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Not mature, hooked on Coke at 21. She got a life of addiction behaviors to look forward too. Tons of money but a ton of baggage. Pretty sad. What about birth control? What about it?

Paris looks like an Elf.

I wonder if fat-bottom girls make the academia-world go round?

wow, really? you stud.

At least LL is hot.

The email thread started out too strident and obnoxious. Escalation with frustration is one thing, but jumping immediately to veiled threats about beating someone with a baseball bat is over the top.

les francais ne sont pas mal

McD's is open at 5 am and have decent coffee. :-)

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1) In the United States we have millions of foreigners visit our national parks along with our citizens and we don't fleece them with exorbitant fees. Sure, the parks are subsidized by taxes, and I don't mind that at all - even if it pays for us to haul ash from fire pits for visiting Canucks. 2) I believe in limited government, but if anything that limit includes taking care of national resources, including the national parks. 3) Parks should be managed, but singling out fires as some kind of "blight" or practice to be eliminated is ridiculous. I don't buy that that is the case anyways. It's just a way to fleece visitors. Take fishing instead if you will. The fee is $10/day for a fishing permit. Is that a blight too? Do you need to haul in wood and haul out ash (which should be covered by the price of the campsite in the first place, BTW). No, the fact is lots of folks who visit love to fish, and they want to fish in a place like Banff, surrounded by beauty. Not my cup of tea but hey. The park charges $10/day because they can - to make money. Well, not everything should be a maximize-profit for business. The fact that Parks in Canada is such a business is sad.

A favorite Canadian past-time!

I read alot! Just not childrens books. OK, I'll bite. What's the last book you read Kevbone? Right now I am fininshing up a Louie Lamore short story book. Gotta love them westerns. And you can't spell the author's name correctly??

Uh-huh. And I'll bet those fees for "running the park" also pad the bank accounts of quite a few state employees and provincial administrators. Indeed, I'll bet there's a whole huge bureaucracy, whose existence if funded by these fees. Sorry, but I don't by your claims to "the Right did it" from a gov't that was in power in the 1980's. Since then, those horrible right-wing programs could have been rolled back, but, mysteriously the lefties in power now have not done so. More social engineering from the left. Blah blah blah. In the US, fires would be just as much of an expense and our parks don't charge $8 a night for them. Canada does - Canada sucks. As for pyromania, piss off. I light a fire because its warm, cozy and fun for the kids.

I toggled him off the ignore option and noticed that.

Me neither. I'm intrigued that Kevboner supposedly has read *something*.

There's nothing that annoys me more than tourons - HOWEVER, one must only wander off the beaten path to enjoy these places. I don't go to a place like Jasper/Banff to ride around in an RV and stuff my face with burgers at the cheap park concession stand. I drive a normal car there and spend most days doing longish day hikes, and only return to the campground (to a small backpacking tent) to eat and sleep.

I read alot! Just not childrens books. OK, I'll bite. What's the last book you read Kevbone?

It's not just the entrance fee - it's fees all around. They can make plenty of $$ off the tourists at the upscale resorts (and associated taxes on lodging, food, etc). But on families sleeping in tents? Lame.

You charge your own citizens the same fee... as I have ALREADY pointed out, you dumb ass. And this is not about "sticking it to the Americans". You've got plenty of tourists visiting there from Europe and Asia.

Fuck you asshole. my point is valid. I want to go there and pay reasonable fees, not bail entirely. If Canucks want to make their national parks into a haven for rich tourists, that's their loss - and very sad. And I'll be the first pointing it out - especially considering the hypocrisy of smug fuckhead Canucks on this forun in particular and in the Canada in general, talking about their wonderful paradise with all its 'free' perks. It's a bunch of bullshit. Bad enough to socialize your health care and tax the fuck out of people to pay for it along with the rest of your socialist utopia, but to make your national parks into a profit-earning business is even more disgraceful. And If you don't like my speaking up about that "inconvenient truth", well, tough shit.

PLEASE tell me you didn't show them how to use fire! so simple a cave man could do it... but not a Canuck

banff campgrounds >> NPS campgrounds. For one thing, free showers. the visitors come from overseas poach are game, pollute our waters and pay less than we do.... 1) the showers aren't free - you pay for them with the inflated camping fee 2) what kind of fucking pussy are you that you need to shower when camping for a few days, you fucking wanker bitch!

our park system does a damn fine job, and charges reasonable rates for its services, and makes them accessible to the general public. irrespective of who the president is When billary is elected there will be more funding, but I doubt the fees will be increased - and definitely not to Canada's level.

I pay $65 for a NPS and a forest pass together. You a-holes charge $130 for an annual pass alone. AND if I want to light a fire, it's covered under my camping fee, not like you statists a-holes, who know damn well that people want to light a fire, but split the fee to make it look more "palatable" while you fleece them.

Charging $8 a night to light a fire is fleecing by the opinion of anyone without profound mental retardation.