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	<title>on the road &#187; Canada</title>
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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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		<title>Leo &amp; Lucy on cleaning up the environmental mess</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/11/29/leo-lucy-on-cleaning-up-the-environmental-mess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are samples of the awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, world-wide non-events that we should be concerned about, according to Leo &#038; Lucy of the guardian.uk.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">Y</span>ou just have to love the environmentalists among us – even the ones in the motherland, if you’ll pardon the pun. Here are samples of the awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping, world-wide non-events that we should be concerned about, according to <a title="Leo &amp; Lucy solve the world's carbon emissions problems" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/series/ask-leo-lucy" target="_blank">Leo &amp; Lucy</a> of the guardian.uk. Or, more likely, those items appealing to fast-disappearing newspaper subscribers in the internet age, apropos of a <em>going-green</em> column.</p>
<ul>
<li>Pesky Christmas lights. Should we dump them in favor of, umm, something that burns less energy, but costs us more money to replace? Oh why not? It’s only money. And a class thing as well, if you light up your entire house. A <em>class</em> thing? What&#8217;s with that?</li>
<li>Now then, you’re wanting to be a tourist, are you? Planning on flying or taking a barge home for Christmas? With all that pollution you emit on your aeroplane, ocean liner, truck, van, automobile? Then find a sleigh, a horse, a feed-bag and a shit-bag and tour locally. Added bonus: What goes in the front end and comes out the back can be burned for heat.</li>
<li>After all that, are you still wanting to put up a tree? What about those poor Georgian natives, <a title="Slaves still pick trees, somewhere over there" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fairtrees.co.uk/history.html" target="_blank">slaving away on treetops</a> to ensure enough seed for Denmark to grow it for you?</li>
<li>Are you anxiously awaiting that Christmas card or parcel from a friend or loved-one? They don’t appear to have a green solution for that one, other than, <em>Postman, tune up your vehicle</em>. As for gift wrap, recycle those old scandal sheets.</li>
<li>Those pesky plastic grocery bags must be replaced by paper. Does anyone not know someone who doesn’t use them for garbage bags? Now <em>that’s</em> recycling.</li>
<li>Using a coal fire to stay warm? Nuh-uh. Use wood instead. That is, if you can find any in the forests of Great Britain, long-ago denuded by those eco-friendly ship builders of yore.</li>
<li>Santa and his reindeer are another problem entirely. How much does it cost NORAD to track this Christmas abomination from the North Pole to various and sundry countries around the world? Let&#8217;s give his animals back to the Laplanders and sweep Santa Claus into the dustbin of Christmas past.</li>
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<p>Oh yes, I know. Canada has a monstrously huge carbon-emission footprint. Really? Just how huge would that monstrously huge carbon-emission footprint be, Canadian?</p>
<p>Why, it’s two per-cent of the world’s problem. Yes, you heard me right. <strong>Two per-cent.</strong></p>
<p>Now then, just how much money should I be spending to reduce that to 1.5 percent? One percent? Zero? Is zero, in fact, realistic for any country? I doubt it very much.</p>
<p>Come on, how much should I be spending? How much should my government be spending to reduce an absolutely meaningless two per-cent emission problem to, say, one per-cent?</p>
<p>I’d bet good money that the cooking fires, tire fires, camp fires and dump fires in all of Africa emit more pollution than Canada. Let’s get those Dark Continent polluters to do their bit for the environment forthwith.</p>
<p>Oh wait, we can’t. They get a pass because they’re already living in filth and starvation, as they have for thousands of years. Perhaps we should send them a few of our extra plastic garbage bags and show those Africans how to clean up their act.</p>
<p>Good luck with that.</p>
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		<title>In memory of</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/11/11/in-memory-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[those who served in Canada&#8217;s Bomber Command.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>those who served in Canada&#8217;s <a title="Bomber Command" href="http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/" target="_blank">Bomber Command</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://blog.twolaneroads.com/pix02/flag02a.gif" alt="" width="228" height="162" /></p>
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		<title>La Société St-Jean Baptiste est dérangé</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/10/30/la-societe-st-jean-baptiste-est-derange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about having your cake and eating it too, or, mange la merde, you stupid frogs.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Talk about having your cake and eating it too, or, <em>mange la merde</em>, you stupid frogs.</p>
