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History Forum / General / British History / October 2006Re: Maple Syrup
Hilarious! Americans produce lots of maple syrup right in the United States. Plus many of us don't use it at all. We tend to be the thinner, healthier folks. DSH >> Who can forget FOX News' own O'Reilly some couple of years ago calling >> for a boycott of all Canadian goods. Sheesh. As if USAians were gonna >> give up their maple syrup! >> >> - nilita Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE You can look to the UN stats for that one! Why do you think Canada consistently outranks the US in the best place to live. Canada is FAR Healthier than anything you people have down south! > Hilarious! > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >>> >>> - nilita > Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > You can look to the UN stats for that one! > Why do you think Canada consistently outranks the US in the best place to > live. Canada is FAR Healthier than anything you people have down south! Hi Sheila - where you bin - not out there again?! Surreyman Just back from a glorious tour of the Middle East!! Missed you all terribly!! Sheila >> Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE >> You can look to the UN stats for that one! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Surreyman Sheila!!! Welcome back!! We missed ya, girl! - nilita > Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > You can look to the UN stats for that one! [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >>>> >>>> - nilita It is like a sickness, Nilita...the compulsion to come back...perhaps a Mr.Hines-anonomyous is needed....? > Sheila!!! Welcome back!! We missed ya, girl! > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>>>> >>>>> - nilita > It is like a sickness, Nilita...the compulsion to come back...perhaps a > Mr.Hines-anonomyous is needed....? You remaining in Canada, now? They will have to pull me limb-by-limb from Canadian snow(soil)..... >> It is like a sickness, Nilita...the compulsion to come back...perhaps a >> Mr.Hines-anonomyous is needed....? > > You remaining in Canada, now? > They will have to pull me limb-by-limb from Canadian snow(soil)..... I thought there was talk of Europe . . . ? >> They will have to pull me limb-by-limb from Canadian snow(soil)..... > > I thought there was talk of Europe . . . ? Well, Europe would be different... Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of top posting ...;p - nilita, sistah canuckistanian in traditional plaid flannel nightgown and pink mules, wrapped in a blanket in computer room with space heater at side .... > They will have to pull me limb-by-limb from Canadian snow(soil)..... > >>> It is like a sickness, Nilita...the compulsion to come back...perhaps a >>> Mr.Hines-anonomyous is needed....? >> >> You remaining in Canada, now? > Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of top > posting ...;p [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >>> >>> You remaining in Canada, now? Sorry....but I had to laugh...my exact look Nilita!! >>> They will have to pull me limb-by-limb from Canadian snow(soil)..... >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> and pink mules, wrapped in a blanket in computer room with space heater >> at side .... > Sorry....but I had to laugh...my exact look Nilita!! What can I say ... winter's a-comin', and we're canuckistanian wimmin ...great minds think alike ...%) - nilita > Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of top > posting ...;p as you top-post? BB I guess everyone has some mountain to climb, it's just fate whether you live in Tibet or Kansas. >> Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of top >> posting ...;p > > as you top-post? Chill, Sean ... I was being silly. A good sense of humour is very much indicated these days. btw, for those of you who don't know or remember Sheila, she is a member of the Canadian Armed Forces and a prolific author. And ... now ... back to our regular program ... - nilita, apologizing for a few moments of giddiness ... >>> Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of top >>> posting ...;p [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > - nilita, apologizing for a few moments of giddiness ... and here I thought it was because you knew I would see it there.... > >> Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of top > >> posting ...;p [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > - nilita, apologizing for a few moments of giddiness ... Interject, see this one: What got that racist anti Harold Ford attack ad pulled off the air? Was it complaints from NAACP? The DNC? Or was it our neighbors to the north? This, from a Canadian news station: It's not often Canadians care about who's running for the U.S. Senate. But when we figure prominently in one of those quintessential American-style attack ads, nearly everyone on this side of the border sits up and takes notice. A fierce fight between a Tennessee Republican candidate and his Democratic opponent has gotten personal - and Canada is right in the middle of it. The controversial commercial from right wing candidate Bob Corker attacks a man named Harold Ford. It features supposedly ordinary citizens commenting on the Democrat, indicating he'll increase taxes and take guns out of the hands of residents, two huge issues in the south. There's also a shot of a rather questionable young woman who claims she's spent time with Ford at "The Playboy Club". But it's the next statement that seems to have rankled many. It comes from a comment made about some recent controversial nuclear tests. "Canada can take care of North Korea," a man who resembles a young Wilfrid Brimley jokes. "They're not busy." The suggestion that we aren't pulling our weight in the