Galt's Gulch

A sunny day in January, 2017

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago to Entertainment
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Ahh, the prospect warms my heart. Although, one knows not who shall next occupy aforementioned residence. It could be as grim then, as now.
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  • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 1 month ago
    Fantastic, though I just read an article this weekend, (and now I can't remember where) that it's already proposed to amend the constitution to allow for no term limits on presidents so that he can run again, and I suppose, be re-elected.
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    • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago
      I just got cold all over. And physically ill. I would think logic would loudly override any such proposal. Then again, I am giving too much credit to politicians, in assuming they would use logic.
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      • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 1 month ago
        Found a reference to the no term limit article published in the Washington Post;
        http://conservativebyte.com/2013/11/repe...
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        • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
          Terrifying... the beginning of the end. In order for that to happen they will need the point of the gun, because they will need to exterminate the dissenters... I don't believe they have the support for this yet, but I have no doubt some have weighed the option.
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          • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 1 month ago
            Nobody will rebel. If we didn't rebel after Waco, we won't ever rebel until it's too late.
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            • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
              Perhaps. We have so many sheep... However Ruby Ridge and Waco did create dissension and incited that nut job Tim McVeigh to blow up the Murrah building. That was when the government started strong arming and trying to intimidate militia groups. While the government had violated people's rights they were dividing and conquering. This would be different as it would involve a constitutional amendment and I believe it would enrage a larger segment of the population. Do enough people still posses the spirit of 76? If not then we as a nation are beyond the point of no return... I do not wish to believe it, but it may be so.
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              • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 1 month ago
                From about 4 miles away it sounded like a manhole cover popping.
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                • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
                  Are you in OK? I spent a year in the oil fields (Anadarko Basin, Elk city). I love the people. They carry guns, but are so friendly. People don't wave to strangers here...
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                  • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 1 month ago
                    Yup, OKC.

                    And yeah, that's one of the reasons I stayed here. I was shocked at how different the people were from people in Iowa.

                    When I was at ISU, just before I moved down here, I was in the marching band. When we'd go to a game at Iowa, didn't matter if we won or lost, they had to hustle us out after the game to keep us from getting the crap beat out of us. Fans would splash beer on us, insult us, etc.

                    I remember one year we came to OU.... it was the 3rd quarter, we'd given a great performance, the crowd went wild, but our team was down 30-something to 20-something. We began chanting, "4th quarter team! 4th quarter team!"
                    OU fans began chanting, "4th quarter team! 4th quarter team!"

                    In the backside of the 4th quarter, it got up to 40-something to 20-something. We began chanting, "It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!" The OU fans began chanting, "It just doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter!"

                    As we were entering the stadium, OU fans didn't throw beer on us as Iowa fans had; but one did *hand* a beer to my right-guide.

                    As we were crossing the field to exit the stadium, the OU fans who'd been in the endzone came down looking for us, by the score. They patted us on the back, commiserated with our loss, telling us they had thought we might pull off the upset, complimented us on our performance and wishing the Pride could do as well (the Pride in those days was a good band; they just didn't have suicide trumpets).

                    I quickly fell in love with Oklahoma. I just wish it didn't have tornado season...
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                    • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
                      Good story, very telling.
                      Good people...
                      I thrived in the dry heat... not one sinus headache the entire year...
                      How about the hail? I went out there for work with a brand new car; a year later I moved back home to Mi. with a moonscape on the trunk, roof, and hood of my car...
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                      • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 1 month ago
                        It's weird; I've had good luck with hail. There is a lot of it; it goes hand in hand with tornadoes.

                        But even the hour or so I spent being chased across town by the May 30th tornadoes didn't put one dent in my minivan... and there was plenty of hail and hail damage to other vehicles.
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                        • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago
                          Dodge and weave worked? ;-) Glad you, and your can, came out of it unscathed.
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                          • Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 1 month ago
                            It was an adventure. Stupid, but an adventure.
                            A friend had called to warn me about the tornadoes and tell me where there was a shelter. Meanwhile, Gary England got excited, and predicted a tornado to touch down pretty much on top of me in about 13 minutes. While I dithered, my friend told me to come to his house on the SW side of town, as there were not supposed to be tornadoes there.
                            So I took off, and the tornadoes turned. One of them took a course about 1500 yards south of the Walmart where I work.
                            At one point my minivan began sliding and starting to tip, the tornado was so close.
                            I finally reached my friend's house... just as the tornado sirens started going off in his neighborhood.

                            I got back home about 4 am... I didn't even have a *power outage*.

                            But, since about 2003 or so, when one passed over my house, I've had an irrational fear of the things.
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                            • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 1 month ago
                              We were experiencing one several years ago, when I heard a pounding at the front door. I was surprised to find a friend from the other side of town at the door, wet and bedraggled, but also white as a ghost and shaking like an aspen leaf. He came in and immediately collapsed to the couch. All he could say was, "A damn tree just passed me! It just flew by me in the other lane. My wife's just going to have to wait. It passed me!"
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                              • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago
                                Omg. Terrifying!!
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                                • Posted by Zenphamy 11 years, 1 month ago
                                  It's just life in 'Tornado Alley'. I grew up in the NE corner of OK, on Grand Lake. I can't remember a year when we didn't have a number of tornados and didn't have to go to the storm cellar at least twice. All but Grandma. She refused to go into the ground, would sit outside on the porch in her rocker till it had passed. She'd have warm cocoa for us when we came back to the house.
                                  Just life. You adapt.
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                  • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago
                    Wow, everybody here waves. Then again, I'm in the last conservative holdout in CT...
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                    • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
                      I'm too close to that cesspool Detroit. You keep your hands by your side and your head down if you don't want to attract the wrong attention... We don't carry our guns in the open without somebody calling the police... funny, the thugs conceal their weapons. Fortunately a lot of law abiding citizens are starting to get CCWs. Outside the metro areas the people are more relaxed and friendly, but in the city you keep a low profile...

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                      • Posted by $ Hiraghm 11 years, 1 month ago
                        I feel bad for Detroit, even if it is their own fault.
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                        • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 1 month ago
                          I know a lot of good people in Detroit. Unfortunately they must live with the mistakes of their neighbors. Some progress is being made though; today a federal judge has cleared the way for the bankruptcy proceedings... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/... We shall see what happens. There are so many that believe in the free lunch, there is bound to be more obstruction.
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                          • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago
                            I saw that on the news. Another mayor in CA is trying to address the pensions in his city, which are draining the city dry. Driving it towards bankruptcy, actually. And his fight w/the unions is going to be bloody. Just watch how many people will start calling him racist. They haven't yet, because he's a democrat, but just wait. It will happen.
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        • Posted by $ minniepuck 11 years, 1 month ago
          I knew which article you were talking about immediately. that made my stomach hurt when I read it a few days ago. I was somewhat relieved to see the most popular comments opposed to such an idea, but the fact that some academic is out there saying this is good and makes sense is a start for this train of thought. we must be vigilant and kill the weed before it spreads.
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