Before everyone else comments I'd like to add that the Alliance is Canada's version of the republicans. Makes it easier to understand the views of one of it's members, infact this reminds me of that Florida guy's homophobia, leave it to the right wingers to say and do stupid things. Of the 4 major parties in Canada, the Alliance is the only one I would openly call idiots, because the Liberals, Conservatives and the NDP have worthwhile policies of non-idiotism. Chretien was right in calling this guy a numbnut, cuz he is one.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Nut Hyphen Job.
Seriously, Mandela is as human as the next person and subject to all the flaws and foibles thereof...but that in no way should deminish the accomplishments of someone who helped overturn a rather evil system.
[ June 08, 2001: Message edited by: Jay the Obscure ]
Posted by Nimrod (Member # 205) on :
I got a "Bad Request" when I tried that link, Tahna.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
because the Liberals, Conservatives and the NDP have worthwhile policies of non-idiotism.
Uh..... when the three parties have just voted themselves a 20% pay raise? (not to mention the amount Chretien will be getting).
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Man, I wish _I_ could vote myself a 20% pay raise. I mean, some of those folks are already making over 100,000 a year.
I thought Canada was supposed to be this advanced, socialist, non-greedy, share-the-wealth country. You know where those pay raises will come out of, of course. More taxes. Yippee!
Posted by Jeff Kardde (Member # 411) on :
Er.
Isn't Nelson Mandella that Central American or South American drug lord the US funded and then took into custody about 10 or 15 years ago?
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Please tell me you're not REALLY daft enough to confuse Nelson Mandela with Manuel Noriega. It'll throw all your other opinions into question.
Posted by Jeff Kardde (Member # 411) on :
You try being hungover on a Saturday morning and making sense of anything.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
Take some aspirin and call me in the morning. Posted by Isn't Infinity *G* (Member # 531) on :
The Alliance's goals are to make Canada more like the US, something that canadians totally despise Posted by Jeff Kardde (Member # 411) on :
Of course, I could have just been working on my George W. Bush imitation.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
No, no, GORE couldn't get names right. Bush just mispronounces.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
No, he misunderestimates the importance of what he's been told to talk or underintentionally placed his cue cards where he couldn't read them.
Or he just stops having press conferences so he doesn't have to answer all those tough questions people keep having.
Posted by Jeff Kardde (Member # 411) on :
Actually, Omega, George W. Bush is the guy who thought a plate of cheese fries was the Prime Minister of Canada. Any of our Canadian friends here know of a "Prime Minister Poutin"?
Which is why truth is truly funnier than fiction.
Posted by Tahna Los (Member # 33) on :
I have a headache.
Laughing makes my head hurt.
And I cannot resist laughing.
How can he get the names of Russia's and Canada's leaders mixed up. And how come he thought that US's main trading partner was Mexico rather than looking at that large swath of ice above him?
Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :
That's Poutine.
You're drunk, remember?
Posted by Jeff Kardde (Member # 411) on :
If I'm still drunk, what the fuck was I drinking?!
Poutine (with or without an "e") is not now, nor has it ever been Prime Minister of Canada.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
This has something to do with the Canadian parody-news show which posed the question to GW, n'est pas? I cannot remember the name of the show now. Does anyone have a transcript or better yet a video link for this. I've only ever heard of it third hand, I would love to see the original...
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
quote:a plate of cheese fries was the Prime Minister of Canada
Not like there'd be any noticeable difference if it WAS the PM.
Posted by Jeff Kardde (Member # 411) on :
Which sums up George W. Bush well.
"If ignorance is bliss, Dubya's the happiest man on the planet."
