GTFO, Alberta

[tripathy]

Alberta: Truly Canada's Texas.

This is just bloody embarrassing. The fact that it's buried in a bill that extends rights to homosexuals is sickening. These assholes can't allow progress in one part of life without taking something away from another. And if they achieve this first step backwards, what next?

Note in the video that the kids are open-minded, but the old fogies are gonna put a stop to that, gosh darn it! We can't have kids believing different things from their parents, now, can we? Learning is bad.

I think we need to transplant that province down into the American south where it apparently belongs. Aren't there a couple of blue states down there who could benefit greatly from being up here in Alberta's place?

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[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

"All they've done is make Alberta look like Northumberland and sound like Arkansas," Mason said.

Heh.

I think I'd rather have British Columbia -- that way we'd get mountains and a beautiful coastline.

But yeah ... ignorance, I'm afraid, knows no boundaries. :-(

[tripathy.livejournal.com]

And a more laid-back pot and snowboarding culture! Also, depending on where you are, you don't get winter, really. Just a lot of rain. (Which to me is really bleh.)

The only thing about Alberta is a certain portion of Calgary is made up of my old classmates and other graduates of our program working for various oil companies. I guess there aren't enough former easterners there to bring brains to the province overall, though :(.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Heh. I'll pass on the rain, thanks. *g*

Oh! A quick question? Would it be conceivable for a McGill student in 1987 to claim that he's a third cousin twice removed on his mother's side (in other words, a tenuous connection at best) to someone like Claude Lemieux or Guy Carbonneau? And he really is from Buckingham or Sept-Iles?

[tripathy.livejournal.com]

Sure, I don't see why not. McGill has loads of francophone students, and they can come from anywhere. We have someone working in the department now who is from Sept-Iles and was a student herself back in the late 80s, so it's absolutely plausible.

Making them tenuously related to one of the Montreal hockey greats is also plausible, I guess (my sister went to school with the grandson of one of the Montreal hockey greats of the 50s), and I'd bet said student would be enjoying the claim to fame of being related to someone on the team who had just won the 1986 Stanley Cup ^_~.

So sure, go right ahead!

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

YAY!

*g* This kid's barely going to even have a walk-on part, but he's one of Wilson's first roommates, and someone who got him interested in ice hockey. I haven't named him yet -- got any names you'd like to throw out?

[elaryn.livejournal.com]

Hey! California here! Can we trade? Pleeeease?

[tripathy.livejournal.com]

I don't know about that, California. Your state voted against gay marriage, and that's pretty backwards. I think you'll have to do a bit better before you get a passing grade on the Progress Test for your entry into Canada.

Try back in a few months once you've fixed that problem?

[elaryn.livejournal.com]

We (my husband and I) voted in favour of same-sex marriage, AND I can spell properly. How about we just move up there? =00=

[tripathy.livejournal.com]

Sure, you can come ^_^. You're just not allowed to bring regressive people with you, which is why you have to leave the majority of the state at home.