In the 90's our welfare and food and housing entitlements were very appealing and we drew
Many moochers and gang bangers from Chicago
That Moved to the twin cities. Like most dem states a few counties dominate the rest of the state.

I remember that. What you can't see past the fiddler is Nutty Nancy on TV.

In response to both your posts since you live in that state, how the hell did this dimwit become a governor?

Hilarious but I must say You look graceful compared to nutty Nancy
https://youtu.be/7CUFE551BGY.

The New York Observer's lengthy exposé on the Wilf family doesn't paint a flattering picture of Zygi and company. But equally if not more unflattering is the report's portrayal of Mark Dayton, who comes across as a naive, overmatched politician who was played like a fiddle during the Vikings' stadium push.
The Observer quotes "a source close to the governor" as saying, "Look, who do you think wins when a N.J. real estate mogul negotiates with a Midwestern governor?" And the passages about Dayton don't get any more positive from there.
Governor Dayton is an heir from the family that started Target. A recovering alcoholic whose erratic behavior earned him an article in Time titled "The Blunderer" and a spot on the magazine's Five Worst Senators list, Dayton is an enigmatic figure in the Wilf story.
One person who knows the governor well and was a bit behind him at the elite Blake School says that the governor's whole life has been a mission to prove he's not the upper-crust wuss people assume him to be from his breeding and manner. Indeed, even Governor Dayton's official bio page is peppered with exclamation points and Uncle Rico style nostalgia for the days of hockey glory and teaching in the New York City public schools.
"You've got this guy who was a star athlete--best senior goalie in a hockey-mad state. But his behavior in the Senate was so bizarre ..."--Dayton once shut his office citing a vague "terrorist threat" and gave himself an F for his undistinguished single term in Washington--"that he wanted to come home and fix this image of himself as an ineffective weirdo."
According to one Minneapolis businessman who knows Governor Dayton personally and is close to the governor's ex-wife (Alida Rockefeller, the youngest daughter of John D. Rockefeller) and their sons, Eric and Andrew, who operate a popular restaurant in the city and a men's boutique: "Dayton is a swell guy, but he's just awkward in his own skin and never really thought he'd be governor. Now everyone's mad at him, because he's raised taxes, and he wants to be loved so he's full-bore on this stadium. He doesn't want to be known as the governor who lost the Vikings to L.A."

A recent case in Minnesota that was in the national press. Castile was shot by a cop and the cop was exonerated by the court. Almost one year before the trial Gov Dayton had this to say http://www.kare11.com/news/gov-dayton.... "Castile would be alive today if he was white" Gov Mark Dayton (Rockefeller).

IMe dino has just the job for them.
The Russians even celebrate it with song~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-qz4...

I find it odd that an appointed arm off the fedgov would have to provide permission/valudation for a state to leave a contract the States themselves wrote. While it doesn't surprise me to see SCOTUS determining constitutionality , for it was never its intened role, it is again disappointing to see another way the states have been enslaved by the beast they created.

Me dino thought Dobrien may be talking about his governor again. I looked him up.
First thing I found was Gov Dayton having similar symptoms with the Evil Hag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKcSp...

Sometimes I mimic the loony way Nutty Nancy can wriggle her hands and throw her arms around.

And then there is the horrendously distorted demographics of Nevada. Where I am in the Elko area is completely and hopelessly overwhelmed by Las Vegas and Reno.

Traditionally, we could thank god for the Sierra Nevada, that incredibly powerful rain shadow, but used to also be a people shadow from the other side of the hill. But that is falling apart as the slightly less indoctrinated flee the PRK.

Mmm, Snowflakes in Siberia,,,how fitting.

Excellent point on the water. Their only recourse would be seawater desalinization. But that would require industrial entrepreneurism, something their majority eschews. Silicon Valley perhaps aside.

Does the San Francisco Mint still exist? If not, the Carson City, NV mint still does. They would have to contract for real coinage. But again, the majority are too misinformed to understand real coinage.

"it's not sold in here Alabama or up in Tennessee anyway"
Local/State distributor regulations probably restricting competition and innovation.
I was told that when Trader Joes opens in a new state, they must make their 2 buck chuck wine available to all via local distributors because of local/state laws on alcohol distribution protecting the interests of "licensed" distributors.

If I read the comments without knowing anything about the US or California, I would have everything backwards. It sounds like CA is backwater that receives more federal monies than it pays in taxes. Their thinking "CA would be fine on its own" is absurd, I would think, because the center of the country creates the FANG-type companies that drive the modern economy, and the CA economy is heavily dependent on federal spending and transfer payments.

What ever She called it ,it would be the wrong name.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVPHY6ntifw

Yes I had Waters and Boxer is an idiot. Brown has no positive attributes but he is similar to our Gov Dayton (both are fools).

My sister-in-law's step sister brought bottles of some local red Texas wine during a Thanksgiving in Nashville two tears ago.
Best stuff I ever tasted. Can't recall the name of it but it's not sold in here Alabama or up in Tennessee anyway.

I would say, "Good riddance!" But this is not a unilateral decision. The other states must agree to it under some very strict terms. California has tried to hold the rest of the states hostage to some of their idiotic regulations. Because Los Angeles had their pollution problem California gave an ultimatum on auto emissions. They didn't really work but the other 49 states suffered. Let's not make them go but have them abide by what is good for the whole, watch movies made in other states and foreign countries, drink non-California wines (some are quite better), visit beaches in other states, return the Colorado River to its original configuration, that water doesn't really belong to them, let them find their own.

Myself half a Swede, I'd rather they be sent to Transylvania to renovate Dracula's castle.
Survivors could be sent deeper into Eurasia to find work in Siberia.

Hi ho, Hi ho, it's off to Sweden they go!

Absolutely let them vote to go. 10th amendment guarantees that unless you are from a southern state. All states should become independent states or groups of like minded states could form their own federation. Why try to impose my ideas on you or your ideas on me?

Yes, we would!

Had the Evil Hag won, Texas would still be making succession noises.
Now it's Kalifornia's turn.

LOL! A candle in the wind--no, a gale!