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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: GOBUCKS on May 19, 2012, 02:44:04 PM
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It's funny when DUmpmonkeys demonstrate absolute ignorance on a subject:
Sat May 19, 2012, 12:57 PM
mvd (59,521 posts)
Why does West Virginia skew so anti-Obama?
Note: I'm not lumping all WVa. residents in. I'm just wondering why it is one of the most anti-Obama states overall. Even more than many southern states. I know a good many Democrats live there. Is it because they mistakenly think President Obama is out to gut their coal industry?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002705718
Mistakenly!?! They MISTAKENLY think the democrat eco-nuts want to gut the coal industry?
Sat May 19, 2012, 12:59 PM
cali (71,040 posts)
1. racism and coal.
Yeah, they voted against algore and John F'n because they were black.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:02 PM
Warpy (63,229 posts)
3. That's not the whole story
The Appalachians in general are Republican strongholds, a leftover from the Civil War when the southern Democrats would go in and slaughter any farmer who hadn't joined up to fight for the dubious glory of the slaveholding flatlanders. There's a long tradition of mistrusting anything Democrats have ever stood for.
DUmmy Warpy, banned from nursing for life due to drug abuse, could not be more wrong.
West Virginia was almost as strong democrat as D.C. They even voted twice for Jimmeh. Then came Clinton's gun control. Then the democrats went completely crazy on coal.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:14 PM
arely staircase (1,177 posts)
11. well, that's not the whole story. w. va was actually racist to the point of being anti-slavery.
they didn't want blacks anywhere near them - even in chains.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:03 PM
mvd (59,521 posts)
5. I was thinking that. It seems like they used..
to always be in play. Since it isn't one of the more wealthy states, should Obama try a populist message there? Would like to see it go back to our side.
Until the democrat party went crazy, West Virginia was never in play. It was a stronger democrat state than California or New York.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:03 PM
Tony_FLADEM (1,703 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. My guess is that people in West Virginia perceive that Obama has not dealt with issues that
have to do with them. For example, Obama has helped the auto industry and reformed Wall Street but the people in West Virginia think this has nothing to do with them. This is helpful to people in other states. Yes, people in West Virginia are effected by the health care issue but they must think it's a bigger issue in other states not them.
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Sat May 19, 2012, 01:09 PM
NYC_SKP (40,771 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. Jobs.
Coal and all the supporting and associated sectors.
Everybody shudders at the prospect, and coal is, in the end, the only thing besides tourism that they think they have to offer.
In reality, the state has a lot to offer, but in the current economic climate, tourism doesn't look great so they are reasonably concerned about what anyone talking clean energy might do to their way of life.
I'm sad for them.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:09 PM
exboyfil (2,082 posts)
8. My family comes from West Virginia
It is racism for sure. My parents did not think twice about using the n word (my mom still does it). She used it front of my kids once, and I let her know that she won't get to see the kids if she talks that way in front of them.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:10 PM
cthulu2016 (2,167 posts)
10. Thay have formed an impression that Obama is black.
Sat May 19, 2012, 01:25 PM
carolinayellowdog (2,077 posts)
12. Lack of black voters to balance the right-wing whites
VA and NC went Obama in 2008, WV and KY went McCain, but white voters in VA and NC had slightly lower vote percentages for the Democratic candidate than those in WV and KY. (e.g. 39% VA whites for Obama, 41% of WV whites.) It's just that VA and NC had plenty of black voters to cancel out the conservative whites-- which evens the playing field between the parties.
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I can't imagine living life day to day blaming all your failures on a straw man. That is what DUmmies do though...
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GOBUCKS is right; West Virginia usually always voted straight Democrat.
It changed in 2000.
West Virginia even went for Carter in 1980.....which, in case one has forgotten, was a landslide defeat of massive proportions for the Incompetent One, equaling the defeat of Hoover by Roosevelt in 1932.
There's a microscopic iota of truth in what the defrocked warped primitive, she with the face like Hindenberg's, said, about pockets of Republicans in an otherwise solid-Democrat state, but every southern state had those, in their remote hollows and valleys, even Alabama and Tennessee.
