Mar 17 2003, 4:32 pm
In response to Kunark
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Jnco904
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I can just imagine the thugs trying to stay cool while asking for human-nip. :)
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In EQ once I was having a conversation and we went from considering if God is real or not, to galactic armpits.
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Uhh, could I get an exact definition on what galatic ampits are? Does just any armpit in space count?
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no part of the conversation was asking what we are, and someone suggested that we could be part of a giant galactic armpit, or the atoms in someone's coffee mug.
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Alright this subject is getting dumb, but I wouldn't doubt is older people tried it to see if they could get high from it. I don't think kids know that it makes cats high and thats why they like it.
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ohh, some people think we were planted here by aliens for an expieriment... errr well I guess that is more of how we got here.
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Lol when I saw thaat the other day I was cracking up. I mean, they sound like the geek-cult from "Dude, where's my car?"
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I mean through mis-interpretation. They don't have enough money to buy from the guy on the corner, but oh look, they sell nip in stores. :)
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The American people are selfish pigs compared to the rest of the world, so If I were you, I'd back the government who has turned the "whos winning" into the allies in both world wars.
[EDIT] The government is great, but I think bush is not a good president. He needs to be more worried about the economy than the threat that would of probably never attacked. | |
Ah, if Americans are considered selfish, Canadians are no different. They, we, may be unconsciously selfish, yes, but that's a different conversation. I still hold my position that most people in the world want to do good. They want to prosper, and they want society to prosper, selfish or not.
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Canada rendered assistance to the United States in the initial stages of the War on Terrorism. The United States repayed the favour by accidentally dropping a bomb on some of our troops. That was awful. But that kind of accident happens to military forces, even in peacetime. I'd venture to guess that if Americans (and certainly if I) thought we were intentionally bombing Canadians, we'd be downright furious at our military command; and that if the incident had happened in reverse, we might gripe and make some Canadian jokes, but we'd ultimately understand that it was a SNAFU. I don't know what the friendly-fire statistics were in World War II, but I bet they were appalling across all nations, and probably in proportions roughly equal to their actual participation. | |
Well, its not really that the people are pigs, it's more that the american media are pigs, whos influence is the most powerful influence in america.
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Kunark wrote:
The American people are selfish pigs compared to the rest of the world, so If I were you, I'd back the government who has turned the "whos winning" into the allies in both world wars. I'm not selfish. You can't really classify a whole country. p.s. Don't bring up my Al Queida thing, that's complete;y different. =P | |
That I agree with entirely. The propaganda machine is a dangerous institution, and the average person is ill-equipped to figure out much of what the machine puts out. The "good guy bad guy" claim is getting really lame..
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The government is great, but I think bush is not a good president. He needs to be more worried about the economy than the threat that would of probably never attacked. On the other hand, many of the people who are the most vehemently against attacking Iraq seem to be convinced that Bush's motivation is purely economic. So if they're right, he's got things under control... | |
Kunark wrote:
Kind of an accident that never should of happened, I mean I think I heard the pilots were all on speed that the military gave out to them, and it was possible they were so high they actually thought they were bombing the enemy. That's definitely just a rumour. The pilots involved voluntarily resigned their commissions afterward. If I remember the investigation, the pilots saw armed troops that weren't in the standard U.S. Army BDUs, and made a pass to reconnoiter the area (if you don't remember that Canadian troops are in the area, then an assumption is that people who are armed and not wearing U.S. uniforms are the enemy). As a precaution, they readied a bomb load, and as they made a pass one of the pilots accidentally triggered the release mere milliseconds after he noticed that they weren't enemy troops. Fortunately only a few people were killed, but it did certainly upset many people. The United States still hasn't issued anything much more substantial than a formal apology to the family members of the soldiers killed, which is probably one of the contributing factors why Canadians aren't exactly in a position to trust the Americans at the moment. | |
The whole foundation for Canada's reluctance to actively participate in the war can basically be boiled down to five facts:
1) Canada is a little upset about recent cooperation with American troops, and would prefer to stand back and watch things for a little bit. 2) The Liberal party knows that the Canadian people are anti-war in the majority, and committing forces to the conflict against the population's wishes would not sit well if they hope to be elected for the next term. 3) The Canadian national defence program isn't able to handle weapons of mass destruction -- in the event that Hussein actually does have WMDs, Canada would prefer not to be selected as a target. 4) Treaties between Canada and the United States, including NAFTA, are all but severed due to some American violations, like trying to buy water (which is a restricted commodity under NAFTA) and complaining when we refuse, or placing tariffs on softwood lumber (which has devastated B.C.'s industry -- we're forced to rely on mining, tourism, and technology to fill the gaps in our budget). 5) Canada would like to see how things start going in Iraq before it commits any aid to the United States, who, all things considered, are still our allies and friends. | |