Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:30 AM

Louisiana Secession Petition (whitehouse.gov)

WTF is wrong with these people? LA is one of the most upside down states in tax revenues to expenditures in the nation.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-louisiana-withdraw-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/1wrvtngl

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75 replies	Author	Time	Post
Louisiana Secession Petition (whitehouse.gov) (Original post)	Ruby the Liberal	Nov 2012	OP
Can I sign if I am not from Louisiana?	democrattotheend	Nov 2012	#1
"can i sign it, too?"	aletier_v	Nov 2012	#2
I did when I saw it.	Ruby the Liberal	Nov 2012	#3
You can	friedgreentomatoes	Nov 2012	#43
Yes. nt	bluestate10	Nov 2012	#67
Let's start a giant fence building fund with all	Heather MC	Nov 2012	#4
They have no idea,	elleng	Nov 2012	#5
Yep that is it in a nutshell.	Rex	Nov 2012	#46
So,what do they plan	Rincewind	Nov 2012	#6
Yeah	PatrickS	Nov 2012	#40
we'll keep New Orleans	ibegurpard	Nov 2012	#7
I love New Orleans. Great people there.	Michigan Alum	Nov 2012	#37
Yep, save New Orleans, dump the rest!!!	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#58
if i already signed the texas one- can i sign this one too?	BlueMan Votes	Nov 2012	#8
We don't need your help	ornotna	Nov 2012	#10
The poster was just pointing out that if the assholes want to leave, let them.	bluestate10	Nov 2012	#69
More than one state	PatrickS	Nov 2012	#9
See post above n/t	ornotna	Nov 2012	#11
Holy cow. Where's Utah?	aletier_v	Nov 2012	#12
uh...there are no Montanans on the Montana petition...	ibegurpard	Nov 2012	#14
And hardly any New Yorkers on the New York petition.	smirkymonkey	Nov 2012	#50
Your first link is to a White Nationalist site and your last is to World Net Daily	Ruby the Liberal	Nov 2012	#15
More like research habits than reading habits	PatrickS	Nov 2012	#21
Yes, my google is set to deep crawl sf.org and wnd.com too.	Ruby the Liberal	Nov 2012	#23
Google is free	PatrickS	Nov 2012	#25
Meh, Stormfront's a reasonable link if we're discussing that kind of batshit madness.	Posteritatis	Nov 2012	#31
I love shit like this! nt	Walk away	Nov 2012	#53
You invited it with your OP.	cordelia	Nov 2012	#41
WTF are you on about now?	Ruby the Liberal	Nov 2012	#42
The Arkansas petition only has 33 signatories	Art_from_Ark	Nov 2012	#16
We'll fight you in Missouri.	xmas74	Nov 2012	#19
Stormfront? Really?	Warren DeMontague	Nov 2012	#20
You have more in common with Stormfront than you know	aletier_v	Nov 2012	#22
No, actually, I don't.	Warren DeMontague	Nov 2012	#34
I agree. Fuck the nazis.	Raster	Nov 2012	#55
I'm movin' to...	dchill	Nov 2012	#26
I want the Widespread Panic, R.E.M., Allman Bros., B-52s Georgia.	Warren DeMontague	Nov 2012	#35
Oh my fucking god. The link "Entire List" link takes you to the message board on Stormfront.	Raster	Nov 2012	#54
Holy Christ! Everyone wants out lol	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Nov 2012	#13
I wish I coud feign shock.	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#17
They should all be given a hellhole to migrate to for free and be gone. And I say good	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#61
Whoa, wait, wait wait. We can't just let the entire nation secede.	2pooped2pop	Nov 2012	#63
I wish I could feign surprise	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#18
See how crazy these morons are	Jack Sprat	Nov 2012	#24
Yep, well said. All mine and none for you. They are absolute jerks and are intent on destroying	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#62
Shocking! LA leads TX!!	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Nov 2012	#27
Start date	PatrickS	Nov 2012	#28
Same thing that was wrong the last time states tried seccession...	Agnosticsherbet	Nov 2012	#29
Hopefully, the upshot from all of this will be that...	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Nov 2012	#30
Heading back to Cascadia Next Week	kurt_cagle	Nov 2012	#44
I spent my first 23 years in the SF Bay Area...	WhaTHellsgoingonhere	Nov 2012	#49
sign it.....	kcdoug1	Nov 2012	#32
maybe we need to	PowerToThePeople	Nov 2012	#33
Not to mention it was found to be illegal, I believe, in Kohlhaas v. State	sakabatou	Nov 2012	#36
Texas, Alabama, and now Louisiana.	distantearlywarning	Nov 2012	#38
Hardly any Floridians signed the Florida one. The should just have N Florida be part of Georgia.	Michigan Alum	Nov 2012	#39
+++ 1,000 +++ n/t	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#64
Good to know that The Stupid doesn't	Rex	Nov 2012	#45
They maybe hopeless politically, but they still have New Orelans	SpartanDem	Nov 2012	#47
Maybe we could just fence off one of the square states	Ruby the Liberal	Nov 2012	#48
And build a very high fence around it?	calico1	Nov 2012	#52
What are they going to do when the next Katrina hits?	calico1	Nov 2012	#51
FU**, let them go, I wish they would secede. I'm so fed up with their bullshit and others like them.	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#56
If it all works, our blue states can take their moderates and liberals and our blue states will send	bluestate10	Nov 2012	#71
I would move for that! I would like to get as far as possible from the right-wingers. They're	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#73
If the whole state is getting welfare from why don't they figure a way to make them self-supporting	socialindependocrat	Nov 2012	#57
We should feel sorry for the people in these states	Progressive dog	Nov 2012	#59
Thanks	IphengeniaBlumgarten	Nov 2012	#72
Petitions	AdmiralGilgamesh	Nov 2012	#75
This would count as sedition, right?	jmowreader	Nov 2012	#60
Louisiana which has not performed well since Right to work passed.	Thinkingabout	Nov 2012	#65
Grant them freedom. Take back our federal tax money sent to LA. Citizens that don't want to	bluestate10	Nov 2012	#66
Great. Now we'll have room for Puerto Rico without having to add a star on the flag.	Orangepeel	Nov 2012	#68
Fuck them with an iron stick. Leave, assholes.	hifiguy	Nov 2012	#70
Lulz	AdmiralGilgamesh	Nov 2012	#74

Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:34 AM

democrattotheend (10,151 posts)

1. Can I sign if I am not from Louisiana?

If they want to secede, I am all for it.

I didn't even realize you could start petitions on the Whitehouse website...I guess that's part of the president's initiative to make the website interactive. Very cool.

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Response to democrattotheend (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:37 AM

aletier_v (1,773 posts)

2. "can i sign it, too?"

That was pretty funny.

I hope not. Texas would be ousted within a few days.

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Response to democrattotheend (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:38 AM

Ruby the Liberal (25,953 posts)

3. I did when I saw it.

I love NOLA, but if they want to leave, I'll just use my passport to visit.

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Response to democrattotheend (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:20 PM

friedgreentomatoes (321 posts)

43. You can

People from up as North as MD has signed. Actually, most signatures there are not of LA residents...

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Response to democrattotheend (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:19 PM

bluestate10 (10,942 posts)

67. Yes. nt

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:46 AM

Heather MC (6,911 posts)

4. Let's start a giant fence building fund with all

the federal money we will save once they are gone. Because you know we have to keep the "illegals" out

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:52 AM

elleng (83,074 posts)

5. They have no idea,

don't understand government or democracy. They are ignorant, and kept that way deliberately.

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Response to elleng (Reply #5)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:32 PM

Rex (65,616 posts)

46. Yep that is it in a nutshell.

And some stay ignorant, lest they have to use one of those braincells in their head!

