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I'm not exactly an MIT grad or the like but I really doubt that any of the handful of preproduction Commanche prototypes were sent to shooting wars Iraq and A-stan when you have a design not even slated to go into service until 2009 so to me that calls the rest of your spiel into question.

   

Guess you've never been to Texas you moron, because Austin is no dustbowl. I've lived in Chicago, North Carolina, been to pretty much every state in the south and the mid west.

Here's some good pictuers of the dustbowl that is Texas:

http://www.austinlinks.com/images/wildflwr.gif
http://www.austinlinks.com/images/flwrfiel.gif
http://www.austinlinks.com/images/utfounta.gif
http://www.photohouston.com/texas_citie ... ies_1.html
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~kevin/pix/aust ... _pm_29.jpg
http://www.visualaustin.com/barton-spri ... tin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/capitol-of-texas.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/texas-govenors-mansion.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/hamilton-pool-austin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/lake-austin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/lake-travis-austin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/lyndon-john ... tin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/loop-360-br ... tin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/mt-bonnell-austin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/university- ... tin-tx.htm
http://www.visualaustin.com/6th-st-austin-tx.htm
http://www.traveltex.com/panoramic_sett ... 70786&LS=0
http://www.traveltex.com/panoramic_sett ... 70786&LS=0
http://www.austinwebpage.com/photos.htm
http://cuckoo.com/daniel/pictures/places-houston
http://www.photohome.com/photos/texas-p ... ton-1.html
http://www.photohome.com/photos/texas-p ... tol-1.html
http://www.photohome.com/photos/texas-p ... alk-3.html
http://www.photohome.com/photos/texas-p ... tre-1.html
http://www.photohome.com/photos/texas-p ... nio-3.html
http://www.photohome.com/photos/texas-p ... tures.html

....Now, you have to keep in mind that trees in Texas different than trees in California or places like North Carolina, BUT, Texas is not a dustbowl, at least there's alot of parts which are not brown. Maybe once you start going furthur west you come upon more dusty areas, but by far, Austin, San Antonio, even Dallas have a good deal of green, and even a bunch of wildflowers which always bloom. I'm surprised someone with such a huge education would make such remarks about a state which, when looking at certain areas, are far from the truth. I would think of places like Nevada or New Mexico to be more of a dustbowl than Texas. Obviously you've watched too many westerners on Tv. I think it's funny that you have 23 people all sitting around with you while you take your time to make post on a Canada forum against the US. I'd be hard pressed to get 2 or 3 of my friends to sit around while I take an hour to find dirt on another country. Of course, I don't spend all my time cutting down Canadians, and actually really enjoy a good amount of people here.

Also, I didn't divide the population in half. I took 300 million, and did it times .44. Also, I took 290 million and divided it by .44. Neither number was even 10 million close to 150 million. I just felt like being anal about that because you seem to like to piss people off. You sure have an immature way of looking at the world and finding tons of negative info about the US, while ignoring, and even claiming the US does basically no good, because look at all these negative articles.

   

I think he is just blowning up his whole image like he was on the inside. I mean what the hell, someone from MIT and look at how unreasonable he is. I will admit, I can have a short fuss, and there are Americans that fit what he describes, but he won't even seperate people from the government, as though I'm sitting back in my house plotting unfair trade policies with Canada and other things that our Government does. I didn't even support the Iraq war!

   

Actually I have. Now the interesting thing is that my wife has her degree in psycology. Americans have become an interest to me for years. My point of view being a "hatred", is true, and I shall tell you why. Would you hate someone who beat and raped, then killed your family. Mine was.
(I am Blackfoot)
Why am I not allowed to hate the f'in us o a.
It must be nice sitting in your house not having to worry if another bomb might "accidentally" come crashing through your house or the military from another country might come crashing in your door.
I was in america on 9/11. There were so many americans running to Canada that I had a 9 hour wait at a normally 15 minute border. americans finally felt what they were doing to the rest of the world for themselves. Doesn't feel good, does it?

And when I said apathetic americans. I meant it. In every country in the world (including yours, once, long ago) when the government got out of hand the people did something about it. Now it "oh, well, what can I do.". Go to Syria, or Haiti, or Libia, Russia or etc. and take some lessons from the populace. Hell, read your own history books.



Cute.

Many of us are nice, we do go out of our way to help those in need. We do our best to be civilized. So then the question I pose is this...

How many time do you have to get smacked around before your own civility becomes either masocistic or spiritually, physically, metally, emotionally and economically abusive.

My point is simple.

For Canada to be....
First it must be for Canadians.
This has not been the way it has been for quite sometime.

