Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
We Get Another Chance
I’m going to leave it as an “Article of Faith” that after both of George W. Bush’s election victories, lots and lots of folks announced to anyone paying attention that they were moving to Canada. Not that I can’t find links to support that, but if I started to collect them such an effort would undoubtedly lead to scope creep. Do I want to pick on the Hollywood celebrities, or the commoners? How far should I look into that proven/unproven claim that Alec Baldwin never took the pledge, and it was his wife at the time who misinterpreted him? What exactly did these people want out of a Gore or Kerry victory? On and on it would go. I just don’t want to get into it. I think we can all agree there were a lot of people, they were making a lot of noise, and in theory we were ready for a mass exodus of disaffected Americans who were ready to beat feet out of here.
Canada has apparently been looking forward to an influx of well-to-do, professional yankees with eager sympathy for gun control laws and nanny-state government. Alas, bobbing up in the Soup of Reality is a Dead Fly of Disappointment:
In the days after President Bush won a second term, the number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada’s main immigration Web site shot up sixfold, prompting speculation that unhappy Democrats would flock north.
But official statistics show the number of Americans actually applying to live permanently in Canada fell in the six months after the election.
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Data from the main Canadian processing center in Buffalo, NY shows that in the six months up to the U.S. election there were 16,266 applications from people seeking to live in Canada, a figure that fell to 14,666 for the half year after the vote.
I’m really confused now. It’s long been one of the Talking Points of the left that the Bush-voting “Red States” are the irresponsible people, which are leeching off the “Blue States” through pork barrel spending and farm subsidies. Red States are also supposed to have lower I.Q.s on average. The target of the acrimony, President Bush, spends money like a horse going through water, which further implies fiscal irresponsibility involved in the states that support him. So these disaffected Democrats must be like really intelligent, mature, articulate and responsible blue-bloods who are tired of living with the riff-raff I suppose…
…why then are they acting just like the little kid who decides to give his parents one more chance, after threatening to move out because he gets dishwasher duty once or twice a week?
Canada has been let down. We have got to find a way to blame this on Bush!
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