The whole mess has gone beyond absurd, it is "Bald Soprano
I was fortunate to meet Ann Coulter at a Christmastime reception. She had written "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"
Her best books, in my opinion, are "Treason" and "Guilty."
When I was a small boy, I visited my Grandmother. She had a companion, Elsie, who had been my Grandfather's nurse. She was a spinster lady who was very proper. As I recollect, she drove a light blue 1949 Dodge coupe with black leather driving gloves. Mind you, this was in Los Angeles, mean temperature 80+°F (26.666666666666668°C for Canadians). Elsie was from Canada and she seemed like a nice lady who even tolerated, but just barely, small boys. I figured her coolness was because I was a small boy. Tolerated is the operative word. Long since the Canadian Prime Ministers stopped having a Mackenzie in their name and Brian Mulroney self-effacingly stated that Canada's plan was to be the Nation that drew the best of Western Civilization with "England's form of Government, France's Culture, and America's Economy...Canada ended up with France's Government, England's Economy and America's Culture," Canada may have been cool to America, but tolerant. After all Elsie was Canada embodied, proper, with gloves on, older, virginal and tolerant.
Just after September 11, 2001, we visited a Intercourse, Pennsylvania, for a restorative change, a quilt, county fried chicken and Amish in Carriages pulled by well bred Trotters and Pacers. We saw quilts, a good looking Pacer pulling a carriage followed by an Amish girl on roller-blades. We also went to dinner at an Amish county style restaurant were the food is served on a long plank table and you dine with various other patrons as your dinner companions. You have to have 'intercourse' with your dining companions, strangers or not, in order to get the food passed, so you end talking to them. So we talked to them.
They happened to be two guys from Canada, visiting friends and on a sight seeing excursion through Pennsylvania Dutch County and then on to see New York City.
Silly me, I who had physically seen the World Trade Center buildings come down, recommended that they visit the 9/11 Sight and St. Paul's Chapel nearby, because it was such a deeply moving experience. I figured these guys from Canada were on our side and had sympathy for the attack on us.
I was told, in rather pompous terms, that they had limited time for their New York visit (OK) and that too much had been made of the attack on the World Trade Center anyway! (not OK).
They almost became added, belated, victims of 9/11!
I guess our relationship with Canada was always one of toleration, but now it seems to have spread to open disdain by many. Too bad. I felt like a dumb pup, expecting a pet, got a kick.
Mark Steyn, a Canadian, has really been put through his homeland's Court of No Hurt Feelings for Ethno-Communists-Fascist-Terrorist. Mark Steyn has shown their Human Rights Commission is a hoax and a fraud, but it is a slow learner. He addresses part the ordeal he recognized in Ann Coulter's excursion into northern exposure and his years of defense in his recent article, 'Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theatre.'
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