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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Craigslist Ad Of The Day

From a June 24, 2005 Craigslist post in the San Francisco, California, area:


"Dear Red States..." A Letter From The Blue!

"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 Hawaii, Oregon,Washington,
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and 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 Elliot
Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

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, 44 percent say
that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent 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.

Peace out,
Blue States"



Though it was written more than six years ago, the post is more relevant than ever.  I'm curious as to who originally wrote it.  They did their homework.


Thanks to Unreal Americans for the link.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Photo Of The Day


Also, where does that lady think money for defense spending comes from?  

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Graph: What The 400 Richest Americans Can Buy

In March, filmmaker Michael Moore publicly claimed that the 400 richest Americans "have more wealth than half of all Americans combined".  The statement seemed so outrageous, that Politifact.com decided to investigate it.  What they found was astonishing.

Michael Moore's statement was actually false.  The 400 richest Americans had more wealth than the poorest 60% of Americans.  They determined that in 2010, the top 400 money earners had $1.37 trillion in property.  The wealth of the poorest 60% of Americans, everything that they own, has a value of $1.26 trillion, according to economists.

What can $1.37 trillion buy?  Take a look.


Still, there are people in this country, primarily Republicans, that complain that the poor aren't chipping in their "fair share".  Numerous articles have been published stating how 51% of Americans pay no income tax.  This may just be a theory, but it may be because they're fucking poor.

There also seems to be quite a bit of inherent skepticism as to whether poor people are actually poor:



The audacity of someone in poverty to have a refrigerator or a television.  The nerve of some people!