Reply #85: I heard that Iceland was wonderful

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from some friends who visited and I've always been intrigued by news reports and various PBS specials about it. It seems like a very interesting place to live. I think all the "natives" are descended from Vikings, and most can trace their family back centuries.

Knowing that, I wonder if they welcome immigrants.

I'd consider moving. I would love to stay and fight, but I have a beautiful little girl I worry about and have to protect. I agree with above posters, I think 2006 will be the pivotal point in this mess. If they win or steal 2006, I think we're shot for a while. And I wouldn't be surprised (as vicious as the us-vs-them rhetoric has become) to see it come down to another Civil War.

And I think as a writer and an educator, I can do a lot more good away from the noose, as it were. If I have free speech somewhere else, I can/could use it, instead of watching the 'Net and blogs and whatnot become another wing of the Repub party. It could happen.

I also don't think the fourth Reich comments are that far off base. A lot of the behaviors (rights restrictions, going after those who are "flawed" like gays and non-Christians) are similar. I like to think that it could never get to that point in America -- but I also like to believe that the good people living in Germany in 1930-40 thought it could never happen in their country either.

Just food for thought. Let's not fight each other for our choices, there *are* two sides to each decision.

And, please, let's not slam on each other by saying one person isn't patriotic and another is because of their choices? I am so sick of the Repugs telling me/us that I'm not a patriot because I think the Iraq war is wrong, or because I think our pResident is a lying Coke-head that the word "patriot" has been completely ruined for me. It's difficult for me to want to even fly the flag because I feel it's be co-opted by them and folks will think I'm one! Maybe I'm insane, but that's how I feel.

Let's not ruin patriotism for each other, okay? The Repugs are doing a good enough job as it is... and everyone's version of what is a "patriot" is personal and different.