You should vote for this man Huckabee for president. Nobody as stupid as that would be able to deceive the country. However, the down side would be that he is a complete fucking moron - oops, you've got one of these already!
I had NOTHING to do with this video being posted. LOL!
This was from a comedy program up here called "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", hosted by Rick Mercer. I remember seeing this skit, and it's several years old. Once I found out that Huckabee was running for Prez, I thought of this skit right away. The fact that like 80% of the delegates who voted for him in Iowa and put him over the top, were born-again, evangelical christians did not surprise me one freakin' bit. People of that stripe will vote for a guy NOT based on his knowledge of the world-at-large, or any potential statesman-like qualities.....but rather for the man's personal religious beliefs.
In subsequent years, I've seen Huckabee quite a bit in varied debates in difefrent forums, and my impression was always the same: he has a very narrow view of not only political issues, but also in an over-all general sense; he will pander the most to his "base", i.e. religious fundamentalists, and knowledge/awareness of other issues be damned.
In short, he presents himself as a very, very shallow man whos main appetite is his own power-hungry politicial ambitions, and does not care a wit for the ALL within the Union, or even the Republic for which he should at least APPEAR to stand.
Oh heaven help the Republican party if Huckabee is their choice. They rant against theocratic governments overseas and declare their desire for the same here in our democracy. Let's hope reason and sanity win out and he is not placed in a position of power over this country.
im surprised he didnt talk about how we were thinkn bout going 2 the 24hr clock and how we stick r retirees on ice flows to perish the secrets us CANADIANS KEEP LOL
- Global warming jeopardizes Canada's NATIONAL IGLOO!
I have begun a fund on behalf of our friends to the north, to build a refrigerated dome over the igloo in an attempt to save it from the hot air from the south. Please send all your money to: igloo fund care of Podman@glumbert.com.
Hurry it's getting warmer. It may reach 2 degrees Celsius this summer!
No personal checks, and cash is OK, especially if it's Canadian.
You can trust my new company: AmeriCan't. A new vision in graft.
Canuck1963 is going to be my lead contractor for the project, which is projected to take 8 months to complete, with a graft shortfall of 7 million.
I studied engineering in Washington DC, and they trained us to plan the graft and corruption costs in advance. I hope to resubmit a bid for the bridge to nowhere in Alaska.
Please don't come running to me, if any of you see a bill for, like, $50,000 for a hammer, or $5,000 for a set of screws or $25,000 for a toilet seat (or something like that). This is what is known in our parlance as "overhead".
And if that igloo melts.......so help me Gawd.....
Huckabee has a new hamburger (the hucka-burger) named after him in New Hampshire. What will the other candidates have named after them? Any suggestions?
Thank God so many intelligent Americans post on this site. Not the ones in this video. This guy is running for President? Holy jumpin' Judas Priest on a pony! What, is dumb the new smart thanks to GWB? If he's elected, I'm leaving.............earth.
Now YOU, gymyg (as well as Podster, Randal, Free, Skids, and Chaz, amongst others) are exactly the kind of Americans I love and admire:
You can take a few friendly jests from your northern cousins, without getting all bent outta shape about it and take it in the spirit in which it was intended.
A pity the same can't be said for relations between other nations at a higher level, on this fucked up globe.
So, maybe in THAT sense....we're all winners in this neighbourhood....y'know?
Hey can my family got the hell out of the maple leaf when the big war started. Something about being natrual bugged them, but wasn't canada in it first?
I have a lot of friend up there, they left in the 60's and never wanted to come back. NOW, all the more reason.
Which "big war" are you referring to? WWI? WWII? Korea? Vietnam? Persian Gulf? Afghanistan?
We jumped into WWI and II before the U.S.; we were in Korea; took a pass on 'Nam; we were in the Gulf War; we are presently in Afghanistan; took a pass on Iraq.
Basically I think that Huckabee was joking in this video. They probably cut a lot of it out. I doubt that he'd think that Canada's capitol building is an igloo. He's got a good sense of humor, it's not that bad.
Ummmmm......I dunno, Surfer. Usually I'm on the same page as you on a lot of things around here, but on THAT one? Not so sure.
