Re: anti-americans
Well maybe if your friend tells enough Canadians another myth will take hold.
Well maybe if your friend tells enough Canadians another myth will take hold.
What's your opinion on United States Of America?
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Re: anti-americans
ill talk to him, but i believe you....i dont believe him, and actually watch the series that myth wont get that far.
ill talk to him, but i believe you....i dont believe him, and actually watch the series that myth wont get that far.
Re: anti-americans
Well most likely if he is one of "those" Canadians he will insist to his dying bed that the only suicide was a Canadian because us Americans really needed to go out of our way to p*** you guys off in a series that had absolutely nothing to do with Canada.
Well most likely if he is one of "those" Canadians he will insist to his dying bed that the only suicide was a Canadian because us Americans really needed to go out of our way to p*** you guys off in a series that had absolutely nothing to do with Canada.
Re: anti-americans
I hate Canadians like that... they're almost as bad as 'those' Americans who don't bother to participate on a Canadian forum in any capacity other than picking or wading into fights about Canada v. US :lol:
I hate Canadians like that... they're almost as bad as 'those' Americans who don't bother to participate on a Canadian forum in any capacity other than picking or wading into fights about Canada v. US :lol:
Re: anti-americans
I don't believe you do... and I don't hate Canadians.
It boggles me though when I read your post stating that your buddy is p**** that a Canadian is portrayed as the only one killing himself in a series about US Marines in the Pacific. Is he soft? Where on earth did he come up with that? Did I miss something?
edit...sorry Karrie...he wasn't your buddy... he was Johnny's. And yeah I will go after those types almost every time. That's just how I roll.
I don't believe you do... and I don't hate Canadians.
It boggles me though when I read your post stating that your buddy is p**** that a Canadian is portrayed as the only one killing himself in a series about US Marines in the Pacific. Is he soft? Where on earth did he come up with that? Did I miss something?
edit...sorry Karrie...he wasn't your buddy... he was Johnny's. And yeah I will go after those types almost every time. That's just how I roll.
Re: anti-americans
Yes really ... but we can make concessions for the brain washed.
Re: anti-americans
It seems to me the fringe groups hold the balance of power. However, it's hard not to like individual average Americans.
It seems to me the fringe groups hold the balance of power. However, it's hard not to like individual average Americans.
Re: anti-americans
The guy that killed himself was a French Canadian.....and a US Marine.
I have no idea what that has to do with anything.......but that's the fact.....
The guy that killed himself was a French Canadian.....and a US Marine.
I have no idea what that has to do with anything.......but that's the fact.....
Re: anti-americans
Average Americans are no different than average Canadians. The balance of power is held by the ruling elite in both countries.
Re: anti-americans
What do you mean our goverment sucks. You have the most scatter brained (no offense intended) goverment one can think of, what really have they accomplished in the past two years? I do understand that with all the political parties you allow to get involved is probably the reason for the log jam you have getting things passed. Geez a 'Pirate party" that is against copy write laws, Marijuana Party (says it all), Work Less party, be thankful that the Absolutely Absurd party dropped out. You seem to have a government that if it wasn't so free it would be a dictatorship. You are much closer to chaos than we are.
Re: anti-americans
People are people (mostly good) and geography and politics should be left out of it. There is altogether too much of this bullsh*t going on denigrating folks because some individual with nothing better to do takes it upon himself to profile them. (Hey if you wear your ball cap backwards that makes you a red neck, Conservative Bible thumper, who is packing a gun and his wife wears gumboots) LOL
People are people (mostly good) and geography and politics should be left out of it. There is altogether too much of this bullsh*t going on denigrating folks because some individual with nothing better to do takes it upon himself to profile them. (Hey if you wear your ball cap backwards that makes you a red neck, Conservative Bible thumper, who is packing a gun and his wife wears gumboots) LOL
Re: anti-americans
Well that is why I qualified a few of my posts asking if I am missing something. Did they mention that in the movie? I recently read the Robert Leckie book "Helmet for My Pillow" and I don't recall him mentioning a suicide and that he was French Canadian. Maybe I did miss something.
Regardless... he was a US Marine and committed suicide. Being of French Canadian desent should have nothing to do with it. He was not the only Marine to kill himself in the Pacific...but perhaps he was the only one that Robert Leckie witnessed.
Do you have a link Colpy? I am just curious.
Well that is why I qualified a few of my posts asking if I am missing something. Did they mention that in the movie? I recently read the Robert Leckie book "Helmet for My Pillow" and I don't recall him mentioning a suicide and that he was French Canadian. Maybe I did miss something.
Regardless... he was a US Marine and committed suicide. Being of French Canadian desent should have nothing to do with it. He was not the only Marine to kill himself in the Pacific...but perhaps he was the only one that Robert Leckie witnessed.
Do you have a link Colpy? I am just curious.
Re: anti-americans
And what about the dictators who were left alone by USA, USA did not lift a hand to get rid of them, apparently because to do so would not have served USA's national interest?
Thus USA did not lift a finger to get rid of Pol Pot, they left him in peace to carry on with his genocide. Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ousted him (not for any altruistic reason, I might add).
USA gets along fine with some dictators, not with others. Saddam Hussein was a US darling for a long time, there is the famous photograph of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand.
And what about the dictators who were left alone by USA, USA did not lift a hand to get rid of them, apparently because to do so would not have served USA's national interest?
Thus USA did not lift a finger to get rid of Pol Pot, they left him in peace to carry on with his genocide. Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ousted him (not for any altruistic reason, I might add).
