August1991

https://www.economist.com/international/2026/05/05/america-must-hope-donald-trump-is-not-a-new-caligula Leftist Trump Derangement Syndrome goes into overdrive. ===== The Devil? I recall Venezuela's president smelling the podium at the UN after Bush Jnr.

My money? Think real. Delivery Van. I ask you: where would you put a delivery van, motorcycle dropped from a rich Uncle: America, Ecuador, Russia? Canada? Germany? In Ecuader, Russia: Stolen. Canada, Germany? Too many regulations. America? My delivery van will generate profits, and the van will not be stolen.

Barbara Huston is a classic example. Morality is based on poverty.

Pour l'instant. On va voir.

Référendum en Alberta ? Franchement, personne n'en parle au Québec.

I have been to Poland. Google: Shoah, Claude Lanzmann.

Nationalism? Putin, typical Russian, is protecting himself in a Kremlin. Russians will eat grass. Like Bulgarians, they survived. Zelenskyy is playing the Ukrainian nationalist card.

Agree. TV was new. Like Instagram nowadays.

During the Cold War, Trudeau Snr the federalist discussed a "contractual link".

Herbie, What is the cost of an MRI in the US? === Gemini: MRI scans in the USA typically cost between $400 and $12,000, with an average of about $1,325 to $2,600, depending on the body part, facility type, and insurance coverage. Freestanding imaging centers are significantly cheaper ($650 avg.)

Pierre Trudeau understood this well. He once asked this question: "Would you make the West Island the Danzig of the New World?"

Strongly agree. Very strongly agree. The Seven Years War was about Prussia-Austria. In 1763, there were two Treaties in Europe: one decided the fate of modern Quebec. Since 1867, we Canadians have a federal constitution. Before this, we got along with two religions, two languages.

The meeting room in Potsdam is very different. It is much larger. (I have been there too.) Potsdam is outside of Berlin - near the famous Wannsee Conference, and Frederick's Sans Souci. At the time, summer 1945, Berlin was destroyed. There was no nowhere else to meet. Stalin arrived by train, car. I am surprised that Truman managed to fly in, drive through Berlin's remnants. Churchill was in the midst of an election. It was here in this room that Truman approved both drop, and then passed the note to Stalin's interpreter about the A-bomb. I wonder whether either knew exactly what was happening.

In early 1945, FDR arrived by boat to Malta, then flew to Yalta. Churchill arrived by air - like Hitler, both flew often in the war. Stalin arrived by train. He feared airplanes. === The famous picture of the three sitting is in fact a very small courtyard. Modern rich Americans would describe it as a summer home in Hampstead, on Long Island. I have been there.

How much does a MRI cost in the US? In other provinces, how long do you wait? Can you pay as I did in Quebec?

Canada is a remarkable country of different people. Jean Chretien, Brian Mulroney have kept us together. We get along. This guy Carney? I'm not so sure.

Wrong. John Diefenbaker was our first charismatic leader

Army Guy, You create a very good forum question.

It is a slush fund. Corruption -Federal Liberals defeat themselves: 1957, 1984, 2010s. ==== Note to Poilevre.

Agreed. The federal Liberals are nefarious. They put that DEI woman on the $10 bill that nobody knows. We used to have Sir John A.

Sir John A. Macdonald, a Conservative, invented our Confederation and built a railway. True, he took drank - but he only took money for a good cause.

As a tourist, I have been to the room at Potsdam where Truman and Stalin met. It still exists.

Disagree. In May 1945, the Japan's regime/Emperor did not signal any surrender. Heck, at Potsdam, Truman - honest American guy, poker player - told Stalin about this. (I suspect Stalin didn't believe Truman.) ==== Truman approved dropping both bombs.

I was in Crimea in 2014. It is Russian. Heck, eastern Ukraine is largely Russian-speaking. And while I'm on the topic, what is the difference between the Russian and Ukrainian languages?

Zelensky? Putin? Strongly disagree. This foolish stubborn Slavic debate/war could have been avoided. ==== It happens that Zelensky is Jewish. This is not the problem.