Here's why:
In my own experiences, I've had numerous times when my travels took me south and westward into the U.S. Now here's the thing: the further I went in those directions, the more easily I can sum up what the average folks said/believed about their northern neighbour in four ways:
1. They believe that we have winter all-year round;
2. They believe that we all speak French;
3. They believe we have a "President";
4. And they believe not much at all, simply because they don't care to (beyond simply being aware that "Canada" is due north, and that's all (no "like" or "dislike".....we're just...here).
The Northern Border states, and the people in them, are going to be a more aware, of course. But the further sout and west one goes......man-oh-man.....I swear I coulda spun whatever yarn I wanted, and gotten away with it (one poor soul actually asked me, "How many pet penguins did you own as a kid?"; I replied, "Six. But they all died horribly"; they gasp in shock, and asked how; I said "The polar bears ate them"; another gasp, and they asked me WHERE this atrocity happened; "In Toronto", I said). I can pretty well guarantee you, that this fucking around on my part wouldn't have flown in Michigan, upstate New York or Minnesota or even Washington state.
So in my own personal opinion, when I see Huckabee saying this stuff....well, put it this way:
I dunno, I believe you when you say that "ordinary" Americans believe these things about Canada. But a GOVERNOR!?!?! Maybe from Arkansas, but highly doubtful. Unlike most politicians, Huckabee does have a sense of humor.
I actually seen GEORGE BUSH footage in DETROIT where he fell for some stuff similar i think he said he supported PRESIDENT POUTINE or something along those lines but CANADIANS have a habit of thinking its amusing how little the americans know about us well in my opinion WHO CARES lets see how much fellow CANADIANS know about GREENLAND thats 1 of our neighbours probably NADA us CANADIANS should be glad were not showing up on any1s radar instead of being DESPERATE for attention when all the terrorist stuff was going on it was like CANADIANS wanted to be a target saying the CN TOWER and our NUKE PLANTS are targets the terrorists couldnt give a flying F
sorry my message got cut off anyway i would rather we as canadians went un noticed and this is the opinion id like other(especially MILITANT)COUNTRIES have of us MY name is Andrew i live in a igloo i ride to work everyday at the LUMBRERMILL on my SNOWMOBILE i occasionally have a BBQ where i eat SEALKABOBS AND BLUBBER BURGERS THE END
I've seen this skit dozens of times... and Rick Mercer actually has appoligized for it in his own show.. The Rick Mercer show, kindda like The Daily Show, but funny :)....
And in the spirit of North American relations.... I would say that if an educated American came and did a similar skit format here in Canada, we wouldn't fair much better. Hell I Personally know people living in Ontario who think ALL of British Columbias population is in Vancouver.
I'll read the rest of your comments after.....I just can't resist typing something immediately about this one. Don't get geared up. I don't have much to say. I'm too busy laughing. Oh, I better stop laughing so hard though. The temperature of the human body rises exponentionally (ya, i got that spelling wrong fer shure:-)) so I might melt the Igloo I live in. Well I guess I can always go out and buy one........for a few loonies. Shite, I imagine when I read the posts above mine I'll see a whole bunch of youze saying how lame this one was, but I'm just a simple gal from Canada.....I giggled.
p.s. planettint, I'll show my ignorance, no problem. Just started to read the thread from the bottom up. "BCS" sounds like fightin' words to me. Meet you at dawn with the weapon of your choice, buuuuddddddddy. (Unless I'm jumpin' the gun and what you said ain't so bad......ooops, my bad) I'll get back to you though.....
I may have a face like an arse, but in my opinion ignorance is a result of poor basic education - and not just in the U.S.
For example
When the Falklands war was brewing in 1982, a survey of English 15-year-olds found that 76% of them believed the Falkland Islands were in the Outer Hebrides.
Only 3% of British 18-year-olds polled by the Sunday Times a fortnight ago could name the deputy prime minister.
In 2003, 67% of 18-year-olds in California placed Iraq in Central Africa on a world map.
48% of them pinpointed Cuba as being off Newfoundland.
81% said Saddam Hussein was directly responsible for 9/11.
96% knew the exact price of a Big Mac meal.
A recent Guardian poll of British 14-17 year olds found that 55% of them thought there were more than 20 million Asians living in the UK. (Actual figure, under 2 million)
The same poll found that only 6% could name all four Beatles.
And 49% thought Mao Tse Tung was president of China.