I HAVE been researching, and doing public speaking, and taking courses on this very subject for sometime now. I have spoken to public officials in the us and Canada. It often becomes a heated debate/discussion because americans do not like "outsiders" telling them to get off their bums and do something about their country. Most have found their niche and don't want to "rock the boat". Yet they have no qualms about doing nothing about their own military is going to other countrys and forcing people to become "westerners". <please see Iraqi/Afghanistanian Rebuilding Operation>

Is it prejudice to say that 98% of amercans are selfish idiots. Yes. Is it prejudice to say that Canadians are nice, or gullible pushovers, who run around trying to please everyone. Yup.

Yet, to claim to be american to to take responsibility for that which america does. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Thats sad that MANY americans I met claim their american heritage, but none of the reponsibility for the negetive things done by the country. "Don't think about it and it never happened." Yet it was to Canada that the Natives fled the calveries to. It was to Canada that the Blacks fled to freedom. It was (and is) to Canada that the solders who don't want to fight in BS wars come. It is to Canada that americans fearing to lose freedoms are coming, we have had more americans trying to immigrate in the last year that in the last 10 combined!

We we're just watching Dave Chappell Show on Comedy Central and he was making a joke about fixing the us health care system by getting all americans fake Canadian ID so they could come here and get better.

I have recently take abhorence to Canadians who say when private how they feel about america, yet in public, play nice. This is the equivalent to someone who lives in a violent home. This is one continent. But we do NOT live in america. Canadians should feel free to say whatever they feel REGARDLESS of the feeling of ANY aMERICAN. We are not "Good Germans". Nor should americans be.

This is the land of the free. We do not have "freedom of speech areas". We should not censure or silence a single Canadian voice. That is the ONLY issue that I have with my country. Yes, we are nice, but in a respectful way. Not the american translation of respect "I gotta get my respect" i.e. fear. but in the REAL definition.

To do to others as they have done to you. To treat others as they treat you.
If Canada treated the us the way the us treated Canada we would be at war (again).
(for the third time).

   

We we're not working on the prototypes. We re-did the missle guidence for the desert conditions. and by the way...

I was most greatful for this. Why do you think I just back to Canada?

http://www.zap16.com/mil%20fact/Comanch ... -sheet.htm

I never even got to see one up close. Just sat in an office. The reason the retrofitted them in Tucsons Davis Monthan Airforce Base, was because of the climate equivancy.

And if you think that a person from MIT would never be the way I am, you have apperently never known anyone from MIT.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&clien ... arch&meta=

   

Oh, and if you think that there wasn't any comanches in those two wars just a' puttering around...

You probably think that bushies family has no nazi connections either.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Pre ... zi&spell=1

?????

   

You have Indian blood in you, is that what you mean by you are blackfoot? I myself have Indian blood, considering my great-grandmother married a half-indian. While that might not classify as being a whole Indian, my family is largely made of immigrants, considering that on my fathers side my grandfather, who was from Sweden, married my grandmother from Ireland, moved to the US(I think actually that my dads father was American born, with Swedish parents, but met my grandmother when he was serving in WW2), while on my mothers sides there's indian, scottish, and German. What does this go to prove? First off, most of my family did not even come over until after the westward expansion. Secondly, they didn't come over to have slaves, to kill Indians, or whatever, but to have a life in a new land.

Now, you are saying that Canadians don't speak up about how they "hate" the US and Americans. Well, first off, and reasonable person should know, that there's only so much you can do. Lets take the Weather Underground for instances, which tried to do what you speak off: hold the US responsible. Thing about it is, most Americans don't want to rock the boat, just like most Canadians don't speak up about matters because they don't want to rock the boat. There's the people with power, and the people who hate things they do, but are forced to go along. I do know of what the US does, and what I can't stand is the judgements you are making, and saying that 98% of the US population believes this way or that way. The US, right now, and many times before, is a very divided country. You have the right screaming war, and the left screaming peace. I have heard of the nation-building in Afghanistan, and I believe Iraq or Afghanistan should be able to rule themselves how they way, but have you been to Iraq and Afghanistan? Have to you talked to the people to see what they want?

On one hand, you say I don't have to fear a bomb falling in my house and that I have it all good, and on the other you say all of us Americans are living in extreme fear of everything from terrorist attacks to being murdered. Which is it? Either we are oblivious to the world and completely fearless of being attacked, or we are living in extreme fear. On another side you talked of how all these Americans were protesting where you were, yet the media barely paid attention, yet you say we are apathatic and do nothing to try to change our governments policies. Not everyone is going to go out and give their lives for something when their lives are not that bad. Would you go out and start some revolution to overthrow a government, and give you life? The normal person does not get to that point unless there is a severe shock to their environment for the negative. Even in Iraq, a country being bombed, you have people doing nothing. To hold Americans to a higher standard than the rest of humanity, and expect us to start some war with with the government, or to even expect some at home mom who works 2 jobs to support her kids to go out an protest the government and expect them to try and change the system, seems ridiculous to me. While I hope for a change, and do as much as my will allows me, we will just have to wait and see what the future holds.

