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Why Bush Is Escalating The War Jan 11, 2007 10:44 am
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Money. Trillions, for more than 30 years. Like we all didn't know the instant he invaded.

The Proposed Iraqi Oil Production-Sharing Agreement

Although this piece goes on at some length, please read at least these first ten paragraphs.

The Iraq War is and always has beeen, All About Oil. Below is an Executive Summary description of a pending Production-Sharing Agreement. When voted into law, it will exist between Bush's puppet Iraq "government" and several U.S. and U.K. petroleum-producing corporations. This Agreement will be voted into law next week by the Iraqi Parliament.

That is, if the Parliament members know what's good for their health, they'll vote for it. They've been conquered. They're now living under permanent U.S. occupation.

The Agreement forces Iraq to accept the least-fair terms of any Mideast oil-producing and exporting nation. In effect, we have bought a large part of Iraq's oil reserves with the blood of 3,000 American soldiers. And made a present of it to multinational corporations.

Maybe you're surprised. Don't be. The "Iraq War" is a flag-waving, Jesus-praising, broad-daylight robbery.

WMD's! Iraqi democracy! Iraqi elections! My @$$. Our troops are dying horribly in battle to assure the profitability of this huge oil deal for Corporate America and Corporate Britain.

So, Wave your flag! Even if it's made in China. Be proud you're an American!

George W. Bush, who so many of us dismiss as stupid, has made fools of us all. At least so far we Americans have gotten off over 200 times easier than the Iraqis have!!

Bush's Iraq Oil War has killed about 650,000 Iraqis. As of today, January 11, he's responsible for "only" 3,010 dead Americans.

And still, three in ten Americans support him. /jeff
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Executive Summary

While the Iraqi people struggle to define their future amid political chaos and violence, the fate of their most valuable economic asset, oil, is being decided behind closed doors.

This report reveals how an oil policy with origins in the US State Department is on course to be adopted in Iraq, soon after the December elections, with no public debate and at enormous potential cost. The policy allocates the majority (1) of Iraq’s oilfields – accounting for at least 64% of the country’s oil reserves – for development by multinational oil companies.

Iraqi public opinion is strongly opposed to handing control over oil development to foreign companies. But with the active involvement of the US and British governments a group of powerful Iraqi politicians and technocrats is pushing for a system of long term contracts with foreign oil companies which will be beyond the reach of Iraqi courts, public scrutiny or democratic control.

COSTING IRAQ BILLIONS

Economic projections published here for the first time show that the model of oil development that is being proposed will cost Iraq hundreds of billions of dollars in lost revenue, while providing foreign companies with enormous profits.

Our key findings are:

At an oil price of $40 per barrel, Iraq stands to lose between $74 billion and $194 billion over the lifetime of the proposed contracts (2), from only the first 12 oilfields to be developed. These estimates, based on conservative assumptions, represent between two and seven times the current Iraqi government budget.

Under the likely terms of the contracts, oil company rates of return from investing in Iraq would range from 42% to 162%, far in excess of usual industry minimum target of around 12% return on investment.

A CONTRACTUAL RIP-OFF

The debate over oil “privatisation” in Iraq has often been misleading due to the technical nature of the term, which refers to legal ownership of oil reserves. This has allowed governments and companies to deny that “privatisation” is taking place. Meanwhile, important practical questions, of public versus private control over oil development and revenues, have not been addressed.

The development model being promoted in Iraq, and supported by key figures in the Oil Ministry, is based on contracts known as production sharing agreements (PSAs), which have existed in the oil industry since the late 1960s. Oil experts agree that their purpose is largely political: technically they keep legal ownership of oil reserves in state hands (3), while practically delivering oil companies the same results as the concession agreements they replaced.

Running to hundreds of pages of complex legal and financial language and generally subject to commercial confidentiality provisions, PSAs are effectively immune from public scrutiny and lock governments into economic terms that cannot be altered for decades.

These contracts could be signed as early as next week.
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Will Bush Make It to 2009? & Will Cheney Make It to 2009? Jan 5, 2007 11:10 am
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Iraq is at the brink of complete chaos. Over three-thousand (3,000) American soldiers are dead. And no end is in sight. Only 11% of the American people support George Bush's soon-to-be-announced escalation of the Iraq war.

Just halfway through his second term with approval ratings hovering at thirty (30) percent, Bush is ever more widely considered a failed president. It's tough saying anything else of a man who declared victory in Iraq in May, 2003, or some forty-four (44) months and two-thousand-seven-hundred (2,700) American lives ago.

