http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/01/07/january-20th-2010-a-year-to-the-day/ Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/01/07/january-20th-2010-a-year-to-the-day/#comment-256 CJB68 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:52:00 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/?p=72#comment-256    I'd like to hope that this is only a facetious little story and this sort of insanity is only limited to what would only be an isolated breakaway "Peoples' Democratic Republic" on the West Coast which is visited only by dignitaries from what few real "allies" from communist countries are willing to be seen with such people.  The rest of us can mourn the loss of a country which once stretched from sea to sea and had pretty much the same values at either end and from one border to the next, but would be suitably satisfied as having cast off that revolting province which changed into the lunatic state that it had become, dealing only with the occasional refugee seeking to avoid the insanity and maybe a skirmish or two at the borders.  The rest of the country might be dotted with minor republics of various governmental types and ethnic majorities, a few petty city-states here and there, and perhaps a significant territory or two held by more assertive and powerful entities, but we'll get by.    I’d like to hope that this is only a facetious little story and this sort of insanity is only limited to what would only be an isolated breakaway “Peoples’ Democratic Republic” on the West Coast which is visited only by dignitaries from what few real “allies” from communist countries are willing to be seen with such people.  The rest of us can mourn the loss of a country which once stretched from sea to sea and had pretty much the same values at either end and from one border to the next, but would be suitably satisfied as having cast off that revolting province which changed into the lunatic state that it had become, dealing only with the occasional refugee seeking to avoid the insanity and maybe a skirmish or two at the borders.  The rest of the country might be dotted with minor republics of various governmental types and ethnic majorities, a few petty city-states here and there, and perhaps a significant territory or two held by more assertive and powerful entities, but we’ll get by.

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