Re: Dear Red States

Dear Red States:

> > > We've decided we're simultaneously leaving. We intend to form our own > country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you > aren't aware, that includes Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington, > Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, New York, and all of the > Northeastern states. After this election, we'll be adding Colorado and New > Mexico. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, especially > to the people of our new country - Nuevo California. > > > > To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states; we > get stem cell research, the best beaches, and the best ski resorts. We get > the Statue of Liberty; you get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft; you > get WorldCom. We get Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cal Tech, MIT and > Columbia; you get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture > capital and entrepreneurs; you get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax > revenue; you get to make the red states pay their fair share. > > > > Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than that of the > Christian Coalition, we get a bunch of happy families and you get a bunch > of under-educated single moms. > > > > Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and > we'll need all of our citizens back from Iraq at once. > > > > If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They apparently have > kids they're willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they > don't mind if you don't televise their kid's caskets coming home. We do > wish you success in Iraq and hope that those Weapons of Mass Destruction > turn up for you, but we're not willing to spend any more of our money in > Bush's Quagmire. > > > > With the Blue States, we will control 80 percent of the country's fresh > water,90 percent of pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's > fresh fruit, 97percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French > wines at your state dinners), 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the > high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, > sequoias and condors, and all the Ivy League and Seven Sister schools. We > also get New England, the Great Lakes and Yosemite, thank you very much. > > > > In the Red States, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese > Americans and their projected health care costs, 92 percent of all U.S. > mosquitoes, 100 percent of tornadoes, 94 percent of hurricanes, 99 percent > of Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, and > Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bob Jones University, and Clemson. > > > > Additionally, in the Red States, 38 percent actually believe Jonah was > swallowed by a whale; 62 percent believe life is sacred unless it involves > the death penalty or gun ownership; 44 percent claim that evolution is > only a theory; 53 percent insist that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11; > and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you have higher moral > standards than those of us on the left. > > > > By the way, we're taking all the good pot, too. You get that dirt weed > from Mexico and Kansas ditches. > > > > Peace out, > > The Blue States > > > -- > Karen C - California

Offensive as HELL, especially the paragraph about happy families vs. "under-educated single moms" as if they are mutually exclusive. If espousing spew like this comes with blue state residency, then I'm moving. Count me out of your "new country".

Jinx

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Jinx Minx
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I don`t think that Karen`s really qualified to make judgements on Happy Families, either, do you?

Pat

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Pat P

So - if the "red states" and their residents don't have freedom of speech or religion anymore?

C
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Cheryl Isaak

Karen didn't write the piece she posted; it's satire/humour that's been circulating the Web since the 2004 Presidential election.

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flitterbit

I don't care - I still find it extremely offensive.

Linda

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lewmew

Sounds like Sense of humor got lost in the split up. lol Ruby

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Ruby

The problem is that the post was funny as sour grapes when "blue" lost. It's offensive as gloating now that "blue" has won.

Elizabeth

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epc123

My experience obviously differs from yours. I don't feel that I've been subjected to offensive gloating over the years. I'm sorry if you do.

Either way, please don't speak for me.

Elizabeth (in the bluest of states)

Reply to
epc123

Bullshit.

Pure unadulterated bullshit, Karen.

Elizabeth

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epc123

Bravo!! Well said!

Reply to
Jeri

Yes Karen, that whole boorish, offensive, biggoted rant you posted really shows how tolerant you are.

Reply to
Jeri

Perhaps as a "Christian" you should start practicing the Golden Rule. I'm sure you've heard of it being a "Christian" and all..... "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Sound familiar?

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Jeri

*snort* Then you must have converted on both counts since your original, bigoted, horribly intolerant post.

I trust, since you're now a new "convert," we can expect kindness, tolerance and respect for others from you now?

You'll pardon me if I choose not to hold my breath waiting for that sort of behavior.

Balderdash. Many of my friends are Reps - Southern Baptist Convention, if you can wrap your tiny mind around it -- and not a SINGLE on has ever Bible-thumped, railed about "going to Hell" or otherwise.

And I don't suppose that you're missing that that belief IS a part of each religion's doctrine? EAch religion believes that theirs is the RIGHT one -- otherwise, why in the world would they believe??

(BTW, you're every bit as rabid in protecting YOUR beliefs and YOUR positions -- PKB, anyone?)

However, that's not the point in question. BEHAVIOR is the matter at hand. While, yes, I'm sure you've encountered "Bible-thumpers" -- they do exist. Extremes ALWAYS exist and they tend to be the ones most noticed. But to generalize Reps as ALL being BTs is purely asinine, and might I say, moronic.

The average Christian -- the ones I'VE met, anyway -- tend to be kind and compassionate. They DO try to make converts, yes. But I've only seen them do it by their acts of kindness as an example.

Perhaps the Bible-thumping "You're going to Hell" rap you seem to encounter is simply because YOU bring it out in them? Or perhaps its the water you bragged about in your plagiarized post?

Yes. Absolutely true. WE are.

I don't think you're really a Dem, though. I think you're someone who feels so superior to the average person -- nay, the entire human population -- that you searched and found the most "enlightened" political party you could find.

It's not about caring for those less fortunate and making sure their needs are met and their voices heard, for you, it's about being SUPERIOR and getting to tell others what they should do and shouldn't do. Honestly, you're a self-centered, self-righteous twit who hides behind MY party for the status it gives you. And the protection and validation it gives your holier-than-thou espousals.

I suspect if you had been of the age of majority then, Eugenics might be something you'd think a good idea. While perhaps not the outright murder, certainly the internment and sterilization advocated.

A Dem, you are not.

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dark.angel

IAWTP x infinity.

Reply to
dark.angel

Right back at you! You've put her in her place, too! :)

Reply to
dark.angel

Nah, I'm a potty-mouth from way back, I just try to keep it under control in polite company. But I've been feeling sorely provoked by Karen's typically sweeping generalizations and completely false "universal truths."

Elizabeth

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epc123

Agility is over for me for the year (I don't like to run agility indoors on hard floors), but I spent yesterday and today at a conformation show with Cash. He got a point yesterday (dogs need 15 points for their championship - Cash now has 6) but there was no competition today. We still had fun. I also compete in obedience with my older dog, Harry.

Why, were you thinking I'd be more patient if I were running agility?

*snicker* It might be true.

Elizabeth

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epc123

What's Christian about that?

When's the last time someone made a joke about California in this group? Why are you constantly accusing people here of doing things that have been done to you elsewhere? Are you really that incapable of distinquishing one group of people from another?

Elizabeth

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epc123

In my book, if you forward it, you take responsibility for it, whether you originated it or not.

Pat

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Pat P

Oh please! Taking issue with you is certainly not the same thing as feeling inferior to you. There's nothing you have that I don't already have if I want it I just think that your wide assed generalizations are offensive and annoying. And it suits me to correct them sometimes.

As if that were what it's about. Nobody expects you to pretend to be less than what you are. It would just be nice if you'd stop declaring that anybody who doesn't agree with you is somehow inferior or just hasn't thought things through. People who come to different conclusions than the ones you've come to aren't inferior to you, they're just different. That's why democratic rule is based on considered opinions. If there were one truth, we'd be crazy not to live in a dictatorship.

Elizabeth

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epc123

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