{"id":163,"date":"2008-11-04T09:48:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T09:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-02-26T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:11:40","slug":"dear-red-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Dear Red States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Red States:<br \/><br \/>If you manage to steal this election too we&#8217;ve decided we&#8217;re leaving.<br \/>We intend to form our own country, and we&#8217;re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren&#8217;t aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast.<br \/>\nWe believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to\nthe people of the new country of New California.<br \/><br \/>To sum up briefly:<br \/>You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.<br \/>We get stem cell research and the best beaches.<br \/>We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.<br \/>We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.<br \/>We get Harvard. You get Ole&#8217; Miss.<br \/>We get 85% of America&#8217;s venture capital and entrepreneurs.<br \/>You get Alabama.<br \/>We get two-thirds of the tax revenue<br \/>You get to make the red states pay their fair share.<br \/><br \/>Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the Christian Coalition&#8217;s, we get a bunch of happy families.<br \/>You get a bunch of single moms.<br \/><br \/>Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we&#8217;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&#8217;re apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don&#8217;t care if you don&#8217;t show pictures of their children&#8217;s caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we&#8217;re not willing to spend our resources in Bush&#8217;s Quagmire.<br \/><br \/>With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country&#8217;s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation&#8217;s fresh fruit, 95% of America&#8217;s quality wines, 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, 95% of the corn and soybeans (thanks Iowa!), most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.<br \/><br \/>With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92% of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia.<br \/><br \/>We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.<br \/><br \/>Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we&#8217;re discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% that Saddam was involved in 9\/11 and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals.<br \/><br \/>Peace out,<br \/>Blue States<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Red States:If you manage to steal this election too we&#8217;ve decided we&#8217;re leaving.We intend to form our own country, and we&#8217;re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren&#8217;t aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. 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