> Canada is lucky we allow them to exist on the same continent.
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Who's Ann, annyway?
A former drag queen from Key West named Pudenda Shenanigans.
Ugh...
Um... No, she's not. She's just a right-wing bomb-thrower.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter
She and Carlson are a bit harsh, but I agree with their point. Canada could achieve so much in the world; instead it's just... there. No initiative except to walllow in obscurity. It would be cool if we could saw off Canada and paste Australia in its place. Their rich would have to travel further to get good ol' privatized health care, but, as they say in Montreal, c'est la vie.
Curling's a cool sport, though.
And why would Canada want to do that? What's with this global penis-waving anyway? Why does a country have to stand out?
And my somewhat-uninformed opinion is that Coulter is an idiot not worth listening to. She adds nothing to the discourse except a near-clinical case of dissembling and outright bullshit. There are far better and more informative conservative writers out there, but nobody listens to them because rational discussion and conceptual groundwork isn't as interesting to the general public as the next crazy claim of the day.
I say "somewhat-uninformed" since I've never read a book of hers from cover to cover. However, I've read a large number of excerpts and can safely say it's brain-rotting.
>>8: Canada is the second biggest nation in the world by land mass. The US is only the fourth. It doesn't have to "stand out," but it could at least make itself more visible. I don't particularly have any answers as to how; I just think Canada wastes a lot of its own potential.
I agree with you about Coulter, though. It always gets me when liberals dump on calm moderates like O'Reilly ( http://www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com/ ) or Hannity while nary a peep is said of raving loonies like Coulter or Michael Savage.
It's big, but most people seem to prefer living close to the US border where it's warmer. It also only has a population of ~30 million. I suppose it came down to this: unlike Russia which already had a large ethnic population, when people migrated to North America they preferred the United States since Canada was nice and frozen.
I have no idea about Coulter's situation though. Perhaps she's so out in the looney field that almost nobody takes her seriously. Al Franken took great glee at ripping her books apart though, but I can honestly say his book Lies, and the Lying Liars who tell them was also a brainrot.
Um, I guess because I hate seeing wasted potential. Canada is a first-world country that doesn't really seem to do anything. They're like a big Switzerland, I guess.
Hah, Switzerland knows how to do it right!
"Hey, Canada, lend us some troops!"
"Why?"
"Terrorists in Iraq!"
"Most of our underpaid troops were eaten by polar bears..."
"Polar bears?!"
"Well, the Artic is melting, so they've moved down here. My poor sleigh dogs..."
"Feh. Germany! Trooooops!"
"Seig Heil!"
"Speak English! Everyone know's it's the only real language!"
"Ve are sinking zat za Fuehrer cough Herr Hitler was enough for one lifetime, ja?"
"You sure?"
"Ja."
"Really sure?"
"Ja."
"Really really sure?"
"Oh look, new Mercedes? Vant one?"
"Whatever. France!"
"Fuck you, Yankee bastards!"
"I didn't ask you anything yet!"
"Mais oui! We know you Yankees want to dominate za world!"
"It's just Iraq!"
"Oui, oui. 'jes Iraq' you sey. Ve have better things to do!"
"Like what?"
"Fucking women. Drinking wine. Laughing at you. What else?"
"How dare you! I'm going to rename French Fries!"
"You stupid yankee, 'French Fries' are from Belgium. Now go avey! My girlfriends vant attention."
"Degenerate. Japan!"
"Hai?"
"Troops!"
"We will a committee create. We think on it."
"Think faster."
"Maybe if you send Mike Tyson to fight in K1."
"Fine, have the ear muncher."
"Hai. We are moved. We send some elite ninjas."
"WTF? So few troops?!"
"Japan has no army. Only Self-Defence Force."
"It's the same thing!"
"Japan has no army. Only Self-Defence Force."
"I heard the first time, but sure you can spare more, right?"
"Japan has no army. Only Self-Defence Force."
"Shit, go back to buying Gucci bags. Australia!"
"Hey, mate."
"We want some troops."
"Well, Howard is a bit short on dick. Send Bush over."
"Done."
"Okay. Howard says Bush is a rotten lover, but you can have some."
"There aren't that many..."
"We can provide our elite kangaroo brigade."
"Kangaroo?!"
"You ain't nevah seen a real army until you seen 100,000 kangaroos hopping to the tune of Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries."
"Uh... anything else?"
"We got biological weapons."
"Really?!"
"Sure. Stacks of cain toads. You can have as many as you can run over."
"No thanks. What about our old Soviet buddies?"
"Nyet."
"Nyet?"
"Ve are rebuilding Mother Russia." BOOM
"What the Hell?!"
"Ah... hey, Boris, go raze a few more Chechen villages, da?" ratatatata BOOM Neeeee! BANG BANG BANG
"Uh..."
"Da. I vas saying, rebuilding the glorious CCCP... eh... democratic Russia! Da!" fweeeeeeeeee BOOM rattle
"...Britain?"
"We are not amused."
"Huh?"
"We believe that the US has finally recognised it needs a strong leadership, a leadership found in the monarch of the Commonwealth. But you're not on your knees you unwashed impudent rebel."
"Stupid old hag, get me the Prime Minister."
"Why hello there, good sir. How's the weather?"
"Who cares. Give us troops!"
"It's sort of drizzly over here."
"Troops, damn it."
"Oh my. Troops you say, dear fellow? Well, I'm sure we can spare a few Scots. Irish too."
"Really?"
"Oh dear, the Irish are blowing things up again. Perhaps this will do instead?"
"That's not that much..."
"Well, there's always the French. Like they say, 'The English will fight to the last Frenchman'."
"The French are too busy screwing around."
"Typical. They do have better weather and teeth though. No wonder... hmm..."
"Hello?"
"I seem to have run out of scones. Good day."
"Hello? Hey, Froggy!"
"Vat?! Can't you see I'm busy licking mah girlfriend's poodle? Go avey, stupid Yankee!"
"We want troops!"
"Go ask za German's. They've cloned Hitler!"
"Huh? Hey Germany!"
"Ein Fuehrer! Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Seig Heil!"
"Uh... hello?"
"Ja! Meine Freunde! Die Juden haben es gemacht! Wir muessen blah blah blah blah blah blah Dritte Reich! blah blah blah Aryan blah blah verdammte Amerika blah blah blah"
And so forth. Notice how Switzerland never gets asked for anything?