Sunday, March 12, 2017

No Skedaddle Ridge in Civil War II


In southern New Brunswick, there is a tiny little community by the name of Pemberton Ridge, still informally known as "Skedaddle Ridge" on account of the U.S. Civil War draft dodge-- I mean, refugees who settled there in the 1860's. I've lurked in the Internet's dank corners for twenty years, watching what were once fringe topics filter into mainstream discussion over that period, despite everybody wondering why I hung out at "those sites". It started out as a "guilty pleasure", then "research", then just plain "survival".

I can see it coming in the States, and the fault lines in Canada as well. It's no fun being Cassandra, saying "There's trouble brewing, and Canada won't have the luxury of sitting pretty on the sidelines like the last time!" Some of my friends, though, look like they're starting to get it. My ancestry is Scots x north shore Acadian/Brayonne, maybe a Micmac and/or a Loyalist in the woodpile somewhere. I live close to the birth-soil of both sides of my family. This is my home, even if I'm surrounded by idiots. Well, they'll either wise up now or pay later. There'll be no Skedaddle Ridge this time, the degree of entanglement ensures that when the ball drops, the whole continent up to the 60th parallel could burn and that's probably the STARTING point.

Our large cities breed the predictable sort of stupid, but outside of them and the media bubble, there are still people capable of going "Vimy Ridge" on deserving asses.

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