Where our interests really lie.

[blind ear]

Topic: Fox chased Cat, Cat chased Fox, Dogs got Cat.  (Read 305 times)  posted July 31

Topic: Wolves being returned to New England, California, and other locations  (Read 750 times) posted
July 22

Support Arizonas Immigration Laws ? DONATE ? (Read 108 times) posted July 30

[Dee]

Gosh eddie. Are you saying that Americans are more interested in entertainment than their countries' problems?

Posted July 26, 2010  "What will the economic impact be with the exodus of illegals from Arizona be?" Posted on 180 times, and read 1138 times.

[subdjoe]

Gosh eddie. Are you saying that Americans are more interested in entertainment than their countries' problems?

Posted July 26, 2010  "What will the economic impact be with the exodus of illegals from Arizona be?" Posted on 180 times, and read 1138 times.

Thanks, Dee.  You got to it before I could.

Also: Decriminalize Marijuana, started 29 July, read 554 times.

        Trator, started 30 July, 564

        The Shame of It, started 26 July, in excess of 400 views. 

Also, that thread about wolves isn't fluff, as seemingly suggested by the OP but a concern about the politics of the ecology and green movements.  In many suburban and rural areas there are increasing numbers of attacks on pets and people by coyotes, foxes, various big cats, and apparently wolves.   The reintroduction of wolves and other predators to areas near human habitations without careful study is begging the Law of Unintended Consequences to, quite literally, bite us in the kiester. 

How often do we see things like:

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and


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And we just had that bear attack near Yellowstone.  Yeah, in the cases of the buffalo/bison the people were being idiots.  And I would be willing to bet that in the bear attack there was some sort of stupidity - maybe a floral scented deodorant, or grease from dinner wiped onto the pants or a shirt, something to attract the bear. 

[blind ear]

Gosh eddie. Are you saying that Americans are more interested in entertainment than their countries' problems?

Posted July 26, 2010  "What will the economic impact be with the exodus of illegals from Arizona be?" Posted on 180 times, and read 1138 times.

No Dee I was saying I'm sure all those readers are contributeing greatly in all sorts of ways to Arizonas efforts.

[bkraft]

Perhaps guys, we all need a laugh I mean with all the oil spill, Obama drama, family members in war zones(got one there myself) sometimes we just need to lighten up. It might not be christian but how many of us laugh at someone else gettin' the raw end. America's Funniest Videos is a classic example of what I'm gettin at. The Three Stooges. We laugh because it's funny, we laugh because we might see some form of Karmic justice, most of all we laugh because we are thankful it aint us!

[LabRat2k3]

I have no reason to read the political threads. I know how I feel about the issues, and after reading a few early on I can pretty much guess who writes what on each one. They all pretty much are the same people saying the same thing, and most of it is "It's not my fault, it's that other group that causes all of our problems",and "Nope, you are wrong my group is innocent it is your group that caused all this". It's worse than a bunch of kids arguing. We are all too old and set in our ways to change our mind at this point.

[blind ear]

I have no reason to read the political threads. I know how I feel about the issues, and after reading a few early on I can pretty much guess who writes what on each one. They all pretty much are the same people saying the same thing, and most of it is "It's not my fault, it's that other group that causes all of our problems",and "Nope, you are wrong my group is innocent it is your group that caused all this". It's worse than a bunch of kids arguing. We are all too old and set in our ways to change our mind at this point.

Perhaps guys, we all need a laugh I mean with all the oil spill, Obama drama, family members in war zones(got one there myself) sometimes we just need to lighten up. It might not be christian but how many of us laugh at someone else gettin' the raw end. America's Funniest Videos is a classic example of what I'm gettin at. The Three Stooges. We laugh because it's funny, we laugh because we might see some form of Karmic justice, most of all we laugh because we are thankful it aint us!

Exactly what I was talking about. No one wants to read about politics much less do any thing other than complain, email and vote. Those 3 things arn't going to bring change. If some of the right causes arn't supported by more than emails, nothing will change, and it appears that everything is going to stay the same.

eddiegjr

[LabRat2k3]

So getting on a message board and arguing with a bunch of hard headed old men is what is going to bring about change? How do you know how active I am politically? Just because I don't get on here and stand on my soapbox, beat my chest, and rattle my saber just as loud as the rest means I'm doing nothing? You have no idea what causes I donate to or where I volunteer my time, and that is how it will stay because I don't do it so others can think well of me I do it because it is the right thing to do. Don't try to get on your high horse and look down on me just because I don't do things your way or read what threads you think I should.

