From: Jack Hollis on
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:48 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
wrote:

>> The only interesting thing that I know of in Canadian politics is the
>> Quebec separatists. My sympathy is with them all the way.
>
>How's your sympathy with Alaskan separatists?

They're entitled to their opinion. And, unlike the French Canadian
separatists, the Alaskan separatists a small minority.
From: BAR on
Jack Hollis wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:48 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
> wrote:
>
>>> The only interesting thing that I know of in Canadian politics is the
>>> Quebec separatists. My sympathy is with them all the way.
>> How's your sympathy with Alaskan separatists?
>
> They're entitled to their opinion. And, unlike the French Canadian
> separatists, the Alaskan separatists a small minority.

What about the Hawaiian separatists?

From: Jack Hollis on
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:47:47 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
wrote:

>> If he wanted to know her opinion on preemptive strikes against
>> terrorists and the nations that sponsor them, he should have asker her
>> that.
>
>Why would he have had reason to suspect that she wouldn't know what the
>Bush doctrine was?

Because there has never been any specific definition of the Bush
Doctrine.

It was a stupid question.
From: Carbon on
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:40:56 -0400, Jack Hollis wrote:

> Vive le Québec libre !

You are aware that was 40 years ago, right?
From: Alan Baker on
In article <8sfsd4d4ge8o78caghh0gqm084m25jinem(a)4ax.com>,
Jack Hollis <xsleeper(a)aol.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:48 -0700, Alan Baker <alangbaker(a)telus.net>
> wrote:
>
> >> One could write an extensive history of the world and never mention
> >> Canada.
> >
> >And if you're a typical american, it would also be true that you
> >couldn't write the history about any other country in the world, because
> >the typical american is ignorant of pretty much the entire world.
>
> I'm not a typical American.

No. You're also ignorant about your own country.

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
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