Canadian bacon

So yesterday, Chris took the Ultimate Canadian Test and this was his result:

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Very Canadian
You scored 90 Canada speak and 93 Canadianess!
Nicely done! You could be one of us. You probably know someone who owns a Ski-Doo up at their cottage.



My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 71% on Canada speak
You scored higher than 99% on Canadianess
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I had scored 100 on Canada speak and 86 Canadianess when I did it, and received a lovely Mountie for my reward. And when I made fun of Chris, that I scored higher on Canada speak than him despite being Muggleforeign-born, Chris was pretty blase. "I am the poutine to your Mountie. You should eat me!"

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OK, thanks to linaelyn and sugarkane_59, I now know that the flag I asked about yesterday was an Air Force flag. Does anybody know what this is?



Chris claims that it's the flag for Americans thinking of defecting North. I remain unconvinced ;)

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On that happy note, we're heading downtown for the festivities.

Ugh. How depressing.

G8 moving 'further apart' on climate change

More depressing is the fact that there's absolutely nothing surprising in any of this.

People Gotta Move

So, Sandra Day O'Connor is retiring, and I think I'm going to cry.

But while reading about her retirement, I came across a nifty page that pleases me as both a history- and a law-geek.

How many of these Ten Landmark U.S.S.C. decisions do you regognize? Do you know the issue involved? The year it was decided? The decision? The story behind the case? The effect of the case?

Dred Scott v. Sanford
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Pollock v. Farmer's Loan and Trust Co. II
Plessy v. Ferguson
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
U.S. v. Carolene Products
Brown v. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade
Grutter v. Bollinger
Lawrence v. Texas

Check your answers! Ten Landmark Decisions Website

FWIW, I only got 5 of them, and wasn't terribly clear on the years or all the issues involved.