In my opinion, the Iraq War escalation that Bush will soon announce is no push for final victory. Instead, they simply hope to postpone Iraq's complete collapse til after the end of Bush's presidency.

There are at least two purposes here:

1) Because they fear rising public outrage over the war may soon drive both Bush and Cheney from office and make Democrat Nancy Pelosi president;

and,

2) To give the 2008 Republican presidential candidate better odds of keeping the White House in GOP control.

What do y'all think?

Will Bush and Cheney make it to 2009? Will only one make it? Does all this make you kinda sick? Ever seen such a freakin' mess in your life?
Both make it.
Neither makes it.
Bush makes it; Cheney doesn't.
Cheney makes it; Bush doesn't.
I hope both make it.
I hope neither makes it.
Now that we need Saddam back in office to save Bush, the idjits have hanged him.
I think Nancy Pelosi is hot.
If Pelosi's president, hot or not, I'm moving to Baghdad.
For God's sakes, SFF is a dating site. Shove all this politics up your @$$.
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A Bacterium More Deadly Than Staph Aureus, esp. to elderly Jan 3, 2007 9:17 am
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"MRSA" is the acronym for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, a round-type bacterium common in hospitals worldwide and the usual cause of deadly hospital-borne "staph infections."

As some of my SFF friends know, on 28 March, 2004, my mother, Elizabeth, died after becoming infected with MRSA during elective surgery.

I'm curious to know how many of you here have previously heard of the bacterium C. difficile.

Three times as deadly as MRSA - and new superbug is on the rise

LYNDSAY MOSS
HEALTH CORRESPONDENT

Clostridium difficile (C difficile) superbug cases rising.

New particularly virulent strain - 027 - potentially a 'huge problem' 100 deaths in Scotland in 2005, with 2006 figures in later this year Key quote

"I am also absolutely convinced that we don't have enough facilities to isolate infected patients in Scottish hospitals. They need to invest the money now to save money in the future with these kind of things" - HUGH PENNINGTON, ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY

Story in full RECORDED cases of a deadly superbug that kills three times as many people as MRSA are rising in Scottish hospitals, The Scotsman can reveal.

Clostridium difficile (C difficile), which causes severe diarrhoea and mainly affects the over-65s, is rapidly becoming as common as MRSA in the battle against hospital infections.

In 2005 more than 4,400 cases were detected in Scottish hospitals, up from 4,021 in 2004 and 3,119 in 2003.

New data obtained by The Scotsman shows the number of cases in 2006 has continued to rise, with some health boards recording increases of more than 20 per cent.

The statistics come after a coroner in England warned of "huge problems" in the NHS, with the bug linked to nine deaths within a month at two Nottinghamshire hospitals.

Health officials believe a particularly virulent strain - known as 027 - could become more common in Scotland as it spreads from England.

Scotland has so far only seen one case of 027, diagnosed in October, but with rising numbers of C difficile cases being reported by health boards, many expect this figure to increase.

It is thought that around 100 deaths in Scotland in 2005 were linked to the bug.

The Scotsman's research suggests that cases of C difficile in 2006 will significantly exceed those in the previous year.

By the end of October, some boards were already reporting higher or similar levels compared with the whole of 2005.

Up to 21 October, NHS Grampian had recorded 382 cases of C difficile, compared with 324 in the whole of 2005 - a rise of 18 per cent.

And NHS Tayside had seen 349 cases to the end of October, compared with 284 in 2005 - up 23 per cent.

NHS boards said increased testing was part of the reason for rising figures. The numbers are set to rise further after mandatory reporting started in September.

The first results from that reporting are expected later in 2007.

Professor Hugh Pennington, the leading microbiologist from Aberdeen University, said that to combat the superbug, hygiene and infection measures in hospitals needed to be improved.

"I am also absolutely convinced that we don't have enough facilities to isolate infected patients in Scottish hospitals. They need to invest the money now to save money in the future with these kind of things," he said.

Shona Robison, SNP health spokeswoman, said hospitals needed to do more pre-admission screening for C difficile.

"It is vital that more screening is done, certainly for elective surgery and among high-risk groups such as those admitted from care homes," she said.

There are now plans to set up a reference lab in Scotland to test for new strains of the bug.

John Cowden, public-health consultant at Health Protection Scotland , said the 027 strain was a key concern. "This virulent strain has been seen in the US and other parts of the UK. It would be surprising if we did not see the same thing happening in Scotland."

A Scottish Executive spokeswoman said: "There has been an increase in incidence of C difficile in recent years but there has also been an increased awareness among professionals, and surveillance of this infection is now mandatory."

MRSA
METHICILLIN-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) has become the best- known superbug in the UK.

