unless you're independently wealthy, it's too late... there aren't any jobs out here
Posted on 01/26/2012 4:44:50 PM PST by blam
“Forty seven percent of the people living in Detroit and New Orleans cannot read or write.”
Newark must have similar stats; high school graduates wouldn’t have graduated grammar school in a neighborhood that matters. Whole blocks of tenements without a single book...
My girls live in Oly and are native and have several friends on the Nisqually Rez.
I only go to Oly to see them and hit Costco once a month.
I figured somebody would try a gotcha. (The ones with good grammar are from state schools.) That is true! My Amherst friend has terrible language skills. My other friends are all from Russia! They screw my grammar up! And truly, you do not say “in which I was...” Nobody speaks like that. The rules will change. Anyway, my grammar mistake comes from changing my thoughts. I should have simply deleted the last sequence of words “I was born in.” That sequence belonged to a different thought. A more modern approach to grammar would encourage concise and short sentences. “In which I was born” is awkward, and the best sentence would have read “I rarely ran into anybody educated when I lived in a small town.” If I wanted to focus on my place of birth, I would have said “I was born in a small town, yadda yadda.” It would have been the lead in. Thus, I still maintain that “in which I was born” is poor style. “in which” is (basically) archaic, stuffy, used to connect after thoughts. You should drop after thoughts, or make them leads.
The town closest to where I live is about 400. I know, ‘cause I been there once. Life is good!
“Emotionally Liberated” is a phrase I picked up from a Russian psychology website.
Russian psychology is full of funny phrasings. I adopted it as my profile partly in jest.
unless you're independently wealthy, it's too late... there aren't any jobs out here
Clinton didn’t end the welfare ‘cash for kids’ programs, the Republican Congress (think Newt) deserve credit for that.
Clinton fought it tooth and nail, demomizing all Republicans for being cold hearted to even propose such a thing, and when it passed he raced to the front of the parade to claim credit.
He signed it into law, in what was an ultimate betrayal of his most dependent supporters.
It was one of many parts of the Republican “Contract with America” that BJ signed into law; if he hadn’t he would have lost the ‘96 election.
Don't worry about it. The parasites in Nawlins never had the damn sense to pull their thumbs out of their asses and head for dry ground. I'm not too worried they'll find their way twenty miles on foot to Mayberry.
I wouldn't try to do it with a golf club that's for sure.
A most favorite town. Went there with neighbors as a kid and finished working career in the assigned area. Deer move in during the winter.
“. “in which” is (basically) archaic, stuffy-———”
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So am I.
“Now will riots change all this? I do not know, but I hope not! I might visit my parents on election day, after absentee voting.”
we are far out enough and the closer in suburbs provide a buffer zone for the zombies plus our subdivision is filled with ex-mil that like shooting as much as I do. But, we still have similar plans to skidaddle if it appears it’ll sour.
I made the move a decade ago. The closest house I can see is miles away and I live and the end of a dead end gravel road 10 miles from the nearest town. The nearest high crime area would be a couple days hike from my house.
I’m considering getting some milking goats and chickens as an easy way to convert land into protein.
Should’ve left back in the 60’s.
And your unemployment is down 17%.
Did you forget the “/S”?
My retreat has no cell coverage. It sure is nice to have no communication link other than the land line. (No internet, no cell, and no satellite by choice.)
Google up Houlton Maine for something similiar. It may even be more “remote”; I think basically it’s how you define it. It still has major medical facilities and a very conservative population. The economy is slightly better that the official numbers would lead you to believe because there is a great deal of subsistence work and the black economy is alive and well.
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