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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:23 AM
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Liberals fleeing to Canada.
(from an email)

Canada Busy Sending Back Bush-Dodgers
by Joe Blundo
Columbus Dispatch
Columbus, Ohio

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration.

The re-election of President Bush is prompting the exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and agree with Bill O'Reilly.

Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, animal-rights activists and Unitarians crossing their fields at night.

''I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood
producer huddled in the barn,'' said Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota. The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry.

''He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left. Didn't even get a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?''

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. So he tried installing speakers that blare Rush Limbaugh across the fields.

''Not real effective,'' he said. ''The liberals still got through, and
Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk.''

Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals
near the Canadian border, pack them into Volvo station wagons, drive them across the border and leave them to fend for themselves. ''A lot of these people are not prepared for rugged conditions,'' an Ontario border patrolman said. ''I found one carload without a drop of drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though.''

When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often
wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about the Bush administration establishing re-education camps in which liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and watch NASCAR.

In the days since the election, liberals have turned to sometimes-ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have taken to posing as senior citizens on bus trips to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half-dozen young vegans disguised in powdered wigs, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior-citizen passengers.

''If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we get suspicious about their age,'' an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating and organic-broccoli shortage and renting all the good Susan Sarandon movies.

''I feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them,'' an Ottawa resident said. ''How many art-history majors does one country need?''

In an effort to ease tensions between the United States and Canada, Vice President Dick Cheney met with the Canadian ambassador and pledged that the administration would take steps to reassure liberals, a source close to Cheney said.

''We're going to have some Peter, Paul and Mary concerts. And we might put some endangered species on postage stamps. The president is determined to reach out.''
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:26 AM
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1. I think that's vaguely insulting.
But I'm not sure if it's just insulting us, or everyone in general.
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justinsb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:30 AM
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2. ..
I think it's just meant to be funny - doesn't really make it, but I think that's what it's trying to do.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 11:02 AM
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6. I think it's more egalitarian than "Team America." (nt)
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ooglymoogly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 11:58 AM
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10. lighten up
if we can't laugh at ourselves we are really in trouble. i thought it was hillarious.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:36 AM
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3. Funniest thing I've read today
Thanks!
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KurtNYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:37 AM
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4. My father sent me that and I ignored it
though it is filled with the lamest stereotypes.

Not a bit funny so probably written by a RWer.
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 10:56 AM
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5. Not necessarily -- the final line,
Edited on Fri Dec-03-04 11:00 AM by NCevilDUer
"the president is determined to reach out" with an environmental postage stamp.

And "Rush annoyed the cows so much they wouldn't give milk".

I laughed.
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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 11:04 AM
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7. I think the Columbus Dispatch might be a satire paper...
...like The Onion. Or not. I don't recall.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 11:07 AM
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8. Sounds like the konservatives
are wanting to rub salt in the wounds. Let's intensify this split we have here all the more. Let's rub Dems noses in it.

Well repugs if there is a God in the heavens there WILL be a day of atonement for you people. You will wish the wrath of the Almighty on your heads as a welcome respite from what will be done to you on this earth.

Physical bloodshed? No. Much worse than that. A wholesale devaluing of the rwing way of life. You people WILL lose your influence politically. The gop cannot stand for this much longer. This country cannot stand for this much longer. Something's got to and will give. And it's not going to be the majority of the people knuckling under to a repressive regime as yourselves.
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 11:36 AM
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9. I just thought it was funny.
Perhaps some of us have been picking at their wounds and therefore haven't healed sufficiently to be discharged from intensive care yet.

:grouphug:
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