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Posted: Sep 28, 2016 - 2:03pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

The secret code-name of a RadioParadise operative :hush-hush:

 
Then in that case I hope he never shows up in Florida. Too many Canadians down here anyway.
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Posted: Sep 28, 2016 - 1:31pm

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I'll bite. Who / what is Quimby Nutbush?
I lead a sheltered life -LOL.

 
The secret code-name of a RadioParadise operative :hush-hush:
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Posted: Sep 28, 2016 - 1:07pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Well if you accept the premise, sure. Plenty of GOP knobs said they'd move to Canada if Obama won/got reelected. It is the 51st state, after all.
 
I'd move to Mexico no problem, and I've only ever been there one time, and not very far into it. But out in the countryside, it was nice. But the meme is Canada because there's not as much risk of culture shock, unless you count Quimby Nutbush.

 
I'll bite. Who / what is Quimby Nutbush?
I lead a sheltered life -LOL.
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Posted: Sep 28, 2016 - 10:59am

 westslope wrote:

Clearly from your perspective Sirdos, the US economy could benefit from fewer smart, highly productive people.  Given that Canada could use more smart, highly productive workers, I see a mutually beneficial exchange here, don't you?    

The other way of looking at this is the whole issue of celebrity narcissism.  Celebrity narcissism is really important to many Americans who view their favourite celebrities as 'nice people'.  

We'll gladly take those Americans that have a major problem with celebrity narcissism.   (Disregarding the fact that celebrity narcissism enjoys a lot of support in Canada, see magazines that populate grocery store check-out aisles.)  

Besides, do 'nice people' build social wealth or simply create personal wealth by refusing to pay contractors or risk-managing projects so 'other' financiers lose millions in a simple zero-sum game?   if that is the case Sirdos, please keep your 'nice people'.  

 





Not sure I understand any of this, I certainly do not know anyone who thinks celebrities are nice people, at least not the people in my circles. Personally I think most celebrities are not nice people by virtue of human nature and the response to fame and money (it is not usually good). In other words, most famous and wealthy people suck because they can plain and simple. As far as the rest, I am a simple man, but I know the difference between nice people and not so nice people and most of the nice ones are the ones with less material possessions and financial assets. Anyway, I do hope that many, many people do migrate to Canada or quite frankly anywhere but here because we could definitely use a population downsizing of any type of people I don't care who they are, just go on and git if you are not happy in any way with this country, we will endeavor to persevere without you. Or they can stay if they want, I am a big believer in personal freedom however I would prefer they leave cause less people is better, that is one of the few universal truths that I believe in.


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Posted: Sep 28, 2016 - 10:01am

 sirdroseph wrote:
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Hell yea sounds great, I hope lots and lots of people take you up on this. Especially the smart people, I have always said we could use a lot less smart people and more kind people for they are far more rare. Smart people are everywhere and quite frankly are starting to get on my nerves.
 
Clearly from your perspective Sirdos, the US economy could benefit from fewer smart, highly productive people.  Given that Canada could use more smart, highly productive workers, I see a mutually beneficial exchange here, don't you?    

The other way of looking at this is the whole issue of celebrity narcissism.  Celebrity narcissism is really important to many Americans who view their favourite celebrities as 'nice people'.  

We'll gladly take those Americans that have a major problem with celebrity narcissism.   (Disregarding the fact that celebrity narcissism enjoys a lot of support in Canada, see magazines that populate grocery store check-out aisles.)  

Besides, do 'nice people' build social wealth or simply create personal wealth by refusing to pay contractors or risk-managing projects so 'other' financiers lose millions in a simple zero-sum game?   if that is the case Sirdos, please keep your 'nice people'.  


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Posted: Sep 27, 2016 - 9:37am

 westslope wrote:
I listened to far too much of the presidential debate yesterday.   

I started getting visions of Americans fleeing north.    

Please do send us your brightest and your best.  Educated, skilled self-styled liberals and progressives or thoughtful intellectual conservative Republicans who feel spurned:  Welcome!  Brown, black, pasty-faced, asexual, tri-sexual...  we don't care, all are welcome.  (It will take more than a few years before you fully dial into Canadian down-home special interest politics.... enjoy the bliss period.)

If you care about fellow Americans, you should stay home and struggle to heal America.  But if it becomes too much......  we're happy to have you.  

