Canada is the best part of North America

Does everyone remember that great commercial for (GASP) Molson Canadian beer? The one with Joe, our proud Canadian. I now love this commercial for more reasons that you can imagine.

Please take note that I call “President George W. Bush either “Dubya” or “Bushie” —- his wife's nickname for him. I believe and agree with what Michael Moore said after winning his Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine (2002):

“On behalf of our producers, Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I'd like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to say that they're here in solidarity with me because we like non-fiction. We like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. [Interrupted by mingled boos and cheering] And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much.”

I actually had people ask me what my “I still hate George Bush“ t-shirt meant, which I proudly wore in the halls of Fanshawe. I would just shake my head in disgust at them. However, during my trip to Seattle in April (a VERY BLUE state) I had people try to buy it off my back, but no way was I giving that up, baby! I just gave them the web site where I bought it (www.tshirthell.com if anyone is interested in some very interesting shirts!) I even had people in the Minneapolis Airport ask me where I got it; hell, I should be a Yankee Capitalist and ask for a cut from tshirthell.com!

On Tuesday September 13, 2005 that man they installed as leader down there took responsibility for failures in dealing with hurricane Katrina. Now I did not say “FULL RESPONSIBILITY”. Why would a gutless Texan sewer rat whose greatest job during his presidency is trying to finish off his former presidential daddy's war take FULL RESPONSIBILITY? When asked at a news conference if he and the USA were able to handle a terrorist attack given Katrina's failure, Dubya's response was, “That's a very important question and it's in the national interest that we find out what went on so we can better respond.” Dubya wanted to know both what went wrong and what went right. Anyone as scared as I am about how this man's brain works? Does he leave it behind in Crawford, TX when he goes on vacation? (Or, even worse, does he take it to DC when he leaves Crawford to “go back to work?”)

Like in many of our past presidencies, I think it is the wives who are calling the shots. It is a well-known fact that Eleanor Roosevelt was a major participant when FDR was not well, and we all know that Hilary wore the pants in that administration. (Mostly because Bill's were usually off as he was getting “special service” from his interns. We Canadians are not a country free of faults —- ongoing, very costly investigations into kickbacks by the Liberal Government, Belinda Stronach switching political parties as easily as she goes in for a polish change at her local beauty parlour, and the Premier of British Columbia, Gord Campbell being arrested for drunk driving. But heavens to Betsy are we ever better off on this side of the 49th parallel. (If only Anderson Cooper would leave CNN and work for the CBC; then our lives — at least mine — would be complete.)

Thank you Joe, your speech had it right on, even though we live in London and support Labatts.

Janet is a 2nd year student in the Hotel Management program on and extended sick leave. She does not wear toques: she loves hats, especially stylish ones as she is now an “Honourary Red Hat Lady”. She was once asked (in Torremolinos, Spain) if she knew “So and So” from Montreal and kept her filthy mouth shut instead of her normal retort. Professor McGregor would be shocked AND proud of her! She can be reached at djembejanet@hotmail.com

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