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My Modest Proposal: The U.S.A.R. (Liberals Discussing Secession)
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| 11/05/04
| C.B. Shapiro
Posted on 11/05/2004 4:20:50 PM PST by bourbon
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This was posted on BoingBoing w/ the following editorial comment: "My friend wrote this. It's very funny, mainly because it's true."
Now, I realize this piece is supposed to be satirical, but let me take this occasion to ask: "Just who is being 'divisive' again?"
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:20:50 PM PST
by
bourbon
To: bourbon
"See you at the UN?"
Who??? ME?!
I don't think so bucky!
To: bourbon
I say that we arrange with Canada for all of their conservatives to move here and all our liberals could move to Canada.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:24:34 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: bourbon
I suggest a slightly different approach to the brie and croissant crowd:
1. Purchase a ticket from the international airport nearest you to Paris.
2. Apply for political asylum (or insane asylum. They are both about the same in France.)
3. Find a place to live in France.
4. If you need to do so, find a job in France.
5. Present yourself at the U.S. embassy in Paris and renounce your U.S. citizenship.
Problem solved for us and for you.
To: dfwgator
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:25:29 PM PST
by
RKV
( He who has the guns, makes the rules)
To: dfwgator
No...trade the PacNW to Canada in exchange for Alberta--Alberta has more oil reserves that Saudi.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:25:41 PM PST
by
twntaipan
(Bush won a majority of the votes! Clinton never did that!)
To: bourbon
But they can feel free to import movies, TV shows, financial services, and defense technology. We'll import ... biblesNow why do I find that highly unlikely?
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:26:24 PM PST
by
shezza
(We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail.)
To: bourbon
Loony and misinformed. (not you, the author) The GDP of the blue states only made up about 53% of the total in 2002.
Plus, if we divide anything, we're doing it by county.
To: twntaipan
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:26:42 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: bourbon
But where will the USAB get it's food? Ya can't eat entertainment or the arts.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:27:16 PM PST
by
Roccus
To: bourbon
Personally, I think we made a huge mistake not letting them go when we had the chance back in 1862.January 1861, actually. Idiots (and they are idiots) that don't learn from history are bound to repeat it.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:27:36 PM PST
by
canalabamian
(Common sense, unfortunately, is not very common)
To: pro libertate
Hey we could do like the South Africans did and set up little liberal enclaves like they used to do with the black homelands.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:28:09 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
To: wardaddy; stainlessbanner
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:30:02 PM PST
by
bourbon
To: bourbon
"Of course, we in the U.S.A.B. get the Gross Domestic Product, businesses... But they can feel free to import movies, TV shows, financial services, and defense technology. We'll import country music, bibles and Confederate flags."
But...but, I thought big business was the realm of Republicans. How do these girlie men propose to keep up the GDP when all those rich, evil Republicans are gone.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:31:47 PM PST
by
cwb
(Defeat after defeat, Democrats are still living in denial.)
To: bourbon
That is one funny-but-sad example of the contradiction that is liberalism. It was obviously written by a knothead who not only can't comprehend why it is riddles with contradictions, but doesn't even have a clue as to where he himself stands.
And they wonder why that can't win elections.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:31:50 PM PST
by
Outland
(Socialists/liberals/greens/progressives/commies: You're done. Go home to France.)
To: bourbon; All
"We'll import country music, bibles and Confederate flags." You will also plan to import Natural Gas and Crude Oil.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:36:04 PM PST
by
David
To: bourbon
Er...I wouldn't advise secession. We tried it once, and, well... it didn't work out...because of Ohio, ironically:
![](http://ngeorgia.com/images/shermanw.jpg)
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:37:36 PM PST
by
wimpycat
(John Kerry has a fevah, and the only prescription is "MORE COWBELL".)
To: canalabamian
You beat me to it.
Of course the idiotic writer also fails to realize that Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa (as well as some of Missouri) were key players FOR the North in the "War of Secession".
Of course, we all know, that History is NOT a required subject for the liberals.
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posted on
11/05/2004 4:38:04 PM PST
by
SONbrad
To: bourbon
I guess this would work except they would be sneaking across the border to eat our big juicy steaks and potatoes. They would have to ride their bicycles to do so since we would have most of the oil wells. They might have to invite criminals in to live with them because they wouldn't have enough jails to house them and no guns to use as a deterent against them. Oh yes, I believe this is an enlightened idea!
To: bourbon
From his mouth to God's ear. Can you imagine the problems this would solve? The crime rate in the "red" states would plummet, welfare would nearly disappear, socialism would be a thing of the past, etc. Don't know how 'USAB' is going to defend itself, since almost all the military in this country are in the red states (much less the soldiers, themselves) and who they think will pay for their harebrained leftist programs, once they lose all those productive workers and small businesspeople. LOL
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