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I saw this on, of all things, a sports message board. Here it is and my response. I tried to be polite, but it was very difficult.
Post:
<I am buying gold and looking at relocating to Canada for the next four years. It's only going to get worse. Women voters decided the election....I guess getting access to birth control and abortions was more important to them than jobs or the economy. How naive.>
Response:
Yeah, that right to control your own destiny, be it business or personal, is pretty absurd. But wait....isn't that a huge part of what one party is in favor of? Freedom without government interference? I suppose having the government force women to be subject to demeaning medical exams before being allowed LEGAL access to abortion doesn't fall into that "freedom" category. Or being forced to carry a child conceived by rape. Or worse, bearing a child that might be her brother, cousin, grandchild because of incest?? REALLY?
DaM WIMIN and their demands!!! Access to affordable medical care, contraceptions, safe abortions! Jeez, what else will they demand????? Equal pay??
New at this "my Queen trumps your Jack" thing. How'd I do?
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)I wish I had put something in there about the women who did elect abortion so they weren't forced to be on Welfare or food stamps in order to survive day to day. But their attention span may not be that long.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,683 posts)Rock on!
rivegauche
(601 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)It was fun replying that twit.
ismnotwasm
(41,999 posts)And gold hoarders.
Oh, and no legal limit on abortion BTW. You want one, you get one. Paid for by socialized medicine. Of course the crazy rwnuts kill MD's who provide abortion up there as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Canada
Poor Canada. We should probably issue a warning out of neighborliness.
War Horse
(931 posts)talking about moving to France earlier. It's unreal.
Michigan Alum
(335 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)Doodler71
(443 posts)They cover child care and universal preschool and universal health care. Plus there are taxes for historical preservation and caring for elderly.
The country with low taxes, small government run by the religious right is Pakistan. That is where they need to go.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)(having slept through geography class, if their school even offered geography) is that Mitt spent two years there.
XtopherXtopher
(70 posts)"Hi, French people! Wanna join my anti-wine, anti-coffee religion? Hey, where's everyone going? Don't you want to be saved from secularism and pre-marital sex?"
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)I bet that went over REALLY well.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)I think this missionary business is really, quietly, intended to give the young men a chance to go sow wild oats before settling down with one (or a hidden two or three) woman and start making babies for the Cause (Mormonism growth). Just like the Amish, only they HAVE to return to the LDS church.
flygal
(3,231 posts)he said sadly "yeah, I didn't baptize too many while I was there"
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)XtopherXtopher
(70 posts)mmmm, tasty, tasty, Gauloise.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)I want to use that if I get a response from the OP.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Don't forget the gay marriage thing.
I attended one last year. In the nude.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)But, I don't think I want to see the wedding album. Gotta be a close friend for that.
unc70
(6,117 posts)A couple of the clueless at wral.com
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)the fundies are starting to take over NZ.
unc70
(6,117 posts)Will check on that. Hadn't heard that.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)But, well played.
arthritisR_US
(7,291 posts)and we even have the Equal Pay Act along with our law legalizing gay marriage.
dalaigh lllama
(2,092 posts)the idiots who decided REMOVING access to birth control and abortions was more important to them than jobs or the economy.
Iris
(15,665 posts)caraher
(6,279 posts)Too bad... we'd like a SANE country again, please!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Well played!
central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)there are trolls there that make freepers sound like genteel Rhodes scholars
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Is very civilized. In fact, we pretty much shut down any political discussions. Try to keep it focused on baseball. But if you tune into the Phillies MLB board, it's a different story.
EDIT: I'm a Nats fan. Our board is pretty fun. No political stuff. And a great deal of respect for one another.
GO NATS!!!
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)left them behind during the bush years
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)And, if this putz thinks Canada will welcome him with open arms, he's living in La La Land. Good luck finding a job up there, because they won't let you in unless you have one.
JI7
(89,262 posts)Canada is communist according to them.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)I leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave
progressoid
(49,996 posts)Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Once he's a bit more civilized and willing to listen to reason, they'll let him live in the old Fort so he can re-enact the days before toilet paper. It's supposedly quite therapeutic for hard core conservatives transitioning from American Democracy to Canadian Socialism.
LeftishBrit
(41,209 posts)But let him relocate to Canada if he likes; even with the vile Harper as PM, it's still far more 'socialized' than the US. And they have women's rights there too!
If he wants to move somewhere where women's rights are treated as irrelevant, might I suggest Iran or Saudi Arabia?
duhneece
(4,116 posts)Taitertots
(7,745 posts)When Bush was not elected it was easy for liberal to pick a country that they would like to move to.
RedCappedBandit
(5,514 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)but you have to watch playing "my queen trumps your jack" with mental midgets.....they will just insist over and over that a jack wins. Or their jackass was robbed.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)If I run the board, like Nate, nobody is gonna be able to trump me. Facts are facts. They can whine all they want. My hand wins. "Deal" with it!!!!!
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Canada provides for free abortions, contraception and health care. OMG...this person is going to have a total meltdown when they realize they have entered "socialism"....
I hope they have their heart medication with them.
cherish44
(2,566 posts)I know WAY more men who voted solely on the gun issue than I do women who voted solely on the reproductive rights issue.
Skittles
(153,185 posts)FOR EVER THINKING SHE COULD BE "DISGUSTED ENOUGH" WITH THE GOP
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)....Sophiegirl!
avebury
(10,952 posts)TheAmbivalante
(114 posts)...do anything you can to help them achieve their goal. Find them nice places in Canada.
Four years of Canadian Healthcare might bring them back to the states with the idea that ObamaCare needs to go further!
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 8, 2012, 12:50 AM - Edit history (1)
Makes me want to go out and light some illegal fireworks....
Not that I, of course, would be the lawbreaker. I am not pretentious enough to be unlawful.....like some recent candidates whom shall not be named......BUT STILL... I gots me some matches in hand. Just waiting for the neighbors to go to sleep! Hehe!!
Nah. I'm too tired and too old to cause a neighborhood raucous. I kinda like 'em. So, I'll just go to bed with the rest of 'em. 90% Dems I might add. They deserve a bit of rest.
'Night all. Tomorrow is another day, Scarlett.
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Iris
(15,665 posts)Is it so hard for them to think this way? What good is having a job if you are paid hourly, have no sick time and are staying home with 5 or 6 children as they alternately become sick? Or, in the case of an unplanned pregnancy, had to lose hours/$$$ for doctor's appointments and an unpaid maternity leave? And if that pregnancy were the result of rape, you'd be losing money b/c you were a victim of a crime.
Stupid stupid people.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Quote from a friend.