world - and the fact that we've lost 42 soldiers in Afghanistan - is never mentioned. The commercial, which has already been part of an equally nasty campaign between Ford and Corker, has been the subject of a protest by Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. And that complaint has apparently led to action. Officials in Tennessee have agreed to pull the offending advertisement. But the U.S. Ambassador to this country has a response to our anger. He notes Canadian ads during the last election treated U.S. President George Bush with far more contempt and no one really issued any major complaints about those. http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/10/2694_tennessee_rnc_a.html >> >> Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of >> >> top [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > issued any major complaints about those. > http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/10/2694_tennessee_rnc_a.html Even leaving Canada out of that ad, it was one nasty piece of work authorized by the RNC. Ugly ugly ugly. And, I - for one - don't deny that GWB is pretty much disliked (to put it mildly) in the Great White North. In our last Federal election, there is no way we wanted a Prime Minister who would kowtow to the current U.S. Administration. As per the Mother Jones article, I don't want to think that it was Canada "to blame" for pulling that ad. I would like to think that there are people in the RNC who have a social conscience who could find any number of reasons to have wanted it to go away. Interestingly, I doubt that politicos up here would be able to get away with such a racist ad ... - nilita >>> >> Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of >>> >> top [quoted text clipped - 68 lines] > Interestingly, I doubt that politicos up here would be able to get away > with such a racist ad ... ...considering my husband is in Afghanistan at this moment, I am a wee bit sensitive to this topic...... George Bush, as far as I am concerned, deserves everything he gets.... it's not his family that is serving and dying in Iraq...sounds like the ads were just being a bit prophetic to me. >>>> >> Sheila, we are going to have to train you off of the Hines style of >>>> >> top [quoted text clipped - 71 lines] > ...considering my husband is in Afghanistan at this moment, I am a wee bit > sensitive to this topic...... I've mentioned that several times, including to a handful of arrogant USAians (on Usenet) who have denigrated our country and our servicemen and women (they know who they are). We in Canada have very sore skin right now, considering all the losses we have experienced. > George Bush, as far as I am concerned, deserves everything he gets.... > it's not his family that is serving and dying in Iraq...sounds like the > ads were just being a bit prophetic to me. The fact that he prolly has the lowest approval rate of any Prez in recent memory was prophesized by many people around the world I would say ... - nilita > Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > You can look to the UN stats for that one! > Why do you think Canada consistently outranks the US in the best place to > live. Canada is FAR Healthier than anything you people have down south! Interestingly, a couple of recent studies indicate that if you subtract two sizeable minority groups from the US obesity statistics, African Americans and Hispanics, the fat figures drop to percentages similar to other "developed nations". One quaint new stat on Hispanics in the US....although with much higher rates of all sorts of serious health conditions including diabetes, Hispanics in the US live longer than Gringos (and longer than they do at home). For all Canada's being a "better place", folks speak with their feet, and far more folks try to come to the US each year than venture to Canada. Last time I looked, considerable numbers of Canadians were still voting "lifestyle" with their feet, heading South. The most visible component (and easiest to get work permitrs/legal status) seems to be health-related professions, primarily nurses. Of course, any accurate accounting of the lives of canadians and USAians, has to revolve around the realization that most Canadians live within about 50 miles of the US, trying to keep warm, while USAians continue to move South at a frantic clip. TMO >> Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE >> You can look to the UN stats for that one! [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > TMO The tremendous influx of Northern infidels into North Carolina is a testament to the veracity of your statements. I have to take for granted that points south have become saturated. Mark > >> Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > >> You can look to the UN stats for that one! [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > Mark The insurance companies are cranking up their rates to drive the marginal people back north, the current noise is how much each politico can promise to deliver in cuts without really losing his "campaign fund donations" from the insurance companies. