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Ooops typo Government - not Dovernment, I need to turn the light on over my computer! (to make sure I hit the right keys)

It is true Canada and the US have one of the longest open borders between 2 count. I remember when you could just drive back and forth with just a driver's lis. When we had to clear the skies on 911 that is were a lot of the planes landed.Our ties go back a long way.I got the joke.

Like I said though. I don't consider myself "Canadian". It's wierd, we just don't. You'd ask a Quebecer from where they come from, they more than likely won't say directly "Canada". Even less "I'm Canadian".

But yeah, there's a bunch of FC. At the end of the day people are individuals. I don't feel affiliated to those that went away, just like Canadians don't feel that affiliated with Americans :P.

I think people need to doubt more their history classes however. It can easily be twisted into patriotic propaganda.

Just like in Japan, where World War is omitted from history books in classes, just having a note about it in the corner of a page, other countries twist their history into making themselves look good. Pretty much all do it to a certain extent. The US I'm sure is full of it as well, the rest of Canada too ;).

And I'm saying that about my own place - how we're constantly told we're victims is pretty fishy to me. Though it would seem it's because as a society we tend to frown rich people, so those Frenchy are never talked about lol. It's only about the losses at a certain point.

Heck, it has been denied obviously, but this year the more patriotic party tried to change the history classes, and wanted to omit talking about the minorities that came here. Damn, they really wanted to get elected through lobotomizing the younger people.

Ah and no worries, I don't think our history is noble. It's pretty pathetic actually. Wrecked Native Americans, got wrecked by English and had the hypocrisy to whine about it lol.

I'm only proud of what we are right now, and that's the reality I live in so it's cool, I don't dwell too much on the past like some oldies love to x).

This discussion is mind blowing, it became sooo interesting. International and internal politics, everything in one plate for our enjoyment. *o*

ლ(´ڡ`ლ) fun, fun, fun.

sperm whales, David Bowie and now international affairs. I wonder if Asami would ever let himself be tied up If Takaba asked? LOL prob. not. He tried once and failed.

Ah by the way, the comment you corrected isn't actually shown, probably because mangago blocked it to check out the links (〜￣△￣)〜

There, it won't get blocked xD:
http://www.mangago.zone/home/photo/971448/

So much for my "mis education".

Ah, just this from the US Energy Administration page works: "In 2015, the United States imported approximately 9.4 million barrels per day (MMb/d) of petroleum from about 82 countries. Petroleum includes crude oil, natural gas plant liquids, liquefied refinery gases, refined petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel fuel, and biofuels including ethanol and biodiesel." and this from Govt of Canada Natural Resources page: "The United States recently became the largest source for imported oil. Apart from the United Sates, most of Eastern Canada's oil imports come from the countries that are part of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), specifically from Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Angola and Iraq"

My earlier links must have also been blocked regarding degrees of religious adherence vs violence rates - ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Well, no they're not xD.

But I don't remember having noticed them at first, so maybe they got approved later.

Weird ... oh well. I was pretty sure they posted, but Ialso saw the missing post, which is how I saw the typo.

Yeah, it shows to yourself when you're on your account. They're not deleted, but they won't show to others until approved.

Happened to me a couple times x).

ah, i see your back. what is your point this time. the oil is in the ground. We don't pump bec. of gov. reg. and have not for years since the last oil embargo(1960's) the environmen. movement. OPEC's latest concerns is how Long it can continue to pump by the way. It was fracking that help to get oil below 50 $ a barr. over the last 4 years. There is a glut in the oil market right now and Iran is losing money.

The point is, Bites, that you said " WE have oil reserves in Alaska Texas and other states. We don't need to invade some country for oil" - so why is your country importing oil if that is the case? And I (Nnene) both posted evidence that the US imports nearly 8,000 barrels of oil per day, much of it from the Middle East. I did not specify any OPEC concern, merely pointed out that you wrote something that is not true. You are acting like a Donald - no fact checking before you say something.

Yeah, well you said you didn't need to import, here you go, half your oil is imported, ten years ago it was nearly the double of what you produced yourself.

There's OPEC, but also the Persian Gulf.

Do you know where the Persian Gulf is? It's bordered by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, does that ring a bell? Have you even checked the graph, anyway?

"Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.
—Jimmy Carter, state of the union address, Jan. 23, 1980"

You go, girl! I was not going to get that detailed, because Bites does not really seem to reply to information that we post, just continues blithely along their own path. (note the sperm whale and David Bowie references - not once mentioned by others here - but suddenly there are these items ...)

And Bites seems to not know how to directly reply to a comment, as they always end up just floating in the middle of the comments, so you have to guess at who the comments are directed at.

Well, we also wanted to have a pipeline from some Tim Horton loving northern country that looks like our hat, but for some reasons the plans always cross tribal reservations in the US and the Native Americans keep objecting to having oil potentially leaking into their water supply.

And, yes, we export a lot of oil, and our politics are to blame at least in part for some of what's happening with ISIS. We aren't alone, but we are a big player in that game.