Cable News Ratings for Thursday, January 3, 2013

Categories: '

(289) Comments - Add Yours!

1. sunshine

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:22 AM

   Hey everyone, I was reading as I always do and will comment on the passport thingy to Canada.

   After 911 GB said passports were needed and it caused a big kerfluffle in Canada
   as all Canadians and Americans ever had to do until then was show a picture ID.
   It caused a rift of sorts both economically and socially. Many had to stop cross border shopping. Many Canadians work in Detroit / US.

   As it stands now to enter the US by car you need an “enhanced drivers licence” but to fly into the US you need a passport.

   Canadians were very much treated as Europeans after 911. imo Mexicans were treated better.

2. cathy

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:25 AM

   Maybe it’s me. But has anyone else noticed how health the children on the “Feed the children” ads look lately?

   I remember the days when the children were skin and bones with the big bellies you get from Kwashiorkor. Can’t they show the real children anymore or have we come so far now that the children are just hungry not starving?

3. sunshine

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:26 AM

   I just saw your post Cathy….Pelee?

4. sunshine

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:28 AM

   or bob-lo or belle? ok I will knock it off now

5. Letmethink

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:39 AM

   @sunshine
   Canadians were very much treated as Europeans after 911. imo Mexicans were treated better.
   True, you can just walk across the southern border. We are even kind enough to warn Americans not to enter that part of the US because it is not safe to do so. When you make it across the southern border, you get all kinds of free perks.

6. Ratboy

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:42 AM

   Sunny Baby Darlin!!!!!
   I sure hope you have not been peeking while i was sick cuz I was a SITE!!!

7. sunshine

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:44 AM

   @Ratboy

   I peeked and I wondered if you had gotten your flu shot.

   Hiya Letmethink!

8. Letmethink

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:47 AM

   Hi Sunshine–thanks for clearing up the passport thing.
   Do you find the Canadian agents to be much friendlier than US agents or do they just take to me and my husband? We only have the 8 trips so 16 experiences but we comment each time how friendly they are and how different our experiences are with US agents.

9. sunshine

   Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:51 AM

   I agree but once in a while we run into a real b**ch and it is usually a female. I think they are afraid we may have gotten a good bargain on our shopping trip lol.

10. Letmethink

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM

    OK-gotta’ go. Usually limit myself to a short visit in the morning and same at night. It has been so pleasant this AM, I have hung around. Need to accomplish something. Have a sick grandchild—flu–so taking some comfort food over to her.
    Have a good one all!!

11. AppleStinx

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:07 AM

    sunshine wrote: “I agree but once in a while we run into a real b**ch and it is usually a female. I think they are afraid we may have gotten a good bargain on our shopping trip lol.”

    ratflmao! I hope you don’t get rattled by such experience.

12. 1966

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:19 AM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXDzsuqXFg&feature=player_detailpage
    for you coffee steve.

13. sunshine

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:30 AM

    @AppleStinx

    ratflmao! I hope you don’t get rattled by such experience
    ————————-
    Hiya AppleStinx

    LOL nope, It takes a bit more to rattle me. (Usually something political)

14. cathy

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:40 AM

    @Sunshine Grosse Ile… I’m on the American side. Bois Blanc Island is the name of the Island but it was called Boblo because of the name of the Amusement park. It is a Canada Island that has few year round residences. You have to us a boat to get to it. My family was at Boblo island the last day of operations. Pelee is also in Canada and it’s in Lake Erie. Beautiful island have been there many times before 2001.

    Belle Isle is only a park.

    Piece of trivia. Why is Belle Isle spelled ISLE while Grosse Ile is spelled ILE?

    Both our French names. Belle means beautiful. So the feminine spelling ISLE is used.

    Grosse means BIG and you would never call a woman big. So the masculine spelling of ILE.

15. Coffee Steve

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM

    Hellllllllllo Sunshine

    @Everyone

    For 5 Bonus points what does the term Grammatical mean?

16. cathy

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:47 AM

    @letmethink, I have always found the Canada agents friendlier in general. Expect at the Niagara Falls area, the Canada agents at the Falls area are pains. I think they want you to take the buses from one side to the other not your personal car.

17. Coffee Steve

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    @1966
    Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact Coffee

    You just made my day

18. cathy

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:52 AM

    Steve can I look it up? conforming to the rules of grammer.

19. cathy

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM

    OH, no I misspelled it grammar….

    Hope you grandchild is feeling better soon.

20. Coffee Steve

    Posted January 7, 2013 at 10:53 AM

    @cathy

    no need to look it up ya GOT IT!!!!

    and its an adjective