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No, Canada! (United States of Canada vs. Jesusland)
Boston.com ^ | November 6, 2004 | Alex Beam

Posted on 11/06/2004 11:32:23 AM PST by spyone

You have probably heard the idle chatter: ''I'm thinking of moving to Canada." You may have received the JPEG Sent 'Round the World, labeling the northern part of North America -- the right-thinking part, as liberals would have it -- as the United States of Canada, and the pro-Bush leaning ''red" US states as Jesusland

It sounds so alluring. Good beer. Cheap Viagra. Hardly any crime. Friendly, if somewhat ineffectual, people. Terrific, if underappreciated, novelists. (This means you, Rohinton Mistry.) Secure borders, courtesy of the US Department of Defense.

But before you pack, consider this: There are plenty of reasons not to move to Canada. Let me count the ways.

1. They don't really want you. Canada is full of losers like you. If you're really rich, or a brain surgeon, maybe. But if you are, say, a newspaper reporter, be prepared to wait at least a year just to live there legally, and several more years to become a citizen.

If you have some special qualifications, like a PhD, plus a lot of work experience, and if you are under 50, you have a better chance of crashing the gates of Snow Mexico. Or if you're loaded. That's right. If you have a net worth of $800,000 Canadian or more, and are willing to invest $400,000 of it in Canada, come on in! And you thought George Bush's America was a plutocracy. . . . Think again.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

Shouldn't Alberta and Manitoba, at least, be included with Jesusland?


81 posted on 11/08/2004 7:01:13 PM PST by motife
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

I meant Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.


82 posted on 11/08/2004 7:03:24 PM PST by motife
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To: spyone

Can we change the name to "HaShemland" or "Bibleland" please?


83 posted on 11/08/2004 7:07:00 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Never call yourself on the phone . . . you might answer!)
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To: FredZarguna
More revealing to me: they think "Jesus" is a perjorative.

They think their Black Fundamentalist constituency worships Darwin.

84 posted on 11/08/2004 7:17:24 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Never call yourself on the phone . . . you might answer!)
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To: FredZarguna
Yeah, I'm not sure how many of the people in Alberta and BC would want to be part of the Democratic People's Republic of Turtle Island TM.

Wouldn't European concepts like "democracy" and "republicanism" be an insult to the quaint indigenous pipples and their various chiefs, kings, and emperors?

85 posted on 11/08/2004 7:21:06 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Never call yourself on the phone . . . you might answer!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Rest assured, in a very short time the PeeDirty (Peoples Democratic Republic of Turtle Island TM) would become one of the most vile, tyrannical oligarchies ever seen by mankind. Think Lewis' "Lowerarchy", Stalin's Terror, or Adolf's Band of "Supermen."
86 posted on 11/08/2004 7:50:11 PM PST by FredZarguna (Ready now thy pajamas. For the Dark Queen begins to gather all evil things unto herself.)
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To: captcanada
Link in Post 14

Three cheers for Red Canada

87 posted on 11/08/2004 7:54:34 PM PST by Ciexyz (Bush still rules. The sun shines over America.)
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To: FredZarguna
Rest assured, in a very short time the PeeDirty (Peoples Democratic Republic of Turtle Island TM) would become one of the most vile, tyrannical oligarchies ever seen by mankind. Think Lewis' "Lowerarchy", Stalin's Terror, or Adolf's Band of "Supermen."

I was being sarcastic . . . you know, pointing out the incongruity of worshipping "indigenous cultures" while somehow believing those cultures would express themselves throught a Marxist democratic republican vegetarian society?

88 posted on 11/08/2004 7:59:34 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Never call yourself on the phone . . . you might answer!)
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To: RandallFlagg

Hey, we still got Alaska...


89 posted on 11/08/2004 8:09:46 PM PST by citizen (Relax. Terrorism is only a nuisance.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Yeah, I know you were. But the sad fact is, the luxuries of that lifestyle are bought on the depreciation of their hardworking ancestors and contemporaneous countrymen, and so, in a very short time our expatriate Eurotrash would be living the life of indigenous pipples indeed--but without the innocence.
90 posted on 11/08/2004 8:12:24 PM PST by FredZarguna (Wearing Black Pajamas, the Official Robes of the High Priest of the Church of Zarguna, Scientist.)
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To: motife

And British Columbia, to a lesser extent.


