tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post3763023627313711401..comments2024-03-17T08:27:53.658-05:00Comments on Stonekettle Station: Guns and Butter. Also, Nazis!Jim Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11259550121437562338noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-72600159121775286252012-11-08T16:31:09.448-06:002012-11-08T16:31:09.448-06:00Is it REALLY less often, though? Remember that 31...Is it REALLY less often, though? Remember that 31-year-old woman in Cincy who banned people of color from the pool because "their hair product contaminates the water"? Miss you, New Guy. Also, Nazis.Iowa Babenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-48845394273349482552012-11-05T15:38:31.067-06:002012-11-05T15:38:31.067-06:00Cthulu,
If travel was that great of a mind openne...Cthulu,<br /><br />If travel was that great of a mind openner then why are so many in the military voting Republican every year? Travel alone isn't the key. A willingness to LEARN is the first priority.Lucas Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-29385418616910587392012-11-05T08:49:26.773-06:002012-11-05T08:49:26.773-06:00Cthulhu,
I hope you know I was not defending ignor...Cthulhu,<br />I hope you know I was not defending ignorance, just asking people not to be so harsh. I can't stand Fox News and dislike the people who mindlessly spout the Fox/GOP talking points. Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-29370250233550722812012-11-05T08:49:12.800-06:002012-11-05T08:49:12.800-06:00Cthulhu,
I hope you know I was not defending ignor...Cthulhu,<br />I hope you know I was not defending ignorance, just asking people not to be so harsh. I can't stand Fox News and dislike the people who mindlessly spout the Fox/GOP talking points. Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-21448215634241504232012-11-05T08:30:25.920-06:002012-11-05T08:30:25.920-06:00Yeah...what Cthulhu said...Yeah...what Cthulhu said...Bufordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09562503298407472200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-82070908676660024312012-11-05T08:29:07.406-06:002012-11-05T08:29:07.406-06:00Yeah...what Cthulhu said...Yeah...what Cthulhu said...Bufordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09562503298407472200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-61682363528100502492012-11-05T03:23:28.201-06:002012-11-05T03:23:28.201-06:00Sounds like you had quite a time down in The Panha...Sounds like you had quite a time down in The Panhandle.<br />I'm a Brit as I've said before, and I have a real love/hate relationship with The Southern USA. The music I love comes from there, Blues, Soul and White Blues (Country & Western). I've travelled all over the south buying records, yup I'm a vinyl man, watching great unknown players and generally having a great time. I found most of the people generous, with both their time and hospitality. But..... I found their politics and religion impenetrable! The reaction to announcing that you were both a Socialist and an Atheist produced some memorable reactions, but being a Brit was handy as most Americans expect us to be a bit eccentric. <br />The fist time I was down there I flew into Memphis. Didn't go there for Graceland, I've always thought Elvis was a pale imitation of the real thing. It was to visit the Stax Studio and visit some of the bars on Beale Street. Any how at the time I had bright purple hair, the result of a drunken bet. It was fantastic whenever I walked into any of the music and beer establishments, and took my hat off, you could hear a pin drop!<br /> Thanks for letting me ramble on. Good to see that you are home safely, give the cats a scratch under the chin from me! I'll try and post some pics of my little guy. I acquired him on 31st October 2 years ago so he hi called Samhain, Sam for short. He has opposable thumbs but still expects me to open the cans for him!Long Ben Averyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12382408372788942193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-56667361296791788372012-11-04T23:31:46.377-06:002012-11-04T23:31:46.377-06:00Bear and the Goose Girl are currently on a cruise ...Bear and the Goose Girl are currently on a cruise ship off the Continental shelf headed for Charleston. Have already been accosted by FOX News R's demanding to know what was wrong with us !! All the furiners and the Canadians keep asking what is wrong with such a large portion of the population ?? bearsensehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000858896207125033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-79437680015234804622012-11-04T22:21:54.236-06:002012-11-04T22:21:54.236-06:00Don't any of them know what "Tea Bagging&...Don't any of them know what "Tea Bagging" is?Long Ben Averyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12382408372788942193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-88694477533685745822012-11-04T09:37:15.175-06:002012-11-04T09:37:15.175-06:00All due respect Jerry, btu as someone born and rai...All due respect Jerry, btu as someone born and raised in a deep south racist household, that ignorance is easily overcome by simply opening a book or two and opening ones mind. In fact, it's easier than that. Just exposure to the outside world forces one to expand ones mind and bounderies. The real work is MAINTAINING and clinging to the ignorance of ones youth. Cthulhunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-84831353344563446912012-11-04T09:32:43.585-06:002012-11-04T09:32:43.585-06:00All I need to know about Robme and the military ar...All I need to know about Robme and the military are 2 things.<br /><br />He was all for the Vietnam war until he had a chance to be IN the war, whereupon he fled to France (Irony anyone?) and his statements about why NONE of his 5 sons were serving during wartime, that they served the nation better getting him elected.