I have a page-a-day calendar of stupid things George W. Bush has said. Yes, you could do many more than one a day. And yes, most of them are stupid enough that I could rant extensively about them. But doing so would do too much to disrupt my normal flow of analyzing TV shows. Nevertheless, I'm making an exception for today's quote, which is truly something special.
"One of the things that's interesting about the Stanley Cup is that the players -- each player gets to spend time with it. Must be pretty neat. The cup has traveled throughout North America and Europe. It's been to some famous sites. Ah, recently it was at the McDonalds drive-thru in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Must have been a pretty interesting moment for that burger flipper -- filler-up."
I think it's pretty telling of Bush's knowledge of other countries and (lack of) respect for history that he considers a McDonalds in Nova Scotia a famous site.
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Texans are unusually insular. As an expatriate Texan, I can write this with complete confidence.
Now, if the McDonalds in question had been the one in Richmond BC, he'd have had a point. That was the first Mickey D's to open outside the US. But Glasgow NS? Doesn't appear to have any significance.
"It became the major port and railroad hub for the coal mining towns that surrounded it in the nineteenth century." And they have a tartan festival.
Oh, well as long as they have a tartan festival, I can see the "specialness".
(Voted for "not him" in '04.)
The other night in the Daily Show, they showed Dubyah describing terr'rists as trained to "disassemble....(wierd moment of silence)....that means lie." Turns out that "dissemble" is a real word that does mean to lie (who knew?), how almost-sophisticated-and-not-at-all-obvious-about-it of our president. Now, I don't mean to start a Dubyah bashing thing here, but, you know.
Texans are unusally inarticulate, too.
Do Texans have anything going for them then?
Uh... a briefer winter... no state income tax... fancy paved highways and main roads everywhere... cheap land and cheap housing so long as they follow the sprawl, especially in Houston and Dallas. (I swear the "Dallas exurbs" will bleed into Louisiana and Oklahoma in ten years.) Sonic Drive-In, Whataburger, Chik-Fil-A, all kinds of Mono-American crap...
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