Biggest "WTF?" of the morning:

Hope I never do again...

but bigots never cease to amaze me with their creativity

Are they putting the U in down there in TX as well? (Honour, colour, favour...?)

Something stinks here.

If you are "quoting" a document, you don't change the spelling.

Hence, I look askance.

In January of 2004 hubby and I went to Florida to see family who live there. We drove down with a camper and stayed in several campgrounds. We saw lots of Canadian license plates and learned that Canadians come down for the good weather and go back north in the Spring. Perhaps something is developing. It doesn't make sense to me. But maybe our South is more conservative and the Canadians are more liberal.

besides, can Canadians sit on juries in the US?

some people think they are getting away with their little secret 'code word'. It disparages those it was intended for and a nation of people. Congrats to web sites like this that address it. That post-trial story is a little gift to humanity - we gained knowledge.

some kind of a slur. Can someone enlighten us poor ignorant Northerners?

when his aides finally persuaded him that the n-word wasn't publicly acceptable anymore. So he'd talk about the number of "Freds" on a committee, a bill "a Fred" had proposed or giving a project to "that Fred."

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Get thee back to the Great White North

They figured out that they needed to use another word.

...fuck you elitist socialists and your commie health care system and your nanny society liberal ideas and your pissy little military that won't help us in the glorious fight in against terror.

We're coming to get your oil and your water and there isn't a damn thing you can do about.

I may be overstating, but that's what I read into the use of "Canadian" as a slur. The USA! USA! yellow-ribbon-on-the-giant-diesel-pickup-truck crowd is particularly pissed off at how the tide's starting to shift in the US toward some kind of universal access health care system. Since it's not going to be single-payer like Canada's, you can bet it'll suck accordingly. But still, anything the GOP calls "socialist" is to be resisted by any means available.

They hate paying other people's medical bills for them (which is what they think is going to happen), they hate big gummint and they actually believed it when some manipulative industry stooge told them that any move away from for-profit medicine would kill their right to choose their doctor, and blah blah blah... Not that these pricks are usually very big on the right to choose, but...

It's the price we pay for living in a country that not only contains so many idiots, but actually celebrates anti-intellectualism as a real American value.

You know; this place:





wp

Steal Canada's natural resources because the U.S. OWNS the world. I've even seen people here on DU support this evil disgusting plan! :puke:

I am really worried about Canada being able to survive. :(

But YOU DID refer to the jurors as "Canadians," Trent--WHY??? More to the point, if you meant to write something OTHER than Canadians, WHAT WAS IT? Conservatives? Confectioners? Catholics? Columbians?

:crazy:
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These days.

Never knew "Canadian" was used in a derogatory way like this, but I guess bigots will always find some word to communicate their feelings. So what they use when they really do mean "Canadian"?

Appears this email is actually from 2003, and is resurfacing as an issue now. More on this story from the Houston Chronicle:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/falkenberg/5480917.html

Does Trent think WE'RE crazy? Does he think WE'RE insanely stupid enough to believe that HE believed that 1) there actually WERE Canadians on the jury and 2) that he'd use language without actually knowing that he was talking about? You're LAYWER, Trent--an anal-retentive, fact-spinning, detail-crazy, word-parsing LAWYER! Most important, if you believe that Canadians can serve on U.S. juries, should you even BE a laywer? And you accuse US of being absurd!!!

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