But their numbers were in the dozens and scores, not hundreds of thousands that made any difference.
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By the way, the mountain man primitive, the ThomWV primitive, has been absent for at least half a year now.
He had that brain surgery, and as we hoped, reported back later to the primitives that it'd gone okay.
Now I'm wondering if something happened--some unforeseen side-effect or infection--and the mountain man primitive finally set up his tent one day's march nearer the mausoleum for the last time.
It'd be nice to know that he's okay though.
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Yeah bunch of racist pricks hate 0bama only because he is black, it has nothing to do with his desire to kill the lifeblood of the state, coal. :whatever:
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Yeah bunch of racist pricks hate 0bama only because he is black, it has nothing to do with his desire to kill the lifeblood of the state, coal.
Not just the lifeblood of the state, the lifeblood of American civilization - energy.
There's enough easily recoverable coal in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to supply all our electricity needs for several HUNDRED years.
You could put one of those wind whirligigs on every acre of the country and not replace even a sliver of the potential energy available in coal, and coal does it at a tiny fraction of the price.
I don't think the democrat eco-nuts have any idea about the ramifications of destroying the coal industry, as they and the muslim want.
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Q: If you work in a coal mine all day until the end of shift whistle, what color are you then ?
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Sat May 19, 2012, 12:57 PM
mvd (59,521 posts)
Why does West Virginia skew so anti-Obama?
Note: I'm not lumping all WVa. residents in. I'm just wondering why it is one of the most anti-Obama states overall. Even more than many southern states. I know a good many Democrats live there. Is it because they mistakenly think President Obama is out to gut their coal industry?
It's because we have old school democrats here you stupid ass. Not the lazy, gun grabbing, anti-energy, liberal kind. When Clinton got the Assault Weapons ban passed, it really pissed off a bunch of people here. Then you had AlGore running around screaming about Co2 and global warming and that was the end of WV voting for dem presidential candidates. Then 6 coal fired power plants got shuttered thanks to obumble's damned EPA along with the others having to spend billions to install scrubbers to comply with the damned EPA regs on clean air. Now our power bills are going thru the roof thanks to obumbles and you stupid effing tree hugger demcrats. Not to mention obumble's damned EPA dragging their feet on permitting new coal mines. Hell the EPA even came along and reversed a permit on a coal mine that had been approved under the Bush administration, idling it and costing around several hundred jobs. It also raised the price of steam coal making the remaining power plants have to spend more for steam coal.
Yeah dummie... we don't mistakenly think that obumbles wants to gut the coal industry. We know it!!! Who am I gonna believe, you or my lying eyes everytime I open up my power bill or read the local newspaper?
FOAD asswipe.
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FOAD asswipe.
I was hoping someone from West Virginia would respond to this, being as someone who's actually there knows what the score is, as compared with those of us who just read stories in newspapers.
Thank you!
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Sat May 19, 2012, 12:59 PM
cali (71,040 posts)
1. racism and coal.
It is obvious that this troll watches nothing but MSNBC.
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It is obvious that this troll watches nothing but MSNBC.
The bitter old Vermontese cali primitive has quite a history.
I've always wanted her to end up in the Top Ten DUmmies, so that I can tell her story, but she always only gets somewhere in the second ten, in the top twenty.
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The bitter old Vermontese cali primitive has quite a history.
I've always wanted her to end up in the Top Ten DUmmies, so that I can tell her story, but she always only gets somewhere in the second ten, in the top twenty.
With a stupid reply like that, I can only imagine some of her other wonderful comments. Too bad there wasn't a way to reach through a computer and slap someone up cross the head, as she would be a good candidate.
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The bitter old Vermontese cali primitive has quite a history.
I've always wanted her to end up in the Top Ten DUmmies, so that I can tell her story, but she always only gets somewhere in the second ten, in the top twenty.
I just checked. She made it to #9 last year, only on the strength of her earwig wallduding.
I'm sure that's the high-water mark for Eva Gage.
She'll never outdo that hilarious self-immolation.
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I was hoping someone from West Virginia would respond to this, being as someone who's actually there knows what the score is, as compared with those of us who just read stories in newspapers.
