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Abandoning Ottawa to any enemy is a sound strategy.  Any invading army is bound to get hopelessly bogged down in the confusion, mixed messaging, knee-jerk anxieties, and overly uptight political correctness that is  all-pervasive in this 50 square miles surrounded by reality that once was...

Listen to Tess.  While nominally European the Jews from the Iberian peninsula were ethnically Sephardic, ie. from the Mediterranean latitudes.  They differ from the Ashkenazies not only culturally (food, music, etc. )  but religiously too as their liturgies are shorter.  Furthermore, the...

You mean like another comic-book kid who once told me that when he was in the 12th Manitoba Dragoons during the 1950's  the milita regiment was tank mounted armoured airborne, jumping with  Sherman tanks from C-119 Flying Boxcars.

Dear Mr. Todds, I am pleased to reply to your recent offer.  My firm stands ready to assist your firm in converting investment capital into liquid assets.  May I suggest that we enter into substantive discussions regarding this partnership at the earliest possible opportunity.  To expedite...

Thread Hijack What do you fellow "old gummers" remember of the Cuban Missle Crisis 2 years before Dallas? As an 8 year old I remember sitting with our heads between our knees in the school corridor  during an air-raid drill while my youthfully fertile imagination conjured up visuals of...

Had just turned 10 years old and we had just moved to Winnipeg where we were staying with my Grandparents until our stuff arrived and we got settled into our new home.  I don't remember the assassination as much as I remember seeing Jack Ruby lunging out of the crowd of cops and reporters to...

Psycho Dad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GFq6usPg6U&feature=related

The latest in pandemic management planning from those clowns in Ottawa Silly Hall who couldn't organize a gangbang in a w****house: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/11/06/dnd-swineflu.html

Not saying this should be excused however neither is it a new phenomenon.  Every 1st generation immigrant group has experienced this over the years, it's a characteristic of the immigrant experience.  Perhaps the most profound illustration of this is the Broadway hit from the 50's & 60's West...

And here is an update on this story: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/03/mann-equatorial-guinea-plot-release.html

If this relationship sours I suppose the CF is in for some very bad press so you better keep your lady satisfied Pete.  Allow me to share with you the advice my best man gave me: . Time has proven him right.  Best wishes !

RANT WARNING Yesterday as I walked into a suburban Ottawa mall not 10 kms. from the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier and the Memorial Chamber housing the Books of Remembrance I noticed 2 signs beside each other.  One was the standard Honour Our Veterans/Lest We Forget message and the other advised...

For Montreal: Habs jerseys and Club SuperSexe G-strings mottled with poutine stains

While not an authority on the Book I suspect that it is even less complimentary towards wannabe merc trolls. Who's permission Chris?  Pray tell, this ought to be good.

As I recall the FGH parades on Tuesday nights so if no joy in contacting the museum tonight you could give the Orderly Room a shout tomorrow.

Since today is apparently International Conflict Resolution Day http://www.acrnet.org/images/crday.408x528.jpg perhaps the Jerry Springer Show would be a more appropriate venue to facilitate the inevitable sniveling, whining, accusing, denying, slapping, hair pulling, and shirt ripping.

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On the downside:  now we're going have to listen to even more emphatic self-righteous, sanctimonious, sermonizing from this professorial snake-oil salesman who proclaims himself the prince of morality. On the upside:  this award raises expectation levels beyond anything that can possibly be...

On the upside it reduces the risk to royal health presented by poutine clogged arteries.

Read this thread from beginning to end.  I'm sure you'll find it a useful primer... http://forums.milnet.ca/forums/threads/82711.0.html