Secession mania reaches the City of Atlanta
You may have read that so far, some 30,000 people have signed a petition at whitehouse.gov requesting that the federal government grant Georgia the right to secede peacefully from the union and establish itself as an independent country.
A related petition has also been filed, so far drawing more than 850 signatures. It states:
Peacefully grant the City of Atlanta leave to withdraw from the State of Georgia and remain part of the United States
The City of Atlanta continues to suffer deprivations of economic, civil, religious, and political freedoms imposed upon it by Georgians (who are hostile to Atlanta).
In the event that Georgia is successful in its effort to secede from the Union, we the people of Atlanta wish to remain in the United States. We love our country. We are dedicated to it. And we are committed to preserving its rights and liberties in accordance with the original ideas and beliefs of our founding fathers.
We would also like to annex Athens, Georgia, Decatur, Georgia and the parts of Macon, Georgia made famous by the Allman Brothers.
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barking frog
November 15th, 2012
1:40 pm
NunnaYobinnes
or sociopathetic…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
1:40 pm
Fred
Holy crap, the look on Sajak’s face is priceless!
I was just riffing on the South park episode that was obviously influence by that real life occurrence on WOF.
I didn’t know that actually happened.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 15th, 2012
1:40 pm
SfD — “learn something new every day. Who says Jay’s blog ain’t edjumacational?”
The reverse is called the Fulton System or “skyhook.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system
I have seen a LAPES executed (it makes a hell of a racket when the pallet WHOMPs down), but never a skyhook. I do not think I would care to experience a skyhook pickup.
AmericaShrugged
November 15th, 2012
1:40 pm
Fred – are you really that stupid? Haven’t you heard of the Voting Act of 1965? Perhaps you’re not that stupid, just a misplaced yankee who hasn’t been around here very long. The Dems gerrymandered districts for minority representation when they controlled the legislature and the Court won’t allow the Reps to destroy those districts because of the Voting Act of 1965. short version is Georgia has a hsitory of racial barriers to voting. Go to the back of the class next to geta.
Paul
November 15th, 2012
1:40 pm
Have the same petition nonsense going on in Texas. Except for, as USinUK pointed out, Austin.
Are you all sitting down?
Gov Perry, He Who Cannot Think Straight, issued a statement saying he “believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it,”
I guess if you live long enough you’re bound to get one thing right.
Steve-USA
November 15th, 2012
1:41 pm
Barking – “Romney proved that pure capitalism is dead in America. His lifestyle was not acceptable to the American people. Are we now Sociocapitalists ?”
It was acceptable to 59 million people. The election is over and there was a clear winner but some people act like Romney didn’t get one vote or that everyone who voted for Obama likes every single thing he does.
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
1:41 pm
Hey Fred, don’t turn on a fellow lib. Cannibalism is disgusting.
Paul
November 15th, 2012
1:41 pm
How did a hypertext link for a commercial end up in my post where it says ‘Gov’?!!?
Paul
November 15th, 2012
1:43 pm
JHM
Left a post for you downstairs, right after you left for a staph meeting -
Fred ™
November 15th, 2012
1:44 pm
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
1:41 pm
Hey Fred, don’t turn on a fellow lib. Cannibalism is disgusting.
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I realize that to you, anyone who isn’t a far right wing fanatical talk radio listening, FOX news watching, koolaide drinking, nutcase walking in lock step with those weirdos is a “lib, but I beg to differ. I’m an Independent. You would know if you weren’t so far to the right.
stands for decibels
November 15th, 2012
1:45 pm
I do not think I would care to experience a skyhook pickup.
party pooper.
barking frog
November 15th, 2012
1:45 pm
Steve USA
we live in a country governed by the majority under the Constitution.
Fred ™
November 15th, 2012
1:45 pm
dB: That isn’t real? What really happened? LOL I stumbled across it one day like Kam said after seeing the clip for Southpark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwrUkeYxUF0
Jonathan
November 15th, 2012
1:46 pm
No mention of R.E.M. making Athens famous?…
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
1:46 pm
Ah I see, a fake WOF.
I guess I just got punked.
barking frog
November 15th, 2012
1:46 pm
Paul
staph meetings are for funguys ?
Steve-USA
November 15th, 2012
1:47 pm
Barking,
Yeah nnd the sun rises in the east. What does either have to do with what I said?
