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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:36 pm
 


We become very relevant when they are so ashamed of their country that they have to put our flags on their backpacks when they travel. Without Canada , who's flag would they wear?<br /> Brent



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:38 pm
 


We Canadians can be justifiably proud that we make a higher prioity out of providing health care than we do our ability to commit mass murder around the world<br /> Brent



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:44 pm
 


How irelevant were the IRA in Britain. It would take about 100 Canadian nationalists to make the US look a lot like northern Irelland for the next 300 years. The CRA would make the IRA look like a bunch of pussycats .Yanks couldn't tell us apart from their own and we have thousands of miles of easy to cross border to get to them.<br /> Like Iraq, the US can invade a country easily enough, but occupying it is a diferent matter, The crusaders learned that the hard way centuries ago. The Yanks totally failed to learn the lessons of that history.<br /> How would they like to have Iran right next door?<br /> Brent<br /> Brent



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:49 pm
 


Brent Swain, please don't post so many small comments in a row; it's kind of confusing. If you later come up with something more to add, you can edit one of your existing posts in the forums. <br /> <br /> Thanks! <img align="absmiddle" src='images/smilies/smile.gif'><br /> <br /> As far as the IRA goes, it's worth noting that they don't want to be associated with terrorists in today's world, and have stopped all non-political activities. if we're going to follow their example, it should be to stop the violence.<br />


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PostPosted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:32 pm
 


True if you are dealing with an adversary who can be delt with diplomatically. However when you are dealing with an invader, non violence wouldn't work, just as Neville Chamberlain's approach to dealing with Hitler didn't work.<br /> Kennedy said that those who obstruct peaceful means of settling disputes make violet means inevitable. That was certainly the case with Hitler and would still be the case with any modern day Hitler.<br /> Brent



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[QUOTE BY= iluvfreebeer] I rarely comment on Canadian politics. They are as relevant to most Americans as the tide tables of Malta. But the anti-American rhetoric oozing over our northern border over the past year has become almost audible. <br /> <br /> Other than the fact that, by the grace of God, it shares a border with the USA - how is Canada relevant in the 21st century? <br /> <br /> Canadians are, for the most part, shrill loudmouths who yelp like a Chihuahua,(though more effeminate, and less effectual) - but what is the purpose of Canada? Why should we pay any attention to Canada, let alone allow it to exist as a sovereign (almost, Hi Queeny!) nation?<br /> <br /> It's exports as a percentage of GDP rank it with such socialist power centers as Iceland, Sweden & Denmark. It lags far behind the leaders like Japan, USA and even Poland. That means it's population has a pathetic, flaccid ability to consume the maple syrup, oil and lumber it produces. <br /> <br /> It's inward investment ranks it with Finland, Portugal and Belgium.<br /> Canada's GDP is just 8% of the USA. Despite it's pathetic size, the growth rate of Canada's GDP lags far behind that of such cheap labor dumps as Ireland and Mexico - and even falls behind that of the great economic power of Turkey.<br /> <br /> Canada's military is virtually extinct and would have difficulty fighting off an invasion of agitated Rotarians. True, Canadian warriors have served proudly in Afghanistan. But their government lacked the brains or testosterone to get on the right side of killing terrorists in Iraq and sent a piddling amount of troops (although those Canadians there have proven themselves to be top notch.)<br /> <br /> Canada has produced a whopping 10 Nobel laureates, compared to 279 Americans. <br /> <br /> Canada has socialized it's medical system and forced many of it's citizens to go to the USA for treatment, lest they die in the waiting rooms of Toronto or Montreal. They have spit on it's citizens' rights to self defense and to be armed. They have taxed the poor citizenry to a horribly oppressive point, without even providing good services for the money.<br /> <br /> This is not an attack on individual Canadians. It is a question of why your neighbors to the south would ever care what anti-American leftists or part-time allies think about US politics.<br /> <br /> To paraphrase Ann Coulter - Canada exists through the good graces of America and for our personal amusement.<br /> <br /> Now shut up and milk the trees and pump the oil.[/QUOTE]<br /> After reading the <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2089.htm">official relevancy</a> Canada has to the USA and reading joe-six-pack's irrelevant comments in this thread, you start to understand why Dubya is still in office.


