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		<title>By: Lindy</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20640</link>
		<dc:creator>Lindy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>just like Quebec in Canada, wants to secede from the country. Think they&#039;re better than the rest of the country and they are sandwiched right in the middle. They haven&#039;t been successful yet.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>just like Quebec in Canada, wants to secede from the country. Think they&#8217;re better than the rest of the country and they are sandwiched right in the middle. They haven&#8217;t been successful yet.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20550</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You might want to take into account that there&#039;s no requirement that you have to be a resident of the state to sign a state&#039;s secession petition. I sent a message: Don&#039;t let the screen door hit you in the ass.

I don&#039;t feel that way about Washington, dude. I&#039;d miss you guys. Hell, I just had a family reunion this weekend with the half of my family that lives around Seattle. So I don&#039;t think I&#039;ll pile on to Washington&#039;s petition. But WTH, there&#039;s only one vote behind it.

Now, on to Arizona...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You might want to take into account that there&#8217;s no requirement that you have to be a resident of the state to sign a state&#8217;s secession petition. I sent a message: Don&#8217;t let the screen door hit you in the ass.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t feel that way about Washington, dude. I&#8217;d miss you guys. Hell, I just had a family reunion this weekend with the half of my family that lives around Seattle. So I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll pile on to Washington&#8217;s petition. But WTH, there&#8217;s only one vote behind it.</p>
<p>Now, on to Arizona&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20547</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The budget &lt;em&gt;deficit&lt;/em&gt; is currently riding the trillion-dollar mark every year.

Maybe Obama has some cash tucked away in a mattress?

For the record, the entire military budget for 2013 is requested at something over $600 billion.  The military employs something like 3 million people, many of them union members.

You want more numbers fun, look up what just the real estate in Texas is worth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The budget <em>deficit</em> is currently riding the trillion-dollar mark every year.</p>
<p>Maybe Obama has some cash tucked away in a mattress?</p>
<p>For the record, the entire military budget for 2013 is requested at something over $600 billion.  The military employs something like 3 million people, many of them union members.</p>
<p>You want more numbers fun, look up what just the real estate in Texas is worth.</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20546</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I suggested what to do.  I defended the legality.

Now you have to ask what would they buy it with.  USD, $$$, that&#039;s what.  Who would sign the checks, I don&#039;t know.  What bank they&#039;d go through, I don&#039;t know.  That all seems a bit premature.

I say let &#039;em secede, give up their citizenship, let &#039;em move.  Buy their &quot;stuff&quot;.

Cut the military budget in half and then in two years cut it in half again.  That will pay for a lot of it.  And still leave more of a military than all the ROW and two oceans between anyone who would invade.  A no lose proposition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suggested what to do.  I defended the legality.</p>
<p>Now you have to ask what would they buy it with.  USD, $$$, that&#8217;s what.  Who would sign the checks, I don&#8217;t know.  What bank they&#8217;d go through, I don&#8217;t know.  That all seems a bit premature.</p>
<p>I say let &#8216;em secede, give up their citizenship, let &#8216;em move.  Buy their &#8220;stuff&#8221;.</p>
<p>Cut the military budget in half and then in two years cut it in half again.  That will pay for a lot of it.  And still leave more of a military than all the ROW and two oceans between anyone who would invade.  A no lose proposition.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20544</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Buy it with what?&lt;/p&gt;

This conversation would be more fun if you were actually thinking about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Buy it with what?</p>
<p>This conversation would be more fun if you were actually thinking about it.</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20528</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those who want to leave would be allowed to.  What&#039;s your problem with that?  Do you think this country should be a big prison from which there is no escape?

Conservatives are getting more and more oppressive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who want to leave would be allowed to.  What&#8217;s your problem with that?  Do you think this country should be a big prison from which there is no escape?</p>
<p>Conservatives are getting more and more oppressive.</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20523</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>(Watch, you&#039;ll be accused of hiding behind the constitution.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Watch, you&#8217;ll be accused of hiding behind the constitution.)</p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20522</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Too much Romney, is my diagnosis.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too much Romney, is my diagnosis.</p>
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		<title>By: RobVG</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20520</link>
		<dc:creator>RobVG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/peacefully-grant-state-washington-secede-united-states-america-and-create-its-own-new-government/dWMSzVlD?utm_source=wh.gov&amp;utm_medium=shorturl&amp;utm_campaign=shorturl&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Washington&#039;s secession petition&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2012/11/13/this-one-is-easy/#comment-20516</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;(Geez.)&lt;/p&gt;

You&#039;d think a picture of an American Indian flipping us the bird would be easier to find.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Geez.)</p>
<p>You&#8217;d think a picture of an American Indian flipping us the bird would be easier to find.</p>
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