What passes for opinion on Fox News...invade Canada!

Aardvark154

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Like when the Newfies burnt down the White House after a few shots of screech?
They must get around, since I thought the Regiments involved were the 4th Foot (The King's Own), 21st Foot (Royal North British Fusiliers), The 44th Foot (later the Essex Regiment), the 85th Foot, and a sizable detachment of Royal Marines. :confused:

There was a battalion from Newfoundland at York, however.
 

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I almost wish the U.S. would take over Canada. It would be fun to watch them try to deal with Quebec! I imagine that after a while they would just get so frustrated that they would simply pack up and leave.
 

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A year break, really?



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Also, I'd love to see their "most powerful army in the universe" stand toe to toe with China.
And if the US threw everything they had at it with no remorse, China would get obliterated. Hate 'em or no, the USA has the most dangerous military in the world. Why do you think people are "scared of Americans" as Bowie has sang? If they didn't have that military than no one would give a shit (think Canada). People pay attention to America because if they go ape-shit the world is in trouble. The US has 10x more nukes than China. Dubya was not just moronic... he was down right scary. Why? Because you got that goof at the head of the most powerful military in the world and with the most nuclear weapons in the world. Without that military, he's not scary... just a goof.
 

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hunter001 said:
I get that the rating are low. It doesn't justify the comments on a "major" network
I dont think Foxnews and "major" network should be used in the same sentence together :)
 

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Aardvark154 said:
1812 varies very much by how you view it - after all it was so decisive that the Treaty of Ghent restored everything to the status quo ante bellum.

In any event from a Canadian perspective was entirely a Ontario and Eastern Townships of Quebec event and the American campaigns were more successful in Upper Canada.

The War of 1812 has far greater importance as a cultural 'defining event' than militarily.
I would say that the war of 1812 created a country actually.

From what I have read, prior to 1812, Canada or the notion of Canada as a distinct country was a problem. Many of the original inhabitants of upper Canada were United Empire Loyalists that moved north after the American Revolution. As such, they also had ties to America as well as Britain. The British were actually concerned that Canada would ultimately scede to the Americans.

Ironically, in attacking Canada, the Americans (who really did want to take over) succeeded in the quite the opposite - they provided the cement to build a nation. Agruably, the greatest nation on the planet. They gave the locals their raison d'etre, thier own identity which persists to this day. Canadians from 1812 began to identify as a nation. Talk of joining the US ceased and our country was born some 50 years later.

Thanks Uncle Sam.
 

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Don said:
Didn't the CPOC get 38% of the vote?
Our CPOC is pro choice, pro Universal Health Care, etc.

Our conservatives are more like Democrats than Republicans.
 

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james t kirk said:
Our CPOC is pro choice, pro Universal Health Care, etc.

Our conservatives are more like Democrats than Republicans.
Agreed. It was bait for simpletons who like to equate:

CPOC = GOP
Harper = Bush

But you know what is going on (unlike a lot of liberals)
 

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Hangman said:
Yes, some individuals in our military can beat some of theirs. They're still 10 times our size.
You'd think they could be gracious about it and have some respect, but they gotta be such bullies. Just disrespectful.
200 years ago some Btitish soldiers won an inconsequential local colonial skirmish. Ancient history. Big deal. They would kick our asses inside out today, and anyone who thinks otherwise is retarded.
But we would then give them a guerilla insurgency on their own soil that would end the American way of life as they know it. They can't even find all the illegal Mexicans. If white Canadians start terrorist cells in Chicago, Phoenix and Atlanta and blow up shopping malls, Fox News won't seem so bad.
Actually it was the First Nations and colonial militias that did the fighting; the Brits major contribution, not surprisingly, was strategic leadership from trained officers. Sir Isaac Brock shouted, "On brave York volunteers!" as he died, not the name of some British regiment, 'cause it was the Yorkies who were there.

Fortunately for us, it was Brock, not Tecumseh who was killed early in the war. Fortunately for Tecumseh, he didn't live to see the promises the Brits made him and his people, abandoned and broken by lordlings who let Yankee traders win at the peace table what they'd lost on the battlefield.

We still owe the First Nations for their betrayal. Canadian Defence planning included the scenario of another invasion from the US up to the Second World War, or so the story goes.
 

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A year break, really?



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What does that matter . Do you have somewhere else you'd like to invade since the last two places worked out so well for all concerned.
 

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A year break, really?



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What does that matter . Do you have somewhere else you'd like to invade since the last two places worked out so well for all concerned.
 

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americanson said:
Hangman your remarks are sick. It sounds like you're hoping some local loser will come down here and bloe us up. End our way of life? Yeah the two countries are so different.
I wish no such thing. I have visited your country, lived there for a short while. Our countries are very similar. We are not the same, however.

