The West has been Christian for over a thousand years. The British were in India for a few hundred years at best, during the modern era. Please stop embarrassing yourself in public.

Oh, nice, they're using Strauss and Howe's generational theory! I have to see this movie now, I've always been fascinated by that theory.

"Dickens was no fan of organized religion either, but as you can see Zemeckis thinks he knows better and took it upon himself to change a general warning about hypocrisy into a very specific slap at organized religion — at “men of the cloth” in general. No qualifiers, no “some” men of the cloth… Nope, the whole lot of them."

I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous accusation. The line is not "Men of the cloth are as strange to me...", but "THESE men of the cloth are as strange to me...". The word "these" functions here as a qualifying adjective referring back to the previous sentence, narrowing the focus of the sentence from "men of the cloth" to "men of the cloth who claim to know me and my brothers and do their deeds of ill will and selfishness in our name." In other words, the subject of the sentence is "hypocritical clergy", not "clergy in general".

While I agree with the criticism of the animation (the dead-eyes syndrome drifted into the Uncanny Valley at times), I quite enjoyed this movie and was glad I decided to watch it instead of 2012. I especially enjoyed the scene at the end when Scrooge is all joyful and happy.

As a Canadian, I am deeply ashamed of my country's leaders at this point. Canada's role in Afghanistan made me deeply proud of my country for the first time in a long time. We're not a big country, but we were doing our part to fight to defend our friends and our selves. This disgraceful decision to just give up rather than properly fund our military and give them the means to win is profoundly disappointing.

The days of Vimy Ridge and Juno Beach are behind us -- will we ever see them again?

Did you really just compare Harper to Dion? I'm sorry, but even Obama is a powerhouse of conservative wisdom compared to Dion...

Wait -- did I just hear a guy whose country has a quasi-socialist for a President make fun of a country which has a conservative for a Prime Minister for being too leftist? :P

Mary Walsh is not exactly representative of most Canadians, any more than John Stewart is representative of most Americans.

Er -- wasn't this movie based on a true story? I'm pretty sure Bush was president during the time period portrayed in the movie. Any generic "president joke" set during this time is going to be Bush, not Obama.

I understand everybody's nerves are raw after 9 years of Bush Derangement Syndrome, but let's not overreact to every little thing, eh? I mean, come on, this isn't Daily Kos or the Huffington Post.

This is exactly what happened in Canada in the 90s with the Reform party.

Are you kidding? Golf is a guy hitting a ball into a hole with a stick. Bowling is a guy rolling a ball at some pins. But curling, now, curling has strategy and finesse! It's not just a game of "put the projectile where you want it to go", like those other games, but also a game of "what is my opponent going to do, and how will what I'm doing now affect his plans?"

Seriously, curling is the chess of sports. :)

Yeah, I thought the same thing. Sometimes the group-think around these political blogs (right and left) is a bit much...