Thank you!
Being married to a FINE, WV woman, and having spent 20+ years of my life driving the WV Turnpike, I can for certain say that in WV, it's COAL 1st, Democrat 2nd.
You F with the first, you can F'N forget the second! Even Manchin knows better than to cross any line that goes against the coal industry, even if the messiah Obama says otherwise (and he did)!
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You F with the first, you can F'N forget the second! Even Manchin knows better than to cross any line that goes against the coal industry, even if the messiah Obama says otherwise (and he did)!
You may have noticed that even Senator Manchin and Governor Tomblin, both democrat politicians, have refused to say how they voted in the primary between the muslim and the felon.
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Being married to a FINE, WV woman, and having spent 20+ years of my life driving the WV Turnpike,I can for certain say that in WV, it's COAL 1st, Democrat 2nd.
And surviving that miserable damned road, let alone for 20 yrs, is a feat in and of itself. It's better than it was but you know as well as I do DD, you better damn sure keep your eyes open, know what the hell is behind you and have your brakes in good condition.
Then back about 90, they outdid themselves and made 64 up/down sandstone mountain this side of Lewisburg. I've seen many a rig hit the emergency truck escape. One hit the one that goes up a hill for about a quarter mile and then at the top there is nothing but a big valley on the other side. I saw a rig go all up the way that thing one day and then the cab went over the top and down the other side. That is a scary damned long ass grade.
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And surviving that miserable damned road, let alone for 20 yrs, is a feat in and of itself. It's better than it was but you know as well as I do DD, you better damn sure keep your eyes open, know what the hell is behind you and have your brakes in good condition.
The turnpike is a breeze now, all interstated up.
For decades, it was eighty-eight miles of three-lane road.
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Sat May 19, 2012, 01:10 PM
cthulu2016 (2,167 posts)
10. Thay have formed an impression that Obama is black.
Obama is black?!?!?
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The turnpike is a breeze now, all interstated up.
For decades, it was eighty-eight miles of three-lane road.
I remember when it was two lane. Course I was a kid then. You still got some grades on that thing... with nice sharp curves at the end of them to make it more interesting, along with many out of state flatlanders that don't know how to drive a mountain, that make it a complete bitch to drive. Especially in bad weather. Especially when they are driving a rig. I drove that thing for 6 years in a little Honda Civic. Back about 87-93. I've seen it all on that road. I've seen people lose boat off their trailers. I've seen RV's at the bottom of a curve on their sides. I've seen rigs blasting airhorns coming down a grade cause they lost their breaks and idiots that won't get out of the way. I've seen it all. I'm sure DD has as well.
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Obama is black?!?!?
We hate his white half too. :fuelfire:
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Obama is black?!?!?
OMG! Tell me they didn't just say that? That is so funny. It shows just how stupid they are! Wow.
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I remember when it was two lane. Course I was a kid then. You still got some grades on that thing... with nice sharp curves at the end of them to make it more interesting, along with many out of state flatlanders that don't know how to drive a mountain, that make it a complete bitch to drive. Especially in bad weather. Especially when they are driving a rig. I drove that thing for 6 years in a little Honda Civic. Back about 87-93. I've seen it all on that road. I've seen people lose boat off their trailers. I've seen RV's at the bottom of a curve on their sides. I've seen rigs blasting airhorns coming down a grade cause they lost their breaks and idiots that won't get out of the way. I've seen it all. I'm sure DD has as well.
I started driving the WVTP back in 1982, when it was mostly 2-lane and construction zones. It was "completed" in 1988 I think, back when Arch Moore was governor.
You must be speaking of the left handed turn at the bottom of the hill at Camp Creek, coming down off Flat Top. After 3 miles of a 5% downhill grade, not many loaded trucks had brakes left for that turn. I even saw the rear wheels on a trailer catch fire coming off that hill. Sandstone Mountain on I-64 is worse, it's a 7% grade. Slow and easy is the rule of the day on that one, UP and DOWN.