USA gets along fine with some dictators, not with others. Saddam Hussein was a US darling for a long time, there is the famous photograph of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand.
Re: anti-americans
Americans are like any other people. The problem is their government. During Bush administration, USA was despised almost universally. And many Americans do not help the matter with their superior, smug, arrogant attitude.
Now, perhaps one could argue that they are justified in feeling self satisfied, arrogant and superior. All the same, it does not help USA's image abroad. The Ugly American, while being a stereo type, also has some truth behind it.
Americans are like any other people. The problem is their government. During Bush administration, USA was despised almost universally. And many Americans do not help the matter with their superior, smug, arrogant attitude.
Now, perhaps one could argue that they are justified in feeling self satisfied, arrogant and superior. All the same, it does not help USA's image abroad. The Ugly American, while being a stereo type, also has some truth behind it.
Re: anti-americans
I feel 'anti' many countries leaders, but never 'anti', the
people of those countries.
All of us, 'the people', are the masses, and the leaders
are just a handful, but they dictate how we all behave
toward one another throughout time, wars, crappy rhetoric,
lies, and anything that will give any leader the upper hand.
no, I am not anti american, the american people are very
much like us, just as 'are' most people in the world.
The only thing that seems to separate the 'masses', is
religion, too bad 'that' even exists, because without it
we would see each other as 'the same', just wanting a good
life for ourselves and our families and friends.
I feel 'anti' many countries leaders, but never 'anti', the
people of those countries.
All of us, 'the people', are the masses, and the leaders
are just a handful, but they dictate how we all behave
toward one another throughout time, wars, crappy rhetoric,
lies, and anything that will give any leader the upper hand.
no, I am not anti american, the american people are very
much like us, just as 'are' most people in the world.
The only thing that seems to separate the 'masses', is
religion, too bad 'that' even exists, because without it
we would see each other as 'the same', just wanting a good
life for ourselves and our families and friends.
Re: anti-americans
Having lived in USA for seven years, I came to know many Americans and by and large they are decent, reasonable people.
However, I also know many people for other countries, and many of them have the same complaint about Americans, their superior, smug attitude when they go abroad. Compared to that, Canadians have a much better reputation. Indeed, many Canadians wear the maple leaf pin when they go abroad, to advertise that they are not Americans.
There used to be websites which would sell maple leaf pins, Canadian flag and other paraphernalia to Americans, so that they could pretend to be Canadians when they went abroad. I don’t know if they still are in existence, I haven’t checked in a while. But they were flourishing when Bush was the president.
Having lived in USA for seven years, I came to know many Americans and by and large they are decent, reasonable people.
However, I also know many people for other countries, and many of them have the same complaint about Americans, their superior, smug attitude when they go abroad. Compared to that, Canadians have a much better reputation. Indeed, many Canadians wear the maple leaf pin when they go abroad, to advertise that they are not Americans.
There used to be websites which would sell maple leaf pins, Canadian flag and other paraphernalia to Americans, so that they could pretend to be Canadians when they went abroad. I don’t know if they still are in existence, I haven’t checked in a while. But they were flourishing when Bush was the president.
Re: anti-americans
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were backed by China for one thing - and the Paris Peace Accord covered the whole of Indochina for another.
Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were backed by China for one thing - and the Paris Peace Accord covered the whole of Indochina for another.
Re: anti-americans
Canadian government not getting anything done? You should talk, isn’t that pot calling the kettle black? You have one party (Republicans) whose avowed aim is to see that nothing gets done while the other party (Democrats) is in power. They instinctively filibuster anything and everything proposed by Democrats. Whatever Democrats have managed to pass has been in spite of Republican objections.
Even now Republicans are holding up the Wall Street reform. Not because they are against it (or they may be against reforming Wall Street, but at least they say that they are not), but just because they don’t want to give Democrats the credit for passing the reform. I assume they will try to pass some kind of Wall Street reform if they win presidency in 2012 (which of course will be filibustered by the Democrats). If not, they will wait until 2016, and keep filibustering everything until then. Wall Street will carry on unchecked, without any regulation.
Your system is designed to make sure that nothing gets done. Very little has been accomplished in the last two years, except health care reform. And that was passed in spite of a Republican filibuster.
With reduced Democratic majority after November 2010 (or Republicans gaining control), it is a safe bet that zero legislation will be passed from 2010 and 2012.
It is your system which is geared towards deadlock, not Canadian system.
Canadian government not getting anything done? You should talk, isn’t that pot calling the kettle black? You have one party (Republicans) whose avowed aim is to see that nothing gets done while the other party (Democrats) is in power. They instinctively filibuster anything and everything proposed by Democrats. Whatever Democrats have managed to pass has been in spite of Republican objections.
Even now Republicans are holding up the Wall Street reform. Not because they are against it (or they may be against reforming Wall Street, but at least they say that they are not), but just because they don’t want to give Democrats the credit for passing the reform. I assume they will try to pass some kind of Wall Street reform if they win presidency in 2012 (which of course will be filibustered by the Democrats). If not, they will wait until 2016, and keep filibustering everything until then. Wall Street will carry on unchecked, without any regulation.
Your system is designed to make sure that nothing gets done. Very little has been accomplished in the last two years, except health care reform. And that was passed in spite of a Republican filibuster.
With reduced Democratic majority after November 2010 (or Republicans gaining control), it is a safe bet that zero legislation will be passed from 2010 and 2012.
It is your system which is geared towards deadlock, not Canadian system.