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Sorry, a quick OT tongue-in-cheek comment...
In article , TheNewsGuy(Mike) wrote: "...After days of delays, Canadian rescuers landed at a South Pole research station Saturday to pick up an ailing American contractor. Kudos to them, and best of luck to everyone on getting back safely. A TV movie of the week starring David James Elliott as JAG pilot Harman Rabb, Jr. would be appropriate. LOL! With Harm's record of crashing planes?? (Including the very last scene of last season's finale.) Not a good idea! :-) :-) Patty |
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:01:15 +0000 (UTC), Alan Pollock
wrote: Larry wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:43:32 -0400, etent (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote: Of course, I wouldn't have included the stuff about how all Canadian values are by definition better than all American values, but hey. Gee, I don't think the value of the Canadian dollar is by definition better than the value of the US dollar, but hey.... -- Larry (sitting here with a Canadian in the living room, and she agrees) Of course that can be taken more than one way. Nex But not if there are two additonal people in the room, one of whom is my wife. No suicide wish here! -- Larry |
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pltrgyst wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:01:15 +0000 (UTC), Alan Pollock wrote: Larry wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:43:32 -0400, etent (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote: Of course, I wouldn't have included the stuff about how all Canadian values are by definition better than all American values, but hey. Gee, I don't think the value of the Canadian dollar is by definition better than the value of the US dollar, but hey.... -- Larry (sitting here with a Canadian in the living room, and she agrees) Of course that can be taken more than one way. Nex But not if there are two additonal people in the room, one of whom is my wife. No suicide wish here! -- Larry In that context, she can do, think or say no wrong. Can you tell I've been married before? Nex |
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In article , "Claude Marcil"
wrote: Congratulations, NewsGuy. Well done. Nice to have "undisputable concrete arguments" like this one. What's so "undisputable and concrete" about it? It's an example of ONE American news source that stupidly excised Canadian identification from a news story...probably under the stupid delusion that its audience would not notice or care. But that doesn't mean the audience would really not notice, or not care. It's sort of like blaming Americans for their own TV networks' bad Olympic coverage. Every two years, be it Winter Games or Summer Games, a favorite sport of many Canadians is to watch American coverage of the Olympics and then bash it, and all of America, for how jingoistic and annoying and soap-operatic it is compared to the Canadian coverage. Well, guess what...some Americans DO want to see something of the Olympics besides, "USA, USA, USA." Some DO want to see the actual events, rather than weepy profiles of the athletes that tell about how little Johnny from Kokomo wants to win a gold medal in honor of his dying goldfish. But does what we want to see matter? No. What matters is whatever the pathetic network covering the Olympics wants to show us...and usually that's jingoism and soap opera, because it THINKS that's what we want. *sigh* Maybe with more of these, with time, our southern friends could wake up to the fact that BIG BEST AND BETTER is not restricted to USA, a country that is slowly but surely slipping down. Unfortunatly, the average everybody american is kept in his bubble by his leaders and his UNBIASED news networks be it written, audio or video. Sad. You know, if I may say so, this is one thing that irritates me about *some* (note I did not say "all") Canadians. They sit around and pat each other on the back all the livelong day about how terrible it is that Americans are so ignorant of them. Then that argument segues into chest-thumping as they start in on how much better Canada is than the U.S., and how isn't it just too bad those poor deliberately ignorant Americans don't realize it. It gets rather tiresome after a while...especially when you're an American who a) isn't ignorant of Canada; b) doesn't think the U.S. is perfect; c) doesn't depend on nothing but her own country's media and politicians for news and information. It gets really tiresome to have any Canadian automatically assume that I'm an ignorant chest-thumping American, when the truth is, they're closer to being a knee-jerk superpatriot than I ever will be. Please, people...as I said before...don't make the mistake of judging a country by its media OR its politicians. The media spew what they THINK the public in a given country wants or cares about...but that doesn't mean they are always right. And the politicians are usually not elected by the majority, but by the people who were fanatically enough in favor of this candidate or that one, or fanatically AGAINST one of the candidates, to bother to go out and vote in the first place. A sad commentary, I know, but true. The fact that these people won an election doesn't mean they have a mandate to govern; it just means that their handlers were more successful than someone else's handlers. Or that they spent more money, or something. -- Trudi |
