Posted on 05/07/2009 2:58:22 PM PDT by OneVike
Come on over, I just cleaned up the guest room.
Stupid cats got on the bookshelves and pushed about 700 books onto the floor.
Note to self: Close the door, Johnny.. good boy.
http://rightbias.com/News/video23.aspx
50 Year-Old Cartoon Eerily Predicts The Future
Video
RightBias.com
May 4, 2009
The more things change, the more they remain the same, as shown by this video produced 50 years ago. Dr. Utopia promises the world - just give away your freedom and the government will take care of you forever.
It didnt work then but learning from history is not allowed in our new Dr. Utopias prescription for changing America.
Last portion of cartoon is especially prescient.
Looking at this map? I think more would go south at the county level in some of those green states.
western canada and alaska will merge up with the red (texas) part of America. East Canada will merge up with the green (new york) part
and the imagination goes wild
I gotta move to TEXAS!
I really think that “the AntiChrist” as a discreet phenomenon is Islam.
Those socialists would, of course require the capitalist states to pay for the socialism in the other states.
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My opinion too.
If it happens (and I don't think it will), that's the way it will be. If the country breaks up Hawaii will go its own way. Probably Alaska will too.
People who think other states would join up with Texas are dreaming. There would just be too much struggle for supremacy. Either Texas would break up into other states or it would absorb them. The rest of the Plains states, say, wouldn't want to just be the tail to a Texas dog.
It would be the same way with California. No way would Arizona or Nevada or Utah join up with them. California might break in two, and each part might join up with other states, though.
Speculating about this is a little embarrassing, but I don't think the Russian professor understands America that well. Kentucky and Tennessee wouldn't end up in the same country with Connecticut and Massachusetts. Montana and Idaho and Utah and Wyoming would be more likely to end up together, rather than divided between rival countries.
But the point is: a lot of things we take for granted will be lost if the country breaks up. The consequences can't all be predicted beforehand.
This break up could happen because California is broke. They appear to have no intention of getting their financial house in order.
I think the bankruptcy of CA could be the catalyst for this to start.
What about the military? OK, each state now has its National Guard. Can’t the president call them to national service and put down any rebellion by a state government? Then too, what about the national military already stationed in the states. Couldn’t the federal government use them to prevent states from splitting off (Civil War?).
I don't think so. 2000 years or so ago, Titus Livy, in the introduction to his monumental history of Rome remarked that his purpose in writing was "to trace the progress of our moral decline, to watch, first, the sinking of the foundations of morality as the old teaching was allowed to lapse, then the rapidly increasing disintegration, then the final collapse of the whole edifice, and the dark dawning of our modern day when we can neither endure our vices nor face the remedies needed to cure them."
That was then and this is now, but human nature hasn't changed much at all since then. Look at who we're dealing with - these are people who regard Orwell's 1984 as a textbook, not a cautionary tale. Do you propose to go quietly into that dark socialist night? At the end of the day, will you too love Big Brother?
If we let these monsters have their way, there will be no going back. We need to think about what we're going to build on the ashes - or there will be nothing BUT ashes..
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