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:59 AM

Rincewind (1,088 posts)

6. So,what do they plan

to do the next time a hurricane hits them? Beg for foreign aid from the evil USA?

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Response to Rincewind (Reply #6)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 11:51 AM

PatrickS (294 posts)

40. Yeah

You'd think that after the way a republican like W handled the Katrina disaster that they'd be happy to have a Democrat for President. Weird.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 01:59 AM

ibegurpard (15,163 posts)

7. we'll keep New Orleans

they're welcome to the rest of that shithole

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Response to ibegurpard (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:16 AM

Michigan Alum (335 posts)

37. I love New Orleans. Great people there.

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Response to ibegurpard (Reply #7)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:10 PM

RKP5637 (51,340 posts)

58. Yep, save New Orleans, dump the rest!!!

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:00 AM

BlueMan Votes (903 posts)

8. if i already signed the texas one- can i sign this one too?

i'm from IL.

hopefully MS, AL, GA and FL get their petitions up SOON.

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Response to BlueMan Votes (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:07 AM

ornotna (6,150 posts)

10. We don't need your help

Thanks anyway.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021788199

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Response to ornotna (Reply #10)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:24 PM

bluestate10 (10,942 posts)

69. The poster was just pointing out that if the assholes want to leave, let them.

We should stop sending federal tax money to those red state immediately and give people that want to leave and stay with the USA up to a year and a half to leave and resettle. The red states will be hit by pestilence after they leave, so will we, but the difference is that we will be able to pay for rebuilding.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:06 AM

PatrickS (294 posts)

9. More than one state

Entire list

Texas

Florida

Montana

Kentucky

Indiana

South Carolina

Georgia

Missouri

Alabama

Mississippi

Arkansas

Georgia #2

Conservatives are talking about it and love the idea: link

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:07 AM

ornotna (6,150 posts)

11. See post above n/t

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:08 AM

aletier_v (1,773 posts)

12. Holy cow. Where's Utah?

Can we start a petition to throw States out?

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:09 AM

ibegurpard (15,163 posts)

14. uh...there are no Montanans on the Montana petition...

except the douchenozzle who started it...

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Response to ibegurpard (Reply #14)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 04:55 PM

smirkymonkey (31,593 posts)

50. And hardly any New Yorkers on the New York petition.

What a joke.

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:15 AM

Ruby the Liberal (25,953 posts)

15. Your first link is to a White Nationalist site and your last is to World Net Daily

Interesting browsing habits.

Edit - that sf.org link is to page 36 of a 49 page thread. Tellng.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #15)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:46 AM

PatrickS (294 posts)

21. More like research habits than reading habits

arf

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #21)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:50 AM

Ruby the Liberal (25,953 posts)

23. Yes, my google is set to deep crawl sf.org and wnd.com too.

Lots of links out there on this tonight, yet page 36 of a sf.org thread and world nut daily is what you bring to DU?

Your "research" skills be a bit rusty given your target audience. Can you at least pretend?

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #23)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:09 AM

PatrickS (294 posts)

25. Google is free

Searched "Louisiana Secede" in Google and there's the link with the full list of states.

Considering the type who wants to secede, you won't find a link with such a list at Huffington Post or a left leaning site.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #23)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:37 AM

Posteritatis (18,807 posts)

31. Meh, Stormfront's a reasonable link if we're discussing that kind of batshit madness.

They and their ilk drive that sort of thing pretty heavily, so I don't snarkily implying someone's a disruptor on account of being aware of what they're saying is that appropriate, especially since the thread's pretty obviously about what those guys are thinking.

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Response to Posteritatis (Reply #31)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:02 PM

Walk away (9,494 posts)

53. I love shit like this! nt

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #15)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 11:56 AM

cordelia (2,174 posts)

41. You invited it with your OP.

We all know you hate those of us in the red states, particularly those of us in the South.

Must be sad to be so hate-filled.

