A note from California

I just received a message from my friend Adulla with the following text attached. I am not sure who was the original author but I think he really deserves my admiration for such a fun well written and smart document. I would love that every single "red person" read that. Oh! and "blue person" too.
Kudos to this text and to its author!

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California's Letter of Secession


Dear President Bush:

Congratulations on your victory over all us non-evangelicals.
Actually, we're a bit ticked off here in California, so we're leaving you.
California will now be its own country. And we're taking all the
Blue States with us. In case you are not aware, that includes Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, all of the
North East States, and the urban half of Ohio.

We spoke to God, and she agrees that this split will be beneficial
to almost everybody, and especially to us in the new country of
California. In fact, God is so excited about it, she's going to shift the
whole country at 4:30 PM EST this Friday. Therefore, please let everyone
know they need to be back in their states by then. God is going to give
us the Pacific Ocean and Hollywood. In addition, we're getting San
Diego. (Sorry, that's just how it goes.) But God is letting you have the
KKK and country music (except the Dixie Chicks).

Just so we're clear, the country of California will be pro-choice,
pro-gay marriage, and antiwar. Speaking of war, we're going to
need all Blue States citizens back from Iraq. If you need people to fight
in Falujah, just ask your evangelical voters. They have tons of kids
they're willing to send to their deaths for absolutely no purpose.
And they don't care if you don't show pictures of their kids' caskets
coming home.

So, you get Texas and all the former slave states, and we get the
Governator and stem cell research. (We would love you to take Britney Spears off our hands, though. She IS from the south, right?)

Since we get New York, you'll have to come up with your own late
night TV shows because we get MTV, Letterman, the Daily Show, and Conan O'Brien. You get... well, why don't you ask your people at Fox
News to come up with something entertaining? (Maybe you should just watch
Crossfire. That's a really funny show.)

We wish you all the best in the next four years and we hope,
really hope, you find those missing weapons of mass destruction.
Seriously. Soon.

Sincerely,
California