Reply #107: The line starts here...

[Orsino]

My wife and I have been planning the move for a couple of years now. The "election" results have only stepped up our timetable. We've realized that we can *talk* about universal health care and gay marriage for the next twenty years--or until we're locked up for it--or we can go support it *now*, and subsidize the purchase of fewer bombers while we're at it.

The progressive nation I fantasize about will never exist, but the Canadians are hitting some of the the right notes. speaking of notes, any nation cool enough to put Scott Thompson on its money is a place I want to live.

Yeah, we know: by leaving, we're ceding the field to the nasty forces of corporate darkness. Our hats are off to you brave folks who want to continue to fight the good fight, and we wish you luck. As long as we are citizens, we'll keep on voting against the fascists (in case someone decides to start counting votes again), and maybe we'll be in a position to help some of you when the time comes for you to flee.

It'll take a few years, but we are determined to become Canadian. I'll do my best to remind 'em that not all Americans are corrupt and willfully ignorant.