AmericaShrugged
November 15th, 2012
1:47 pm
Fred – Me too on Monds and Barr in ‘08 and Johnson this year for POTUS. I haven’t voted for a republican or Dem Presidential candidate ever. Probably should post under they both suck but that was taken.
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
1:48 pm
I’m not far to the right. Like I said, I didn’t vote for Romney. I just get irritated by the vitriole spewed up by the so-called “progressives”. I’m really an independent, I just hate hypocrisy.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 15th, 2012
1:48 pm
Paul — “Just occurred to me as I read the piece you linked to and I thought about how the extreme cons always seem to want to have a suspect group to blame their ills on.”
Your post was on target, IMO. Seems like they’re always looking for ‘the other’ to blame.
Back in the 19th Century, it was poor Irishmen and Scotsmen. Around the turn of the century, it was Poles and Italians. Middle of this century, it was the Yellow Peril. Nowadays it’s anyone brown or beige who happens to speak Spanish.
FWIW, I’ve actually been told — when out in public with my wife — to “drop the chalupa.”
Paul
November 15th, 2012
1:49 pm
barking frog
Seems more descriptive, from my recollection -
stands for decibels
November 15th, 2012
1:49 pm
That isn’t real? What really happened?
Oh, I don’t know for certain, but think about it. “Clam -igger” is up there–you edit out the person asking for a “D” and instead, splice in some white guy who asks for an “N”, and Pat says “no N.” And hilarity ensues.
Obviously, if such a faux pas were to occur during a taping, they wouldn’t ever *air* the thing.
Skip
November 15th, 2012
1:50 pm
Finn, I’m in. sent it to some friends. I can’t wait to hear how my buddy in Texas thinks.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
1:50 pm
I just get irritated by the vitriole[sic] spewed up by the so-called “progressives”.
Do you need one of us to cal 911 for you because you have been taken hostage, tied up and forced to read this blog against you will?
Fred ™
November 15th, 2012
1:50 pm
AmericaShrugged
November 15th, 2012
1:40 pm
Fred – are you really that stupid? Haven’t you heard of the Voting Act of 1965? Perhaps you’re not that stupid, just a misplaced yankee who hasn’t been around here very long. The Dems gerrymandered districts for minority representation when they controlled the legislature and the Court won’t allow the Reps to destroy those districts because of the Voting Act of 1965. short version is Georgia has a hsitory of racial barriers to voting. Go to the back of the class next to geta.
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The Republicans have controlled the State of Georgia for over 10 years and drew up all the current districts pal. Try your lies and disinformation on a talk radio listener. They are used to doing no research and believing lies.
Your post above and the Voting Act of ‘65 have no more bearing on your erroneous statement than does the annual production figure of Yak dung in Pakistan does.
Try again. Or just stop. You are wrong and watching you try to cover up your error is kind of embarrassing. It’s like seeing an old person suffering from dementia who has just peed their pants in public……….
barking frog
November 15th, 2012
1:51 pm
Steve USA
the 59 million will bend to the will of the majority. the needs of the many outweigh
the needs of the few.
Joe Hussein Mama
November 15th, 2012
1:53 pm
SfD — “party pooper.”
Be sure to read about the experiments they did before they tried it with humans. I especially like the part about how the first pig they tried it on *attacked* the air crew after they winched it into the aircraft.
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
1:53 pm
No Kamchuk, one hopes (although I don’t know why) that instead of perpetuating the resentment and bitterness discussions might actually turn to constructive solutions. Naive I know.
stands for decibels
November 15th, 2012
1:54 pm
the first pig they tried it on *attacked* the air crew
very intelligent, those critters.
Fred ™
November 15th, 2012
1:54 pm
Oh well I’m out. Gotta play some more COD Black Ops II. (I know I’ve posted it before, but I love it lol).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wIZp_E2CxQ
indigo
November 15th, 2012
1:55 pm
It would seem much more ethical and moral to work within the system for change rather than being part of a shameful petition which has no chance of success. I guess it’s hard to take the moral high ground when you’re standing in the mud.
stands for decibels
November 15th, 2012
1:58 pm
Gots to leave this damn time-suck.
Later, maybe, if Jay’s got something new for us. Don’t go joining the Judean People’s Front while I’m away.
Robert
November 15th, 2012
1:59 pm
BUCKHEAD wants to secede from the City of Atlanta!
