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Title: Greetings :)
Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 04:05:11 PM: Long-time conservative, first-time poster.

I'm a refugee from the east coast, having lived all but the last four years of my life there (28+ in NJ, 2ish in Massachusetts), and life there really helped to cement conservative values and perspectives in my mind. Though I miss home, I'm happy to live where I don't have to jump through near so many government hoops in order to own a gun to protect myself and where the welfare state is a bit smaller (even though as an unemployed man the government would like me to think otherwise, heh).

I won't drone on, but it's nice to be here :)
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Post by: Chris_ on January 04, 2011, 04:08:31 PM: Hi!
Did you bring beer? :cheersmate:
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Post by: Attero Dominatus on January 04, 2011, 04:08:41 PM: Welcome. What does your screen name mean?
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Post by: Texacon on January 04, 2011, 04:09:19 PM: Welcome. Time to lose the accent.

KC
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Post by: Eupher on January 04, 2011, 04:10:04 PM: Somebody also keeps asking about peach cobbler....
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 04:16:54 PM: Quote from: chris_ on January 04, 2011, 04:08:31 PM
Hi!
Did you bring beer? :cheersmate:

I think there are a few left downstairs.

Quote from: Attero Dominatus on January 04, 2011, 04:08:41 PM
Welcome. What does your screen name mean?

It means "wolf heart" and is from a Lord of the Rings-based short story I wrote a few years ago.

Quote from: Texacon on January 04, 2011, 04:09:19 PM
Welcome. Time to lose the accent.

KC

Thanks. Never did have much of one, anyway. Didn't live far enough north to pick up that grating faux-NYC accent, Thank God.

Quote from: Eupher on January 04, 2011, 04:10:04 PM
Somebody also keeps asking about peach cobbler....

My wife makes a killer one, but I'm more for apple cobbler. Peaches shouldn't ever get hot, bleh.
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Post by: Attero Dominatus on January 04, 2011, 04:19:13 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 04:16:54 PM
It means "wolf heart" and is from a Lord of the Rings-based short story I wrote a few years ago.

:II:
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Post by: IassaFTots on January 04, 2011, 04:20:31 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 04:05:11 PM
Long-time conservative, first-time poster.

I'm a refugee from the east coast, having lived all but the last four years of my life there (28+ in NJ, 2ish in Massachusetts), and life there really helped to cement conservative values and perspectives in my mind. Though I miss home, I'm happy to live where I don't have to jump through near so many government hoops in order to own a gun to protect myself and where the welfare state is a bit smaller (even though as an unemployed man the government would like me to think otherwise, heh).

I won't drone on, but it's nice to be here :)

Hiya and thanks for the beer! :cheersmate:

Where are you now?
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Post by: debk on January 04, 2011, 05:45:04 PM: Welcome!
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Post by: Ballygrl on January 04, 2011, 05:48:48 PM: Welcome from another New Jerseyite!
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 06:02:21 PM: Quote from: Attero Dominatus on January 04, 2011, 04:19:13 PM
:II:

Thanks; I need to find another online place to host it, but I can link back to it if'n ye like.

Will probably take me forever, at this rate.

Quote from: IassaFTots on January 04, 2011, 04:20:31 PM
Hiya and thanks for the beer! :cheersmate:

Where are you now?

Gillet, Wisconsin. For now, anyway.

It's nice up here, but the job market SUCKS. I haven't been out of work this long since I was 13.

Quote from: debk on January 04, 2011, 05:45:04 PM
Welcome!

Thank ya!

Quote from: Ballygrl on January 04, 2011, 05:48:48 PM
Welcome from another New Jerseyite!

Thanks; where are you mired in NJ? I'm a native Trentonian (Princeton is my adopted hometown, tho'; yes, liberals an' all).
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Post by: cavegal on January 04, 2011, 06:07:51 PM: Welcome to the cave! :popcorn:
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Post by: Evil_Conservative on January 04, 2011, 06:57:00 PM: Welcome to CC.

I grew up in Janesville, WI and had to see where Gillet was located. Way up by Green Bay. Such a small town too. No wonder why the job market isn't too hot up there. Hope you find a job soon. I am also unemployed.
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Post by: Ballygrl on January 04, 2011, 07:00:05 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 06:02:21 PM
Thanks; where are you mired in NJ? I'm a native Trentonian (Princeton is my adopted hometown, tho'; yes, liberals an' all).