<br /><br />Make that 3 things. The last being he and his chickenhawk, anti woman buddy Ryan kicking off their campaign from an American warship. Chickenhawks and cowards, themCthulhunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-25365028064850362792012-11-04T09:13:06.160-06:002012-11-04T09:13:06.160-06:00You've been gone too long Jim. Drag yer butt ...You've been gone too long Jim. Drag yer butt back home and give us something new!Cthulhunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-75020717927762669722012-11-03T19:05:41.768-05:002012-11-03T19:05:41.768-05:00I've been posted to Ft.Polk, LA., Ft.Benning, ...I've been posted to Ft.Polk, LA., Ft.Benning, GA., Ft.Campbell, KY., and Ft.Hood, TX., with numerous trips visiting my brothers in Camden, SC., and Lexington, KY. and as a child lived at Lackland,TX. AFB.<br /> The areas around all them are as described by the CWO. <br /> Not to say we don't have ass clowns north of the Mason-Dixon. I've heard and seen much of the same stuff in Ohio, just less often. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-50266284653378982322012-11-03T10:16:11.171-05:002012-11-03T10:16:11.171-05:00Thems my folk youre talking about there. But, it&#...Thems my folk youre talking about there. But, it's OK you got it totally right. Never forget though, all can be forgot and forgiven because they SE gave us the ALlman Bros...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-49345235763096606292012-11-03T08:00:21.446-05:002012-11-03T08:00:21.446-05:00I am from the South. South Carolina to be exact. I...I am from the South. South Carolina to be exact. I have lived here my entire 52 years, and I can tell you that Jim's statements are more than stereotypical, they're true. Now, I love the south. I love our climate, I love the beauty of our state's rivers, mountains, coast line. We've got nearly every gift from mother nature without ever leaving our state. There are beautiful historic homes, and ramshackle back water shanty towns, and everything else in between. But what we do have here in abundance, (I"m sad to say) is prejudice and stupidity in great abundance. My own family is deeply divided by this paradox. Those of us who choose to glean our information from a variety of sources while sifting the wheat from the chaff, and those who are satisfied with sitting around absorbing the droning mantras from fox news. It's laziness at it's most destructive, and it is alive and well fed down here. I can very easily envision the store, the town, the zz top character Jim describes because I see them all the time. Have known them, hell even have some for family members. I can assure you that what Jim says, might be slightly embellished....but not much. Not much at all. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-4103794472739915192012-11-02T17:00:47.421-05:002012-11-02T17:00:47.421-05:00The War of the Rebellion did not eliminate Souther...The War of the Rebellion did not eliminate Southern intelligence - or Southern manners. Longstreet's Georgia Scenes were long before that. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-8305225157124205542012-11-02T09:21:12.072-05:002012-11-02T09:21:12.072-05:00Anonymous at 7:16 p.m.,
It is human nature to make...Anonymous at 7:16 p.m.,<br />It is human nature to make fun of people with whom we disagree, but your last two sentences were too harsh and unfair. Most people are of average intelligence, by definition, and the U.S. has a pretty high literacy rate. Most people are products of their environment and parenting, which includes picking up racism and being poorly educated and informed. Blame them, blame their parents, blame their choices to damage "libruhl" public education, and blame their chosen biased news sources, but don't call them illiterate and retarded (that's also too harsh on the retarded). Fox News not only caters to that audience, it deliberately feeds into their prejudices and lies to them. People who get their news from Faux Noise are less well informed than people who watch no news at all, so I agree with everything but your last two sentences. If I could, I would bring back the Fairness Doctrine or at least make it illegal for broadcast media to lie about the news. See Fairleigh Dickinson University's latest at http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/ Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-2522686447474091432012-11-02T09:08:56.805-05:002012-11-02T09:08:56.805-05:00Anonymous,
It is human nature to make fun of peop...Anonymous, <br />It is human nature to make fun of people with whom we disagree, but your last two lines are too harsh and unfair. I must admit that I have had similar thoughts, but the truth is that most people are of average intelligence (by definition). We are all the products of our environment and parenting, including exposure to racism, bad information, and outright lies. Fox News falls into the last two categories for sure, likely all three. The people who get their information from Fox News are less informed than people who watch no news at all. You can hold that against people, as well as voting against public education (worse in the South than elsewhere), but don't go overboard. See the latest from Fairleigh Dickinson University about the harm caused by Faux Noise at http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-60659650454959766972012-11-01T22:16:43.734-05:002012-11-01T22:16:43.734-05:00I am TDY to Aurora CO from my (hopefully temporary...I am TDY to Aurora CO from my (hopefully temporary) home in the DC area. When away from wife and cats I can immerse myself in work and generally escape from the stupid. But today I was forced to spend 15 minutes in a room with FOX noise spewing from the wall. There is no doubt where your Florida GOP mouthbreathers get their daily dose of IQ suppressant - FOX "News" Channel.