Blame Canada!

Take that! You smug canadians. Prime Minister Jean Cretian, on vacation in Montreal, doesn't see the need to interrupt golfing to reassure his people that folks are working hard to get things back on track. Looting reported in Ottawa and Toronto. Canadian government spokespeoples are not on the same page, one blaming a power plant in New York, one blaming a power plant in Pennsylvania.

Y'know, I once heard that after the Civil War, the United States had the largest standing army on the planet. Lincoln was massing troops in Michigan, contemplating an invasion that would probably be over in a few weeks. At that time, Canada was British, and roughly fifty years earlier we had been at war with them. U.S.-British relations had improved since then, but we still didn't quite like or trust the Great Frozen Giant on America's Doorstep.

Would there be international outcry if we just annexed them, using this disruption to the power grid as an excuse?

Eh. Pay no attention to me. I'm just seeking to avoid crossing the border with all my whips and floggers on my way from the softball tournement in Montreal to Inferno in Michigan in a few weeks.

But still...

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