The Canadianization of America!

Maybe you hadn't noticed it yet, but there's a growing problem in this country.

We are being invaded.

From Canada.

Oh, sure, you say... those polite people from the cold north are as harmless as a kitten.  There is no threat - HAH!

I used to think that way, too, until I started to read some of the labels on the food products I eat.  I'll have you know that I've avoided "Canadian Bacon" for years - for years, mind you, preferring instead to eat American bacon grown on American farms.

I thought I was safe, until the other day when I chanced a glance at the box of frozen waffles I was eating.  PRODUCT OF CANADA read the fine print, almost indistinguishable on the package.

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That's how the rant would start.

The premise is ridiculous.  That's all there is to it.  It's no more ridiculous than other rants I have seen recently on Facebook and otherwise.  I read a forwarded post the other day from someone telling me to boycott Pepsi products because they left out the words "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance printed on a Pepsi can.  There was a fair amount of self-righteous indignation in the post - a post I had seen previously - attacking Coca Cola for the exact same crime!

I went snooping at Snopes.com and found that the words "under God" were omitted from a can of Dr. Pepper at one time.  But the good people at Dr. Pepper omitted 26 other words from the Pledge, as well.  The can read "One Nation... Indivisible".

That's it.  Just three words.  There are (by my count) 31 word in the Pledge of Allegiance.  Let me offer three more words:  Makes No Sense.

Years ago - before Facebook and before the internet, I recall people passing around information defaming Proctor and Gamble because of their moon and stars trademark.  The people passing this information were up in arms because it "proved" that P&G was in league with Satan or similar nonsense.  I don't know if they still do, but at one time Proctor and Gamble was spending a considerable sum of money refuting the rumors and legally going after people and organizations which insisted on continuing those rumors.

The problem these days is that misinformation now spreads at the speed of light.

It spreads a bit faster when there's a note of indignation connected with that misinformation.  "How Dare Coke or Pepsi leave off the words 'Under God' from appearing on their soda cans!"

Know what I mean, Vern?

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For the record, if you re-arrange the letters of PEPSI COLA, it makes the word EPISCOPAL - as in the EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE CENTER at the William Cooper PROCTOR farm south of London, Ohio on Ohio Route 37.  Yep... same Proctor as with Gamble.  My understanding is that the farm was donated to the Episcopal Church on Mr. Proctor's passing.  A neat little tie-in, eh?


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