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Thanks, Robert. Hopefully, they will be before too long. Glad you're OK, DolFan. -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on May 12, 2011, 10:51 am - (1 votes)
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I hope the people in the tornado/flooding zones are OK. -- Submitted By: (Robert) on May 11, 2011, 10:44 am - (0 votes)
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Thanks for the concern (I'm genuinely touched) but I'm fine. I live an hour away from Memphis and at any rate I'm also on top of a hundred foot hill so the only way I'll ever get flooded is if the second coming of Noah's flood hits and *everybody* is underwater. (And the way things are going it just might.) I'm sick and tired of the local media yammering on about it to be honest. Truthfully even most of Memphis isn't affected. -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on May 10, 2011, 7:02 pm - (1 votes)
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Thanks for your good wishes,soggy, [and I DID cover that in my original post when I also asked for prayers]. Don't worry about me,though! My city has been spared but within several hours' driving distance are widespread floods+ widespread catastrophic tornado damage. However; I'm considered about our colleague DolFan who, as per some of his past posts, may be within a flood zone. You are correct about that valley in Virginia (among others) rising again after horrible devastation and I'm keeping that in mind for my region in general! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on May 10, 2011, 10:06 am - (1 votes)
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Hang in there, buddy. I can't do the prayer thing, being an atheist and all, but I can sure give you my best wishes for a speedy recovery from that mess. Southerners are extraordinarily resilient people, and I have no doubt that they will plow right through these difficulties - like Stonewall Jackson plowed through the Shenandoah Valley (against very heavy odds) 150 years ago - and emerge stronger than ever. -- Submitted By: (Soggy9000) on May 8, 2011, 1:08 pm - (2 votes)
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Soggy,
Thanks for your post on this! I just hope that you and everyone else here can join me in prayers and thoughts for so much of my home region! As I write this a good part of West Tennessee and Arkansas is underwater due to Mississippi and White Rivers flooding (not to mention Interstate 40, the main east-west artery for our country has many miles underwater)- and the devastation of last month's tornadoes especially in Alabama is heartbreaking. I will say this- having experienced widescale natural disaster in my own city in the not-too-distant past, I know that we can rebuild and unite for the common good. Yes, the American South CAN rise again- in a positive way! -- Submitted By: (Pelirojo) on May 7, 2011, 3:01 pm - (1 votes)
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As usual, Kingbk is the voice of reason amid the cacophony of "My dogma is better than your dogma, nenny nenny nyehhh!" Why are these silly spitfests so often allowed to overwhelm (and sidetrack us from) a topic whose intrinsic interest hardly needs the sorts of sociopolitical embellishments you people load it down with? How about this: The South is a picturesque place filled with interesting people, good music and great food. There is no single monolithic Southern Culture, and Southerners have as great a diversity of viewpoints as any other segment of society. Most of the sneering cliches and stereotypes snooty Easterners attach to the region are either long out of date or never reflected reality in the first damn place. I have met very few Southerns I didn't like, and I've known more than a few for whom I'd take a bullet. The climate I can do without, and there are too many snakes down there for my taste. But overall I love the South, and America would hardly have been America without it. (For the record, I'm a Northwesterner, born and bred.) -- Submitted By: (Soggy9000) on May 6, 2011, 1:33 am - (2 votes)
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Yuanmoons was banned from the site, I recall they were the person that was stacking 10's of thousands of votes for random liberal topics like Jimmy Carter as never boned, and trolling the site pretty hard core. Boned. -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on December 9, 2010, 6:52 pm - (3 votes)
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YESS!!! I'm LOVING that others are discovering what I knew weeks ago :-D
Now is Elainewood's big chance to prove she's not a troll. Personally I don't think she can. Has anyone ever been banned from this site before?
