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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: Emo EMAW on January 29, 2013, 12:31:47 PM
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When I look at a map of the US and follow the border of our state of Kansas I see a nearly perfect rendition of the heart and soul of this country. However, good is the worst enemy great. It's not perfect. There's that little itty bitty portion in the northeast that's prevents us from claiming a perfect rectangular shape. Now some of you might like that little imperfection. "It's endearing" you say. But you're wrong. "Well ya Emo EMAW but the river forms a natural boundary there." Still wrong! It's a shot across the bow, a slap in our collective faces at the hands of the Missourah' trash to the east. And they even rub it in our faces naming the river after their crappy state! We won the frickin' war, and to the victors should go the spoils!
So I'd like to discuss how we go about getting that piece added to Kansas. I'd also like to discuss how we deal with the inhabitants of the area. Could they be integrated? There's a good chance they welcome us with open arms, but then there's also a chance they are beyond rehabilitation and might have to be relocated. Obviously there are a lot of socioeconomic and cultural factors at work here. Anyway I leave it to you goEMAW, please don't fail me (us).
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If we're going to add stuff, it should have mountains.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
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Have you seen the trash on the other side of the river? Do not want.
:nono:
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Could very easily make it look like a meth lab accident. We come in to clean up the mess and claim our piece of land back. Boom, perfect rectangle.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
Look at BigWillie dropping KNOWLEDGE.
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Just took a look at the map and the only Cities Kansas would gain are the shitty NKC suburbs and St Joesph.
No thanks.
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Not worth it. Definitely would be subtraction by addition.
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Guys think of the industry that would boom if this area had a friendlier "business climate." Also, all that river bottom farm ground, uuuhh yesssss BONER!
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Owning both sides of that stretch of the river would be huge for Kansas. Missouri would never let that happen.
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draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma except for MHK :dubious: . give lawrence back to the indians. plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are. boom, roasted. perfect kansas.
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Owning both sides of that stretch of the river would be huge for Kansas. Missouri would never let that happen.
Guys we could tax the crap out of all the river barges coming down from Nebraska and the Dakotas!
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Owning both sides of that stretch of the river would be huge for Kansas. Missouri would never let that happen.
Guys we could tax the crap out of all the river barges coming down from Nebraska and the Dakotas!
Yes, we could build a retractable barrier across the river and make each barge pay the toll to float into Kansas. Then we could set up another barrier to charge barges to leave Kansas. Boom, budget crisis averted.
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Owning both sides of that stretch of the river would be huge for Kansas. Missouri would never let that happen.
Guys we could tax the crap out of all the river barges coming down from Nebraska and the Dakotas!
Yes, we could build a retractable barrier across the river and make each barge pay the toll to float into Kansas. Then we could set up another barrier to charge barges to leave Kansas. Boom, budget crisis averted.
Great idea, Nuts Kicked. Also, should we tax all Iowans for being Iowans? I say yes.
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draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma. give lawrence back to the indians. plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are. boom, roasted. perfect kansas.
'clams, that would put Kansas State University in Oklahoma, which seems like a bad idea.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FKansasterritory.PNG&hash=353dad3ccaf6eccb72c907264ca79dc1281d61ae)
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draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma. give lawrence back to the indians. plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are. boom, roasted. perfect kansas.
'clams, that would put Kansas State University in Oklahoma, which seems like a bad idea.
:lol:
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could we give away the southeast corner to get rid of coffeyville?
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could we give away the southeast corner to get rid of coffeyville?
I would trade it for polio blankets
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FKansasterritory.PNG&hash=353dad3ccaf6eccb72c907264ca79dc1281d61ae)
Manhattan's delegate to the Kansas Constitutional convention (1859) argued the borders of the State of Kansas should extend "to the summit of the Rocky Mountains," in part so that Kansas would be a large, self-reliant state in the event of civil war (which of course started 2 years later). He lost that argument. But Manhattanites have always known what's what.
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Owning both sides of that stretch of the river would be huge for Kansas. Missouri would never let that happen.
Guys we could tax the crap out of all the river barges coming down from Nebraska and the Dakotas!
