A number of Americans announced that if President Bush were re-elected, they would move to Canada. This is a fine idea -- for them, for Canada and for America. Canada (outside of Quebec) shares our language and is within driving distance of most Americans, yet is becoming completely European in its values -- secular, leftist, socialist, pro-redefining marriage, anti-military, pro-UN.
American leftists would feel much more at home there. And Canada would love to have them. It is the most sparsely populated country in the world; they seek immigrants; and Americans already speak the language. Moreover, it is not terribly cold everywhere in Canada, even in winter. Americans who hate George W. Bush should give it some thought. And while we're wishing, let those Canadians who believe in Judeo-Christian values, fighting for freedom, small government and marriage involving a man and a woman move here. Then we can have two affluent countries sharing the same land mass and language develop each according to its values and see which produces a better place.
Wish No. 6: All those who drive in the left lane slower than drivers in the other lanes will be given fines and threatened with long prison sentences, perhaps even capital punishment.
There are things Americans can learn from Europe -- perhaps the most significant is how to drive properly. In Europe, driving schools apparently teach something that seems to be ignored in American driver's education -- that the left lane is for passing other cars, not for passing time.
Wish No. 7: Unless requested or it is particularly beautiful, no music, certainly not radio music, shall be played in restaurants.
No one -- no one -- dines out in order to hear rock music radio stations on lousy speakers. On the contrary, people dine out to escape noise and eat in silence either alone or in conversation with someone else. Unless the purpose of blaring cheap speakers in restaurants is to hasten the departure of customers so as to enable more customers to eat there, most restaurant music is a bane on civilization.
Happy New Year.