[Nickel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'B')ut I have no doubt that the only reason that Fidel's head was not given to a U.S. prez was because it wasn't wanted badly enough. Cuba was and is meaningless to the U.S..

[Rasputin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')indsor West MP and NDP border critic Brian Masse voiced his concern Thursday about the implications of the new surveillance measures.
"If we're going to continue to see weaponization that is used in conflicts like Afghanistan and Iraq put on the Canada-U.S. border, saying that it's required for safety and security, it really changes the nature of our relationship," he said.

[Cashmere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')o, you're not getting it. You wanna know what's wrong with the US? Get up and look in the mirror. It's guys like you.

[Cashmere]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nickel', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'Y')ou have no military. You have few people. You have no allies in the world who could help you. Your resources are mainly shipped to the U.S.. Your people are relatively non-violent, as you point out.

[Nickel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'Y')ou're arguing here that you could ramp up your military to compete with the U.S. or threaten a U.S. city?
That's your response?

[pedalling_faster]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'T')he United States will unveil new border surveillance measures Friday in a move that has one New Democratic MP decrying what he sees as the "weaponization" of the Canada-U.S. frontier.

[Rasputin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'S')till no answer Nickel? What's your advice to people regarding home security? None?

[Nickel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'W')hat's your advice to people regarding home security?

[FoolYap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nickel', 'N')ew England would be nice.

[Nickel]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FoolYap', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Nickel', 'N')ew England would be nice.

[bl00k]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cashmere', 'B')reak-ins happen everyday, everywhere. What's your advice after "lock doors"?

[Nickel]

Yeah, and Caz is deliberately obtuse about the idea of working to create a society where appealing to objects of personal homicide is undesirable. You might as well insist on badgering someone as to whether or not he or she has built a ditch around his or her house to catch the flood waters in the face of someone suggesting the community might want to build levees and design flood control measures so the floods don't happen, or happen much more rarely. These are the practical considerations of the matter: I haven't experienced what he keeps threatening (no, not you yourself, Caz; get over yourself) will, nor do I know anyone who has. Caz's philosophy, writ large as the policy of a nation, makes him three times more likely to die by homicide than me.

Meanwhile, on the practical side of his argument, we're all still waiting to hear the exciting tales of just how many times he's spraypainted the walls of his bedroom with the brains of midnight interlopers, and how many little old ladies he's saved on the subway by blowing perps out the window and onto the third rail of instant justice. How about it, Caz?

[Ferretlover]

Frankly, I've had more than enough of this OFF-TOPIC bickering.
Cease and desist-Now.

[Cid_Yama]

<b>Military showing the flag in Arctic</b>
ABOARD HMCS TORONTO, in Frobisher Bay -- Cmdr. Alex Grant scans the dark, frigid waters and stares down the enemy.

On the bridge of this 4,000-tonne warship, there's a tense calm. Crew members in black ball caps peer through binoculars or check the ship's position on glowing maps. Outside, heavy clouds hang low over treeless hunks of brown rock. Occasionally, an innocent-looking white cluster bobs along the slow-rolling sea.

For HMCS Toronto, these are uncharted waters. The navy frigate has handled dangerous missions, including deployments to hot spots such as the Persian Gulf and the Horn of Africa, but it has never sailed this far north. Until recently, Canadian navy vessels rarely ventured into the Arctic, a task that mostly fell to unarmed, red-hulled Coast Guard icebreakers. But as the Arctic ice melt accelerates, more vessels of all kinds are visiting Canada's northern waters. These days, "showing the flag" is becoming less of a symbolic exercise.

"Presence. Grey hulls. Red hulls. This is what sovereignty's all about," says Grant.

The Toronto is one of two navy ships taking part in Operation Nanook, the biggest Arctic sovereignty exercise in Canadian history. The military-led exercise involves roughly 600 personnel from the army, navy and air force, as well as officials from an unprecedented number of federal and territorial organizations, including the Coast Guard, RCMP, CSIS, Public Safety, Health Canada and Nunavut's Emergency Management Office.

"Some of what is taking place here has to do with what I would describe as testing of the boundaries, perhaps, of the Canadian North," said Defence Minister Peter MacKay, who flew here this week with Gen. Walt Natynczyk, Canada's chief of defence staff, to observe the exercise.

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<i>Next month, military exercises are set to begin in Lake St Clair,
on the Canadaian US border, as a show of strength in response to US combat helicopter patrols. Just kidding.</i>

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[bencole]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/0903 ... sh_calgary

Crazy, It won't happen in a million years, but technically it is a legal possibility, interestingly enough.

[jbrovont]

Huh. Can't say I'd bat an eye if they did...wouldn't lift a finger either.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bencole', 'h')ttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090315/national/george_bush_calgary

Crazy, It won't happen in a million years, but technically it is a legal possibility, interestingly enough.

[Plantagenet]

The Bush-haters can dream, can't they?

[Sixstrings]

Back off, canucks. He may be a no good so-and-so, but he's OUR no good so-and-so.