big#44 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 http://wkis.com/blog/2014/10/officials-want-south-florida-to-break-off-into-its-own-state/ Officials in the City of South Miami have passed a resolution in favor of splitting the state in half so South Florida would become the 51st state. Vice Mayor Walter Harris proposed the resolution and it passed with a 3-2 vote at the city commission meeting on Oct. 7. Harris told the commission that Tallahassee isn’t providing South Florida with proper representation or addressing its concerns when it comes to sea-level rising. “We have to be able to deal directly with this environmental concern and we can’t really get it done in Tallahassee,” Harris said. “I don’t care what people think — it’s not a matter of electing the right people.” Mayor Philip Stoddard agreed with Harris’ reasoning, saying he’s advocated for secession for the past 15 years but never penned a resolution. A copy of the resolution also available at the link. Among a few of the concerns... -North Florida is too far to travel for to deal with South Florida concerns. -Tallahassee doesn't care about the rising sea level in Miami In actuality Miami/Dade county should just become their own entity. But I'll be damned if they're taking Disney World with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 only if they annex Cuba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Ideally, this would free up Key West to become its own country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Liverpool. SLJ says so and what SLJ say's is LAW MF! Hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slateman Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Didn't California and Colorado already do something like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Just what this country needs, two Floridas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdskn4Lyf21 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I ****ing loathe South Florida. I lived there for the first 25 years of my life, and the only things that don't suck down there are my family and friends. People are assholes down there, and the culture of the area is all for show. Want dirty, overcrowded beaches? Fake everything on your women? Club life for you? Are you a douchebag? Welcome to South Florida!! Make it another state and sink it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I'm sure there's a mohel down there who could perform the secession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I ****ing loathe South Florida. I lived there for the first 25 years of my life, and the only things that don't suck down there are my family and friends. People are assholes down there, and the culture of the area is all for show. Want dirty, overcrowded beaches? Fake everything on your women? Club life for you? Are you a douchebag? Welcome to South Florida!! Make it another state and sink it Singer island is quite nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdskn4Lyf21 Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Singer island is quite nice. Singer Island is the safe zone haha. Everything south of West Palm blows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Singer Island is the safe zone haha. Everything south of West Palm blows. True that. I would say from Stuart to Delray, though. And stay as close to the shore as possible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.A.C.O.L.B. Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 I still dream of Northern VA becoming it's own state. Then just combine south Virginia with West Virginia to keep it at a nice round 50. Maybe then we could use OUR tax money on OUR roads, instead of using it to build six-lane highways in areas that have HALF the traffic we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Lived in West Palm Beach for 7 years and I have to agree that starting at Lake Worth going south, it goes downhill. Conch Republic!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/florida_man ‘FLORIDA MAN’: NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES WHY FLORIDA IS SO GODDAMNED WEIRD Jon Stewart has called Florida “America’s Wang,” and it does seem like the state’s strong peninsular properties somehow attract people who are on the end of their rope. In Florida Man, Sean Dunne’s endlessly quotable and surprisingly poignant documentary about worn-out and inebriated layabouts in the Sunshine State, the viewer meets a wide variety of beercan philosophers in the course of 50 minutes, many of whom have tales to tell, of the government’s economic dependence on the incarcerated, of the heady thrills of a lifetime of brawling, of the murderous tendencies of pill addicts, of the undeniable pleasures of an impromptu three-way underneath a pier on a beach. I’m tempted to call this movie “the real Fight Club,” but that’s not right. It’s “Old Drunk Guy Parking Lot”—a majority of the footage was obtained outside various bars, motels, laundromats, and tattoo parlors.... <<see more at link>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 So basically.....America would get a circumcision? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 I'm sure there's a mohel down there who could perform the secession. Nice. I'm stealing this joke if the circumcision ever presents itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Not strictly related, other than being about South Florida. But one of the funnier segments I remember. Colbert: Difference Makers - Doug Varrieur Seems one Florida resident has decided that the grassy strip next to his trailer is a really good place for him to set up his personal gun range. And the law, apparently, actually makes it a crime for anybody in the government to attempt to make him stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 OK, so i watched the first five minutes of "Florida man" and am fascinated. Bookmarked for later. Thanks McSluggo! ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Going Commando Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/florida_man I used to watch a cartoon on Adult Swim called Squidbillies with friends who were from the Northeast or from cities and they couldn't believe that there was a kernel of truth to the behavior of the characters. Let them watch that documentary. I bet some of these guys would have been fine in the middle ages. You could put profoundly ignorant and reflexively hostile people to purpose as mercenaries where they could be useful to society until they got killed off. IMO that documentary is a definitive argument for a Hobbesian outlook on humanity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 So, we have folks who want South Virginia. We have folks who want Cali split up. Folks who want Colorado split up. Even a small group that wants to "Liberate" Western Maryland. You know what? Fine. Go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Where's the proverbial YouTube of Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off of the United States? I can't post vids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@DCGoldPants Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Where's the proverbial YouTube of Bugs Bunny sawing Florida off of the United States? I can't post vids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsluggo Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 So, we have folks who want South Virginia. We have folks who want Cali split up. Folks who want Colorado split up. Even a small group that wants to "Liberate" Western Maryland. You know what? Fine. Go for it. you want each of those areas to be granted 2 new senators? and electorates/governor's that are isolated from...everyone else? maybe, if we combined some other empty states with no people into one state, we could tack those regions on as well, and have one still small but slightly less insignificant montage state Wyoming Vermont Alaska North Dakota South Dakota Delaware Montana who, when taken all together STILL only have 5.5 million people -- way fewer people than maryland (around 6 mil) crunch them all together, throw in North Florida, (which has LOT of people) the parts of Colorado, Virginia, California and Maryland that want to secede (mostly the sparsely populated portions of the states), bake for 15 or so years... frost, and serve on a large crystal plate. it could become our most interesting state Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 we could give them 2 non-voting Senators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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