We lurves our Canadian bretheren and sisteren. Even the tankers.
In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.
- William Jefferson Clinton
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
- Robertson Davies, 1913 - 1995
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
- Margaret Atwood
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace; it lends perspective.
- Paul Anka
The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
- Paul Martin
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.
- June Callwood, 1924 - 2007
In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect.
- William Jefferson Clinton
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
- Robertson Davies, 1913 - 1995
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
- Margaret Atwood
Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace; it lends perspective.
- Paul Anka
The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.
- Paul Martin
The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off its own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.
- June Callwood, 1924 - 2007
During my all-expense-paid tour of sunny Southeast Asia, I had a Canadian citizen in my infantry squad. He had come south and volunteered for service in our military. He was a strac trooper and never failed me on the hunt or in a fight. Whenever I hear about the dirtbags who ignored their duty and fled to our northern neighbor, I kind of smile to myself and think, "I sure got the better of that deal."
On the other, and much less important hand, he was a hockey-playing fool. To expand on what Bill Russell, the Boston Celtic, star said about basketball being a contact sport and football being a collision sport, hockey is a collision sport with weapons. No place for someone of my obvious intelligence to be.
Glad to have them as neighbors, and especially glad to have their capable, reliable and brave troops in the fight with us. Their service and sacrifices are too little recognized on both sides of the border.
Now if we could just get them to cure that frogspeak stuff in certain areas...
Despite the squabbles we have our relationship is pretty damm good. We used to help the USCG 13th district in Seattle as we had a dive team and they didn’t. The 17th used to help our Northern guys with Helo’s during SAR missions to name a few linkages. When people complain about the US, I ask them, would you have preferred the USSR?
Thanks to the birthday wishes and here’s a big early “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” to you guys as well. Now that Obama is in power, can we send all of the dirtbag draft dodgers back?