Tom Cordle

Tom Cordle
Location
Beeffee, Tennessee, CSA
Birthday
June 16
Title
Peasant
Company
Pleasant
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"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence." Frederick Douglass __________________________________ "I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." Albert Einstein __________________________________ "Racists can hide in the closet, but the smell usually gives them away." Soulofhawk __________________________________ "There's only one way to win in this world and that's to like yourself." Harry's Ghost __________________________________ “When monetary gain is involved, mans capacity for self-delusion is infinite.” Byron _________________________________ "Misplaced martyrdom is a mortal sin." Soulofhawk __________________________________ “And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as a leader in the introduction of change. For he who innovates will have as his enemies all who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. This lukewarm temper arises partly from the incredulity of mankind, who will never admit the merit of anything new, until they have seen it proven by the event.” Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter VI __________________________________ "if a man falls from a pedestal, who is really to blame -- the man or those who put him up there?" Soulofhawk

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JUNE 5, 2012 10:17AM

I'm Moving to Canada

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Congratulations are in order – all my trials, lord, soon be over! Today I received a fabulous job offer, and it appears at some point it will require me to move to Canada:

                     

Dear Mr Tam O'Tellico: Good Day Please I Need Your gent Response?

mark johnson to Tom Cordle

Dear Mr Tam O'Tellico.

Good Day today i am Henry Boss Einstein. i wish to contact on this transition the Canadian Government is organizing a program through Canada Embassy in
London, United kingdom, for people to live and work in Canada on permanent basis, with lesser requirements. We were given the contracts as FM Global Company, to look for somebody in Beeffee, Tennessee, who can stand as agent to run the project in your country upon your reply we will send you, Details of how to run the project and your benefit will be Email to you, AS SOON WE RECEIVED YOUR REPLY.

Therefore contact me through my email or Skype if you are interested. Email is (henrybosseinstein9@yahoo.com )

Best regard.
Henry Boss Einstein

                     

I’m being audaciously hopeful about my prospects despite the fact I received this offer via an Open Salon PM. [Funny – not ha-ha – how something with such an obvious and odiferous odor makes it through the Fabulous OS Spam Filters and into my mailbox, while PM’s from my OS friends frequently and mysteriously end up in my spam folder. But hey, on such a joyous occasion, let us not dwell on such petty concerns.]

Should I be suspicious just because I was addressed as both Tom Cordle and Tam O’Tellico? Or just because my prospective employer actually imagines there is such a place as Beeffee, Tennessee? Nah, I can’t afford to be suspicious, what with jobs being so scarce ever since Republicans got religion and decided to become compassionate conservative job-creators.

Let you in on a little secret – this “Einstein” could get me a lot cheaper if he waited a bit. If Romney wins in November, I’ve already vowed to leave my beloved US of A for the formerly frozen North. I say formerly, because we’re about to pass the tipping point with global warming, and Canada will soon be downright balmy.

I’ve been working diligently on learning to speak Canadian, eh? Oh, if only I had misspent my youth in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula rather than “down under”. As a Yooper, I’d already be Half-Canadian.

I hope the Canadian government is preparing for the mass influx of refugees that will follow a Romney victory. It could well be the largest migration in history, and the refugee camps will be swollen with jaded, whiny ex-pats demanding Starbucks, Perrier, Fritos and Reality TV.

Meanwhile back in the USSA …..

The old blessing/curse says “May you live in interesting times.” It will interesting indeed to see what happens when the neocon chickenhawks come home to roost – thanks to sunshine liberals disenchanted that Obama, inheritor of the worst mess since FDR and opposed at every turn by Teapartian intransigence and hamstrung by liberal sloth and disinterest, wasn’t able to undo decades of supply-side economic thievery in four short years.

I can already hear the howling when these sunshine liberals discover to their horror the price they’re going to pay for throwing away their vote on the Green Party candidate or sitting home on their lazy, whiny asses as they did in 2010. It ain’t gonna be pretty.

Even more interesting will be watching what happens when reality renders its final verdict on the myth of white supremacy, and demographics catches up with tempestuous-in-a-teapot Teapartians, Aynal-retentive Libertarians and wrong-headed Religious Self-Righteous. It will make the First Civil War look like a Sunday School picnic.

