primitives discuss weird parts of the country

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021057317

Oh my.

Grouchy old Don.

NNN0LHI (66,513 posts)

What was the weirdest part of the country, politically speaking, you have visited?

For me it was the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I have taken long drives out in the outskirts of Marquette, Michigan and I had never seen anything like it before.

I have driven down roads there that were tens of miles long and every few hundred feet would be one house inside a compound. And when I say compound I mean walled in. 10-12 feet high.

On the outside of these compounds people had plastered huge anti-government signs. And all kinds of warnings about trespassing, we will shoot on sight and other crazy stuff. Like they were all waiting to be invaded or something.

And I don't mean they hate Democrats either. They hate everyone. Seen just as many of these signs hating Republicans as I seen hating Democrats. Truly equal opportunity haters, this bunch.

I had a digital camera all charged up and ready to go laying right in my lap and I was too freaking scared for my life to pick it up and snap any pictures of anything around that area. Pretty scary folks around there.

Now don't get me wrong. I love the UP. One of the most beautiful places I have ever visited in my life. I highly recommend going there. Just don't wander too far off the normal tourist routes. And keep in mind some of the folks up there are kind of funny.

And not the kind of funny that makes me laugh either.

Don

It's a reasonably big campfire, the primitives taking pot-shots at just about every area of the country, and so I'm quoting only the first few.  The campfire's well worth the time and trouble of getting out the boat and rowing over to see it all, at the link above.

grasswire (34,406 posts)

1. interesting

The sand hills of Nebraska don't sound too alluring, either.

Whoop-whoop-de-do.

The pie-and-jam grasswire primitive can kiss franksolich's Nebraska Sandhills ass.

Brickbat (12,092 posts)

4. They're actually beautiful.

RKP5637 (20,321 posts)

6. The sand hills of Nebraska

Paranoia and profit by DHS.

after which a photograph of something

On the edge of the Nebraska sand hills is Lake McConaughy, a 22-mile-long reservoir that in summer becomes a magnet for Winnebagos, fishermen and kite sailors. But officials here in Keith County, population 8,370, imagined this scene: an Al Qaeda sleeper cell hitching explosives onto a ski boat and plowing into the dam at the head of the lake.

The federal Department of Homeland Security gave the county $42,000 to buy state-of-the-art dive gear, including full-face masks, underwater lights and radios, and a Zodiac boat with side-scan sonar capable of mapping wide areas of the lake floor.

http://warincontext.org/2011/08/30/counter-terrorism-inc-how-the-us-government-funds-americas-booming-security-industry/

frogmarch (6,348 posts)

11. holy crap! Uneffinbelievable. Oh, wait...

Nebraska, you say? Okay then. Makes sense.

I live in western Nebraska, and yes, it's interesting here.

[Chris_]

Someone sounds bitter.

[NHSparky]

 Lake McConaughy...BTDT when I lived in a rented farmhouse in a cornfield somewhere between Paxton and Ogalala, south of I-80.  We got ONE television station: A PBS station out of North Platte, and that was iffy depending on the weather.

I loved it.

Oh, and DUmmies--trespass on my land, I'll ask you to leave.  Refuse or comply too slowly for my liking, you'll find out what "hate" means.

[Duke Nukum]

I live there.

[hillneck]

 sufrommich (12,043 posts)     Last edited Wed Aug 1, 2012, 03:03 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)
12. I'm in the U.P. right now and usually
spend my summers in the Keweenaw Peninsula or Drummond Island. I've been all over the U.P. and have never seen anything like what you're talking about, where did you see this?  

                  

Looks like Old Don got called out by another DUmmie on his little bouncy.  Got to hate it when that happens.          

[Jasonw560]

So.....Scary = Republican.

With that mind set, would they feel not so scared in Watts?

[GOBUCKS]

Once again, grouchy old Don embarrasses himself with an awkward, inept, ludicrous bouncy tale.

If Don is shooting for DOTY consideration, he's miles out of contention now, and needs something other than these pitiful bouncy attempts to move up.

[franksolich]

Once again, grouchy old Don embarrasses himself with an awkward, inept, ludicrous bouncy tale.

If Don is shooting for DOTY consideration, he's miles out of contention now, and needs something other than these pitiful bouncy attempts to move up.

I wanna see grouchy old Don complain about taxes again.

[Aristotelian]

grasswire (34,406 posts)

1. interesting

The sand hills of Nebraska don't sound too alluring, either.

Oh dear, this sounds to me rather like a jilted lover turning to sour-grapes...what have you done to poor grasswire?

[franksolich]

Oh dear, this sounds to me rather like a jilted lover turning to sour-grapes...what have you done to poor grasswire?

I'm guessing snopes.com told her to get lost when she demanded they investigate who killed the late red round one.

[JohnnyReb]

Dearborn....KKK heaven...Hey, 1/2 the people there are wearing sheets ain't they?

[Karin]

The weirdest part of the country I've seen was in Northampton, Mass, on the campus of Smith College.  Weirdos galore. 

[Chris_]

Washington DC in the 1980's.

[AprilRazz]

Washington DC in the 1980's.

Don't get me started!

[franksolich]

Brooklyn, Connecticut.

No, not New York, but Connecticut.

[Chris_]

Don't get me started!

I spent a week there on Christmas vacation during Bush Sr's term.  We were sightseeing and some nutcase was driving around in a van with a loudspeaker on top reading these racist Nation of Islam sermons about the White Devil and his Jewish master.  It was the funniest damn thing I've ever seen.

C-I-L-L my landlord.

[AprilRazz]

I spent a week there on Christmas vacation during Bush Sr's term.  We were sightseeing and some nutcase was driving around in a van with a loudspeaker on top reading these racist Nation of Islam sermons about the White Devil and his Jewish master.  It was the funniest damn thing I've ever seen.

C-I-L-L my landlord.

I lived right outside the city and it hasn't changed. the squirrel lady that hang out by the white house fence is pretty amusing.

[IassaFTots]

Washington DC in the 1980's.

DUDE!  When my Dad retired from the AF, he worked in Downtown DC for a while.  My brother and I were 13 and 16, and we would ride in with him to work when we went up for a visit.  We had a deal where we would run free around the Mall and then meet up with him for lunch at the Forrestal where the Airmen of Note were usually playing.  After a hot dog lunch, we would go explore again.  We got bored with all of the Smithsonians, and the Mall, so we would just get on the Metro and go explore.   Every stop was crazy, different kinds of crazy, but most certainly crazy.

We used to sign people's names to all the petitions we were begging to sign.