So where would they expatriate an American to? What country would agree to accept them?
Texas?
Maybe MN, even. Birds of a feather…
[hijack] Actually, in this context I believe it means “stripped of U.S. citizenship,” not “deported.” How this might be accomplished as a practical matter is another story. Ask the Mariel boatlift Cubans how well that’s worked out for them.
For a guy who’s graced this board with classic threads like “Goat Porn” and “So I was changing my baby’s diaper”, you sure seem to have lost your sense of humor, Scylla.
I don’t understand the Kevin Bacon game either.
I think this thread is about the right degree of seriousness for me to post this and still be on topic:
Nude women protest war in Central Park (Picture is far enough away to be safe for work; alternate link here).
The slogan chosen to spell out with their bodies: “NO BUSH”
Insert your own joke. 
>Actually, John Paul II was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca. (John II died in >bed in the 6th century)
Damned suspicious.
5th degree would be anyone who listened to Yellow Snow.
SUV owners send money to Saudi, Osama is from Saudi, 2nd degree.
Stephen Hawkings is the Nth degree.
My ex-roommate’s mother work[s/ed] at the flight school that trained some of the hijackers who, I can only assume, met the Big Bad Guy himself.
Four degrees. What do I win?
That would be two, in my estimation: direct contact with the hijackers who are in direct contact with Bin Laden.
You win a sword previously owned by a brooding literary executioner.
Hey, I touched somebody who touched somebody who touched Adolph Hitler.
Do I get a consolation prize?
Extra credit?
Consolation prize:
[Reverend Lovejoy] I am here to comfort you. There there. There there.[/RL]
You are consoled.
Extra credit will be awarded upon completion of a 5,000 word essay “elucidator: More akin to Johnathon Swift or George Clooney”. Neatness counts, points deducted for sarcasm.
Couldn’t I wash Cecil’s car or something instead?
I’ve smoked pot.
One degree.
Smoke Osama. That would be one degree.
I presume he has a bicycle.
Dammit.
"I went to the peace march; we had some great groups, my favourite was LABIA: Lesbians Against Boys Invading Anything… This was my favourite cheer; please use it: ‘WE LOVE BUSH! WE DON’T MEAN GEORGE!’ "
- Kate Clinton
I am forced by this insight to amend my position. Invasion of Iraq is acceptable if Iraq says “Harder! Faster! More!”
Short of that, no dice.