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2007-10-03 Fifth Column

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Posted by Penguin 2007-10-03 10:10|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Love the comment!

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-10-03 14:02|| 2007-10-03 14:02|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL Deacon.

Posted by lotp 2007-10-03 14:09|| 2007-10-03 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 If allowed to go their own way, New Englanders "probably would allow abortion and have gun control," Hill said,"
I remember hearing that once upon a time New England wanted to secede because the Federal Government did not want to go to war.
"...while Southerners "would probably crack down on illegal immigration harder than it is being now."
From where I'm at, the local Monarch Butterflies fly north and west at this time of year...

Posted by swksvolFF 2007-10-03 14:51|| 2007-10-03 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Strange bedfellows indeed.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-03 15:34|| 2007-10-03 15:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Kurt Russell is...Snake Plissken in "Escape from Vermont"...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-03 15:41|| 2007-10-03 15:41|| Front Page Top

#6 "Vermont, one of the nation's most liberal states, has become a hotbed for liberal secessionists, a fringe movement that gained new traction because of the Iraq war, rising oil prices...."

Well hell, I say let Vermont secede and they can price their own oil however they want.

Vermont is the east coast answer to Berkley a redoubt of burnt out hippies trying to live their communal dreams.

Posted by AlanC 2007-10-03 15:45|| 2007-10-03 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7 I wonder if that means they're planning on approving drilling in the state.

Posted by Shusong Abdominal Lord of the Snowmen9157 2007-10-03 15:51|| 2007-10-03 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't we go through this once already?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-10-03 17:03|| 2007-10-03 17:03|| Front Page Top

#9 The problem with Vermont is that there's too many dorks up there with so much time and money on their hands that they can have little lefty wet dreams like this...

Posted by tu3031 2007-10-03 17:09|| 2007-10-03 17:09|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe Biden can introduce a bill in Congress, about splitting up the United States. I mean, we are almost becoming as "regional" as Iraq, only without the bombings. So, does he want us to split into say, the South, East Coast, West Coast, and all the good ones in between?

He seems so knowledgeable about the solution for Iraq, wonder if this also would be his answer to this "divided nation" we seem to be experiencing?

Wandering minds need to know. We need to "Question." Sorry Fred, couldn't resist that.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2007-10-03 17:18|| 2007-10-03 17:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Good one, Penguin!

"Best of the Web" headlined this one "Breaking News From 1861."

Posted by Mike 2007-10-03 17:34|| 2007-10-03 17:34|| Front Page Top

#12 sure, go ahead and let Vermont seceed, then the UN will have an oil-for-syrup scandal to cover up. besides, that will tidy up the flag into nice neat even rows of stars.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-03 17:35|| 2007-10-03 17:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Look at it this way, we let Vermont leave the Union along with any other blue state that wants to. Give them about 1 year for all the normal people to move back into the United States. Once that's done, declare war on the states that left, crush them and deport everyone there to Mexico. It's a Win Win situation for humanity. We get rid of them, and they get to live in lefty paradise.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-10-03 18:29|| 2007-10-03 18:29|| Front Page Top

#14 Personally I am all for unmitigated violence directed at any real secessionist threat.

Posted by Penguin 2007-10-03 18:31|| 2007-10-03 18:31|| Front Page Top

#15 Believe me, those East Coast lefties do NOT want the Southern Good Ole Boys coming North to stomp on a secessionist movement - it would play out as a Bizzaro World version of Sherman's March to the Sea.
The largest percentage of the US military by region is from what used to be the heart of the Confederacy and to have all those Dixie boys given license to stomp the hell out of maple syrup Yankees would be a Sons of the Confederacy wet dream.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-10-03 18:43|| 2007-10-03 18:43|| Front Page Top

#16 Actually, if the lefties tried to secede, there would be an immediate second secession by the rural and ex-urban parts of the blue states. The lefties would have only the urban enclaves of the bluest states.

Also, don't assume NYC will go blue. Too many people still remember the smell of burning bodies after the Towers collapsed.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-10-03 18:57|| 2007-10-03 18:57|| Front Page Top

#17 The lefties would have only the urban enclaves of the bluest states.

Only part of the urban enclaves, Frozen Al. It's not only in NYC that people remember, if only what caused those bodies to burn.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-03 19:23|| 2007-10-03 19:23|| Front Page Top

#18 cool, the sooner Vermont amscrays the better.....once they secede it would only take a squad of my best hardchargers during a weekend leave w/a couple baseball bats and a case of schlitz to kick the shit out of every leftard in the state and institute myself as emperor........from there we will take eastern canada w/the same aforementioned forces over the next weekend.....I figure by turkey day to have accepted spain's surrender by mere threat of tasteless insults.......

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-03 20:56|| 2007-10-03 20:56|| Front Page Top

#19 Broadhead6, that brought a tear to my eye. Sniff.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2007-10-03 21:26|| 2007-10-03 21:26|| Front Page Top

#20 BH6 - Ima want in on the spoils! Where do I sign up? I've got 3 weeks of vacation on the books

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-03 21:35|| 2007-10-03 21:35|| Front Page Top

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