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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on May 04, 2015, 09:54:27 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026613857
Oh my.
When reading about this in the newspapers yesterday, I knew the big guy would bring it over for the primitives to peruse.
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^^^doesn't appear to have been of much interest to the primitives, even though it still ranks as one of the most major tornadoes in modern American history.
Star Member Omaha Steve (50,026 posts) Sun May 3, 2015, 03:00 PM
Tracking a beast – the May 6, 1975, Omaha tornado, a packed feature anniversary story
after which blah-blah blah
Perhaps the big guy could've drawn a larger and more-responsive audience by giving a few personal anecdotes of the event, because he was right there in Omaha when it happened.
In fact, I'd expected the big guy to do exactly that.
But alas he didn't, and hence little notice by the primitives.
Actually, the big guy, 19 years old and already enormously fat at the time, on May 6, 1975, was living with his parents way up over in northwestern Omaha, far north and far west of the path of the cyclone. From where he was, one would've needed a long-range telescope to see it.
This was approximately the same time the big guy was seducing an innocent gullible young woman under false pretenses; that if she allowed him to poke her, he'd marry her. She let him poke her, and got pregnant, but he never carried out his part of the deal (he met poor dear Marta later).
And because the big guy spent most of his working life pursuing the disability gravy-train rather than working hard so as to advance in a career, he never made much money, thus getting out of paying child support.
<<<remembers May 1975 very well.
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Wait!!...isn't that the big guy on the left in that news photo?
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Wait!!...isn't that the big guy on the left in that news photo?
No. No neck beard.
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The Omaha tornado of 1975 cannot be the most famous of Omaha's tornados under the most current theory of the great glow bull warming swindle.
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Why would OS imagine Progs to be all that interested in something that happened in fly-over country before many of them were born?
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Why would OS imagine Progs to be all that interested in something that happened in fly-over country before many of them were born?
This was a pretty pointless original post, for which I apologize, but sometimes one misjudges.
Two things: I'd assumed the big guy would regale the primitives with fables of his heroism during the tornado--there were many heroes, but the big guy wasn't one of them.
It was pretty big; if it'd happened in a blue city or blue state where one waits for the government to rescue them, there would've been hundreds, and not just three, fatalities, and thousands injured, not just 157.
The other thing was that the previous evening, I'd run into someone who knew the big guy in high school, circa the early 1970s. Nebraska's a pretty small state; ultimately one runs into someone who knows someone one knows.
It was an enormous high school, and they weren't friends, but during the three years of it, their paths had casually crossed.
He wasn't aware the big guy had made an ass of himself running for the Bellevue City Council back in 2013, but he pointed out when the big guy was just barely out of high school, he ran for the Omaha city council, in a primary with eighteen candidates.
He said the big guy wasn't especially prominent in the race; after all, what plurality of votes does it take in an eighteen-man field to end up one of the two top candidates. Six or eight percent or something?
So the big guy just sat back with his then-established queenly hauteur, "vote for me because I'm Steve. You don't need any more reason than that; I'm Steve, God's gift to humanity."
As this former classmate of his remembered, the big guy came in 16th or 17th out of the eighteen, just barely missing bottom spot.
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when the big guy was just barely out of high school, he ran for the Omaha city council,
Asher Heimermann ran for mayor of Sheboygan!