NW part of the State, Morris County.
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 07:34:50 PM: Quote from: cavegal on January 04, 2011, 06:07:51 PM
Welcome to the cave! :popcorn:

Thanks! :)

Quote from: Evil_Conservative on January 04, 2011, 06:57:00 PM
Welcome to CC.

I grew up in Janesville, WI and had to see where Gillet was located. Way up by Green Bay. Such a small town too. No wonder why the job market isn't too hot up there. Hope you find a job soon. I am also unemployed.

Heh, I have to look up Janesville to see where it was located.

Yeah, I've gone as far as Appleton and Oshkosk for work. Still, nothing. I swear I must be unmarketable out here or somethin' ;)

Good luck finding work for you, too! 26 months and counting...

Quote from: Ballygrl on January 04, 2011, 07:00:05 PM
NW part of the State, Morris County.

Not bad; one of the more Republican-leaning counties, if I recall rightly. Never visited, though.
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Post by: true_blood on January 04, 2011, 07:37:00 PM: Welcome to the Cave. :cheersmate:
Great place for conservatives.
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Post by: Evil_Conservative on January 04, 2011, 07:39:18 PM: Quote
Heh, I have to look up Janesville to see where it was located.

It's between Madison, WI and Rockford, IL. My parent's home is only 10-15 minutes from the Illinois state line.
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Post by: Ballygrl on January 04, 2011, 07:47:41 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 07:34:50 PM
Not bad; one of the more Republican-leaning counties, if I recall rightly. Never visited, though.

Thankfully yes, but we've had an influx of Democrats over the years, but we're still considered heavily Republican.
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Post by: CactusCarlos on January 04, 2011, 08:17:28 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 04:05:11 PM
it's nice to be here :)

Nice to have you here - welcome! :cheersmate:
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 08:38:36 PM: Quote from: true_blood on January 04, 2011, 07:37:00 PM
Welcome to the Cave. :cheersmate:
Great place for conservatives.

Thanks; love the avatar :)

Quote from: Evil_Conservative on January 04, 2011, 07:39:18 PM
It's between Madison, WI and Rockford, IL. My parent's home is only 10-15 minutes from the Illinois state line.

Ugh... Illinois... it's like the New Jersey of the midwest (to me).

Quote from: Ballygrl on January 04, 2011, 07:47:41 PM
Thankfully yes, but we've had an influx of Democrats over the years, but we're still considered heavily Republican.

I'm half-surprised any county back home leans Republican at all. Praise be you guys have managed to hold out as long as you did :)

I remember back in late '04, when I had a job driving a truck for a printing press in Lawrenceville. I ran up to North Bergen at least once a day, five days a week, and I had found an American flag in the Isuzu I drove most of the time. I hung it up behind the seats in the cab, would listen to Rush and Hannity loud and with the windows down, and used to smirk, wondering how many Democrats might have heard me and bristled at it.

I still smirk about that. Good times.

Quote from: CactusCarlos on January 04, 2011, 08:17:28 PM
Nice to have you here - welcome! :cheersmate:

Thanks! Nice to be here.
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Post by: IassaFTots on January 04, 2011, 08:45:13 PM: Well, welcome again! What are we drinking??
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 09:08:11 PM: Quote from: IassaFTots on January 04, 2011, 08:45:13 PM
Well, welcome again! What are we drinking??

Just some Dew at the moment. A Guinness would be nice...
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Post by: IassaFTots on January 04, 2011, 09:11:02 PM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 04, 2011, 09:08:11 PM
Just some Dew at the moment. A Guinness would be nice...

Water here, but I'll take a Guinness anytime! :cheersmate:
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Post by: Revolution on January 04, 2011, 09:20:58 PM: Welcome to The Cave. Pull up a seat, and enjoy!
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Post by: njpines on January 05, 2011, 08:49:20 AM: Hi ya -- yet another NJer, down in south Jersey in blueberry country. Welcome to the Cave! :-)
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 05, 2011, 09:06:31 AM: Quote from: Revolution on January 04, 2011, 09:20:58 PM
Welcome to The Cave. Pull up a seat, and enjoy!