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ilovefreebeer and rabblewatch, thanks for the lovely exhibit, we had our laughs. Now let's talk about your country for a sec.<br /> <br /> Why don't you Umarkans clean up your country before criticizing someone else's? With the rate you borrow money for military and tax cuts, your government will be broke within a decade. Soon the US of A won't have a dime to spend cause your entire GDP will be needed to finance your debt to China and Japan. The whole US industrial base and technology is leaving the country then export the goodies back to the US from communist China, so the Umarkan unemployed can buy cheap Chinese DVD players. The label "Made in USA" is almost extinct. You allow any Third Word asshole to go there and get a job yet Silicon Valley alone has 200 thousand unemployed UT professionals. By the year 2010 3-4 million IT jobs will have left the United States. I hear H1-b visas will now be available to 5 billion Third Worlders without limitation. Umarkan employees train their H1-B replacements, then go to fill out applications forms at WalMart. Some American Dream. Btw, what on Earth happened to your disaster response time? It took you like a week to move your sorry asses when New Orleas was wiped out. Canadian relief ships got to New Orleas faster than your own. Also, how come the most powerful military in the World has been losing a war against a small country that was "pre-weakened" by 10 years of UN sanctions? Can't you people do anything right?<br /> <br /> Most importantly: your beer doesn't even come close to ours.


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[QUOTE BY= badsector] ilovefreebeer and rabblewatch, thanks for the lovely exhibit, we had our laughs. Now let's talk about your country for a sec.<br /> [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> rabblewatch is canadian, I believe.<br /> <br /> [QUOTE]<br /> Why don't you Umarkans clean up your country before criticizing someone else's? With the rate you borrow money for military and tax cuts, your government will be broke within a decade. Soon the US of A won't have a dime to spend cause your entire GDP will be needed to finance your debt to China and Japan.<br /> [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> At which point we can sit back and laugh; it is, as you say, a problem to be dealt with by Americans. <br /> <br /> [QUOTE]<br /> Most importantly: your beer doesn't even come close to ours.[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> That's actually a myth based on differences in measurement.<br /> <br /> "World of Beer is amazed that the mythology of Canadian beer being stronger than the US-brewed equivalent still persists. The difference lies not in the beer itself, but in the way alcohol content is typically measured. Canadians list the alcohol contents of their beers by volume, while the Americans usually state them by weight. The standard strength of most major brewery beers -- 5% by volume in Canada; 4% by weight in the United States -- are actually more-or-less equal."<br /> <a href="http://worldofbeer.com/brightbeer/canbeermyth.html">World of Beer</a><br /> <br /> While we're on the subject of Canada's irrelevance and beer, some interesting canadian beer facts:<br /> <br /> * Molson in Montréal has been brewing since 1786, making it the oldest brewery in North America.<br /> * Canadian companies have been responsible for two of the most significant developments in brewing techniques in centuries — continuous malting and continuous brewing. <br /> * Canada is the world’s seventh largest beer exporter.<br /> * The Czech Republic drinks more beer per capita than any other country, followed by Ireland and Germany. Canada ranks a lowly 17th. <br /> <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/jf02/justthebeerfacts.asp">Canadian Geographic's beer facts</a><br />


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[QUOTE]World of Beer is amazed that the mythology of Canadian beer being stronger than the US-brewed equivalent still persists. [/QUOTE]<br /> It's not the strength. It's the taste. <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/smile.gif' alt='Smile'><br /> <br /> [QUOTE]The Czech Republic drinks more beer per capita than any other country, followed by Ireland and Germany. Canada ranks a lowly 17th.[/QUOTE]<br /> Well, it seems we have room for improvement. I am willing to do my part. We should make it a patriotic duty to move Canada up on that list.


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[QUOTE BY= badsector] <br /> Well, it seems we have room for improvement. I am willing to do my part. We should make it a patriotic duty to move Canada up on that list.[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Indeed, let's take action to make Canada relevant in the beer world! <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/smile.gif' alt='Smile'>


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:52 am
 


In that case I recommend Two Rivers Red, Jesse. It's not only relevant, but makes the tongue tingle a bit.


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I've heard that Canadian beer causes cancer. US beer doesn't cause cancer, because before bottling all US beer is first strained thru a special type of organic filtre called a "horse".<br /> Brent



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:42 pm
 


And you believed that crap? Let me guess... it was a Budweiser commercial?


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:38 pm
 


[QUOTE BY= badsector] And you believed that crap?[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Ummm. Read it again perhaps? This time with the keyword is "#1", not "#2". <img align=absmiddle src='images/smilies/lol.gif' alt='Laughing Out Loud'>



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[QUOTE BY= lesouris] What's so bad about socialism? I'm not saying that what we have in Canada is socialism, but if socialism is defined as the pursuit of equality for all citizens, what's so bad about that? [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Socialism is the pursuit of equality for 'all citizens' at the cost of the individual. Socialism is basically anachronistic.<br /> <br /> Capitalism however is the empowerment of the individual. The individual is *always* more important than the collective. A group of individuals are better than a group being placed together against their will.


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