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Blue States Buzz Over Secession
The Washington TImes ^ | November 9 , 2004 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 11/09/2004 6:07:51 PM PST by GaryL

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To: Mr. Silverback

Think you've got it bad? I'm in Cook County!!


181 posted on 11/09/2004 7:25:44 PM PST by GaryL
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To: broadsword
Where's my thorazine?

If you have the opportunity, remind your lib acquaintances that thorazine comes in a suppository version. They'll probably see that as a very big plus.

182 posted on 11/09/2004 7:26:09 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (I used to work in an orange juice factory, but I got canned: I couldn't concentrate.)
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To: Nowhere Man

LOL!!!!

Then, we can reopen Vieques for target practice... :)


183 posted on 11/09/2004 7:26:55 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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To: GaryL
How about BLUE COUNTIES Seceding? Most the Land mass belongs to BUSH.

Come to think of it we can combine all the Liberal Socialist America Haters, in one state, or else take Saskatcuan and make it Moorestan.

184 posted on 11/09/2004 7:28:19 PM PST by agincourt1415 (OK, Democrats ITS OVER, GET OVER IT!)
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To: GaryL; All

Anyone who would like to be added to my "Secession Talk" ping list, please so indicate.


185 posted on 11/09/2004 7:29:27 PM PST by GaryL
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To: Nowhere Man
I really liked William Johnstone's "Ashes" book series.

Really hard to find though.

186 posted on 11/09/2004 7:30:43 PM PST by WhirlwindAttack ( Hey man! I think i stepped in some shiite..Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Islam!)
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To: agincourt1415

Do you want Liberals traveling through Jesusland, from Metrocrapolis to Metrocrapolis? Give'em PR and call'em fortunate...


187 posted on 11/09/2004 7:30:57 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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To: NCC-1701
Typical LiberalI am willing to sell them this prime piece of property with water front homes and a view of the ocean if they give up some of the blue dots in the west. We could also provide some luxury living in our state prisons by releasing the inmates on Canada like Fidel did to us and got away with it because of Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't Care Carter. This would relieve a few more blue spots on the map.
189 posted on 11/09/2004 7:32:51 PM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: leadhead
I truly believe that my children will see the breakup of the United States, with Western chunks reverting to Mexico and Northeastern masses joining Ottawa/Montreal.

Don't know about the first part -- it could happen. But I don't know whether Northeasterners really have as much in common with Canadians as people think right now.

First of all, they'll come to resent Newfoundland and the Atlantic provinces and the subsidies they receive. We joke about the Northeast being stagnant and decaying, but they are used to more change, dynamism, and development than many Canadians are comfortable with. Canadians demand and get more security and stability and stagnation than Americans want or need or can put up with.

Second, Anglo-Canadians can be pretty arrogant, at least in Ontario, and I can't imagine New Yorkers sitting still for that, or the Irish and Italians of Boston or the ethnic masses of Chicago and Detroit sitting still for a new set of White Protestant overlords. Of course it looks different over the border, and Canadians think New Yorkers are arrogant and domineering and don't want to take orders from them either.

But there's still a brash, unruly spirit in American cities that doesn't sit well with many Canadians. And the American Revolution is perhaps more of a divide between us and them than the Civil War is between North and South. It may be that Detroiters or Philadelphians or Brooklynites have very little with timid and deferential people from Kingston or Halifax or Campbelltown.

Third, there's the problem of the French in Quebec which always threatens Canadian national unity. Will the French put up with seeing their power diluted by the addition of millions of new English speaking Canadians? It's said that if America swallowed Canada or Mexico it would cease to be the America that we've long known. It would become something very different and alien to us. That's true of what Canada would become if it took over New York and Chicago, and Canadians, especially French Canadians recognize that.

So all this could just be a joke with little behind it.

When some part of a state feels out of place and unappreciated. (Western Nebraska, Northern Michigan, Western Massachusetts, Eastern Washington or Oregon) it starts to think that maybe it would do better if it joined another state. Then people realize that it won't change much. Instead of being an out-of-place panhandle tacked on to one state, they just become an awkward panhandle hitched to another state that doesn't have any more in common with them.

It may be that we're stuck with each other, and the red and blue states are like an old married couple that doesn't get along with each other, but doesn't think things will be any better with a different partner.

190 posted on 11/09/2004 7:33:25 PM PST by x
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To: weshess
Screw that they have to leave, not secede. My ancestors didn't fight in the Revolutionary War to give up our land to a bunch of whiney a$$ babies.

If we just revoke their statehood, they should revert back to being a US territory.

191 posted on 11/09/2004 7:33:29 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: All

I think until the secession is complete, we should make "fly-over" country - also known as the Red states, God's Country - a "no fly zone". All of the rich people like the "movie stars" and the Kerrys will not get clearance to fly over us and will have to divert to Canada, which unfortuantley for them (do you hear me Arianna Huffington?) it wiil cost them more money for fuel, but thems the breaks.


192 posted on 11/09/2004 7:33:57 PM PST by Txsleuth (Proud to be a Texan)
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To: mattdono

I love the idea of Liberals moving to Cannukistan, but I think the move should be oneway, no comebacks to the U.S., and CLOSE the BORDER, LOL!


194 posted on 11/09/2004 7:34:33 PM PST by agincourt1415 (OK, Democrats ITS OVER, GET OVER IT!)
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To: agincourt1415
How about calling it Absurdistan?
195 posted on 11/09/2004 7:36:00 PM PST by TheForceOfOne
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To: agincourt1415

I'll bet crack is legal in the United States of Canuckistan...and NAMBLA is a political party with 20+% of the elected politicians...football is outlawed and sports scores can not be kept...children are dropped off at a government hospital where they are raised by a bureacrat and bow to a picture of Hitlery in between calls to allahu fubaru constantly...and achievers are persecuted, the Holy Bible is outlawed and Mein Koran challenges Oprah's "My LIFE" for best seller...ahhh, I need a cold beverage.


196 posted on 11/09/2004 7:36:22 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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To: GaryL; FITZ
One popular map circulating on the Internet shows the 19 blue states won by Sen. John Kerry . . . . conjoined with Canada to form the "United States of Canada."

Canada this and Canada that.

All these libs can talk about since the election is moving to Canada.

How come no liberals want to move to Mexico?

197 posted on 11/09/2004 7:37:09 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason

Or Cuba!!


198 posted on 11/09/2004 7:39:32 PM PST by GaryL
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To: TheForceOfOne

Excellent idea. Let the blues seceed. Then have W really seal the borders. Strict immigration control. Make 'em pay to get in and pay to leave. Soak every last one. They want oil, gas, food, pay the piper. NO MORE FREE RIDES!!!!!


199 posted on 11/09/2004 7:39:34 PM PST by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT, PURE AND SIMPLE!!!!! IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: Txsleuth
Is that what it's going to take to pull this off? Jesusland God's Country? I suppose "Agape Nation" is already taken?
200 posted on 11/09/2004 7:39:56 PM PST by ApesForEvolution ("We trust [RINO-BORKING-ABORTER] Sen. Arlen spRectum's word" - "IF spRectum gets the Chair, IF")
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