Posted on 11/14/2012 4:40:29 AM PST by moneyrunner
Virginian Pilot Supports Secession!?
There's an article in The Blaze 30 States Petition Federal Government to Secede After Election
Liberals often like to compare President Barack Obama to former President Abraham Lincoln. The comparison is usually dismissed as laughably hagiographical, but judging by one unexpected bit of fallout from Tuesdays election, it could well end up being accurate in just one respect: Like Lincoln, Obama is facing requests by the citizens of numerous states to secede from the union.
However, unlike with Lincoln, these requests are peaceful, and highly unlikely to do anything at all except generate news headlines. A massive number of petitions are currently circulating on Change.org, a website designed to call for action by the federal government or by private institutions on particular causes, calling for particular states to be granted permission to secede.
Nor are they confined to the usual suspects (IE the Southern States). In actuality, the mix of states asking to secede is deeply bipartisan, ranging from the deeply red (Alabama and South Carolina) to the deeply blue (New York) to the swing (Pennsylvania). Nor are the states asking to secede in any way geographically clustered. Northern states (New York), Midwestern states (Michigan), Southern states (Alabama) and Western states (Nevada) have all filed petitions of their own. Most swing states this election cycle, with the exception of Ohio, have a petition of their own, and all of them have at least 1,000 signatures, with even some of the bluest states in the union easily keeping pace with their red counterparts.
So what do Liberals think of this issue? Lets go to the reliably Liberal Virginian Pilot whose remaining staff is not particularly talented but who can, like victims of Tourette Syndrome, be depended on to tell us whats on their minds. This was the editorial cartoon they ran in the print version of the paper today.
Now if I thought of my neighbors like that I would welcome their decision to go away and leave me to my moral and intellectual superiority.
Its cartoons like this that make looking at papers like the Virginian Pilot worthwhile. Quite an insight isnt it?
This particular meme keeps resurfacing, and for the life of me, I don't see how it grabbed legs. You see these truck drivers aren't involved in some egalitarian endeavor transporting food from red areas to blue areas. No, they're working men who get paid by the mile, which they use to feed and clothe their families. The trucker is more concerned with how long he is going to last if he doesn't drive the miles than how long residents in blue states that he doesn't even know are going to last if he doesn't make the trip.
He also rightly presumes that the large corporate farms, which while only making up 2% of farms produce 2/3 of the goods, will find a way to get their products to their destinations. They're not about to commit corporate suicide to spite anyone in the blue states.
Correction, the Screaming Mimi was an S-58 Sikorsky, but it seemed to be based on the S-55
V/R
“Freeloadica”
Now that’s funny...I don’t care where ya from!!!
It’s a collective intelligence, each having one brain cell per liberal...when they rub their heads together the come up with an idea...
Kinda like the Borg...
Resistance is futile...;-)
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