"And perhaps we all at least should be thankful
that had this been a country *other* than America, all
those pretty Palm Beach mansions would now be cruise
missile magnets, and we'd have an armored corps making
its way slowly through New England :-)"
'I
imagine if the same thing happens in the Canadian
election on the 27th (in which I am an absentee
"elector"), we won't be seeing the tanks.'
No, but we
might well see either Quebec or Western Canada or both
making efforts to secede. :)