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  • Nickdfresh
    SUPER MODERATOR

    • Oct 2004
    • 49565

    #31
    Originally posted by Big Train
    Maybe you guys with a military background can help me out? What exactly is in Canada's arsenal. There was a piece on drudge yesterday saying how Canada will defend it's piece of the Artic. I'd be curious to know...what does Canada have to control as much Earth as they have?

    Secondly, ALL of these news shows are like this. It's no different than swarmy nerd Maddow pulling a Jimmy Fallon for an entire HOUR, laughing at her own points.

    The Canadian Forces are smallish. But they are well trained, well equipped (to an extent), well paid, and have some small numbers of top flight equipment. Most of their soldiers in Afghanistan would look identical to US troops to the layman. Examples of equipment would include the CF-18 Hornet fighter-bomber (like the ones flown by the US Navy and Marines), Leopard II tanks, a whole host of indigenous wheeled armored vehicles that the US also uses variants of, and diesel attack subs for which they try to monitor incursions into Canadian waters with. They also have a decent sized navy...

    More info: Canadian Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    • Big Train
      Full Member Status

      • Apr 2004
      • 4013

      #32
      Originally posted by FORD
      Except the "swarmy nerd Maddow" is a Rhodes scholar, so she knows what the fuck she's talking about. Which is more than anybody on FAUX could claim.

      Also, Rachel would never dis the military of any country like these tools did. She used to begin her radio show every day with the names of US troops killed in Iraq. I can imagine GE probably told her she couldn't do that on the TV show, them being "defense" contractors and everything.
      I'm not defending the idiots on that Fox show Ford. I'm just saying all these people are paid to say wild shit, Swarmy Nerd Maddow as well. She may be a Rhodes scholar but she says simplistic shit a 12 yr old could come without knowing a lot of the facts either. I will give her this though: she wouldn't have stepped in like that Fox guy did. But she really has nothing new to offer, other than seconding Olby's rant for the evening for people who need it slowed down.

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      • Big Train
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        • Apr 2004
        • 4013

        #33
        Originally posted by Nickdfresh
        The Canadian Forces are smallish. But they are well trained, well equipped (to an extent), well paid, and have some small numbers of top flight equipment. Most of their soldiers in Afghanistan would look identical to US troops to the layman. Examples of equipment would include the CF-18 Hornet fighter-bomber (like the ones flown by the US Navy and Marines), Leopard II tanks, a whole host of indigenous wheeled armored vehicles that the US also uses variants of, and diesel attack subs for which they try to monitor incursions into Canadian waters with. They also have a decent sized navy...

        More info: Canadian Forces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        While in the past I am guilty of poking a lil fun at Canada's armed forces, I'm sure they are trained very well and using modern equipment. I hope they are actually...protect the land I own up there please.

        The real question is and always will be, can they defend their vast lands from attackers coming over the pole alone? The response probably is no. So how will they do with Russia poking into "their artic" more and more, claiming rights to the shelf and whatnot?

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        • Angel
          ROTH ARMY SUPREME
          • Jan 2004
          • 7481

          #34
          I'm more concerned about the American interest in the region. We'll get you guys to help us keep Russia out, and then you can just take it from us!
          "Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013

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          • FORD
            ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

            • Jan 2004
            • 59598

            #35
            Originally posted by Angel
            I'm more concerned about the American interest in the region. We'll get you guys to help us keep Russia out, and then you can just take it from us!
            Sarah Palin will stop Russia. She can see Putin's head coming over the horizon from her house, ya know?

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            • hideyoursheep
              ROTH ARMY ELITE
              • Jan 2007
              • 6351

              #36
              ..and she's a good shot from a moving chopper..

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              • hideyoursheep
                ROTH ARMY ELITE
                • Jan 2007
                • 6351

                #37
                Originally posted by Big Train
                Maybe you guys with a military background can help me out? What exactly is in Canada's arsenal.
                Hell, I dunno...I've been out of the game too long.
                I doubt Canada really even knows everything they have.


                NickD, I thought using Wiki was a sin around here?

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                • Kristy
                  DIAMOND STATUS
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 16732

                  #38
                  Originally posted by hideyoursheep
                  On the contrary.

                  Criticize them every single time they fuck up, or some one out there will mistake that channel of Republican sewage for something of credibility.
                  Normally I'd agree with you except for the fact when you're watching Fox News you're watching anything but news. Instead, what you get are characters delivering the day's events with such a slanted distortion so personally, it's hard for me to take these clowns seriously.

                  Beck, Hannity, and IMAX forehead boy O'Reilly are not journalists - they're horrible actors, if not self-professed megalomaniacs who actually think what they say makes history.

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                  • Big Train
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                    • Apr 2004
                    • 4013

                    #39
                    Well said Kristy...if you throw in MSNBC and CNN into that definition as well.

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                    • Nickdfresh
                      SUPER MODERATOR

                      • Oct 2004
                      • 49565

                      #40
                      Originally posted by hideyoursheep
                      ...
                      NickD, I thought using Wiki was a sin around here?
                      Why? For certain cut and dry topics, it can be valuable. The problem is that the quality varies from page to page, but some pages are shit and some are excellent and rival any scholarly book on a give subject...

                      For example here, the link to the Canadian Navy page is far superior to the link to the Canadian Army page...

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                      • Kristy
                        DIAMOND STATUS
                        • Aug 2004
                        • 16732

                        #41
                        You won't get an argument from me there. Although it would be nice seeing Olbermann not having to resort to a thesaurus every eighteen seconds for his anti right-wing diatribes or using the precursor "you sir!" when attacking Limbaugh.

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                        • Nitro Express
                          DIAMOND STATUS
                          • Aug 2004
                          • 32942

                          #42
                          Originally posted by Kristy
                          You won't get an argument from me there. Although it would be nice seeing Olbermann not having to resort to a thesaurus every eighteen seconds for his anti right-wing diatribes or using the precursor "you sir!" when attacking Limbaugh.
                          It's all an argument over who's ass smells worse. Frankly the cheerleaders on the left and right are equally worthless. There is more substance in pro wrestling than on Fox or MSNBC.
                          No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                          • hideyoursheep
                            ROTH ARMY ELITE
                            • Jan 2007
                            • 6351

                            #43
                            Originally posted by Kristy
                            Normally I'd agree with you except for the fact when you're watching Fox News you're watching anything but news. Instead, what you get are characters delivering the day's events with such a slanted distortion so personally, it's hard for me to take these clowns seriously.
                            To be honest, I do watch it on occasion...for the same reasons I watch Jon Stewart and Colbert....except the boys at FNC take themselves seriously, which I would find even more amusing if my BANK didn't have them on 2 HD screens when I walk in, meaning someone out there believes FNC.

                            That is frightening.

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                            • hideyoursheep
                              ROTH ARMY ELITE
                              • Jan 2007
                              • 6351

                              #44
                              Originally posted by Kristy
                              You won't get an argument from me there. Although it would be nice seeing Olbermann not having to resort to a thesaurus every eighteen seconds for his anti right-wing diatribes or using the precursor "you sir!" when attacking Limbaugh.
                              He calls Limbaugh "sir"?

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                              • FORD
                                ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

                                • Jan 2004
                                • 59598

                                #45
                                Originally posted by hideyoursheep
                                He calls Limbaugh "sir"?
                                Keith has used the word "sir" in many of his rants against Chimp, Cheney, Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, etc.

                                It doesn't mean he has any respect for them, just a literary device.

                                (Used in a sentence "You, sir, are an idiot.")
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                                "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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