In other news...
Mood:  not sure
Topic: Hightailin' to Canada!
I heard some poop right after the election last year that many people here were thinking of splitting to Canada and get out from under the Bush regime. I thought that might be mostly talk despite the fact that Canadian Immigration's website received a record number of hits on 11/3/04. It still continues:

(International Herald Tribune)
Christopher Key, A Vietnam Vet and ancestor to Francis Scott Key ('The Star Spangled Banner') has his house on the market and is planning to split:
"For him, the re-election of George W. Bush was the last straw.

"I love the United States," he said as he stood on the Vancouver waterfront, staring toward the Coastal Range, which was lost in a gray shroud. "I fought for it in Vietnam. It's a wrenching decision to think about leaving. But America is turning into a country very different from the one I grew up believing in."

Amen to that...I mean I don't want to move out myself, though I have thought about it, I do share the feeling that THIS is NOT the America I grew up believeing in anymore either. It is very depressing and distressing when the further youlook into the demon the worse it is.

At any rate, there can't be THAT many people splitting right? Just a couple of crazy liberals, right?

"The number of U.S. citizens who are actually submitting Canadian immigration papers and making concrete plans is about three or four times higher than normal," said Linda Mark, an immigration lawyer in Vancouver.

How many is that? The article says maybe 18,000 people...Not that many but still it is about equal to the population of an average small town? That is definitely more than a few...And for reasons such as:
"I don't want to participate in what this administration is doing here and around the world. Under Bush, the U.S. seems to be leading the pack as the world spirals down."

"Many of those interviewed said the idea of moving to Canada had been simmering in the backs of their minds for years, partly as a reaction to what they saw as a rightward drift in the United States and partly as a desire to live in a place they see as more tolerant, pacific and, yes, liberal. But for all, the re-election of Bush was decisive."


Stupid Liberals..."Love it or LEAVE IT!!!" Derp-di-derpity-derp! Surely this will matter very little in any big picture but it is indicative of a true change in climate here since the dawn of Dubya...

I am starting to see things like this out there:

"Today's Conservatives are Fascists." Pointing to the justification of torture by conservative legal theorists, widespread support for a militaristic foreign policy..."

OR

"The Reality of Red State Fascism," which claimed that "the most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism. Whereas the conservative middle class once cheered the circumscribing of the federal government, it now celebrates power and adores the central state, particularly its military wing."

Then there's...

"Rockwell describes a populist Right website that originally rallied for the impeachment of Bill Clinton as "hate-filled ... advocating nuclear holocaust and mass bloodshed for more than a year now."

One of the biggest right-wing talk-radio hosts regularly calls for the mass destruction of Arab cities.

Letters that come to this magazine from the pro-war Right leave no doubt that their writers would welcome the jailing of dissidents.

And of course it's not just us. When USA Today founder Al Neuharth wrote a column suggesting that American troops be brought home sooner rather than later, he was blown away by letters comparing him to Tokyo Rose and demanding that he be tried as a traitor.

That mood, Rockwell notes, dwarfs anything that existed during the Cold War. "It celebrates the shedding of blood, and exhibits a maniacal love of the state. The new ideology of the red-state bourgeoisie seems to actually believe that the US is God marching on earth--not just godlike, but really serving as a proxy for God himself."

YIKES! That all came from Digby's Hullabaloo
(http://digbysblog.blogspot.com) The article is from the American Conservative...Even people on the right are starting to get worried!