Yes, we could build a retractable barrier across the river and make each barge pay the toll to float into Kansas. Then we could set up another barrier to charge barges to leave Kansas. Boom, budget crisis averted.
Great idea, Nuts Kicked. Also, should we tax all Iowans for being Iowans? I say yes.
I would love to, but I just can't think of a good vehicle Kansas could use to enforce that tax.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FKansasterritory.PNG&hash=353dad3ccaf6eccb72c907264ca79dc1281d61ae)
Manhattan's delegate to the Kansas Constitutional convention (1859) argued the borders of the State of Kansas should extend "to the summit of the Rocky Mountains," in part so that Kansas would be a large, self-reliant state in the event of civil war (which of course started 2 years later). He lost that argument. But Manhattanites have always known what's what.
Did you witness this first hand? :sdeek:
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Denver is named for Former Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver. We really f*cked that up.
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Owning both sides of that stretch of the river would be huge for Kansas. Missouri would never let that happen.
Guys we could tax the crap out of all the river barges coming down from Nebraska and the Dakotas!
Yes, we could build a retractable barrier across the river and make each barge pay the toll to float into Kansas. Then we could set up another barrier to charge barges to leave Kansas. Boom, budget crisis averted.
Great idea, Nuts Kicked. Also, should we tax all Iowans for being Iowans? I say yes.
I would love to, but I just can't think of a good vehicle Kansas could use to enforce that tax.
Congress, of cours--eff.
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draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma. give lawrence back to the indians. plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are. boom, roasted. perfect kansas.
'clams, that would put Kansas State University in Oklahoma, which seems like a bad idea.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FKansasterritory.PNG&hash=353dad3ccaf6eccb72c907264ca79dc1281d61ae)
Having to take eastern Colorado wasn't worth getting half the mountains. All the good ski resorts are on the other side.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FKansasterritory.PNG&hash=353dad3ccaf6eccb72c907264ca79dc1281d61ae)
Sure would be nice to be able to say: "I'm headed out to the panhandle for a few days of skiing."
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Manhattan's delegate to the Kansas Constitutional convention (1859) argued the borders of the State of Kansas should extend "to the summit of the Rocky Mountains," in part so that Kansas would be a large, self-reliant state in the event of civil war (which of course started 2 years later). He lost that argument. But Manhattanites have always known what's what.
Did you witness this first hand? :sdeek:
Nope, somebody else wrote it down. I was off hacking up proslaverites at the time. (BTW, that was Samuel D. Houston, namesake of Houston Street in MHK.)
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Some dumbass Kansan in 1860- "You see all these poors moving out to the mountains looking for gold? Dam peasants nearly trampled little suzy on her way to school. I wish we could just focus on growing wheat and not worry about gold and mountains and all that stuff"
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Have you seen the trash on the other side of the river? Do not want.
:nono:
:curse:
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How awesome would it be to shove the Denver, KS Broncos up (Kansas) City, MO's ass every year?? :dance:
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Do you guys remember in the early 90s when there was a push by some in SWK to succeed from Kansas?
They tried to get Grandpa Hamburglar/Westside involved in that as Secretary of Ag or something like that in the proposed state leadership structure. #fanningbrag
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Some dumbass Kansan in 1860- "You see all these poors moving out to the mountains looking for gold? Dam peasants nearly trampled little suzy on her way to school. I wish we could just focus on growing wheat and not worry about gold and mountains and all that stuff"
those gold boys were rough sum bitches, us kansas folk do things the right way.
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draw a line straight north/south right after exit 313, make everything west of it part of oklahoma. give lawrence back to the indians. plow pittsburgh down into those salt mines they have down there or whatever those mines are. boom, roasted. perfect kansas.
'clams, that would put Kansas State University in Oklahoma, which seems like a bad idea.
Gundy would kick our ass SO MUCH HARDER on the recruiting trail.
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We frickin' GAVE away the mountains. We don't deserve the rectangle.
pls explain further. tia.
The Kansas Territory originally included most of Colorado.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F4%2F42%2FKansasterritory.PNG&hash=353dad3ccaf6eccb72c907264ca79dc1281d61ae)
Sure would be nice to be able to say: "I'm headed out to the panhandle for a few days of skiing."
moved away filly wouldn't have had to move away. those dumbasses