You ain't kidding about the out of state flatlanders! The ones from Ohio and North Carolina were the worst. I drove a P-30 Chevy/Grummon step-van, and the funniest thing was on what few straight stretches there are on the Turnpike, these clowns would pass you like you were backing up, UNTIL you got to the next corner, then all brake lights as you went back by them, maintaining a constant 65 the whole time.
4th of July weeks were crazy. Every other car you passed or passed you southbound was from Ohio. One of our drivers actually wrote in the dust on the back of his truck: "Will the last person leaving Ohio, please turn out the lights." They would also be the ones trying to merge in front of you whenever they "suddenly" came up on an "orange barrel zone", the one that was advertised by the flashing traffic sign 3 miles back!
The worst time I ever had was trying to get home from Huntington in a snowstorm. A normal 3 hour drive took 6 1/2 hours, with 5 of it spent on the Turnpike, dodging jackknifed tractor trailers and wondering where in the hell the snow plows were.
The scariest time was driving back one winter night when it was 15 below zero, passing tractor trailers that had stalled because their diesel fuel had turned to jell, and you were praying you gasoline engined truck would make it home because you didn't pack your sub zero sleeping bag.
I knew the Turnpike so well, this is what happened when I was pulled over by a female deputy just south of the Pax toll booth in Fayette County. I noticed the deputy was wearing a Raleigh County uniform, and when she accused me speeding because I was "passing everything on the road", and that she "was going 80 when I passed her", I informed her I was only going 63 (in a 60), that my truck was governed to do a max of 70 (I lied, no governor), the only things I passed since the toll booth were 4 trucks and her, and she should have known she was NOT doing 80 because traffic was backing up behind her. When she threatened me with a ticket, I said, "Fine, go ahead. I like to hear how you explain to the judge why a Raleigh County deputy is writing speeding tickets in Fayette County." When she practically screamed at me that we were in Raleigh County, I turned my headlights on and said, "No, not quite." 200 yards down the road was the green sign that read "Entering Raleigh County".
She threw my license and registration at me and told me to slow it down anyway, and STORMED back to her car. I waited until she had left before I pulled back onto the road. :lmao:
I did get a ticket for 21 in a 10, in the southernmost point in Kanawah County, a pimple on the ass of the state in a town call Handley, just north of Montgomery. Magistrate that heard the case was not only the town's OTHER police officer, but on the town council as well.
Sounds like something you read in a book about trials in backwater redneck towns. Went about the same way, too. :lmao:
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By the way, the mountain man primitive, the ThomWV primitive, has been absent for at least half a year now.
He had that brain surgery, and as we hoped, reported back later to the primitives that it'd gone okay.
Now I'm wondering if something happened--some unforeseen side-effect or infection--and the mountain man primitive finally set up his tent one day's march nearer the mausoleum for the last time.
It'd be nice to know that he's okay though.
Perhaps his thinking is no longer so disordered as to commit his time to DU and its goals.
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Perhaps his thinking is no longer so disordered as to commit his time to DU and its goals.
Well, we can hope.
But I'm still wondering if he reached the end of his march, or if he's still nightly pitching his tent.
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I started driving the WVTP back in 1982, when it was mostly 2-lane and construction zones. It was "completed" in 1988 I think, back when Arch Moore was governor.
That's when it was being rebuilt to interstate highway standards.
I haven't googled, but it is old, old, old, back to the 30s or 40s. It was two- and three-lane for all 88 miles.
I remember when I was a little kid hearing old folks marvel about the terrain being so rugged that it cost a million dollars a mile to build.
If the old turnpike hadn't been there, Zeke from Cabin Creek would have never made it to Morgantown.
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I started driving the WVTP back in 1982, when it was mostly 2-lane and construction zones. It was "completed" in 1988 I think, back when Arch Moore was governor.
You must be speaking of the left handed turn at the bottom of the hill at Camp Creek, coming down off Flat Top. After 3 miles of a 5% downhill grade, not many loaded trucks had brakes left for that turn. I even saw the rear wheels on a trailer catch fire coming off that hill. Sandstone Mountain on I-64 is worse, it's a 7% grade. Slow and easy is the rule of the day on that one, UP and DOWN.
