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Might Shatner Boldly Lead Canada As Governor?
just fiddling around writes "Now that Michaëlle Jean is approaching the end of her customary five-year post as Governor General of Canada, the rumor mill has started on who Prime Minister Steven Harper will propose to the Queen in her stead. According to the CBC, the short list includes Captain Kirk, actor William Shatner. It seems that acting can lead to the highest offices in places other than California."
my last name is british, and i can name the small town in the midlands where i can trace my ancestry
but my ancestors also fought in the american revolution against the british, as a matter of principles. that therefore allows me to talk about an american identity, because it was something that was fought for, and won through sacrifice. pray tell, what kind of principles did your heritage serve, besides subservience?
so maybe its just a matter of an ancient blood feud with me, but when i see your words, i see plenty of reasons to be proud of being british, but not a single reason to be proud of being canadian. because there's nothing "canadian", whatever that is supposed to mean, in what you articulate that you are proud about
if you can enunciate something of a canadian identity, rather than what you have written: an enunciation of british identity, then maybe i can respect canada and canadian national identity as something real
but until then, i really don't view canada as anything except unincorporated american territory. unfinished business. too cold and too empty to bother
so man the border, tory. my blood has shed for your cowardice in not serving the good cause of throwing off the colonial yolk. you seem quite proud of your historical, and current, colonial subservience to masters across an ocean, and therefore, you deserve no respect from me, and no recognition, or respect, to an identity which has no meaning other than what you really enunciate: british identity
this is a man who fought for a real identity, and therefore deserves my respect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_riel
i see none of that fight for identity in what you wrote, merely a kiss ass to a foreign power
maybe its time to aid the frogs in quebec in splintering your joke of a nation, as it deserves to be splintered and dissolved
man the border tory. we have unfinished business
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
The Queen of Canada too? I mean I know they only became a real country in the 80's but you'd think they'd get their own Queen when that happened.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
Yeah, call me when she cavorts with the cannibals too will ya?
Also, lets have some respect for the Indian caste system while we're at it. Those are some endangered people right there. Entire livelihoods being destroyed, I tells ya!
Who the heck are you talking to? Who's "we" and when did "we" decide to be cool with "murdering" things?
And I'm being shallow when I do what exactly? Eat meat? Who said I eat meat?
I'm sorry you feel the need to justify your habits so loudly to strangers. Do you do that a lot? I also apologize for not suffering from cognitive dissonance by not killing animals I find cute to satisfy non-existent primitive caveman urges.
Yeah, it was a lame publicity stunt, designed to get on the newspapers, and give the finger to the europeans.
No need to invoke my moral standards or lack thereof, to see that was what it was meant for. That she felt the need to do it and chose to use raw seal hearts as a prop says a lot about her character. In a different era, she'd have fit right in a circus freak show I guess, you know, the ones with weird animals on display for our amusement?
"Physically incapable... " of eating anything else? Haha, and also all those scientists in the antarctic also have to airlift in tons of raw seal hearts I guess? Wait, no, its raw penguin hearts for those guys... And how do people ever manage to live on ships and submarines? Six months at a time without access to raw seal hearts must leave them feeling ravenous at the end of a tour of duty. Or do they just hunt a lot of seals beforehand and store the meat? No that wouldn't be it, in your world, I guess all the food technology humans invented for distribution and storage isn't actually used by anyone (except vegetarians...). Very puzzling!
Yeah, humans were in caves too at one point. You suggesting we should go back to that? Or that there was something wrong with moving out of the caves and using our brains for something other than subsistence living?