Happy Canada Day to the Canadians (hope the royals go home soon).
Re: beavers. Maybe if you searched by scientific name instead? But I do understand the problem (I once tried to quickly find and order some very basic underwear via the web. "Fruit of the Loom" yields interesting results, few of them targeted at middle-aged heterosexual women of any kind, let alone those looking to buy plus-size panties. I'm glad I wasn't using the school network at the time.)
Canada, what can I say about it? It takes a lot of sass talk from idiot Americans who do not know how many Canadians died in the Great War, nor the horror of the Dieppe Raid in WWII. Only Canada could have even dared to build the Avro Arrow (the "Firefox"* fighter of its day) from scratch. Canada is America's ideal state; a peaceful land with a strong social conscience, what the US could be if it could give up the cowboy bullshit.
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* Yes I'm talking about that goofy Clint Eastwood flick....both planes were large interceptors designed to shoot down enemy bombers, and packed with bleeding edge technology. Only trick with the Arrow is that the program was vastly too expensive and the Soviets had switched from bombers to ICBMs, and no plane can shoot down an ICBM.
The "cowboy bullshit" I was referring to was the sort of cowflop Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush II pulled: "secret" wars, drug wars in poor communities, supporting neo-Nazi regimes in South America, backing Lon Nol, backing the Mujaheddin, backing the MEK, backing Pol Pot, backing Saddam and then blowing him up, allowing Somalia to become a Cold War weapons bazaar (and then complaining about how the Islamists used those weapons to seize control), playing footsie with the Saudis, the Israelis, the Lebanese Phalange, and the Iranian government we were supposed to be opposing....pretty much the history of the US since 1964 has been a load of cowboy bullshit.
I am not opposed to people owning ranches, riding horses, driving rusty Ford pickups with illegal freebander CB radios, bib overalls, "Hee Haw", County music, Westerns, Spaghetti Westerns, ranchero music, denim jackets, mullets, "Uncle Goddamn", Dolly Parton (before), The Man in Black, corn farming, "getting your arm caught in the thresher" stories, Dolly Parton (after), slide guitars, "The Dukes of Hazzard"....all that written, I know what happened to the Native Americans and to Canada's "First Peoples" and thus I applaud when they over-run the settlers in John Ford movies. Also, I have no truck with the Confederacy, even those illegal "General Lee" 10/11 meter freebander CBs.
Strel left out the banjo. The five string banjo belongs in the list. This is not negotiable. We can consider a few other things like "CAT" diesel power hats and such as well, but the banjo is simply a must.
Aww Shucks... You Remembered!
ReplyDeleteAw...thanks a bunch! (but sorry about that beaver thing)
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately we got royals here checking up on us right now, so we gotta behave.
Gotta behave why? I'd estimate the Royal Tour has about as much geopolitical significance as a Hanna Montana concert.
ReplyDeleteHappy Canada Day to the Canadians (hope the royals go home soon).
ReplyDeleteRe: beavers. Maybe if you searched by scientific name instead? But I do understand the problem (I once tried to quickly find and order some very basic underwear via the web. "Fruit of the Loom" yields interesting results, few of them targeted at middle-aged heterosexual women of any kind, let alone those looking to buy plus-size panties. I'm glad I wasn't using the school network at the time.)
@Rosencrantz and/or Guildenstern: ROFLMAO
ReplyDeleteYou're all lovely neighbors, and I've enjoyed living near you for all of these years. Sorry about the Stanley Cup. Happy Canada Day anyway!
ReplyDeleteThank you! The sounds of the party will filter south in a few more hours :)
ReplyDeleteHey, these particular royals are cute as buttons.
Oh, Can-a-da I love you/
ReplyDeleteFor S-C-T-V.
Canada, what can I say about it? It takes a lot of sass talk from idiot Americans who do not know how many Canadians died in the Great War, nor the horror of the Dieppe Raid in WWII. Only Canada could have even dared to build the Avro Arrow (the "Firefox"* fighter of its day) from scratch. Canada is America's ideal state; a peaceful land with a strong social conscience, what the US could be if it could give up the cowboy bullshit.
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* Yes I'm talking about that goofy Clint Eastwood flick....both planes were large interceptors designed to shoot down enemy bombers, and packed with bleeding edge technology. Only trick with the Arrow is that the program was vastly too expensive and the Soviets had switched from bombers to ICBMs, and no plane can shoot down an ICBM.
Thanks Strelnikov...I guess Canada can get its war-on when the mood is right. My mom's dad fought in France. Never ever spoke about it, not even once.
ReplyDeleteBut no, we sure don't do the cowboy thing. Well, some try in Alberta.
The "cowboy bullshit" I was referring to was the sort of cowflop Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Bush II pulled: "secret" wars, drug wars in poor communities, supporting neo-Nazi regimes in South America, backing Lon Nol, backing the Mujaheddin, backing the MEK, backing Pol Pot, backing Saddam and then blowing him up, allowing Somalia to become a Cold War weapons bazaar (and then complaining about how the Islamists used those weapons to seize control), playing footsie with the Saudis, the Israelis, the Lebanese Phalange, and the Iranian government we were supposed to be opposing....pretty much the history of the US since 1964 has been a load of cowboy bullshit.
ReplyDeleteI am not opposed to people owning ranches, riding horses, driving rusty Ford pickups with illegal freebander CB radios, bib overalls, "Hee Haw", County music, Westerns, Spaghetti Westerns, ranchero music, denim jackets, mullets, "Uncle Goddamn", Dolly Parton (before), The Man in Black, corn farming, "getting your arm caught in the thresher" stories, Dolly Parton (after), slide guitars, "The Dukes of Hazzard"....all that written, I know what happened to the Native Americans and to Canada's "First Peoples" and thus I applaud when they over-run the settlers in John Ford movies. Also, I have no truck with the Confederacy, even those illegal "General Lee" 10/11 meter freebander CBs.
Strelnikov, your descriptions of the two cowboy archetypes are just excellent!
ReplyDeleteStrel left out the banjo. The five string banjo belongs in the list. This is not negotiable. We can consider a few other things like "CAT" diesel power hats and such as well, but the banjo is simply a must.
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