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Aid truck bound for Oklahoma City tied up in red tape
The Windsor Star ^ | May 31, 2013 | Claire Brownell

Posted on 06/01/2013 5:40:15 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian

Windsor and Essex County donors have loaded a truck with 40,000 pounds of aid for Oklahoma City’s tornado victims, but red tape is keeping it in a Leamington parking lot.

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...(US)customs supervisors, who originally told brokers working with the charity that the truck would fly through the border without trouble, changed their tune Thursday, Sauve said.

“They were basically requiring endless documentation and approvals,” he said. ”We’re stuck with a truck with 40,000 pounds of food, totally full.”

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.windsorstar.com ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: oklahoma; relief
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To: Cen-Tejas

Yes, not a single county voted for Obambi and his minions. We tend not to put up with his sort of bu11sheet.

I am furious over what the Democrats have done to this country. I think, in my lifetime, that we will see the country broken into several pieces; one or more Constitutional American States, mainly in the south and the heartland of the continent; and one Communist/Socialist utopia state. Perhaps, on second thought, two Communist/Socialist Utopia States, one on each coast.

Cannot happen soon enough, in my opinion. The sooner we get this over with, the better.


21 posted on 06/01/2013 7:57:09 AM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Guaranteed if this truck was going to MLK Street in Dem controlled BlackGhetto, IL, there is no red tape


22 posted on 06/01/2013 10:01:05 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (GOP - Greenlighting Obama's Programs)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
It's becoming ever more apparent, even to the low-information sheeple, that these government bureaucracies exist only to serve their own lust for control, with their stated missions little more than a facade.

I'd dump the whole bloody mess right on the front steps their their offices and drive away. Let them sort it out.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

23 posted on 06/01/2013 10:03:43 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

I hate my government.


24 posted on 06/01/2013 10:04:34 AM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
How about a Department of Agriculture with more bureaucrats than farmers? A Department of Education that educates no one. A Department of Energy that does not produce a single BTU of energy? Do you ever wonder what all these people do?

Add ATF to your alphabet list.

25 posted on 06/01/2013 12:40:05 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Don’t feel bad. Electric workers/trucks from the South were turned away because they were non-union.


26 posted on 06/01/2013 12:53:29 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: Repeat Offender
Hey, I know and I don't feel bad.

That was another travesty. If you live in a state that would rather "preserve union jobs" than have electricity, you deserve to freeze in the freaking dark.

With all that has gone on in the last few years, you really have to wonder about this case. If you read the article, customs originally gave the go ahead. Then they decided to put the screws to a Christian group who had gathered this food to deliver to a conservative state. It makes you start to wonder what the f*ck is going on in your once great republic.

27 posted on 06/01/2013 1:00:07 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Obamanomics-We don't need your stinking tar sands oil, we'll just grow algae.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian; Squawk 8888; SunkenCiv; neverdem

That’s funny FPC! We used similar snips of the article.

Thanks for posting it.

Ping!


28 posted on 06/01/2013 3:57:39 PM PDT by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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To: mindburglar

Bump!


29 posted on 06/01/2013 3:58:52 PM PDT by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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To: Nachum

Ping.


30 posted on 06/01/2013 4:01:16 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Joe Brower

“I’d dump the whole bloody mess right on the front steps their their offices and drive away. Let them sort it out.”

They won’t let us bring it across your border.


31 posted on 06/01/2013 4:07:36 PM PDT by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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To: Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...
Thanks fanfan.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

32 posted on 06/01/2013 4:31:37 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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To: fanfan
"They won’t let us bring it across your border."

Then dump it right on the line.

33 posted on 06/02/2013 4:13:57 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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