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Post by MawkHawk on Dec 14, 2007 14:23:13 GMT -5
I love Canadians. The view from the building of my new job looks over the Detroit River to Windsor, ON, Canada.
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Post by sandbar on Dec 21, 2007 11:37:47 GMT -5
Say, Matt, are you in the part of Detroit that is NORTH of Windsor? I still enjoy going to the giant floral compass in Windsor and look NORTH to see Detroit!
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Post by Jim on Dec 21, 2007 19:03:32 GMT -5
I love Canada. It's cleaner safer less angry version of the US.
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Post by landarc on Dec 21, 2007 20:26:32 GMT -5
Huh! I tend to think of us as grittier, riskier more angry versions of Canadians. There are those sexy Canadian women, but, all their dads are ax carrying lumberjacks.
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Post by MawkHawk on Dec 23, 2007 9:00:01 GMT -5
Say, Matt, are you in the part of Detroit that is NORTH of Windsor? I still enjoy going to the giant floral compass in Windsor and look NORTH to see Detroit! If you mean me then yes, we're actually north of Canada. Strange, huh?
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 23, 2007 9:45:22 GMT -5
Boys, That's because they drew the line with the pencil between the countries down the middle of the Great Lakes to be fair. Or maybe it's because we didn't want Michigan's northern penninsula? We got enough rocks of our own, lol
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Post by paquebot on Jan 7, 2008 3:45:48 GMT -5
I'm somewhat pleased to see that I wasn't 100% left out by this "committee" for deciding who to invite or not! I wandered in on my own without having to go before a review board to determine qualifications for acceptance. I merely felt that since I have at times been the topic for discussion on this forum, it might be in the best historical interest if I have the privilege of at least acknowledging either my appreciation or disgust in such matters. So, as already mentioned elsewhere, I'm here and that's with or without an invitation or approval of anyone other than the forum administrator. Happy gardening!
Martin
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Post by Jim on Jan 7, 2008 7:57:33 GMT -5
Welcome Martin,
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Post by PapaVic on Jan 7, 2008 13:29:53 GMT -5
... nothing against Windsor, but the Cleveland engines ran a lot better ...
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Post by downinmyback on Jan 7, 2008 19:29:05 GMT -5
But the windsoe had a better power base and was the better engine for top end speed.
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Post by canadamike on Jan 11, 2008 15:14:18 GMT -5
I love politics, but discussing it with americans is so weird. In Canada as in most parts of the civilized world, certainly Europe and Australia, our red necks are at the left of the american liberals on so many issues it gets confusing. In the states, the right spends the money and the left balances the budget. For the rest of the planet it is the opposite.
There is a guy named Huckabee who runs for president, and he believes the world is 6,000 years old. Here as elsewhere, the simple suggestion that a guy like that could run and win a primary would have us all laugh so loud that we could cause avalanches thousands of miles away, or kill ourselves out of despair.
It reminds me of a very dark period of the nazi regime when a huge number of their brightest scientists where trying to prove, out of some theological crap, that we lived on the inside surface of a round and finite universe and that the sun was at the center of it, surrounded by the sky.
Stupid, but they where trying to go back to a pre-Copernicus era kind of world were the faith justified the means ...and made you right because you had god on your side...Knowing God was all the needed science...They had to justifie certain atrocities....Lets curb science to our beliefs...
Nothing in the world resemble pre-war Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime more than the american south and the rise of the religious right. Everything is there, the rightuousness, the possession of the only thruth, ignorance of the masses, racism and the negation and curbing of science. It is frightening... lets talk gardening
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Post by MawkHawk on Jan 11, 2008 15:52:03 GMT -5
CM, I do have to correct you on one thing: In the US both parties love to spend money like there's no tomorrow. Neither will balance the budget....ever. The difference is on what they like to spend the money. Either way, it mostly comes out of our pockets.
McCain is leading in MI and SC in the latest polls that I saw today. So the next round of primaries may finish off Huckabee, but who knows. I'd prefer Romney as he's a native Michigander and is sympathetic to our plight.
At least it's kind of exciting to watch it all unfold...
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jan 11, 2008 15:58:09 GMT -5
Yeah, but MH, Romney got named after Johnny Bench's equipment, for crissakes... he's for sure a plant for some conspiracy! Mormons are on board with the whole minion thing, aren't they? ;D
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Post by MawkHawk on Jan 11, 2008 18:23:27 GMT -5
Haha, the Mormon conspiracy! Hilarious! Maybe Obama can be his VP??? A Mormon-Muslim conspiracy, no doubt...
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jan 11, 2008 18:50:47 GMT -5
The Mormon-Muslim-Major League Baseball conspiracy! And then look at the initials! That would make them funded by 3M! Dan Brown couldn't write it better... and Marge Schotts was the fez-wearing grand pubaa of the whole thing. The 2008 elections have been in the works since about what, 1973? And we thought the primary season seemed long....
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