Rob Pincus
New member
I dunno about all this south-shoulda-won stuff. Aren't southern Democrats just as responsible as big-city liberals for the mess we are in?
I can't believe the people down here who feel exactly the way I do on gun issues and are even more conservative in some areas, like prayer in school, abortion, etc... and yet insists that they are democrats and they vote the democratic line. I almost got thrown out of a fellow deputies house one night when I told his wife I was voting for a republican candidate for senator. She explained, not very calmly, that they wuz werkin peepull, not some kinder hawtee republikins.
Where does this stuff come from? If I stay down here to long, will it start to affect me too?
Similarly, a friend of a friend from Michigan that had come with a group I brought to a GSSF match got through the whole day just fine with all of us radical right wingers until someone mentioned unions... all of a sudden we were oppressive elitist gun owners trying to keep the working class down.
Getting back to the topic, no, there isn't a "country" I'd rather live in, but I'd certianly like to live under different conditions.
I also figure that we've got a hard enough job ahead of us to educate our country without letting anyone else in who isn't up to snuff. I applaud Switzerland type immagration restrictions. Don't even bother to pull out the "what about your ancestors" crap, becuase they had to bust there butt when they set out to get here and they had to work hard once they were here. They learned the proper language and worked to improve the country, served in the military and started productive businesses. For the last 50 years there seems to have been about 90% leeches filtering across the border. Cornered Rat seems to have the same mindset as my forefathers.. come over here because of the freedom to live as a productive individual and then work to make things even better... not come over here simply because it is better than where you happen to have started out.
(rant mode off, I'm in a bad mood, can ya tell?)
I can't believe the people down here who feel exactly the way I do on gun issues and are even more conservative in some areas, like prayer in school, abortion, etc... and yet insists that they are democrats and they vote the democratic line. I almost got thrown out of a fellow deputies house one night when I told his wife I was voting for a republican candidate for senator. She explained, not very calmly, that they wuz werkin peepull, not some kinder hawtee republikins.
Where does this stuff come from? If I stay down here to long, will it start to affect me too?
Similarly, a friend of a friend from Michigan that had come with a group I brought to a GSSF match got through the whole day just fine with all of us radical right wingers until someone mentioned unions... all of a sudden we were oppressive elitist gun owners trying to keep the working class down.
Getting back to the topic, no, there isn't a "country" I'd rather live in, but I'd certianly like to live under different conditions.
I also figure that we've got a hard enough job ahead of us to educate our country without letting anyone else in who isn't up to snuff. I applaud Switzerland type immagration restrictions. Don't even bother to pull out the "what about your ancestors" crap, becuase they had to bust there butt when they set out to get here and they had to work hard once they were here. They learned the proper language and worked to improve the country, served in the military and started productive businesses. For the last 50 years there seems to have been about 90% leeches filtering across the border. Cornered Rat seems to have the same mindset as my forefathers.. come over here because of the freedom to live as a productive individual and then work to make things even better... not come over here simply because it is better than where you happen to have started out.
(rant mode off, I'm in a bad mood, can ya tell?)