Whenever I hear American tards like the ones on Fox News, or Anne Coulter musing that we have no right to exist, I get offended. Funny, that.

My point is that America could easily destroy us militarily, but that our response would not be to simply roll over and accept the doctrine of Manifest Destiny.
The course of action open to us at that point would end the American way of life as you know it, because it would be replaced with such a heavy security apparatus that all your lives would change. Not end. Just change. Relax. That's just how I see it going down should you ever be so unneighbourly as to invade.

On the other hand, it is embarassing when people trot out the war of 1812 and point to it as if it has any signifigance any more. The only reason people use it as a cultural touchstone is that Canadians are a) historically illiterate, and b) insecure as hell about their identity vis-a-vis America. I am prouder of our performance 100 years later at Vimy Ridge, or because Canadians invented the telephone and a vaccine for polio than I am of stupid 1812.

So while you US-ians all get off on how powerful you are, don't forget how vulnerable you are, and maybe think a little about how you treat your very best friends in the whole wide world.
 

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ig-88 said:
Geez, you guys are taking this WAY too seriously.

Red Eye is a news show that's on at 3 AM on FOX.
It remains offensive and disrespectful, especially in a month when 8 soldiers were killed overseas.
 

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americanson said:
Hangman your reamrks are sick. It sounds like you're hoping some local loser will come down here and bloe us up. End our way of life? Yeah the two countries are so different.
They are not sick, they are spot on!
And if you dont like em then quit this "invade Canada" nonsense, and we wont have to write meanie posts

Got it??!! ;)
Hangman said:
It remains offensive and disrespectful, especially in a month when 8 soldiers were killed overseas.
Agreed
 

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Fox news is the number one cable news network in N America. It’s the left leaning news companies that are hurting these days because they’ve lost touch with the mainstream Americans.

Lefties are so desperate to throw sand in the face of Fox that they’ll take an obscure show on late at night that was intended to be funny and try to pass it off as real news.

Some people here might be a little slow at understanding, so I’ll clarify. This show was not about invading Canada. It was poking fun at the pathetic Canadian military. It’s hard not to agree with what they were saying. Canada used to have a proud military but it’s been eviscerated by years of neglect and budget cuts with Trudeau and Cretin.

This show was supposed to be funny but as a proud Canadian, I find it hard to laugh when I know that we have sea king helicopters falling out of the sky cuz Cretin was too cheap or too stupid to replace them when he should have. We have soldiers training with wooden guns and the ships don’t have fuel in their budgets to get out of port.

I respect the men and women who serve but they are so ill-equipped that it’s pathetic.

It’s ironic that the lieberals have such contempt for out military yet they are so eager to commit our brave soldiers to campaigns abroad. They put them in harms way with their old, broken equipment. Their disregard for soldiers’ lives is astounding.
 

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americanson said:
Invade Canada is a joke. Seems like certain Canadians have no problems calling us bastards or glaoting over 9-11 et all but hey one minor incident in turn well....
Its a joke we don't like. So we respond to it in ways you don't like. Take the hint. Furthermore, we don't gloat over 9/11. We're in Afghanistan because of it you moron. How about the US just learns to treat its allies and friends with a little more respect instead of mocking us and making veiled threats? How about that?
 

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americanson said:
Seems like certain Canadians have no problems calling us bastards or glaoting over 9-11 et all but hey one minor incident in turn well....
I never gloated over 9/11 my friend, quite the opposite actually I was ready join the Marines and do some ass-kicking. That of course was my initial knee-jerk reaction, but it shows you were my allegiances lie.

What Fox did was alienate right-wingers in Canada, not smart at all!!

And it doesnt compare at all to the Palin jokes, this involves Canadian soldiers who are dying for your American war. I wouldnt be surprised if they all deserted tomorrow and came home after hearing this poor excuse for a news show.

And FYI Gutfeld apologized today, so he knows he was wrong: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/tv/story/2009/03/23/redeye-soldiers-mocking.html?ref=rss
 

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americanson said:
Hey AK-47 tell me your thoughts then on the cbc. Namely Heather Mallick and Neil Macdonald. Her filth from last fall had attacked Governor Palin's family made references to Mrs.Palin as a porn actress, called her husband a redneck and even attackes the father of Sarah Palin's daughter's son. Incredibly she still works there. And Neil Macdonald? Sheesh don't get me started on him. He should join his brother in comedy.

Invade Canada is a joke. Seems like certain Canadians have no problems calling us bastards or glaoting over 9-11 et all but hey one minor incident in turn well....
Who gloated about 9-11 ? No one in the public domain that I can think of.

I guess you didn't see that American made movie "Nailin' Palin". Anyway the CBC apologized, and rightly so, let's see if Fox does the same.
 
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