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Title: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Fido on January 05, 2009, 07:08:03 PM
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/six-nations-of-2010.html (http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/six-nations-of-2010.html)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html)

I love how this KGB dude thinks America is going to completely disintegrate, but do so in large chunks that fall entirely along existing state boundaries.

Let's discuss!
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: <<<<< on January 05, 2009, 07:12:09 PM
I now intend on heading to Russia to pursue my destiny as a celebrated professor.  (Their standards are clearly very low.)

Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: emdasher on January 05, 2009, 07:36:01 PM
(http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GN187_Panari_BV_20081228131701.gif)

Look at this smug asshole motherfucker. His theory sounds like it was lifted from an Onion article.

(aside---i really want to know how i look in newspaper stippling)
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Stupornaut on January 05, 2009, 08:45:13 PM
(http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GN187_Panari_BV_20081228131701.gif)

Look at this smug asshole motherfucker. His theory sounds like it was lifted from an Onion article.

(aside---i really want to know how i look in newspaper stippling)

They pasted Bush's face on some other dude's head.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: buffcoat on January 05, 2009, 10:09:31 PM
All the Floridians must be terrified that they will be ruled by the oppressively expansionistic Mexican government.

Someone should tell this dude that the economies of Texas, Florida and Georgia are significantly larger than Mexico's.

Schadenfreude and wishful thinking is an interesting way to run a political science curriculum.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Fido on January 05, 2009, 11:03:33 PM

Someone should tell this dude that the economies of Texas, Florida and Georgia are significantly larger than Mexico's.

That was more or less my reaction, but you said it more succinctly than my half-baked thought would have had it.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Sarah on January 06, 2009, 06:48:40 AM
Surely Canada would snap up Alaska as well?  Maybe Maine, too (though that could be wishful thinking on my part).  We all know about that country's expansionistic tendencies.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: chrisfoll577 on January 06, 2009, 08:42:35 AM
Surely Canada would snap up Alaska as well?  Maybe Maine, too (though that could be wishful thinking on my part).  We all know about that country's expansionistic tendencies.

Some Russian imperialist die hards have long coveted Alaska since Seward swindled them out of it 140 years ago.  As for eastern Maine, I don't know if any Canadians are still smarting after the Treaty of Ghent or The Aroostook War.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Sarah on January 06, 2009, 12:01:49 PM
Some Russian imperialist die hards have long coveted Alaska since Seward swindled them out of it 140 years ago.

I realize that, Chris, but Canada does have the advantage of being physically connected to Palinland, as well as sharing a language.

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As for eastern Maine, I don't know if any Canadians are still smarting after the Treaty of Ghent or The Aroostook War.

More to the point, would Canada really want to add a fair number of aging, drunk, and/or drugged slobs to its population?  Surely it has enough already?
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: buffcoat on January 06, 2009, 12:10:29 PM
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Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: theyellowchair on January 07, 2009, 03:58:27 PM
(http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/HC-GN187_Panari_BV_20081228131701.gif)

I thought it was good ol' Patty Buchanan for a second.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Bryan on January 07, 2009, 04:04:23 PM
This map's projection seems pretty accurate to me: here in Canada we've had our eye on Kansas and Wyoming for a while now. We need a lot more empty space.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: <<<<< on January 08, 2009, 01:19:45 AM
I've long thought the Four Corners region has been bubbling with tension.
Title: Re: The Six Nations of 2010: Is this what Tom was referring to?
Post by: Fido on January 08, 2009, 02:19:48 AM
You know, with Stephen Harper's apparent dreams of a great Canadian military-industrial complex and fantasies of adventurism, maybe North Dakota and Montana do have something new to worry about. Unless, of course, upper midwesterners want to become part of Greater Canada.