Posted on 10/27/2008 9:29:28 AM PDT by crymeariver
Thank you for your prayers, they are much appreciated, netmilsmom. It may yet turn out all right; it’s just the uncertainty of it all. One way or the other, we are all going to run into roadblocks, sometimes multiple, in one form or another. Seriously, other people may end up hurting far worse than I. At least I don’t have money in the stock market or depend on a 501(k).
Good, we will have two countries.
Ours will be “God Bless America”
and you can have “God D*mned America”
We’ll see how it goes.
**With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.**
With quality research like that I don’t think the Red States can survive with their smarter Blue Staters doing our thinking.
During the great ethanol wars last year I learned quite a bit about corn production. Sorry Charlie but your states don’t control 95% of the corn. Iowa produces the most corn but only around 20%. Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, and Nebraska grow more than 5% of the nation’s corn.
As for the fresh water. I suspect they mean the Great Lakes, well Canada has a say in part of that and Indiana and Ohio borders the lakes as well. 80% of the fresh water? hardly.
Cheese? Wisconsin is the leading cheese producer but only makes 25% of the cheese, California and New York also produce a lot of cheese but 90% I doubt.
Most of the low sulfur coal is in Utah. Here in Missouri we have a thriving wine industry (better than the liberal states swill) and can produce enough fresh fruits for our own and other states uses.
Cal Tech and MIT we will miss, you can keep your other crappy schools but Purdue and Auburn and University of Missouri-Rolla can train just as good scientists and engineers.
LOL, and Destin has the finest sugary sand I have ever seen, along with cranes and dolphins galore. Keep the Jersey Shore, HAHAHAHA!!!!
Maybe that's because the single mom's up north never bother to get married . . .
My daughter thought of something simular. She posted it on DeviantArt.
http://panmarlon.deviantart.com/journal/17985840/
Outside of the ghetto, we actually don’t have many single moms here. I met more single moms in the (blue) Pacific Northwest than I have in my entire life in NY/NJ.
LOL!
Point taken but in actually, we don’t have red states and blue states but a RED nation infested with blue counties and cities..
Dear Blue States:
Well, imagine our relief that youve decided to secede and form some sort of bathing-optional commune headquartered in California. The money we’ll save in aspirin, now that we wont have headaches from listening to your interminable whining, will be worth it to us alone.
We’ll finally be rid of you lazy, moping, latte-sucking Streisand fans now that you’re actually going to follow through—for once—on your promise to finally get off your butts and leave, as so many of you claimed you would every election cycle and then chickened out of actually doing. (Yeah, were looking at you, Alec Baldwin.)
But not so fast, you dont get to take all the Blue States with you—just the Blue parts.
We hate to break it to you, but your Blue States arent actually “blue.” Mostly, theyre states full of Red counties with pockets of Blue urban blight in them, who vote Democratic in such numbers that if the same results came out of a Third World countrywhich, come to think of it, many of the “Blue” counties pretty much arewed think it was fraud and send some election observers from the UN.
Even California is pretty much a Red State: Bush won 35 out of 58 counties, while Kerry won LA and San Francisco. You want ‘em? We certainly wont fight you for them but you’re going to have to found New California without 35 of your most beautiful counties and your second-largest city. Sorry about that.
Nationally, Bush won over 2.5 million square miles of U.S. counties (and an extra three and a half million votes, but we won’t rub that in.) Kerry won less than 600,000 square miles—meaning that in most states he was popular downtown and pretty much nowhere else. In other words, your guy won the places that people like him would get shot if he walked through them at night. Our guy won every place else.
So, the bottom line is that you don’t get the Blue States. Those states have lots of towns and counties that would rather blow their dams and flood themselves out of existence rather than go with you. No, instead, you get the Blue Cities.
But wait we really feel we owe you full disclosure on this exchange. This might come as an unpleasant surprise, but you dont actually get the lower divorce and single-motherhood rates and all that other good stuff you think you’re going to snag. Those are the conditions that are actually found out in the Red countiesnot in the Blue cities, and you can’t have them.
Instead you get the urban single moms, not the soccer moms; the drug addicts, not the doctors; the waiters, not the chefs. You get the fine service you’ve come to expect from the brutal and corrupt inner-city police departments. You get the abysmal literacy rates and schools that are more dangerous than most prisons. All in all, you get to take with you a public sector in most cities so unmanageable they make Mogadishu seem like a tidily run little municipality by comparison.
You get the labor union shakedown artists, “teachers” who cant pass tests in their own subject, and city government leaders for whom graft, racial spoils systems, and outright theft are a way of life. Theyre all very enthusiastic Blue voters, as you know, and were sure theyll stampede their way to New California to start draining your wallets, wrecking your schools, and in general making a mess of your lives.
(And don’t come complaining back to us when socialist central planning does for New California what it did for garden spots like East Berlin and Pyongyang. We’re putting a strict visa system into place once you all go.)
