Longer boats are coming to get us... (kentuck)

[Tess Anderson]

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To the camps, then:

kentuck  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-08-11 04:09 PM
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Longer boats are coming to get us...

...hold on to the shore.

It is sad that people hate each other. Some people say they don't "hate" anyone, they just hate their ideas and their policies. And they don't care too much for their shoes and haircut either...

I really and truly do my best not to hate the Republicans but it has become more and more difficult not to digress to those primitive emotions.

Do you know what I mean??

They lie. They all lie. But their lies do more damage to those that are sometimes the neediest than do Democratic Party lies. Repubs would take the nickels off a dead man's eye. They have no sympathy for their fellow man. They have not evolved to a full human yet - at least, in mental capacity.

So we wait for the longer boats...
 

Edit: Sorry Tess. I was trying to copy the info into a new post.

[franksolich]

.....those primitive emotions.....

Hmmm.

One wonders if the bluegrass primitive reads us.

[TexasCop]

Repubs would take the nickels off a dead man's eye. They have no sympathy for their fellow man.

Really?  I arrested a homeless man on some outstanding warrants yesterday.  On the way to the jail I asked when he last had food.  He told me it had been a few days.  I literally drove through the Wendy's drive-thru with a handcuffed prisoner in the backseat and bought him a meal.  When we got to the jail, I let him eat his food.  Our jail staff then led him to the shower, where he was allowed to get cleaned up.  They took his filthy clothing and washed it in the washing machine used normally for jail jumpsuits.  I made certain that this down-trodden man was well taken care before I walked out of that jail.
 
My dad, when I was young, took us kids to Burger King.  Outside the restaurant was an old, homeless black man.  My father invited him to dinner with us and bought him anything he wanted off the menu.  All that man wanted was a fish sandwich.  My entire 17 years in law enforcement I've bought a meal to each and every homeless person I've had to handle in the course of my duties.  I always let them order anything they want off the menu.
 
And I've voted Republican my entire adult life.
 
Now who lies?
 

[Odin's Hand]

Really?  I arrested a homeless man on some outstanding warrants yesterday.  On the way to the jail I asked when he last had food.  He told me it had been a few days.  I literally drove through the Wendy's drive-thru with a handcuffed prisoner in the backseat and bought him a meal.  When we got to the jail, I let him eat his food.  Our jail staff then led him to the shower, where he was allowed to get cleaned up.  They took his filthy clothing and washed it in the washing machine used normally for jail jumpsuits.  I made certain that this down-trodden man was well taken care before I walked out of that jail.
 
My dad, when I was young, took us kids to Burger King.  Outside the restaurant was an old, homeless black man.  My father invited him to dinner with us and bought him anything he wanted off the menu.  All that man wanted was a fish sandwich.  My entire 17 years in law enforcement I've bought a meal to each and every homeless person I've had to handle in the course of my duties.  I always let them order anything they want off the menu.
 
And I've voted Republican my entire adult life.
 
Now who lies?
 

A primitive would never just simply take your comment at face value. They'd demand some sort of empirical evidence to corroborate your story and, when presented with it, they would attempt to twist and corrupt your the honesty of your intentions.

[Wineslob]

TC I don't care whatca think about Lincoln, you got a H5.


























P.S.   I love Wendys.     

[Odin's Hand]

TC I don't care whatca think about Lincoln, you got a H5.

and H5 for what you do think about Lincoln...

[franksolich]

You know, sir, is that a cop thing?

I know of three instances these past couple of years where county deputy sheriffs (who start off at circa $20,000 a year here) picked up drifters on the highways, and before taking them to the homeless shelter in the big city, stopped by to get the individual a hamburger, fries, and a Coca-Cola somewhere.

Out of their own pocket.

The deputies aren't reimbursed for this.

And yeah, they're all Republican, conservative Republican.

[FreeBorn]

"They have no sympathy for their fellow man"

Horseshit.