Only 12% knew which political party Hillary Clinton represents. And 35% thought she was a male!
Depressed? No need. As long as there are manufactured morons out there, those of us with more than one brain cell should manage to stay in gainful employment for a little longer!
Another little titbit for you from the man with a face like an arse.
When I went to University in the early 1970s, only 3% of the UK population aged 17-22 did so. Of that 3%, only 1% attained a First Class Honours degree.
In 2007, nearly 40% of the population aged 17-22 were attending universities. Of those, 10% attained First Class degrees.
This indicates one of two things - either the population is getting much smarter, or education is dumbing down. I will leave you to reach your own conclusion.
Oh, and here's a good one. Aberdeen University currently runs an adult learning course, which basically caters for people who can't spell properly or construct sentences grammatically. 28% of those studying English Literature are attending this course.
Welcome to the Brave New World!!!!
af - Your assessment of US education is rather generous in my opinion. But here is what I think is really going on. BOTH parties in the US are in a race to dumb down the general public by degrading education, or pricing higher education to a point that it is out of reach for most of America.
The reason is that a uneducated public leads to a greater grip on power and wealth. Even I have been caught in this trap. I cannot afford $1000 per course to get the certifications I need for the profession I actually work in.
I have not committed murder so I am NOT entitled to free education. More and more in America if one obeys the law and plays by the rules the more they get screwed by the system. All of the rewards go to those who knowingly do the wrong or illegal thing.
This has become so ingrained into the American system that during the debate on Illegal immigration, the republicans were in complete agreement that among the illegal immigrants, only those who committed a crime should be deported. What part of illegal don't they get? I guess among most of the candidates Illegal Immigration it self is NOT a crime?
And, now we have the bail out of the home loan situation. These people knowingly screwed up, took a chance, and will now be rewarded for not paying their mortgages. The US and State taxpayers are now going to buy all of their homes for them. I paid off my mortgage, which was a ARM, and hit 12.5% at one time. What is my reward? My home value has dropped by 20 percent and my Real Estate tax just went up by 15%.
And by the way you are paying for their homes as well, because all that bad paper is bound up into wall street financial instruments that overseas investors are buying into.
Obama was for CHANGE and it worked for him, so every other candidate became the agent of CHANGE. Hillary cried, if it works for her expect McCain and Romney to give us a good weeping.
I can't decide whether the education situation (in most of the Western world) is a result of conspiracy or cock-up.
One of the big problems in the UK is that, since the mid seventies, no-one has had a good solid state education. The result is that most teachers aged 25-40 have been badly educated themselves. So what chance to those they are teaching have?
My daughters are now all grown up, but back in the mid nineties they were at Primary School (5-11 year olds). I used to read their report cards and cringe at the standard of literacy displayed by those who were commenting on my children's performance. So much so, that I used to put a red pen through the numerous spelling errors, correct them, and send the reports back to the school. This made me somewhat unpopular with the teachers, not one of whom would acknowledge their mistakes, preferring to ramble on about "streams of consciousness and ideas" being more important than accurate use of English.
On one occasion I replied saying that Picasso was first and foremost a fine draughtsman, and that his solid grounding was the reason he could eventually become so creative and innovative. The response to that was predictable - "What has art got to do with grammar?"
Jesus Christ Almighty!!!
I notice this same problem with the media. I watch TV anchors who make 50 million/year unable to pronounce or speak with proper diction. I read magazines and find numerous errors in spelling and word usage. Most media in this country is written and spoken at a grade school level.
I am a engineer so I am naturally bad at spelling and grammar like most engineers, but if the spoken or written word it is ones profession then there is no excuse.
Language is the very base of communication, especially as an engineer there is no excuse for incorrect use of language. Technical specs have to be exact and disambiguous.
I see bad language skills a lot with younger people who are trying to learn to program or to design electronics, we have quite a few showing up in our company support forum. The first I tell those who write sloppy is to tidy up their question since if it is not correct there can be no correct anser. Likewise you will not get a program ever to work if you use bad spelling or grammar in a computer language.
Bug - I am a software engineer and I have to correct you on the point of spelling in programming. What you say is correct if anyone would or could type in machine code, but we all use very sophisticated compilers. The compiler does not allow for typing errors "In code", only in comments.
