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		<title>We don&#8217;t consider ourselves Canadians</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2010/02/04/we-dont-consider-ourselves-canadians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, if you're not Canadian, and you've been sucking money from actual, tax-paying honest-to-god Canadians, then how about paying some of it back?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">T</span>hus sayeth the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">grand poobah</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">dictator</span> chief of Kahnawake, <em>Quebec</em> in a televised interview on <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">why</span> how the Kahnawake <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">casino</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">slum</span> indian reservation wants everyone with <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">bad</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">the wrong</span> non-native blood off of their rez in ten days. Getting a tad racist are ya, boys?</p>
<p>Link to article <a title="Bigots are everywhere" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/the-mohawk-affair-is-an-affront-to-all/article1466942/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Here’s another news flash, chiefey:</p>
<p>If you don’t consider yourself Canadian, how about paying back the hundreds of millions of dollars you’ve accepted from actual tax-paying <em>Canadians </em>over the generations? To be just a little blunt, if you don’t like it where you are, then go somewhere else.</p>
<p>Hmm?</p>
<p>&lt; sound of cricket chirping &gt;</p>
<p>Yeah, I thought so.</p>
<p>Perhaps you might want to</p>
<ul>
<li>talk to the province of Quebec (which, so far, is still in Canada the  last time I checked) about that Kahnawake, <em><strong>Quebec</strong></em> designator in your postal code.</li>
<li>form your own little third-world country within the borders of Quebec and find out how that will fly with those friendly, neighboring <em>separatistes</em>;</li>
<li>join Haiti in a “commonwealth of first nations poverty;”</li>
<li>join the United Nations and apply for even more money to waste on your brand, spanking <em>new</em> “nation.”  The rest of the world&#8217;s oppressed peoples will be happy to fund your rez-olution.</li>
</ul>
<p>Because, you know, when you get to be your own country, you can do whatever the hell you want, to anyone you want, any time you want, as long as they’re in your own <em>brand new</em> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">dictatorship</span> country:</p>
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<ul>
<li>pound on your desk while making proclamations;</li>
<li>“allow” citizens to wear <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">triangles</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">squares </span>doo-rags of varying color to denote their level of purity;</li>
<li>ship your citizens off to gulags;</li>
<li>build ovens;</li>
<li>burn, bay-bee, burn.</li>
</ul>
<p>And chief, thank you for demonstrating once again that stupidity isn&#8217;t limited to white people.</p>
<p>Oops, did I just say <em>white people</em>?</p>
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		<title>The joke is on passengers when it comes to airline security</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2010/01/29/the-joke-is-on-passengers-when-it-comes-to-airline-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endure the stupidity of CATSA and/or the TSA's shenanigans, get on board your aircraft, and they still expect you to subdue a Muslim terrorist. Go figure.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">I</span>f we choose to endure the <a title="We pay good money for a ticket, and this is what we end up with" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/12/28/treat-airline-passengers-like-guilty-schoolchildren/" target="_blank">childish indignity</a>* of an airplane ride, CATSA and the TSA forces each of us to pass successfully through airport security by</p>
<ul>
<li>dumping our lives into a plastic bin;</li>
<li>enduring the indignity of being seen as a hijack-crazy, bomb-wearing, foaming-at-the-mouth terrorist, whether we are white, non-Muslim, an 80-year-old grandmother with a cane, or even <a title="8-year old on the no-fly list" rel="nofollow" href="http://joesharkeyat.blogspot.com/2010/01/tsa-and-its-myths.html" target="_blank">eight years old</a>.</li>
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<p>Just try and complain about all of that silliness and stupidity, and you’ll end up being subjected to further indignities, none of which will prove anything.</p>
<p>Then, when it’s all said and done, and you get on board the aircraft after being subjected to the ridiculousness of it in its entirety,</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><em>you’re expected to subdue anyone who remotely resembles a Muslim terrorist attempting to set off a bomb on board your aircraft.</em></strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Can we sue someone for incompetence here?</p>
