Letters to the Editor
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Ya Got Your Canadian Fish...Ya Got Your American Fish
Friday, May 2, 2008
Ya got your Canadian Fish, Ya got your American Fish
Never thought of it like this. But it might be the future. Hell, it probably is the now. Today in Salon Deeply reads an Article titled So Long Canada by Edward McClelland. Yes folks, your government is screwing with your freedoms, not to mention those of our good neighbors-the Canadians, once again. Hi ho homeland security and hello hassle. To enter and return from Canada grows ever more absurd.
Let's see, one of the great things about our country has been the ease of travel at our borders-Mexico and Canada. For a while now, we have been screwing with our Southern border because of all those nasty illegal aliens, and all that nasty drug dealing...drug dealing that would not happen if we did not want the drugs. Make drugs legal, no criminals. But I could write a book about the USA's stupid drug policies. Where is my Vicodin, I need one. Pot what's pot. But that is not the point of this post.
Oh Canada, listen to their anthem, easier to sing and nicer than ours too. Well, Oh screw you Canada is what we are doing. In 2009 we will need passports...they will need passports... Just to cross the border. Nothing like a ‘good-neighbor policy’
Well great, take one of the best border situations in the world and ruin it. Thanks Doofus, one more 'Mission Accomplished' in your great screwing of America.
Deeply grew up traveling to Canada, nothing to it, jump in the car and there you were... In Canada. Even in the days of the Vietnam war it was easy unless the Nixon thugs of that era decided to screw with some hippies, long hairs, and you were one of them. But today, Windsor-Detroit.. restaurants closing, strip bars in trouble, stockpiled auto parts..all because of our five thousand mile border with Canada, and some possible bad guys...
There's nasty bears and moose in Canada, that's true. And Alice, you wanted to go to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, the less messed up side... Again forget it. To the moon. Way too much hassle. You want to see a hockey game...you want to go next door and grab a Molsons with some of your buddies, stay home.
And back to the Fish. Let's see the Canadian border runs right up the middle of Lake Huron. It runs through Lake Superior. Well ya got your Canadian fish and your American fish. And what about the boaters who routinely go across Lake Eerie, or
across Lake Huron or up to Georgian Bay? Hell, now there will probably be increased customs, and greater coast guard harrasement. Thanks again Doofus...THANKS! I did not realize camels could swim.
Never elect a Republican Again....Please.
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Oh MacK
You epitomize what is wrong with this country right now and sorry man, Bush can't be blamed for what is wrong with you. I wrote quite a bit of a response, but finally I deleted knowing coming down to your level is wrong. I try not to hide behind a computer like you do Mac and be someone I am not in real life. Perhaps you really are this vile and vulgar and horribly rude in real life, I don't know, but I am not and will not be. Your a horribly, miserable person Mac.
Here is merely a portion of what I was going to write. Feel free to respond here, but I will just see you on another board sometime.
SHOW SOME PROOF!!!!!!
You get on here and say nothing. I don't care if you want to express your opinion, but have some decency and self respect.
Look it up about tourism, !!! http://www.tinet.ita.doc.gov/research/monthly/arrivals/
Your idea of proof to just claim, "it is common sense" may fly with some of your buddies in the Salon, but it doesn't with thinking people (and for your sake, I won't even throw myself in that category).
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@donut44 - learn to read
the statistics you quote *clearly* show how badly tourism suffered from Bush's Merry Bunch Of DHS Gestapo men.
Go compare it to pre-Bush statistics. That is, 2000 or earlier - when people still assumed the US was some kind of rational and dependable place to travel to.
The key figures to look for are Overseas and Western Europe travel. They suffered *badly* and have not yet climbed back to 2000 level, (though rising back slightly, no doubt due to the US Dollar trying hard to reach banana republic currency status.)
They are compensated by increased Mexican and Canadian arrivals - but the question here is how much of this is just a bookkeeping artifact - small time travel that used to go unaccounted for in the past but is now forced into the books by the harsher rules.
And, even if they are real, that doesn't make them tourism.
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Texas-as Undesirable as Mexico
"there's an election on, remember?"
Let me laugh now. Perhaps you missed the interview with Scalia on 60 minutes, where he virtually admitted stealing the election on behalf of Bush. And with Diebold, a major contributor to Republican and arch-conservative political causes, the major producer of voting machines, I do not expect an honest election.
Ah Texas. Yes, home of the the happy christians who so enthusiastically support executions.
Guns in every gas-guzzling pick-up, no carry permit required. Public school education...currently duking it out with other bottom-of-the-barrel states. Polygamists, right-wing nut jobs and their followers,and illegal aliens everywhere. As a state, Texas is a dead-loss for the Union..it drains more Federal tax dollars than it contributes. A true welfare queen.
Maybe the Mexicans will finally claim it by adverse possession...and relieve us of the burden.
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@Glad the Inhaler
According to published U.S Weather Service figures, lightning kills about 60 American civilians each year. According to published U.S. State Department figures, apart from Sept 11, 2001, the most American civilians killed by terrorist activity in recent years was 56 in 2005, all of them in Baghdad.
Not quite so. There were the 168 American civilians killed by a terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City in April 1995. But hey, that atrocity (until 9/11 by far the worst the country had ever suffered) was inflicted by a white supremacist right-wing militia ex-military dude, so I guess one can understand the collective American amnesia over that incident. It doesn't count as terrorism the same way that attacks by Islamic extremists do...at least according to the typical American's weltanschauung.
But, limiting your case to foreign terrorism directed at American targets, your point is a valid one.