What would you rather do ? Apologize for Rush or having to explain Céline Dion ? 
That last is the worst affront upon the world that Canada has ever had to civilization. Do you mean to tell me there is an explanation for it?
I thought it was a military weapon that got loose?
Jim
That is one of the most common explanation. Other includes :[ul]
[li]a punishment from the Goddess for Canada’s sins[/li][li]A culinary experiment gone wrong[/li][li]Saddam’s WMD [/li][li]An extraterrestrial invasion beachhead[/li][li]A force of nature[/li][li] Etc.[/li][/ul]
You ought to be. Rush dominates the celebrity gossip media more than Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsay Lohan combined. :rolleyes:
Nobody’s “Forgetting” anything. You aren’t smarter than the entire Canadian government.
If things are going to be that bad, then obviously any economic advantage you can get will just be all the more valuable, won’t it? Nobody knows what the future holds; perhaps global warming will destroy all of civilization, but likelier, it won’t. There will always be international shipping as long as there are people, so we may as well assert a claim to what’s ours, no?
I think for a lot of people Mexico is considered to be a central American country.
I’ll bet you that even more people think Mexico is a South American country.
Canada is a beautiful country inhabited by (largely) admirable people who enjoy political freedom and a high standard of living. People who live there are quite right to be proud of their homeland.
But really, why SHOULD the U.S. pay a lot of attention to Canada?
Is it “sad” that so many Americans couldn’t tell you the name of the Canadian Prime Minister? I guess… but here in Texas, I’m guessing most people couldn’t tell you the names of the governors of Oklahoma or Louisiana, two states that are right next door! Is that also tragic?
Canada and Oklahoma are two perfectly fine places that just don’t have much effect on the everyday lives of Texans. There’s no particular reason anyone in Texas SHOULD pay much attention to them.
And, for that matter, there’s no reason a guy in Alberta should know or care much about what’s going on in Montana or North Dakota.
They should; after all, if you die in Canada you die in real life.
Extra! The NY Times ran two–count 'em, two --big front page articles in Canada ON THE SAME DAY!!
One was about the parity of the two dollars, complete with much analysis and even a Simpsons anecdote, and the other was about illegal aliens from Mexico running to Canada with false promises of asylum (meant mostly for Haitians), and Canada’s haplessness in dealing with them. Love this sentence: “Windsor officials, who scrambled to arrange a meeting Thursday in a community center for some of the new arrivals so they could apply for social services, said they were overwhelmed by the sudden onslaught and deeply worried about the days ahead.”
Uhm, maybe letting them apply right away for social services is not the sort of thing that will stem the tide. I’m just saying.
Anyway, this is just the liberal hippie NYT, but there’s interest out there.
As a native Yooper, I suggest they invade someplace most Americans are certain is part of the U.S. 
True. It’d be embarrassing if Canada took the UP and the US gov just said, “well, okee-dokey then.”