort of.)

^ Robert and dogs:

IMO I think a lot of dogs are like permanent mood monitors. They may not understand the intracacies (sp?) of human activity but they sense can sense the mood/feelings of the rest of the 'pack' and can act accordingly.

So, when are you going to get yourself a dog? ;-)

In other news...from the Canadian Mint website.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO – February 12, 2009 – The Royal Canadian Mint and Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium are inviting Canadians to celebrate the rich and storied history of the Olympic Winter Games by voting on the Top 10 Canadian Olympic Winter Moments of all time for a chance to win one of two trips for two to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

The Top 3 moments will be featured on 25-cent coins, each with a mintage of 22 million, and will enter into circulation in the fall of 2009, leading up to Vancouver 2010. The results of the Top 10 Canadian Olympic Winter Moments will be revealed in a one-hour prime-time broadcast special, in English and French, in September 2009 on CTV, TSN and RDS.

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Can they fit the whole 2002 Olympic hockey team on one coin?

Good morning Iggy.

"Obama backs Bush".
"Obama backs Bush".
"Obama backs Bush".

Headline: "Obama backs Bush".
From AssPress.
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"Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners
By NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO
Associated Press Writers"

http://www.sacbee.com/838/story/1641175.html
STOPIGGY.

I really think part of the Liberal strategy is to act as if Ignatieff is already prime minister. In Quebec we keep having photos and quoted from Iggy that sound like he is in charge now and federal projects and initiatives are his doing.

So the U.S. billboard thing doesn't surprise me.

From the province that gave us the banning of Oh Canada in the school,comes another brewing 'scandal'..from cbc site,and I'm sure Ormiston is on this as we speak!
NB Education Minister orders end to race-based Gr.4 assignment:
The assignment was based on the notion the planet was about to explode.
Students had 3 spaces on a rocket and had to decide which person they would save,among an Acadian francophone,a Chinese person,a black African,an English (this is a 'race'??)person,and an aboriginal.
Controversy began after aparent complained the assignment was 'better suited for a concentration camp employee'

Lets not get too hung up on the picture of Iggy and Obama on the Marquee in Times Square. He's trying to look like he's the PM of Canada, he's play acting and leaning heavily on "Hope". This makes him an impostor and a poseur.

He's hoping to continue his easy glide all the way into the top seat. He'd be better suited to US politics given he's spent more time there. He also agreed with Bush on Iraq and other matters.
I'd say he's in a state of confusion trying to be whatever it takes for power.

"Rebel Yell: Taxpayers Revolt Against Gimme-Mania
By Michelle Malkin • February 20, 2009 09:01 AM

My syndicated column reports on the growing, grass-roots movement against porkulus/spending binges/the entitlement culture from Seattle to Denver to Mesa, Arizona and beyond. Why aren’t you hearing about it in the MSM? Because it doesn’t fit the victim mentality/government savior narrative. We don’t exist, remember?

Well, more of you non-existent rebels will be gathering in Overland Park, Kansas tomorrow, Saturday, at Rep. Dennis Moore’s office (D-KS) at 10 am. You heard it here first. And it’s on. Reader Amanda Grosserode (now a commenter here - her handle is Huskergirl) got the ball rolling. Talk show host Darla Jaye is on board (more details here) and I hear Kansas Americans for Prosperity is getting involved.

Louder, please!

Rebel yell: Taxpayers revolt against gimme-mania
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009

There’s something in the air. It’s the smell of roasted pork. President Obama heralded the signing of the trillion-dollar “stimulus” bill in Denver and promoted his massive mortgage entitlement expansion in Mesa, Arizona at tightly-controlled campaign events. But outside the Secret Service perimeters, a raucous grass-roots rebellion against Beltway spending binges has caught fire. The new Boston Tea Party is here, baby, and it’s doused in barbecue sauce."
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/20/rebel-yell-taxpayers-revolt-against-gimme-mania/

*"Bill Clinton tells President Obama to give America hope on economy"

Willy, the man from Hope, huffs and puffs Havana cigar smoke in O's face.

Willy says, Moi has Hope in my arms.

Willy croons: "Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company,".

Willy says to O, You can have Fear, Hope's little sister:
"her younger sister, fear*, a white liver'd-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister's apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes."

*http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5776270.ece

Hope and Fear.
Charles Lamb:

"Hope* is charming, lively, blue-eyed wench, & I am always glad of her company, but could dispense with the visitor she brings with her, her younger sister, fear*, a white liver'd-lilly-cheeked, bashful palpitating, awkward hussey that hangs like a green girl at her sister's apron strings & will go with her whithersoever she goes."
(Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb)

Wanker alert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDdlY3vqmzg
Paul Martin wants us to give up our sovereignty.