With any luck, I’ll be watching the televised revolution from the comfort of my cabin in Wasauga Beach or Vancouver. Ya’ll come and visit when you can, eh?

©2012 Tom Cordle

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Welcome to Canada! We'll have a steaming bowl of poutin waiting for you, aye. (Haha, Einstein is a great name for an idiot.)
Now Civil War is just what the Dr. ordered Tom. I don’t know why you would contemplate sitting it out in Canada when you could get to shoot republicans from the comfort of your own home.
What do you mean, "such a place as Beefee, Tennessee"? I've been working with a trusted travel agent for months planning a fabulous no-expense-is-too-great vacation getaway to the cosmopolitan, internationally flavored yet dirt cheap metropolis of Beefee. (Should I get my credit card back?)
Hey, the Atlanta Thrashers moved to Canada, so there must be something cooking up there.

I'm a little hurt I didn't get the same message, though.
Say hi to Alec Baldwin for me.
Or Mexico. Brassawe makes it sound pretty decent where he lives. Or Oz, where we could wave-not-drown off Kim's beach. Sure as hell do hope you're just having a down day, Tom, and are not prophetic. Sure as hell hope that even discounting the self-righteous idealists, who would throw Obama under the bus to make some kind of hair-up-their-ass point, that a majority of the electorate has more on the ball than to elect Romulus the Robot.
Of course, I'll visit, Tom. By the way, did you receive a PM from Mrs. Ahmed from Libya? She made me quite an offer too.
So you're turning your back
On the land of the free
Bring a heavy coat
It's cold there
You'll see
Don't expect them to welcome you
With open arms
Learn to say 'eh with proper
Brit accent
Maybe they'll like you
Show them your charms
no such place as Beeffee, Tennessee... *sigh* if only...
Myriad
Thanks for the offer of the bowl of poutin -- whatever that is -- any chance you could put me up until I find my cabin in the piney woods?

Jack
Shootin' Wingnuts is good target practice, but they don't taste very good

Margaret
You've got a credit card? Say, you wanna take a trip to Canada? I'll drive, you pay for the gas
Ive got land up in dem dar hills and you are welcome to squat. east coast though :)
HUGGGGGGGGGGG
Ive got land up in dem dar hills and you are welcome to squat. east coast though :)
HUGGGGGGGGGGG
I like owl flippers.. too. And toques. And real beer.

Sigh
Con
You didn't get the offer because of where you live -- Boston may be a BFD, but it's no BFE

Jmac
I don't appreciate any references containing the word "bald"

Chicken Maan
Having twice had to endure the rain of Bush the Least, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find our ditzy, degenerate electorate opting for the reign of Emperor Romulus
I'd love to live in Canada! Do I have to club baby seals, though?
Oops, shoulda put a winky face after that comment to show I'm not serious! Sooooorrrreeeeee!
;-)
Erica
'Fraid that particular beauty hasn't contacted me, but I'm sure she will -- after all, I've been told I'm irresistible time and again by others of her cult

Mission
You're poetry in motion -- well at least the motion of electrons

lorianne
Oh, there is a BFE -- it's the capital of Never-Never-Land and right next to the thriving metropolis Freemarket
Linda
That's kind of you, but be careful giving candy to strangers

Tr ig aka Captain Minnow
You'll have to check your fishing gear at the border -- your reputation for taking undersize specimens has preceded you -- or was that underage?

ccdarling
No, but you have to bring the club soda
If only I could get a message of that sort that would be for real.
Baltimore Aureole
You should stick to tweeting, sweetie, that better suits your lack of character

ccdarling
No to worry, I didn't take your comment any more seriously than I did Baltimore's
Mary
To get the message, you must live in BFE
much prefer the " Capital Wasteland" myself......ah...if only....
Dear Tam O'Tellico, I'd like to inform you that this was a terrific post. There are a lot of great reasons to move Canada, and yours is the most recent one to add to anybody's list.
Did you know, for instance, that the annual tuition for a Canadian to attend McGill, which Harvard tries to imitate by calling itself the "McGill of the South", is only $5000? That's worth a lot, eh?
Warm regards,
Pandora
Too funny! The English is impeccable.

