Oct 31 2008

If all the Liberals left the United States?

I was thinking last week. What would happen if everyone who considers themselves a liberal were to leave the United States. Then I was thinking, how in the world I figure that scenario out? Someone did the work for me! I got this in a email today from a friend.

Dear Red States…

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 California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and almost all the 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 the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.

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 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.

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 in Bush’s Quagmire.

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 Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

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, 53 percent believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy b*****ds believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

By the way, we’re taking the good pot, too.

You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.


Oct 23 2008

I Voted!

I voted, I’m done and I want to be able to shut it off from my TV.  Where is the switch?  There is no one left in my house who needs to know who’s zooming who, so I want a switch to shut that crap off of my TV!

I’ll admit it.  I have no problem admitting it.  I used to like John McCain.  But after his VP selection I couldn’t take him seriously anymore.  That said, was it the lesser of all the evil, Rudy, Mit? Even Joe might have been trouble.

I’ve resigned myself to the idea that in my lifetime campaigns will never be discussing the issues.  Think about it.  Even when we aren’t in the middle of an election is anyone talking about what is really going on?  Are the people we elect truly making a difference.  Or are we to busy telling other to “shut up and sing”, or they are doing this to get the press to follow them around.

When did it happen that the point from A to Z became so fractured?  Did you read it?  I did.  I’m still trying to figure out what a tax credit for the wooden arrow company in Oregon had to do with the Wall Street bail out.

How about a bill that includes details and information just about what it is intended for. I know…I know…I’m crazy.  And while I’m being crazy, how about some real language that actually says something?
‘‘(a) REDUCTIONINAMOUNTALLOWEDASFOREIGN
TAXUNDERSECTION901.—In applying section 901, the
13 amount of any foreign oil and gas taxes paid or accrued
14 (or deemed to have been paid) during the taxable year
15 which would (but for this subsection) be taken into ac-
16 count for purposes of section 901 shall be reduced by the
17 amount (if any) by which the amount of such taxes ex-
18 ceeds the product of—
19 ‘‘(1) the amount of the combined foreign oil
20 and gas income for the taxable year,
21 ‘‘(2) multiplied by—
22 ‘‘(A) in the case of a corporation, the per-
23 centage which is equal to the highest rate of tax
24 specified under section 11(b), or

Really?  Thanks for clearing that up!