tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2963428811443196117..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: But in the Case of Carlos...driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53844294250583983892017-02-28T23:04:26.028-06:002017-02-28T23:04:26.028-06:00Just want to say after reading your posts,
Your ...Just want to say after reading your posts,<br /><br /> Your " TONE " was so much better...........Robthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15736678459663803707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-47925541033017243472017-02-28T13:34:06.457-06:002017-02-28T13:34:06.457-06:00As has been pointed out before, they don't giv...As has been pointed out before, they don't give a shit abut the consequences of policy until it hits home. Let Nick Kristof give them a shoulder to cry on. I won't.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08469262537314894217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20977186558978486012017-02-28T12:32:41.124-06:002017-02-28T12:32:41.124-06:00Yup...the whole "but he's one of the good...Yup...the whole "but he's one of the good ones!" mentality is the exception that proves the rule: people in places like this are as shortsighted and bigoted and cow-dumb as they deny the mainstream press makes them out to be. "Don't take OUR Mexican! We LIKE him!" And they wonder why people like you and I want to drive them into the sea...smhRandle Aubreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08957663042491162067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-9748116489945347952017-02-28T12:22:07.798-06:002017-02-28T12:22:07.798-06:00Ah, Southern Illinois, Little Egypt, it really is ...Ah, Southern Illinois, Little Egypt, it really is beautiful down there. Shawnee National Forest, camping, fishing, hunting, there is a lot of outdoors-ey stuff to do down there, in probably the nicest natural surroundings within the borders of Illinois. But what they don't have down that way, are jobs. The highest unemployment rates in IL are in the counties in this area. It used to be coal country, but it's dirty coal, I think that there is still a Continental Tire manufacturing plant in Mt. Vernon. Lots of empty little towns. West Frankfurt's population peaked in the 1930's, at 15,000, now the population is 8,000. Anecdotally, I used to date a woman who was from the area, and when we visited her folks, the town they lived in had one family-owned restaurant, and literally no other employment opportunities. Her dad had one of the peach jobs at the Continental plant. <br /> <br />The median income for a household in West Frankfurt is $25,000, per capita income is $15,000. Demographically, the racial makeup of the town is 98.55% White, 0.13% African American, 0.23% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.09% Pacific Islander, 0.12% from other races, and 0.66% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.77% of the population. (wikipedia) With a little back of the envelope math, Carlos was one of the 62 Hispanic people who live there. Obviously, those 62 Hispanics took all the jobs, caused the area to be half as populated as it was 80 years ago, made the coal dirty and not worth digging out of the ground. At least the fishing is good.proverbialleadballoonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11592049897382920314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-85393867615031358062017-02-28T09:24:00.667-06:002017-02-28T09:24:00.667-06:00and what will be the reaction when the rest of the...and what will be the reaction when the rest of the West Frankfort's of America crime rate doesn't change (or gets worse), coal mines don't hire/reopen, local service industry has labor shortages, and their Mexican restaurant closes....turn Rush up to 12 of course! <br /><br />And as a worker in coal country (along with oil and gas fields) I constantly see the people who want to make a living on these extractive industries and have ZERO idea how the industries economically work. So whenever one hits hard times. It is because of liberals, regulation, and corporate taxation, period, full stop.<br /><br />Also I read a review of an upcoming book that details a small Ohio town's decent from the American Dream when Anchor Hocking Glass Works was bought and carved up by the Mitt Romney's of this country. The reviewer pointed out the irony that the book points out, a town that went overwhelmingly for Trump, categorically REFUSES to blame the financers who robbed them, "free market capitalism," or political party that made the Leverages Buyout craze of the 1980's possible.<br /><br /><br /> trgahanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04718897286384990852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65380628459352098302017-02-28T05:35:39.594-06:002017-02-28T05:35:39.594-06:00No exceptions.They voted for this demon seed,they ...No exceptions.They voted for this demon seed,they have to fix it.freshsideofhellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151548706617565682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32825332006718277452017-02-28T02:55:23.772-06:002017-02-28T02:55:23.772-06:00What the common farm folk want from Fox News et al...What the common farm folk want from Fox News et al. is to "feel good." They want their culture celebrated, their whiteness celebrated, their religion celebrated, their ignorance celebrated. And Democrats are the "bad Mommy" party, while the Republicans are the Fun Daddy party.<br /><br />And Fun Daddy lets you get away with anything.Lit3Bolthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10407681812425172672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53973593587956299772017-02-27T23:23:29.128-06:002017-02-27T23:23:29.128-06:00Idiots. They =never= account for the collateral da...Idiots. They =never= account for the collateral damage from their lunacy...wibblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712500081407656478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-35656748273054162852017-02-27T19:22:04.687-06:002017-02-27T19:22:04.687-06:00I'd like to feel badly for these people, but t...I'd like to feel badly for these people, but they need to learn that they're the damned problem.beemerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11108978854519657326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-10222256770851558392017-02-27T19:15:54.645-06:002017-02-27T19:15:54.645-06:00Although I live just outside DC, we have a farm in...Although I live just outside DC, we have a farm in the beautiful Shenandoah County in VA. represented by Bob Goodlatte, who is definitely not a good cup of coffee. Needless to say, this largely farming area was mostly Trump country (with notable exceptions, all of them towns like Harrisonburg, home of liberal James Madison U.). And yet, a sizable Hispanic community, mostly Mexican provides a lot of services, especially skilled labor of all sorts that keep the generally older white population going since a lot of the younger generation has up and left. Now, the ones we know are long since citizens but there are undoubtedly many that aren't and the Orange Monster's undocumented policy are going to cause a lot of chaos in Trump voting country.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53175235467344823262017-02-27T18:41:35.690-06:002017-02-27T18:41:35.690-06:00According to Wikipedia, Chambersburg, PA, where I ...According to Wikipedia, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambersburg,_Pennsylvania" rel="nofollow">Chambersburg, PA</a>, where I hang my head, was 86.43% white according to the 2000 census and 6.38% Latin@ (overlapping). I suspect that second number has gone up, even if the first hasn't gone down. Chambersburg is also located in a Franklin County. Whether a larger percentage of Latin@s will teach locals the present lesson faster, I couldn't say, but I doubt it. When I quote the Waco Kid about "people of the land", it is informed by dealing with these people, of whom I have written <a href="http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2017/01/problemsolution.html?showComment=1483655269136#c1858670294542063518" rel="nofollow">before</a>:<br /><br /><i>Until I moved here from what I now recognize, by comparison, as the enlightened liberal paradise of Mississippi, I thought farm people knew in their bones the difference between the stuff that comes off the side of the bull that you put in your mouth and the stuff that comes out the back end of the bull that you put on your fields. But it seems an awful lot of the good people of Franklin County have some sort of bone disease that not only causes them to eagerly swallow the bovine end product spewed by Fox News and its political arm the Republican Party, but mistake it for filet mignon combined with the most exquisite sex in the history of history itself.</i>Neo Tuxedohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455041641080873400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64611240358471857402017-02-27T18:37:32.827-06:002017-02-27T18:37:32.827-06:00Breaks my heart. Great telling, DR. Breaks my heart. Great telling, DR. Jim Buttshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09076856552208106513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36997626515954806062017-02-27T18:34:42.178-06:002017-02-27T18:34:42.178-06:00"But he's one of the good Jews!"
&q..."But he's one of the good Jews!"<br /><br />"Sorry, you know if we let yours get away we'll have to do it for everybody."Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.com