You ain't kidding about the out of state flatlanders! The ones from Ohio and North Carolina were the worst. I drove a P-30 Chevy/Grummon step-van, and the funniest thing was on what few straight stretches there are on the Turnpike, these clowns would pass you like you were backing up, UNTIL you got to the next corner, then all brake lights as you went back by them, maintaining a constant 65 the whole time.
4th of July weeks were crazy. Every other car you passed or passed you southbound was from Ohio. One of our drivers actually wrote in the dust on the back of his truck: "Will the last person leaving Ohio, please turn out the lights." They would also be the ones trying to merge in front of you whenever they "suddenly" came up on an "orange barrel zone", the one that was advertised by the flashing traffic sign 3 miles back!
The worst time I ever had was trying to get home from Huntington in a snowstorm. A normal 3 hour drive took 6 1/2 hours, with 5 of it spent on the Turnpike, dodging jackknifed tractor trailers and wondering where in the hell the snow plows were.
The scariest time was driving back one winter night when it was 15 below zero, passing tractor trailers that had stalled because their diesel fuel had turned to jell, and you were praying you gasoline engined truck would make it home because you didn't pack your sub zero sleeping bag.
I knew the Turnpike so well, this is what happened when I was pulled over by a female deputy just south of the Pax toll booth in Fayette County. I noticed the deputy was wearing a Raleigh County uniform, and when she accused me speeding because I was "passing everything on the road", and that she "was going 80 when I passed her", I informed her I was only going 63 (in a 60), that my truck was governed to do a max of 70 (I lied, no governor), the only things I passed since the toll booth were 4 trucks and her, and she should have known she was NOT doing 80 because traffic was backing up behind her. When she threatened me with a ticket, I said, "Fine, go ahead. I like to hear how you explain to the judge why a Raleigh County deputy is writing speeding tickets in Fayette County." When she practically screamed at me that we were in Raleigh County, I turned my headlights on and said, "No, not quite." 200 yards down the road was the green sign that read "Entering Raleigh County".
She threw my license and registration at me and told me to slow it down anyway, and STORMED back to her car. I waited until she had left before I pulled back onto the road. :lmao:
I did get a ticket for 21 in a 10, in the southernmost point in Kanawah County, a pimple on the ass of the state in a town call Handley, just north of Montgomery. Magistrate that heard the case was not only the town's OTHER police officer, but on the town council as well. Sounds like something you read in a book about trials in backwater redneck towns. Went about the same way, too
LOL!!! I got a state cop got me one time on the TP. Pulled me over, said I was going 85. Now this is in a 5 speed 4 door 83 honda civic. It would actually do it going downhill but it was up there on the tach. One time I actually got it up to 95 going down sandstone, but it was waaaay up there on the tach so I slowed it down. Anyway he said I was going 85. I laughed my ass off. He didn't take too kindly to that. Said he'd run me in. I told him go ahead. I think the speedometer only went to 110, maybe 120. Anyway I showed up at the court house... it was in Fayetteville or maybe Beckly, can't remember now, and told the judge that if he could get that car to go 85, I'd gladly pay the fine.
Case dismissed.
That excuse got me out of a lot of tickets. :cheersmate:
Handley is a speed trap like most of those towns up around Montgomery way. A girl friend of mine, years ago, lived down here and commuted to Tech and got nailed in one of those backwater towns for going 35 in a 25 zone down a hill. The only thing they was worried about was the money. They even waived the points to the DMV. They wanted the money. I told her she could appeal to the circuit court, that little ploy got me out of a lot of tickets too, but she went ahead and paid it cause she drove it every day. Gotta do what ya gotta do to live with the local law when you frequent those parts. It helps if you grew up here and know how to deal with it.
That's life in rural West by God Virginia. Gotta love it.
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That's when it was being rebuilt to interstate highway standards.
I haven't googled, but it is old, old, old, back to the 30s or 40s. It was two- and three-lane for all 88 miles.
I remember when I was a little kid hearing old folks marvel about the terrain being so rugged that it cost a million dollars a mile to build.
