We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:36:18 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Remember the story from last year where there was a DoD warning put out about contractors in Canada having spy gear planted on them? The high-tech device... was a Canadian commemorative coin. According to Fox News: The odd-looking — but harmless — "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP. The Globe and Mail goes into rather more... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html Tue, 08 May 2007 07:28:48 -0600 What I wanna know is...how did it escape swnbn(she's a lawyer and Sue Happy) her notice? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59846 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59846 Tue, 08 May 2007 22:17:03 -0600 maroons. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59818 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59818 Tue, 08 May 2007 12:44:40 -0600 tacky artwork with a high-tech spy device is baffling. Boy, I wonder what our intrepid defense (with an S since he's one of yours) contractor would have done with one of these, which, like the poppy quarter are legal tender in the Hoser Nation?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59806 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59806 Tue, 08 May 2007 09:41:26 -0600 Blame Canada! Where's John Candy when you need someone to lead an invasion? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59802 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59802 Tue, 08 May 2007 09:07:21 -0600 I thought it was funny the whole time. I saw this previously and thought it was just a coin. I figured, for the "it's spy technology" thing to come out, they would have already taken it apart and saw it's "fiddly bits" before they pronounced it as such. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59800 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59800 Tue, 08 May 2007 08:56:33 -0600 Ask! But that would provide the opportunity to for the enemy to perfectly recall the thousands of coins and reissue fakes We all know the commie secret code is RED and poppies are from Afghanistan Terrorists! My beady eye is watching you. Actually i think it's quite a nice coin and a good idea. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59799 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/dang_canadians.html#comment-59799 Tue, 08 May 2007 08:47:29 -0600