On the site I have a category called Mocking and a subcategory from that called Canada. Why? Because it’s there.

I live in one of the few areas of the United States ever invaded by a foreign power. I can stand on the shore of Lake Ontario, turn my gaze north towards Toronto, raise my fist and shout “Damn you, ya limey bastards! We’ll get you for that!” Two hundred years isn’t too long to carry a grudge.

Many of us locals are getting our revenge, however. We get on the bus or drive on over to Casino Niagara and leave our devalued dollars in their Canadian slot machines. Take that, you hosers, take our devalued dollars! The joke’s on you…

Now, I have written glowingly about the actions of the Canadian military in Afghanistan. They’re punching above their weight class and probably rank second to us in the number of Taliban sent to Allah.

Maybe the Brits are in there, but they seem to have this policy of “We won’t shoot at you and you only shoot at us a little”.

Now, French Canada, well, I have fond memories.

In the early 1970′s a Catholic girls high school in Quebec used to send a bunch of its students down to my college to interact with the French Club and those of us taking French. Us being a bunch of horny American young men.

I’m not sure if any of those girls followed the Montreal Expos or not. I can say that reaching second base with them was as easy as it was with the Expos.

Perhaps it was all a plot to corrupt us. French Canadian boobage.

Did I mention that Canada invaded us? Just checking.

I know, I know. I promised to stop mocking Canada because they were doing so well for themselves. This time, however, they have it coming.

The ruling party in the Canadian Parliment has lost a vote of “no confidence” and there will be new elections for the lower house in January. Why did this happen? Were I a Canadian I could not legally tell you.

There has been an on-going investigation of corruption within the ruling party for some time. The judge in the matter, as is allowed under Canadian law, has kept nearly the entire investigation, testimony, etc. secret. The Canadian press as well as individual Canadians are forbidden from publishing or broadcasting this material.

But, dammit, we’re Americans! If it’s not specificly forbidden, it’s allowed. Even then, we have a stiff middle finger for authority. Ed Morrissey at Captain’s Quarters began publishing the truth and the testimony in this scandal at the beginning and has been the lead for coverage ever since. He has been America’s stiff middle finger to authority.

However, if you’re Canadian and not a blog reader, you’re kinda in the dark about what’s going on. In fact, you could be clueless about why the government is changing. Imagine holding an election where you cannot talk about the number one issue in detail. Like, John Kerry spent Christmas someplace or George Bush was given a preference in something sometime.

Name calling is allowed, I suppose. Calling a person or a party crooked. Maybe even some of the facts that are public. But still, this will be a very odd election, with all the meat buried and only the gravy available.

We had snow today in Rochester, the first real snow of the season. Not enough to accumulate, but it may overnight.

I still remain disgusted and dismayed about the actions of the Senate Republican leadership. What’s worse, they don’t seem to realize that they’re trampling all over their base.

My appendix seems to be cranky again. I cannot afford to take the time nor spend the money until January so I’m going to “gut” it out until then. Then, there’s my teeth. Don’t get me started. I didn’t have the money to finish the sedation dentistry I started a couple of years ago and now I realize that perhaps, just perhaps, I should have.

Everything’s broken or unused. Sad but true.

Everyone is opining about this OSM thing. I wasn’t recruited [yet another instance of being overlooked, but am I bitter?]. It sounds like a good concept, but would seem to be very edit intensive for someone(s). Putting the thing together timely and without error is going to drive the folks involved at that end to distraction.

I’m still fixing the blog. Got in with Feedburner and Technorati to drive some visitors by the old homestead. Still repairing links, and old posts. The comments from the Blogger side are gone. I’m deleting the occasional post, as well, that was fairly meaningless even at the time it was originally written.

This blog is like the four and a half million dollar man. A bit stronger, faster, and just a little cross-eyed.

Ralph Edwards dies. OK, so after the first year, did anyone, anyone, really get surprised when they got a call to come down to his show?

You know, I am going to write a book. Lulu is a very interesting concept, and inexpensive as things go in life. Maybe I’ll put together a Best of the Blog. Though the posts I like the best, probably no one else does.

Come on, the waiting room for hell as a jury pool. That has to be funny! And, I thought Christmas in Cambodia was funny. It has the wrong Pope, but Vatican Rips Lateran Treaty has a certain something. It continues to generate searches finding my blog looking for the Maltese Air Force, the Maltese Falcons. And, it goes without saying that You Cannot Humiliate French Soldiers. Then there’s Canada: where life is not so miserable. Maybe I gotta book there.

I stopped picking on Canada a while ago. It was like shooting fish in a barrel. This story, however, calls for my attention. It’s about Americans, leftists all, moving to Canada to escape the oppression and Christianity.

Independent News & Media (UK) Ltd.

Most Americans who have already made the move to Canada – and there are up to one million now living there – appear to have only good things to say about their new home. The internet blogger Inspector Lohmann dedicates much of his website to details of his emigration from San Francisco to Toronto, a move he made last year. The inspector, who prefers to use his blog name, works in the film industry.

Lohmann, from New England, has no regrets. In one blog entry, he wrote: “When I crossed the border into Canada to begin a new life in a new country, I felt a tremendous weight lift from me. I felt free in a way I had never felt before. And I never looked back. I have not felt a single pang of regret, nor do I ever expect to. When I visit America now, I feel like a visitor in some alien land, and it’s a great feeling.”

Asked to sum up what is best about his new home, he says: “The best things about the move: leaving Murka [the US], loving Canada, loving Toronto, loving the change of seasons. No matter how bad my day is, I think to myself, ‘I’m in Canada!’ and suddenly I’m not so miserable anymore.”

Canada could put that on their license plates:

Canada-where life is not so miserable

It has a ring to it, kinda like “Live free or die” or “Virginia is for lovers” only less inspirational.

The following people have not paid me to blog:

• Paris Hilton
• Helen “The Harriden” Thomas
• Robert “Klucker” Byrd D-KKK
• Canada
• France
• Howard Dean
• John Dean
• Jimmy Dean

In fact, I tried to sign up for BlogAds and they ignored me. Nobody wants to buy me.