91 posted on 11/09/2004 1:38:34 PM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (If you always do what you've always done, you're always going to get what you've always gotten.)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

"Better yet, we'll force everyone in the blue areas up into New England and let Canada have that in exchange for Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Nunavat, Northwest Territories, and Yukon Territory."

1) Don't presume to trade away my state. The libs can whine and flee if they so desire. You WILL NOT abet them at my expense.

2) Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon Territory all voted for the Liberal Party in the 2004 election.


92 posted on 11/13/2004 12:21:43 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: FredZarguna; Dan from Michigan
Here ya go...
93 posted on 11/13/2004 12:33:05 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: calenel

Okay, okay. There are still some sane people left in NH. How'd you manage that feat right in the middle of New England? As for the Canadian territories, let's at least take the Yukon. We need some direct land route to Alaska and ANWR.:)


94 posted on 11/13/2004 10:24:45 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (If you always do what you've always done, you're always going to get what you've always gotten.)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

"How'd you manage that feat right in the middle of New England?"

IMHO the only reason NH went for Kerry was cross-border voter fraud. I was poll watching and there were twice as many people registering as new voters as there were actual registered voters. Maybe three times as many. And we couldn't check the new registrants.

"As for the Canadian territories, let's at least take the Yukon. We need some direct land route to Alaska and ANWR."

Alaska has a land border with BC. We don't need the Yukon Territory.

BTW, there are only about 100,000 people in those three territories all together.

I'm just waiting for some liberal whiner to start flaming about us coveting Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia (it's okay for *them* to talk about busting up the USA ...)

In any case, they'll get not one square inch. They don't deserve it, and they probably don't own very much of it. No doubt the vast majority of Kerry voters don't actually own anything. They just want to take ours.


95 posted on 11/13/2004 10:49:05 AM PST by calenel (The Democratic Party is the Socialist Mafia. It is a Criminal Enterprise.)
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To: calenel

Yeah, you're right about BC and AK sharing a border. I just forgot.


96 posted on 11/13/2004 10:54:02 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (Yes DUmmies, we stole the election, but you'll never figure out how. Love, the VRWC.)
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To: Dan from Michigan

Since the county boundaries do not follow the electoral districts in Canada it is difficult to tell. Here are my GUESSES in Ontario based on political trends and cultures (some are not legally counties, but independent cities, regional municipalities or districts):

Extreme blue - Toronto

Strong blue - Peel, York, Hamilton, Prescott/Russell

Moderate blue - Essex, Middlesex, Waterloo, Wellington, Halton, Durham, Frontenac, Ottawa, Greater Sudbury, Sudbury (district), Thunder Bay, Cochrane, Algoma, Timiskaming, Kenora, Brantford

Nearly 50/50 - Rainy River, Manitoulin, Nipissing, Stormont/Dundas/Glengarry, Peterborough, Niagara, Lambton, Chatham-Kent

Moderate red - Hastings, Prince Edward, Northumberland, Simcoe, Huron, Perth

Strong red - Renfrew, Lanark, Leeds/Grenville, Lennox and Addington, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes, Muskoka, Parry Sound, Dufferin, Haldimand, Norfolk, Grey, Bruce, Oxford, Elgin, Brant (county)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ontario_Census_Divisions - to see the list of them and where they are


98 posted on 03/02/2005 10:13:08 AM PST by Heartofsong83
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To: headsonpikes
If you take the major cities(except Calgary) out of the equation, Canada would be more right-wing than Texas or Idaho!

If you took Austin out of Texas , It would be more right wing than just about anywhere !
99 posted on 08/11/2005 7:48:59 PM PDT by newfarm4000n (God Bless America and God Bless Freedom)
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To: newfarm4000n

Whoa - this is an old thread!

Coincidentally, for the first time tonight, my bride and I discussed moving to the High River, Alberta area from our native B.C. We've been scouting around the southern interior looking for a retirement abode and we realized that south-western Alberta is about as sweet as country gets. Prosperous, too.


100 posted on 08/11/2005 8:17:49 PM PDT by headsonpikes ("The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.")
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