TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- Canada's prime minister has begun a three-day trip to the Arctic in an effort to assert sovereignty over the region a week after Russia symbolically staked a claim to the North Pole by sending submarines.

 

 

Russia is taking over the North Pole?





















Looks like ole Saint Nick is gonna be outsourcing to India now.

:santa:

 

Give'em hell Harper!! Thats our land.

 

Not to hijack but nice new sig Jamz....I know Hersh will approve.

 

Is it?


THNX Sajeffc....a buddy at work said, "James, stand up and look.....He showed me the ad and I said.."LINK". I'll see if Matt can hook me up."

 

They're trying to stake a larger claim than most countries involved because of a geographical thing of some kind.

But they ain't doing anything even our country hasn't done at some point.

They're already discussing the problems of several countries plans to exploit the moon and marsfor resouces, so the game just continues as it has for thousands of years.

Right now we should be more concerned with the financial bomb China seems to have aimed at us.

 

Very nice. I think thats one sig that can break the rules and go to 5000x1000 size.

 

Which is absolutely meaningless. It would hurt them far worse than it would hurt the US.

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArti...71465242819506

 

yes it is.

And we got the shot guns, harpoons and canoes to defend it too

 

This seems like a good reason for all the hoopla:

"Five countries -- Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway and Denmark -- are competing to secure subsurface rights to the Arctic seabed. One study by the U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Arctic has as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas."

 

I disagree somewhat, but then the bottom line is no foreign entity should be so entrenched into our economy should it?

Considering the possibilty of a widening conflict, are we really that secure?

 

Its all kind of comical now, but just wait a few decades until that oil & gas or whatever other resources exist up there are more valuable and economically viable. Then it could get messy.

 

What's scarier is how much a gallon of gas at the pump would cost that would make artic drilling economically feasible.

 

Oh, well then, that fits perfectly with my plan to buy up scrub land in Iowa this fall to develop a restart when we finally become tropic.

Better order that SC for the Jeep when it gets here to speed things up a bit.