It's Time to Boycott Arizona

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Linus

And here I thought researching political statements for facts was a Canadian thing.

Canada ALSO has a liberal bias.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

Canada ALSO has a liberal bias.

Don't tell the Conservatives that.. they might leav.. err.. Actually, on second thought, let them know. It'd improve the country immensely.

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Linus

Don't tell the Conservatives that.. they might leav.. err.. Actually, on second thought, let them know. It'd improve the country immensely.

Linus:

No, no, please it would be rude for us to horde conservatives here and take Canadian conservatives as well. You know, we should share. The two countries, long history of friendship etc., and I don't know that we've ever given Canada anything...the French gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty. I say we could give Canada the Tea Party movement as a token of our esteem and friendship. And at any rate, Canada has a lot of moose right? Conservatives like shooting moose. Everyone goes home happy--well, not the moose but you get the idea.

No need for thanks. It was nothing really.

Cheers
Aj

[Medusa]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

Linus:

No, no, please it would be rude for us to horde conservatives here and take Canadian conservatives as well. You know, we should share. The two countries, long history of friendship etc., and I don't know that we've ever given Canada anything...the French gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty. I say we could give Canada the Tea Party movement as a token of our esteem and friendship. And at any rate, Canada has a lot of moose right? Conservatives like shooting moose. Everyone goes home happy--well, not the moose but you get the idea.

No need for thanks. It was nothing really.

Cheers
Aj

You better include some helicopters to aid in shooting the Moose. I heard the conservatives like that

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Medusa

You better include some helicopters to aid in shooting the Moose. I heard the conservatives like that

Helicopters are SOOOOO 2008. Stealth Bombers are where it's at for hunting moose from the air.




If you're old fashioned, though, and want to hunt from the ground then nothing--I mean NOTHING--beats an M1A1 Abrahms tank. Road speed of 70mph and the main gun is 120mm cannon.



But if you are ready for real XTreme Hunting (tm) then I say go for the railgun in low-earth orbit.



Cheers
Aj

[SuperFemme]

if you put sara palin in a helicopter and told her she was shooting moose, she'd so be there.

[MsDemeanor]

Y'all are thinking waaaayyyyy too small.

1) All the Canadian conservatives move to the US
2) All the US liberals move to Canada or Mexico (depending on if they prefer hot or cold)
3) The US conservatives send every undocumented person back to Mexico, Central America, South America, Europe, Canada, Asia, and Africa
4) Liberals in Canada and Mexico (the US's two largest suppliers of imported oil) overwhelmingly vote to quit exporting oil to the US, on account of being offended by the conservatives complaining about having to import oil from countries that hate Americans (which, by now, Canada and Mexico will have become)
5) The entire conservative population of North America now resides in a country with food shortages from collapsed agriculture and poultry industries, spiraling deficits because all the rich hollywood and silicon valley liberals have left and taken their industries (and associated tax dollars) with them, reduced tourism because there's no one to clean the hotels and bus the restaurant dishes, and a severe oil shortage because the Middle East is now the US's only major oil source.

[dreadgeek]

I have often wished that we had another planet upon which we could run the libertarian experiment American conservatives have said they think would lead to the best of all societies.

One group could stay here, the other group would go to the other planet.

On one planet there would be public schools where children would learn history and science. There would be public libraries, public museums, civic symphonies and theatre. There would be a social safety net so that there was a minimum level below which no one would fall. There would be investment in public transportation and clean or renewable energy sources. Infrastructure would be maintained for the good of all. Taxes would be higher than they are now, but corporations would pay their share and the rich would pay their share. People would still be religious, of course, but there would be church, there would be state and the two would not meet.

On the other planet it would be a libertarian paradise. The ONLY regulations would be in favor of corporations restraining the actions of citizens--for example, it would be illegal to sue a company for damages due to a faulty product. It would be impossible to sue your physician. There would be no public schools, the churches would provide all educational and charitable services. There would be a flat-tax so the person making $10,000 a year would pay the same percentage in tax as the person making $10,000,000 a year. There would be no labor laws, no civil rights laws.

In schools children would learn that the Earth was 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs walked the planet at the same time. All scientific discoveries would be filtered through a religious authority to ensure that they were doctrinally correct. If they weren't then those discoveries would be suppressed.

