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says...

.....and one should include the US's allowing Canada to continue
to exist as a non-productive dependency, insuring the vastly
visible paranoid chip on many Canajun shoulders (or in some,
bleedin' heart on their sleeves), in exchange for a modest
supply of natural resources no other country could afford.

Hell... you don't actually want to run this place, do you? We would drive you
absolutely starkers

Meanwhile, we let'em build Crown Victorias, gas bombs waiting to
be struck from the rear, and sworn off of by many US police
departments,

A cunning ploy, by, I dare say, a Yank company.... Our Hondas and Toyotas &c
are quite fine, thankyou very much.... this in just in line from the
Hindenburg/Pinto/Apollo difficulty with volatile fuels....


The healthcare situation id
precarious since at the current rate there will only be 36
nurses left in the whole country within a decade, even young
Filipinas will not emigrate there, LA being warmer,

Global warming is really working in our favour... we should be planning our
terawatt coal-fired plants now! Attracting Filipinas is no bad goal.....


Meanwhile, you'll be out there, a'clubbing baby seals,

But they gobble up so much innocent cod!!!!!!

longlining for the last school of cod, scalping the indigenes
(figuratively, their pocketbooks) and training drivers to drive
the tourist busses to the Fort Churchill city dump for "Bear
Daze", the last growing job market in the whole frozen
wasteland.

Hey, if you've got it, use it..... (pay no attention to those cans of white
spray paint....)

Most of what I read posted by Canadians here about the US is not
quite as accurate as the wisdom set forth above. With Coridon,
paranoia has slipped well into psychosis and the need for
medication has certainly ascended to "constant IV drip"
dimensions. With most of the others it's simply a Douglas Fir
sized shoulder chip, while Brian might get better if he would
cut down to a few small whiskies befor missing dinner.

Och, wi' a fine Laphroaig, nothing whatsoever is missed.......

Cheers,
dba

(ah.... I am reading this in smn but I see it is going back to ramn Is that ok
with everyone... I almost never deal with headers.... and even then I generally
don't...so I've added smn, or at least tried to... and deleted the 'follow up'
is that ok? does it work? I've sent this back to smn and ramn, which I
don't know about What is the polite thing to do in such a case....?