[subdjoe]

Exactly what I was talking about. No one wants to read about politics much less do any thing other than complain, email and vote. Those 3 things arn't going to bring change. If some of the right causes arn't supported by more than emails, nothing will change, and it appears that everything is going to stay the same.

eddiegjr

yeah, VOTING won't change anything.  Neither will putting out subjects of concern for peoples edification.  And emailing...gawd forbid that any of us should bother emailing our representatives with our concerns and letting others know what we find out. 

TOTAL waste of time.

[blind ear]

I'm not looking down on anybody. I'm just looking at, for the majority, how things are.  

If you are active I obviously wouldn't have been talking to you. You were the one that acted as if you had been offended, why?

Current events and the next elections will tell.

eddiegjr

[LabRat2k3]

I was not offended in my first reply just telling you why I would choose to look at the story about the fox,cat, and sled dogs instead of a political thread. This is what I do in my free time, when I'm relaxing, so a funny story is more what I'm looking for than a spirited debate. In my second reply I did act offended because you quoted me then said that I didn't want to do anything other than complain, which is not the case. I'm not the only one that acted as if I were offended, you also act as if you have been offended by what others choose to view, why?

[saddlebum]

For me personally, I skip over some topics just because I'm tired of being angry. The thread about wolves for instance is an important topic in my opinion. But there is nothing I know of I can do to stop it and I'm sick of getting myself all worked up arguing with pro-wolf people. Been there too many times already. I also passed on the illegal alien thread for the same reason and because, who can say for sure what the economics of it will be? As someone else posted, some threads are predictable and I don't feel like going there. It's not because I don't care. Sometimes I'm more selective about which threads I click on than I am at other times. Depends on my mood. Sometimes I feel like scrapping with other posters and sometimes I don't. Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't! Moody I guess.    

[blind ear]

I don't totally disagree with any of you or anyone else that is sick of bad news. I just hope something will happen that will get us all, that consider ourselves to be conservative, moveing in one dirrection to get a new set of wheels on our government (a congress that lives in reality) before the politicians not only put the country in the ditch but completely destroy it. eddiegjr

[Dee]

eddie the country has been in the ditch since Vietnam, and maybe Korea. Imagine a dry field of grass and a 13 year old with a book of matches, and you with a single bucket of water. As fast as you get one fire out, you have to go refill your bucket.
We have spent TRILLIONS on minding other folks business, that didn't want us in their business, and now we have really very few friends, if any at all. Our youth has blindly signed up to go and fight wars, while accepting the governmental propaganda, only to return disillusioned when finding out that it was not at all like they were told it was.
Imagine a huge cardboard box marked "tax payers money" with Congressmen, and Senators, and illegals, and enemy countries, standing around it stuffing the money out of it into their pockets, and that is a crude, but accurate image of whats' happening.
Rangel and Waters are being DISIPLINED for misconduct by their Congress Cronies? What kind of consequences is that?
This crook is not as big a crook as this crook, so I'm goin to vote for him. What kind of logic is that?
Many CLAIM the title of "conservative" but, don't fit the definition, but they continue to CLAIM it. You can't have it both ways but, they try, and we get deeper and deeper into the ditch. When all of our freedoms are traded away, a few at a time, by the lessor of two crooks, voted in by those saying: the honest man didn't have a chance, so I didn't vote for him, then everyone will realize the definition of a TRUE conservative. In the mean time, they will CLAIM that they are doing the only thing they can, which is more of the same.

[blind ear]

Dee, I agree
TM7, I agree

and have all along.

This was just my personal little poll to see how many would look. Most that arn't interested in looking certainly arn't interested in doing anything.

The sail is set and we ain't gonna change it, all we can do is hang on and try to find some space to slide through when what is going to happen happens.

This is probably a very conservative board without getting into anarchy. If the numbers are like they SEEM to be by the responses that most won't look and far fewer will do something, on other boards it will be worse, oh well. Like was said, there are only a few of us hard headed old folks that talk about it. The collective memory of the past is gone. So it is.

eddiegjr