I quite like their poutines... But that's more French-Canadian... Je Souviens...

Check out some of the Talking to Americans skits too - like the classic Poutine skit. They're horribly unfair b/c of how fast Rick Mercer speaks when asking his misleading questions, but that doesn't detract from the humour. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=8225

I'm guessing theo was just suggesting his political views rather than opinion on videosift.com voting; that was my interpretation anyway.

Aahh, but you're missing the point, tremor. While it is certainly acceptable that Bush and the rest of them didn't know what "Poutine" was, it is not acceptable that he did not know the name of the Prime Minister of Canada. Let's not even mention the Governor of Michigan- which borders on Canada. Hell, the Capital -Lansing- is less than an hour's drive from the border. And incidentally, Lansing is North of the Canadian border.

Bit of background: Bush was campaigning in Michigan, circa 1999, for the GOP nomination. Rick Mercer, a Canadian humourist, went to Michigan and met Bush and Co. on the campaign trail.

For those of you who aren't aware, Poutine is literally fries, gravy and cheese- kind of a French-Canadian heart-attack-on-a-plate, and for the record the Prime Minister's name at the time was Jean Chretien.

Bush Sr. famously called Mercer an "Asshole" after this aired, and George W., acting petulant, has refused every subsequent interview request by the CBC. In retrospect, it seems like a bit of foreshadowing for many a Bush gaffe to follow.

Ah, "how the secret service knew the president and the schoolchildren weren't in danger".
Do you seriously believe that if they had a conspiracy that diabolical they would let the Secret Service know about it?

Your faith in their ability to keep a secret is laudable, if questionable.

As for the "my bad", the posts are getting long and I have this annoying habit of not typing out what I'm thinking. This is what I omitted in my last comment re: Bush "this is what happens when a cokehead is elected president." Since The Supremes appointed him to the Oval Office I was worried he'd do something stupid. And there you have it.

On the campaign trail we suckered him into thinking/saying that the PM of Canada is Jean Poutine. We like our fries with gravy and cheese, but not *that* much.

And yes, if you assume that the London bombers did not use any logic but instead randomly selected their targets, then it *is* improbable. But it's reasonable to think they would've gone after a certain part of London, and the fact that the Visors did it too is more of an affirmation that he knew what he was doing as a security consultant.

In downtown Toronto they performed drills around the biggest most valuable skyscrapers. The drills take the better part of a day to conduct, so you have a pretty big window of probability interception to play with.

Black boxes, which are orange, are not magical. I'm not impressed my made-up statistics. What's your source on 99.9%?