taking back the american revolution

Hi, I am new to this community. My situation is.....I filed as a refugee claimant based on domestic violence and was rejected. I have very few options open, but one is too pay my lawyer 150 for a chance of appeal to but some time. I have a job. The hard part of my case is that we were fast tracked. I am in Toronot with my 13 year old son.

Does anyone have ideas on what I should do for my next step?

Wow, according to this story, we must have gotten tired of squawking about what a big dumb fuckhead our president is.

The American people have shouted themselves hoarse against this folksy dimwit/idealogue long enough to get discouraged. Hey, here's another insult to the American people that goes by the name of Bolton (not the singer).

For fuck's sake man, how much longer?

I think Canada should join the European Union. As a British citizen, it would make it easier for me to defect. Also Quebec could do an "independence in Europe" thing and it wouldn't be such a big deal.

Why just focus on Canada? Canada is going to run full on its quotas on Americans. The Netherlands, Ireland, etc. are also good candidates.

Look here, for example.

The idea behind Marry An American is simple: You have the power to rescue a progressive American from four more years of George W. Bush, should he be re-elected.

Americans, sick of the political climate of their homeland, have long sought refuge within Canadian borders. And let's face it, when compared to the United States, Canada is a liberal utopia & we have universal healthcare (in two languages!), gay marriage, free marijuana for everyone, and we don't like guns.

Already, our American counterparts are fleeing the U.S. in droves and buying up land along our borders. We envision a movement where everyone wins: Freedom of expression and a politically convenient marriage with love and igloos for all.

Canadian singles, tired of the dating scene, are willing to act for love or just plain pity. Let's drop our borders/inhibitions/commitment issues, set a date, pick out our china patterns and wed a sexy American liberal.

My favourite Buddy Coles monologue (from Kids in the Hall):

( Buddy: I'm CanadianCollapse )

I've been a member of this community for some time now, and I really introduced myself or anything like that.

I'm Adam (or Riley depending on who the person met me through). I'm 21 and I live in Riga, NY (about an hour from the US/Canada Border). All my life I had always loved going to Canada...even if it was just to Niagara Falls (which I now refuse to consider being part of Canada. It's more like a crappy tourist trap extention of America.)

Every year my father and I would take a trip to Toronto to go to a motorcycle convention on New Years Day. When I was 14, my father and I took a trip to Michigan to go to motorcycle races, and on the way back we went through Sault Ste. Marie Ontario, and down around Lake Huron (via Manitoulin Island). When I was in college I took two week-end trips to Montreal and ended up getting lost just roaming throughout the city.

Now that I'm old enough, I take trips up to Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario (about once every month or so) to visit friends, and go shopping. Whenever I'm up there I notice so many differences. The evening news doesn't talk about shooting, violence, etc. Instead, it talks about news. There isn't a commercial every 20 seconds for attorneys (If you live in Canada and get FOX Rochester like so many people I know do you will know what I'm talking about). I take a big interest in urban planning (because I'm such a big dork), and I realize that Canada actually undertands the concept of growth control, smart growth, and metro governments. They know what Portland, Oregon was talking about. I have never been to a place in America where they actually have community centres that people go to, people walking places, using public transportation, etc. I once read somewhere that in some cities up to 25% of the adult population of urban areas (excluding the GTA) don't even drive. Where I live, I would have to ride my bike 15 kilometers to get to the nearest bus stop. People actually live within city limits and aren't scared to death of it like they are here (Quoting my friend: "I'm not going to send my kids to the city schools. I don't want them to get shot!").

There are so many things I dislike about politics here in the US, but I'm not really going to get into them. I don't feel that is my primary reason for wanting to move to Canada, and even if it was, I wouldn't pick Canada strictly because it was the closest country.

