That's it!...I'm moving to Canada!

[JohnnyRingo]

...not really, at least not this time, but I was thinking:

What made me think about this is a conservative friend's dismal fear that our country is "becoming socialist like Europe". He wished there was a "New World" he could go to "like our ancestors". (He isn't pleased with McCain)

Every time a one of us gets mad at the government, the threat of emigration to the North comes up. I've said it, my dad said it, and you've probably said it sometime in the last eight years.

We never do it, but at least we have a perceived sanctuary when we need to express our outrage with the government.

If a neo-con gets mad at their government, where can they threaten to go that's more right wing than here? They can't use Canada, because they're more liberal than us, what with their socialized medicine and high taxes. Mexico's out because while abortion is illegal, they don't speak English. They can't threaten a move to Greenland unless Limbaugh goes to short wave.

Iran? ...Can they get frustrated enough to move there? I can hear it now:

"That's it!...I'm moving to Iran, where the government doesn't ignore religion!"
Or
"I've had it!...I'm heading to Syria, where they wont try to take my guns!"
Or
"That's the last straw!... I'm going to North Korea, where they respect their borders!"

Hahahaha... Every other choice they have of a "utopian nation" seems to be a sworn enemy or third world country. I finally wrote back to my friend, suggesting perhaps he can make the pilgrimage to Antarctica where he can just use a "no trespassing sign" for his country's flag and build a fence no one will ever see.

Who knew his "love it or leave it" bumper sticker would come back to bite him in the ass.


While I've got your attention, I've been dying to share this off-topic pic I found.
I love an elaborate sense of humor (And Spongebob):

[electropop]

1. I think Iran would be a good fit for right-wingers.

love the pic

[Warpy]

2. I always suggest Somalia

because there are no taxes (although warlords have to be bribed), few laws other than the ones governing observant Muslims, and nobody will grab their guns.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. I'd tell your friend to move to Iraq. It's just like a new world. The entire government is being

set up as we speak. There's scads of opportunity for the wise businessman. It's perfectly safe according to Dick Cheney.

Edited for spelling

[JohnnyRingo]

4. It's funny

When Saddam was in power, like most cons, he whined how "he killed his own people", and the Iraqis "live under the boot" of a brutal dictator. He only felt for the poor Iraqis who lived without freedom. We had to do something!

After Saddam's hanging, which he admittedly watched over and over, he refocused his hatred to all Iraqis....and Iranians, Jordanians, Syrians, Palestinians, Turks, Afghans, and people who spend too long in a tanning bed.

It's clear he just wants daily hangings for his racist and patriotic entertainment. He was born 150 years too late. (Actually, he's more tolerant with American ethnics than Middle Eastern people, but he almost wets his pants with any mention of Islam.)

I know I should pick my friends more carefully, but then I'd have to argue with people here, and there's been enough of that lately.

[Brigid]

5. That pic is hilarious!

The pink satin sheets are just too funny! :rofl: