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The Virginian ^ | 11/14/2012 | Moneyrunner

[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 Tuesday’s 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? Let’s 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 what’s 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.

It’s cartoons like this that make looking at papers like the Virginian Pilot worthwhile. Quite an insight isn’t it?

[Melas]

This whole issue could be resolved quickly if truckers and railroads ceased shipping to deep blue cities and counties. How long would the freeloaders last if they weren’t being fed by the rest of the country?

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.

[Nowhere Man]

I remember the helo on "Riptide," she was called "The Screaming Mimi." It was an old Sikorsky S-55. IIRC, on one Airwolf episode, Dom had to fly an an old Sikorsky S-55 to Mexico and he finds a (then 1985) 12 year old Shannon Doherty who was a stowaway aboard.

Ah, things were saner then. B-((

[Nowhere Man]

Correction, the Screaming Mimi was an S-58 Sikorsky, but it seemed to be based on the S-55

[joesjane]

Sir,
this subject thread, your response (the map) with the EBT overlay illustrating the EBT usage and the follow on responses are amazingly timely. Last week I received an email with a link to your paper titled When The Music Stops? How America's Cities May Explode In Violence.
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/
My background is something I would rather discuss in private but suffice to say I have forwarded this scenario to my circle of colleagues and friends who were quite interested in your thoughts and we continue to discuss this issue.
The actual trigger makes no difference, the following domino effect would be similar if the trigger is nation wide vs localized.
The further we proceed down this road of government dependence the more likely the scenario is.
I would be interested in continuing this discussion and would also encourage you to re-post the article in a separate thread to share with fellow freepers.

V/R

[stevie_d_64]

“Freeloadica”

Now that’s funny...I don’t care where ya from!!!

[stevie_d_64]

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...;-)