If the old turnpike hadn't been there, Zeke from Cabin Creek would have never made it to Morgantown.
The final cost for modernization was $683 million, initial cost was $1.5 mil/mile, or about $135 mil.
And yes, I DID have a "Survivor of the West Virginia Turnpike" T-shirt. One of the toll booth attendants offered to buy it off me! :lmao:
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That's when it was being rebuilt to interstate highway standards.
I haven't googled, but it is old, old, old, back to the 30s or 40s. It was two- and three-lane for all 88 miles.
I remember when I was a little kid hearing old folks marvel about the terrain being so rugged that it cost a million dollars a mile to build.
If the old turnpike hadn't been there, Zeke from Cabin Creek would have never made it to Morgantown.
Not only that, but the TP commission was supposed to be disbanded one the road was paid off. Funny that... the TP commision is still around after how many decades? I read something in the local rag a while back about how the TP commission was saying how now they had to raise tolls cause they needed to fix shit. Dunno if they ever paid it off, but they raised the tolls a while back.
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The final cost for modernization was $683 million, initial cost was $1.5 mil/mile, or about $135 mil.
And yes, I DID have a "Survivor of the West Virginia Turnpike" T-shirt. One of the toll booth attendants offered to buy it off me! :lmao:
Oh shit DD!!! I had forgotten about those! Back in the mid 70's when Dad and I was traveling to a fishing trip to Nags Head in April over Easter break he stopped somewhere to get some coffee and bought me one of those things!!!!
Damn! I wonder if Mom still got that thing. :cheersmate:
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Not only that, but the TP commission was supposed to be disbanded one the road was paid off. Funny that... the TP commision is still around after how many decades? I read something in the local rag a while back about how the TP commission was saying how now they had to raise tolls cause they needed to fix shit. Dunno if they ever paid it off, but they raised the tolls a while back.
That road will never be "paid off". You know that as well as I do. :lmao:
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Was that road construction a shovel ready job?
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Was that road construction a shovel ready job?
Shovel, pick, backhoe, dozer, truck, whatever it took.
I believe this road was a "shovel ready job" before the One could say, "shovel"! :lmao:
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Shovel, pick, backhoe, dozer, truck, whatever it took.
I believe this road was a "shovel ready job" before the One could say, "shovel"! :lmao:
So he wasn't responsible for it then. It is a shame he can't try and take credit for it. :rotf:
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Isn't there a Senator "Sheets" Byrd highway out there somewhere ?
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So he wasn't responsible for it then. It is a shame he can't try and take credit for it. :rotf:
Ain't nothing stopping him.
Robert "KKK" Byrd ain't around no more! :lmao:
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Isn't there a Senator "Sheets" Byrd highway out there somewhere ?
US 119 South out of Charleston, aka "Corridor G", is named after Sheets, along with just about everything in the Beckley area.
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US 119 South out of Charleston, aka "Corridor G", is named after Sheets, along with just about everything in the Beckley area.
Isn't it named after him because he owned most of it?
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Isn't there a Senator "Sheets" Byrd highway out there somewhere ?
There is a senator byrd highway everywhere in WV. Along with a senator byrd school, bridge, monument, street, road, gravel pit, stream, mountain, building, outhouse... well you get the idea. :-)
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Isn't it named after him because he owned most of it?
That I don't know. I don't think so.
Byrd hailed from the Beckley/Sophia area in Raleigh County, about 50 miles south of Charleston.
He did shovel buttloads of our tax money from the Federal Treasury into West Virginia, (he was known as "the Prince of Pork" in these parts) so in a sense, even if he didn't "own" it, he did "buy" it.
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There is a senator byrd highway everywhere in WV. Along with a senator byrd school, bridge, monument, street, road, gravel pit, stream, mountain, building, outhouse... well you get the idea. :-)
I think I saw a Stossel type show about how the highway was a highway to nowhere.
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I think I saw a Stossel type show about how the highway was a highway to nowhere.
Son, have you ever BEEN to WV?
Every road (SEEMS) like a "road to nowhere", until you get "there".
