Greetings Docmill,

   ...In a msg of , Nospam.4.Docmill{at}spamgourmet.Com wrote:

 ND> stephen.moosehart{at}f127.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Stephen Moosehart) wrote in

 >> out Guido.  You may wish to be careful, because Docmill might be one
 >> of those Professional Debaters who packs one of them there
 >> high-performance word processers with auto-loading thesaurus and
 >> other good stuff.  So, ask yourself, are you feeling lucky?
 >>
 ND> Naaw, I just get tedious at times. But then, as long as you have to
 ND> wonder.

:-)    ...Yes, such wondering is all part of the charm and mystery
that's associated with belonging to most "online communities".

 >> Meanwhile, Guido is supposedly away on a business trip to war-torn
 >> Greenland.  Probably he's too busy to check-in to MooseChat because
 >> it's hard work maintaining the high standards expected from a Canadian
 >> arms dealer.  Canada does not sell anyway near as much armament as the
 >> Excited States, but we do have a reputation to protect!
 >>
 ND> Yea, I geuss you could keep on ignoring the borders.

In my message, I was making fun of both Canada and the U.S.A., but
I'll use great willpower and be serious for a moment or three...

Putting this in the context of both drug smuggling and anti-terrorist
measures, Canada does not ignore the borders.  Sometimes Canadian
authorities catch someone and this may get a certain amount of
coverage in the U.S. media.  Sometimes U.S. authorities catch someone
at the border, and this gets a whole lot of coverage in the U.S.
media.  Sometimes, someone gets through the border undetected,
and there is an even greater outcry in the U.S. media -- which
sometimes ignores the small detail that U.S. border authorities also
let the wrongdoer slip through.

My point is that Canada Customs, the R.C.M.P. and C.S.I.S. arguably
have every bit as good a track record as U.S. Customs, the F.B.I., and
the N.S.A./C.I.A. combo.

This ends the serious part of my message.  I now return to our
previously scheduled silliness.

Oh, yes.  Being a Canadian moose, I'll try to be terribly mortified
if I misunderstood your remarks and "vented" needlessly.  It's a
Canadian Thing, eh?

Come to think of it, I'll also be slightly embarrassed if I've been
"serious" in MooseChat/alt.moose.rights for no good reason.  That's
just me, tho.


 ND> U.S. beavers are trying to displace the Northern Moose.

I'm personally a "tundra moose" myself.  Still, I know many Canadian
meese who would not mind a few more swamps and bogs.  They would most
likely welcome any U.S. beaver who wanted to immigrate to Canada.

On the other hoof, I have to wonder what Canadian beavers will think
of the idea.


 >> ...Or, considering the expanding Public Relations front of
 >> the War on Terror, should I be saying that Canada has a reputation
 >> to deny?
 >>
 ND> Or a reputation for denying?  You know it's goning to get better.

It's all a question of what's fashionable, at the moment, isn't it?
That's what determines whether a country denies something or trumpets
it to the four winds.  Most nations with a modern industrial base deal
in surplus armaments which are sold to less-developed nations.  I'm
going to use the U.S.A. as an example, but you could find similar
examples for other countries like Canada, France, Britain, Spain, etc.

One decade, you might see the U.S.A. selling arms to the Taliban (to
help them fight against the U.S.S.R.) and to Iraq (to help them fight
against Iran).  Years go by, the political situation changes, and
suddenly both those former allies are now enemies.  However, that is
not going to stop the U.S. government from permitting the sale of
surplus armaments to the groups or countries currently allied with
the U.S.A.  (I'll again mention that similar examples could be found
for most other heavily industrialized countries.)

Getting back to your possibly rhetorical question (if I haven't
succeeded in putting you to sleep) many Canadians do like to
ignore what some companies do in the arms arena, but U.S. citizens
also indulge in some heavy denial regarding both U.S. business and
government practices.  Life's just like that, eh?



Yours in the Way of the Moose,        ...Steve

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The moose that can be spoken of is not the True Moose -- Lao TzuMoose

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