Robert
November 15th, 2012
2:00 pm
This “secession” petetition is a satirical and sarcastic response by liberals to conservative petitions arleady filed. This is not a spontaneous idea: liberals in Austin, TX already pulled this stunt.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
2:00 pm
…one hopes (although I don’t know why) that instead of perpetuating the resentment and bitterness discussions might actually turn to constructive solutions.
And your incessant whinging about what irritates you in regards to progressive vitriole[sic] advances this discussion, how?
Paul
November 15th, 2012
2:00 pm
Fred
Occurred to me the other week that there’s likely a good-sized number of our fellow bloggers who have one monitor set up for this blog and the other screen set up for Halo 4 or Black Ops.
Didn’t think of you in that context, though. Never heard you make noises like ‘hooah’ or tell people you’re going out on patrol…
wreckbuzz
November 15th, 2012
2:01 pm
I do not live in the city of Atlanta, but in the suburbs of Cherokee County. I own the land I live on and it will be a cold day in hell before these secessionist idiots will say my land is no longer a part of the United States of America. Dumb redneck racists aren’t the only people who can purchase a gun in this country. So they may want to think twice about it. Any serious move toward secession will be considered an act of aggression in my mind and I will defend my land and my country with force.
If you don’t like it here anymore, then move to Canada or Mexico or some other place.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
2:02 pm
going out on patrol
Sounds like something that hookers charge extra for.
Fred ™
November 15th, 2012
2:03 pm
stands for decibels
November 15th, 2012
1:49 pm
That isn’t real? What really happened?
Oh, I don’t know for certain, but think about it. “Clam -igger” is up there–you edit out the person asking for a “D” and instead, splice in some white guy who asks for an “N”, and Pat says “no N.” And hilarity ensues.
Obviously, if such a faux pas were to occur during a taping, they wouldn’t ever *air* the thing.
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Boy do i feel stupid. I never questioned the thing. All I had to do was a simple google……
https://www.google.com/search?q=Racist+Wheel+of+fortune+scam&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Joe Hussein Mama
November 15th, 2012
2:07 pm
Fred — “Obviously, if such a faux pas were to occur during a taping, they wouldn’t ever *air* the thing.”
Seems like Family Guy did a couple of gags along this line years ago.
Fred ™
November 15th, 2012
2:07 pm
Paul: I’m let other’s do the patrol. I camp in my AO………
I have to admit. I’ve been highly addicted to video games since they first came out. I was a pong master and then graduated to Space Invaders, Asteroids, ect……… lol I got kicked out of an arcade once after popping a quarter in and playing the on it for over an hour with no end in sight. The owner pulled the plug, gave me a quarter and told me not to come back unless I was playing pool. Come to think about it, that’s when I learned how to hustle pool………..
slk
November 15th, 2012
2:09 pm
O.K. you guys……get ready….set……leave. But first as you quietly leave….for you see the land has not part in this….only nut job people, leave someone your map of “your” land….that way the Cherokee,Creek, Choctaw,Chickasaw and more Federaly Recognized Nations can move back…!!!!!
Yes…………………this WILL Work………………How soon are ya leaving?
Hurry……………………..time’s a’wasting……oh by the way………the Nations are watching….so more the merrier.We do hope alot of folks in alot of states get on with this moving out…….HURRY !!!!!!!!!!!
The land we call Turtle Island has not all been destoyed yet………..
Mama Says
November 15th, 2012
2:09 pm
I wish all you race baiting uneducated idiots would actually learn about slavery and racisim and stop parroting what you are told by other idiots.
This country AS A WHOLE was founded under the concept of servitude. It use to be prisoners and poor whites that were subjected to working in the fields under terrible conditions. As it became more profitable the southern plantations began using blacks, bought from African trible leaders, under the US flag. The demand increased further until the source became kidnapped Africans who were brought here like cattle. ALL under the US flag. Slavery was a main stay in New York, Maryland and the rest of the Northern states. It became less relied upon when KING COTTON came along. It was called king cotton because everyone, southern plantation owners as well as northern textile companies were raking in the money off of its slave labor generated growth, harvest and sale.
The US government approved of slavery and its limited expansion as did President Lincoln himself, up until the point that the northern states could thrive without it.
The fact that you idiots think racisim is a regional thing proves you lack basic knowledge of US history. Even during the civil war the north returned slaves up until the Emancipation Proclimation, which by the way only freed slaves in the rebellion states, not the others.
You are all welcome to make your stupid comments about race but please stop acting as if it was a southern thing, it was a United States thing !
