Spent two weeks in France, eh? For what purpose: Business, pleasure, or to form a Franco-Canadian alliance to invade America? (DRAMATIC LOOK!) Well we're on to you, monsieur. You want our expensive health care and cheap cigarettes. Well you can't have them!

One more reason to send all Canadian sifters to Baffin Island with nothing but a spear and a single laptop - with Windows VISTA! (ANOTHER DRAMATIC LOOK!)

>> ^Krupo:
Geez, I spend 2 weeks in France and you all forget I'm Canadian too?
>> ^kronosposeidon:
I say we simply start a VideoSift Canada, then exile all our Canuck sifters to it. Zifnab, arvana, Sarzy, therealblankman, and others can battle each other for top ranking above the 49th parallel.
Oh, and they can only post 100% Canadian content. That will leave them with SCTV clips and Bryan Adams videos. That oughta do.

>> ^bamdrew:
If you're concerned about the safety of our country, educate yourself, your friends and your family on the local, state, and federal election candidates (their voting records, their funding base, their previous employment, etc.). A well informed, highly participatory citizen is a patriotic citizen; an anti-government militia member, in this day and age, is typically just a misguided person with an agenda.


To be fair, nearly every totalitarian state that has emerged in the Western world in the 20th century came from a democracy where the citizenry was overwhelmingly "well informed, highly participatory", from Spain pre-Franco to Weimar Germany. They were not, however, well-armed.

And to whomever made the comment about the unlikely nature of a slightly armed, poorly trained populace resisting a modern military... Chechnya? Bosnia? Uh... Iraq?

qualm, this does not lessen the facts, plain and simple, that Chavez, is a constitution-raping, empire-drunk, socialist cocksucker....and tonight's top story:Generalissimo Francisco Franco, is still dead-

"Rightfully irate??" Soft-cell the dictator, with thoughtful insights, like his using of political diversion in a forum, like a school kid would use taunts, when his ego was dealt a blow....yer a real piece a work......symptomology, of why America is fast becoming, the piece of shit that it is...

Who gives a fiddler's fuck, what the thug thinks? "Trow the bum out!!" His is the same curse of the resource-inebriant, that belongs to the same ilk of the current administration in the U.S., and sure as shit, the next!

Chavez was rightfully irate about Aznar's ties to the fascist Franco regime.

Actually you are mistaken, the Milan is a Franco-German design license-built to BAE Systems, Spain and India.

And I believe the FGM-148 Javelin is far superior due to it's fire-and-forget missile configuration with lock-on before launch and automatic self-guidance capability.

Jean-Luc Godard (born 3 December 1930 in Paris) is a French filmmaker and one of the most influential members of the Nouvelle Vague, or "French New Wave".

Born in Paris to Franco-Swiss parents, he was educated in Nyon, later studying at the Lycée Rohmer, and the Sorbonne in Paris. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and theorists that gave birth to the New Wave.

Known for stylistic implementations that challenged, at their focus, the conventions of Hollywood cinema, he became universally recognized as the most audacious and most radical of the New Wave filmmakers. He adopted a position in filmmaking that was unambiguously political. His work reflected a fervent knowledge of film history, a comprehensive understanding of existential and Marxist philosophy, and a scholarly disposition that placed him as the lone filmmaker among the public intellectuals of the Rive Gauche.

- Wikipedia

Miguel Bosé is one of the most influential artists in Spain, helping define the period of La Movida after Franco's death.

Ójala Ojalá is an incredible mixture of English, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, and Arabic lyrics.

I especially liked the imagery of the video, inspired by Communist Party posters.

thanks for your comment. i had a little time but first hesitated to write such a long answer. glad that at least one read it and found it informative. you don't have to apologise of course especially not for your fellow citizens our your school system. if they teach you, the swiss are/were neutral, thats not wrong. the question only is: what is "neutral". our neutrality is basically a military one. that means: not taking part in any conflict. not selling weapons to any side. maintaining diplomatic relations with both parties. not let any party use our territory and/or airspace. that's how it has been more or less since the middle ages. but this says nothing about what the people (or the government) think. in 1848 democratic revolutions took place in germany - they failed. the leader of this movements came to switzerland and got a hearty welcome. that caused big tension with the german monarchies (especially prussia) who demanded immediate extradition - that was not granted. again, in 1871 the swiss mainly supported the more democratic french in the franco-prussian war. same procedure in 1914 (france then being the only real democracy in europe beside switzerland) and in 1939. so, the swiss were always far from being "neutral" in the sense of "i don't care". but as a country, we officialy were and still are.
today, we have problems defining our neutrality. regarding the israel-lebanon war, one of our federal councillors (a member of the 7-member collective government) said, that, if international laws are broken and crimes against humanity are commited, the one who remains silent is not neutral, but is actively taking part by approving what happens. now the discussion is in, if this is a new definition of our neutrality or not. some say, even an expression like that from a member of the government would be against neutrality... i'm really looking forward to the process of this discussion and if ever a final decision will be made, it will probably become manifest in a referendum. what not necessarily simplifies complicated things....

now it's my turn to apologize to you all for using the comment function for derisory long answers...