Hey Hey,

I thought my fellow Canadians and the international body may get a kick out of this

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051...us_cda_bashing

Last week, MSNBC host Tucker Carlson, a well-known conservative pundit, let loose with a string of anti-Canada rants.

"Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York," he said.

"Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice but you don't take him seriously. That's Canada."

Carlson also said it's pointless to tell Canada to stop criticizing the United States.

"It only eggs them on. Canada is essentially a stalker, stalking the United States, right? Canada has little pictures of us in its bedroom, right?"

"It's unrequited love between Canada and the United States. We, meanwhile, don't even know Canada's name. We pay no attention at all," he said.
I find this one funny... An American saying we're the retarded ones...

Especially when you see things like this
Source: http://www.nrrf.org/essay_Illiteracy.html
According to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans can't read; 50 million can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one out of every four teenagers drops out of high school, and of those who graduate, one out of every four has the equivalent or less of an eighth grade education.

According to current estimates, the number of functionally illiterate adults is increasing by approximately two and one quarter million persons each year. This number includes nearly 1 million young people who drop out of school before graduation, 400,000 legal immigrants, 100,000 refugees, and 800,000 illegal immigrants, and 20 % of all high school graduates. Eighty-four percent of the 23,000 people who took an exam for entry-level jobs at New York Telephone in 1988, failed. More than half of Fortune 500 companies have become educators of last resort, with the cost of remedial employee training in the three R's reaching more than 300 million dollars a year. One estimate places the yearly cost in welfare programs and unemployment compensation due to illiteracy at six billion dollars. An additional 237 billion dollars a year in unrealized earnings is forfeited by persons who lack basic reading skills, according to Literacy Volunteers of America.
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Source: http://www.worldlit.ca/facts.html
22% of adult Canadians have serious problems dealing with printed materials.
Now I didn't post a percentage for the US because they didn't have one but if we take their numbers (42 + 50 Million) and the population according to the CIA Handbook (295 Million)... Then we get a 31% illiteracy rate... a good deal higher than Canada's..

Can Canada really be considered our friend anymore?" he asked in a recent commentary in the right-wing Washington Times newspaper.

"What other question can be asked when the Canadian government not only willingly allows Islamic terrorists into their country but does nothing to stop them from entering our nation?"
This was another part of the article I liked... I'm not sure who here has crossed the Canada-US border in the past... but it's American Customs Officers stopping you when you go into the US... No one from Canada speaks to you... and Entering Canada you deal with Canadian Customs Officers (no one from the US pays attention to you)... So this comment is interesting... because the US Customs Officers would actually be the one stopping people... How about we use that to demonstrate the level of intelligence in some people.

There are other good quotes too but I'll leave that for you all to read... This really amazes me... All because the US wants to be crooks when it comes to lumber... sheesh.

Peace,
HT