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I'm getting visions of Dr Moreau's Island  :o

Actually, the inferiority complex is very heavily at play... not the least among our own political elites.  And I do take exception to your polemics "most despised nation on the face of the Earth" indeed.

Why should the US cut ties with the only democracy in the Middle East? To appease a bunch of fanatics?  No dice.  That would be craven capitulation on the scale of Neville Chamberlain giving in to Hitler in 1938

Add a Canadian flag while you're at it.  Let's not be too proud here

Anything brewed by Molson, Labatt, Carling, Budweiser, Miller, Coors, etc - barely even qualifies as beer.  :P  Makes finding the worse beer kind of hard when the bottom of the pack is so full.  Anyone who spent some time drinking German beers (real beer, made with real ingredients) can't abide...

With all due respect, that has sweet nothing to do with the double-dipping concept.  All of us, military, RCMP and civil service are paid by the Crown.  The fact that RCMP members cannot be in the CF has nothing to do with who is paying - it is for altogether different reasons.

I don't think the "double-dipping" is the issue here.  I work for the Federal Public Service in my day job and am thus also paid by the Crown for two different jobs and my civilian employer is very supportive of my being in the Primary Reserve.

Consider yourselves lucky.  We've had more than enough face to face meetings to realize that there is no will at all across the table.  Every, and I mean every suggestion we made to help the RC (which would have meant much more work for us than for them) was shot down without much discussion. ...

This logic would be acceptable, if the local RC actually gave a fuck about the reserve units - which it doesn't.  Recruiting has gone downhill since most of the work was pulled out of the units.  Okay - the system doesn't have enough people - but that doesn't excuse the general laziness...

Couldn't be any worse than what's going on now.  The present recruiting system is broken, kaputt, put-a-bullet-in-it-and-get-a-new-one.  Considering the almost non-existant level of service we get from the local recruiting centre, I'd rather deal with a motivated contractor whose bottom-line...

Hmm - IIRC the Red Army and its predecessor the Imperial Russian Army were our allies in both world wars - and in WW2 in particular, the Red Army absorbed the brunt of the fighting and the casualties   :salute:

You would have been automatically released from the SHR when you hit age 55.

Sheesh - that tired and discredited argument.  Pedophilia is not a sexual orientation - it is the predisposition to a criminal act, i.e. sexual abuse of minors.

Perhaps marketing company who recorded the ad are just another casualty of the piss-poor job Canadian educational institutions are doing in teaching history...  It's scary when supposedly educated people have no notion about something as blatantly nazi as the Horst Wessel Lied.

It's been around since the Crimean war, penned by Alfred Lord Tennyson after the Battle of Balaclava: The Charge of the Light Brigade Half a league, half a league,      Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death      Rode the six hundred. `Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for...

Gentlemen, having had a new permanent ID done in November at the centre of all things, i.e. NDHQ, herewith the drill: shirt, tie, DEU tunic as is, i.e. no insignia removed.  Digital photo with the card delivered instantly.  

Keep in mind that the CDS is hardly an autocrat.  More like a juggler in a three ring circus.  He has to contend with the Deputy Minister, who technically should only be involved in the civilian side of DND, but regularly puts his nose into military affairs.  He has the three service chiefs, the...

You need to get the book The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War by JL Granatstein http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?Item=978155238176&Catalog=Books&N=35&Lang=en&Section=books&zxac=1  I have the hardcover published 8-9 years ago.  It has a good profile of...

Something does not compute: "America good" said by lefties???  ??? On the macro scale, Canada maybe has not been "lazy", but our politicians have been shirking their international responsibilities - to use that old cliché, they're like the diner who heads for the bathroom when the collective...

There are a few mistakes on that site.  What is shown as the "Officer's Mess Dress White Wings" are the old pre-unification Blue Patrol wings, before there was a distinction between "white" and "red" wings.  Also, "white" wings aren't awarded for having served in the Airborne Regiment, they are...