I thought this was fascinating…

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From a recent news article…

Look, this isn’t the 15th century. You can’t go around the world and just plant flags and say ‘We’re claiming this territory.’
Canadian Foreign Minister Peter MacKay, dismissing any threat to Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic after Russia planted a flag on the seabed beneath the North Pole.

The whole article is here!

7 thoughts on “I thought this was fascinating…”

  1. Reminds me of a “Kids in the Hall” Comedy Sketch
    A narrator demonstrates how to write a great comedy sketch. They have a guy sleeping in bed. And a Conquistador comes out and stabs a flag in the guys chest saying, “I claim this stomach for Spain.” Then the narrator of the sketch says, “Now what is needed to make the sketch really funny is a conflict.” At this point a French Sailor comes out and stabs a second flag in the guys chest and says, “I claim this stomach for France.”
    Ten bucks says this Russian flag things leads to a war. And if it does, my money is on Quebec.

    • Re: Reminds me of a “Kids in the Hall” Comedy Sketch
      I loved KIDS IN THE HALL!
      Canada’s always considered so…nice. It’d be neat to see them kick someone’s ass! 🙂

  2. Well, if Russia is going to go all Atlantis on Canadas’ ass, who’s to stop them??? Someone needs to jump up and slap The Maple Menace back into reality once in awhile, if for no reason other than being so polite, and keeping the country so damn clean…
    Maybe Canada can build one of those machines like Hillary Swank drove in the movie ‘The Core’ and go down into the earths crust below the magma and plant a flag. Theres a big ‘IN YOUR FACE, RUSSIA!’ Hey, they could even get Hillary Swank to drive it, since she was trained for the movie!!!
    Dom

    • See – I’m a fan of your second point. I’d love to see Canada get all techno on Russia, and turn it all around! In a surprise move, they could not only kick Russia out of the Antarctic, they could grab a big chunk of Russia for themselves!! Now that would shake things up a bit! 🙂 (Especially if they got Hilary Swank to help!)

      • Russian-Canadian War
        When Russia and Canada go to war, I’m moving to the Carribbean. It’s going to be a messy affair, and with the involvement of Hilary Swank I anticipate a complete global corruption.
        Spaniards will be rushing over the border of Portugal, peeing on a tree and yelling, “Vive Espana!”
        South Africans will finally go public that they’re tired of being the bottom of the continent, and they’ll begin forging northward, planting flags and sacrificing chickens in their wake.
        North Dakota will most likely overtake it’s weaker, less popular brother South Dakota in an ugly swirly-fest, thus creating one large Dakota, and screwing up our flags AGAIN.
        It’s gonna get ugly. I’m going to Aruba. Nobody bothers Aruba, it’s too small for anyone to care about.

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