<br /><br />Holy shit what a load of non-stop idiocy. FNC has a bevy of hot, mini-skirted babes with their camera facing legs glued together. And I'm OK with that. But, what comes out of their gobs is so immensely, fuckingly non-sensical that it erases their good looks. Smart is sexy, but willful ignorance is just sad. (I figure these ladies are like Vegas dancers. They tell their fathers that they have nice waitressing jobs.)<br /><br />Anyway, in today's short exposure to FNC they blamed long post-storm gas lines in NYC on Obama, and equated this with the OPEC driven oil crises of the 70's and compared Obama with Jimmy Carter. But the overhead shots of gas lines were sub-texted with "Gas lines caused by power outages." The fact that coastal NJ/DE/NY/CT/RI just got NUKED is less important than blaming gas/food/water shortages on Obama. (And Chris Cristie is gay cause he approves of Obama's post-Sandy leadership.)<br /><br />Fox is still screaming about Benghazi and DEMANDING why a JSOC QRF was not immediately available to establish security at the US consulate? Do these people realize that we just cannot militarily "invade" other countries at will? And do they realize how fucking big Africa is? You just cannot fly predators or AC-130s or HH-60s to Libya in 30 minutes from Djibouti or Italy or Sicily in response to a rapidly evolving situation with minimal situational awareness. Nothing says 'considerate US response' like flying a Spectre gunship over a foreign city.<br /><br />Back to Jim's post. The Panhandlers and their Texan, Alaskan or Virginian brethen who absorb Fox Noise as "fair and balanced" are not just low information. They are functionally illiterate and probably borderline retarded. Harsh, but fair. Tommy DAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-23470199677261819102012-11-01T14:53:32.895-05:002012-11-01T14:53:32.895-05:00Anonymous,
While I thank you for your personal ane...Anonymous,<br />While I thank you for your personal anecdotes, there are several points you need to consider. First, your personal experiences cannot be representative of the overall quality of education in an entire state. Second, overall statistics show that the quality of the educational system is lower in many Southern states. <br />http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2012/16src.h31.html?intc=EW-QC12-LFTNAV<br /><br />http://www.msubillings.edu/caer/quality_rankings_of_education_in.htm<br /><br />I would argue those result in the highest rates of poverty in the nation. <br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate<br /><br />http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/16/news/economy/Americas_wealthiest_states/index.htm<br /><br />I hoped that you were right, but the information I have read so far does not back it up. Jerry A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01835584492326180042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-61171918507115983892012-11-01T12:27:09.341-05:002012-11-01T12:27:09.341-05:00Anonymous: Dangerous waters, there. Equating lan...Anonymous: Dangerous waters, there. Equating land ownership with intelligence is awfully close to the same reasoning used to declare a certain group of non-landowners as slaves and confer rights over another group of non-landowners to their husbands. Clarentinehttp://clarentine.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-40337085898935883522012-10-31T21:02:50.711-05:002012-10-31T21:02:50.711-05:00I kind of take exception to that. My gg-grandfathe...I kind of take exception to that. My gg-grandfather was a Wire-Grass farmer, killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864...his genetic legacy is quite intelligent, liberal, and educated. Not to mention the fact that I've run into just as ignorant and bigoted folk in the north at Jim describes here. Granted, there aren't nigh as many of them and because of the cold, they don't seem to breed as fast...Racuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10778633172431874703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-21670918220199322082012-10-31T20:55:48.141-05:002012-10-31T20:55:48.141-05:00I kind of take exception to that. My gg-grandfathe...I kind of take exception to that. My gg-grandfather was a Wire-Grass farmer, killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864...his genetic legacy is quite intelligent, liberal, and educated. Not to mention the fact that I've run into just as ignorant and bigoted folk in the north at Jim describes here. Granted, there aren't nigh as many of them and because of the cold, they don't seem to breed as fast...Racuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10778633172431874703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-71605198261764121622012-10-31T13:52:55.348-05:002012-10-31T13:52:55.348-05:00On the other hand, the USS Iowa is a pretty imposi...On the other hand, the USS Iowa is a pretty imposing sight. 19 inches of US steel at some points.Nick from the O.C.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8243351006478134285.post-88483018539248640632012-10-31T10:24:30.732-05:002012-10-31T10:24:30.732-05:00Same holds true for the Ol' Dominion. The phen...Same holds true for the Ol' Dominion. The phenomenon intensifies exponentially and in direct relationship to one's physical proximity to that miasmic swamp called Washington, DC. There are exceptions, of course--not surprisingly, they seem to be co-located with institutions of higher learning, such as our little liberal stronghold here in the People's Republic of Charlottesville. neocelthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04749768101955435672noreply@blogger.com