Re Ignatieff, on a point of information: his mother was not foreign born. She was Alison Grant, very much an insider of the Canadian Establishment: her father was headmaster of Upper Canada College. (Michael's father, George, was born in Georgia, and fled after the Bolshevik revolution. He was a kind and down to earth gentleman.)

I don't think UCC should be used against Ignatieff, UNLESS he tries an "Aw, shucks, I'm just a regular guy" routine. 'Not likely!

Today’s editorial cartoon in the National Post, “The Week [crossed out and changed to] 6 Hours in Review” is a hoot. The next frame, after showing a haloed and winged Obama arriving at the airport, is headed: “10:45 A.M. Meets with Canadian Leader”. The graphic: a man with bushy eyebrows is being dragged off by security, while the man protests, “OK . . . I’m not the actual Prime Minister, but one day I will be . . . you’ll see . . .I’ll show you . . . I’ll show everyone . . .” As I said, it’s a hoot!

Who's On Ice for Five Years? Ten Years? Twenty Years?
Goreacle: The Deceiver.
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"YouTube - Al Gore: The North Polar Ice Cap Will Disappear in 5 Years
13 Dec 2008 ... Five Years. Mark it down.Al Gore spoke to a German audience this ... If Al Gore had been paying attention he would know that the Arctic ice ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrPCUWWjh0c"
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"Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor

Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said.

The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site."
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=aIe9swvOqwIY

Robert W ...Feed me.

There's a case being argued now in Canadian courts in Montreal where a Said Namouh is on trial for 'contravening the Canadian criminal code', facing charges of conspiracy and promoting terrorism.

Namouh used the internet to encourage people to join al qaeda, to become 'jihadists', to kill 'the unjust', to set up a pan-Islamic world and so on.

"His lawyer insists that all of these actions are merely his right, under the rubric of freedom of expression and religion. He said that even though the beliefs of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden are "repugnant to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, still, are they not religious beliefs?"

Now wait. Our courts, i.e., the HRC, charged the Rev. Boissoin for HIS religion beliefs, charging him with 'spreading hatred' for his letter to the editor, outlining the Christian rejection of homosexuality. There was no violence urged, no outlines of how to make bombs, no insistence that the 'unjust' must be killed', as there is in this Namouh case. The fact that this letter fell under 'freedom of expression' and 'religious beliefs' was utterly irrelevant.

However, this case is arguing that internet urging of murder, mass killings, instructions on making bombs, threats of violence, hatred of any who are not of the same religion, is acceptable because - and only because - such actions fall within the agenda of a RELIGION! If these same actions are not the agenda of a religion, then, they'd be defined as terrorist.

Hmm. How is it that our courts can reject the right of Rev. Boissoin to write a letter to the editor expressing his Christian rejection of homosexuality - and yet - a lawyer in Canada can argue that promoting terrorism and mass murder on the internet is both a right of freedom of expression and a sacred belief of a religion?

And since when is religion not simply an outline of one's relationship to metaphysical forces but also an outline of one's social behaviour, one's political behaviour, one's economic behaviour?

The story is in the National Post under 'where do you draw the line'.

"Lorraine: Remained to get his taxpayer subsidized further education at Canadian Universities for a few years and worked for two years at the University of BC where he was turned down on his request to become an Assistant Professor"
From what I understand, Iggy did not even make the short list for Professor at UBC, was not even considered for the position.

Fearless Hildabeast throws/focuses Willy and his Hope into the China Sea while "Declaring “we hope".

The Royal "We": Dowager Empress Hildabeast and Mao Stlong: Neo-Dual Monarchy of Asia.

Meanwhile ... "international human rights groups expressed outrage over a statement by Clinton ..."*
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*"In China, Clinton Focuses on Climate Change

BEIJING — Declaring “we hope you won’t make the same mistakes we made,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton invited China to join the United States in an ambitious effort to curb greenhouse gases, as she toured an energy-efficient power plant in Beijing on Saturday."
(nyslimes)
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"Dissidents held during Clinton Beijing visit

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN – 3 hours ago

BEIJING (AP) — More than a dozen Chinese dissidents have been questioned, followed or detained during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's weekend visit to Beijing, fellow activists said Saturday.

The stepped-up controls come as international human rights groups expressed outrage over a statement by Clinton ahead of her Friday arrival that issues such as climate change, the world financial crisis and North Korea would likely take precedence over traditional U.S. concerns about human rights in her discussions.

Amnesty International said Clinton's remarks had damaged future U.S. initiatives to protect human rights in China. New York-based Human Rights Watch said progress on issues cited by Clinton could only be achieved through greater legal protections and press freedom.

