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Tecumsehsbones

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Actually.......I have been to Bakersfield, Tec. The city itself doesn't stick out in my mind as we made our visit as brief as possible. What does stick out in my mind is crossing over from Nevada into California. The shock of seeing mounds upon mounds of every conceivable type of garbage filling the ditches just flat out floored me.
Just making the point that the coastal, San Diego to Marin County California ain't the whole state. This is the state that elected Ronald Reagan governor. Twice.
 

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That is province wide. Different in the lower mainland. There are areas where street signs are in foreign languages. Multiculturalism was and remains a huge mistake.
That is debatable , it has positive and not so positive outcomes . That canary has already flown , unfortunately.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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I'm making a future political observation. To function in BC for most of the last hundred years you'd have best learned English, and it isolated from Canada then to function in BC for most of the next hundred years you'd have best learned Cantonese if not Mandarin.
And I'm pointing out that calling the language of a country an ocean away "foreign," and the language of an island an ocean and a continent away "not foreign" is kinda weird.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Ronnie was an actor. Sort of. That is like Oregon or Washington electing a timber Barron gov.
George Washington was a farmer. Abraham Lincoln was a manual laborer. Harry Truman was a tailor. Dwight Eisenhower was a career soldier. And a timber Barron [sic] is a businessman. I thought you were peeing your pants with joy over having a "businessman" in the White House now.

I assume you have what you think is a point here.
 

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George Washington was a farmer. Abraham Lincoln was a manual laborer. Harry Truman was a tailor. Dwight Eisenhower was a career soldier. And a timber Barron [sic] is a businessman. I thought you were peeing your pants with joy over having a "businessman" in the White House now.
I assume you have what you think is a point here.
Two actually. Movies is the main industry in California. People in California have difficulty distinguishing fact from fantasy. Probably because of point 1.
 

Tecumsehsbones

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Two actually. Movies is the main industry in California. People in California have difficulty distinguishing fact from fantasy. Probably because of point 1.
I've actually spent a fair amount of time in California, and I find that people there are about the same as the common run anyplace in terms of their grip on reality. Probably better than those poor, dumb saps in West Virginia who think Trump is going to bring back the coal industry.
 

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Two actually. Movies is the main industry in California. People in California have difficulty distinguishing fact from fantasy. Probably because of point 1.
Ignorance on Parade.

Movies is the 9th largest business in California.

You seem to be incapable of making a point without resorting to a lie. And this is just general conversation.
 

captain morgan

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You can't? Unless they join the US, how the f*ck ya think they're gonna get their petroleum products to market?

They would be two landlocked territories trying to move their product through what would become a foreign country. They may be having a hard time doing it now, but it'll be impossible if they separate.


AB/SK are already in that position and ship primarily to the USA... So, other than NOT paying Federal taxes, what exactly changes?


...and become a Banana republic.


Notley did 1 thing right, she cut production of oil that had an immediate impact on the price... The Western oil producers do have power in the energy trade relationship with the USA, it just takes the will power to initiate it (kinda like OPEC)


uummm BC is the Canadian gateway to the Pacific Rim. I think we'd eventually become the "Singapore of the western hemisphere". We'd be ok, IMO.


They should be that and much more already.. So, why aren't they?


Ignorance on Parade.

Movies is the 9th largest business in California.

You seem to be incapable of making a point without resorting to a lie. And this is just general conversation.


Tesla shares are taking an epic sh*t-kicking.... Sorry for your loss
 

captain morgan

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It's a fair question.


If BC couldn't make it happen despite their vast natural resources and with no regional disruptions (read: possible separation of their connection), how can you suggest that BC 'could' be anything close to Singapore?
 

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It's a fair question.


If BC couldn't make it happen despite their vast natural resources and with no regional disruptions (read: possible separation of their connection), how can you suggest that BC 'could' be anything close to Singapore?
Besides the fact that there is an unending list of "could bes", what occurs to me first is mismanagement is the reason BC isn't. But there are other reasons.