It is a well documented fact that conservatives have always been more charitable than "progressives".
I could cite innumerable examples to back this up and of course the left would balk at those as being biased so I offer an example from their own camp, penned by a progressive academic-
http://www.campusprogress.org/articles/who_cares

[TexasCop]

Yes, a lot of us do this.  Man, you have to have compassion for people in this job.  We're not all the hardasses you read about when people complain about having a bad experience with a power hungry cop.  We know how far down people can fall in their lives because we're in the trenches dealing with them.
 
And yes, most cops are die-hard Republicans because the RNC is harder on crime than the DNC.  

[FreeBorn]

+1 TC.

[BattleHymn]

A primitive would never just simply take your comment at face value. They'd demand some sort of empirical evidence to corroborate your story and, when presented with it, they would attempt to twist and corrupt your the honesty of your intentions.

A primitive would accuse him of trying to poison the homeless people with fast food.

[TexasCop]

It is a well documented fact that conservatives have always been more charitable than "progressives".

I see that with my own eyes.  I've alluded to it in the past, but I'll expand on it a bit here.  I do a lot of charity work.  I always have.  For many years I volunteered with the Special Olympics Texas.  Obviously most of the other volunteers were conservatives because they, too, were police officers.  I now volunteer 40 hours a month at a domestic violence shelter in Dallas where I mentor children affected by violence in the home.  At this particular facility, just about every person that volunteers there is a conservative.  Most of them are the "evil" rich wives who don't have regular jobs.  Do they do it for the recognition?  Absolutely not.  I see these fine ladies stuffing envelopes and doing menial jobs like making solicitation phone calls.  This particular organization has no recognition program for its volunteers.  These fine ladies do their volunteer work and go home.  They don't tell anyone they do it.  Guess what?  All conservatives.
 
Sorry, but I get a little pissed when people accuse us of not being compassionate people when I see the compassion from conservatives every day.

[Wineslob]

and H5 for what you do think about Lincoln...

 

[NHSparky]

Of course, if TC ran across bobolink and offered her some food, she'd spit it back in his face because it wasn't the cowboy ribeye with a lobster tail from Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, served to her in her own 5 bedroom, 9 bathroom, 7000+ square foot mansion.

[Doc]

I see that with my own eyes.  I've alluded to it in the past, but I'll expand on it a bit here.  I do a lot of charity work.  I always have.  For many years I volunteered with the Special Olympics Texas.  Obviously most of the other volunteers were conservatives because they, too, were police officers.  I now volunteer 40 hours a month at a domestic violence shelter in Dallas where I mentor children affected by violence in the home.  At this particular facility, just about every person that volunteers there is a conservative.  Most of them are the "evil" rich wives who don't have regular jobs.  Do they do it for the recognition?  Absolutely not.  I see these fine ladies stuffing envelopes and doing menial jobs like making solicitation phone calls.  This particular organization has no recognition program for its volunteers.  These fine ladies do their volunteer work and go home.  They don't tell anyone they do it.  Guess what?  All conservatives. It's of course not about recognition, it's just the right thing to do.

I have a cousin who is a Capt. with the Sheriff's Dept in Florida (apart from going out of their way to ensure the children of the protesters during the Terry Schiavo drama had food & water each day in the Florida heat where their parent's had dragged them) they guys in his Dept. remember where they have been through he year. They see a lot of needy kids in their line of work and when Christmas rolls around they go back to some of those addresses and give toys to those needy kids. No TV News cameras, no press release, etc. Just the guys in plain clothes on their own time and on their own dime. They don't forget.
 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Really?  I arrested a homeless man on some outstanding warrants yesterday.  On the way to the jail I asked when he last had food.  He told me it had been a few days.  I literally drove through the Wendy's drive-thru with a handcuffed prisoner in the backseat and bought him a meal.  When we got to the jail, I let him eat his food.  Our jail staff then led him to the shower, where he was allowed to get cleaned up.  They took his filthy clothing and washed it in the washing machine used normally for jail jumpsuits.  I made certain that this down-trodden man was well taken care before I walked out of that jail.
 
My dad, when I was young, took us kids to Burger King.  Outside the restaurant was an old, homeless black man.  My father invited him to dinner with us and bought him anything he wanted off the menu.  All that man wanted was a fish sandwich.  My entire 17 years in law enforcement I've bought a meal to each and every homeless person I've had to handle in the course of my duties.  I always let them order anything they want off the menu.
 
