From our neighbors to the north

Interesting article from one of our neighbors to the North.

Tribute To The United States

 

From a Canadian newspaper

 

America: The Good Neighbor

 

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator.  What follows is the text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:

 

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth.  Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions on debts..  None of these countries is, today, paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States.

 

When the Franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris.  I was there.  I saw it.

 

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help.  This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.  Nobody helped.  The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries.  Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.

 

I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the united States dollar build its own airplane.  Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC 10?  If so, why don't they fly them?  Why do all the international lines except Russia fly American planes?

 

Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man on woman on the moon?  You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.  You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles.  You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon – not once, but several times – and safely home again.

 

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at.  Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded.  They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting AmericanDollars form ma and pa at home to spend here.

 

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.  When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose.  Both are still broke.

 

I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble.  Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble?  I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.  Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around.  They will come out of this thing with their flag high.  And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles.  I hope Canada is not one of those."

 

Stand proud, Americans

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Brian Rants

brianrants@gmail.com

My blog: http://barguitar.blogspot.com/

Thankful to walk away

...from this accident yesterday

Dude ran a red light and hit me hard, spun me around 180 degrees, and
his truck flipped and got wrapped around a telephone pole

2 accidents in 3 months. My neck is definitely hurting, but it will heal

Our new favorite breakfast spot

I can't say it has dethroned Annie's on Colfax as our favorite
breakfast spot. But it tied.

Super hip, great mimosas, the best pancakes I have ever had. They were
like 2x the size of my head. And I have a sizeable head

Democrat vs Republican (tongue in cheek)

One of my friends and I have had some good-natured sparring over Democrat vs Republican.

He and I enjoy the back and forth, so please take this in the satirical manner it was intended. We don't actually think the other party believes this, and it's total hyperbole. But it is funny, and shows the extremes of each party. Enjoy.

The list I received

I'm way  too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are
all I need  to protect me from murderers and thieves. 

 I'm voting Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I 
want. I've decided to marry my horse.
 

    I'm voting Democrat because I believe oil companies' profits of 4% on a
gallon  of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of
gas at 15%  isn't.

     I'm voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better
job of  spending the money I earn than I would.
 

    I'm voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody
is  offended by it.
 

    I'm voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust  that the
bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're  good people.
 

    I'm voting Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us
if it will rain on  Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps  will melt
away in ten years if I don't start driving a  Prius.
 

   I'm  voting Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of
millions of  abortion babies so long as we keep all death row inmates  alive.
 

   I'm  voting Democrat because I believe that business should not be
allowed to make  profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest
away to the  government for redistribution as THEY see fit.

     I'm voting Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the
 Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would NEVER get 
their agendas past the voters.

   I'm voting Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ass it's 
unlikely that I'll ever have another point of  view.

The list I composed

I'm voting Republican because the sky is falling, Obama is the Antichrist, and there is a terrorist under every rock

I'm voting Republican because we are a party of diversity: if by diverse you mean having 3.5 black people and 8 hispanics

I'm voting Republican because if I keep telling myself "Iraq had a connection to the people who attacked us on 9/11" it will make it true

I'm voting Republican because prosperity trickles down to poor people...it does right? I mean I don't actually know any poor people.

I'm voting Republican because I want government to stay out of the way...except for legislating the cultural and moral principles I hold...and guns...but stay out of the way on other stuff

I'm voting Republican because I believe you can plant a democracy at the end of a gun with civilian leaders who don't even know the difference between Sunni and Shiite. 

I'm voting Republican because I believe we simply need to waive our irresistible democracy fairy dust over the middle east, and it will bloom like a spring garden. We don't ACTUALLY need to waste our time understanding their culture, religion, and values.

I'm voting Republican because schools don't need more money, the facilities are amazing...in the suburbs where I live

I'm voting Republican because I trust international corporations more than I trust government...they can't both be corrupt can they?

I'm voting Republican because I forget there are a lot of pro-life people on both sides, who know that we should be just as focused on preventing unplanned pregnancy as the legal status of abortion, that the lowest abortion rates in the world are in countries where it is legal but there is good health services (http://prolifeproobama.com/), the highest in countries where it is illegal and there are not adequate services), and that being pro-life doesn't end at birth (http://matthew25.org)

:)

Back in Breckenridge

This time for a church retreat for our simple church network, Ancient
Paths Church Network

From a 10 mo old African American baby to a 65 year old Native
American woman, with yuppie Caucasians like me in between, it was a
celebration of the unity from diversity in God's family