The US' greatest gift to Canada?

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darkbeaver said:
Japan is occupied today seventy years after the war. Germany has never had independent government in all that time either and the Marshall Plan was not the benevolent act that you seem to believe it was. Your idea of kind imperialism is insane. When will you confess your ignorance and be saved? Like me. Supercilious twit. Did I say that?
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Japan is not occupied. If it is prove it with facts. Show us with proof, and save us also. By the way, just said that. :)
 
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The greatest gift is their drug trends that are eventually adopted by junkies up here....could there possibly be anything left after oxycontin? I think they done out and out did theyselves this time.
 
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Back to the topic:

"The US' greatest gift to Canada?"

I will never forget the euphoria in the SkyDome and all across Canada, in October of 1992 and 1993. Rated right up there with the 1967 Maple Leafs Stanley Cup.
 
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I know I'm not answering the question because I find it too lop-sided. Both nations have given.

The Yin and Yang I enjoy about the two nations is the alliances they keep, the friendship, international trade and financing, while still being independent and even critical of the others' ways in some areas.

Yet the two cousins - two huge nations - have survived many years of friendship which I find heartening and which sets an example two nations can maintain individuality, criticism of the other, and still remain partners in what counts - our being joined at the hip, grumbling constantly about the other nation, and still guaranteeing protection and guardianship just as two friends would do.

As much griping about the two being done, I don't often see many other large internationally significant nations locked by land and in cooperation as these two.

Will miss the Olympic Games this year - still relive those last seconds in the hockey finals - beautiful moment for me to see.
 
darkbeaver

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Bar Sinister said:
You are going to have to explain those pronouncements for me, because I just don't understand them the way they are now.
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They were bled smashed and conquered totally. The victors perspective of history is crap, it is always crap. Both nations were reduced to slavery for the empire, both were recreated as firewalls against communism, one for Europe and one for Asia. They remain locked into that paradigm.

ironsides said:
Japan is not occupied. If it is prove it with facts. Show us with proof, and save us also. By the way, just said that. :)
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Okinawa, airbases, naval instalations, and troops all well within easy reach of the spoils of war. And by the way if the many bits of pre attack intelligence available to President Rosenfelt had been passed on to Pearl Command the Japanese fleet could have been sunk to a man before even one yankee had to die. War has been the best investment for at least five thousand years. All those souls at Pearl invested by their own government just to make war.

CurioToo said:
I know I'm not answering the question because I find it too lop-sided. Both nations have given.

The Yin and Yang I enjoy about the two nations is the alliances they keep, the friendship, international trade and financing, while still being independent and even critical of the others' ways in some areas.

Yet the two cousins - two huge nations - have survived many years of friendship which I find heartening and which sets an example two nations can maintain individuality, criticism of the other, and still remain partners in what counts - our being joined at the hip, grumbling constantly about the other nation, and still guaranteeing protection and guardianship just as two friends would do.

As much griping about the two being done, I don't often see many other large internationally significant nations locked by land and in cooperation as these two.

Will miss the Olympic Games this year - still relive those last seconds in the hockey finals - beautiful moment for me to see.
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It's always flowers and candy with you ain't it. We both live in the same world but that is not at all apparent. I fear you have mistaken the dung for the rose.
 
darkbeaver

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TenPenny said:
Certainly better reading that your paranoid ramblings usually are.
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Since you have never, to my knowledge, stitched more than a single sentence together I hardly think you're empowered to evaluate high brow literature such as I routinely regurgitate.


Icarus27k said:
Well, I think US military bases anywhere could be evidence of occupation.
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Even within US borders. More about that later when the arrests pick up steam. The USofA is most definitely a defeated and occupied country.
 
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Icarus27k said:
Well, I think US military bases anywhere could be evidence of occupation.
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By that brilliant deduction ....then the Americans must have occupied Canada in the '60s when they constructed and operated the Norad Pine tree line.....funny I didn't feel "occupied" when I had several beers with them at the Lowther base on friday nights when beer was only ten cents a beer:smile:
 
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DaSleeper said:
By that brilliant deduction ....then the Americans must have occupied Canada in the '60s when they constructed and operated the Norad Pine tree line.....funny I didn't feel "occupied" when I had several beers with them at the Lowther base on friday nights when beer was only ten cents a beer:smile:
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I see nothing wrong with "occupation" describing this. Anywhere there is a military base.
 
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''Please name all the Dominican Republic players on the World Series Champion Toronto Blue Jays teams of 1992 and 1993.''

I remember George Bell and Tony Fernandez. There might have been another one or two. But if I recall correctly, the team may have had two or three Puerto Ricans in addition to these players.
 
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