life is a cabaret, ol' chum

I don't think Canada and the US will join up - I think that Canadians are justifiably reticent to get too close to Americans as we tend to be extremist and violent. Canadians have lots of guns - but Canadians are usually not so disgruntled as to go killing stuff (i.e. People.) I tend to be more tuned to temperance, and Esbee's reaction to my thoughts on expatriation are a little bit of a nudge in that direction. My people were living in Texas before it was a country, let alone a state, but I stll see my uncles and aunts and cousins getting treated like second class citizens in Texas, where they've been citizens for so many generations it's ridiculous. I can't trace my Apache and Yaqui history because the Apache wouldn't stop fighting and the Yaqui wouldn't start. Well, that's an oversimplification but pretty acurate. I guess my point is that my urge to expatriate myself should be welcome by rabid Americans who say "Love it or leave it!" Well I love it... but more and more I think about leaving - or at least retreating to the hills... Maybe I'm a wuss (prolly) but I'm scared of the way things is going. Pardon me.

So, do you like or dislike our system?

It won't happen. Our economies are already closely intertwined, merging politically would be pointless. And why without Quebec?

[Edited on Nov 30, 2003 by troglodyte]

Sorry, but nuclear proliferation is a bad thing, they're a menace in anyone's hands. North Korea's actions have made the world a more dangerous place for the sake of vanity. how is that repectable or admirable?

This isn't a game. This is real.

Actually, I'm pretty sure they're all materialists...