There would be police, of course, who were mostly concerned with the protecting of corporate property. Guns would be easy to get and everyone would walk around with *at least* two. There would be no traffic laws to speak of however if you caused property damage you could be sued for that. If you caused the loss of life a citizen could sue another citizen.

Assuming that there were ethnic, religious, racial or sexual orientation minorities on this planet businesses would be free to discriminate against them in any way they chose that did not involve taking their property.

There would be no environmental regulations and labor unions would be outlawed.

Every generation (say 25 years) we could do a survey of the two planets and see which one had the happier, healthier, more long-lived population and we could see which one was more technologically advanced.

Cheers
Aj

[MsDemeanor]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

One group could stay here, the other group would go to the other planet.

Which planet gets the scientists who know how to create interplanetary weapons?

[The_Lady_Snow]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

Which planet gets the scientists who know how to create interplanetary weapons?

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

Which planet gets the scientists who know how to create interplanetary weapons?

The liberal one. Ultimately, science only really works in open societies and since the liberal society would allow scientific research to go apace without interference from the church and the other one would have the church looking over every research program for signs of doctrinal heresy, science would go further in the former. Science just doesn't do well in theocratic (or otherwise closed) societies -- look at what happened to Galileo and Copernicus or, more recently, look what happened to physics in Germany under the Nazi regime or biology under Stalinism.

Cheers
Aj

[The_Lady_Snow]

Stop the ignorance and racist, hateful rhetoric from the successor Arizona governor!! Beheadings? Contact her at http://azgovernor.gov/contact.asp and demand as a U.S. citizen that she retract her ignorance and provide data to substantiate her claims instigating bigotry and hate!! Vamos mi gente, stand up or shut up!!!



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[Linus]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

Linus:

No, no, please it would be rude for us to horde conservatives here and take Canadian conservatives as well. You know, we should share. The two countries, long history of friendship etc., and I don't know that we've ever given Canada anything...the French gave the U.S. the Statue of Liberty. I say we could give Canada the Tea Party movement as a token of our esteem and friendship. And at any rate, Canada has a lot of moose right? Conservatives like shooting moose. Everyone goes home happy--well, not the moose but you get the idea.

No need for thanks. It was nothing really.

Cheers
Aj

You did give us something: two gold medals this past year at the Olympics

And I don't think American conservatives would survive the Canadian Parliament. They'd have to learn how to issue insults without it appearing like an insult and they'd have to realize they've been insulted even from something that appears like a compliment.

And if you send Beck here, that will be reason for war. You have been warned! (and we've beaten the US once; we'd do it again and we'll inflict more Celine on you!)

Cheers, eh!

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Linus

You did give us something: two gold medals this past year at the Olympics

And I don't think American conservatives would survive the Canadian Parliament. They'd have to learn how to issue insults without it appearing like an insult and they'd have to realize they've been insulted even from something that appears like a compliment.

And if you send Beck here, that will be reason for war. You have been warned! (and we've beaten the US once; we'd do it again and we'll inflict more Celine on you!)

Cheers, eh!

I think Canada gives the US hope. A country next door that has a nationalized health care system, a country in which same-sex marriage is legal throughout and a country in which the transgendered can receive treatment via the health care system. Oh, and there are the Canadian Rockies which are the grandest in the world.

When I was there last, I was amazed at how Canadians saw GW Bush as he really is, an idiot!

Actually, I don't wish Beck on Canada at all! Never!! May he rest where the sun does not shine.. We just cannot do this to our northern neighbor!

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Linus

You did give us something: two gold medals this past year at the Olympics

The lemon juice and salt was just what that wound needed, thank you.

And I don't think American conservatives would survive the Canadian Parliament. They'd have to learn how to issue insults without it appearing like an insult and they'd have to realize they've been insulted even from something that appears like a compliment.

Actually I think that would be good for them. Character building, one might say.

And if you send Beck here, that will be reason for war. You have been warned! (and we've beaten the US once; we'd do it again and we'll inflict more Celine on you!)

Cheers, eh!

There's no need to go straight to the Singers of Mass Destruction! Wasn't Bryan Adams enough? What did we EVER do to you to rate that?

Cheers
Aj