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Why "Loonie"? Chuck123 05/10/2026 11:52 AM
When the Canadian government decided to discontinue printing the $1 bill to save money among other reasons, the feeling of Canadians was that the world would stop rotating and everyone would fall off. When the dies for the new coin were sent to the Royal Mint in Winnipeg, Manitoba they used FedEx. FedEx lost track of the shipment for 3 weeks. Since the design was compromised they hurriedly created a new design.

The new design had a [Canadian] Loon on one side. As a derogatory remark Canadians called it "Loonie". (The term Christian was originally an insult!)
The press was so good that the government was smart enough to go with the flow.

So the LOONIE was born. When the $2 bill was replaced with a coin the nickname was obvious. TOONIE .

You just can't make this up.

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Ten Commandments scene? Fahrenheit451 05/09/2026 12:58 PM
Just like that scene from the Ten Commandments movie. Worshiping a false idol. Look at this...A bunch of pastors have erected a Gold Statue of Trump on his golf course. What a sickening display.




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Re: US Aid to Israel Fahrenheit451 05/09/2026 02:28 AM
Look what Trump and his kids just did....



On June 16th, 2025 Trump announced a new "Trump Phone" available for preorder.

$100 preorder towards a $500 phone.

To date, he's received 590,000+ preorders, taking in an estimated $59 million in sales.

Last month in April, Trump updated the Preorder terms stating there is "No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold".

This is beyond grifting.

And the Trump phone (which will never happen), is the perfect representation of the Trump Presidency:

A bait & switch scam.

He stole their money and told them to cry more.
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Canola Oil Chuck123 05/03/2026 11:18 AM
Canola Oil is actually an oil crushed from the [laboratory][selected breeding] product of the Rape Seed.

It was not marketed as RAPE SEED OIL due to the strong suspicion that folks with religiously feeble minds would oppose the product.
The plant was developed by the University of Manitoba.

The Prime Minister of Canada at the time John G Diefenbaker. He was from the prairies and was pissed as rape seed was perfectly good name.

"We do not need Canada!" DJ Trump" The fact is that the US uses Canola, products that used it were labelled as such, and the fact that is was Canadian was NEVER hidden.

"Dief the Chief" was BSed by Eisenhower to cancel the CF-105 Avro Arrow. It was designed to fly at Mach 2.8.
It actually flew at Mach 2.4 in 1958 with a smaller engine sourced form the US.
It was cancelled in February 1959. (The Orenda designed Iroquois engine was still under development.)

The reason was that the CF-105 could over fly the U-2 Spy plane. It had a higher ceiling.

Since the US does not need Canada, they have started selling to other countries.

This means that when is US wants to buy stuff Canada will give the "Ole Mother Hubbard" excuse. [Ain't got none!]

Canada is Mean and Nasty. Canada is unfair. Canada has been leeching on the US. Roger that!

The fact is that is US will not need as much cooking oil, without Canadian fertilizer US farm yields will crater.

Note: The Avro engineers now unemployed were scooped up by NASA
The US got the moon with the expertise of Canadian and British engineers.


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Trump just made a quick $300 Million. Fahrenheit451 05/03/2026 04:29 AM
Remember how Trump said that "Big beautiful new ballroom would be paid by private donors and not taxpayers"

Well Lindsay Graham is going to make sure that Congress enacts a bill that allows for $400 million to pay for it. (Ie: the taxpayers foot the bill)

Trump WILL just pocket the $300 million his foundation took on donations so far.

Enjoy you golden ballroom Chuck. Too bad you won't be allowed entry. The ballroom will only be for your political masters and overlords.

This man is just tired of Donald Trump


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Re: Stop Complaining Chuck123 04/30/2026 06:59 PM
The brilliant minds in Washington seem to think that if US liquor is put back on the shelves that Canadians will buy it.

The US has pissed off almost all Canadians, the assumption lacks merit.


For the financial experts: If you were a retailer would devote shelve space to products that will not sell?


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Re: Sadomasochism in History HerLabRat 04/27/2026 03:35 PM
I'm new here and have been reading through the posts. What you're referring to is the Roman triumph. Wikipedia has an article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_triumph. Unfortunately for the conquered people of Roman military campaigns, their leader would be executed after this event on most occasions. Where the enslaved ended up depended on what skills they brought with them. Highly educated slaves and skilled artisans would lead much better lives than most people who were enslaved, who often ended up in work gangs on farms and in Roman mines where they probably wouldn't live very long lives.
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Re: Trumo Was Right chuck 04/13/2026 12:58 AM
Originally Posted by Fahrenheit451
Who is "Trumo"
That's Trump where part of him went left one notch.
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