Naw mate. Texas now owns Canada. We are once again the biggest state in the Union and rightfully so...Originally Posted by Steve Blair
Can't be...he posted in English.
And it's clear to me that Rex posted the map as a fun sort of thing (although the KSC might have been a better place for that - or one less prone to confuse folks)...not as a serious expression of economic worth or value. From there it took a turn.
But we have more nukes than you do..... And once we ally with North Dakota, we'll have a respectable bomber fleet to supplement our missiles. [Boris voice from Goldeneye] We....are...inwincible!Naw mate. Texas now owns Canada. We are once again the biggest state in the Union and rightfully so...
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
You'll have to get those folks in Minot to stop sending their nukes down to Louisiana--otherwise Tom, from his JRTC mole site, will figure out how to get them out of Cajun Land over to that Lone Star/Maple Leaf State/Republic/Dominion thingy.But we have more nukes than you do..... And once we ally with North Dakota, we'll have a respectable bomber fleet to supplement our missiles. [Boris voice from Goldeneye] We....are...inwincible!
I wonder how you combine "Blue Bonnets of Texas" with "Maple Leaf Forever" and "Oh Canada" to get a singable national anthem.
By the way, I also wonder whether the Habs, Senators, Leafs, and Stars can merge to bring about a hockey team that can win Lord Stanley's Cup? Even with all that talent to draw from, beating the Red Wings still looks tough.
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. — Sydney J. Harris
Plus, we have Texas Rangers AND Mounties! How cool is that?Naw mate. Texas now owns Canada. We are once again the biggest state in the Union and rightfully so...
Take that, Montana Highway Patrol/Tunisian National Gendarmerie.
Actually, I did have a semi-serious point in posting the map, since--whatever the caveats that might be placed on measuring national economic power, and on how economic power contributes to military-strategic power--it does rather nicely highlight global disparities.
Yeah...but our guys still have a number on their badges that commemorates vigilante action....Plus, we have Texas Rangers AND Mounties! How cool is that?
Take that, Montana Highway Patrol/Tunisian National Gendarmerie.
Actually, I did have a semi-serious point in posting the map, since--whatever the caveats that might be placed on measuring national economic power, and on how economic power contributes to military-strategic power--it does rather nicely highlight global disparities.
That and we DIDN'T have either singing Mountie movies or Chuck Norris pretending to be one of us......
And yeah, the point of the map is well-taken, both for the reasonably serious point you had and some of the comparisons that have arisen in its less serious wake.
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
"I'm a lumberjack and that's okay . . ."
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. — Sydney J. Harris
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But we have Jerry Jeff Walker and Ted NugentOriginally Posted by Steve Blair
That and we DIDN'T have either singing Mountie movies or Chuck Norris pretending to be one of us......
As well as the legacies of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Warren Zevon
Besides Mounties are cool
Canada sounds dangerous:
A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada's vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack, a witness told media Thursday.
The victim had been sleeping before he was repeatedly stabbed in the chest by a man with a large knife, witness Garnet Caton told public broadcaster CBC.
The other 35 passengers and driver were jolted by "blood-curdling screams" and fled. "He must have stabbed him 50 times or 60 times," said Caton.
When Caton and two others returned to check on the victim, he said they saw the attacker "cutting the guy's head off and gutting him."
"While we were watching ... he calmly walked up to the front (of the bus) with the head in his hand and the knife and just calmly stared at us and dropped the head right in front of us."
I was in a staff meeting yesterday. We could have used this guy...
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