<p>Fire. Them. All.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">*     *     *</p>
<p>Something else I’ve wondered, and perhaps you have, too: Other than Timothy McVeigh, an Irish Catholic who wasn’t on an airplane and obviously wasn’t a Muslim,</p>
<ul>
<li><strong><em>since 9/11 has there been a non-Muslim  who has been trying to blow my ass up?</em></strong></li>
</ul>
<p>&lt; sound of cricket chirping &gt;</p>
<p>I thought not.</p>
<p>Now certainly, if I can pick up on that teeny tiny bit of intelligence,  I’m wondering why the experts aren’t able to grasp it, run with it, and  solve the problem &#8211; each and every time.</p>
<p>Please consider the foregoing public service announcement a clue for the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>CATSA;</li>
<li>Transport Canada;</li>
<li>RCMP;</li>
<li>TSA;</li>
<li>Homeland Security;</li>
<li>FBI.</li>
</ul>
<p>Macleans magazine has a pretty good and lengthy <a title="Macleans magazine article on airport stupidity" href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/01/19/the-scary-truth-about-airport-security/" target="_blank">article on airport stupidity</a>. Oops, did I say airport stupidity? I should be getting a visit from the stupidity merchants any day now.</p>
<p>*Yes, it’s an indignity to be subjected to being <em><strong>refused permission</strong></em> to use a lavatory; <em><strong>refused permission</strong></em> to stand up; <em><strong>refused permission</strong></em> to get out of the seat; <em><strong>refused permission</strong></em> to have a blanket or a pillow; <em><strong>refused permission</strong></em> to have access to your possessions in the overhead bin.</p>
<p>If I was back in kindergarten I wouldn&#8217;t be subject to such abuses. Why do I have to pay the airlines to do it to me? Note to chickenshit airlines: Start talking to CATSA and the TSA about these and other stupidities that are so affecting your financial bottom lines.</p>
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		<title>Treat airline passengers like guilty schoolchildren</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/12/28/treat-airline-passengers-like-guilty-schoolchildren/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest airline security boondoggle treats passengers like schoolchildren who are guilty of everything. Let's harass them some more for the good money they've paid.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">T</span>hat’ll make &#8216;em <em>think</em> they’re safe.</p>
<ul>
<li>No standing up during the last hour of the flight.</li>
<li>No en-route access to flight information .</li>
<li>No access to overhead bins.</li>
<li>No blankies.</li>
<li>No pillows.</li>
<li>No going to the bathroom.</li>
<li>No getting out of your seat.</li>
<li>Keep your hands in plain sight, and for goodness’ sake, don’t raise one to ask to go to the bathroom, or you’ll be put on a no-fly list (which is probably a blessing in disguise these days). Or worse, you’ll be manhandled, shackled and treated like a common criminal, even if you are an 80-year-old grandmother who doesn’t wear a diaper.</li>
</ul>
<p>And finally,</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>do not under any circumstance, reach into or scratch your crotch</strong>!</li>
</ul>
<p>What the hell!? Are we all back in grade skool, where we need permission to pick our noses and scratch our asses?</p>
<p>Oh, and unnamed (because they&#8217;re afraid they&#8217;ll be lynched) “government officials” aren’t talking about the restrictions, in case, you know, some incontinent grandmother from Temecula might want to disrupt a flight by using a washroom. The temerity!</p>
<p>Did anyone think to tell the guilty schoolchildren getting off of the flights that they’re not supposed to talk about such childish things to the ever-vigilant media asshats? Round those <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">dogggies</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">bastards</span> passengers  up, chain them together, put their names on all of the no-fly lists that can be found, and pack them off to Guantanamo – or to some prison in Illinois where citizens need the work.</p>
<p><a title="Stupidity isn't limited to North America - yet" rel="nofollow" href="http://boardingarea.com/blogs/joesharkey/" target="_blank">Joe Sharkey</a> puts it all in perspective.</p>
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		<title>Oh no! Bad Canada!</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/12/11/oh-no-bad-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian media currently have their panties in a moist wad over the treatment of some of those detained by our forces operating in Afghanistan.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">C</span>anadians currently have their panties in a moist wad over the treatment of some of those detained by our forces operating in Afghanistan. Well, strictly speaking, the detainees weren’t mistreated by Canadian forces. They were mistreated once they were turned over to <em>their own government</em>.</p>
