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dooner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 09:46 PM
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Nuevo California
sorta funny...

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Dear Red States,

We're ticked off at the way you've treated California, and we've decided we're 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, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the entire Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get OpryLand. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. 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 finally pay their fair share.


Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. And of course, 31% higher unwanted pregnancies.

Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq, and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources to find them.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines (you can serve French wines at 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, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford and Cal Tech.

With the Red States, on the other hand, 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, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.

We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11, and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then us lefties.

By the way, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Sincerely,

Author Unknown in New California.
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 09:54 PM
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1. Would Ohio be in New California?
Edited on Sun Jul-10-05 09:54 PM by YOY
Maybe just the northern part. Could we get Chicago and Detroit as well?
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-10-05 10:56 PM
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2. I'm hoping for at least eastern part of Iowa...
That is definitely the blue part of the state and one that shares common borders with Illinois which would be in "blue country". They came pretty damn close to voting for Kerry, and some might argue had some hope from the voting machines, etc.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 09:33 AM
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5. I guess that's disputed
By the same token, Florida should be part of New California, shouldn't it?
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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:46 PM
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8. Florida?
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 07:51 PM
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9. Sure. Gore really carried Florida
Maybe Kerry really did, too.

You never know about an election run by Jeb Bush much more than you would know about one run by Manuel Noriega.
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:43 AM
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3. I like it,
says the NorCal native.
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cleofus1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 08:13 AM
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4. find the source of this becouse...
it kicks ass baby! I love that...thanks for posting it...

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dooner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 11:16 AM
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6. it was one of those forwarded "junk" emails...
but obviously a good one! Go NorCal!


And sorry Ohio, until you fix your voting machine "problem", you might be a drag on the system. (Just kidding, we've got Arnold.)


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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 01:31 PM
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7. I have no problem with the blue states leaving the red ones
in fact, the faster we get out of this imperfect union, the better

let the fundie freaks have South Carolina; we'll take Oregon

let them have Alabama and Mississippi; we'll take Washinton State

I'll even trade Nevada for Jersey--I'll take Atlantic City over Vegas

we get the entire northeast, the entire west coast; the Lake Erie states

we also get Hawaii, they can have Alaska and the pollution after they start drilling up there
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