If we can get all those nutjobs at the McCain/Palin rallies shouting "off with his head", "traitor", and "kill him" (about Obama) to agree to move to Alaska, I'd say yes! By all means, please secede and I'll even help pay for them to do so. Let them form their own Idiocracy up there in the Great White North. Knock yourselves out (actually, they probably would, literally).

Win-win: they get their racist, bible-thumping, gun-toting independent country, and the collective IQ level of the remaining American electorate would practically double overnight.

eluded the FBI which, in itself, calls that agency's competence into question. If they'd done their job properly, New York might have been saved the terror of 9/ll.

What about the Republican controlled House and Senate?

What about the Republican controlled Executive branch?

The head of the FBI was appointed by King George.

How about the August 6th, 2001 PDB:

The confidential President's Daily Brief (PDB) for August 6, 2001 contained a two-page section entitled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US," and refers to possible hijacking attempts by Osama bin Laden disciples and the existence of about 70 FBI investigations into alleged al-Qaeda cells operating within the United States.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0409041pdb1.html

got to love the attitude of "personal responsibility" that the Republicans always advocate for....

I'm with you. Let Alaska go. The South too, for that matter. Then the rest of us can get down to the business of establishing universal single-payer health care, funding education, alternative energies, etc, without having to listen to complaints about the "socialists taking over."

And, yes, the CW was about slavery. Specifically, Southern leaders were concerned that limits on the expansion of slavery into western territories would isolate them. They phrased their concerns in terms of states' rights, but what they wanted to protect was their states' right to ensure the institution of slavery. Although many Confederate soldiers did not own slaves and fought out of a sense of local identity, the goal of Southern elites was to protect and expand slavery.

I knew that history phd would come in useful eventually.

Regarding the Amish, they're well positioned for the demise of the American Empire. They lose no wealth as the markets collapse. Rising food prices just mean more money for them. And like America, they don't squander their resources on weapons. Wouldn't it be ironic if a lot of us ended up working for them, pitching hay and plowing fields?

Regarding Chryson and his "9 mil," is he a softy? Can't he protect himself without killing someone? Guys who pack heat are the veriest cowards, whether they're gangstas or Chryson.

It's time we get to know who Sarah Palin really is.

We'll make you a deal - we will sell you Alaska.

$5000/acre which seems like a pretty good deal

Got $1.9 trillion?

Let's talk.

Sarah Palin has direct links with a group whose suggested course of action is treasonous. They wax sentimental about the Confederacy (read: slavery). They are openly racist, bigoted and homophobic. They want to install a theocracy in the United States. They want to fight for a secession from the United States.

Not only were Sarah and Todd Palin members of this organization, not only did they embrace these whack jobs with open arms- they allowed them to set public policy while Sarah Palin was both mayor of Wasilla, and when she was Governor.

Why is this story not being picked up by the “mainstream” media? Instead, we hear repeated stories of Obama’s tenuous relationship with a sixties radical, who is now a reformed member of society. Oh, and he once admitted to drug use in his youth.

Sarah Palin has an intertwined, intimate relationship with a secessionist group which is hell bent upon starting another Civil War.

Do we really want these wingnuts to have an “open door” with the office of the Vice President?

I am trying to think of something more un-American for an American than not wanting to be American. So Sarah Palin has palled around with un-American successionists. Well, when I saw the videobite of the "we're angry that socialism is taking over Washington" guy at one of Ms. Palin's events recently, I knew she might well have a great talent at riling up folks tending toward John Birchesque thinking. Now I see that, according to this piece, she palls around with actual John Bircher types. Association.

BTW, I am an evangelical Christian actually believing that the Bible is inspired. But I believe that God has imparted enough good sense to me to keep me from buying this twaddle from rather extremist folks who are, sadly, fraudulently representing Christians. A good number of other evangelical Christians don't buy it either. I pity true pro-American Alaskans who find themselves living in the middle of all this ignorance about the history and nature of the U.S. (Wonder if they even know who Roger Williams was--would to God they did). Well, here we have Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin going around spreading the suggestion that Mr. Obama is un-American (Ayers connection, etc). Whew! The McCain/Palin ticket doesn't just live in a glass house, they live in a glass world.

Well, that 'fight on' sounds good. But unfortunately, it doesn't work. You quite rightly point out the 'Conservatives' in your own country is more like the centrist Democrats in ours.

Even with an Obama 'win,' the U.S. is not savable. I'm tired of being around people who have no clue. Even Winnipeg would be better than Minneapolis - at least I'd get to vote for the NDP. I"ve always liked the Canadians I've met on a personal basis - they are far kinder, and somewhat smarter than Americans, on the whole.

This guy sounds exactly like any other paranoid megalomaniacal cult leader. Whether it's Kim Jong of North Korea, or some weird Mormon cult leader, or Daviv Koresh, Ruby Ridge, Pat Robertson, Hagee....they are all reading off the exact same script!

1) They all require guns! Lot's and lot's of guns because (according to their paranoid self-aggrandizing delusions) there is a war coming and they have a "special destiny" to stop it.

2) They and they alone have the "answers" and anyone that suggests likewise is obviously an enemy

3) Any form of authority -- any! -- is simply an earthly manifestation of a grand cosmological struggle designed specifically to impede their "special destiny" Thus the FDA's ruling that cow milk should be free of cancer causing toxins isn't a good idea, but rather the work of the Devil and secession from the country (or destruction of the institution via a Timothy Mcvey style bombing) is the only logical response to such out-of-control tyranny!

More and more I am respecting the Amish.

They too lead lives very similiar to a cult, but they live WITHIN society and WITHIN the law and they practice total non-violence and don't believe in guns.