What is an American?
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I think not said:
Shows how little you know about Canadian politics, I think not. Yet another way that Canada differs from the US is that we have a full political spectrum here...from communists to the radical right of the Harperites. Unlike the single party system you have in the US, we have choices here.
As far as the NDP go, I'm about in the centre of the party. You wouldn't understand that though because you are convinced that we are just like you and therefore have to fit into one of your preconceived and narrow-minded slots.
Jimmy said:
Again, you've shown you ignorance of the Canadian system, The realities within that system, and the reality of the world politics. I won't be trying to explain it to you because you'll just make some sarcastic comment that has no basis in reality like you did with the al Jazeera thing.
I think not said:
Reverend Blair said:
Try and crack a smile now and then Rev, it was humor. You still remember humor?
ITN (also known as "I Think Not") had a warm portrait for everyone, except for the Reverend Blair and even there he's just excorcising the devil in a way and to Peapod that was a nice warm portrait of the Reverend and makes me understand his little quote of having his back to the wall all the more.
This kind of thing is necessary.
What I recommend most to the Reverend is that "facts" and "logic" of themselves are possibly the least influential of all approaches you can use.
Explaining why is like explaining the punch line of the great cosmic joke we live in.
I want to avoid the tedium of why such a statement is so true, but if forced, damnit ....
And Peapod ? You don't have to help if you don't want to. But have you noticed how everyone damns the country south of your border when they don't help or intervene and when they do?
And when we do we really do it like a bull in a china shop.
Sudan's Dafur is blamed on the US.
Why not Canada?
No one's helping and all those complaining aren't becoming leaders on the matter.
150 strikes you as gutsy or honest?
Aw crap, I got tedious on you Peapod and you're right.
This kind of thing is necessary.
What I recommend most to the Reverend is that "facts" and "logic" of themselves are possibly the least influential of all approaches you can use.
Explaining why is like explaining the punch line of the great cosmic joke we live in.
I want to avoid the tedium of why such a statement is so true, but if forced, damnit ....
And Peapod ? You don't have to help if you don't want to. But have you noticed how everyone damns the country south of your border when they don't help or intervene and when they do?
And when we do we really do it like a bull in a china shop.
Sudan's Dafur is blamed on the US.
Why not Canada?
No one's helping and all those complaining aren't becoming leaders on the matter.
150 strikes you as gutsy or honest?
Aw crap, I got tedious on you Peapod and you're right.
[sarcasm] You're right, Jimmy...I'll use lies and fallicious arguments from now on. I'll appeal to only base emotions and dumb down every statement so that it can be easily understood by a rather dim-witted grade six student. I'll trade in my copy of "Origin of Species" for a brand new Bible. I'll start telling people that global warming is a positive development because it will reduce snow removal costs. I will promote the idea of saving people by killing them and freeing them through enslavement. I'll vote Conservative and put a "George Bush is Jesus" sticker on my truck too.[/sarcasm]
Not you alone, but your policies have certainly played a part in the international foot-dragging. Why is Georgie so afraid of the International Court anyway? Could it be because he's a war criminal?
It's what we can spare right now. It's also the kind of help the AU is asking for...training and logistical help.
I50 ?
It's what you can spare right now?
Okay.
Listen Rev, don't work so hard at defeating every challenge to your belief system.
And no I'm not telling you to lose your facts, but damnit facts have relatives. They're not orphans.
It's what you can spare right now?
Okay.
Listen Rev, don't work so hard at defeating every challenge to your belief system.
And no I'm not telling you to lose your facts, but damnit facts have relatives. They're not orphans.
You didn't know that? See, this is what I mean by you not understanding what is going on in Canada.
The conservative spending policies of the Liberals allowed our military to shrink. Most of our soldiers are tied up with NATO, out on other peacekeeping missions, or worn out from being on mission after mission.
I like how you explained the reasons for Canada being able to spare only 150 for the Sudan.
It was quite informative.
It was quite informative.
Timeline: United States of America
No one can dispute they have a interesting history, its the present that is the worry. Which reminds me maybe think can tell us something about new york. I know lots of canadians back east have been there, what part of new york do you live in think? I saw a program the other night american experience, the building of the brooklyn bridge. Have you ever seen woody allen? and can you purchase baby duck there?
