Thread: Thirty-something cornfed farmboy

what part of texas are you from??

raverboy

I don't mind the "overweight cowboy" part, but please tell me you are not a fan of Bush.

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I hope you're not thinking about getting back into the same business- you'll break yourself. Maybe it's time to try writing- don't be a chicken.

Originally Posted by Gigabitch

I hope you're not thinking about getting back into the same business- you'll break yourself. Maybe it's time to try writing- don't be a chicken.

Hehe naa, not really. I hate the inbreds in that godforsaken town, and selling car parts, I dealt with the bottom of the barrel of it. I'm actually considering applying for something like Texas Rehab and going back to school. Maybe journalism, or a tech field, or somethign along those lines.

Hmm, so much to reply to, I've been busy the past couple of weeks (actually, filling in at the old job running the place while the boss went on vacation. No hard labor though, just managing paperwork/inventory and giving orders to his teen employees)

what part of texas are you from??

Right on the Eastern Edge, about an hour due west of Shreveport, La. Little city called Carthage.

I don't mind the "overweight cowboy" part, but please tell me you are not a fan of Bush.

Not a fan so much, but not a hater either. Politically, I'm a moderate, with (very)slight conservative leanings. I voted for Bush in the last election, but only because I thought Kerry was an even bigger slimeball than Bush is. If the Democratic Party could ever produce a candidate that didn't absolutely ooze slime and waste, then I'd turn Yellow Dog.

Although, well, today I found out that Kinky Friedman got on the Texas Governor's Ballot, and I do believe I'm gonna vote for the guy.

Originally Posted by Zero Interrupt

Not a fan so much, but not a hater either. Politically, I'm a moderate, with (very)slight conservative leanings. I voted for Bush in the last election, but only because I thought Kerry was an even bigger slimeball than Bush is. If the Democratic Party could ever produce a candidate that didn't absolutely ooze slime and waste, then I'd turn Yellow Dog.

Although, well, today I found out that Kinky Friedman got on the Texas Governor's Ballot, and I do believe I'm gonna vote for the guy.

Surely by this point you have to admit that Howdy Doody would have made a better president than Bush! Come on! Admit it! You made a mistake.

Anyway, I saw Kinky Friedman being interviewed recently, and I thought he was entertaining. I can't remember much else about him, other than his name. :shrug:

Originally Posted by vashti

Surely by this point you have to admit that Howdy Doody would have made a better president than Bush! Come on! Admit it! You made a mistake.

I ADMIT NOTHING!

I don't want to get into a political discussion, but:

Ok, he's not been a great president, but he's been far from the worst. Nixon, Carter, etc. But even I have to bang my head against the wall at what his administration has done to international relations. Then again, everyone already hated the US, he was just a (really) easy target to point a finger at. Believe me, the UN is just as corrupt as any American political body, and I think the rest of the world is finally seeing that. No offense, but people that say inane things like "Howdy Doody could do better" just weaken their argument and show that they can't think for themselves, and buy into whatever psuedo-political line is being spouted by their favorite harebrained celebrity.

I don't have a favorite harebrained celebrity, else I might have said THEY would be a better president than Bush (and I would have been right), and trust me when I say that I can think for myself. In fact, just because I don't like Bush doesn't mean I like the U.N. either. In fact, I bet I dislike the U.N. even more than YOU do. No offense, but you should probably turn off Rush Limbaugh and FOX news long enough to get to know that non-Bushies are more informed than they want you to believe.

Nixon worse than Bush? Hah! He was crazy as can be, but at least he was good with foreign policy. Lots of his domestic work was good, too. And Carter (who was probably the most decent man who ever held that office) has a very fine record with regards to human rights. Bush has neither. I think he will be remembered much worse than either of these presidents since he has nothing to redeem himself with.

PS - I don't think you are allowed to say "I don't want to get into a political discussion", and then expect no one will respond to your subsequent political statement...

Ehh, you may be right. He's certainly not going down into the annals of history as the best or anything, but he'll probably just be forgotten by history, like so many presidents before.

But I still think he was a better choice than Kerry. Hell, if Kerry hadn't made an ass of himself like in that photo showing him holding a hunting shotgun (that he had tried to ban a couple years earlier) to try and fool Southerners into thinking he wasn't pro-gun control, he might've actually gotten elected. Southerners aren't as dumb as you yankees seem to think sometimes. We're just more laid-back.

I thought the reason the Red States didn't like Kerry was because he doesn't hate homosexuals.

We never even saw the gun thing on the West Coast. It was a big nothing here.

Originally Posted by vashti

I thought the reason the Red States didn't like Kerry was because he doesn't hate homosexuals.

We never even saw the gun thing on the West Coast. It was a big nothing here.

Wow, you must have a really single-minded, narrowed view of the world. And the "gun thing" was certainly a big issue everywhere else in the nation. Maybe people down here are right about the west coast.

True, we don't watch much FOX news here...

Anyway, anyone who favors gun control is fine with me. Which reminds me: I wonder if Cheney is still hunting...

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