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babe said:
I don't trust new-fangled contraptions.
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And yet, here you are internetting on that gosh darn interweb surfing machine.

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Not old...lazy. I like cruise control because I can catch a nap on the way to work. These cars nowadays are amazing.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Not old...lazy. I like cruise control because I can catch a nap on the way to work. These cars nowadays are amazing.
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well, you probably have a good truck that takes care of you. I hear they have cars now that can navigate traffic using satellite guidance. .. GPS. . . . and remote sensing devices everywhere, and computer thousands of times more capable than the ones that were alluded to in that whole Capricorn One hoax.

I have friends who offer to bring backhoes and other big toys to help me out, but somehow it seems like too much work to hitch up the trailers and move the monster for a day's work, so I still use a shovel.

I know I'm a maze of contradictions like everyone else. Nobody can be everything or do everything anymore. Funny thing, you do what you enjoy. And somehow a computer makes writing easier than my old Royal typewriter, or even the IBM selectric. Now if only I could figure out how to use memory space, make files and remember where I put stuff, maybe I could do some writing.
 
PearlWatson said:
attitude not age
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nobody who breathes Freedom's pure air ever grows old in their own minds. It's just the Statists who become discouraged with their big ideas not being appreciated who die that death of thousand deaths as rebels keep upsetting their magnificent delusions. . . .
 
The Latest LaRouche Genocidal Globalist Cartel Conspiracy

I got a call from the friendly sales rep from the LaRouche Polital Action Committee. I give them fifty bucks, they send me DVDs about the British monarchists and the latest science superproject. . . .

They always have new stuff. . . . .

This week its how Fracking is intentional genocide of the constitutional wingnuts in the flyover states. . . . ya know. . .. backwoods places populated by unwanted trailer trash who work for a living...... like North Dakota, Texas, and such.

I was feeling grateful for the so-called "cheaper gas".

Needless to say, I'm getting a bit jaded with it all. . . .
 
PearlWatson said:
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Those damn Brit oligarchs have ruined more dogs than any other small set of inbred morons that ever walked the planet.

Just when I was about to bail on the LaRouche lynchpin of politics, you give me all the evidence I need to just go on. . . .
 
babe said:
Those damn Brit oligarchs have ruined more dogs than any other small set of inbred morons that ever walked the planet.

Just when I was about to bail on the LaRouche lynchpin of politics, you give me all the evidence I need to just go on. . . .
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Witty. You make me laugh.
 
babe said:
my third wife is very active in Utah Republican Party politics, and is this year a delegate to the State GOP convention and a supporter of Mia Love. She was formerly a big supporter of a black Illinois senatorial candidate running against Barry Obama, and others.

I ran once for the Utah house as a "Constitution Party" candidate, and got an endorsement from a gay rights group and about 380 votes, even. I am thinking of starting a third party called the "American Principles Party", nominally centered on issues of human liberty and the rights of ordinary persons. I'm sorta anti-Authoritarian, having been sorta that way myself and addicted to my own ideas. Trying to recover from the delusions of "rightness".

I have a personal interest in grazing rights, and it would be financially favorable to me in a rather important way if my "grazing preference" were solidly in my hands, even to the extent that it meant I had to pay property tax on it.

I think government "management" of lands encumbered with a grazing property right is still good, provided only that it is uncorrupt and that nobody thinks I don't "own" the grazing use.

Utah, and other states, would benefit greatly if grazing, mineral, and other beneficial uses of land were taxable holdings, and I think it could be better managed locally than nationally. It is entirely true that the forage consumed by a cow in a month is worth $20 as a basic rental rate, and that a grazing right is worth about as much as five cows, that is $5000 per cow that can be fed on grazing allotment. Thus Bundy's grazing right is worth at least $5 M, and the government should pay him that much if say, a turtle or a solar plant is the higher and best use of it. The water right is additional. . . .

I could go on. Maybe it will take me twenty more years to do full disclosure.
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You anti-authoritarian? No way!

I'm liking the name of your new party.

This grazing rights issue is right in your wheelhouse for sure.

Mia got the party nomination so does this mean she is pretty much a shoe-in to fill Matheson's seat?
 
PearlWatson said:
You anti-authoritarian? No way!

I'm liking the name of your new party.

This grazing rights issue is right in your wheelhouse for sure.

Mia got the party nomination so does this mean she is pretty much a shoe-in to fill Matheson's seat?
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I think she's vulnerable, but lovable nonetheless. Have you ever met her. Her immediate presence is compelling, nobody can just not like her.

She needs coaching on questions people ask because she's not really a politician. She's vulnerable to the extent that she just doesn't have that much sense, really. Somebody who'll always need other people to explain issues to her so she won't be saying ridiculously stupid things on air. . . . well. . . . I guess I wouldn't be much better. . . . . My wife, though, has got what it takes in the natural PR department, and she doesn't waste time telling people where she stands leaving no doubt at all that she knows what she's talking about and means it. . . . .

