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Swap Minnesota, California, Portland and Seattle, for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Or just get the graviton machines lined up on the Nevada border and let Chlamydiafornia slide into the Pacific.

Happy Birthday, you old Saurischian!
I just turned 68 myself, but I just saw my cardiologist, and he said everything's fine, everything's fine. ;^|
If you're like me, you probably knew it but just misplaced it.
I'm not totally against unions - I had a friend who got a permanent, disabling back injury at age 52. The company dropped him like a hot rock and he would have been screwed for life, if the union benefits hadn't kicked in, so he was able to retire peacefully and buy a place in the mountains. The unions have their place, but membership should be strictly voluntary. There's NO WAY we should have government-sector unions. Kennedy screwed us over big-time with that one.
A commercial union is a parasite on the intestine of a company. It may be beneficial in small doses, like the gut bacteria that help you digest. It HAS to refrain from pushing too hard, else the customers (who actually pay for everything!) quit buying, and the company dies, and the parasite dies with it. It's in the union's BEST INTEREST to see that the company does well, or at least OK.
In the government sector, there's nothing stopping it. You're not dealing with customers as such, and the taxpayers pay. If the unions ask too much, the taxpayers just pay more,... ad infinitum.

Today me a soon to turn 79 dino learned something he did not know. Thanks.

I believe that Eastern Washington would petition to join before the ink was dry!

You can say communist - we all understand! Like the way you think - and agree it would be best to stay independent based on the recent record of USA with the exception of the 8 years of Trump....

Hurry up, Alberta, so that Saskatchewan and British Columbia have time to follow your lead. Stay independent, by all means, and you may have those southern borders being crossed by disgusted Washingtonians wanting to join your new country. Will you remain as separate independent states in a coalition or will you band together like your Southern neighbor? We will all be watching as this amazing drama unfolds, and we all hope for your best results. Just as a side bar, Eastern Washington may petition to join as well. That side of the state is trampled under the western side politics.

The bad news is, if member ship in the union is REQUIRED in order to be employed, then the union can charge whatever they want in fees. This is precisely why union membership should be voluntary only.

Cutting off the NEA would be the closest thing to cutting out a huge, metastatic tumor in our society.
Allowing government-sector unionization should be unthinkable, but the liberals in our country manages to wedge them in with Kennedy's executive order 10988 in '62.
Sen.Marsha Blackburn introduced the Federal Workforce Freedom Act S-1006 nearly a year ago:

"A bill to prohibit Federal employees from organizing, joining, or participating in labor unions for purposes of collective bargaining or representation, and for other purposes"

This has been shelved and ignored, and is probably the most important piece of legislation currently being considered. I don't know if this also applies to all teachers, but it should at least affect the ones at the Dept.of Education.

I would love to see such an island of liberty there, perhaps also as an alternative to the Caymans for financial freedoms.
(Unfortunately the corrupt parasites in D.C. will stand as a significant roadblock.)

Not mine, a psychological perspective. If no serpent and no sin there would just be a garden with Adam and Eve in it forever. No human race. Then Adam and Eve would get bored with each other and start doing BDSM. Then God would be really pissed off. So God put the snake in the garden. I suppose the moral of the story is don't stay home and safe, its dangerous. Go out and explore. Petersons ideas not mine, make some sense at least a little.

As an Albertan I can tell you that the next province east, Saskatchewan, will likely join Alberta if we gain independence. Most of British Columbia would join us too, but British Columbians have to step up. Rural British Columbians are conservative, like Alberta and are abandoned by the Marxists goons in the lower mainland. BC would have to split. If they do, it would give the new country a deep-water port at Prince Rupert. It's inevitable that the map will be withdrawn. There are too many Corruptocrats in Washington, too many paid off members of congress to make joining the USA a viable option. Sorry my American friends, joining with you is too risky for our freedom. Congress drags its feet far behind president Trump. Most of his changes appear to be temporary until the next commu...Democrat president weasels his way into office.

Better to adopt a 1st world population than another 3rd world one.

Probably very few pirates in this group...

I never heard of that theory before.

As in a private dinner with the Beijing delegation? Who knows...

A ton...

Interesting. Often wondered if They were just simple mammal bicamerals, (as in the Julian Jaynes sense- unaware of their own awareness) Good and Evil would have never occurred to them.

Anyway, still a lot to unpack there . . .

"Aren't unions supposed to be funded by their membership?"
A most pertinent question, mcc.

I read once that Eve's role was to awaken Adam to the knowledge of good and evil. It happens to all men. We're boys in lala land until one day a girl catches our eye and we suddenly become self-conscious, around puberty age, and we see a whole new world. Otherwise we'd stay innocent children forever. All God's plan.

I heard today that Randi Weingarten of the NEA was in Davos. To get her marching orders?

My thoughts are the US Democrat party has gone Anti-American Marxist enough where, being a part of a global Marxist rule (from Beijing?) is the goal, it would be very likely to throw Alberta under Ottawa's left wing bus rather than let it break away. Trumpers, who are mostly from what's left of Free America, would be helpful in Alberta's bid for freedom. The American left will hate that almost as much as they hate the Russians bid to trashcan communism.

They would definitely need a friendly trading partner since they have no coastline
and need a way to transport goods safely in and out.
They aren't in an ideal location for that reason.
As you mentioned, dealing with the current US administration would be much easier
than with a leftist bunch of parasites like most of the US con-gress and the federal
bureaucracy.
If the swamp regains more control it could result in an agreement between Alberta
and some conservative states wishing to exit the bankrupt US empire.

Ha, I didn't see your post before I posted mine, but not joining another bankrupt empire certainly should be considered. We definitely agree on the independence part. You have a point as Albertans want to escape "spread the wealth" Ottawa plans, but maybe shouldn't get in bed with DC "spread the wealth" plans.

IMO, the people of Alberta, which is essentially Canada's Texas, should follow the playbook of Texas and become it's own free country first. They should immediately make a military alliance with the US in case Ottawa gets dirty thoughts and pulls a Lincoln. Then, after they consolidate their own identity, consider becoming a US state. This interim time would give them the opportunity to convert from a Canadian provincial government to a US state type government with minimal disruption should US statehood be the ultimate goal.

Time is of the essence, however, because becoming a free country or a US state when the US is under "Trump-like" (Vance?) governance would be preferable to a left wing Democrat governance. Albertans in general don't seem to be very Marxist at this time.

The process will be complex and take time to iron out the details.

If they succeed in secession, they should stay independent and not join another bankrupt empire.

Strikes me dino that the freedom hungry people of kicked around Alberta are objectively being driven by hard economics.
Not the libtarded la la land socialist hogwash we keep hearing south of their border.