It looks like you'll have to travel to England before moving up north.
Oh my! I don't like the sound of such a hellish prognostication!
You may be right, however. If we don't get with it, we'll wind up with a mormon creep for pres. No offense to the mormon crowd, but I prefer my presidential candidates be not just mouthpieces for the corporate underworld.
You've made me laugh yet again, Tom--wryly and drily.
R

@Linda: I wouldn't mention such a thing here at OS if I were you. You'll end up with an OSian retreat on your hands, a real refugee camp! LOL
Let's hope it's not a scam.I believe nothing I read on this monkey machine until I physically touch it, then I have the wife touch it, in case I didn't touch it right.
This is genuinely amusing, Tom. It put a smile on my face.

Would you like help with the furniture?
Canada's a great place to live. Better buy lots of fur-lined garments though...
I think about moving to Canada all the time. As a kid, I spent my summer in Ottawa with my aunt; I have a lot of good memories of that city.
I'd be happy to put you up, Tom, if you perform at my daughter's and my annual Labor Day concert (and Pagan fest). Note - nudity not absolutely required.

cc - clubbing baby seals is optional, but eating poutine is mandatory.

Libby - while our Conservative govt is obnoxious, it's pretty far left of anything in the U.S. No talk of trying to repeal gay marriage, abortion or the universal healthcare.
Here in Colorado one of those voter-suppression laws passed, and a lot of people aren't even familiar with it. Those who did not vote in 2010 will not automatically receive a mail-in ballot. Among the lazy Democrat voters, it could mean thousands of fewer voters for Obama if they don't re-register or get their butts to the polls. ... There are 100,000 more registered Republican voters in Colorado than Democrats, and the state is solidly purple right now. Plus, the GOP has a bigger advertising budget here than the Dems. ... Gird your loins. It's Obama's election to lose, and the way things are going ...
amusing- yes 2010 was the great loss and no point blaming those who actually voted- democracy doesn't work with only a minority involved
You go Myriad.. and low cost prescriptions for seniors and low income.. we are talking 4-6 bucks here a prescription..
I will take the whole Tory cabinet over anyone running in the Republican nomination.. even those that drive their family to canada with dogs on top of their car.
How are you going to write a cowboy song in Canada?

"Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam, eh?"

"All my exes live in Quebec" etc.
It won't work.
Hey, yer going to Canada, eh? Send me a beer, willya? The only thing other than some decent beers (Moosehead for the win) and paintball guns made in Missasugua, Ontario, I haven't seen much to win me over. Those two, these days, though, might just be the make or break for me.

Then again, what with the ice melting up there and the frozen sheet of the Political Shelf here, it may prove to be one more opportunity to learn how to fish.

--r--
Maybe we can form a caravan. Unless you get that job. Then you could charter the jet.
Tom, I think that Canada would be too civilized a place for you to move to. You need the contentiousness and discord that now afflicts our dysfunctional political and economic system. If you leave, you will forfeit the chance to be the Edward Gibbons of this county's decline and, alas, that role will be left to the rest of us disgruntled curmudgeons .
i GETZ saME OFFER! THEY SEZ I RITE GUUD!!!

RTD!!
Come over if you'll need a cup of sugar. I'll probably be next door.

(SUNSHINE LIBERALS -- PLEASE THINK OF THE SUPREME COURT AND VOTE FOR O.)
All
So many comments -- so little Tam! I'm out of pocket at the moment, but thanks to all for commenting. This is definitely a case where the "ehs" have it -- and we only wish we did. Let's here it for Canadian Exceptionalism.