• It is a specific strain of the staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance to all penicillins.

• It was first discovered in the UK in 1961 and is now widespread in hospitals.

• Staphylococcus bacteria are extremely common in the environment and are usually not a problem to healthy individuals.

• More than 1,000 deaths a year in the UK are officially linked to MRSA, but campaigners believe the real total to be much higher.

PVL

A PARTICULARLY deadly strain of MRSA known as Panton-Valentine leukocidin is concerning health experts.

• PVL MRSA can cause pneumonia, as well as the flesh-eating condition necrotizing fasciitis.

• It is usually acquired in the community, but last year it emerged that two people died in a Staffordshire hospital after catching PVL.

• Figures in Scotland show community-acquired cases of PVL increased from 28 in 2003, to 62 in 2004 and 78 last year.

• Since 2003, only five PVL cases have led to the more serious bloodstream infections, with no deaths.

C DIFFICILE
Is a bacterium from the family Clostridium.

• Its usual habitat is the large intestine, and small numbers can be seen in less than 5 per cent of the healthy adult population.

• Those who are most at risk of becoming ill are elderly patients being treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics.

• Poor hospital hygiene and inappropriate use of antibiotics have been linked to rising cases of the bug.

• C difficile infection can cause severe diarrhoea and colitis - bleeding from the colon. In the most serious cases, it can be fatal.

INFECTION DETERS CANCER PATIENT FROM PREVENTIVE SURGERY
AFTER starting treatment for breast cancer in 2005, Pat Thomson thought she was on the road to recovery.

But a year later, she was diagnosed with C difficile after returning to hospital when an abscess developed near her surgical wound. After seven days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, she went home but soon felt unwell.

"I started going downhill. I was sick, I had diarrhoea and I couldn't eat or drink anything," she said. "I just thought it was down to the abscess."

Mrs Thomson, 65, from Arbroath, saw her GP, who said she should go back into hospital, but she wanted to stay at home. She returned to have tests done. "They told me I had C difficile," she said. "I did not know anything about it, but my daughter heard about it on the TV and said, 'That's what you had, Mum'."

Mrs Thomson was told the infection could have been brought on by antibiotics she was given when she had the abscess drained. But she was given little other information. She spent six weeks recovering at home, taking antibiotics.

"I didn't realise it was quite a severe infection," she said. "If they had said MRSA, I would have known about that, but I did not know anything about C difficile.

"I just thought it was something to do with the abscess. I would have liked more information. I just thought it was something lots of people got."

She is now contemplating whether to return to hospital to have her remaining breast removed to reduce the risk of another tumour developing.

However, she said her past experience might put her off. "It does make me more nervous," she said.
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"There they are, boys. Please take them home for me." Dec 7, 2006 7:45 am
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Christmas' closeness may be partly why James Kim's death so saddens the whole country, even amid terrible losses in a mistaken war. All of us. I saw the tough-looking sheriff break down announcing that Mr. Kim had been found dead. His swollen eyes and those of his men showed those weren't their first tears. I wept. Bet a lot of you did too.

Just at Christmas, how can this be? As we ready to mark the birth of a heavenly savior, the earthly savior James Kim suffers death rescuing his family. The unfairness of it is brutal. It tints our sorrow for the Kims with anger.

Why must this brave man be dead?

If you'll allow me, I suggest Mr. Kim already answered that for us.

What does any of us have that really matters? I mean that really matters. Job? Identity? Hobbies?

Hope?

Maybe the last. Hope. Like any parent, James Kim had hope. Ultimately, a father's hope is for his family. That his children should always be lovingly cared for and taught how to live their lives well. That his wife should always be protected if ever misfortune might befall her.

To hope, add duty.

A father's duty is to see that these things are done. And to understand that he is the one his family will turn to when everything somehow has gone wrong.

To hope and duty, add life. Even before hope and duty, we have life, our most basic and precious property. The "thing" that makes us human. The gift that parents give their children. The most precious thing we have.

At the foot of Bear Camp Road, everything went wrong for the Kims. The weather, the car, the remote location. Almost everything, that is.

James Kim didn't.

Goodbye, he said, I'm going for help. He did his duty. Trekked off into the wilderness and died. Gave up his life. For help. Gave his wife and children their lives back.

Just at Christmas.

The rescue chopper followed James' footprints to his family. Like he pointed right at them and said, "There they are, boys. Please take them home for me."

Fair? Of course not. Kim deserves more than most do to die ancient in bed surrounded by adult great-grandchildren.

I never knew the man. Somehow I don't think he'd complain. I think he'd say it was well worth it.

