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Bruddah IZ said:
They’re a little thin skinned. Kleenex thin.
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I'm not thin skinned in the least. It just my opinion that some posters and I don't jive. So much so in fact, that I enjoy the place more without them here. The ignore feature makes it so. Don't want to get put on ignore, then make sure you stay interesting and you'll have nothing to worry about.

Not sure how anyone can be upset about that.
 
espola said:
I think there is a large overlap. Here is a picture of my uncle about 1946 or so. Behind him is the entire town of North Fayston, Vt, except for my grandparents' house just out of frame to the right and the schoolhouse/town meeting house behind the photographer. Careful observers will note the lack of power lines and the presence of horse hoof prints in the road. Hillbilly enough?

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Now this is hillbilly. Everyone always thinks of mountain people as only living in the south. But there are old families out there up into Canada that still don't have electricity to this day.
 
tenacious said:
Now this is hillbilly. Everyone always thinks of mountain people as only living in the south. But there are old families out there up into Canada that still don't have electricity to this day.
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It looks like a nice wagon.
Probably top of the line Sears-Roebuck Mail order.
Nice duds too.
 
tenacious said:
I'm not thin skinned in the least. It just my opinion that some posters and I don't jive. So much so in fact, that I enjoy the place more without them here. The ignore feature makes it so. Don't want to get put on ignore, then make sure you stay interesting and you'll have nothing to worry about.

Not sure how anyone can be upset about that.
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Sounds a lot like a snowflake to me.

How's the detective work going @tenacious ? Was the clue I gave you enough?

You know, come to think of it, you're sounding more and more like your old man E...
 
tenacious said:
Now this is hillbilly. Everyone always thinks of mountain people as only living in the south. But there are old families out there up into Canada that still don't have electricity to this day.
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I didn't mention that when the houses visible in this picture all got indoor toilets more or less at the same time (not sure when but within my father's lifetime, so after 1925) they had to have a place to dump the resulting sewage, and the obvious place was the existing drainage ditches alongside the roads. In the case of the part of North Fayston depicted, the ditch runs down the road right behind my uncle's hat, then into a culvert under the road which carries it down to Schoolhouse Brook just below the schoolhouse. Now that's so hillbilly that it's no longer legal. There was enough natural water flow just keeping the road more or less dry that the occasional output of half a dozen houses was usually not noticeable.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
Don't apologize for having nice things.
I sure as hell wont.
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I got the picture of the red and black hat from the L L Bean catalog. They want $40 - more than I have ever paid for a hat in my life (even my kids' ski helmets were cheaper - but that was a long time ago) so I guess that counts as a "nice thing".
 
espola said:
I got the picture of the red and black hat from the L L Bean catalog. They want $40 - more than I have ever paid for a hat in my life (even my kids' ski helmets were cheaper - but that was a long time ago) so I guess that counts as a "nice thing".
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Even hicks can have stuff.
Stand up tall and own it.
 
tenacious said:
I'm not thin skinned in the least. It just my opinion that some posters and I don't jive. So much so in fact, that I enjoy the place more without them here. The ignore feature makes it so. Don't want to get put on ignore, then make sure you stay interesting and you'll have nothing to worry about.

Not sure how anyone can be upset about that.
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So you enjoy an echo chamber?
 
Bruddah IZ said:
They’re a little thin skinned. Kleenex thin.
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I've been trying to figure out why the trolls have been on edge lately, I mean, more then they usually are. Then it came to me... the realization that their party has yet to produce a real challenger to President Trump and the likelihood of another four years of Trump in the Whitehouse.... the trolls are gonna lose it. Look for some new names to pop uip on the forum as these guys get more desperate ...
 


Krysten Sinema Sure Seems Like the Most Conservative Senator AZ Has Had in a Decade

Posted at 12:16 pm on July 21, 2019 by Bonchie


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U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., delivers her signatures to Arizona Director of Elections Eric Spencer at the Arizona Secretary of State’s office Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at the Capitol in Phoenix. Sinema is officially running as a Democrat for U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Jeff Flake. Women running for office have crossed another threshold with a record number of candidates for the U.S. Senate. Actually winning those seats and changing the face of the chamber are a different matter. Many of the women jumping into Senate races face uphill campaigns. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Krysten Sinema is an interesting case study in politics.

She rose to notoriety after beating Martha McSally, who’s campaign strategy in 2018 (and for 2020) appeared to be simply existing. During the campaign, numerous older videos showed Sinema trashing conservative Arizonians and presenting herself as a stalwart progressive. Sinema’s argument essentially boiled down to “I’ve changed.”

Maybe she was telling the truth?

Sinema has been one of the only Democrats to vote on Trump’s judicial nominees fairly, bucking her party to confirm many of them. She’s led work to help veterans and she shunned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “wear all white” stunt at the State of the Union.





Now, she’s helping lead the fight for asylum reform, something the rest of her party scoffs at.

“This pilot program would apply to families who aren’t claiming ‘credible fear,’ which of course is the first threshold in seeking asylum,” Sinema told The Arizona Republic.“If someone says ‘I left my country because I can’t make a living,’ (or) ‘it’s hard to take care of my family’ — that’s what we call an economic migrant.”

If implemented, the pilot program, dubbed “Operation Safe Return,” would speed up the vetting process, giving Border Patrol 15 days to make a determination about a person’s asylum claim.

Agents would interview the asylum seeker to determine if the person truly is afraid of returning to his or her home country. Border Patrol would have three days to make the determination. If the illegal alien doesn’t have justifiable fear then they’d be immediately deported.

The above is called common sense. If Border Patrol were allowed to adjudicate asylum claims in just 15 days, it would completely solve the border crisis. The Flores Agreement would be rendered moot because it only applies after 20 days, the overcrowding would cease, and we’d be able to quickly deport people who clearly have no legal right to claim asylum.

Calling Sinema the most conservative Senator in AZ over the past decade is mostly tongue in cheek, but only mostly. Where’s Martha McSally? Why is she not leading this effort? The only time we’ve been given proof of life on her is when she came out to condemn Trump over some forgettable comment months ago (so forgettable I can’t recall what it was). McSally is currently bottoming out in fundraising and looks to lose two different Senate seats in as many years. I have nothing bad to say about her as a person, but as a campaigner, she’s been really bad.

Also, is anyone missing Jeff Flake about now? Would he have had the guts to back something like this? I highly doubt it. I’m not even sure John McCain would have supported such a hard line on asylum reform.

Maybe Sinema’s change is all about just making sure she can win re-election? That’s fine by me. Whatever it takes.




 
Multi Sport said:
I've been trying to figure out why the trolls have been on edge lately, I mean, more then they usually are. Then it came to me... the realization that their party has yet to produce a real challenger to President Trump and the likelihood of another four years of Trump in the Whitehouse.... the trolls are gonna lose it. Look for some new names to pop uip on the forum as these guys get more desperate ...
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You don't really think that's a "likelihood," but even the fact that it's about 50/50 right now is shocking.
 
messy said:
You don't really think that's a "likelihood," but even the fact that it's about 50/50 right now is shocking.
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As bad as the left is painting Trump you would think it's a slam dunk for any Democrat to win. But the Dems appear to have a short memory and are repeating the same mistake they did last time. No real Presidential candidate.

Maybe Tenacious can find one when he's looking for clues about me and GBG. Lol!
 
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