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[Retro]

It's a never-ending chain of missed interpretation. So, very much in the spirit of the thread, eh?

I won't lie, I got a good laugh out of this.

[Vector]

The reason why dietary supplements need more regulation is that you can find health food books advocating giving arsenic and belladonna to your children for common colds and the flu.  Regulation should at least cut down on people doing things like that, which our scientists know to be harmful.

Though I agree with some of your argument, Thundercraft, the conclusion seems somewhat absurd and unrelated to the rest of your statements.

[Bauglir]

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[Jackrabbit]

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the crazy conspiracy theories and from having seen many superstates in my time.

[RedKing]

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the crazy conspiracy theories and from having seen many superstates in my time.

Bullshit. Look at the pixels.

[Bauglir]

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[RedKing]

This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the crazy conspiracy theories and from having seen many superstates in my time.

Bullshit. Look at the pixels.

If you look closely, the reflections are all wrong.

Actually, I preferred the Onion's version. Damn Mexadians.

[Servant Corps]

No, I'm not going to read the entire thread but...

I dismissed this thread as a mere repetition of the standard Russian propaganda of a incipent US civil war with the adoption of Amerco.

Then I read this. If the State is nothing more than an entity with a monopoly of force, then I cannot help but think that this IS a super-state in the works. Oh well. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

[RedKing]

No, I'm not going to read the entire thread but...

I dismissed this thread as a mere repetition of the standard Russian propaganda of a incipent US civil war with the adoption of Amerco.

Then I read this. If the State is nothing more than an entity with a monopoly of force, then I cannot help but think that this IS a super-state in the works. Oh well. A stopped clock is right twice a day.

The agreement is big on promises, although short of specifics. It said the two sides would work “together within, at, and away from the borders of our two countries” to toughen security and promote trade.

This could, for example, include creating a single border surveillance agency that transmits data on people entering the United States or Canada to both countries. It could mean joint pre-screening of cargo in European ports before it is sent to North America, or the ability to clear a container from abroad when it arrives in Halifax and send it to the United States without a border check there.

As well, a new agency called the United States-Canada Regulatory Co-operation Council (RCC), composed of officials from both countries, would seek to streamline regulations governing product safety and quality, making it easier to make goods in one country and sell them in the other.

After all, it's only a short skip, hop and inferential leap from "a council to streamline customs regulations between two nations" to "establishing the Maple Curtain". Or something. If this were of any note, the EU would have merged into a superstate 20 years ago. They've had customs unions for decades and the Schengen Agreement made internal borders in Europe mostly transparent starting 26 years ago.

[Tilla]

If one good thing comes of it, I am hoping they removed the requirement of a passport to visit the neighbouring country. I don't have one but I'd very much like to go down to Bellingham to shop sometime - even with the stronger Canadian dollar of recent years we're still getting dicked at retail.

[RedKing]

If one good thing comes of it, I am hoping they removed the requirement of a passport to visit the neighbouring country. I don't have one but I'd very much like to go down to Bellingham to shop sometime - even with the stronger Canadian dollar of recent years we're still getting dicked at retail.

You're just part of the Great Northern Conspiracy to devalue our currency by slipping Canadian quarters and pennies into the US money supply, aren't you??

(I shit you not, I've actually heard this mentioned as a conspiracy theory before)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

After all, it's only a short skip, hop and inferential leap from "a council to streamline customs regulations between two nations" to "establishing the Maple Curtain".

The delicious, delicious Maple Curtain. Soon, our great superstate-to-be shall encroach upon the pancakeless Mexicans to add them to our sugar-rich Union. (I have heard serious suggestions that a hypothetical U.S.-Canadian merger would have a flag like the current US one, except with 65 maple leaves instead of 50 stars. That would be...different, to say the least.)

[RedKing]

Three word for you:

Maple. Smothered. Churros.

After all, nothing is more Amerixicanadian than Mom/"Dad's same-sex companion" and maple-smothered churros. And futhockey.

[Nikov]

Just so you all know, even I don't think Obama would do something like the OP suggests.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Just so you all know, even I don't think Obama would do something like the OP suggests.

The Collective has noted and will factor your good intentions in ascending order. Have a nice day, citizen.