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June 03, 2005

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Posted by Bill

*** Beautiful Atrocities celebrates one year of blogging with a vacation. Wish congrats to certainly one of the top 10 funny-bloggers on the internet. (Top 5?)

*** Speaking of funny ...

*** ... and funny ... (though it probably won't make much sense unless you read the preceding post and comments first)

*** More on South Korean stem cell research. Be sure to catch the author's second comment under the post.

*** I wasn't present, yet the mere description of this conversation has my blood pressure up:

Not "our" side or "their" side mind you. Not "democracy" or "fascism". No. "His side" and "their side" as if her very freedom to voice such sophomoric nonsense was not guaranteed by the brutal sacrifice and ultimate victory of "his side". Well, heaven forbid an educated Canadian ever take sides. No, for us is the rarified pleasure of sneering at those who speak of "evil doers" even as we sleep soundly, all smug in our beds, while those rough men we sneer at protect us from harm. All I could say to her was to thank God she has no roll(sic) in setting public policy.
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I think it is barely possible that a Canadian with internet access and a university degree might have been so brainwashed by the relativism of our education system that they should now become testy when challenged on their subjectivist reading of the Second World War.

Believe it. As haze still hung over lower Manhattan in 2001, a freshly-graduated young Canadian woman that I knew told me that she couldn't "understand why we're getting involved in any of this; it's not our problem," when the Canadian government signed on to help go after Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. I had to leave the room.

Posted by Bill at June 3, 2005 12:33 PM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

"It's not our problem."

Paraphrasing Niem�ller,

"First they came to kill Americans, and I did not speak out because I was not an American. Then they came to kill British..."

None so blind, etc., etc., etc.

Posted by: Russ at June 3, 2005 03:03 PM

Too bew accurate, that first comment should have read "First they came to kill Israelis, and I did not speak out because I was not an Israeli. Then they came to kill Americans..."

Otherwise the comment stands. If you want to edit that previous and discard this comment, Bill, that's fine by me.

Posted by: Russ at June 3, 2005 03:28 PM

So that's why you have a hard on for Canadians! Here, I thought it was basketball. "Freshly graduated" doesn't usually mean much, except dazed and confused.

Posted by: Diana at June 4, 2005 12:06 PM

Point me at her.

Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin at June 5, 2005 04:58 AM

To overgeneralize, Canadians have been sheltered by the benefit of being a parasite on the United States for quite awhile now. The unhealthy result is that they have lost all knowledge of what it takes to maintain the freedom and wealth that they enjoy as a result of the efforts of others.

Posted by: Roberts at June 6, 2005 12:40 AM