Journal Interrobang's Journal: We're Taking Over the World! 6
From The Toronto Star, March 8, 2006:
Troops to get java fix, Timbits
Tim Hortons to open in Kandahar
HAMILTON--Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are getting their wish -- Tim Hortons will be serving double-doubles and doughnuts soon enough.
This just goes to show at least one thing -- wherever there are sufficient numbers of Canadians, Tim Hortonses are inevitable.
On a more serious note, however, I'd just like to ask: Instead of bringing Tim Horton's to our "army guys"* in Afghanistan, why don't we just bring our army guys to Tim Hortons, here, at home where they belong? What, exactly and precisely, are we as a nation supposed to be doing over there with our military, anyhow? Obviously we're neither apprehending terrorists (a job better left to Interpol anyhow, I should think), keeping peace, nor rebuilding the country in any meaningful way (a task which should probably be left to various UN, governmental, and non-governmental organisations, by dint of training, experience, and skill). Pointless war-fighting largely at the behest of foreign powers is not, and should not be, part of the Canadian military mandate.
No thanks, of course, to the Stephen Fucking Harper government, which would like to see this go on for a long, long time, the psychopaths.
* This is a well-known and ubiquitous piece of Canadian slang.
Troops to get java fix, Timbits
Tim Hortons to open in Kandahar
HAMILTON--Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan are getting their wish -- Tim Hortons will be serving double-doubles and doughnuts soon enough.
This just goes to show at least one thing -- wherever there are sufficient numbers of Canadians, Tim Hortonses are inevitable.
On a more serious note, however, I'd just like to ask: Instead of bringing Tim Horton's to our "army guys"* in Afghanistan, why don't we just bring our army guys to Tim Hortons, here, at home where they belong? What, exactly and precisely, are we as a nation supposed to be doing over there with our military, anyhow? Obviously we're neither apprehending terrorists (a job better left to Interpol anyhow, I should think), keeping peace, nor rebuilding the country in any meaningful way (a task which should probably be left to various UN, governmental, and non-governmental organisations, by dint of training, experience, and skill). Pointless war-fighting largely at the behest of foreign powers is not, and should not be, part of the Canadian military mandate.
No thanks, of course, to the Stephen Fucking Harper government, which would like to see this go on for a long, long time, the psychopaths.
* This is a well-known and ubiquitous piece of Canadian slang.
Blenz Timmies *$ (Score:2)
There is no reason to mention a certain seattle company.
Re:Blenz Timmies *$ (Score:2)
Airport Codes are Fun!! (Score:2)
Re:Airport Codes are Fun!! (Score:1)
well, being a yank, yr damn right its Yankouver when I'm there!
As for "Teh" Blenz- its a coffee shop. [blenz.com] Obviously. (*The trailing 'z' is their idea, not mine) They seem to have saturated YVR, with an outpost at Whistler (making me think they were bigger than they are). And Japan. And UAE.
And of course there's a Timmies where we stay. Which brought up the issue of which is better.
And I feel confident in explaining Tim Hortons to other 'mericans as "its like a Dunkin Donuts; sol
Aren't we? (Score:1)
The thing about Iraq is that the war there was lost the minute it was declared. Iraq was a stable, secular state with minimal on-going oppression. The atrocities happenned in the 80s, then bloomed briefly after 1991 because of an ill-timed US-sponsored uprising. The rational thing would have been to lift sanctions and to let Saddam rearm, thus ensuring peace and a long-term detente with Iran. Now, thanks to the war, we are looking at the formation of one o
Re:Aren't we? (Score:2)
I would not characterise the Iraq oppression as "minimal." The opression was probably lower in Iraq then the rest of the Arabian peninsula. It was possibly comparable to Isreal. I don't know what the correct solution was, but qinvaison was the very wrong answer. The Iraq war was lo