As far as Graceland being in a high crime area, *all* of Memphis is a high crime area today unfortunately. I personally know of at least two, maybe three malls that had to be shut down because of it, malls I used to go to all the time. That's why people are moving out in droves and that's why they're all so upset that the city and county governments being consolidated is still being planned despite their overwhelming vote of no on the matter. -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on December 9, 2010, 6:02 pm - (2 votes)
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Wow, who knew the South would bring about such strong opinions? My take: Let people live where they want. The South isn't all rednecks, The Midwest isn't all flat and boring, the West Coast isn't all lazy, laid-back yuppies, and the East Coast isn't all a bunch of Yankees. Stereotypes are good for saving time, but that's about it. -- Submitted By: (kingbk) on December 9, 2010, 5:56 pm - (3 votes)
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Elainewood, judging by your posts, I come to five conclusions: #1: In your eyes, anyone who does not agree with you is an idiot who must be treated as such. JustLooking is on the same page as you when it comes to certain topics. And you insult him just because you don't agree with his views on unions. #2: Your facts seem to be based on the insults or opinions from those who hate Conservatives or Republicans. To be fair, I do not like when people base their facts on insults and opinions of Liberal/Democrat haters. #3: Rather than respectfully debate someone, you assume they are Republican and resort to namecalling (Glenn Beck lover! Right wing nutjob! Faux News sheeple!). FYI, I do not get my news from FNC, so calling me a "Faux News sheeple"? That was pretty funny. #4: Your mantra appears to be "Democrats Good! Republicans Bad!". Not a good philosophy, even the other way around. And last but not least, #5: You feel entitled to your own facts. Sorry, but nobody is entitled to their own facts. Not Democrats, not Republicans. Well, Elainewood...now's your chance to prove me wrong. Can you accept that people are entitled to their own opinion? Can you resist the urge to insult someone just because you don't agree with them? -- Submitted By: (Robert) on December 9, 2010, 2:51 pm - (2 votes)
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Elaine- if you are going to call me a "Sheeple", please let me know what I said that you can point out as incorrect, and or blatantly false. I'll be glad to change my opinion. Until then, I'm seeing alot of Hyperbole, assumptions and name calling from your end, sounds like you are boning the fish Elaine. I can certainly point out where you have been doing all three of the above on you. Thanks! -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on December 9, 2010, 10:53 am - (2 votes)
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Marvelous. DolFan gets a couple of Faux News sheeple in agreement with him, and now believes he's become a god. It takes so little to make a tiny mind feel great, obviously. -- Submitted By: (elainewood) on December 9, 2010, 5:15 am - (-2 votes)
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Is there any way we can get Graceland out of Memphis? :-) I'd like to visit, but not so hot about the thought that its now in the middle of a high crime area. -- Submitted By: (bmovies) on December 8, 2010, 10:29 pm - (1 votes)
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Oh, and ya gotta love how utterly determined Dems are to raise everyone's taxes in the worst economy since the Great Depression--against even OBAMA's wishes!!! Then again, raising taxes is what they stand for and always have. Gee, I wonder where all that money goes...
-- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on December 8, 2010, 7:43 pm - (2 votes)
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THANK YOU ROBERT AND CHUBBYRAIN!!! The truth is finally coming out!!! And I'M the one speaking it!!!
-- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on December 8, 2010, 7:41 pm - (2 votes)
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Elaine- Love ya, but I'm lost as to what Dolfan just said that was inaccurate. My premise was that areas that are demographically poor, and more crime prone (read: densely populated) vote democratic (read: democrats tend to make policies that are tailored to the poor and crime prone). In addition, those areas (typically cities) vote democratic over and over again, and many of their troubles remain the same. Since the Democratic politicians can take their support for granted, there is little incentive for the politicians to make changes that will improve the situation. As for calling decoding this to mean "Black People"; there are many people in these areas that are of many different races, creeds etc. The only individual I cited in my example , Ed Rendell, is caucasian, and very liberal. He bones the fish on a daily basis. -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on December 8, 2010, 9:10 am - (2 votes)
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My two cents: You cannot judge an entire group based on a few crazies/criminals/etc. in their area. The innocent are lumped with the guilty. And it's wrong to insult someone just because you don't agree with them. P.S.: Elainewood, the race card bit is getting old. Many whites are also conditioned to always vote Democrat. Of course, there are those conditioned to always vote Republican, as well. Bottom line: people are getting fed up with being called racists just because they so much as question Obama--even though many actually VOTED for him in the first place! -- Submitted By: (Robert) on December 8, 2010, 9:04 am - (2 votes)
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That's nonsense, DolFan--and by the way, why don't you simply go ahead and use the term 'Black people' for that euphemism 'people in certain areas' who've supposedly been 'brainwashed' (brainwashed into what I might add? Voting for the candidate who seemingly represents their best interests, rather than the candidate who wants to drive them even further down the socioeconomic ladder than they already are?) since they're clearly the group you're referring to--and Chubby Rain's comments were not strictly in agreement with what you've been shouting on here. You're suddenly trying to sound like the voice of sweet reason, but that doesn't change the fact that you've been making insanely broad generalizations about an entire region and an entire subset of the population, without providing *one shred* of hard evidence to back up your claims--just the usual smoke that the fans of the Faux News hatemongers like to spew in place of inconvenient things like factual data. -- Submitted By: (elainewood) on December 8, 2010, 5:15 am - (-2 votes)
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ChubbyRain's got it exactly right!
People from certain areas have been brainwashed/conditioned to *always* vote Democrat, and yet somehow, some way, their situation never gets any better, only worse, despite the Dems they keep putting in office. Go figure.
Oh, and there was a vote recently to consolidate the Memphis and Shelby county governments that was overwhemingly shot down, and yet the Memphis politicians are taking a cue from Obama and trying to figure a way to force it down people's throats anyway without their consent. In other words, even the people who live right next to Memphis want no part of it, and have been fleeing Memphis in droves the past 10-15 years.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/dec/06/county-commission-member-says-if-memphis-and-shelb/?partner=popular -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on December 7, 2010, 5:50 pm - (2 votes)
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