Instead of anger, which does not belong in heroism's presence, my sorrow for the Kims is tinted by my enormous admiration for James Kim.

"There they are, boys. Please take them home for me."

And also by hope. That maybe some of us might get to live our lives and leave them if necessary in a way fitting the lesson Mr. James Kim has taught us all.

Just at Christmas.
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"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" Dec 6, 2006 3:24 pm
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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently then communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.

All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus!

It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.

There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?

Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the
unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart.

Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real?

Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!

From The People's Almanac, pp. 1358-9.(Public Domain)
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Virginia O'Hanlon recalled the events that prompted her letter thirty-six years after it was printed:

"Quite naturally I believed in Santa Claus, for he had

never disappointed me. But when less fortunate little

boys and girls said there wasn't any Santa Claus, I was

filled with doubts. I asked my father, and he was a

little evasive on the subject.
"It was a habit in our family that whenever any

doubts came up as to how to pronounce a word or some

question of historical fact was in doubt, we wrote to

the Question and Answer column in The Sun. Father would

always say, 'If you see it in the The Sun, it's so,'

and that settled the matter.
"Well, I'm just going to write The Sun and find

out the real truth," I said to father.
"He said, 'Go ahead, Virginia. I'm sure The Sun will

give you the right answer, as it always does.' "
Francis P. Church had covered the Civil War for The New York Times and worked for 20 years at The New York Sun , more recently as an anonymous editorial writer. The son of a Baptist minister he usually recieved the more controversail subjects on the editorial page, in particular those dealing with theology. A sardonic man, Church had for his personal motto, "Endeavour to clear your mind of cant."

"Is there a Santa Claus?" the childish scrawl in the letter asked. At once, Church said he knew that there was no avoiding the question. He had to answer, and it was imparative that he answer truthfully. And so he turned to the task and began his reply which was to become one of the most memorable editorials in newspaper history. Church married shortly after the editorial appeared. He died in April, 1906, leaving no children.

Francis P. Church's editorial, "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" originally appeared in the The New York Sun in 1897, more than a hundred years ago, and was reprinted annually until the paper went out of business 1949.

Virginia O'Hanlon grew up to become a teacher and principal for the New York City school system retiring after 47 years. Whenever she recieved mail about her Santa Claus letter she penned a reply and attached an attractive printed copy of the Church editorial. Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas died on May 13, 1971, at the age of 81, in a nursing home in Valatie, N.Y.

Public domain text
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A True WW2 Story Dec 1, 2006 2:25 pm
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Charlie Brown was an American B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 379th Bomber Group at Kimbolton, England. His aircraft was named "Ye Old Pub." After a bombing raid over Germany, Brown's badly shot-up B-17 was in dire trouble, having been hit by flak and fighters. Because of severe damage they were flying in the wrong direction, going deeper over enemy territory instead of heading home to Kimbolton.

After the crippled Ye Old Pub flew over an enemy airfield, a German Luftwaffe fighter pilot named Franz Steigler was ordered to take off and shoot down Brown's B-17. When he got near the B-17, Steigler could not believe his eyes. In his own words, he "had never seen a plane in such a bad state still flying." The tail and rear section was severely damaged. The tail gunner was severely wounded. The top gunner was all over the top of the fuselage. The nose was smashed and there were holes everywhere.

Franz flew alongside of the B-17 and looked at Charlie Brown, who knew exactly what was coming. Now facing impossible odds, Brown ignored the German plane sent to kill him and struggled to control his crippled and blood-stained aircraft.

Amazed at Brown's determination to get his crew safely home despite what appeared to be his imminent certain death, Steigler decided he could not shoot down the helpless surviving American crewmen.

Aware Brown had no idea where they were going, Franz Steigler waved at Charlie to turn 180 degrees, to make a U-turn and follow him. The German pilot escorted and guided the stricken American B-17 to and out over the North Sea towards England.

Franz Steigler then saluted Charlie Brown. He turned away, back toward Europe.

When Steigler landed he told his commanding officer that he had shot down Ye Old Pub over the North Sea. He never told the truth to anybody. Of course, Charlie Brown and the surviving members of his crew told all at their post-flight deriefing, but were ordered never to talk about it.

More than 40 years later, Charlie Brown wanted to find the Luftwaffe pilot who saved the crew. After years of research, Steigler was found. He had never talked about the incident, not even at post-war reunions.

They met in the USA at a 379th Bomber Group reunion, together with 25 people who are alive now--all because Franz Steigler never fired his guns that day.