Why should I take responsibility for something someone else does, that I do not agree with? If you slip on a banana, do I accept responsibility. Hey, I'm sorry that this stuff happens to other countries, but I'm against alot of it, and don't support it, but the government is too powerful and there's not much I can do. You expect too much out of people. Oh, can you give me any links to prove about all this speech stuff you've given? Surely, something as important as you make it sound would have some records somewhere. In all honesty, maybe you are telling the truth about stuff, but at the same time, given how many sites you have gone around and looked up, for all we know you are some internet search-addict who is full of shit. I still think you are full of generalizations, and while the people you talk of do exist, more than 1-2% is up on what the US is trying to do. You can't tell me that you went around New York, a blue state, and everyone was like "I love Bush, I support the Iraq war, I love our country no matter what."

Can you please give more details on all these places you spoken at, what the events were called, what your research methods were, where your research was published at, who might have helped you with this research, specific company names, the officials you have met, and so on. Also, could you descibe the course you took in college, and give us some showing of your math abilities, and explanations of how an engine on these helicopters or whatever works, and just some real showing of your intelligence.

   

that doesn't prove that there were comanches in those two wars...

So, are they flying these helicopters in Afghanistan even though they cancelled the program and didn't finish them? Doesn't make much sense, and the fact that you tried to ignore what issue that was brought and pointed to Bush being part of some Nazi thing seems odd.

   

I see why its called the american dream.

To spray a can of "Reality Begone" into your eyes. "Look at me... I don't have much of an education, but I know what I'm talking about. The government isn't sneaky."

Typical american response.

Funny how you can say that you know that the us gov lies and screws everyone around yet you come to its defense in a hurry.

I wonder if you know about the stealth sub.
Or the programs that gather every bit of info on everything you do, no matter how trivial. Or about the us militarys misinformation policies.

I wonder if you know anything real about your wonderful lil "Fatherland"?

Nope, I don't have to wonder...
I've read your history books. (and there in the lack of history books)

"waaa, this guy hates america, waaa." Welcome to Earth. Population 7Bil and growing.

AGAIN, you're on a site called CANADA KICKS ASS. Not WHINERS FOR AMERICA. There are plenty of those sites. Most have a .mil or a .gov after them.

How this forum is going is the reason for the original post. How can any good nature Canadian put up with the constant whiny, southern drawled, dribble? americans telling me, IN CANADA, that its ok to hate the us gov but not to hate americans. Screw You! I am a CANADIAN. I can hate americans if I want to. Maybe you should (much like you should have done before 9/11) find out why people don't like americans or their government.

america would be a great place if it wan't for all the americans. - ME

   

After 2 years Greenpeace I came to the same solution that most who do alot of protesting realize - protesting is a nice way of going out and saying, "Hey, don't do ****this**** I'm not going to try and stop you, but hay, it sure looks like I'm doing somethine." WITHOUT EVER ACTUALLY TRYING TO DO SOMETHING.

I was in russia when the USSR fell. I help over 200 people out of the country and I was just passing through. Yes, I do stand up for what is right. I caught a purse snatcher who was ripping off a lady across the street from me. DId I worry about him having a gun or knife. No. I saw something bad happening and I DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. See thats the difference. When I see something bad happening, I don't just stand around bitching about it.

I have a t-shirt I wear frequently that says "stop bitching, start a revolution"

As for you sitting in your house. Outside of the 50's missle crisis. only after 9/11 have americans felt the fear the rest of the world feels about it.

   

And its not that hard to have friends around you while you're on the internet. People still gather up here. We talk. We listen. And YOU have made this an interesting topic for discussion. I already said that this was not only something that I do, but most Canadians as well. Keeping an eye on america has become a sort of global responsibility that Canada has had thrust upon it.

   

Umm, listen here, as I repeat myself probably for the 100000000 time. I've been here since last year. I believe we have already beaten the issue of why Sept. 11th happened, the US war policies, supported coups, and etc MANY MANY MANY times. Reason I'm sick of what you are saying is because I've heard a 10000000 times, yet you act like I'm ignorant to it all. I've heard it from Rev_blair and others. I've read about corporations lobbying the government for policy changes, about PR campaigns to gain US support, and about the theories of our government being behind Sept. 11th so they can set up a "new world order" which would be in line with PNAC. Maybe you should shut the fuck up and listen to people when they tell you they have heard a great deal of stuff about it. While there's still more I could most likely learn, I have heard from people on here many times about these things, and we have all had 60 page back and forths countless times about all these issues you are acting like I'm ignorant of. You're right, this is a Canada kicks Ass site, but I don't see where it says "Canada kicks ass: Come and bitch and throw dirt at Americans." I came here a while ago because I saw something that I thought was messed up with the "why Canada is number 1" section, and I've been here ever since, and have grown to really like the people here, and enjoy talking to them. I'm not whinning about the US, just telling you my opinion that Americans are not all like you describe them. You can hate Americans if you want to, but I like to practice a little less hate in my life -- it keeps my blood pressure down and makes me feel happy. We are all going to the same place when we die. Your shit still ttinks as bad as any Americans.