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In article ,
Trudi Marrapodi wrote: You might try not taking the work of *one* American media outlet and using it as an excuse for Canadians to get frustrated with *all* Americans... Unfortunately, when that "one outlet" is the Associated Press, that's the version of the story that most newspapers in the country will use. :-( I just checked Google News, and I had to go back several days before I finally found a U.S. media outlet that mentioned anything--even in passing--about Canadians being involved in this rescue. And that was a quote from Canadian Press that AP included in a story. Patty |
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On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:20:40 -0400, Larry
wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 12:46:07 -0400, etent (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote: Gee, I don't think the value of the Canadian dollar is by definition better than the value of the US dollar, but hey.... And what's that supposed to prove? That it's not just the usual nationalistic anti-Canadian blather. But hey, since you're overtly hostile and your sense of humor is obviously defunct, maybe you should seek an email address in a domain ending in "incompetent." Given the way Canadians used to lord it over Americans back in those halcyon days when the Canadian dollar was worth more than the American, it seems a bit unseemly to criticize the Americans for noting when it's the other way around. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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Trudi Marrapodi wrote:
In article , "Claude Marcil" wrote: Congratulations, NewsGuy. Well done. Nice to have "undisputable concrete arguments" like this one. What's so "undisputable and concrete" about it? It's an example of ONE American news source that stupidly excised Canadian identification from a news story...probably under the stupid delusion that its audience would not notice or care. But that doesn't mean the audience would really not notice, or not care. snip Then you are the exception to the rule. This Canadian almost bit his tongue off sitting in a comedy club in Hicksville USA while the comic was lumping Canada's not joining the war in Iraq in with France and Germany's decision to veto... We had our soldiers in Afghanistan, we tried to broker a deal in the UN to end the stalemate, we sat in the preparations and planning in Florida with the other coalition forces, our ships in the region went out of their way to bend the rules and escort your carriers... but because we made a decision that was not in line with the USA we were ridiculed and made to feel unwelcome in your country (slashed tires, negative media...). Canada's position (despite what Rush Limbaugh might believe) was to give the UN inspectors a few more weeks before intervening... Your President, mistake or not, did not recognize the major steps we took to help secure the air space on 9/11 and to accept *all* inbound and diverted flights on that very sad day. We did everything we could to make US and US bound passengers comfortable for several days. Yet Canada's unprecedented help did not even get a thumbs up from your President. No one knew if there were any more terrorists in the air, yet Canada steped in.... This Canadian witnessed a US fighter escort a commercial jet right into our airport. Turned out to be communication problem on the comercial jet but... snipped a bunch of drunken dribble (mine, not yours:-) I think its time to shut this thing down before I start talking about illegal softwood duties. LOL Have a good day! |
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Trudi Marrapodi wrote:
In article , "TheNewsGuy(Mike)" wrote: ...snip... This is just one (of many) examples of why Canadians get frustrated with our friends to the south. When there is news about "SARS" or "Mad Cow", the word "Canadian" is promenant but to hide the fact that this daring rescue is being orchestrated by brave Canadians, in a Canadian aircraft, is subtly hidden from the American public. GEEZ! You might try not taking the work of *one* American media outlet and using it as an excuse for Canadians to get frustrated with *all* Americans... On several occasions the US media was all over FBI reports that terrorists had entered the US through Canada. When the reports were proven false they did not report retractions with the same fervor, if at all. Believe it or not there are still Americans out there that believe the terrorests entered through Canada and not through your own airports. |
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