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The Canadian Geezer

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Friday, May 2, 2008 03:10 AM
Original article: So long, Canada

Really a sad situation with little prospect for seeing it change anytime soon owing to the "Fear-Mongering" that has been raised past all manner of reason

One positive thing is maybe everyone will save a bit of money by not buying the gas from the oil companies to travel back and forth.

My wife and I have taken our children on vacation to the United States years (Actually Decades) ago with a border crossing that was a friendly wave and brief chat with border agents on both sides and we hoped one day to travel the eastern seaboard of the United States in our retirement to visit many beautiful and historic sites we have read about and have seen in photographs .... Now we see such a venture as likely just too much of a hassle with all the 'Security' crossing delays etc. (We travel to Europe and Asia with less fuss than it seems one will eventually have going 'South')

I have to admit our ardour for seeing much of the rest of America has been dampened considerably since the rise of the forces of irrationalism and international lawlessness as exemplified by 'The Current Occupant' .... in short we likely wont want to visit America soon as it now stands ...

Truthfully ... we would not mind seeing a very tall/big border fence put up on our side to help keep out Americans who equate 'Freedom' with the right of everyone to carry fire arms .... and those people who support the ideas of waterboarding/torture ... the canceling of habeas corpus and casually discarding the key elements of your well worded Constitution that used to inspire people rather than as it is now - being a 'Sometimes adhered to document' ....

Your current crop of leaders and the pant-suited aspirant of what was a one time progressive political party who would 'Obliterate' a whole nation of women and children frighten the **** out of any thinking person .... Why it reminds some of us who are of enough years of the times half a century ago when many in other countries talked about 'The Ugly American' and phrases like "Yankee Go Home" were rather commonplace (and are now being heard anew) ... Anyways my two cents ... "Nuff Said"

Sunday, May 11, 2008 05:41 PM
Original article: Hillary Clinton soldiers on

Joan you do not seem to be able to realize how offensive your own commentaries are to enlightened people

When I watched your video Joan I felt quite appalled that you fail to see how you are a mirror image of the candidate you have been espousing for some months ... and you are equally unaware of your own similar failings in realizing the nuanced vilification and dare I say it --- Yes I will --- The thinly veiled bigotry that underlies many words and phrases that have been laid out in print or spoken by yourself over the course of the primaries.

There is nothing that Ms. Clinton needs to do now other than to fade into history as a person whose own megalomania and narcissism was shown as being capable of stooping to the worst in pursuit of a prize she was never worthy of attaining.

Shame on you ... and shame on your friends who have not helped you to deal with these issues years ago.

Sunday, May 11, 2008 07:42 PM

Death with dignity requires a degree of serenity - Not a standout characteristic of Ms. Clinton

The truth can be so painful ... but there are always lucrative Book deals that Ms. Clinton can no doubt move on towards .... perhaps that will help assuage her existential angst and give some of her more ardent supporters reading material as they contemplate what really happened - (Should they possess that capacity).

So it goes ....

Sunday, May 11, 2008 08:41 PM

Just go away Ms. Clinton ... Perhaps you could hire out as a tutor to all those "Bubba's" you claim the support of ...

There is nothing that Ms. Clinton needs to do now other than to fade into history as a person whose own megalomania and narcissism was shown as making her capable of stooping to the worst in pursuit of a prize she was apparently never worthy of attaining ....

Racism rears its head in many ways ... we were truly appalled by her blatant words regarding the support of the "Hard Working Whites" this past week ... another example of "Misspeak" ---- save us from such false drivel!

NUFF SAID!!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 09:09 AM

Painful in extremis

Mr. Keillor is once more telling the unfortunate truth ...

To read such truths about the apparent political blindness to corruption evidenced by the American citizenry in this the "Age of Information" is exceedingly disheartening ....

Perhaps we have used to many syllables .... what may be more apropos ...

'This Situation Sucks'

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