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mrripley43's avatar

I think that some of the toll roads are owned or partly owned by Canadian workers pension funds such as Ontario teachers.

Small world.

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rufus magister's avatar

My wife and I lived on the Maine/New Brunswick border for a time in the 90's. A local folk band had a song about the "smuggling." The chorus went "As we pass the customs shack, we all shout 'nothing back.'"

Once US Customs knew you and your car, they waved you through. We called it "The Downeast Drive-by." If they did stop you, they packed heat and were quite stern.

The Canadians always stopped you, and asked "Any alcohol, tobacco, or firearms." We bought beer in Maine, like the locals, and we quickly learned to dissemble. When my sis-in-law failed to remember the briefing and copped to it, they inspected us.

They had small badges, no guns, and were very polite and downright friendly. Once, the officer offered us a kitten, which we had to decline.

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

Both of those get right up my nose, as does the ritual abuse of the word "enormity." It does NOT mean biggishness, folks.

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

Ha ha no, of course not, she's probably white.

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sgt. jmk de la résistance's avatar

This was my thought also too... he clearly spent more on gas than he saved in taxes, and that's even before calculating what he spent on meals and incidentals.

I guess it just goes to show...doofuses gotta doof.

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Sakonyachen for FALGSC's avatar

I don’t know if I can do it with baby beaver blood money.

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EdR's avatar

No doubt about it.

The silence from Capitol hill is deafening about this. Why??

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phoenix00's avatar

Splitting the Western allies has been a running theme of this "presidency". Backing out of the Paris Agreement, publicly lambasting the other members of NATO, grenading the JCPOA, leaving the G7 early, sabotaging the NAFTA talks, hanging South Korea and Japan out to dry with the NK Singapore summit, even leaving the UN Human Rights Commission. All these actions serve the same underlying purpose.

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phoenix00's avatar

Maybe Doug Ford will end up redirecting JT's marijuana revenue, perhaps during Infrastructure Week, after kidnapping some baby beavers for ransom.... ehh any moment now

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EdR's avatar

Could be. An attempt to split to west would be understandable.

If so........treason

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Sakonyachen for FALGSC's avatar

As always, let me know when your building that wall. I plan to be on the North side of it when your done, and I am a good laborer.

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phoenix00's avatar

There's good Canadian rap too

https://www.youtube.com/wat...https://www.youtube.com/wat...https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Oh there's a cat by the name of "Drake" too. He may have had a hit or two.

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phoenix00's avatar

Putin told him to do it.

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phoenix00's avatar

We should build a wall and make Americans pay for it! Aaaaaand my brain is broken also!

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phoenix00's avatar

We British Columbians buy gas in the states.

http://www.gvrd.com/images/...

Everything else is almost not worth it.

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Lordpnut's avatar

Indeed.

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