She is a candidate for the State School Board, but is very disappointed to find out how corrupt Utah is on that point. Do you realize that the sitting school board selects the three "finalists" for each election slot?? Then the governor gets to eliminate one, and the two left are the only ones we ever get to vote for? My wife says that's corrupt. The People do not have a significant say in who gets on the ballot for the government officials who have the most direct impact on their lives, particularly the lives of their children. The State School Board has more say on how more money is spent than even the State Legislature.

Out of 67 candidates who paid the filing fee, the insiders will pick their three cronies. .. . they even get to pick themselves. . . . and all the governor can do is eliminate the worst one. . .. or the best one. . . . as your interests may indicate. . . .
 
babe said:
I think she's vulnerable, but lovable nonetheless. Have you ever met her. Her immediate presence is compelling, nobody can just not like her.

She needs coaching on questions people ask because she's not really a politician. She's vulnerable to the extent that she just doesn't have that much sense, really. Somebody who'll always need other people to explain issues to her so she won't be saying ridiculously stupid things on air. . . . well. . . . I guess I wouldn't be much better. . . . . My wife, though, has got what it takes in the natural PR department, and she doesn't waste time telling people where she stands leaving no doubt at all that she knows what she's talking about and means it. . . . .

She is a candidate for the State School Board, but is very disappointed to find out how corrupt Utah is on that point. Do you realize that the sitting school board selects the three "finalists" for each election slot?? Then the governor gets to eliminate one, and the two left are the only ones we ever get to vote for? My wife says that's corrupt. The People do not have a significant say in who gets on the ballot for the government officials who have the most direct impact on their lives, particularly the lives of their children. The State School Board has more say on how more money is spent than even the State Legislature.

Out of 67 candidates who paid the filing fee, the insiders will pick their three cronies. .. . they even get to pick themselves. . . . and all the governor can do is eliminate the worst one. . .. or the best one. . . . as your interests may indicate. . . .
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No, I didn't know about that awful system and I doubt many voters do.

I'd bet that even if you made this known to the voters they wouldn't care and nothing would change.

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Wouldn't she be somewhat insulated from criticism because of her race and gender or does that only work for Democrats?

I know the Saratogo Springs police force turned on her last election, though.
 
PearlWatson said:
No, I didn't know about that awful system and I doubt many voters do.

I'd bet that even if you made this known to the voters they wouldn't care and nothing would change.

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Wouldn't she be somewhat insulated from criticism because of her race and gender or does that only work for Democrats?

I know the Saratogo Springs police force turned on her last election, though.
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I bet.

Knowing her just a little. . . . I'd say she expected them to do their jobs, or something like that.
 
PearlWatson said:
No, I didn't know about that awful system and I doubt many voters do.

I'd bet that even if you made this known to the voters they wouldn't care and nothing would change.



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Wouldn't she be somewhat insulated from criticism because of her race and gender or does that only work for Democrats?

I know the Saratogo Springs police force turned on her last election, though.
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Possibly the one good thing about Common Core is that it is mobilizing some people to do something about the problems we have in our entrenched school officials. I know of some State legislature people who are working on a bill to make the School Board accountable, finally, to the voters. This is one thing we can change if very many of us will contact our legislative reps and governor.
 
PearlWatson said:
No, I didn't know about that awful system and I doubt many voters do.

I'd bet that even if you made this known to the voters they wouldn't care and nothing would change.

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Wouldn't she be somewhat insulated from criticism because of her race and gender or does that only work for Democrats?

I know the Saratogo Springs police force turned on her last election, though.
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Definitely, that only works for committed Democrats. A black conservative who dares to stand up and make his/her presence known will draw even more venomous hatred and bile from our media than a redneck ever will.
 
babe said:
I bet.

Knowing her just a little. . . . I'd say she expected them to do their jobs, or something like that.
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I think it was over promised raises or increases in wages that didn't happen, if I remember right.

I didn't realize how close her last election was. :eek:

Love lost the election to Jim Matheson by 768 votes out of 245,277 votes cast, a difference of 0.31%.
 
babe said:
Possibly the one good thing about Common Core is that it is mobilizing some people to do something about the problems we have in our entrenched school officials. I know of some State legislature people who are working on a bill to make the School Board accountable, finally, to the voters. This is one thing we can change if very many of us will contact our legislative reps and governor.
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Good to know. I have a friend who is also a delegate, and a former teacher. I should ask her about it.

I do hear a lot of anti common core sentiment...
 
babe said:
Definitely, that only works for committed Democrats. A black conservative who dares to stand up and make his/her presence known will draw even more venomous hatred and bile from our media than a redneck ever will.
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This is pretty funny from her wikipedia page:

She has said that if elected to Congress, she would “join the Congressional Black Caucus and try to take that thing apart from the inside out” and has described the Democrat-dominated Caucus as characterized by “...demagoguery. They sit there and ignite emotions and ignite racism when there isn’t. They use their positions to instill fear. Hope and change is turned into fear and blame. Fear that everybody is going to lose everything and blaming Congress for everything instead of taking responsibility.
 
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