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To: Mister Magoo
I always love reading good fiction
2 posted on
06/07/2003 11:25:53 AM PDT by
Lunatic Fringe
(Tip the Pizza guy!)
To: Mister Magoo
I'll take Alberta, and they can stuff British Columbia. Vancouver makes Seattle look like Greenville, South Carolina.
3 posted on
06/07/2003 11:26:49 AM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~Remember, it's not sporting to fire at RINO until charging~)
To: Mister Magoo
Make sure we DITCH vancouver as a free city though. Sasketwuan (sp?) may want to get in on this as well.
4 posted on
06/07/2003 11:27:27 AM PDT by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: Mister Magoo
54-40 or fight!
Maybe President Polk was right?
To: Mister Magoo
With Alberta as America's 51st state, the U.S. would secure 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves, more than exist in Saudi Arabia. U.S. oil imports would plummet and America's great dependence on foreign oil would vanish.If this is true, why isn't Canada selling us this oil at today's market price. Something tells me there's more to the story.
To: Mister Magoo
Actually there would still only be 50 states as we lose Kalifornia and Arizona back to Mexico.
8 posted on
06/07/2003 11:29:32 AM PDT by
fish hawk
To: Mister Magoo
Interesting thesis.
9 posted on
06/07/2003 11:31:04 AM PDT by
Drew68
To: Mister Magoo
How about maintaining the same number and trading Alberta for say Washington or even better Massachuttes.
10 posted on
06/07/2003 11:31:24 AM PDT by
bert
(Don't Panic!)
To: Mister Magoo
Canada's most conservative province -- anti-Kyoto, anti-gun control, hostile to national health care, receptive to plebiscites and Bible-belt Christians, free of provincial sales tax
Why join the United States, they should form thier own country. Then if Hillary is ever elected, ill have a place to go. We would just end up holding them back. Do you honestly think that the Democrats would let us drill for oil there if they were a 51st state? It would just be one huge wildlife preserve with higher taxes.
11 posted on
06/07/2003 11:31:57 AM PDT by
Husker24
To: Mister Magoo
the Supreme Court of Canada has already endorsed a province's departure if its citizens speak clearly on the matter.
If they joined the US they would give up this option for themselves and for all of their descendants. Independence would be a better option for them. Interesting that the Canadians have a voluntary union. They should call theirs States and we should call ours provinces.
12 posted on
06/07/2003 11:32:25 AM PDT by
Arkinsaw
To: Mister Magoo
Bump
13 posted on
06/07/2003 11:33:39 AM PDT by
Fiddlstix
(http://www.ourgangnet.net)
To: Mister Magoo
There are political problems with Vancouver, true. But the city is beautiful, and so is British Columbia as a whole. The weather along the coast is fairly moderate because of the ocean currents. Plus it would link the lower 48 with Alaska.
Sounds like a deal to me.
17 posted on
06/07/2003 11:36:01 AM PDT by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Mister Magoo
20 posted on
06/07/2003 11:39:00 AM PDT by
Consort
To: Mister Magoo
The most interesting part of this article is the Candian Supreme Court decision that any province could choose to leave Canada. This means Albertans can force the issue. With the exchange rate so bad, they might.
If any Canadian province leaves (We were all thinking Québec, weren't we?) Canada won't survive well. I wonder if it can be argued that Canada's health care system is essentially paid for by Alberta oil.
Now, with regard to the first sentence: Neither Bush nor the US in general is particularly eager to get Alberta's oil. Yes, it'd be nice to have it within US borders for national security purposes, but Canada needs to sell it more than we need to buy it and it won't be free -- US consumers still have to buy it no matter what. It just won't be subject to whatever tariffs or other taxes Canada puts on it.
To: Mister Magoo
Vancouver Island would be a gorgeous addition to the Union. On its highways, careless drivers are yelled at as "Stupid American!"
The only problem is that, if they join the US, those provinces would have to give up speaking English.
24 posted on
06/07/2003 11:44:30 AM PDT by
DonQ
To: Mister Magoo
Can we get that 51st/52 state map redone with Aztlan removed to see what American will really look like? Thanks.
31 posted on
06/07/2003 11:52:14 AM PDT by
xrp
To: Mister Magoo
Waiting for the day we take Canada and go to war against Quebec.
35 posted on
06/07/2003 12:07:22 PM PDT by
Porterville
(Screw the grammar, full posting ahead.)
To: Mister Magoo
Forget it -- the author is confusing the conservative spirit of Alberta with a pro-American one. If anything, Alberta is probably more strongly opposed to joining the U.S. than any other Canadian province is.
When asked to choose between Ottawa and Washington, most Albertans would select Calgary.
To: Mister Magoo
I'd cheer, I think.
42 posted on
06/07/2003 12:38:19 PM PDT by
Quix
(HEBREW VOWEL ISSUE DISCUSSED, SCHOLARS N JUNE BCD search for TRUE HEAD TO HEAD COMPARISON CONTINUES)
To: Mister Magoo
I suppose that, even if Alberta and BC were to become US states by their own choice--the US would still be branded as imperialist, merely for allowing it. And that we did so only for oil. And that we are now oppressing all the Vancouver potheads, acting like hegemons, blah blah blah jingoistic blah blah blah military-industrial complex yadda yadda long live Chairman Mao blah blah...arright, I guess I'm getting carried away now.
43 posted on
06/07/2003 12:40:12 PM PDT by
HassanBenSobar
(I now inform you that you are too far from reality!)
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