Canada's greatest gift to the United States
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From the late 1940's to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Canada was the wasteland destined to collect fallen bombers so none of them would fall on the inhabited US
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John Peters Humphrey. He was the principle drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that has certainly helped in promulgating human rights around the world, thus making the world relatively safer for all, including US citizens around the world.
Talented artists, I agree.
Aren't they doing a good enough job of killing themselves without our help? Note McDonald's and the KFC Double Down.
electric cooking range, paint roller, zipper, hydrofoils, tracer bullets, cardiac pacemaker, snowmobile, plexiglass, Muskol, sonar, standard time zones, chocolate bar, Trivial Pursuit, diesel-electric locomotive, lawn sprinkler, Canada Dry, rye whiskey, table hockey, basketball, WonderBra, Canadarm, alkaline battery...
Tits everywhere, not Just the US, are thankful; beats the hell out of whalebone.
Wayne Gretzky. He saved US hockey. Sadly that turned out to be a disservice to Winnipeg and Quebec City.
And John Kenneth Galbraith; the antithesis of Milton Friedman whose right wing economic policies have destroyed so many lives.
And John Kenneth Galbraith; the antithesis of Milton Friedman whose right wing economic policies have destroyed so many lives.
Yeah, I left out insulin on purpose because it had already been mentioned, and I wasn't sure where the telephone was invented and didn't feel energetic enough to look it up. My memory is that Mr. Bell invented it while in the U.S. and there's some dispute about what nation the credit belongs to. But again, I'd make the same point I did in the thread about U.S. gifts to Canada: none of these are specifically gifts from one nation to another and I can't really think of anything substantive that is. Best I can think of is that both the U.S. and Canada have pretty good neighbours across our common border, and that's not exactly small change, but it's not really a gift either, it's a recognition of our common interests.