Maybe you should go work on those Comanche helicopters that are "flying" in Iraq and Afghanistan now.

Quite frankily, I think you are full of bullshit. If you have such a problem, why don't you go blow yourself up? Do us all a favor and start your own revolution against the US government. Watch how many people come and support you....

   

What a joke....Canada keeps an eye on America? Now, I don't want to piss anyone off, because I respect Canada as being it's own nation, but the US is by far not Canada's bitch, and you of all people, mister "i hate the US, they don't listen to anyone and destroy things" should know the US listens to no one.

Oh, and you seem to be the main person bitching about things yet doing nothing. Maybe you should go work on some helicopters.

   

We'll leave that up to america, it seems to have the monopoly on that one.



Ever heard of the word insergent?



i.e. I ain't doin' JACK!

Like there aren't people out there working thenselves to the grave and still they stop to fix their gov. Go speak to some Mexicans about their revolution and ask how they did it with no $ and no backing, just the belief in doing what was right and fixing their country. They are still working on it but they are at least doing something.



Maybe you'd like a resume? By the way my 1/8thish cousin. Who are you? What qualifys you? Nice attempt at a turn around to defend myself, I believe those in the political world call it character assasination. A nice way of saying, "yeah, well you may be right, but.... YOU NOSE IS BIG! See?!?! His nose is big. Don't look at the facts, look at his nose?!?!"

Anyone can make up crap on the internet and pretend to be someone else, out of all the things I have done, I still can only stand by the facts that I present. Some dorky pictures of tehxass don't do much to impress. For one who loves to sit around nit-picking though a forum FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY, you seem to have done little to defend the ol' rhed what n' blu.

Sad that you can complain about the presentation, but the facts go by ignored.

- The one thing that americans hate the most is facts - ME

   

Reason I don't say much about what the government has done, or defend the "red white and blue" is because I agree with alot of people that our governments policies are wrong, and I also agree with people on here about much of what they say as far as US government trade policies, or even US diplomacy i.e. how the US should try more diplomacy and getting along. It's not that I'm saying your facts are wrong as far as things such as government policies, just that I don't agree with your labelling of Americans as basically being dumb sheep who go around the world imposing their culture on others(I'm talking individual Americans who go on a vacation to Europe). Being an American myself, I find this to be untrue, and now you are started telling me that I should be like starting some revolution and shit, when quite frankly, I could careless if someone dropped a nuke on the world and destroyed everything tomorrow. I know our government does things, but I'm not a fanatic, and I'm not afraid of death. Once you're dead, you're dead, no reason to care. While I do wish my government would changes things, and I know of them, I don't have the will to go out and protest, and I'm more worried about learning a new scale on the guitar than giving my life to start some revolution so other people can live nicely. Like I said, you are the only one bitching about all this shit, and you tell me that I'm sitting on my ass, and cut me down for being at a Canada kicks ass site, while you are in the same situation, just bitching more about what the US government does. Only problem I had with your post is the representation of Americans as all being the same, being stupid, shooting each other, and for some reason supporting the US government no metter what. You can not support your government and do nothing because you don't really care either way. It comes down to a fear of death, and quite frankly, I don't give a shit about death. Shoot me up with some heroin, let me be on the nod in peace, or let me die, I don't care.

Who am I? I'm nobody, don't claim to be somebody, and don't act like I'm above others and that everyone should do as I think people should do. Go jerk off, fill your belly with food, eat your shit, I don't give a fuck. If there's one thing to be learned from history, it's that it repeats. US falls tomorrow, another country props up and does the same thing, and people like you come out and bitch about it. As much fun as it is to talk of the evil things the US does, quite frankly, I know I will never do anything. Maybe if something huge happened and I had to be put on self-defense, but overall I have no feelings about really what is right and wrong. I have a hard time picking between the two, considering I don't feel like they really exist, don't even know about religion existing. I don't jump onto ideas, I jsut take in the information, say "hmm, maybe we should change that" and go on my way. Think what you will of this, think I live in Texas or don't, I don't give a fuck. Like I said, either blow yourself up, light yourself on fire, start your revolution, or shut up and don't ask me too. You said you have a problem with US trade policies....well there's your reason. See, they are are fucking you over, so why should I have to do anything? Aren't you strong enough to fight them back? Why should I do your dirty work, especially since your an asshole.

I suppose one good description of me would be that I'm too much of a hedonist to be a philanthropist.

   

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