Jealous again; the super-links edition
Not sure what axe Wonkette (or Greg Beato?) has to grind against her "neighbours" to the north, but I'm starting to think that a Junior A hockey player said he'd make her breakfast and then snuck out to make his early morning practice and never called.
Apparently anti-American sentiment sprang forth in the Great White North after 9/11 (wonder what the 13,000 US-bound plane passengers who were grounded in Newfoundland for a week would say about that). No, that was when y'all realized there are other countries outside your own borders, and that several of us other than France have mixed feelings.
At Canada.com the query du jour was "Are you surprised by the findings of a report that says US spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most of their pre-war judgements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?" Nineteen percent said they were surprised that that information was even released to the public, and 47.73% said "Only people who'd be surprised would be Americans." Why do you think there aren't Canadian soldiers in Iraq? Isn't it strange when foreigners have a more sceptical view of your government than you do? Anyone remember McCarthyism? Japanese internment camps?* Post-9/11 round-ups of Arab and Muslim immigrants?
Also enjoy that, while you can make fun of our exploitation of the letter "u" and the reversal of "er" (as in /theatre/), you apparently can't spell /barrel/. Maybe the trip over Niagara Falls had lasting effects after all ... ok, that was petty, but give us a break. Those guns are really big ...
* Yes, Canada also had internment camps, fact checker. Yes, we also made reparations, and to each internee's survivors, not just to internees themselves.
Apparently anti-American sentiment sprang forth in the Great White North after 9/11 (wonder what the 13,000 US-bound plane passengers who were grounded in Newfoundland for a week would say about that). No, that was when y'all realized there are other countries outside your own borders, and that several of us other than France have mixed feelings.
At Canada.com the query du jour was "Are you surprised by the findings of a report that says US spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most of their pre-war judgements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction?" Nineteen percent said they were surprised that that information was even released to the public, and 47.73% said "Only people who'd be surprised would be Americans." Why do you think there aren't Canadian soldiers in Iraq? Isn't it strange when foreigners have a more sceptical view of your government than you do? Anyone remember McCarthyism? Japanese internment camps?* Post-9/11 round-ups of Arab and Muslim immigrants?
Also enjoy that, while you can make fun of our exploitation of the letter "u" and the reversal of "er" (as in /theatre/), you apparently can't spell /barrel/. Maybe the trip over Niagara Falls had lasting effects after all ... ok, that was petty, but give us a break. Those guns are really big ...
* Yes, Canada also had internment camps, fact checker. Yes, we also made reparations, and to each internee's survivors, not just to internees themselves.
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