ROAD TRIP!
Over the river and through Logan, to parents’ snowbird palace we go.
We are a block from the beach, but the red tide is spewing enough toxins that you can’t walk the beach without coughing.
Walk inland to the end of the block, there’s a house with a Huckabee lawn sign.
Go another two blocks and there’s a new 24-hour CVS that sells beer and wine at 10:00 on Thanksgiving evening. Of course, it’s all industrial beer. Lots of the lite beer that floods the football commercials.
Nice dinner at a waterfront restaurant. Watched the sun set over the bay, away from the red tide. Sundown special, a free domestic beer with the meal. Sam Adams, on the menu, is not domestic beer. Bud, Bud Light, Miller, Miller Lite, that’s domestic.
You import Sam Adams? Where’s the border?
Faith. Family. Freedom. And plenty of bad beer.
Some people laugh at Carl Hiaasen’s books, but he’s not joking.
That’s how Florida is.
I don’t know why I need a passport to go to Toronto, but these dayum Texans can come up here and tell us what to do. Before we spend any more money on border fences, we should figure out the best place to put the border.
“Look, just let the slaves go free. If you do that, you can leave the country and we won’t try to keep you.”
…to leave the US and enter Canada (maybe the Canadian government does), but you need to have a psssport of some country to return to the US.
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p>My mother-in-law, who was at all times a German citizen but had a resident alien, had a German passport. When she returned to the US from wherever, she showed her German passport and “resident alien” papers to be allowed into the country.
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p>As to the first issue above, it may be the case that Canada actually has instituted a passport requirement regarding US citizens entering Canada, in retaliation for the US government’s requirement for Canadians entering the US. Such retaliatory measures are not unknown. In 1987, we were going to go to France from Germany, and the French government instituted a retaliatory visa requirement against US citizens after the US government instituted a similar visa requirement against French citizens.
If you need the passport to leave, or if you need the passport to return, you still need the passport for the trip.
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p>Instead of making a trip to Quebec difficult (including the incredible shrinking dollar), why can’t we find a way to keep the Texans out of DC?
…which may be incorrect.
The portrait of George Bush in the border crossing office may chill that desire.
So far from God; so close to the United States.