RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

A friend sent me a link to this alternative:

http://letsriot.com/stuff/new_map.jpg

What exactly are the procedures for asking a foreign country to annex 
your state? Is a war actually *required*, or just an option?

Ross

David Smith wrote:

> Well, Bush already has the FBI raiding the ACLU
> offices as a prelude to detaining enemy non-combatants
> (that's us). I doubt we will have the opportunity to
> fly over the Faith Based States, but if we did, I'd
> bet on being shot down as presumed terrorists.
>
> Not much chance of secession - the liberal population
> centers will just be depopulated by detention.
>
> --- grady <grady AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
>
>
> > or would we be shot
> > down as presumed 
> > terrorists?
> >
> > Ross
> >
> > p.s. I know what *I* am: http://www.detainee.us
> >
> > James Hepler wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I did a little number crunching because if Kerry
> >
> > were
> >
> > > to win NM and IA then everything would have been
> > > exactly the same as 2000 except Kerry would have
> >
> > taken
> >
> > > NH instead of Bush.  Given that Bush won in 2000
> >
> > with
> >
> > > *271* electoral college votes, had electoral
> >
> > college
> >
> > > votes not been redistributed since the 2000
> >
> > election,
> >
> > > Kerry would have won.
> > >
> > > States that went red in both 2000 and 2004 GAINED
> >
> > *7*
> >
> > > electoral college votes since 2000.  States that
> >
> > went
> >
> > > blue in both lost 7.  NM and IA stayed the same,
> >
> > as
> >
> > > did NH.
> > >
> > > So the red/blue map actually shows that Kerry did
> > > better than Gore did.  The thing is, the states
> >
> > that
> >
> > > go blue didn't count for as much.  And it made the
> > > difference in this election.
> > >
> > >
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