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That would be very cool.

It seems to me that you use your God as an excuse to indulge yourself in making judgements. There are many, many gay people. That so many gay folk exist must mean something; perhaps they, too, are part of your God's plan. Up here in Canada, gay folks are allowed to marry. Most of these marriages are civil since most churches do not wish to marry same sex couples. And all couples, same sex or otherwise, who choose to live common-law have the same protections and benefits as legally married couples. The sky has not fallen in as a result.

It was a brilliant prank. And she still doesn't know any more about the foreign affairs, it seems. She was given the wrong name for Canada's Prime Minister and, as for Quebec, a province doesn't have a Prime Minister, it has a Premier. Thanks for posting this. I was LMAO, eh.

McCain has anger issues. He is an angry old man. Obama is generally pretty laid back, I have heard. As for giving the finger, it goes to show that he is a man who cares about the hearing impaired. lol

Oh, after the election Beth will likely be pissing in the cornflakes of anyone she comes across who is a Democrat/socialist/liberal.... LOL

I always enjoy your posts, SteveGoad.

Let the churches pay taxes.

I am becoming increasingly irritated by the misuse of the term "socialism." This is a term which has a precise meaning: Socialism is a "movement aiming to establish a classless society by substituting public for private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange." By this definition, Obama is not a socialist and he is not offering socialism as part or all of his political platform. (And Canada is not a socialist country though some of us are amused when you call us such. We think: oh, class is already beginning to disappear south of the border, eh. LOL)

Yes, I, too, have found this individual's posts to be mean-spirited and angry. They stand in sharp contrast to those of Gadget's who, although she shares the same politics, lack that bitterness and that meaness. Gadget remains respectful of other people.

I don't like Erica Jong's writing.

I thought that this article by Christopher Hitchens was right on the money. Thanks for posting it.

The Republicon strategy does seem to be composed of negative attacks, many of them personal, and not a positive promulgation of their own platform. Actually, many of the TV adverts that I have been seeing - both Demo and Repo - are attack ads and largely negative. It is unsurprising that there is such bitterness amongst the citizens of your country. This is a sad state of affairs, I think.

A great big tumor made up of small cell cancer on my right vocal cord. Small cell cancer can quickly travel to other sites in the body and is considered very dangerous for this reason. Luckily, it does respond well to treatment; there are some cancers which don't. I was really lucky in that although my tumor was really large, the cancer hadn't spread. By the time they figured out what was wrong with me I could hardly breathe and I was talking with a little squeaky voice. They took one look at it in the day clinic at the hospital, booked me a hospital room, and gave me an emergency tracheotomy. For 7 months I had a plastic tube sticking out of my neck. This was humiliating and it gave me constant pain. I was on liquid morphine for the entire time. It also got infected twice.

Once again, you are talking from a position of ignorance and spitefulness. This unpleasant tone and unwillingness to see other viewpoints seem to be characteristic of you. It is obvious that you have never travelled and that you don't read much. The reason Canadians are peaceful is because this country enjoys a high degree of affluence. People who are healthy, well-educated, and who enjoy a high standard of living don't have much to complain about or to rebel over. We are too busy enjoying our lives. Our country is not torn apart by an election (we had one recently and elected a Conservative government), we do not have the kind of poverty that we have seen in New Orleans, etc, we have a surplus, not a debt, and, though the media is much more to the left, I subscribe to a very right wing national newspaper. This is just how we Canadians like it. Our weather does suck, however....

Yes, the cancer treatments are almost as bad as the disease and they certainly can make one feel much sicker. At the point when I was told that I was "tumor-free" I was feeling so sick that I did not, I could not react even though my nearest and dearest were jubilant. Even though the tumor was gone I felt nearer to death at that point than I had when I was first diagnosed; and this was when my situation had been dire for at that point I had been found to have a fast moving (small cell) cancer and my tumor was stage 3 (stage 4 is endgame). I now have hair - although it is very short - and no longer suffer from nausea. Although I am gaining weight I still have problems with my post-nuclear throat and mouth. And my hearing is impaired in one ear. I was warned about all of these side effects when I began treatments. Cancer is no walk in the park.... Please do give your friend my regards.

Nope, you wouldn't be happy up here. The joint is crawling with lefties and the climate is lousy. It is peaceful, though.

People can be weird. After I lost a lot of weight due to the band I had a couple come running up to me screaming repeatedly, "let's see the half-a-woman!" I also had people in my neighbourhood ascribe my weight loss to unacknowledged illness. They wouldn't speak to me directly about this but they would ask my husband or my tenant. What made this worse was that I did end up getting cancer. (Then I lost even more weight. Cancer is very slimming, eh.)

If I were an American citizen I would vote for Obama, too. My brother is and he will be voting for him. As you have so correctly pointed out, abortion is just one of a myriad of issues which currently beset your country. The team, McCain and Palin, which the Republicons have on offer seem to be of no more than average ability and yet they seem emotional, arrogant and set in their ways. Obama, on the other hand, seems to be extremely intelligent, cerebral rather than emotional, and smart enough to know when he does not know something; this is a man who will know when to consult experts, something which is important in any leader but particularly so when this individual will be in charge of a country which is a global super-power.

Thanks, Jack.

We are very different. Although I really love living in my large multi-cultural city, I have been in many parts of the world where I felt that I could live very happily. Indeed, I did live happily in the south of France for a few years.

Send us Barack Obama instead, please. He is very, very popular up here in affluent "Soviet Canuckistan." In fact, as the polls show, we Canucks prefer him to our local political offerings, and Obama, a Chicagoan, will find our dreadful climate to be similar to what he is now accustomed to. Yes, we have universal health care (which means that my cancer treatment didn't cost me one thin dime), legalised abortion, and same sex marriages. We also have wealthy Canadians and a generally high standard of living.

Thank you. Gadget, I imagine your friend is likely feeling pretty lousy at the moment. Please do tell her from me that this, too, will pass and she will begin to feel better once the effects of the radiation and the chemo fade. In the meantime, rest is the thing. And plenty of liquids; I was tossed into hospital because of severe dehydration.

Aha! So that's your secret! lol

You are right and I am wrong. It is not technically speaking a sound bite but it is presented in an inflamnatory fashion thanks to the voice-over.

You are right and I am wrong. It is not technically speaking a sound bite but it is presented in an inflamnatory fashion thanks to the voice-over.