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Now Georgia is talking about seceding!

Georgia Senate threatens to secede

What do they plan on fighting with, peaches? Mind you, this comes on yesterday's threat by the GOP governor of Texas to secede as well.

Of course, what's really going on here is that Republicans are intentionally fanning the flames of violence because they've been out of power for a grand total of 100 days. They began pushing their followers towards violence during the presidential campaign, and have actually increased the inflammatory language over the past few months. Culminating, today, with a call for the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to no longer investigate known domestic terror threats.

Whoa.

Last November RIA Novosti ran this: Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.

Asked why he expected the U.S. to break up into separate parts, he said: "A whole range of reasons. Firstly, the financial problems in the U.S. will get worse. Millions of citizens there have lost their savings. Prices and unemployment are on the rise. General Motors and Ford are on the verge of collapse, and this means that whole cities will be left without work. Governors are already insistently demanding money from the federal center. Dissatisfaction is growing, and at the moment it is only being held back by the elections and the hope that Obama can work miracles. But by spring, it will be clear that there are no miracles."
He also cited the "vulnerable political setup", "lack of unified national laws", and "divisions among the elite, which have become clear in these crisis conditions."

I'm pretty sure this is the same fellow who thinks Putin will become Prince of the post-Soviet space.

Dude.

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky

by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 05:04:07 PM EST
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Vermont is ahead of them on this...
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 05:12:17 PM EST
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I believe Alaska has a movement afoot as well.  They'll never do it though.  The minute they quit, the Great Russo-Canadskii War will commence, and they'll soon be run by Moscow.

"Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms." -Dostoevsky
by poemless on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 05:17:33 PM EST
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So much for my idea of getting the fuck out of Washington and going back to ATL. :\

Okay, fine, but we get the Austinites and all the black folks and Latinos.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Thu Apr 16th, 2009 at 06:45:25 PM EST
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poemless:
Of course, what's really going on here is that Republicans are intentionally fanning the flames of violence because they've been out of power for a grand total of 100 days.
Sounds like the Spanish righ-wing after they lost in 2004. Luckily, in Spain we have gun control.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 17th, 2009 at 05:45:02 AM EST
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