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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:00 PM Original message |
How to deal with "red states" secession: It would be very messy. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'll try. |
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Joe the Revelator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. "VA" as in Virginia , not veteran's affairs. |
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Shinimegami (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. But Virginia's not a red state anymore. |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:24 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. Veteran's Admin. |
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quickesst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #1 |
33. Ha ha.... |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. how about |
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doctor jazz (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. What a waste of time. Nobody's going to secede. |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. A waste of time? Nine of us did some real damage to two cases of beer. |
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doctor jazz (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Well, shit... Well done! |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. Yuengling and Rolling Rock. |
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doctor jazz (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:07 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I should have known...from the PA reference. But you do know RR is now owned by Busch? |
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AlinPA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:52 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Yes, I live near Latrobe. What's phony is how Busch kept the label that says |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Al, I was really agreeing with you for a minute there, until... |
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NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. at least give me a chance to win back my state (GA) for the Union |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. We'd love to have you on our side |
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LakeSamish706 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Some of those States would be land locked, be interesting to see how they... |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
13. This is 2009 |
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LakeSamish706 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I wasn't necessarily meaning shipping, I was referring to entering into... |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:54 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. And the U.S. would be screwed when they did the same |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:07 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. The US would have every reason to do that. |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. It would mess up U.S. air patterns far more that it would hurt the states. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
40. They wouldn't have a clue....the problem is when they win |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
8. Simple: Attack the traitors and Crush them |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. The Federalist Papers said that section was for insurrections occurring within states |
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NutmegYankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. Guess they should have had that in the contract... |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:27 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. They did have that in the contract but Lincoln ignored it and settled it by force. |
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Shinimegami (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:24 PM Response to Reply #16 |
36. No state has the legal right to secede. |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 10:50 PM Response to Reply #36 |
47. Not true. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. hear hear! |
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tsuki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
9. The CBC did a drama on Quebec seceding from the rest of |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. That what the loyalists said in the early 1770s in the colonies. |
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noamnety (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
11. Missing one key question: |
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skepticscott (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. None of it |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
15. Wasn't that issue settled about 150 years ago? n/t |
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AZ Criminal JD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 05:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. The Constitution is a living document. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
20. B-52s are how to deal with them |
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Athelwulf (342 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:09 PM Response to Reply #20 |
31. Boys in bikinis! Girls on surfboards! |
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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:40 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. rock... rock... ROCK LOBSTER! Down! Down! nt |
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rampart (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
29. ethnic cleansing |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
35. treaties and trade pacts alone would make the new country |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
38. None of these candy ass Republicans have the guts to secede. They'll all talk. |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
41. IT would be worse for the seceding states |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
42. What percent of the national debt would be theirs? n/t |
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santamargarita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
43. Don't forget, we'll need a Moat around those States stocked with alligators |
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Joey Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
44. I think secession is doable |
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AnnieBW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
45. Not to mention communications |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 10:05 PM Response to Original message |
46. So if Texas secedes and Bush continues to live there - |
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GirolamoSavonarola (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-16-09 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
48. But is it a worse headache than what presently exists? |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-17-09 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
49. Those dipshits are not going any where.. |
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