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    While Most Dems Sit Around and Bitch and Moan... We're Moving Forward

    Jerry's hackles are up . . .

     


    Watch the entire video and listen closely but especially beginning at the 9min55sec mark while speaking to an audience of scientists at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco.

    NBC News/AP | December 15, 2016

    California 'Ready to Fight' on Climate Issues, Governor Says

    "Some people say they're going to turn off the satellites that are monitoring the climate... low-earth phenomena Landsat and all the measuring satellites we have, Well I remember back in 1978 I proposed a Landsat satellite for California. They called me Governor Moonbeam. I didn't get that moniker for nothing. And if Trump turns off the satellites California is going to launch it's own damn satellites, We 're going to collect that data!"

     

    Keep in mind... $2.2 trillion in GDP!

     

     

     


    ~OGD~


     

     

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    It looks like somebody has woken up the California Bear.

    Go Jerry.


    DITTO


    California I love you

    You're the greatest state of all

     

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    The 3 states of the west coast can easily exit the US (Pacxit?) - maybe take Nevada with them, just to have a party zone (or annex Las Vegas & Reno and leave the rest to rot, as if it hasn't already). Maybe annex Baja California while they're at it.

    Main issues would be 1) Colorado River rights & 2) whether goods being shipped to the rest of the US would be subject to extortionary rates, 2) conditions for trucking/flights into the US sector, or whether California in particuliar could give up much of their heartland market.

    Northeast can consider much the same thing (NExit). Or could have a joint exit similar to Pakistan/Bangladesh's in 1947.

    The Midwest states will eventually figure out that their decisive advantage of being on these huge bodies of water isn't quite such the advantage in the non-trapping post-refrigeration era when that legacy 100 year auto industry is no longer the vanguard of progress and factories can be set up most anywhere, while those big fields of corn and wheat and what-not are now filed under "commodity products". I know it's the job of government to figure that out for them even as they rail against the intrusion of government.

    (Maybe we can set up some independent city-states around the Great Lakes like Chicago, Detroit & Cleveland, something like the old Hansa Baltic agreement or the free ports/special zones like Gibraltar, Melilla, Ceuta, Tangier. They can debark at Niagara Falls - perhaps get Elon Musk to set up a hyperloop transport connection)

     


    Proud to be a Californian, born and bred...Love my Governor Moonbeam!


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