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-25-insurance_x.htm >> >> Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE >> >> You can look to the UN stats for that one! [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] > donations" from the insurance companies. > http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-25-insurance_x.htm You all must not read your own news. An increasing number of Americans have been moving south since good ole boy George was elected. Our news is filled with American soldiers who have defected up here..... What does that say? Our boys aren't shirking their duty in Afghan (the real terrorist threat, remember...) and moving down south....... > >> >> Thinner than Canadians? PLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > >> >> You can look to the UN stats for that one! [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > What does that say? Our boys aren't shirking their duty in Afghan (the real > terrorist threat, remember...) and moving down south....... All I do is read our news, today's local paper: Saturday, October 28, 2006 The Insurance Storm: State regulators 'paralyzed' Florida's hurricane insurance market is out of control. Millions of residents are stuck with skyrocketing insurance bills. Will their votes trigger change? Read and watch your neighbors' stories and in our forum tell us yours. See complete story http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=INSURANCESTORM And the first article in the four-part series, actually you can hit any Florida daily newspaper any day for about a month and there are articles about the runaway insurance rates. The legislature went into the tank for the big companies and with their pressure on the others the rates go through the roof. Paradise at a premium MATT REED Staff BY MATT REED FLORIDA TODAY THE INSURANCE STORM: First in a four-day series Florida's hurricane insurance market is all but out of control. Millions of trapped homeowners want fast relief from soaring bills. And they want to know if their vote Nov. 7 can bring change. Already hit with higher rates after the 2004 hurricanes, Floridians' insurance bills have doubled or tripled again in parts of coastal counties where home values have risen only modestly in the past year and the hurricane risk hasn't changed. Voters overwhelmingly look to the government for help. And they want answers from state candidates about how they would solve the crisis. A statewide examination by Gannett Co. newspapers, television stations and Web sites found: --- One-third of Florida voters say they cannot afford their home insurance bills and must either move or cut household spending to make ends meet. --- Most of the cost increase reflects higher profit demands by U.S. and foreign insurers, not higher storm risk. --- Foreign financial outfits go unregulated, and Florida legislators last year slipped new language into a law that grants insurers even bigger returns at policyholders' expense. --- Florida voters overwhelmingly distrust the market, and even conservative Republicans urgently want government intervention such as a rate-freeze. --- But Gov. Jeb Bush and industry executives want to wait until after the election to consider changes. They hope voter fervor will subside and they can pursue more market-friendly, long-term solutions in the capitol. Who sets that agenda in Tallahassee, and how fast they move, is up to voters. In a special report starting today, FLORIDA TODAY provides frank answers about the insurance-cost crisis. And it and spells out candidates' proposals and positions to enable better-informed decisions at the polls. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=11507F9D98ADD3 48&p_docnum=2&p_theme=gannett&s_site=floridatoday&p_product=FLTB > > > All I do is read our news, today's local paper: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > tell us yours. See complete story > http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=INSURANCESTORM < snip > Hmmmm ........ maybe the gods and the goddesses were trying to tell me something ..... - nilita >> > >> All I do is read our news, today's local paper: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Hmmmm ........ maybe the gods and the goddesses were trying to tell me > something ..... btw, Jack, why is it that whenever you Floridians have one of your rare cold fronts, you blame Canada? ...%) Another thing that makes one go ... hmmmmmm ..... - nilita > >> > > >> All I do is read our news, today's local paper: [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > - nilita There are Canadians here, they try to go in disguise, often with those sprayed on orange "tans" and the desire to wear muscle shirts and shorts in 40 degree weather. And that's the women. You can get them by using "eh" in a sentence and asking for real money when they try to pay for something. They pay in "real" dollars but you can make them look twice. Not as bad as Myrtle Beach which has catered to the Canadian trade for years, Maple Leaf flags, Valets in Mountie uniforms and dog sled tours of the Grand Strand. Left unmentioned in the discussion of booze has been the single malt canadian Glen Breton Rare. Arved wanted to know why I wanted to go to Cape Breton when we were there two years ago, probably for the music but certainly to try the commercial product and maybe the handmade. > Hilarious! > > Americans produce lots of maple syrup right in the United States. that sh.t you get in hawaii is not maple syrup. it is corn syrup flavored with brown sugar. Here's the REAL way................ http://www.rideau-info.com/local/local_maplesyrup.html >> Hilarious! >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > syrup. it is corn syrup flavored > with brown sugar. > Here's the REAL way................ i live in new england, i know how it is made. "A second fundamental imperial problem for the United States, on a par with its structural vulnerability, is the fact that it is alone. Its neighbor Canada spends 1.1 percent of its gross domestic policy on national defense, and its armed forces are incapable even of defending the Canadian homeland." Michael Ignatieff, "The Challenges of American Imperial Power", in Naval Power in the Twenty-first Century, NAVAL WAR COLLEGE NEWPORT PAPERS, 59 http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/npapers/np24/NP24web.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shameful On Canadians' Part! DSH Veritas Vos Liberabit |
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