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1st gen Irish (Donegal/Sligo) academic in Canada. Author of obscure academic books and slightly less obscure OERs on Roman culture. Translator of, and far too fond of Cicero. She/her nó sí/í
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I never see him get like this but that I think of how he must have been in his three seconds as a teacher.
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If they were serious about this they'd start with a program describing whatever war would turn Canada into a state and not with the fait accompli.
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This one is just out of the park weird though. Who is this even for except Trump and his cohort?
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They did indeed. But given that it's a cobroadcast with NPR, I doubt it will be just that.
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You can see the back end in Google Earth, they have a checkbox for subnational parks. I guess the use case is Americans travelling in Canada would use their own nomenclature. In any event, they list state parks as provincial parks too.
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I might also lead with the projected casualty count of the war that would bring this all about.
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On reflection, I think my favourite thing about his post is the assurance that they'll put the same care into it as they would into any other program. I feel like if I were a national broadcaster, I'd probably put a bit more care into a program on an existentialism threat to my state than usual.
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There's not reading the room, and there is whatever playful horror of a show this is.
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This would be like Ireland being threatened by England and RTE deciding the response should be a 2 hour show going around asking people about whether they'd enjoy seeing the royal family on the money again.
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I imagine that's because you sort of hopped right over any talk of invasion and conquest to imagine the aftermath in an amazingly breezy announcement about thinking about Canada as a US state.
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If that's young FG I'd hate to see those they consider old.
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This would suggest a level of cleverness and cunning that I have not yet seen in such columnists, alas.
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Luckily they print their opinions about everything in every edition.
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His reasons for leniency are just the grossest and most offensive out there.
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I just think it's the misogyny we're all sitting in. Depressingly.
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He was mature enough to carefully set it up and carry it through. He meticulously planned a rape and got 2 years.
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They're all good lads from good families that play GAA and would never do the thing that they have been found guilty of doing.
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Nolan. Which doesn't surprise me that much given the way he views sexual assault as not that serious a thing.
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If papers can't call rape of a 14 year old rape, it doesn't surprise me that he's still going strong. Sadly.
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Yes. Blithely ignored as usual by Nolan who treats rape and assault as some sort of minor trouble you got into by accident in an otherwise solid life.
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I am sure he took sexual assault very seriously all the time he was a Garda member.