11-14-2012, 03:41 PM | #61 |
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Stormie - I stand corrected. A tip of the hat to you. Yes, that program began in the Clinton administration and the cellphones are subsidized by the Universal Service Fee.
piercehawkeye45 - from the whitehouse.gov site, "If a petition meets the signature threshold, it will be reviewed by the Administration and we will issue a response." Yes the response will probably be a laugh, but it does indicate a division in our country.
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11-14-2012, 03:51 PM | #62 |
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Wait, wait just a minute. That means the blue states still end up with Trump. Or will he be something they'd have to tolerate, like horseflies in a barn?
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Another fact the secessionists throw out quite regularly is that Texas is the only state with a completely independent power grid. Life wouldn't be as good, but Texas could definitely survive on its own. The biggest threat to their success would be how much Great White Flight takes place. How many liberals in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston, and Austin would flee to a northern state? Depends mostly on whether the feds let Texas go quietly or not. I honestly think most people wouldn't uproot their lives, unless they were being drafted for a bloody civil war. |
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11-14-2012, 04:20 PM | #64 |
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Given all that, if they're so ready, I wonder what's taking them so long to split. If it's a matter of a petition and a nod from the White House to do it peacefully, do they really think they'll get it now? Or in the next 4 years?
If they want to fight their way out, that should be quite interesting. They just better keep the fighting out of Louisiana.
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11-14-2012, 04:30 PM | #65 |
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Why aren't red states patriotic?
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11-14-2012, 04:31 PM | #66 |
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Because the vast majority of us are not morons. No one here is even talking about the petition, only the news outlets from out-of-state. In a state this big, it's a given that there will be over 25,000 dumbasses in favor of any issue. No one here pays the secessionists any mind, they've been around forever.
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11-14-2012, 06:00 PM | #67 |
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Secession will never happen. It is simply a way of making a political statement.
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11-14-2012, 06:29 PM | #68 |
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Just to show that we're not above listening to the opposition - "self deportation".
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11-14-2012, 06:43 PM | #69 |
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Not to mention the fact that anyone can sign any state's petition, so all you need is 25,000 dumbasses total, let alone from one state.
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And the Pentagon is going to withdraw American troops from what is now a foreign country unless the decision is made to fight Texas to force it back into the Union. The departing troops will be ordered to take all weapons, tanks, fighter planes, aircraft carriers etc. with them – you never ever leave equipment for enemy forces to use if it can be avoided. Anything that can’t be shipped out will be destroyed. The Texans can try to capture sophisticated US weaponary with their hunting guns and their coon hounds, but even with the help of the Mexican mafia, they’ll be outgunned. |
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11-15-2012, 09:48 AM | #71 |
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I wonder how many states would have opted out of the Iraq war?
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They had the option of not sending National Guard troops
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That was really interesting, V.
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That lost me in the first four words, but I read on.
Then it lost me again at the end of that first paragraph. Quote:
That was the compromise by the Democrats in order to get even a single Republican Senator to vote in favor of Obamacare. The second is solely the previous Republican President's banner to bear. But I do realize these are the meanderings of one misguided Republican soul. Oh wait, I'm being redundant |
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