Even the dirt ones! :lmao:
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There is a senator byrd highway everywhere in WV. Along with a senator byrd school, bridge, monument, street, road, gravel pit, stream, mountain, building, outhouse... well you get the idea.
It's easier to list up the things in West Virginia not named for Senator Byrd.
The rivers were already named something else.
As far as I know, there aren't any towns, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Logan has been renamed Byrdograd.
He was an incredibly popular politician.
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It's easier to list up the things in West Virginia not named for Senator Byrd.
The rivers were already named something else.
As far as I know, there aren't any towns, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Logan has been renamed Byrdograd.
He was an incredibly popular politician.
That what a few billion dollars in federal money can do for you.
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Son, have you ever BEEN to WV?
Every road (SEEMS) like a "road to nowhere", until you get "there".
Even the dirt ones! :lmao:
LOL DD!!! Ain't that the damned truth! That was the sport around here when we was in our late teens. Get a case of beer, throw it in the cooler, put it in the back seat and pick a road, follow it, and see where it goes. Better make sure you had a full tank of gas though. One time we ended up damn near to Kentucky. :cheersmate:
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That what a few billion dollars in federal money can do for you.
It buys popularity, and votes too. How versatile.
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LOL DD!!! Ain't that the damned truth! That was the sport around here when we was in our late teens. Get a case of beer, throw it in the cooler, put it in the back seat and pick a road, follow it, and see where it goes. Better make sure you had a full tank of gas though. One time we ended up damn near to Kentucky. :cheersmate:
And that's not a bad thing.
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It's easier to list up the things in West Virginia not named for Senator Byrd.
The rivers were already named something else.
As far as I know, there aren't any towns, but it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Logan has been renamed Byrdograd.
He was an incredibly popular politician.
I'll defend the man a little bit here. Byrd was a WVian first. WV and the people always came first with him. He helped a lot of folks around here. Veterans and such. Used to be you could call his office and more often than not, get him on the phone. Unlike Rockefeller. Then he changed. I supported him until he voted for the Assault Weapons Ban. Dad called his office multiple times to complain over that, and got the run around. Dad never supported him after that and neither did I. Dad said it was cause he was pretty much gonna win any election and supported his party over his people.
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And that's not a bad thing.
Not to mention when you got a date with some hot little thang and need a quiet little road to go make out at. You know where to go!! :cheersmate:
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I'll defend the man a little bit here. Byrd was a WVian first. WV and the people always came first with him. He helped a lot of folks around here. Veterans and such. Used to be you could call his office and more often than not, get him on the phone. Unlike Rockefeller. Then he changed. I supported him until he voted for the Assault Weapons Ban. Dad called his office multiple times to complain over that, and got the run around. Dad never supported him after that and neither did I. Dad said it was cause he was pretty much gonna win any election and supported his party over his people.
That was about the time whenever he appeared on TV, his hands were shaking and he was drooling. Sometime back in the 70's or 80's I think.
We got WVVA NBC 6 where I live, and the most fun I ever witnessed was watching their local news concerning WV's politics. Byrd, Rockefeller, Arch Moore, Bob Wise (who I think looks a LOT like Freddie Mercury), Manchin. To me, they all mirrored typical Democrat politics and politicians. (Think Boss Hogg from "The Dukes Of Hazzard".)
Especially Joe Manchin's uncle, A. James Manchin. HE was a HOOT! :lmao:
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Especially Joe Manchin's uncle, A. James Manchin. HE was a HOOT!
I remember A. James, what a nut.
He always dressed like a cross between Boss Hogg and Marryin' Sam from the Li'l Abner comic strip.
He was constantly on TV crusading against junk cars up on blocks along the roadside and in front lawns.
It was his only issue.
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When liberals and progressives express no understanding of why people turn against their enlightened rule, then it means they have lost.
Its amazing to watch. These guys live in a world of fantasy. They never lose elections and everyone loves them.
Propaganda is for the masses. When the elite begin to believe the lies...its over.
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He had that brain surgery, and as we hoped, reported back later to the primitives that it'd gone okay.
There's your problem ... He had brain surgery and now realizes the lunacy that is DU.
KC