"Secretary Clinton's remarks point to a diplomatic strategy that has worked well for the Chinese government — segregating human rights issues into a dead-end 'dialogue of the deaf,'" Human Rights Watch's Asia advocacy director Sophie Richardson said in an e-mailed statement.

Blacklisted author Yu Jie said Saturday a pair of plainclothes policemen visited him on Friday and said he would have to report all his movements to them in advance.

Yu said officers had demanded that he ride in a police car while traveling around the city, a form of monitoring that he was forced to endure for more than a month during the Beijing Olympics in August. Yu said he refused and they agreed to merely follow him while he drove his own vehicle."
urlm.in/bsjn

neo:

I attended UCC from 1970-74. My dad was a schoolteacher, but I won a scholarship. Approximately 20% of the boys attending receive some form of financial aid. Do a lot of rich guys send their sons there? Yes, and sadly, many are thick as bricks. But the school unabashedly segregates boys into "A" forms and "B" forms. I was so glad, after leaving public school, to finally be in a class where most of the guys were on the same intellectual level as I was. It made for much more stimulating discussions, and of course, as a boys' school, I wasn't distracted by the micromini skirts the girls had worn in my Grade 9 class. My friends who stayed at the public high in Don Mills told me by Grade 11, they were getting stoned before class, and at lunch. I think my brain would have exploded in the mental vacuum of zoned out teens.

I always found it amusing that cocktail party socialist Steve Lewis sent his son to UCC. Are there schools in Toronto that have better educational standards? Undoubtedly - UTS comes to mind - but our best have been pretty d*mn good, from Stephen Leacock to Robertson Davies to David Gilmour in literature, from Timothy Eaton and his son John Craig (whose sons, alas, were some of the bricks I referred to) to Ted Rogers to Galen Weston to Kenneth Thomson in business, along with a generous helping of actors, athletes, doctors, etc. As the Beach Boys said "[I'm] true to my school".

I don't hold it against Iggy that he went to UCC; I hold it against him that he chose to leave Canada for so many years, and then comes back and expects a coronation. I bet the Tory war room is already preparing ads showing Iggy's speeches and letters supporting Iraq and torture.

Toronto Star's McCharles takes delight in her obvious hate for Canada's PM,
Na Na, Na na na she can go, but you can't.

"Obama invites Michaelle Jean to Washington"
Tonda McCharles feb21/09

*Govenor General Michaelle Jean discussed the plight of her native Haiti with US president Barack Obama, who invited her to come to Washington - An invitation that was Not extended to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.....

FYI-Do you know what one of the first things the GG did when she took up residence at Rideau Hall? She had the Pictures of Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Phillip taken down, as reported in the National Post last week

**Ignatieff hints at Extending our Troops involvement in Afghanistan if he Becomes PM.

"Intellectual? Yes. Leader? Not Quite"
john ivison, National Post feb21/09

*in his meeting with President Barack Obama, He seemed to suggest that if the new U.S strategy in Afghanistan works, He(Ignatieff) might be Open to Extending Canadian Military Involvement.....

g.g. time for a change.

OWG
time for a change

I agree wholeheartly, I have a question for those in the know, What is? if any, are the term limits for the GG?
i know as a norm we see a change usually 5yrs.

And that would fit in with the liberal plan & hopes to get back into power, so they could Install another Reporter with Liberal or Separist ties as GG!

I vote Rex Murphy for GG.

time to have a change from slick to rumpled.

Big meeting in Berlin this Sunday to discuss what to do about Europe's 18 trillion-Euro toxic debt mess.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/18/european-union-recession-policy

Should be fun to watch this unwind.

ulianov -- Well, I guess Stephen Harper can count on gaining zero seats in New York State then. Damn. Here I thought we were going to make significant inroads into Lizzie May's and Iggy's territory.

I guess Harper will have to campaign in North Korea and Cuba in order to pick off some of Layton's ridings...

Wuberman, thanks for Paul Martin video. What a mindless twit he is, eh? He'd love nothing more than to have the likes of himself. Stephane Dion, Barack Obama, and Al Gore controlling one world government, modeled after the EU where such leaders are NOT directly accountable to citizens.

Anyone calculate Hillary Clinton's carbon footprint on her recent Asian tour? Instead of going from Tokyo to Seoul to Beijing (all in the same neighbourhood) and then to far off Jakarta, she went from Tokyo to Jakarta and then all the way back to Seoul.

Have Western Canadians forgotten the promise Iffy made 3 days before meeting Obama,
or are we so used to Liberals courting us with lies that we don't even try to hold a Liberal to his words?