Research shows that Charlie Brown lived in Seattle and Franz Steigler had moved to Vancouver, B.C., after the war. When they finally met, they discovered they had lived less than 200 miles apart for the past 50 years.
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Bush Father & Son Talk Dec 1, 2006 1:13 pm
Mood: perky, 2262 Views
"Son, you've made the same mistake in Iraq that I made with your mother. You didn't pull out in time."
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Not Much Surprises Me, But This Did Nov 30, 2006 12:26 pm
Mood: confused, 2204 Views
Some guy posted the passage quoted below on his blog and disallowed anyone except his friends from commenting about it. I wanted to thank him for helping me understand why some SFF women wonder about SFF men.

I never heard a man speak without apparent irony but instead with amazement and indignation when reporting that:

Men "write so much crap in the testimonials [on SFF] to enable them to get into women's knickers."

I mean, Who knew?

For reasons unfathomable to me and maybe also to himself, he sounds pissed Off at both the men and the women.

Shakespeare it's not. But anyway, here it is:

". . . .the guys on here write so much crap in the testimonials to the women to enable them to get into womens knickers, its unbelievable, makes u want to throw up..........all it needs next is violins and candles....get real.....most of these women are on adultfriendfinder and are just waiting the chance for a guy to cam for them, or help relieve there tension that there husbands cant cope with............back to my cam, have another show on adultfriendfinder with ......... from Leeds, poor hubby has agreed to let her do it as it helps keep her quiet!!!!!! lol"

Is it crass of me to observe and to point out, delicately, that he's here participating too?

Anybody wonder what keeps me visiting this place?
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Nagging Questions That Keep Me Awake At Night Nov 26, 2006 12:50 pm
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Should you buy insurance to pay for all the wrecked stuff that the insurance company you already bought insurance from refuses to pay for?

And if the insurance company you bought insurance from to pay for all the wrecked stuff that the insurance company you already had bought insurance from refused to pay for then refuses to pay for the wrecked stuff, should you submit a claim for the wrecked stuff to the insurance company you already had bought insurance from?

How did we sleep through it when these people got us into this position in the first place?
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Entire U.S. Loses It, Goes Off On Canada Nov 24, 2006 10:56 am
Mood: nauseated, 1952 Views
In what is described as a very rare show of national unity, all 300 million Americans paused Thanksgiving to give Canada a piece of their mind.

Republicans, Democrats, Muslims, Christians and members of all economic, racial, and regional groups were unanimous in being mad as hell at Canada and not gonna take it anymore.

Ole Swineherd of North Hypothermia, Minnesota, griped that Canada sabotages U.S. weather. "Where do all the Arctic blizzards & cold fronts come from? From Canada that's where. If they kept that mess to themself and froze their butts off up there we Americans wouldn't have to freeze our butts off down here."

From his barstool in Chickenbone, Tennessee, a man identifying himself as "Who's askin', Yankee snotnose?" growled, "Them foofy Canadians has done named a whole baseball team the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays!! Next thing you know we'll have teams here with stupid sissy birdwatcher names. Like the Cardinals or something. It just ain't manly."

Hollywood celebrities eagerly piled on.

Former matinee idol Mel Gibson angrily challenged an interviewer, "Are you a Canadian? You look like a Canadian. The Canadians start all the fistfights in the world. What's wrong with you? Haven't you ever seen a @#$% hockey game?"

Ex-comedian Michael Richards commented, "Don't you get me started on those @#$%#%%^@#**$*%^$##%^&%^*%*&**$%&**%@~ @^&%$ Canadians, @#$^^$$&^%&*&$&**&&^ it. Oooo @#$%. I hope you're not filming this."

Disgraced Republican Congressman Mark Foley was among Canada's few defenders. "I think those darlin' Canadian hockey players look just fabulous in their uniforms and would give $1,000,000 to get a locker-room pass. Those boys are so pretty but they're way too old for me. Oh dear. You're gonna print this aren't you?"

Visibly exhausted yesterday's heartthrob Tom Cruise was emphatic about another subject, reporting that, "My wife Katie has the world's finest @#$%!!!!"

At a press conference, President George W. Bush summed up the country's mood, saying, "Either yer rear is in the U.S. or it's not. The island country of Canadadia has always been separated from us by a vast ocean. So it's not in the U.S. But they better watch out 'cause like me Americans are great mountain bikers and we might go bring it over there next. Did you know they got gold and oil both?? Heh-heh. Heh. Laugh at my jokes or it's Gitmo fer you."

In what may be a related development, U.S. Customs in El Paso reports that "about freakin' 400 gazillion million Mexicans" have appeared along the border and are feverishly building what they say will be a 900-foot-high wall from California to Texas.
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