August1991

CdnFox, I am a real person. robosmith is an AI poster.

Bush Jnr was in Florida, and then boarded Air Force One to fly to Nebraska. ====== In similar circumstances, what would other world leaders have done? IMHO, Churchill, de Gaulle, Thatcher and Trudeau Snr would immediately insisted to return to the capital. Putin? No doubt in my mind. He would not have flown to Novosibirisk. Stalin was afraid to fly but he stayed in Moscow. Hitler died in Berlin. I suspect that Biden, like Bush Jnr, would follow the advice of his handlers - flee. Trump? Crazy like a fox, huge ego, he'd insist on returning to Washington.

Yet you Americans are successful. You Americans are successful as individuals - but as a country, you cause so many problems. ===== To me, the US/America works/is rich because it is in fact 50 small countries.

Disagree. 2024 will be no different. Biden will win the key counties in the swing states - and he'll be re-elected. ===== OTOH, I think that the Dems will lose the federal Senate. I reckon that it will be 52-48 - so Kamala's vote will not matter.

For many years, the Republicans have lost urban counties in California, Illinois and New York. These counties belong to Democrats - and the Democrats get the electoral votes. Why? How? ==== In Canada, we vote in person - show who we are, scrutineers check: one ballot, we check one name behind a screen In the US, voting is different. Americans have zillions of names on a ballot. They can even write a name on the ballot. They have to register before voting. Americans have to vote every November or in primaries.

In this Instagram world? Anyone with a purple finger held high - more than a Rolex - it signals "I live in a democracy."

I just now read your post. I strongly disagree.

Close. ==== Imagine how we now integrate foreigners.

Robosmith, I polltely disagree. Whether the US chooses Biden or Trump - or even RFK Jr, America will survive. Moderators, I think Robosmith is a robot.

I favour permanent purple ink on the right thumb. Around the world, this would be a signal of voting in a democracy. You can't vote twice.

Entitlement? If you want it, pay for it. Canada has never had conscription because of Quebec. To my knowledge, older Swiss men (not women) serve.

1. Ancient Europe? Why NATO? 2. China? Look at Singapore.

However. Truman, Nixon, JFK, LBJ made America's win possible. In 1991, America won. Then, during the next 20 years, Clinton and Bush Jnr f*.ed up.

Disagree. Trump is a great campaigner. But he will lose. The Democrats are far better at collecting, harvesting ballots in a Covid world where some people help other people to vote. In several key states, in several key urban counties, the Dems will win. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, Michigan. Because of urban staged voting, all will go Democratic. ===== OTOH, the Republicans may win a majority in the Senate. IMHO, Trump has no chance to win. I am more curious to see what happens in the federal Senate.

With all that said, wars usually involve foolish young men, between the ages of 17 and 21. Who is in Gaza now? In Donetsk?

Misleading title. With Navy, Air Force -our military has about 50,000. By comparison, the US with 10x our population has about 1.4 million active military. IOW, the US has about 3x our numbers. I favour our way of doing things. ===== In Canada and the US, soldiers now choose to join. (In Canada, we have always had a voluntary military. Since Nixon, the US has not had conscription.) IMHO, when a State resorts to military conscription, its leaders are imposing a tax - a weird tax.

The British government in the 1920s (when Newfoundland was still outside Canada) decided that the division would be the headwaters. It decided that Labrador was not part of Canada. At the time, most people in Labrador were indigenous. Newfoundlanders fished on the coast. Moreover, most people in the lower north shore (Canada, Quebec) speak English with a Newfoundland accent. They live in places with French names. Blanc Sablon. ==== There are places in the world we know with two names: St-Pierre et Miquelon, Bosnia and Herzogovina, São Tomé and Príncipe etc. Newfoundland is a distinct place. Labrador is different. I have no problem with a provincial government of Newfoundland within a federal Canada. There is no such place as "Newfoundland & Labrador".

But sometimes they should be. Sometimes a crackhead says something wise. And Churchill had special protection when he flew - to avoid traffic as you say. ===== IMHO, when Bush Jnr in September 2001 did not fly back to Washington from Florida, the Western world lost something.

First, I was expecting a bank robber movie lead by a woman. And this movie starts this way! But then it goes awry. In fact, it's a 1940s female prison movie. I recommend it to 21st century feminists. It has Jackie C. Gleason (as Jean Chretien, the getaway driver). And Paul Drake (as DeWolf Hopper, son of Hedda Hopper). You can't make this up.

Laughing - good examples. In a very public way, I once mispronounced "awry". (Imagine how I pronounced the word.) In English, their and there, or its and it's, are not distinct when speaking- but evidence of education when writing. In French, tu and vous are very distinct - and verb conjugations in particular.

China? It used to be, for Americans, Japan. IMHO, China is now Singapore. Xi is Lee Quan Yew. AG, I have some answers and many opinions. I am reminded of Keynes famous response: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?”

True. Except for the Warsaw Pact (which no longer exists), you describe a 19th century world of counterweights. A multipolar world. In 1815, Russia was not a threat to Europe. ===== In 1914, this multipolar, multicultural civilized world collapsed not because of Russia or an external threat. It collapsed because a clueless elite lead ordinary people into folly.

No. We in the West defeated the Soviet Union. (Russia is not the Soviet Union.) Kissinger worried about how to create a structure of peace. One key point that he made is that the Soviet Union followed a Marxist ideology - it was intent on dominating the world.

One could say the same of Europe after 1815. Read Kissinger.

The question is whether the legality (issue) of abortions should be decided at the state level, or at the central/federal level. It is a question of state rights. ==== Lincoln really didn't care about slavery. He wanted to preserve the union. He decided that on the issue of slavery, to preserve the union, abolition must be a central/federal issue and apply to all states.