Jo Canadian said:We tend to know what people are like according to their history,
and I found an interesting timeline that briefly coveres the
American timeline. Perhaps this could help some people see
what makes them tick.
Timeline: United States of America
NOW I know there will be some of you that'll quickly point out it wasn't made in the states, but hey it was interesting to read.
I get alot of information off the BBC website and news myself Jo, it's always interesting to me how others view the US. I didn't see anything off on that link, how off could they be anyway, it was pretty concise.
One of the most interesting aspects of history to me has always been immigration (Canada and the US, AKA the New World) and how it has affected the countries those immigrants left.
It's pretty cool. 8)
I may be wandering off your subject Rev but you did make the comment and I want to go to it . You said that you went to a catholic school and they MADE you pray to their God. I doubt that. I too went to a catholic school and I don't mind saying that it was a strict school in the deepest sense but they never in the years I attended ever forced any student into praying to theirs or anyone elses Gods. We said the Our Father every morning at the start of our day and no student was forced to comply and there were several non catholic students in my classes. As a rebellious student and catholic I recall several times refusing to join in the morning prayer and never being reprimanded for it. If that actually happened in your school and your life , in all fairness to cathoilic schools, state that. Don't make it a group thing.
peapod said:
I presently live in a suburb of New York City, Plainview New York, on Long Island, you may be familiar. I've never bumped into Woody Allen, but I have met others over the years, especially Joan Collins (I always had the hots for her
). I had lived in Manhattan and Queens in New York City for quite sometime.You also kind of hit a soft spot with me in regards to New York, peapod. There is much to tell, some bad, some good.
You have people from all over the world, you have more languages spoken in New York City than any city in the world. You have every national group, racial group, religious group represented here, and what they're competing to do is really create a better life for themselves. So as they do that for themselves they do it for other people. The city, therefore, is constantly discovering something new about itself, creating something new, neighborhoods remain the same and then they change over time and you get a sense of a new culture, a new civilization that's informing you, a sort of revolutionary movement of the population. These wild demographic shifts that occur every 20 years, the huge influx of people from all around the world. No other city can claim that type of population swing. It's absolutely a remarkable experience.
New York is not beautiful. There are beautiful things in it but it's not beautiful. It's not beautiful the way, for example, the parks make Middle London beautiful. It's not beautiful the way Paris is beautiful. What makes New York what it is, is that it's so theatrical. In midtown for example, the whole thing is an explosion of geometry, and everyone who has seen it has tried their best to measure up, to be up to the theatricality of the city.
Being a New Yorker is just simply a state of mind. Less than half of the population was actually born in New York City. But most New Yorkers were not, and the way I define it is, if you've been here for six months and you walk faster and talk faster and think faster, you're a New Yorker.
Many people call New York City, the financial capital of the world, the cultural capital, I prefer to call it the Great Experiment of Humanity.
Why do I like New York City? The answer is simple (and perhaps somewhat long). It comes as I realize that all the opportunities of the world are right at my disposal. I can walk out of the office into the cool air blowing through Washington Sqaure Park, to sit by the fountain , under the great Arch, and in view of the cherry blossoms. I like to walk through Greenwich Village and realize that I form a part of a great city. I have a role to play. I feel slightly important. I have my own story to tell. Yet, at the same time, I realize that I am one among millions, each with his/her own history, each with his/her own destination. We all contribute to and partake of the most eclectic mix mankind has ever seen.
I like New York City, I want to a part of that enterprise. I want to befreind the tourists that linger on the park benches. I want to know the immigrants, to hear from where they've come, the enchanting culture they bring with them and where they are going. My coworkers have gathered from Brooklyn, from Lebanon, from California, from Nigeria, from Maine, from great Britain, from Hawaii, from Siberia.
I like riding the subway and being asked for directions from newly arrived immigrants and tourists, in French, Yiddish, Greek, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese, I of course can only point (except for a touch of French and fluent Greek). I like buying hummus on MacDougal street, I like to go to the orchid show at Rockefeller Center, the boat show at the Jacob Javits Center, the Egyptian exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musuem of Natural History where on occassion I find things older than myself. I like to buy lunch from the street vendor, the one who makes Indian crepes at the griddle on his pushcart.
I like watching the sunset as the rays fall on the Statue of Liberty and reminds me of people that have died by the millions across the globe in the name of freedom and that there is hope for humanity.
I love New York
Man, what a mouthful. Was that enough peapod?