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Response to cordelia (Reply #41)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 12:36 PM

Ruby the Liberal (25,953 posts)

42. WTF are you on about now?

For the 50th time, I. AM. FROM. THE. SOUTH.

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:16 AM

Art_from_Ark (27,247 posts)

16. The Arkansas petition only has 33 signatories

and no one claiming to be from Arkansas has signed it.

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:22 AM

xmas74 (26,707 posts)

19. We'll fight you in Missouri.

Yes, we went for Romney but our governor, our Sec of State, a couple of congresspersons and a senator are Dems. (Our senate race was one of the most closely watched in the nation this last go-round.)

We're are the Land of Truman and I hope that Tuesday was the slow start of bringing that back.

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:44 AM

Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)

20. Stormfront? Really?

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Response to Warren DeMontague (Reply #20)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:49 AM

aletier_v (1,773 posts)

22. You have more in common with Stormfront than you know

they hate freepers too!
heck they hate everybody!

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Response to aletier_v (Reply #22)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:17 AM

Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)

34. No, actually, I don't.

I had relatives who died in the camps.

Fuck Nazis.

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Response to Warren DeMontague (Reply #34)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:04 PM

Raster (18,317 posts)

55. I agree. Fuck the nazis.

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:13 AM

dchill (17,004 posts)

26. I'm movin' to...

Georgia #2. What, they couldn't even agree with each other?

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Response to dchill (Reply #26)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:19 AM

Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)

35. I want the Widespread Panic, R.E.M., Allman Bros., B-52s Georgia.

Which # is that?

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Response to PatrickS (Reply #9)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:02 PM

Raster (18,317 posts)

54. Oh my fucking god. The link "Entire List" link takes you to the message board on Stormfront.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:09 AM

WhaTHellsgoingonhere (5,252 posts)

13. Holy Christ! Everyone wants out lol

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions

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Response to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:19 AM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

17. I wish I coud feign shock.

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Response to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:17 PM

RKP5637 (51,340 posts)

61. They should all be given a hellhole to migrate to for free and be gone. And I say good

riddance. Save the state and dump these jerks into their own hellhole of their own state.

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Response to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:22 PM

2pooped2pop (5,420 posts)

63. Whoa, wait, wait wait. We can't just let the entire nation secede.

Not all of us that are in red states want out. I think we will maybe have to pick a state or two to give up. The only way this works is if all the repuklicans agree to move to these states that we allow to secede.

Now we need to pick states.

I give one vote to oust Missouri.

anyone else?

Please list which states you would prefer to give up if we can come to an agreement.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:20 AM

nadinbrzezinski (154,021 posts)

18. I wish I could feign surprise

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:08 AM

Jack Sprat (2,500 posts)

24. See how crazy these morons are

They have become so very obvious. If we had resorted to this when Reagan or the Bushes took office, they would have accused us of treason.

They began this pattern during the Clinton 90s, demanding his impeachment, coming up with all sorts of assasination theories, and opposing any military actions during his term.

Now it's taken on an additional racial tone, in that we happen to have a president who isn't pure lily white. They want revolution and secession now. The rethugs have really demonstrated to the rest of the world how uncivil a society we're capable of being, how racially charged our society is, and how opposed to human rights that one of our major national parties is.

There is no doubt now. It has become apparent to all the world that a large segment of our citizens, particularly white males, feel absolutely entitled to everything of value this nation produces. They don't want to share, and now some of them are willing to destroy it all to keep from having to share it. If they can't maintain complete dominance, then they don't want to play the game anymore.

