Thought for the day.....

LOL.
Kinda of unintended consequences of health cuts.

In France, at a fairly large conference, Steven Harper was asked, by a French cabinet minister, if Canadian involvement in Afghanistan was just an example of "empire building".
He answered by saying, 'Over the years, Canada has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'

You could have heard a pin drop.

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There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American.
During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the
room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt the United
States has done?? They have sent an aircraft carrier to
Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What do they intend to
do, bomb them?'

A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'

You could have heard a pin drop.

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A Canadian Admiral was attending a naval conference that
included Admirals from the Canadian, U.S., English, Australian and French Navies.
At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
group of officers that included personnel from most of those
countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped
their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that,
whereas Europeans learn many languages, North Americans
generally learn only English.' He then asked, 'Why is it that we
always have to speak English in these conferences rather than
speaking French?'

Without hesitating, the Canadian Admiral replied 'Maybe it's
because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it
so you wouldn't have to speak German.'

You could have heard a pin drop.

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Robert Whiting, an elderly Canadian gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
'You have been to France before, monsieur?' the customs officer
asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously
The official replied 'then you should know enough to have your
passport ready.'
The Canadian said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to
show it.'

'Impossible. Canadians always have to show passports on
arrival in France!'
The Canadian senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single
Frenchmen to show a passport to.'

You could have heard a pin drop.

You are allowed to shoot 2 Federal M.P.’s and 2 BC MLA’s of your choice.
Of course, you will be sent to prison where you will get 3 meals a day, a roof over your head and all the health care you need!

Don't give me ideas...

You could have heard a pin drop...
those were great

Ya only live once.

Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have remained a virgin.'

- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)



I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: - 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt



Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

- Mark Twain



The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

- George Burns




Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.

- Victor Borge




Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain




By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

- Socrates




I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

- Groucho Marx



My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

- Jimmy Durante




I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.

- Zsa Zsa Gabor





Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.

- Alex Levine




My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

- Rodney Dangerfield



Money can't buy you happiness .. But it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

- Spike Milligan




Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was SHUT UP

- Joe Namath



I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.

- Bob Hope




I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

- W. C. Fields



We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.

- Will Rogers



Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.

- Winston Churchill




Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

- Phyllis Diller



By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

- Billy Crystal

Ah so true.

Those were great...
Real life wisdom..


And love the Demi and Pat vid. Very erotic without the bumpty bump bump bump...

Swayze movie with lots of other well known actors. Man, they were young.

http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/national/dust-storm-swallows-sydney/20090923-g19h.html
Video of Sydney dust storm
Turn on da sound.

'I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan.'

1) 'The US /UK? Canada, AUSTRALIA will apologize to the world for our 'interference' in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those 'good 'ole' boys', we will never 'interfere' again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are from. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign 'students' over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a 'D' and it's back home baby.
6) The US /UK Canada, Australia will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not 'interfere.' They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us 'Ugly Americans' any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan?
'The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' '

I read today the Taliban gets over a billion dollars a year .. from donations. Pakistan military is suspected of being the biggest donor, not Saudi. Not from opium either.
Obama has agreed to triple the aid to Pakistan. Just lovely. Taxpayers paying for the roadside bombs.

foxnewsPOLITICS: Report: Foreign Donations Are Single Largest Source of Taliban's Funding. http://tinyurl.com/ycstnv4

From Twitter.

Here's a thought for tough times that was passed on to me:

Sears Canada call centre for catalogue orders in Regina, Sk closed on Sept. 17/09. That left 250 people out of jobs. The call centre in Belleville, Ont. was also closed leaving 230 people without jobs. Now when you call your order in you will be speaking to people in the Phillipines. That’s right folks, Sears has moved it’s call centre to the Phillipines because it is cheaper.

I don’t know about you people but with the way the economy is I know I will no longer be shopping at Sears. If they can’t keep the jobs in Canada then they can move all their stores to the Phillipines.

Please pass this on. We need to make a stand. Our economy is not going to get any better unless these big companies start sourcing in the country that they do business.

I'm with ya on that one D'man. Sears was small town Canada. I buy all my appliances from Sears and generally look there first for anything I want to buy from clothing to household stuff.

It really irked me when they slapped the $3 order fee on... but this outsourcing is really the limit.

I know it's hard to stay competitive,.... but closing Sears and Greyhounds is simply unCanadian.