The trouble is that the American States are not united. The Country or Nation may be called the UNITED States of America, but that is purely historical, or perhaps hysterical depending upon your view. These days the fact is that each state is run like a Middle Ages Fiefdom by the Governor acting like a Lord of the Manor, and makes its own laws. Get caught in one State it's prison, in another it's the death sentence. It's dead set for another Civil War, (pun intended) but over politics this time not slavery.

Then we have particle physics where they are in such a state that they don't know whether they are up, down, strange, charmed, at the bottom, or the top. Surely that have missed off upside down and back to front, and inside out?

I reckon that everything is in a right old state. I know let's call a state of emergency, yep that's it, sorted, go to Defcon 2, women and children first!

@Angela - smartphones are only smart because they are smug enough to think that they are. Give them a good slap with a wet raccoon, and stick them in the fridge overnight and they're not so smart any more :-))

Notice: I intend for this to be a lighthearted, fun thread. This is not the Politics forum.

I see the double standard is alive and well.

Happy Thanksgivings Folks...

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Notice: I intend for this to be a lighthearted, fun thread. This is not the Politics forum.

And Right Away these are said:

Chris S said:

p.s. get rid of Texas and it's red necks ....

and then N9JFE David S says this:

Yeah, it's almost not worth the oil and cattle.

Yep.

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

Also, if Texas goes we should keep Austin as a protectorate.

Brilliant Pre-Cognition, considering What Happened in Austin Today.

Gun Play Wise, dat 'is'.

You Go Austin!

Got Bang Bang?

Yep.

fO shO

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May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!!

The trouble is that the American States are not united. The Country or Nation may be called the UNITED States of America, but that is purely historical, or perhaps hysterical depending upon your view. These days the fact is that each state is run like a Middle Ages Fiefdom by the Governor acting like a Lord of the Manor, and makes its own laws. Get caught in one State it's prison, in another it's the death sentence. It's dead set for another Civil War, (pun intended) but over politics this time not slavery.

Then we have particle physics where they are in such a state that they don't know whether they are up, down, strange, charmed, at the bottom, or the top. Surely that have missed off upside down and back to front, and inside out?

I reckon that everything is in a right old state. I know let's call a state of emergency, yep that's it, sorted, go to Defcon 2, women and children first!

@Angela - smartphones are only smart because they are smug enough to think that they are. Give them a good slap with a wet raccoon, and stick them in the fridge overnight and they're not so smart any more :-))

I agree that the 50 states are run very differently from each other and I think that was the idea. But they all work together well when one or more of them are threatened from the outside.

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Bob DeWoody

My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events.