"Police say there's evidence Canada train was tampered with."Althouse focuses on a comment from a [heavy duty] mechanic who suspects sabotage.
If you want to read about it, I suggest you go and read it, and then come here and comment until your heart is content.
While I was trying to get worked up about it, enough to summon the blog dogs, the song 'Oh Canada', the Canadian National Anthem, popped into my head.
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
I believe the first time I heard the song, it was a television performance at an Olympic Ceremony.
I also remember hearing it before a baseball game against the Sox. And I conclusively remember comparing it, in my mind, to our US national anthem and thinking our song was better. Now, looking at the words, I see a simple magnificence of faith and trust that I believe is very beautiful.
Sabotage - Beasty Boys
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Maple syrup cannot replace moose grease, you progressive Canucks!
Hmm, are you saying we should change out national anthem to the Beastie Boys "Sabotage"?
And I don't know about "Oh, Canada". Are there any version about gutting British soldiers and bathing in their blood? 'Cause that's the best part about ours, and who doesn't love that kind of stuff?
Who knows what I'm trying to say?
Now that I think about it... my instinct was probably that there was no contest between a video of the Beasty Boys vs. a video of the Canadian National Anthem.
I'm just going to trust the blog instinct.
It may work for the Canadian Armed Forces (which, I've read, are quite good), but I still think we've got the better song.
PS As for the train wreck, as another blogger noted, it sure makes a case for the XL.
Its a slugfest a Safeco Field in Seattle.
Sox and Mariners are tied at 7 runs and its only the 4th inning.
Clearly the Canadian daring do of their ice road truckers does not extend to employees on Biden's love, the choo choo.
If Althouse doesn't open up the comments the by mid-term elections... I'm fleeing to Canada.
I'm not bluffing either.
They're good, but small. I still say we should close the southern border and invade Canada. I can't say I'm crazy about adding all that extra frozen tundra, but they've got lots of oil and other useful resources.
And for such a small populace spread out over such a large area, they've got a robust amateur porn industry. Or so I hear.
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And if we are going to invade places, lets chose places that don't suck. How about invading Monaco? Or Tahiti? We could send the Marines to some choice spots in the Caribbean and have them do the countries in by ordering so many Mojitos that the little countries have to surrender when they run out of rum.
We should only be invading prime tourist destinations. And Canada.
Screw those jokers like Kerry, Clinton, Rice and Powell, _I_ should be put in charge of the foreign policy!
Baseball is my inspiration ... I figured out what happened in Canada while watching the game.
The Feminists sabotaged the train, full of eligible bachelors, fleeing to Canada, to avoid the marriage draft.
Its either Canada or one of these.
I saw that post and thought it was Crack Emcee bait. Just like the abortion one was St. Croix bait. But the pond has been paved over, so no fish for Althouse.
I used to get a kick out the Baseball announcers saying "coming to you from the Kingdome in Seattle".
Score update: Sox lead 8 to 7 in the 7th.
The metaphors are wild...
Take advantage while the mice don't have a professor whipping them into cliché shape.
At Lem's, if you mix your metaphors, you get fronted.
Score update: Seattle Seven, Sox Eleven.
I opened a Blogger mirror for however long this goes on. Mostly to copy/past some of her material that irritates her trolls that caused the salon to be closed. You know, to spread it around more. See, I'm a giver. I think I'll put anims based on her stuff there too. It's a warp zone. Fish eye looking glass.
That's "derring-do", Meade.
I think this idea of read-it-there-and-comment-on-it-here is nothing less than absolutely brilliant!
Hope it lasts.
Thanks Chip, I was beginning to think that I had taken on more than I could chew in one sitting duck on top of a fish barrel expecting Dick Chaney.
That mirror is a nice welcomed reliever.
Thanks! I prefer to patronize sites that allow comments.
If Dan Morgan, Benedict Arnold, and Richard Montgomery had gotten their way, we'd have the 60 states Choom thought we did.
Isn't that called poaching?
I hear that the NTSB has officially decided to change the technical term for train wrecks to "Althouse."
Trooper beat me to it. Is she even aware that she may as well be talking about herself?
No, it's not.
And besides, Althouse's SOP used to be to get people to comment on her blog about material that someone else created and put on the internet.
She may well return to that business model.
Trooper York, thanks for the invitation to your blog but I've only got one email address and it's my real name so I'd prefer to keep it private.
Thanks again, though.
Best regards.
BTW, I've been checking out the Althouse blog every now and then and it's weird the way she seems to be putting up posts like she expects people to make comments. It's as if she doesn't realize that no one is going to respond to her prompts.
She knows what she's doing, of course, but it still looks weird.
She wants you to feel the need, but I think it was a mistake to let the addicts taste sobriety. I'm quickly losing my desire for that drug, and it was causing nausea lately. I discovered that I have job. Who knew?
No sweat Mithchell. I will tell you that some people who wanted to be anyonmous set up an email in Hotmail or Gmail at no cost just to join up. I understand that is a lot of nonsense to go through to get on a website.
I personally have about ten emails of which I really only use three. I set up the other ones to get access to sites like Television Without Pity that has the same sort of rules.
Sorry we couldn't work it out. I enjoy your comments.
I like the Canadian anthem too.
Chip, that is a great idea.
That's the 3rd blog that's come out of all this.
And I better not say any more.
If we're going to invade places, I nominate Bermuda, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, and the Virgin Islands. As for Canada, I say, trade New England for Alberta and BC. It would benefit both countries.
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