Posted on 11/16/2012 4:53:41 AM PST by Lucky9teen
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cheers,
Jim
To inject a serious note.
Any secession would have to be of a geographical nature, one or more physical sections leaving the country.
But our national division is only relatively slightly geographic in nature. It is ideological. Even in the reddest of red states, at least 1/3 of the populace is towards the blue end, and the same is true in reverse for the blue states.
In 1860/61 secession (as opposed to the ensuing war) proceeded relatively smoothly only because the national division was largely geographically aligned. Even so, the border states, where the division was not geographical, descended into nasty neighbor against neighbor civil war.
Leaving aside that I think secession is a bad idea, I don’t think it is physically possible. Any attempt would result in a true ideological civil war, not the much less destructive region against region type we had in the 1860s.
By all means, let’s replay the Spanish or Russian Civil Wars.
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Excellent.
FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."
I said "WHAT????!!! What was that?!" So she says the words That every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear..."You're just not in Touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man."
She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just Love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?"
Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep. The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her.
We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits.
She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'll just buy them all. She wanted new Shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said let’s get a pair for each outfit.
We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck.
I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier." I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."
Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled "WHAT???!!!" I then said, "Really honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while.
You’re just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"
Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.
Every time someone on Star Trek says, “Fire at Will” I get my hopes up, but they never hit Riker.
That's flippin' hilarious!
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I couldn’t help noticing the red part of the “partitioned USA” map includes part of California, apparently San Diego and Imperial Counties (I grew up in the latter, btw). Can’t imagine why we’d want Imperial County as part of the new union as it goes Democrat pretty reliably. OTOH, it does have a lot of farmland...
Oddly enough, that seems even less appetizing than a regular Twinkie...
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Kind of the same feelings I had when they said “Wesley... CRUSH HER!”
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