Thanks! I'm enjoying it, so far :)

Quote from: njpines on January 05, 2011, 08:49:20 AM
Hi ya -- yet another NJer, down in south Jersey in blueberry country. Welcome to the Cave! :-)

Thanks! South Jersey is nice; been ages since I was further south than Bordentown (OK, Camden when I drove trucks).
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Post by: Eupher on January 05, 2011, 09:46:44 AM: Welcome!

As far as something to drink is concerned, a cuppa joe would be nice about now....
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Post by: njpines on January 05, 2011, 10:12:11 AM: Quote from: VarokhÃ¢r on January 05, 2011, 09:06:31 AM
Thanks! South Jersey is nice; been ages since I was further south than Bordentown (OK, Camden when I drove trucks).

Camden's a war zone, simply put; I don't see it getting better anytime soon.

I grew up in a tiny town in Burlington County on the Delaware River, next to Palmyra, left for college, came back and lived in Collingswood for awhile, and have been here on the edge of Atlantic county for the last 20 years. Do you miss the Shore out there in cheese country? That's one of the biggest reasons I'm still here. Bet ya don't see O.T.C crackers out there either!
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 05, 2011, 11:52:58 AM: Quote from: Eupher on January 05, 2011, 09:46:44 AM
Welcome!

As far as something to drink is concerned, a cuppa joe would be nice about now....

Thanks!

Dunkin' Donuts coffee is something I miss out here. I can get it at stores, but there aren't any Dunkin' Donuts shops out in WI. Wisconsiners are nuts.

Quote from: njpines on January 05, 2011, 10:12:11 AM
Camden's a war zone, simply put; I don't see it getting better anytime soon.

I grew up in a tiny town in Burlington County on the Delaware River, next to Palmyra, left for college, came back and lived in Collingswood for awhile, and have been here on the edge of Atlantic county for the last 20 years. Do you miss the Shore out there in cheese country? That's one of the biggest reasons I'm still here. Bet ya don't see O.T.C crackers out there either!

Nice :)

Yeah, I'd like to see the shore again; it's been over 20 years since I've been to it. But Princeton is where it's at for me. Got addicted to it when I worked with my father delivering produce in the area and it still thrills me no end.

At least the Packers play the Eagles on Sunday, so either way I've got a team going forward in the playoffs :)
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Post by: The Hollywood NeoCon on January 05, 2011, 12:04:22 PM: Welcome aboard, my friend!!!! :cheersmate:

Love your take on Meatwad, although I'm not sure Master Shake and Frylock would appreciate the slight... :-)

I'm more of a Phil Ken Sebben kinda guy, myself.

"Ha ha!!!!! Multiple entendres...." :rotf:
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 05, 2011, 12:47:50 PM: Quote from: The Hollywood NeoCon on January 05, 2011, 12:04:22 PM
Welcome aboard, my friend!!!! :cheersmate:

Love your take on Meatwad, although I'm not sure Master Shake and Frylock would appreciate the slight... :-)

I'm more of a Phil Ken Sebben kinda guy, myself.

"Ha ha!!!!! Multiple entendres...." :rotf:

Thanks! Always nice to find someone who appreciates an ATHF reference :)

I found Meatwad holding an AR online; it took some Photoshop trickery to extract him from his background. I made a second flag with an AK; whichever I ultimately go with depends on which rifle I eventually choose to go with for SHTF/ deer drives:

(http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc52/Varokhar/Flags/GadsdenFlagMeatwadScriptTexture.png)

Had to make that one from scratch; you can see that Meatwad's arms are different in each.

Harvey Birdman? That's been awhile for me. Still a good one, though.
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Post by: ConservativeMobster on January 05, 2011, 02:14:07 PM: Meatwad? I thought that was a raspberry or tomato maybe :rotf:

No offense to your Photoshop skills, I'm a dork.

And welcome!
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Post by: VarokhÃ¢r on January 05, 2011, 02:42:56 PM: Quote from: ConservativeMobster on January 05, 2011, 02:14:07 PM
Meatwad? I thought that was a raspberry or tomato maybe :rotf:

No offense to your Photoshop skills, I'm a dork.

And welcome!

Thanks and thanks, again! :)