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Dear Red States:

We're ticked off at the way you've treated the United States, especially 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. 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 that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy
bastards believe you're people with higher morals then we lefties.

We get all the good baseball teams too.

Sincerely,
Author Unknown in New California.

Peace of mind and good health, as well as fun and lots of healing laughter
to
and yours.