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Response to Jack Sprat (Reply #24)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:22 PM

RKP5637 (51,340 posts)

62. Yep, well said. All mine and none for you. They are absolute jerks and are intent on destroying

this nation. I call all of them terrorists.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:18 AM

WhaTHellsgoingonhere (5,252 posts)

27. Shocking! LA leads TX!!

LA 7400 signatures
TX 4400 signatures

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Response to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Reply #27)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:25 AM

PatrickS (294 posts)

28. Start date

If you look at the date the petitions were created, Louisiana was first, on November 7 while the Texas petition was made on the 9th. Texas is catching up though. When I looked earlier today, there were only 300+ signatures for Texas so that means 4k signed up since then.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:30 AM

Agnosticsherbet (11,619 posts)

29. Same thing that was wrong the last time states tried seccession...

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:30 AM

WhaTHellsgoingonhere (5,252 posts)

30. Hopefully, the upshot from all of this will be that...

someday I will live in the sovereign nation of Yankeedom.

OK, we can work on the name but that's what they've got on the map already

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Response to WhaTHellsgoingonhere (Reply #30)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:26 PM

kurt_cagle (534 posts)

44. Heading back to Cascadia Next Week

I'm returning to Seattle after seven years away, definitely looking forward to it, especially after the state elected a completely blue slate this time around, and legalized both gay marriage and pot (I'm neither gay nor a pot smoker, but I've always felt the discrimination against both to be silly).

The funny thing is that most of the people in Cascadia self-identify as such, almost as much as they identify themselves as Americans. In a way, this makes a lot of sense - it is 2500 miles from Seattle to Washington DC, roughly the same distance as London is from Moscow. Culturally, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, BC share a common history, common values, and a similar climate. One of these years, when the burdens of union weigh too heavily, Cascadia will be an independent nation, though that may be decades in the future yet.

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Response to kurt_cagle (Reply #44)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 04:35 PM

WhaTHellsgoingonhere (5,252 posts)

49. I spent my first 23 years in the SF Bay Area...

I don't know anything about Cascadia, but if it doesn't extend to Marin, SF, and down into Monterey County of California, then Northern California should be it's own country. South of Monterey is a completely different country.

EDIT: I just checked the map I posted and it confirms this. Of course, being a native Californian, nobody had to tell me that Southern California (South of Monterey County) is a different country.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:39 AM

kcdoug1 (222 posts)

32. sign it.....

Couldn't sign this thing fast enough.... let 'em go..

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:49 AM

PowerToThePeople (9,610 posts)

33. maybe we need to

start one for fema re-education camps for the loons starting those petitions.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:29 AM

sakabatou (35,022 posts)

36. Not to mention it was found to be illegal, I believe, in Kohlhaas v. State

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:18 AM

distantearlywarning (4,475 posts)

38. Texas, Alabama, and now Louisiana.

Buh bye!

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:25 AM

Michigan Alum (335 posts)

39. Hardly any Floridians signed the Florida one. The should just have N Florida be part of Georgia.

They are much more like them. The panhandle can be part of Alabama. Our state would very blue without those idiots.

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Response to Michigan Alum (Reply #39)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:23 PM

RKP5637 (51,340 posts)

64. +++ 1,000 +++ n/t

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 02:28 PM

Rex (65,616 posts)

45. Good to know that The Stupid doesn't

fall far from my state (Texas). The real problem here is that these maggots infest our wonderful country. Aww...did I call them maggots? They want OUR country. And I don't think so...

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:18 PM

SpartanDem (4,533 posts)

47. They maybe hopeless politically, but they still have New Orelans

now Mississippi and Alabama... I signed for them. Texas will be blue in a decade.... keep them. GA...Obama had 46% of vote there maybe hope for them...so they can stay.

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Response to SpartanDem (Reply #47)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:55 PM

Ruby the Liberal (25,953 posts)

48. Maybe we could just fence off one of the square states

and move all the secessionists there?

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Reply #48)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:00 PM

calico1 (8,391 posts)

52. And build a very high fence around it?

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 04:58 PM

calico1 (8,391 posts)

51. What are they going to do when the next Katrina hits?

Are they idiots? Oh...never mind.

