Thursday, November 13, 2008

Blue & Red

I got this email from a friend and I had to post it. It really made me chuckle.

Dear Red States,

We, the Blue States, have 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, Colorado, Virginia, 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 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 attempt 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 (including many with same-sex parents). 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 bastards 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

Monday, November 03, 2008

The Final

Does Freedom mean that you can go around airing ads scaring your fellow American's into voting against a candidate that advocates more diplomacy and less war mongering?

Does it mean that I'm less Patriotic than you because I believe that the threat of invasion and war only makes other countries less inclined to work with us toward a common goal?

Does the fact that I believe the troops should come home from Iraq immediately make me less American than you?

Does the fact that I'm in a loving, committed relationship with a man make your marriage any less secure?

The answer to all these questions is no. So to all who do and feel these things I say mind your own damn business. Start looking at your own lives and quit worrying about mine.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

When In Rhode Island

There's nothing I enjoy more than getting accosted on a street corner. No, it wasn't a hooker, nor a homeless person, but McCain/Palin supporters. Waving their signs in the strong wind and screaming into bullhorns. I stood there willing the light to change so I could cross the street and get to the gas station to get some damn cigarettes. I silently cursed myself for starting smoking again when one of them asked if I wanted to join their rally. "No thank you." I said. "Oh come on, you have to vote for McCain" said one of them. "I already voted, let's just leave it at that" I told him. "You can not support Obama, he'll take away your money and lead this country down the wrong path" was his answer. (On a side note, isn't this country ALREADY heading down the wrong path?) At this point I realized that I had been standing there enduring all this and the gas station had a huge fence around it. It was no longer. So I quickly turned on my heels to head back to the hotel with a ringing in my ear of "VOTE FOR MCCAIN PALIN." Ah, Democracy!