Another among many many threads preaching to the choir here with no not a one suggesting what the flook to do about any of it... do this? join that? take this step? go after this one? Need actions or at least ideas for action... otherwise just a long ongoing jerking.... until "they" do something about anything....

btw... if I had a (non-violent) realistic idea I'd put it out.... just can't join the whining...

somewhere in the #eighties or so this lovely thread went down a rabbit hole .... hasta luego amigos....

#81

so it's a contest of some sort....?

#75

"Besides being flat and plain, old and worn out, the people there were like slave labor zombies; all hope lost. It was very sad to see."

He's a poet... didn't know it... maybe his feet show it...

#46

Point may be, as in those many so-called "la mierda hole" or just plain 3rd world countries... what are the barriers to the residents doing something about moving on?

#45

"I've driven through the rural areas of the South....yikes,..no thanks. It's not a secret and none of us hardly need a study like this to educate us on what challenges exist in the South. It's been debated here a million times already anyway."

Now now now... ever stop to eat or stay with anybody local.... doubt it....

#44

"If you hate pine trees, stay away from Georgia. At last count, 4000 for every man, woman, and child in the state. What horrors."

Word!

Most boring long drives....

#41

Did he have the "Show me those -------!" big hand painted sign and the stars and bars flying... I pulled in right behind the kid to get my oil change....

Fight Fight Fight!

for my son, I'm shorting oil and gas....

Only when they get pushed to the exposed wall will they relent.... very, very sad.

We all deserve better.

Does anybody take ANY government job seriously... lately... like in the last 50 years or so.... arrrggh...

"Alter cocker" (properly spelled alter kaker or alte kaker) is a Yiddish slang phrase for an old man. It translates literally to "old -------" or "old ------," making it the Yiddish equivalent of the English "old fart" or "old fogey"

Oh what I learn around here ...

#1
In my time bigly.... Many, MANY were radicalized and moved to action by this... Action that stopped the war and eventually got rid of the despicable president... 4 (Four) were shot dead... Nobody took responsibility and nobody was held accountable... Happening now... Hoping for similar results.

Please try harder with the troll thingie..

#2

Did this guy go bonkers or what... I had the impression he had some knowledge of military matters...

That's #4 --------...

Not funny. Ban this ------- will you?