We, on the other hand, get those Red city suburbs and rural districts. You know, the ones with the good schools, the high property values, the quiet streets and the sheriffs and cops who dont need to walk around armored up like theyre about to storm the Sunni Triangle.
Oh and dont concern yourself with our agricultural capacity after all, they don’t call it “the breadbasket” for nothing’. Well keep right on producing the vast majority of wheat, corn, oats, rye, potatoes, soybeans, beef, chicken and pork.
Weve always preferred a nice, unpretentious, frosty mug of brew anyway and hey, maybe you can make a salad with those pineapples, stem cells, and lettuce.
And don’t even think about keeping the National Parks, the wide open spaces, all those water resources, and all the rest of America’s natural splendor, since those are all pretty much located in Red counties.
Hell, we even get most of Oregon and Washington...aint it ironic? You get the urban liberals in Portland and Seattle and their friends in important social organizations (like, say, drug-running street gangs) and we get the rest of the Northwest.
Ok by us; wed be fools not to take you up on it.
Heres how it will work; all of you Blue whiners, please feel free to look at a map of the electoral results county by county in each state, and take the people with you whove made it clear theyd like to go.
That means you get places like downtown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and we get to keep the rest of beautiful Pennsylvania, thanks.
You get to administer bloated public services to the violent, drug-addled, gun slinging populations of delightful inner-city sinkholes of poverty and corruption such as Miami, St. Louis, Atlanta and the ever-popular District of Columbia—which has been governed by liberals (and the occasional crack head) for so long and so incompetently that any semblance of order has broken down (beyond the carefully guarded borders of your Georgetown bistros, naturally) to the point where even the mayor once asked the President to have the city patrolled by National Guardsmen.
Lucky you, it’s all yours—enjoy it in good health, and dont forget to wear your Kevlar...Blue “voters” up there in Northeast DC tend to be jumpy on the ol’ trigger finger.
In fact, all around our great nation, you get to keep all the Blue voters whove made urban war zones like downtown Detroit—a Blue bastion, of course—the proud showplaces they are today.
We get the rest of Blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin and Illinois and...well, frankly, just about every state in the Union with the exception of Hawaii and New England—and even there, well just hang on to a couple of chunks of New Hampshire and Connecticut.
Youre especially more than welcome to Rhode Island, which will immediately set up some sort of money-laundering scheme and bilk the rest of you once it has been incorporated into whatever sort of muddle-headed utopia youre trying to create.
The former mayor of Providence should be out of Federal prison in time to join your Politburo and help you get things set up—for a small consulting fee, of course
If you would please, take another look at the list of best beaches and notice what color states they are in. We’ll miss the Hawaiian beaches, but since long stretches of coastline from New Jersey down to Florida and yes, even in Southern California (including San Diego, thanks) are actually in Red counties, we’ll be fine.
Sure, we get the rednecks and holy rollers. But since you’re apparently willing to trade them for the gangs and psychopaths terrorizing your Blue cities, what can we say? You want the Crips and the Bloods in low riders raking your streets with automatic gunfire, and you’re offering us Bubba heading off to church in his pickup?
Hey, a deal’s a deal, done.
True, you also get Manhattan, but darn the luck, you have to take the rest of the city, including the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn too, as well as Long Island, which is enough to almost make us feel sorry for you all out there in New California, Not!
For our part, well take most of the rest of gorgeous New York State, although you get the scam artists who infest the legislature in Albany.
And since for some unfathomable reason you actually want Elliot Spitzer, well buy his plane ticket as a gesture of goodwill.
So thats the deal. You get the cities, with all the crime, crack mommies, and corruption you can stand.
And sure, you get many of the elite colleges too, with the professors who think that terrorists in Fallujah are freedom fighters and that the people who worked in the Twin Towers on 9/11 were no better than Nazisforgive us for not lamenting over this loss.
We get the suburbs, the countryside, and all the other beautiful places that remain unspoiled by liberal hypocrisy and addle-brained social experimentation.
And we’d like a favor, too: please keep your sky-high tax and crime rates, since we’re happy to have the corporations and jobs that continue to flee your Blue cities into our Red counties. It’s much appreciated, since our unemployment rates, to say nothing of our crime, single-parenting, and illiteracy rates, are far lower than yours.
Oh, and one last thing. We get the U.S. military, too. Did we mention that part? (You may have forgotten that they’re volunteers, and most are happy Red state voters.)
Not to worry, though, since were sure that Islamic fundamentalist terrorists will be more than happy to reach an accommodation with a society that embraces radical feminism, gay marriage, gun control, hostility to organized religion of any kind, and Salman Rushdie. Good luck with that.
But one day when some misogynist Saudi freak—who no doubt will sneak into your country by strolling over the northern border after a few years sucking on the Canadian welfare system you all admire so much—blows up a couple kilos of plutonium on Sunset Boulevard, go send Sean Penn to ask the French for help. Well be busy that day.
Sincerely,
The Red States
PS: You can keep the marijuana. You’re going to need it, since selling it is one of the last stable industries left in Blue counties.
That was awesome!
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