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On Sun, 18 May 2008 18:33:45 GMT
catchme <someone@somewhere.net> wrote:

> Wolf 253 wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 May 2008 01:55:22 GMT
> > catchme <someone@somewhere.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Bucky Breeder wrote:
> >>
> >>> DUHane, he so ghay... Has to have Canadian
> >>> heritage in the woodpile somewheres.  Prolly,
> >>> his mommie was a hooker in the moose fields,
> >>> lettin' them fur-farmers tap that beaver, for
> >>> pesos, or whatever Canadians use for money,
> >>> oh-oh-oh : strings of shells I'm being told.
> >>>
> >>
> >> unlike pesos, or even the USD, the Canadian dollar has value.
> >> the us government has gone on a 20 year spending spree (From Reagan to 
> >> Bush) and finally have to answer for it.
> >>
> > Thats why Albertans drive down here to shop all the time :)
> > 
> > --
> > http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/17/kempthorne-beck/
> 
> same reason americans go to mexico to do their shopping- taking 
> advantage of the prices bound to a weaker dollar.
> gas is cheaper in the us after exchange, and us folks in vancouver love 
> to go to bellingham to shop at bellis fair.
> It became a ghost town around '96 when your dollar was much higher, but 
> we're back again- in bigger numbers than ever.
> dont hate us though- we're actually strengthening your economy (despite 
> the new regulation imposed on us getting passports to cross the border- 
> it used to be that we could cycle across without even an id card, and 
> the us border guards were much friendlier!)
> 
I know. The canucks what shop here say the crossing guards are all paranoid and theres even a guard at roos crossing up near glacier full time now.

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RU ON TEH LITZ?
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/20/main-core/


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