SECESSION

Man Filed First Secession Petition After Government Closed His Topless Carwash

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Nov 15, 2012 by Mary Noble

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"Derrick B.," one of the guys behind the wave of petitions to secede after Obama won re-election, was inspired with anti-government fervor when local law enforcement shut down his topless car wash business.

"The government ripped my business away, and now they're choking America to death with rules and regulations," he told AL.com.

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Cool_voter

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He just wants a handout....
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RobertJHarsh

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The man was running a BUSINESS. Hardly a person who wants a handout...
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Cool_voter

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@RobertJHarsh mmmm, kind of. You kinda need licenses to do that, an I'm assuming he didn't have the paperwork. He just wanted a freebie get out of trouble card..
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@RobertJHarsh The "man" is an IDIOT!... It was the local authorities that close his business NOT the federal government. But then...you can't expect the crazy far right to understand the multiple layers of government...They are not intellectually up to that task.
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PuroChorizo361

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They have rules and regulations to keep dumbasses from acting like animals!
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seedtick

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Or to keep animals from acting like dumbasses.
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@seedtick I guess this could apply to both of your comments. Obamamotors, why not Obamabakery. Oh, I forgot, The Obama Family, doesn't like Twinkies!

NBC Columbus
11/16/12

IRVING, Texas --
Hostess Brands says it is going out of business, closing plants that make Twinkies and Wonder Bread and laying off all of its 18,500 workers.

The Irving, Texas, company says a nationwide worker strike crippled its ability to make and deliver its products at several locations.

Hostess had warned employees that it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to unwind its business and sell assets if plant operations didn't return to normal levels by Thursday evening.

The privately held company filed for Chapter 11 protection in January, its second trip through bankruptcy court in less than a decade.
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@Zoe2012 Barack Husssein Obama sees this as just another bit of coladeral damage caused by his idealogical attack on corporations. Besides, Hostess is a Texas based company...and BHO cannot stand the fact that the Texas economy is so successful.
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PuroChorizo361

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@Zoe2012 Looks like they don't like making money in the U.S. Give up your franchise name and let someone who knows how to run a business show you how its done. Especially when you declare bankruptcies.
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seedtick

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@PuroChorizo361 When a company is in bankruptsy why would the union members go out on strike? Don't they know that is a sure way to shut it down? It is just one more example of the union's arrogance. They had rather end the jobs of all those folks than try to work with management to settle the disagreement. So, now we hear the union blaming the shutdown on corporate mismanagement. Well, the union drove the final nail in the coffin and has to shoulder the blame for all the job losses...right before Christmas. This is sheer arrogance by union leadership...and union membership blindly following the chief lemmings over the cliff. And now they can run around saying, "We showed them!!" What stupitidy.
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woodtick57

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OK, now that's unamerican...
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ir0nw0lfe

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No, that's an entrepreneur :-)
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hughjorgin

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No where NEAR as UN AMERICAN as letting the GOVERNMENT run wild!!
My only question is, Where do we sign up?
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isis2012

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I would like to know where's he seceding to lol!
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Magnus

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@hughjorgin The White House website has a section for petitions. Many states keep an active petition running all the time. They say 25,000 sign the petition they will look at it and respond. Though that's not entirely believable they will respond properly, I am all about it becoming a topic further discussed across the nation.

here is a link to a petition.....please sign for Kentucky :)
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pea...
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If he has a half a brain, he will take his topless employees with him wherever he goes.
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Keyjo

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I'm thinking maybe it was local Alabama authorities who shut down his car wash, not the F.B.I. or United States Marshals.
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PoliticalSpice

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Exactly, Feds had nothing to do with it it was local or state authorities, but these people are so ignorant they don't know the difference between a local cop and the White House..
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woodtick57

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I didn't know they had steering wheels on the right side of the vehicles in AL...
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CitizenX

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Good point. Must be a stock "topless" carwash photo.
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woodtick57

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@CitizenX Makes you wonder how many photos of scantily clad girls washing cars these Politix guys have laying around....
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woodtick57