Now if you wish to go deeper you should consider that the north monetarily supported slavery by buying the product slaves produced, and then selling it to the British for 10 times the cost. So your rich urban northern industrial cities of today were financed and built off the African Americans backs, the southern plantation owner was just the middle man of the system. Not to minimize the brutality and inhuman manner that they imployed, but this was the US way of expansion and growth, it’s the reason the north had money to build its infrastructure.
So if you live up north fully think about your city when you are reaping the benefits that you pretend to think you built yourself but while at it think about where the money came from to build your magical cities.
Slavery was brutal and ungodly but it was a joint effort of the north and the south. The Jim Crow attitudes is what the system gave us when the north pulled the plug on the the very system it imposed, leaving blacks uneducated and in poverty and leaving southern whites unemployed and broke. The end result was that the masters were left eating from the same trough as the slaves. Since they already looked at blacks as cattle, which the northern corporations overlooked while they stuffed money in their pockets, the collapse of their southern way of life left the lion and the lamb living in the same barn. The result was southern imposition on free blacks who had little choice in what to do because they were slaves for 200 years and then free with nothing to do or anywhere to go. They were still at the masters will.
Matter of fact the north went on many more years with the same monetary mentality. If not for women’s suffarage and the northern labor unions the northern commerce, and therefore the country’s commerce would still be paying folks .10 an hour and calling it paid labor, as they simply pushed the body of the dead employee out of the way so they could make room in the sweat shop.
There is a reason for everything and your lack of historical understanding is exactly why there continues to be a regional divide in this country. Look at your family history Oscar, you have no idea where your money originated. But I promise you at some point your well being interacted with the slave labor brought to you by the northern industrial complex, which in the end exploited much more than regional racial prejudices.
This entire country was built on the backs of African Americans as was the railroad on the backs of poor chineese.
Please stop with your condescending, uneducated, better than thou attitude. I sure it and the Democratic Party would serve blacks better by actually lifting them up rather than continuing to promote policy that makes them your loyal voters. I can promise you one thing the blacks that are able to break out and become financially independent are no bigger fans of the tax and spend plank in your party than the rest of us.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
2:12 pm
Petraeus SHEETS!
deegee
November 15th, 2012
2:14 pm
I suppose that if Georgia secedes then we won’t be bothered with that whole Savannah port dredging thing.
Paul
November 15th, 2012
2:15 pm
Fred
Got an Atari, I think, with Space Invaders, went home for lunch, neighbor had the day off, asked him if he wanted to play on lunch our, Mrs. Paul walked in and asked if I was going back to work. I said, ‘yes, after lunch.’ She said ‘it’s 2:30.”
That was my first reality check.
Never got into the other games with what I thought were basically the characters running and jumping. Did get hooked on a WWII submarine game on my Apple II GS, though. Then I looked at a modern sub game and it was like going thru the Submarine Officer Qualification School. It didn’t seem fun, too much like work.
Now I have this as one black hole addiction, and one addictions quite enough for me, thank you very much!
Will
November 15th, 2012
2:19 pm
If the republican secessionists have their petition approved, which of the following names do you think would be most appropriate for their new country:
Confederate States of America
Republican States of America
White People States of America
Since several Rocky Mountain states will likely join the secessionists’ new country, I don’t think CSA will work.
I assume they will stick with Governor Romney as their new president but who do you think they will pick for VP (don’t think a Wisconsin resident will work)? I’m thinking maybe the defeated congressman West from Florida. Paul Broun would be a good fit. No wait, who could be better than Pat Buchanan?
Talked to two state representatives from my county this morning. One said he signed the petition but was “just fooling arond”. He said he knew of at least four other republican representatives who also signed the petition to secede from the United States of America. That sounds a little low of me, I would have guessed at least half of them are secessionists.
Realitycheck
November 15th, 2012
2:23 pm
If you are impressed by the number of goobers signing secession petitions, remember that 6 million people in this country think they have been abducted by aliens.
kit
November 15th, 2012
2:25 pm
I do not understand the motivations of stupid people.
Road Scholar
November 15th, 2012
2:30 pm
Jay have to disagree. Much of the money to build Hartsfield was federal- from the tax on tickets, jet fuel, etc. The COA contributed though.
That brings me to: if they succeed the Feds will keep the military bases, Interstate and national defense highways, veterans admin hospitals,CDC, Lake Lanier, the Savannah Port….
