August1991

Many years ago, I lived in a poor country. I quickly learned that people donate differently. Waiting for a bus once, an older rich woman gave to a male beggar. I gave money to an obviously pregnant woman. The rich woman said to me, "She'll just get pregnant again."

I have a Visa card. With a 1-800 number. I do not expect to pay taxes for a bunch of Visa guys to have an office. Musk is correct.

Uh, they don't. More to the point: I walked by homeless Canadian citizens in Montreal yesterday. Why should a Consulate person abroad treat any Canadian citizen any diifferently?

The period of 1914 to 1945 were a disaster in world history. Thirty Years of Death. === We must avoid such disasters.

IMHO, the most recent collapse of civilisation occurred in Summer 1914 Nowadays, we are not facing Hitler/Putin in the 1930s. We are facing ourselves in the 1910s. ==== We must create a structure of peace.

Geneva, Switzerland? We live in a new world.

I reckon that this will be a total f* up. The AfP will get 20%. Like the Italina Communists, it will be difficult to exclude them.

Clearly, a small group can control the choice of a party's leader. Let's see how a broader group views the choice.

The US SecGen, Marco Rubio, recently raised the issue of embassies in Washington and Moscow. This is not the 19th century. Trump can phone Putin. === Why are American bureaucrats living in Moscow? Or anywhere abroad? In this world, we do everything online.

Disagree. O'Reilly is a good example of what many Americans think. He is clueless about economics, world affairs. But if any foreign embassy wants to know what Americans think, O'Reilly is a good source.

Corrected. The original is much, much better: "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt," https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-june-17-2018-1.4692469/sleeping-with-a-very-cranky-elephant-the-history-of-canada-u-s-tensions-1.4699017 === Imagine a world where politicians use the language, speak in such a way. Now, imagine a world where politicians can fool around in two languages, speak both for fun! Zelensky can do this Putin also.

If I were a foreigner and wanted to know what Americans think, I would listen to O'Reilly. (I'd get rid of my Embassy except as a travel agency, lobbyist.) If I were an American who wanted to know about the world, foreign affairs, finance, economics - O'Reilly is usually wrong.

Pierre Trudeau famously said: "We are like a mouse in bed with an elephant." === This is how to respond to people like Trump.

The clueless English-Canadian MSM seems to think that Carney will win, and become PM. Clueless. === Freeland might make the federal Liberals viable in the future.

Michael:Thanks. Note to all: This forum is a wonder.I can post what I think about Ukraine, Russia.

Disagree. Americans are American. We Canadians get along. We cross lines.

Disagree strongly. Europe is facing a Summer 1914 situation. This is not the 1930s.

Grain of salt. ==== We are two countries, who get along. In fact, you have a federal union of 50 independent States And we have 10 sovereign provinces.

If foreigners want to know what Americans think, O'Reilly is a good source.

IMHO, he is knowledgeable about America - slightly right. He knows America. Economics? He is often wrong. World affairs? He has a typical American view..

No human will ever live on Mars. But we can send robots to Venus. 1. Mars has no magnetic shield. For humans, life on Mars is like living in a Microwave Oven. (To be more accurate, two microwave ovens -both with random controls.) 2. On Earth, it is cold at the top of Mount Everest. On Mars, the atmosphere is so thin that if your feet are 20 degrees, your head is well below zero. 3. Life on Earth has evolved for our changing environment. ===== Rather than wasting the time of smart engineers to send a person to Mars, I think we should send robots to Venus and find out what happened there. I reckon Venus can tell us more about life on our own planet Earth.

Disagree, ===== I have been to Crimea. You Slavs have more to agree with.

Insane? This horrible terrific useless civil war between Slavs should never have started. It could/should have been avoided. ==== Trump is married to a Slovenian. He was married to a Slovak.

Trump is America First We too, we want Canada to do well. ===== Let's protect our continent.

Nixon was older and taller. Pearson? Even if he had fought in the Great War. ==== Trudeau Snr did it correct.