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@woodtick57 Actually , kind of sad that I'm looking at the car, huh?
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ir0nw0lfe

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Look again. It's on the left, just bad pov.
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ir0nw0lfe

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Actually, I apologize. That photo is from Australia. You r right. My bad.
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Penn1699

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Ok think about this.
The man makes money off of soft porn first off. They (local govt) shut him down for a reason that is not disclosed.
Second. Do these people actually believe they will be allowed to secede? Crazy fringe strikes again.
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DARSB

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"Soft porn?" Depends. Silicon hardens over time.
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@DARSB Pretty sure that girl doesn't have any silicone, or else she got ripped off. One or the other.
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DARSB

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@Fishbone345 I will be ducking immediately after writing this, but perhaps she DID get silicone, in which case the second of the two possibilities mentioned your statement is still correct. ;)
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@DARSB Touche!
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@DARSB I'm usually much more serious in these debates. Maybe I'm just tired but I'm just having a blast reading these comments.
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PNWest

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This guy is a real BOOB. I would like to thank Politix for keeping us ABREAST of the situation. I heard that this guy tried to open a HOOTERS but it too went BUST.
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DARSB

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Your post will stay with me for a long time. Thanks for the mammaries.
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woodtick57

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@DARSB I don't get it...

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Oscar

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@woodtick57 You don't get mammaries with your nick?:)
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stepped_in_it

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Guess you might say his petition to secede was a little TIT for tat!
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I guess he had a lot to get off his chest, and didn't want to milk the situation dry.
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martydotcom

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I've got a new business idea for this guy. A topless barber shop
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woodtick57

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I had an idea for a topless coffee hut. gguys would dirve for miles to get a cuppa joe for that.

shortly after I heard of a group of girls in Seattle, i believe, that had that same thought and opened one where they served in teensy weensy bikini tops. they were doing great business last i heard...
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Oscar

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@woodtick57 Why didn't you ask whether you could become a sleeping partner?:)
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jessejaymes

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Alabama? The state that banned vibrators? And the owner of a topless car wash is blaming the liberals for shutting him down? Am I the only one smelling some serious BS here?
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woodtick57

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Don't blame him...I beleive they also banned rational thought in AL...
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dances-weebles

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they banned vibrators in alabama? my wife says that there's another reason why she'd never want to move there.
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ir0nw0lfe

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@dances-weebles TMI. :)
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dances-weebles

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@ir0nw0lfe oh, good lord :o)
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NormalFlora

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Without Alabama, America's ranking in Math & Science would definitely improve!!!
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dances-weebles

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the girl's not topless. you gotta try harder, politix.
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dances-weebles

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thanks, m... that means a lot to me.
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Lpguy

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There should be more topless car washes, closing them is a travesty! Damn Obama
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What is more amazing to me is that if he had 50 or over topless employees to qualify for any tax penalties at all.
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Denizen_Kate

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This guy is a complete and utter moron. Does he really believe that any state will be allowed to secede? As for his claim that in the red states "... we have all of the oil and we produce all of the food ... " he's really in the dark there. If CA were to secede, we would have the 7th highest GNP in the world, and much of that is from the huge farming industry here.
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woodtick57

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Back in the olden days when i got out of university and the cold war was still hot, one of my housemates went to work in Bimark, ND. Being from MN, we ridiculed him often, until he mentioned that if ND seceded from the union, they'd be the worlds third largest nuclear power...ggood comeback...
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Rocker

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Enjoy it while you can, Kate. I trust you noticed that a big Ag bill is on the docket addressing subsidies and the SNAP program. It'll be interesting how that shakes out.
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@Rocker - enjoy what, exactly. Not sure what you mean by enjoy. My comment was about this topless car wash moron. You may be reading something else into what I wrote.
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@Rocker -yes, the Ag biz is undergoing some changes, don't think it'll amount to much.
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Rocker

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@Denizen_Kate - nope, my comment was about the farm part. I already done had my say about them women runnin' around wif out no braw on up on a prior post. LOL.
An' we done learned our lesson on the succession part from an earlier part of history. The feds are 'agin' it.
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Thegrif