Georgia is beginning to look like Swiss cheese!
Rhea
November 15th, 2012
2:31 pm
Nunna Yobinnes The Civil War, sadly, didn’t end the war. The South has been attempting to drag the rest of the country into its racist, theological dystopia since that war. The South lost the war, won the Reconstruction, lost the Civil Rights movement of the ’50s and the ’60s, won again when it joined the GOP as a result of its Southern Strategy. Its GOP alliance made it possible for it to take its racism and theocracy nationwide in the guise of “fiscal responsibility,” “low taxes,” and “welfare queens,” under Reagan. The South lost again, spiritually, when the country elected a black president, twice, despite the votes of its shrinking, racist, white base.
Again, most Confederate states take more from the federal government they detest than they put in. Their influence on the country has been destructive in every way. I am sick of the theological, anti-middle class, pro-racist idiocy you’ve been shoving for over a century. SECEDE.
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
2:33 pm
…just pack up the loser libs…
Says the guy who just got humiliated nine days ago.
For the third time in four elections.
For the REAL loser, look in the mirror. And shrug…
JEM
November 15th, 2012
2:34 pm
I have voted for many years. At first I voted Republican but now am a Democrat. I must say I have never seen such ridiculous behavior as the losers in this election. The Republicans have for four years been bent on getting rid of Obama. It irks them to think that all of these efforts have not prevailed. The seceders are just spoiled crybabies who just can’t stand to lose. BOO HOO!!!!!! You lost. Deal with it in a mature way. We had to deal with Georgie Bush for 8 years. He was president the first four even though he didn’t win the election. HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : )
JEM
November 15th, 2012
2:37 pm
I must add to my comment above. I have paid taxes for 45 years. I do not live off of the government. I do not need government assistance. Most of my friends are Democrats. They are all people who have worked all of their lives. : ) : )
sleestak
November 15th, 2012
2:38 pm
Secession mania– yes reminds me of 2004 when all the libs wanted to leave the country! Remember Jesusland and the US of canada.
DwayneL
November 15th, 2012
2:38 pm
It’s time for another civil war to overthrow this govt.
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
2:42 pm
I sure (sic) it and the Democratic Party would serve blacks better by actually lifting them up rather than continuing to promote policy that makes them your loyal voters.
Your assurances are as useless as your promises. (see below.)
I can promise you one thing the blacks that are able to break out and become financially independent are no bigger fans of the tax and spend plank in your party than the rest of us.
It’s up to you fake conservatives.
A few more elections like the one last week and you may finally learn your lesson.
But I doubt it…
barking frog
November 15th, 2012
2:44 pm
Fred
Romney was the personification of pure capitalism which is the ideology of the Randians
and the great white hope of the anti Obama social programs and may still exist as an
ideal in their minds but as a platform for politics it died with his defeat.
Mama Says
November 15th, 2012
2:45 pm
To those of you who keep throwing up the fact that southern states take more in benefits. Again it takes a little more study than that.
The fact is that it’s the more populated areas that get more benefits. Dem or con benefits are proportional to population.
However if you wish to count mentality by district perhaps you can explain why the majority of the counties in California voted for Romney yet the state went for Obama
American Always
November 15th, 2012
2:51 pm
Liberia has offered a haven to all Georgians who would rather reside in a country where hard work and simple living are the basis of the founding of their country. Just remember who will be expected to work the fields this time around.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
2:52 pm
It’s time for another civil war to overthrow this govt.
Yeah, ’cause the last one was soooooooo successful.
http://www.despair.com/consistency.html
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
November 15th, 2012
2:53 pm
USinUK @ 11:18
On that we can agree.
Boris Badnoff
November 15th, 2012
2:53 pm
Not terribly original since Austin, Texas, entered a petition to secede from the State of Texas.
This is extremely puzzling.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233221/Dennys-charge-5-Obamacare-surcharge-cut-employee-hours-deal-cost-legislation.html#ixzz2CJ63quqG
In the Second Reign of Our Beloved Messiah everything is supposed to be free. Messiah Care, Messiah Phones, ad infinitium. But according to this I will have to pay a surcharge of 5% for those exquisite pancakes. Have we been lied to?
Forward! Revenge! And He shall reign Forever and Forever.
catlady
November 15th, 2012
2:55 pm
FTLOG, folks, it is secede. The other word means to have success! Now, they might want to succeed at seceding?
