Normally I would agree with you, Heric, but there's another tale to be told here. My husband and I were in Hawaii recently, and on the bus to the airport, the driver asked where we were all from. When we said Canada, an American passenger turned around and snarled that Canada gets (same phrase) a free ride from the US military. Obviously this idea is spreading, probably because we didn't participate in the war in Iraq, which our own intelligence found wasn't justified.

The oil thing...yeah, Amergin, I know. We all know it.