<p>This charge-of-the-prisoner-brigade is being led by Canada’s eastern media conglomerates, including both newspaper and television elements. Their continued <a title="Government, Canadian-style" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2008/12/04/canadian-winter-sour-grapes-make-ice-wine/" target="_blank"> feeble attempts to unseat/embarrass Canada’s minority government</a> by any means possible, most recently by tar and feather, is becoming tiresome.</p>
<p>Like the author of the link below, I too have been wondering just what, exactly, Canada should do with the <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">folk heroes</span> prisoners we take in Afghanistan. If they musn’t be turned over to Afghan officials for fear of torture, then what?</p>
<p>Well,</p>
<ul>
<li>let’s build a prison to house them all in Afghanistan, staffed by easy-going and friendly Canadians, with guaranteed access to some of that <em>free</em> health care, <a title="Tim Hortons" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.timhortons.com/" target="_blank">Tim Hortons</a> and a double-double, on demand.</li>
</ul>
<p>No? Well then,</p>
<ul>
<li>let’s fly them all to Canada for incarceration in our prison system. This would make them eligible for refugee status, because certainly they would face torture by Afghan citizens upon their return to that miserable <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">zoo</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">rock outcrop</span> country that they call home.</li>
</ul>
<p>If that’s not good enough,</p>
<ul>
<li>how about a catch-and-release program? We could load our guns with blanks, thus ensuring no one gets hurt. Once a Taliban is captured, he automatically gets tagged with a colored dye, like a bad polar bear in Churchill, Manitoba when he gets too close to town.</li>
</ul>
<p>After all, we’re fighting for freedom over there, and Canada shouldn’t be <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">fawning over</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">hurting</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">giving special treatment</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">tagging</span> imprisoning <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">polar bears</span> Taliban <em>freedom fighters</em>.</p>
<p><a title="Canada's media elite appears to be more than just a tad pro-Taliban" rel="nofollow" href="http://ezralevant.com/2009/12/has-parliaments-law-clerk-caug.html" target="_blank">Here is a far more eloquent diatribe by Ezra Levant</a> than I could ever write, but with which I agree, wholeheartedly.</p>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re coming, don&#8217;t forget the bananas</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/12/01/if-youre-coming-dont-forget-the-bananas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Canada is) behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee’s tea party.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><blockquote><p>(Canada is) behaving with all the sophistication of a chimpanzee&#8217;s tea party</p></blockquote>
<p>But before you get here, clean up your own back yard, and keep your limey prejudices to yourself.</p>
<blockquote><p>A concerted campaign has now begun to expel Canada from the Commonwealth.</p></blockquote>
<p><span class="drop_cap">F</span>inally! Thank you, Jesus! <em>The Commonwealth</em> has been an underachiever for decades now. It’s primary <em>raison d’être</em> was for the benefit of the motherland, more commonly known at the time as Great Britain. Britain isn’t so great now.</p>
<blockquote><p>Canada now threatens the wellbeing of the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>More than China. More than the United States. More than Pakistan. More than <em>any other country in the world</em>. Imagine that.</p>
<p>Canada.</p>
<p>You bastards out there had better be on your toes, or we Canadians will drag you down to the level of, uhh, something or other. Maybe.</p>
<blockquote><p>turning this lovely country (Canada) into a cruel and thuggish place.</p></blockquote>
<p>Been to Nairobi recently, have you?</p>
<p>I am so tired of the klimate klowns and their incessant whining and sniveling. They ignore the problems in their own back yards, all the while insisting that this nation or that nation or another nation over there, somewhere, is the real culprit of climate change, diamond mines, gold mines, logging, rainforest stripping, desert wind, camel dung, cloudy skies and poor tipping.</p>
<p>Kiss my fat, white, wrinkled Canadian ass. Furthermore, while you’re flying over, just keep right on going to some country that you might actually want in your Commonwealth of nations. If you don’t like it here, go somewhere else.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I don’t think this guy would like it anywhere.</p>
<p>Link to his guardian.uk article <a title="Don't forget to bring bananas" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/nov/30/canada-tar-sands-copenhagen-climate-deal" target="_blank">here</a>, from whence the quotes come.</p>
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