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Mar 10, 2018 22:25:54 #
archie bunker wrote:
He only said that because the Texan kept kicking his ass.
Having spent over 75% (and counting) of my life in Texas, I think Texas will kick anyone's ass, especially those that don't have the respite of air conditioning.
Mar 10, 2018 22:46:41 #
PoppaGringo wrote:
So now you freeze your buns in Iowa rather than Michigan. Michigan was good training grounds for bun freezing. Having once lived there, against my will, I have never been warm since.
Actually I thought Michigan was a breeze in the winter compared to Iowa. Lake MI always kept it warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Hardly any wind there because of all the trees and the lake effect snow was beautiful. Iowa is terribly windy, sometimes 50 to 60 below with the wind chill and little flakes that blow up to drifts as hard as rocks. But...my heart and.soul is here in Iowa's cos this is where my girls are. So I just embrace my zipcode. Haaah
Mar 10, 2018 22:51:46 #
goofball
Loc: timbucktoo
acknowledgeurma wrote:
What do I really want? Though this may seem rather rhetorical, I want a more perfect Union, wherein Justice is established, domestic Tranquility insured, our common defense provided, the general Welfare promoted, and the Blessings of Liberty secured to ourselves and our Posterity.
As long as it's your union, your Justice, tranquility by who? What do you call common defense? More welfare for people who don't need it, instead of working? And how do you discribe security of liberty?
Mar 10, 2018 22:53:54 #
Welcome to OPP Otisimo! You sound like a very down to earth person like many here who are also veterans. Enjoy the discourse and dont take anything to heart if possible and just be you.
Semper Fi
Mike
Semper Fi
Mike
Otisimo wrote:
Hello all 😎 br About a year ago I became aware of... (show quote)
Mar 10, 2018 23:11:31 #
kankune wrote:
Actually I thought Michigan was a breeze in the winter compared to Iowa. Lake MI always kept it warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Hardly any wind there because of all the trees and the lake effect snow was beautiful. Iowa is terribly windy, sometimes 50 to 60 below with the wind chill and little flakes that blow up to drifts as hard as rocks. But...my heart and.soul is here in Iowa's cos this is where my girls are. So I just embrace my zipcode. Haaah
Michigan, to me, as tantamount to being in the Arctic Circle. I was born and reared in Florida until my 16th year when my parents uprooted the family and t***sported us to that G*dforsaken Yankee land. I will, however, admit I didn't know what cold weather was really like until I got to Korea. Minus 30° below was just a wee bit more than Michigans 20° above.
Mar 10, 2018 23:18:53 #
Otisimo wrote:
Hello all 😎 br About a year ago I became aware of... (show quote)
Great Mistakes...1980. Got there in November!
Welcome! Have fun.I switched from Libertarian to Republican so I could vent my displeasure with politics as usual by messing with them in the primaries.
What I'm not is a typical Republican.
Mar 10, 2018 23:22:22 #
Otisimo wrote:
I have to respectfully disagree. I think we all have much more in common than what separates us.
I believe that.
I also believe it's easy (and OK) to not be neutral and still be friends with the folks you vehemently disagree with.
Mar 10, 2018 23:24:17 #
bylm1 wrote:
If I might make another quick comment without giving it too much thought. Hemi does seem to put us under a rather dark cloud but, having lived in this Great Country for nearly 80 years, I feel that the extremes politically, morally, spiritually and about every other way are much further apart than they were even 50 or 60 years ago. I don't really know why that is so but I know it is true. Food for thought as they say.
Bernie
Bernie
I'm the optimist around here and I'm telling everyone WWIII is looming. Ain't that so?
Mar 10, 2018 23:27:36 #
Otisimo wrote:
I don’t. Not my job. You know if you are a true American or not. If other people disagree,which is their right, screw ‘em.
You know the t***h and the t***h is what matters. Or, so says I. 😳😊
You know the t***h and the t***h is what matters. Or, so says I. 😳😊
Uh...I was gonna say listen to them long enough to know.
Mar 10, 2018 23:28:29 #
byronglimish wrote:
Your Your idea has merit, but there is a element in America not supporting our own sovereignty..to me that is a recipe for ruin as a nation..
I've been noticing that.
Mar 10, 2018 23:31:31 #
kankune wrote:
Actually I thought Michigan was a breeze in the winter compared to Iowa. Lake MI always kept it warmer in winter and cooler in summer. Hardly any wind there because of all the trees and the lake effect snow was beautiful. Iowa is terribly windy, sometimes 50 to 60 below with the wind chill and little flakes that blow up to drifts as hard as rocks. But...my heart and.soul is here in Iowa's cos this is where my girls are. So I just embrace my zipcode. Haaah
Right above Chicago, the wind off the lake blew lake-effect snow against all the buildings. We had to dig them out 24/7. I picked a stupid time to enlist.
Mar 10, 2018 23:44:08 #
Otisimo wrote:
I think the real bottom line of that is, how big an element? If it is over 50% then I agree, that is a recipe for ruin. I don’t believe that to be the case tho so I believe in live and let live.
Does live and let live include letting public schools and universities promote such a change?
If so it won't be long before the recipe is done.
Perhaps most folks, then, since we're still a majority and we're reasonable, in charge and safe, might consider that important, do you think?
Mar 10, 2018 23:46:08 #
acknowledgeurma wrote:
It might be interesting to have a thread to discuss sovereignty (i.e., the authority of a state to govern itself or another state) and what might threaten it.
I think that's a grand idea!
Mar 10, 2018 23:47:32 #
goofball wrote:
As long as it's your union, your Justice, tranquility by who? What do you call common defense? More welfare for people who don't need it, instead of working? And how do you discribe security of liberty?
I think the whole idea of Union is not a your or a my thing, but an our thing (not in the Cosa Nostra sense). Because it is an our thing, all the other things mentioned (Justice, domestic Tranquility, etc.) require us to come to some mutual understanding, a difficult endeavor.
Mar 10, 2018 23:48:20 #
acknowledgeurma wrote:
If by "true American", you mean, a citiz... (show quote)
)I will remember that and be nice. You can cheer up a little.
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