 





Hell yea sounds great, I hope lots and lots of people take you up on this. Especially the smart people, I have always said we could use a lot less smart people and more kind people for they are far more rare. Smart people are everywhere and quite frankly are starting to get on my nerves.


westslope

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Posted: Sep 27, 2016 - 9:09am

I listened to far too much of the presidential debate yesterday.   

I started getting visions of Americans fleeing north.    

Please do send us your brightest and your best.  Educated, skilled self-styled liberals and progressives or thoughtful intellectual conservative Republicans who feel spurned:  Welcome!  Brown, black, pasty-faced, asexual, tri-sexual...  we don't care, all are welcome.  (It will take more than a few years before you fully dial into Canadian down-home special interest politics.... enjoy the bliss period.)

If you care about fellow Americans, you should stay home and struggle to heal America.  But if it becomes too much......  we're happy to have you.  
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Posted: Mar 11, 2016 - 1:06pm


It’s 2017: Trump refugees are here with U-Hauls full of crap


For those not familiar with Canadian geography, Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba is often referred to as 'Winterpeg'.  Arctic isotherms dip far south close to southern Manitoba, northern Ontario and north western Quebec.

It’s 2017: Trump refugees are here with U-Hauls full of crap

Scott Feschuk on a humanitarian crisis with big-screen TVs

 

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Any news organization can tell you what happened yesterday. Only Maclean’s can tell you what happened a year from now.

OTTAWA (March 18, 2017) — Under pressure from human rights groups and probably also Bono, the federal government has announced it will take in a quarter of a million Americans who have been massing along the Canadian border since the election of President Donald Trump.

“This is a humanitarian crisis,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, while doing that thing where he squints a little bit to show that, yeah, he gets it. “Along our border, Trump refugees are arriving with the shirt on their back—plus U-Hauls crammed with pleather sofas, large-screen TVs and, in all likelihood, more shirts.” There are reports a small faction of refugees recently spent the night at a Best Western near the Buffalo airport. “It’s worse than we feared,” Trudeau said.

In a move designed to highlight the severity of the crisis, the federal government revealed a video montage of sad Bernie Sanders supporters set to a Sarah McLachlan song.

Reaction from Washington was swift. “They’re a bunch of losers and Canada can have them,” President Trump said. “And, by the way, those traitors are not getting back in. We’re going to build a wall 200 feet high —and Canada is going to pay for it. And paint it.” The new Canada Wall will eventually meet up with the recently announced Trump Dome, which is being constructed to protect the U.S. from parachuting Mexicans.

The scale of the northward exodus clearly caught Trump off guard. After spending the weekend at Camp Trump, the President travelled on Air Trump One to the Trump House, where he addressed the nation from Trump West Wing, a new five-star luxury resort only steps from the Oval Office. Most of his 48-minute speech was about how someone had obviously been sitting in his chair while he was gone, because it felt higher or maybe lower but definitely different.

In an attempt at damage control, the Trump administration revealed that a number of Canadians have moved to the U.S. since the November election. That “number” turned out to be one. “Look, I just want to live in a country where the lazy, ill-informed views of crackpots are blindly accepted as gospel,” Kevin O’Leary said.

Since taking office, the President has been preoccupied with making good on his pledge to round up the 11 million illegal immigrants from Mexico currently living in America. Phase one of his plan—putting out plates of tacos and deporting everyone who grabs a bite—has so far met with limited success.

Political observers also question the wisdom of Trump’s month-long fight in Congress to have Heidi Klum enshrined in law as “at best an eight.” And they insist legislative progress has been undermined by Trump’s choice of a nominee for the Supreme Court: himself in a fake moustache.

The pressure at the Canadian border began the morning after Trump was elected in November. It escalated after his inauguration, during which the new commander-in-chief forced the U.S. poet laureate to recite a limerick about the presidential “package.” (A hardcover edition of There Once Was a Man from Wig Weenus—“with doodles by President Donald Trump!”—was subsequently published.)

Over the past few months, thousands of left-leaning Americans have been caught trying to sneak into Canada. All have been sentenced to the harshest penalty available under Canadian law: a firm “You go back home now, you.”

In Ottawa, Immigration Minister John McCallum called on church groups and other Canadian sponsors to be diligent in their support of Trump refugees. “I can’t overstate the emotional trauma of fleeing your homeland and trying to build a new life in a country that doesn’t have the good Netflix.”