''Meanwhile, Ignatieff, as Leader of the Official Opposition, will meet briefly with the President Barack Obama on Thursday during the U.S. leader's short visit to Ottawa.
Ignatieff said trade is one of the issues he expects to raise,
including the concerns of livestock producers struggling with new American country-of-origin-labelling rules.''

Not one word, nothing. Iffy is no different than all the Liberals before him.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/Ignatieff+eyes+energy+western+votes/1295281/story.html

MSM hides the most relevant facts at the end of this report.
Always read MSM from the end to the beginning.

>>> "He said he thought the changes were expressions of the climate change caused by man, but allowed for the possibility of the cause being part of a natural development lasting hundreds of years."
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"Snow set to continue as road salt runs out

The wintery weather currently testing the patience and road grit supplies across Germany is set to get even snowier, with up to a metre of new snowfall expected over the next few days in mountainous areas."
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090221-17573.html

ulianov = Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Lenin.
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"NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lenin's Hanging Order
A famous order written by Vladimir Lenin ordering the murder of 100 people with only ... original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), ... because we have now before us our final decisive battle "with the kulaks. ..."
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Lenin's-Hanging-Order

CTV News Net reports that Obama has invited the GG to Washington for talks on the problems in Haiti and how the U.S. and Canada can work together to find solutions.

Isn't this further evidence that the man who thought Canada had a president knows nothing about us and how our parliamentary system of democracy works? The GG is not like the Secretary of State. She cannot advise the PM and the Canadian gov't on how foreign policy matters. She's a figurehead—there to promote Canada on a cultural level around the world.

BTW, on the issue of Obama thinking that Canada had a president... I find it fascinating that Bush, governor of Texas at the time and wanting to become president, was ridiculed for not knowing who the president of Turkmenistan was (or whichever former Soviet state was) but Obama, whose from a GREAT LAKES STATE (!), gets a free pass on his faux pas.

Things are definitely looking up for the Liberals when they can afford to put a picture of Iggy with Obama on a Marquee in Times Square.

Someone should tell them US citizens do not have a vote in Canada so it's a frivolous expenditure.
More proof they really aren't fit to manage the country.

ulianov = Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Lenin.
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"NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lenin's Hanging Order
A famous order written by Vladimir Lenin ordering the murder of 100 people with only ... original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), ... because we have now before us our final decisive battle "with the kulaks. ..."
www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Lenin's-Hanging-Order

"he hoped in Hillary Clinton".

"So why are the Chinese dissidents worth less than the Gazans? We guess the answer and it saddens us."

"T. Kumar of Amnesty International USA said the global rights lobby was “shocked and extremely disappointed” by Clinton’s remarks.

He ought not to be. What was surprising was that he hoped in Hillary Clinton. Those in China who want their freedom must fight on to hope on. And when they get it, it won’t be a “gift” from Hillary Rodham Clinton. It will be entirely theirs."
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"Helplessly hoping

Following on news that the Obama Administration is going to participate in preparations for the Durban Conference comes a report from AFP quoting Hillary Clinton as saying that human rights concerns won’t hinder relations with China."
http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/02/20/helplessly-hoping/

Liz
Liberals believe that Americans know alot about Canada & think that Americans are in love with us, When in truth they are quite iliterate when it comes to Canada. Most americans probally Dont even Know where Canada even is or care!.
I was in Ann Arbor,Michigan last sept.(Attending the Richard Petty Driving Experience) i had some time to go shopping, While i was in the JC Penny the clerk asked me if it was Snowing In Canada Yet? & You dont have a French accent?
I replied, No we Dont have any snow Yet, & our weather is similar to yours & No i do not speak with a French accent & iam only around 6hrs North of Here And you are only 1hr from the Border.
Also love him or Hate him, Rick Mercer's "talking with Americans" is priceless & shows just how Out of touch they are with Canada.

RobertW
i agree Martin is a twit, But I have always said he is Intent on a One World Order along with his cronies chretian, Uncle Mo, UN, etc
There was an interesting Canadian Movie a few years ago by Paul Gross, that was very close to that subject.

Wuberman
Thanks also on the Vid tip, Thats one you wont see on the National News,
Kate you should put that one up for topic.

Oh btw i like how our the msm made a point of indicating that Ignatieff & Rae brought up the subject of Canada's Poor little Terrorist.

This one's got everything, HRCs and marijuana law reform. Can't wait to hear more about it.

bryanr:

I worked in Detroit from '98 to 2000. One of the Americans I worked with asked me, in all seriousness, "Isn't Clinton the President of Canada?". And this guy lived just across the river from Windsor! He was a telecom clerk, and yet he wore a pistol to work each day. "I don't feel dressed if I'm not packing" he says. Uh, OK.