I've poked around the immigration Canada website, and realized I will probably never get to move there, unless I get a better education. I have a 2 year degree in liberal arts (horray for a degree in nothing), and if I wanted to get my Bachelors in Urban Planning it would take me another 3 and a half years (and another year for a minor in statistics thanks to credits not transfering). I know that if I take a certificate program in Tool & Dye that I could get offered a job in Québec very easily, even offered permanent residence easily, but I don't really see myself doing that for the rest of my life...much less a few years (until I could get my PR card and switch occupations). Plus, my knowledge of French is horrible (ironically I maintain limiteduquebec, but only because I noticed there wasn't a French language community for this sort of topic) so that is another thing going against me.

I'm wondering if anybody knows of any companies that specifically look for hiring international applicants, or if they know of any trades/skills/etc that are fairly easy for Americans to obtain that could qualify for skilled worker class immigration.

Projetez-vous travailler, immigrer, visite, ou apprenant dans le Québec ou le français parlant des communautés dans Nouveau Brunswick ? limiteduquebec est pour vous. Le français et les langues anglaises sont les deux accueil.
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Do you plan to work, immigrate, visit, or learn in Quebec or French speaking communities of New Brunswick? limiteduquebec is for you. French and English languages are both welcome.

The problems associated with being an American today are that even if you realize that our country has done wrong you are faced with the many Americans who don't realize that our people have become the Ugly Americans that we have.  We are told many stories about how badly others around the world treat us but when we go abroad we see that it is the middle-American--especially those in the services--who truly act badly.  I got nothing but friendly, efficient, happy, kind, and professional service in the city where we are reportedly get the worse treatment--Paris.  But I believe that the Americans deserve the treatment they get.

When I was in Italy and France the only time I wasn't happy was when I had to sit next to these obnoxious Americans and let the waiters know not to sit me next to them again.  It was good for me to witness this first hand or else I would have believed that non-Americans only resented the fact that we were the most powerful land in the nation. 

People would ask us where we came from and we respond that we were from San Francisco.  Then they would say that it was a beautiful city and that must be the reason we were so nice.  I understood what they meant.  It was refreshing to hear this from such nice people when so many in the USA think of San Francisco as a cesspool.  I even remember one businessman from Arizona during business meeting strongly stating that he would never go to North Beach. 

We do have a city that has a great deal of different groups in it.  More importantly, San Francisco (the Bay Area actually) is a city (area) that often feels estranged from the rest of the nation.  We have often mimicked the New Yorker poster and cover showing nothing between New York and San Francisco to show San Francisco as being a foreign entity from the rest of the nation.

I was brought up in the county south of San Francisco and have always lived within 22 miles of San Francisco.  So, when I worked in the Sacramento for three years it was a true culture shock.  So is the behavior of American tourists--for which reason I avoid the English speaking tour buses and take the French, Italian, or Spanish language buses. 

Yet, I truly love the USA and am grateful that I have been able to live so well.  I am the first person to put up an American flag--although I did take it down and replace with a group of Canadian, Asian, Latin American, European and African flags after the evening of March 15 when a person I respected was baited and beaten unfairly for being French.  I was all ready upset that we were unable to have an intelligent president who had not won the election--not having won Florida--and was more destructive to our nation than the Al Queda. 

It is the frustration of trying to have a better nation when we are faced with so many people who do not have a clue of how badly we behave around the world or that the Republicans are truly amoral because of their selfish abuse of others that is making me want to leave for Canada, Italy or France.  My father was an Italian citizen when he married my mother a year before my birth and he was still a citizen of Italy until I was 19 so that I can have a dual citizenship of Italy and the USA respected by the European Union.  So I am still deciding where to live should the Americans be stupid enough to elect for the first time the president who has done more to ruin our nation than any other person in history.

I like your motto about the American Revolution.  Since it wasn't the Americans but the French who won the revolution for us I wish that France would retake the United States of America.

In case that moron Bush wins in November I'll either defect to Canada, France, or Italy.  I speak fluent French, Italian, Spanish and English