For the record (remember when songs used to come on records?), I'll still be able to write cowboy songs because Canada has lots of cowboys AND a few buffalo. I think I may be a bit long in the tooth for actual cowboyin', tho -- or as we used to say "Get off the stove, Grampaw, you're too old to be ridin' the range."
In 2008 Obama often said that he had, "faith in the American people" and I often joked that I was happy to hear that he has faith in Americans because I don't! If my fellow countrymen who allowed Bush to "win" two rigged elections do the same for "Ronmey for Amercia" then I will just follow Obama where ever he goes and he can be my President there. I am hoping he will choose Hawaii! It's warm there, and it is not, of course, (since he was born there) part of the U.S.!
I would say good luck, Tom/Tam, but, alas, I fear that both Mark and Henry are cut from the same cloth as the parade of Asian women who email my office weekly, asking for help in collecting their unpaid alimony from their ex-husbands in Hong Kong. I can't quite explain it, but there appear to be hundreds of former Hong Kong residents who are owed $396,000 of the original $440,000 that their ex-husbands agreed to pay them. Pretty eerie. Maybe someone like yourself, relocating from the wilds of Tennessee to the Great White North, will be just the person that these poor women need to handle their cases as well. Should I forward the emails to you?
We'd welcome you here TamTom. Let me know if you'll be needing an Admin Assistant once you're hired.
It would be a delight to have you join us up North - but don't worry, the West Coast is rather mild. And if you need a tour of Vancouver, well, just say the word....
(no cabins in Van., really, but some great rustic cabins on the Gulf Islands - short ferry ride away)
Did they say they're in need of a professional write, an editor or at least a proof-reader Tom? If I were Henry the Boss I'd be worried that you'd be after my job, though I somehow suspect that he's no Einstein. Funny comments too, aside from the usual half-baked tripe from...
Great! I would love to visit once you move to Canada. I'll send you a check for $100,000 to cover my stay--if you could remit me $90,000 in return we'd be square...
Yup, we're shoring up for the massive influx in cottage country.

Tom, keep in mind there are some things we don't have up here. Once an irritable Customs official was arguing with some young Canucks at the border depot station. (I believe they were trying to detain them). For some reason she said,"Well y'all don't have Disneyland in Canada!" I got to lean over and say, "Yeah, that's true, but we have healthcare."

Nearly missed my plane over that one.
Tom, Tom, Tom...

Been reading your stuff for a while now, but today I have been compelled to join this site just so I could leave this comment. One of your comments to a comment has really bothered me:

"Baltimore Aureole
You should stick to tweeting, sweetie, that better suits your lack of character"

It seems to me you prefer preaching to the choir rather than enter into honest debate. Anyone with a dissenting point of view is met with derision, chastisement and general ass-holish-ness. Why not convince Baltimore he/she is wrong? Because you know he is right. You have no argument so you prefer snarkiness. Pretty small of you.

Truth be told, Obama did inherit a mess, this much is true. He is not to blame for everything that's wrong. But let's look into some of his deficiencies. He signed NDAA. He did not close Guantanamo Bay. The wars continue. Fast & Furious. A health care law that is a joke. Sounds a lot like Bush, doesn't it? That's because they are the same. The candidate running in this election is Robamney. The outcome is the same either way.

So, in closing, you may continue to feed your ego with accolades and chastise dissent, but the revolution is real and palpable. And it will not be led by a politician.
Ill-luminated
I was trying to keep this light -- at least for me -- and if you have been around here awhile, you know BA is the king/queen of snark, so my response was apropos. Tit for tat, you might say.

And speaking of you might say, you said of this election:

"The outcome is the same either way"

Such a false equivalency isn't really deserving of a response, but if you really think Obama and Romney will, for instance, appoint the same sort of judges to the Supreme Court, given the opportunity, I can't say much for your grasp of politics or reality.
Politicians, judges and the like are far from the peak of the pyramid. The game was created to keep us fighting among ourselves. Divided we fall. Questioning my grasp of reality merely enlightens your superiority complex. In the scheme of the universe, we know much closer to nothing than everything. This includes you. You are still lost in the left/right paradigm, which makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Ill
Well, at least you got the first part of your handle right. As for the rest, methinks you should call yourself Ill-uminutty
And you can move into the house right next door to Tink!!!

Rated for :D.
Speaking of not funny haha things.. bet you'll be surprised to see this one in the feed ;).
I'm a bit taken back that you'd not been asked to send 3,000 tortilla chips up front prior to the job acceptance that would earn you, at best, $10 million that your Uncle O'Tellico left you. Mr. Tom Cordle, his only long lost relative. Bless his soul. As far as a move..think Panama. Seriously..think Panama. We already have our spot...and there's room next door! ~r
Seer
Don't know how you happened on this a year or so later, but I'm glad you did.
Throughmyeyes
Panama is definitely warmer, tho with global warming at hand, I'm not sure that's a plus. Besides, I'd have to learn Spanish. No va!