Pick yer poison! Where would you rather live?

Just a fun poll to stir some lively debate....

 

Wow, they all sound so inviting.

 

I have yet to see a liberal wearing sandals. Most of them here in Palo Alto drive Beamers (although they feel bad about it when driving through EPA - so they play a Striesand CD to make themselves feel better!)

 

With such poor choices, the only one I could vote for was the
"Among libertarians/live and let live?" category.

 

Rednecks/NASCAR: Did that. Good food, kind people. Stupid, backwards governments.

Liberals: Did that. Great arts and entertainment, along with enlightened social outlooks.

Libertarian: Where are they located (concentrated)?

Smarmy upscale: There now. Hate their bratty teenagers with too much car/money.

Hillbillies: Okay, I guess. But I'd miss things like TV, computers, cell phones, and the 21st century.


I'm extremely liberal socially and conservative fiscally, making me a libertarian. (Lower case "L"--am one but don't vote with them.)

Remember when liberals were liberal on both and conservatives were conservative on both? What happened? Now you've got "liberals" with balanced budgets and "conservatives" spending like drunken Spring Breakers.

If conservatives would live up to their ideals (less government--and that means less everywhere, including our personal lives), I'd be one. But they don't.

 

Now that is very insightful Rich. I agree with you 100%....

 

I live a few miles up the peninsula from you. (Scary, huh?) I thought that Palo Alto had a city ordinance requiring everyone to drive a giant spotlessly-clean SUV. (They do here.)

The only time that Palo Altans visit EPA is to hit the University Avenue freeway entrance or to go shopping at that giant Ikea store that they all love so much.

 

Liberal footwear

I think the last pair sandals I owned was when I was seven.

I would have gone with "live and let live" but it didn't go with liberatarian.

 

I guess that I'm the lucky one because I get to live with all of those people, plus a whole bunch of others, including:
the Red Sox Nation (let's make it two in a row!!!)
a diverse group of immigrants
lots of people of French Canadian descent
a whole bunch of Native Americans
a whole bunch of New England Yankees
lots of small farm owners
lots of people who are reallyreally into horses
and cows
and goats
and alpacas
and various types of birds
people who like to go to casinos
people who like to go to the ocean
people who like to ride motorcycles
people who like to ride tractors
the list goes on and on.

Jack

 

Excellent choice of words Dr. Douglas!


Abner

 

I see we still have no votes for the smarmy upscale urbanites.

 

Those are the choices? The only choices? Man!

Since those really were the only choices, I picked libertarian -- like neither agree nor disagree.

 

Well, I'm one, but I'm also horribly liberal and a libertarian to boot, so I didn't bother voting ;-)

Angela

 

New California

Dear Red States:

We're ticked off at the way you've treated California, and we've 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, 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 Elliot Spitzer. You get Ken Lay.

We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Opry! Land.

We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford. You get Ol' 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 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. 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 we do 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 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 say that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you're 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.

Sincerely,
Author Unknown in New California.

 

After reading the Radar Magazine article (I like Radar) on Mark Warner, I'm really identifying with this socially liberal, fiscally conservative, NASCAR-team-owner governor of Virginia.

See: http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/2005/07/11/index.php

(Hey Rich, and other Virginians: is he really this OK?)

 

Re: New California

Hey, Huffman!

Didn't San Diego County vote for Bush?

Bwa ha ha ha ha!

 

Loved it Bill. I have advocating ceeding from the nation for years. Since CA alone has 10% of the population but generates nearly 20% of the revenue to the FEDS - and we are at the bottom as far as Homeland Security dollars (per capita). (Wyoming is the highest - of course it is - it is Cheney's homestate).

When I travel abroad, I never admit Texas, OK, and Florida are part of the US anyway!

 

Re: Re: New California

It's true.

My representative in congress is Duke Cunningham. This guy is one of the nuttiest right wingers I've ever heard speak. For example, during Clinton's first national election Duke was interviewed on our local TV news and publicly accused Clinton of being a communist spy.

 

I had to vote Rednecks/NASCAR -- but of course that is basically where I live now.

California leaving and with the blue states, not bad

We get John Mccain, you get Hillary Clinton

We get people who can build cars, you get people who drive them

We get dedicated working-class people who don't mind a hard days work in the sun, you get philosophers

We get wide open country, you get urban congestion

We get fresh air, you get all the smog

We get employees, you get consultants

We get the Braves, you get the Mets

And just to show you there are no hard feelings, we are giving you Arkansas.