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
2:56 pm
Re that 2:51,
The America haters can mutually pledge to the Libyans their lives, their Fortunes, & their sacred Honor.
Good riddance to traitorous trash…
Mama Says
November 15th, 2012
2:56 pm
Jam vet,
What are you going along about ? Again Obama won by 2 million votes of 112 million cast.
Both parties have problems and you know it. Once people become more successful the less they demand higher taxes, because the money is taken from them. The very design of the democratic platform would fail the party if it was a true goal. Since the party proclaims itself to be for the little people, while at the same time being led by hundreds of the very rich, if you accomplished your stated goals of being there for the poor, you would run out of constituents given every policy you say you want. Why because everyone would be financially comfortable and your tax argument would fail. You Therefore are living on the class divide. By nature that will start falling apart for you as you accomplish your goals.
Big Daddy
November 15th, 2012
3:00 pm
Thank God for the Federal Government…left to their own accord the South would deny Darwinism….oh, they already do…well, if the South had their way racism would be alive and well down here…..oh, it already is….ya, maybe it’s best if y’all do secede…won’t miss ya a bit!
Ryan
November 15th, 2012
3:00 pm
So Georgia can leave the US AND get rid of Atlanta? Wow, count me in! That is a win-win if I have ever heard one. Atlanta would look like Detroit in a few months without the state and good people of North Fulton funding them. Atlanta is run by, and inhibited by, complete morons and losers.
Drudge
November 15th, 2012
3:04 pm
Oh come on – if you split this country in two and put democrats on one side and repubs on the other – the dem side would be Haiti in 10 years…
Simon Jester
November 15th, 2012
3:04 pm
Yes please! Getting rid of Atlanta would be a huge step up for Georgia.As usual, the narrow minded libs are incapable of understanding anything that doesn’t serve the hive first and foremost. Individual liberty escapes them entirely. Obama was elected because there were enough people that believe it is OK for the government to steal from one individual and give it to another.
Sorry, theft is theft, even by the government. There are quite a few of us that are tired of the constant hand into our pockets to take our earnings so the government/politicians can buy more votes next time around.
Drudge
November 15th, 2012
3:05 pm
@Ryan – that’s exactly it. They need us, we don’t need them. In fact, seems that all of this secession talk is because some people are downright sick of carrying the dead weight on their own.
Big Daddy
November 15th, 2012
3:08 pm
Like I tell my friends….when you leave metro Atlanta your in Georgia…not a good thing! Lets give the secessionists Carlton…heck, they would love that!
morn
November 15th, 2012
3:11 pm
Living proof you cant fix stupid. These morons need to leave the USA if they dont appreciate our system
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
3:12 pm
Lets give the secessionists Carlton…
You mean the Carlton that is just east of Elberton? That Carlton?
Last time I drove through there it was deader’n Canasta.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
3:14 pm
Oops, meant just west of Elberton.
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
3:14 pm
Feel free to head on back up to the rust-belt. We’ll help you pack.
Carlos
November 15th, 2012
3:15 pm
There already is a country named Georgia.
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
3:18 pm
Mama, what are you going along about ?
Again Romney got crushed by losing 336 votes out of 538.
A 62% to 38% drubbing.
Both parties have problems and you know it.
Redact to read both suck horribly and should be dismantled. Most Americans no long see them as helpful.
Since the party proclaims itself to be for the little people…
In this day and age???!!! Only fools believe that.
The same way that only fools believe Republicans are conservatives.
Politically Speaking
November 15th, 2012
3:23 pm
These secessionists are idiots. So is anybody who claims they don’t get anything from the government. If you watch public broadcasting, drive on the roads, eat food bought from a grocery store, or sleep peacefully at night knowing that your home won’t be invaded by foreign soldiers, you receive government aid.
Want your own country? Be prepared to raise an army, navy, air force and coast guard strong enough to protect you from any foreign power which chooses to attack you. DO NOT EXPECT AMERICA TO FIGHT ON YOUR BEHALF! Be prepared to build your own roads and bridges and to pay tariffs on anything that comes to Georgia from the good old USA. But y’all go ahead and secede from the country that my ancestors fought against England to form. I’ll just move my patriotic butt to some place which still loves our country.
Clarence
November 15th, 2012
3:24 pm
Jessica Ware
I couldn’t agree more. That is all I have to say.
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
3:25 pm
…it is OK for the government to steal from one individual and give it to another.