And I've voted Republican my entire adult life.
 
Now who lies?
 

That's a great thing, don't ever change.

 

H5

[TexasCop]

 They see a lot of needy kids in their line of work and when Christmas rolls around they go back to some of those addresses and give toys to those needy kids. No TV News cameras, no press release, etc. Just the guys in plain clothes on their own time and on their own dime. They don't forget.
 

Funny you say that.  I run a Santa Cop program where I do toy drives all over Dallas to collect toys for needy children.  The week of Christmas, Santa Cop and his elves (uniformed police officers), deliver the toys to children forced to spend Christmas in a domestic violence shelter.  2010 was our second year of the program and it never hit the media.  We don't do press releases, we just do the toy drives.  This year we provided for over 300 children. 
 
Oh, and with the cash we collected, we purchased Wii systems for all 5 domestic violence outreach centers.  It's easy to bribe kids into counseling if they have a cool Wii system to play with. 
 

Here is Santa Cop (me) in action last December.  I blurred out my patch to protect myself from DUmmies.

[GOBUCKS]

A primitive would never just simply take your comment at face value. They'd demand some sort of empirical evidence to corroborate your story and, when presented with it, they would attempt to twist and corrupt your the honesty of your intentions.

Yet they believe the wildest bouncy tales without question. It all has to do with maintaining democrat bona fides.

[TexasCop]

Yet they believe the wildest bouncy tales without question. It all has to do with maintaining democrat bona fides.

Damn, I shoulda done this as a bouncy.  I'll try next time.  :D

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yet they believe the wildest bouncy tales without question. It all has to do with maintaining democrat bona fides.

Aka, "Shared delusional system."

[Mr Mannn]

Longer boats. Maybe I not getting it? Whats the analogy? I know a night of long knives, but never heard about "longer boats." Vikings sailed in long boats. Are longer boats...worse?

Its there some cultural meaning to this that I'm just missing?

[jukin]

Liberals are always generous with others money to fund a union company to provide charity to the poor. About 28 cents of every dollar goes to the poor.

IIRC Sheriff VP Biden gave all of $200 in his 2009 taxes.  The Clintons tried to write off USED underwear they gave to Goodwill.  Liberals lie, they lie all the time. particularly about their charity to the less fortunate.

[franksolich]

Longer boats. Maybe I not getting it? Whats the analogy? I know a night of long knives, but never heard about "longer boats." Vikings sailed in long boats. Are longer boats...worse?

Its there some cultural meaning to this that I'm just missing?

It's a Cat Stevens song from circa 35 years ago, maybe even earlier.

I have no idea the "meaning" of the song.

You sir, asked franksolich a question about the only musician he knows anything about.

The only one.

[Mr Mannn]

Well that was enough to set me on a google search

(Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.)

Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.

I don't want no god on my lawn
Just a flower I can help along
'Cause the soul of no body knows
How a flower grows... Oh how a flower grows.

Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.

Mary dropped her pants by the sand
And let a parson come and take her hand
But the soul of no body knows
Where the parson goes. Where does the parson go?

Longer boats are coming to win us
They're coming to win us, they're coming to win us
Longer boats are coming to win us
Hold on to the shore, they'll be taking the key from the door.

[Additional verse performed in live version of this song:]

Raise your mind up and look around
You can see them, yes they're looking down
From a lonely asteroid, in a vacant void.
Dyin', but not destroyed.

OK, I've never done drugs, but I think you need them to pull meaning from this crap.
and didn't Cat Stevens turn muslim and get himself on a no fly list for supporting terrorists?

Yeahhhhh. What we have here is another pointless primitive wrangling verses from a druggie in a vain attempt to look all cool. Fail.

[Splashdown]

That there is the biggest difference between the conservative and liberal philosophies. Conservatives believe that direct, local help is much more effective than the nameless, faceless bureaucrats.

It comes down to this...Why, after almost 50 years and countless billions of dollars, has the War on Poverty been a total failure?