<p>Those silly imitation frenchmen (with apologies to France) in Canada <a title="Plains of Abraham never happened according to Quebec" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/02/15/battle-of-the-plains-of-abraham-is-no-longer/" target="_blank">are at it again</a>. For some strange reason, these <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">mentally-challenged</span> retarded people appear to think that they now own all of North America. Don&#8217;t tell the tin-hat brigade in America, or they&#8217;ll be manning up the border with more <a title="Airborn American drones patrol the border with Canada" rel="nofollow" href="http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/02/16/im-thinking-that-the-drone-will-drone-into-oblivion/" target="_blank">drones</a> on wheel-skis.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Quebec sovereignty group wants Prince Charles to apologize for the cultural genocide of francophones in North America. &#8211; <em>cbc.ca</em></p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s because in early November, Chuckie and his lovely bride (one of the ugliest women in the world, if not <em>the </em>ugliest) will be appearing in Canada at a variety of venues, including Quebec. Where&#8217;s Diana when you really need her, Charles?</p>
<blockquote><p>the heir to the British throne will only be welcome in Quebec during his Canadian tour if he atones for the alleged sins by the British after their conquest of North America.</p></blockquote>
<p>Grievances are believed to be among, but not necessarily limited to, the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>deportation of the Acadians in 1755.</li>
<li>establishment of an English-language majority in Canada.</li>
<li>patriation of the Canadian Constitution without Quebec&#8217;s consent.</li>
</ul>
<p>Here&#8217;s a couple of grievances those patriots at la Société appear to have forgotten:</p>
<ul>
<li>the fact that in the last referendum to separate from Canada, they lost their chance to leave &#8211; unfortunately for the rest of us.</li>
<li>the Montreal Canadians haven&#8217;t won a Stanley Cup since 1993.</li>
</ul>
<p>Who among the brave Société St-Jean Baptiste will apologize for that?</p>
<p>Link to article <a title="Quebec wants to eat its own cake" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/10/30/st-jean-baptiste-prince-charles.html" target="_self">here</a>.</p>
<p>I almost forgot:</p>
<p>Go on. Get out. Shoo!  Nobody wants you in Canada. And on your way out, don&#8217;t forget to start learning English so that you can interact with the rest of the world, you bumbling, money-sucking ingrates.</p>
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		<title>Mexico as banana republic</title>
		<link>http://blog.twolaneroads.com/2009/10/25/mexico-as-banana-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RF</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, Mexico is pissed that Canada doesn't want a plague of snowshoe-wearing Mexicans thrust upon its southern border.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">A</span>t a recent press conference, some former Mexican parliamentarian, while visiting the true north, strong and free (Canada, for the uninitiated), whined about deteriorating relations between the two countries. Apparently, Mexico is pissed that Canada doesn&#8217;t want a plague of snowshoe-wearing Mexicans thrust upon its southern border.</p>
<blockquote><p>Relations between Canada and Mexico have deteriorated badly under the Stephen Harper government and won&#8217;t improve as long as Harper remains prime minister &#8211; <em>Rosario Green, chair of Mexican Congress foreign affairs committee, via thestar.com</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Well, Ms. Green, by your own admission:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to Green, most of the Mexicans who seek asylum in Canada are not fleeing mistreatment at the hands of Mexican officialdom, but fear attack by the drug cartels that plague her country. -<em> the star.com</em></p></blockquote>
<p>So then, because Mexico is unable and unwilling to govern itself, Canada should take up the slack? Not bloody likely.</p>
<blockquote><p>Ottawa slapped a visa requirement on Mexican visitors, a measure the government says was necessary to reduce a mounting tide of &#8220;bogus&#8221; Mexican refugee claims. &#8211; <em>thestar.com</em></p></blockquote>
<p>More whining and sniveling ensued because Ms. Green was subjected to the following before being granted a visa to set foot in Canada:</p>
<blockquote><p>officials at the Canadian embassy in Mexico required her to provide, among other documents, a copy of the property title to her Mexican home, copies of her last six bank statements and a letter from the Mexican Congress confirming her position and salary</p></blockquote>
<p>And why not? Perhaps she too was trying to escape attack by the drug cartels that plague her country.</p>
<p>Link to article <a title="Mexico whines about Canadian visa requirements" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/715543--visa-policy-straining-ties-with-mexico" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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