Posted on 03/11/2005 9:37:53 PM PST by quidnunc
More diverse? I live in NYC and me and my fiance were commenting today that if terrorists attacked Manhattan they would be lucky if 10% if their victims are Americans. I think Hannity needs to stop calling New York the the greatest city.
I lost it when I went to Canada in the early 80's, everything cost an arm and a leg, gas was almost $4 a gallon back than and the prices in the food stores were outrageous. I guess if you don't know any better, you think it is normal.
I come live = I live
"Best thing about Canada? ALL THE HOT WOMEN IN MONTREAL!"
Been there. You're right. I was with my wife but my eyeballs were tracking.
Where the hell were you ? Iqaluit?
I was wondering the same thing. I got my license in 1983 and gas was less than CDN$.50/liter at that time, and the Cdn dollar was worth about USD$.85, IIRC. By my calculation that would have made gas about USD$1.60/US gallon, at the worst.
There are 3.785 L in a US gallon. Even today regular at $.80/L that's about $2.50us a us gallon . And I bought gas Friday for .729/L.
Ya it was fun to grow up here (Canada) in rural Alberta, BC or Ontario in the 60s...the socialist soviet state had not arrived and we were as ignored by our socialist polis as we were by the US...it was bliss being a "nobody" you were left alone...ignored by power politics....the only interest was from wealthy people wanting to visit or buy a piece of our rustic idyllic state...it was true freedom...a wonderful time to be alive. Rural values were Canadian values...before the onslaught of the soviet Kanikistani state.
Now, the tentacles of the statist trudeaupian soviet cabal are into what you own, behave, say, think, write and of course your pockets to the tune of 60%.....all we get for it is a bleak economic future and the coldest/longest winters on record.
This is one wild colonial lad that hates all the attention he is getting from the socialist cabal in Ottawa and the snub from wealth creators south of the 49th. I want to be "ignored" again...what the hell do I have to do to be left alone again???
Well I took the first step last week...I reapplied for my US passport ( My Mom was American) and I'm shopping for real estate in Texas...Corpus Christi, Galveston, Austin.
My first act as a US citizen and Texican (after I buy my house) will be to buy a Kimber custom 1911 and get a carry permit....A few weeks on a decent IPSC range...then off to the BLM boonies to dust some snakes, Javalina, sod dogs or any other 4 or 2 legged vermin that crosses the sights. When that gets boring of on the boats for Marlin or Jack fish...then I can ride my hog all year round....seems an even trade for trading in the snowmobile and an irreparably commie government.
Gawd I love being ignored by socialist bureaucrats...I think that's the best part of being American.....socialist bureaucrats are an endangered species in Texas.
One man's opinion..twelve years ago, we had perhaps the best vacation ever in Western Canada...I had a weeklong conference at the Banff Springs Hotel...absolutely gorgeous place..took the wife and daughters along..it was our oldest daughter's HS graduation present..Lake Louise, and the glaciers just blew me away..then we took the sleeper train on the CP tracks to Vancouver..two day trip...one magnificent vista after another, though Kamloops is/was? kind of a dump?...spend a few days in Vancouver, then took a cruise up to Alaska..every Canadian I met was nice, liked America and Americans..
Wish you all the best in Texas. I hope you find some of what you had growing up...freedom.
Yes, But Americans had 3x the amount of soldiers there making them easy targets in the water on omaha beach, and plus after our assault we pushed farther than any other allied division in france
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