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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
KEYWORDS: jesusland
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To: RandallFlagg
There they go again, trying to grab things that don't belong to them. Use the county map Dems. You get some slivers on the coast and along the Mississippi. You sure don't get most of PA, NY, WI, IL and MN.

More revealing to me: they think "Jesus" is a perjorative.

21 posted on 11/06/2004 11:44:37 AM PST by FredZarguna (Ready now thy pajamas. For the Dark Queen begins to gather all evil things unto herself.)
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To: RandallFlagg
As the ol' song goes...

"You can have all the world, give me Jesus."

So be it.
22 posted on 11/06/2004 11:45:17 AM PST by unspun (unspun.info | Did U work your precinct, churchmembers, etc. for good votes?)
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

Here ya go.
23 posted on 11/06/2004 11:46:20 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: RandallFlagg

I don't think even that will help.:)


24 posted on 11/06/2004 11:46:47 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: cripplecreek

I'm in Massachusetts to stay,also. Someone has to keep an eye on things.


25 posted on 11/06/2004 11:47:04 AM PST by Mears
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To: FredZarguna

That and aren't a few of Canada's western provinces conservative? Don't they belong in "Jesusland"?


26 posted on 11/06/2004 11:48:06 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: spyone

Some one should post this paragraph at DU and other rat blog sites"

"Canada = 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.


27 posted on 11/06/2004 11:48:08 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: RandallFlagg
You'll need this more, although the only way to cleanse your mind will be to come back here to FR.


28 posted on 11/06/2004 11:48:34 AM PST by FredZarguna (Ready now thy pajamas. For the Dark Queen begins to gather all evil things unto herself.)
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To: Mears

Ditto!


29 posted on 11/06/2004 11:48:50 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: spyone
They don't really want you. Canada is full of losers like you.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

30 posted on 11/06/2004 11:48:52 AM PST by ILS21R
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To: WinOne4TheGipper

How about this?
31 posted on 11/06/2004 11:49:49 AM PST by RandallFlagg (FReepers, Do NOT let the voter fraud stories die!!!! (Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name))
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To: KMC1

A lib acquaintance sent this to me with the title "Where to move to". She got quite upset with me when I asked her if she needed help packing. LOL


32 posted on 11/06/2004 11:51:43 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Sparky1776
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.

On thing's for sure, after they leave, I want BLUE back for the good guys.

33 posted on 11/06/2004 11:52:39 AM PST by FredZarguna (Ready now thy pajamas. For the Dark Queen begins to gather all evil things unto herself.)
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To: FredZarguna


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.
34 posted on 11/06/2004 11:53:14 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: Mears

If anyone tried to annex Michigan to Canada we would make the insurgency in Iraq look like a plyground scuffle. They don't call us Militiagan for nuthin.


35 posted on 11/06/2004 11:53:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (John Kerry was beaten like a rented mule)
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To: cripplecreek

I think they could redo that map to just include Detroit and leave the rest of MI alone.
My county Macomb, went red, most of the state did. It would be easier to just cut off Detroit. If you include all of Wayne then Downriver (which went red) would have to go too.


36 posted on 11/06/2004 11:54:11 AM PST by netmilsmom (Zell on DEM Christianity, "They can hum the tune, but can't sing the song.")
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To: RandallFlagg

That map is horrible. Couldn't they cut a path up between Pittsburgh and Philly so I can be in Jesusland?


37 posted on 11/06/2004 11:55:20 AM PST by airborne (Death Before Dishonor)
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To: RandallFlagg

That's better.


38 posted on 11/06/2004 11:55:59 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: RandallFlagg

39 posted on 11/06/2004 11:56:43 AM PST by timestax
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To: don-o
"Canadian beer is way overrated"

Canadian beer is rubbish.
As is their health care system.
But hey, nothing will please me more than to have those loony left losers pack their bags and hightail it to the great frozen north beyond. Its like having Christmas twice. Very good riddance I say.
40 posted on 11/06/2004 11:57:33 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
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