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Topless car wash, nice!
Damn gov't
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Jayden

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A titty car wash is not a valuable service to the community.If you're too stupid to come up with a better business model, you're not a business man and I don't feel sorry for you.
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dances-weebles

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not a value to the community!? are you nuts? good lord, there should be one on every corner.
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@dances-weebles hehe. too funny. But I guarantee you it wasn't Obama that shut him down. When I read a few years back that Alabama had banned vibrators I had this mental image of a border check with the cop in the sunglasses and Smokey the Bear hat looking over the top of his shades at a couple of college girls in a convertible saying "You Ladies don't have no drugs or illegal fruit or illegal people or vibrators in that car do you?" Heh.
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@jessejaymes i got a fat bellied mississippi sheriff arrested one night for being just about that stupid.
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Well you have to admit when this guy showboats, its hard to top. Yes this is a state that illegalized vibrators, would like to outlaw abortion,teaching birth control in school,and if where not for Tennessee and Mississippi would be the most the illiterate in the country. Secede... can we trade them for Peurto Rico? Keep those girls dumb and half naked down there. Stars fell on Alabama and hit them in the head (heyad).
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Obama is such a divisive president those mostly on the Right would rather break up the Union then live under his socialist rule. And I can’t blame them.

LA Times:

White House receives secession pleas from all 50 states

WASHINGTON -- What began as a small group of citizens voicing their disappointment with President Obama's victory in last week's presidential election has turned into a plea from hundreds of thousands of citizens to have their states be granted independence from the federal government. http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-wh...
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Romney2012

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Nice picture
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Governors Rick Perry, and Bobby Jindal (both Republican) have spoken out against the rather "silly" nature of the secession movement. If two Republican Governors of states most affected in this secession talk think its foolish, how serious should we take it?
Mind you the pages where they are signing the petitions, is in a public area of the White House website. IE, nearly anyone with a computer can access it and sign away. Have you looked at the states various "signatures"? There are names that pop up several times across several different states.
This is a non-issue being fueled by zealots that think they know better than anyone else, supported by rhetoric and the Media's incessant need for a story.
Here's the facts friend. I don't like Obama either. I voted for Gary Johnson. I'm just as stuck with the guy as you are. Where we differ is our opinion on this talk of secession. I liken it to Capital Treason. Its turning your back on your country, and personally I think every one of these people talking secession, should join their peers in the annals of history.
Philip Vigol and John Mitchell
Governor Thomas Dorr
John Brown
Aaron Dwight Stevens
William Bruce Mumford
Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt
Iva Toguri D'Aquino
Herbert Hans Haupt
Martin James Monti
Robert Henry Best
Mildred Gillars
Tomoya Kawakita
Adam Yahiye Gadahn

Three generations of my family has joined and served our military, serving to protect our nation and its 50 great states. Other men and women have died overseas for the same thing. To even speak of such a disgusting thing, spits on their sacrifices and dishonors our fallen heroes.
I hope you see the light of what these shadow dwelling, treasonous, scum represent.
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@Fishbone345 This secession stuff is outright foolishness. Now every 4 years the extremists of both parties that lose will want to secede. Next time a GOP president is elected the blue states will want to secede.And the beat goes on.
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@jessejaymes It's easy to have such ludicrous things take place when there is no consequence.
People saying they want to Secede, have the freedom to guaranteed. Ironic that in a true Communist nation they wouldn't.
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@Romney2012 -

:+) Thanks. I got the idea from you.
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Morality is dead. Along with common sense. Yuck.
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YAWN.....really with all the serious sh1t going on out there in this world, this is all we could come up with to discuss? OH COME ON!!!!!!
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dances-weebles

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well, you've got to admit, in the scheme of things, topless carwashes are pretty damned important, right?
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Alex Jones had an interesting show today regarding the whole secession movement (11/15/12). Available on iTunes or Stitcher if anyone wants to check it out.
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