Today on The Current

[james_davis_nicoll]

Diane Francis argues that it would be best for Canada to abandon our health care system, to adopt a native relations system even more brutal than the one we have, and embrace a sky-rocketing Gini Coefficient while inextricably tying ourselves to an unstable nation forever flirting with government shut-down and default.

On balance, I am against this. Their crazification factor outnumbers Canada more than two to one.

She also advocates policies known have contributed to gendercide in China.

Comments

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Well, it has been nearly 200 years since the White House had its last touch-up...

-- Steve couldn't let this discussion go by without the obligatory "Canadian mentions the burning of Washington" comment.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the White House got a major make-over in the late 1940s and early 1950s when it was found to be largely structurally unsound.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Except I think there was a controversial addition made to the White House that turned out to be pretty much the only part not falling down.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Was that the reno that installed a swimming pool? (Which is now tiled over; I think it's the press gallery now.)

-- Steve remembers seeing the pool (or a set like it) in "Seven Days in May".

[bedii.livejournal.com]

Truman ordered a thorough survey during a dinner at the White House when he saw one of the rooms sway. They found out the East Room was held up by goodwill and a couple dozen of extremely rusty nails. During the renovation he ordered that a porch that had been on the original plans but not built be added: the Republicans went nuts and kept pushing the line that Truman wanted it to play the piano on, which is why when the renovation was finished he only visited it once or twice.