That’s just one of the challenges. Many Americans will arrive with only a limited knowledge of Canada, McCallum said. “Most of them are expecting something between the ice planet Hoth and a barren moonscape devoid of life, hope and joy. But there’s only so many people we can send to Winnipeg.”

Speaking from his hometown of Calgary, the newly chosen leader of the federal Conservative party criticized Trudeau’s plan and said Canada should close its border to Americans. “Those people deserve what they’re getting,” Ted Cruz said.

 

westslope

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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 3:04pm

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Thanks R_P.    Hilarious.  Especially the dig at some Canadian popular music exports!
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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 2:46pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Well if you accept the premise, sure. Plenty of GOP knobs said they'd move to Canada if Obama won/got reelected. It is the 51st state, after all.
 
I'd move to Mexico no problem, and I've only ever been there one time, and not very far into it. But out in the countryside, it was nice. But the meme is Canada because there's not as much risk of culture shock, unless you count Quimby Nutbush.

 
Quimby Nutbush?   

Better than Mexico...  Costa Rica, an isolated corner of Panama, Chile, Argentina (as long as you keep your money elsewhere), even Colombia. 
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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 10:15am

 lily34 wrote:

i miss him.

 
Work on your aim and try again.
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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 9:34am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
Well if you accept the premise, sure. Plenty of GOP knobs said they'd move to Canada if Obama won/got reelected. It is the 51st state, after all.
 
I'd move to Mexico no problem, and I've only ever been there one time, and not very far into it. But out in the countryside, it was nice. But the meme is Canada because there's not as much risk of culture shock, unless you count Quimby Nutbush. 

And Quimby spoke pretty good English, which I hear is a thing up in Canada. Not so much in Mexico.

Nutbushes, I mean. They do have agave plants, which are good for making Canadian whiskey.
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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 9:31am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Well if you accept the premise, sure. Plenty of GOP knobs said they'd move to Canada if Obama won/got reelected. It is the 51st state, after all.
 
I'd move to Mexico no problem, and I've only ever been there one time, and not very far into it. But out in the countryside, it was nice. But the meme is Canada because there's not as much risk of culture shock, unless you count Quimby Nutbush.

 
i miss him.
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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 9:27am

 helenofjoy wrote:

Canada seems the appropriate choice considering global warming and all, no?

 
Well if you accept the premise, sure. Plenty of GOP knobs said they'd move to Canada if Obama won/got reelected. It is the 51st state, after all.
 
I'd move to Mexico no problem, and I've only ever been there one time, and not very far into it. But out in the countryside, it was nice. But the meme is Canada because there's not as much risk of culture shock, unless you count Quimby Nutbush.
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Posted: Mar 8, 2016 - 7:13am

 rotekz wrote:
 
Canada seems the appropriate choice considering global warming and all, no?
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Posted: Mar 7, 2016 - 12:26pm

 bokey wrote:
I bought in big on oil stocks a couple weeks ago at 2016's lows and have gotten an 8-9% increase in a month.While others were worrying about over production and OPEC dumping I went with my gut and have already paid for my upcoming vacations this year.There should be a good surge when the US refineries cut back production soon,then when the namby pambys jump in too late I'll cash out quick and eat their lunch.Thanks Oh Donald.

 
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Posted: Mar 7, 2016 - 12:23pm

 westslope wrote:

Peter Hodson: Five questions at the top of investors’ minds these days

Peter Hodson | March 4, 2016 3:43 PM ET

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3. If Trump becomes president, what in the world should I do?

This question is getting lots of traction with our client base. This week's primaries will only to serve to heighten investor anxiety. It was interesting also this week that one of the leading Internet search trends recently was 'how do I move to Canada?' as US citizens fret about what may or may not happen. The issue with Trump is uncertainty. You never know what he might say, or do, or whom he might offend. For markets, one of the worst things in uncertainty, and Trump as President would keep investors guessing, likely on a daily basis. While the market has a very good way of discounting politics in advance, and generally it is wiser to ignore most politics when investing, this election will likely change that. We really have no idea how markets might react to a President Trump. But it is not likely to be a giant rally: We would keep some cash or gold on hand, just in case.

 



 I bought in big on oil stocks a couple weeks ago at 2016's lows and have gotten an 8-9% increase in a month.While others were worrying about over production and OPEC dumping I went with my gut and have already paid for my upcoming vacations this year.There should be a good surge when the US refineries cut back production soon,then when the namby pambys jump in too late I'll cash out quick and eat their lunch.Thanks Oh Donald.
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