Keep up the good work Simon!
Those childish lies are a big part of the reason you guys did so stunningly well last week!
Non-Republicans everywhere love you…
JamVet
November 15th, 2012
3:32 pm
This bizarre, self-destructive penchant of the right wing is finally paying dividends…
Big Daddy
November 15th, 2012
3:37 pm
throw Mama from the train…please.
nemesis
November 15th, 2012
3:38 pm
I think all you liberal loving Commies inside the perimeter need to have a serious reality check. Are you really okay with this government’s spending and putting the bill on our future generations? Do you really want to see your children and grandchildren suffer because you were too lazy, ignorant or greedy to see the problem and look for a solution? I guess it’s not an issue if you intend on aborting all your kids anyways in the typical Democrat fashion. And you people talk about treason? You folks need to wake up and smell something besides Obama’s crusty day old underwear. The fact that people are talking of secession means nothing more than the government is failing in its duties to the people.
Fate McKinney
November 15th, 2012
3:42 pm
Listen to all of y’all. The gov’t taught a monkey how to fly / ride in a spaceship in the 60’s. Looks like y’all are still following the teacher.
Rhea
November 15th, 2012
3:46 pm
@Drudge give us Atlanta, THEN secede. OK? Imagine how wonderful it’ll be! No taxation, no work place regulation, no environmental protection, no minimum wage, no public education, no child labor laws, no public spending on infrastructure, no public spending at all. No “entitlements,” no food stamps, no welfare, no social security, no Medicare. Life begins at conception, so no hormonal birth control, no iuds, no legal abortion. I assume gays will be shot or imprisoned, so they’ll probably want out. Hand us all of those who wish to leave, including the city of Atlanta, then proceed. Thank you SO much
Joel Edge
November 15th, 2012
3:46 pm
This petition I can get behind.
Big Daddy
November 15th, 2012
3:46 pm
@ nemesis
wow…I am soo happy you are an angry Republican….it would sicken me to think we were on the same side of any issues at all (and we aren’t)…
“Commies,lazy, ignorant, greedy,suffer, aborting all your kids, treason” – you have a way with words!
Damian Patton
November 15th, 2012
3:51 pm
Read the 10th amendment of the Constitution. Its reserved to the States or people, not the federal government. 13 colonies seceded from great britian.
DGD
November 15th, 2012
3:57 pm
Idiots. both the secessionists and the folks in washington hell bent on taking this country the socialist route.
Williebkind
November 15th, 2012
3:59 pm
People will do what must be done to keep from making AMERICA a communist country. Yes secession before government tyranny as written by our forefathers. Of course the constitution or the declaration does not pertain to the liberals unless it fits THEIR agenda and vile beliefs.
Get Real
November 15th, 2012
4:01 pm
What a bunch of sore losers!
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
4:01 pm
Damian – Don’t you know? The founding fathers were traitors. They chose the easy way out by seceding instead of negotiating their differences with the British.
DGD
November 15th, 2012
4:02 pm
Sad state of affairs – we went from our Grandparents ‘Greatest generation’ who would do anything and everything for the country they loved to the current ‘laziest generation’ who want their country to do anything and everything for them.
Williebkind
November 15th, 2012
4:03 pm
Well you know how liberals are, you know they are the TOLERATE party unless it goes against their grain. Then they attack attack attack the individual and not the idea.
Williebkind
November 15th, 2012
4:05 pm
Get Real
November 15th, 2012
4:01 pm
Your party won, my party lost, I accetp it, and I will hug my elephant and you can kiss your a$$.
Nunna Yobinnes
November 15th, 2012
4:06 pm
Willie…too funny.
Rhea
November 15th, 2012
4:06 pm
@dgd, ever heard of the GI Bill of 1944? Look it up. Find out what the federal government did for the “Greatest Generation” and the creation of the American middle class. Then come back and comment.
get real people
November 15th, 2012
4:08 pm
Does anyone actually believe that this garbage would be going on if a white Democrat was in office instead of Obama, assuming their policy stances were the same?
I usually don’t buy into the whole race card play but I think this is one instance where it is definitely coming into play. Ridiculous. And I’m a white guy who voted for George Bush twice and John McCain following that.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
November 15th, 2012
4:10 pm
Then they attack attack attack the individual and not the idea.
A ploy conceived and perfected by a generation of talk-radio.
It’s always different when it’s your ox being gored, ain’t it?