BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!

Subject: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:07 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Oh, Canada! The USA is closer than ever. The Bush administration appears to have annexed a major Canadian landmark as part of a slick new campaign to promote U.S. tourism and welcome foreign visitors to America.

A Disney-produced promotional video released last week by the departments of State and Homeland Security highlights majestic American landscapes, from New England's colorful fall foliage and the Grand Canyon to the Rocky Mountains and Hawaii's pounding surf.

Backed by a soaring orchestral soundtrack, shots of those attractions are interspersed with the smiling images of people of all creeds and colors. The video, "Welcome: Portraits of America," is to be played at select airports in the United States - starting at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston - and at U.S. embassies abroad.

About four minutes into the seven-minute production, viewers are treated to the impressive sight and sound of water roaring over Niagara Falls before the screen shifts to the Lincoln Memorial.

In showing the natural wonder, Disney's filmmakers, however, chose the Horseshoe Falls, the only one of Niagara's three waterfalls to lie almost entirely on the Canadian side of the border separating western New York state from southern Ontario province.

Making matters worse, a visitor to the U.S. would not even be able to get the same view of the falls in the video because the scene was shot from a vantage point in Canada, according to Paul Gromosiak, a Niagara Falls, N.Y., historian and author.

Also, he said the video leaves out the two cascades that actually are on U.S. territory, the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls.

"This is not the United States, this is 100 percent Canada, shot from the Canadian side," Gromosiak said after reviewing the video at the request of The Associated Press. "This is an insult."

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: gnu
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:19 PM

The grass always looks greener on the other side of the falls.

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:27 PM

Major General Isaac Brock died for nothing I suppose.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:37 PM

Disney has never been known for letting a little reality get in the way of a good story.

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:38 PM

We also want Alberta, and that little steamer place in Montreal.

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:39 PM

Actually it's the casino that they have their sights on ... or maybe Tussaud's Wax Museam.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Ebbie
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 12:43 PM

Ha! They do say, Portraits of America,"

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Peace
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:04 PM

Will thousands of marriages have to be annulled? Stay tuned . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Peace
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:04 PM

Will this confuse Homeland Security?

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Peace
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:09 PM

Does HS need help getting confused?

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:34 PM

Maybe the camera was pointed toward the USA?

Y'know if it wasn't for the United States of America where would Canada be right now? I'll tell you where. Just north of Mexico. Have you considered that?

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Peace
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:40 PM

He's got a point. And if Canada wasn't here then the USA would be right next to the USA AND the old USSR.

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 02:46 PM

Right - and those melting polar icecaps would be draining right into Lake Superior. Duluth would be underwater!

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Peace
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 03:00 PM

"US Claims Canadian Falls!!"


Here's the proof. (It would be good enough for CNN or FOX news.)


However, it DOES seem Much Ado About Nothing, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: gnu
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 03:18 PM

Not fer nuthin, sIx.

Rap... ya can't have Alberta unless ya take Saskatchewan too, pretty please?... and Manatoba. Manitoba... that'll fix yer little red wagon. They only got but two seasons... flies and snow. Why do you think Manitoba produces so many great musicians and entertainers and such? On accounta they can't go outside so they gotta entertain theirselves.

As fer yer Montréal request, was that thar a typo? Did you mean "steamier" place, as in Club Super-Sexe? Goggle that. I mean, google that. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: artbrooks
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 04:26 PM

Can I annex the Empress Hotel?

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 06:38 PM

American = North America-- North America is not just the USA, of course. There's his "out."

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Beer
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 07:13 PM

I bet Ann Coulter would agree that there was no mistake and it belongs to the U.S.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Gorgeous Gary
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 08:56 PM

Where's Laura Ingersoll Secord when you need her? ;-)

-- Gary

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Azizi
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 09:12 PM

Is someone claiming that we pushed a Canadian and made him or her fall down?

Which Canadian fell down? Unless someone saw us do it, we can always claim that that Canadian fell cause he or she slipped on some wet spot since, contrary to popular opinion, Canada isn't dry.

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 08:45 AM

Of course it isn't dry. When I was up there in August I did my best to drink Canada dry but its a long, long road for just one person.

Subject: RE: BS: US Claims Canadian Falls!!
From: Mr Red
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 08:50 AM

let's hope no-one Falls for it.

Who owns the cauldron?