From: blue.note@chicago.com   
      
   Tom ...   
      
   A Canadian appreciates your sentiments ... but the stuff about cold weather   
   is a symptom of the American media's tendency to stereotype other nations.   
      
   For example, I once had an American lawyer from Detroit suggest that it was   
   too cold to live in Toronto; I've heard a similar remark from a traveller   
   from Minneapolis.   
      
   You seem to believe we're in a perpetual state of winter.  Not true.   
      
      
   "Tom Luffman"  wrote in message   
   news:FLSdnWgWXt3ZuXzd4p2dnA@wideopenwest.com...   
   > No shit.   
   >   
   > And to be honest- I love my country but I have been in conversations in   
   the   
   > last year or two with many people that are Americans that are jealous of   
   our   
   > neighbors to the north.  Less crime, health care, and just seems like a   
   more   
   > civilized society in general- but alas...  almost to a person we all hate   
   > cold weather...  Hell of a reason to listen to gun shots every night like   
   I   
   > do here in the ghetto of Columbus, Ohio yet myself and my friends do it...   
   >   
   > Tom 'The American' Luffman   
   >   
   > "Rob"  wrote in message   
   > news:8TGxc.252$5bq.84@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com...   
   > > The Fraser Institute in British Columbia, Canada has come out in favour   
   of   
   > > marijuana legalization ... (not decriminalization, but outright   
   > > legalization.)   
   > >   
   > > They estimate $2 billion in tax revenues in a nation of just more than   
   30   
   > > million people ...   
   > >   
   > > Obviously increase that by a factor of 10 to 15 in the US ... it would   
   > take   
   > > a nice chunk of your ballooning deficits.   
   > >   
   > > Now if only the Americans would turf out their fundamentalist   
   politicians,   
   > > maybe they'd abandon their stupid and unwinnable drug war.   
   > >   
   > > Seems the land of the free and the home of the brave could use a little   
   > > resolve on this basic freedom-of-choice issue ...   
   > >   
   > >   
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