Let's annex New Orleans and then cast the rest of the state off.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:05 PM

RKP5637 (51,340 posts)

56. FU**, let them go, I wish they would secede. I'm so fed up with their bullshit and others like them.

They're boat anchors. That said, I know there are good people in Louisiana, some of my relatives are from there and they are not these jerks. ... but there is an element of this country that should just go off on their own. I'm fed up with hearing their backward bullshit, and they're not redeemable.

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Response to RKP5637 (Reply #56)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:38 PM

bluestate10 (10,942 posts)

71. If it all works, our blue states can take their moderates and liberals and our blue states will send

them our right-wingers. Great deal for us based upon the righties that I know.

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Response to bluestate10 (Reply #71)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 07:25 PM

RKP5637 (51,340 posts)

73. I would move for that! I would like to get as far as possible from the right-wingers. They're

a bunch of degenerates IMO. They're a depressing backward lot that the rest of us have to drag along. I'm fed up with it ...

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:09 PM

socialindependocrat (1,372 posts)

57. If the whole state is getting welfare from why don't they figure a way to make them self-supporting

I f we need to figure how to get people back to work and off the welfare rolls
they may as well start with the state of LA, right?

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:12 PM

Progressive dog (4,990 posts)

59. We should feel sorry for the people in these states

and not make fun of them. As some have pointed out, only a tiny number of people have signed these petitions and many are not from the states themselves.

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Response to Progressive dog (Reply #59)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:40 PM

IphengeniaBlumgarten (224 posts)

72. Thanks

Bunch of us object to this petition, but see no official way to say that.

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Response to IphengeniaBlumgarten (Reply #72)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 05:32 PM

AdmiralGilgamesh (2 posts)

75. Petitions

Perhaps we could start a petition to kill the other petition? Or petition to reaffirm our status as an actual state.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 05:13 PM

jmowreader (38,627 posts)

60. This would count as sedition, right?

It would also count as abject stupidity...whatever would Opelousas and Breaux Bridge do without all the tax money Massachusetts and Vermont send them?

This is all so stupid...knuckleheads want to secede because Obama doesn't want them to continue in the family tradition of dying of some easily treatable disease, leaving half the family fortune to the hospital? Oh yeah, he might resurrect the assault weapons ban. None of the people up in arms over this would buy an assault rifle anyway - you can get a bolt action rifle AND a pistol for the price of an AR-15 - but poutrage is always fun.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:06 PM

Thinkingabout (30,058 posts)

65. Louisiana which has not performed well since Right to work passed.

Wages not much more than minimum wages, turned red and they don't have a clue. The governor is cutting retirement to state workers, probably happy to see social security cut and thinks he is on his way to Washington. They should be kicking his butt. They hate minorities, cried like a baby wanting President Obama to come to the Gulf Coast after the BP oil spill. If he was ready for Washington he should have performed better in Louisiana.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:19 PM

bluestate10 (10,942 posts)

66. Grant them freedom. Take back our federal tax money sent to LA. Citizens that don't want to

live in the free state of Louisiana have free passage to other states. After the people that want out of the free Louisiana leave, fuck the rest.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:23 PM

Orangepeel (13,230 posts)

68. Great. Now we'll have room for Puerto Rico without having to add a star on the flag.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Sun Nov 11, 2012, 06:27 PM

hifiguy (33,688 posts)

70. Fuck them with an iron stick. Leave, assholes.

Apologies to our good DUers in LA, but I am so sick of this racist shit.

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Response to Ruby the Liberal (Original post)

Mon Nov 12, 2012, 05:30 PM

AdmiralGilgamesh (2 posts)

74. Lulz

Yes, let's succeed and let the private interests of billionaires take over the state, just like segments of national government.

Nothing would change except for the fact that we'd be poorer than sin. Unless we're all growing sugar cane and working offshore there's not much we can do in the confines of geographical Louisiana.

What a fucking mess. Though, if North Louisiana wants to succeed they can be my guest; that's just Arkansas #2 anyways.

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