15% of Canadians for Bush

[Michael Z]

I don't think the US would cease to be an independent country if you allowed Canada to join...

Nor do we cease to be independent by NOT allowing the Canadians to join.

No...but how is that relevant? That nothing changes if you change nothing is kind of obvious.

Well, Canada joining would mean that the US is no longer independent of Canada.

Why do you have a problem with American independence?  Does it offend you that we do not choose to give up our sovereignty to other country?  Does the world find the US's Declaration of Independence offensive?

Yes. You must develop a British accent and stop brushing your teeth. Immediately.

[Michael Z]

Hughento. Public healthcare is not too expensive. In Finland we have enough money for it. Why you would not have?

Actually that is a mystery to most Brits. If a backwater like England can afford free healthcare for all, why can't the richest country in the world?

[Michael Z]

Yes. You must develop a British accent and stop brushing your teeth. Immediately.....Actually that is a mystery to most Brits. If a backwater like England...

Funny how you can get away making such comments with being labeled as xenophobic.  

Huh? I'm a British citizen. How can having an ironic dig at your own country be regarded as xenophobic?

[Michael Z]

Congress and the Muslim League polled roughly equal among Muslims in the forties. The very idea of India's Muslims being a separate nation wasn't aired (by a Muslim, not by some Hindu nationalist) until 1930. That fad would have waned away, I'm quite sure of that. And there was a civil war in 1947. Hundreds of thousands of people died, 6 Million became refugees.

I maintain that a union most likely would not have worked, too much hatred for that. The radicalization of Islam would not have helped either.

Unfortunately Hinduism also appears to be going through a process of radicalisation at present. In essence, India currently has a semi-fundamentalist government under the BJP.