Comments are what have caused my bad spelling, because in the old days they were kept short and saved space. Now we just do it to make notations, but it is still gibberish to most folks even if spelled correctly.
If I type as a comment: 'rls bas clas x' it is no more meaningful to you than 'release base class x' is it. Software engineering is many languages piled on top of each other, and it is the origin of so many acronyms, and abbreviations it would fill a library.
The exactitude is in the logic and design, spelling and grammar do not exist within the compiler framework.
Sorry dude you are just wrong about this in the software engineering.
I am (mostly) in software engineering too, though I am not usually writing code in high level languages, I use assembly (running my own company most of the time I do things like talk with customers, chase my employees around, write marketing blurb etc., actual programming is the exception these days).
I hear that argument a lot that the compiler corrects you or does not allow you to write things wrong. But the fact is that especially in a language like C it is easy to misstep without the compiler catching an error.
It is also a state of mind, I have found that those programmers who write the natural language more correct also make fewer errors in programming. And once the program is done there is the need for documentation, even though today many software guys think a .h file is documentation.
You don't need to be a poet to be an engineer, but language skills make you a better engineer.
Wow you really have been away from it for some time.
C is now a ancient language, C is old, and C# is now the standard. It is difficult to make the transition from the procedural languages into oop. You should ask one of your guys to demonstrate the new compilers using the .net framework (if you are a microsoft user).
Pod, we are using C, Cpp, ObjectiveC, Delphi and a couple other environments and languanges in the line of our work (even C# if we are forced to, but we try to stay our distance to M$). No matter how sophisticated the tools get a person who can not spell properly makes a poor engineer.
I say that from the position of being an engineer myself as well as an employer of engineers with some 20 years of experience in the field.
Ok, we will have to agree to disagree i guess. All I'm saying is that the compiler is doing the tedious part of correction, and the programmer should be focused on design and logic.
Time spent on documentation has rarely been allotted to me in my work as it is seen as a waste of time, and to a large degree I think that is correct.
Ninety percent of the software I have written over the last 30 years for the manufacturing environment is in the bit bucket now. Not because it was bad, but the environment changed, the machines changed, and the hardware changed.
All of the code I have written, if it is read at all, has only been read by other programmers, and I have had no complaints yet. And I think that is why most of us think this way. Comments are unreliable, and often misleading anyway, as they don't even survive the first revision.
Hm, interesting view of the matter. What is your background on programming?
I have studied computer science, though I did not go through to the final tests (yet, still have the option to do that, still registered at the university 48th semester or so...), the rough equivalent of what I have as a degree is the bachelor.
The only noble exception to this rule is National Geographic - a beacon of accuracy and style in a sea of shit. Their caption (legend) writers are among the finest journalists on the planet, and their jobs are much coveted. I think the only time the NG boobed in recent years was when they fell for the Chinese "bird dinosaurs" hoax, and heads rolled big time over that one!
I spot misplaced apostrophes on the BBC News programmes' headers nowadays. That would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
Now, you may say such things don't really matter in an age of texting and the web, but I beg to differ. The misuse of a comma or a misplaced participle can have a huge effect on the meaning of an important statement, in uch the same way a miscalculation of bridge buuilding dynamics can cause a catastrophe.
Am I a pedant? Yes. Do I have a face like an arse? You bet!
NASA 1993, Mars Observer mission: Calculated miles, flown kilometers
A factor of 1.6 can be hard if what you want to do is aerobraking (i.e. touching the outer very thin atmosphere to slow down a space craft), it obviously turned into an uncontrolled atmospheric entry.
Everyone makes typos. It's just that I normally spot them and do something about it before pressing the Post Comment button! I don't know why, but seeing my typos makes me feel the same way I do after eating a McDonalds - a bit dirty and guilty! It's like playing a bum note on an instrument - I know, I'm up my own arse about this, but then, I am Arseface.
are typos that bad, it just highlights humans imperfections, nothing wrong with that.
i once fell in love with my mates wife for an evening, i then realised the next day i didn't fancy her at all, what was that about?
someone please explain in the plain english how the american voting system works? who is who and has it made much difference in the past whether a republican or democrat wins
here over in Britain where we all live in Castles and drink tea we pretty much have no choice as arseface touched on somewhere, we have right/centre politics, the left is dead, long live the left!
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