“And Canada also pitched in during the War of the Worlds in 1938…”
Here’s a video clip (700K, QuickTime, enclosure) featuring Ann “Four
legs good, two legs better!” Coulter doing what she does best — going
with her gut feeling and coming up with unsubstantiated facts to back
them up. In this segment, an appearance on the CBC’s news magazine show, The Fifth Estate, she’s quite sure that Canada participated in
the Vietnam war (which in fact, was not the case).
I’ll put my cards on the table right now: Coulter is a completely
insane bitch. Her worldview is that sort of “if you’re not completely
with us, you’re must be an enemy after our precious bodily fluids”
thinking — consider her books Treason (in which she equates anything other than her brand of neoconservatism as such) and How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)
(the sort of back-patting cliquery that one should’ve dispensed with
after high school). I’ve read both books and must say that I’ve seen
better paper after wiping my ass.
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2 Things:
1. Canada did sell more than $2.5 billion in war materiel to the pentagon (not sure if that's in the clip or not).
2. Joey, can you do something besides Quicktime? You're killing us Linux geeks.
1. Yes, but that logic would allow Mr. Giuseppe Caringi, the man who sold me one of my accordions, to claim that he was there with me on my wild and wacky squeezebox-powered adventures.
2. I don't actually do the captures for the videos I post; I just find 'em and post 'em. If anyone can point me to a Mac- or Windows-based utility to do WMV-to-MPEG and QuickTime-to-MPEG conversions, I'll start posting in MPEG format.
Can we all stop giving that horrible excuse for a human attention? It only seems to encourage her.
I despise that hysterical witch, ann coulter.
Here's a clip of Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson spouting off about Canada: http://www.wimp.com/canada/
It's hard not to get pissed off at these comments. I suppose you just have to consider the source(s).
Yes, but that logic would allow Mr. Giuseppe Caringi, the man who sold me one of my accordions, to claim that he was there with me on my wild and wacky squeezebox-powered adventures.
You might be deliberately missing the point here. If Carigini knew that you were going to hurl that accordion off of a balcony with the intent to harm passers-below or worse, perform only Celine Dion covers, then he would have been complicit with your crime. Seriously Joey, "war materiel" means things like guns and ammo. You can't sell them to one of your allies, who's at war, and say "oh, we didn't know you'd use it for that!" And make sure that you frame Canada's non-participation in the Vietnam conflict with the violently anti-Communist sentiments espoused by Canadians at the time.
Canadians can say with the straight face of a war profiteer "we stayed out of that one" but that kind of thing, like France's pretend righteousness in the run up to the Iraq war, still "smells like the ass we pulled it out of."
Yes, there is a difference between selling the gun and pulling the trigger but when we involve ourselves in a chain of causes, it's probably best to not get so smug about it. I guess that's all I was trying to say.
And let none of my satanic advocacy distract anyone from the fact that Coulter is a Compleat Toole[TM]
As for the QuickTime thing: sorry, I thought you came up with the capture yourself. My bad.
I'll just keep launching VMWare, though a little piece of me dies every time I have to use it ;o)
You still rawk, Joey. And you got my vote for best blog.
Read this article from the Canadian Encyclopedia:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/1588/
Canada geve the US effort in Vietnam strong support. They provided aid to South Vietnam, sold and developed arms for the US, and thousands of Canadians served with the US forces.
In short, Coulter was right.
ummm, no.
"I've read both books and must say that I've seen better paper after wiping my ass."
Dude! What did you eat! ;-)
Mplayer on Linux should play quicktime just fine.
Really?
That's cool if it's true. I know that codecs are available for wma's but I hadn't heard about .mov's. I thought my only options were VMWare or the Crossover plugin.
Time for some more google-fu.