So what do you think is going on? It's not getting any better, it's getting worse. We can't even have civil conversations anymore... A few bad apples are causing havoc in our lives. We can't even take a plane flight without being practically stripped searched. We can't allow our children to get off the school bus unless we are right there to pick them up. We are becoming prisoners in our own country... what gives?

 

ROFLCOPTERS !!!!!

 

I thought you had to pay extra to get stripped searched... Damn it!

In any case, I got your "great divide" right here.




Hush....an alias

 

I bet things will improve a lot when you're finally gone.

 

And the Hollywood and SFLR worshipers.

 

Prime examples?

 

It'll get better once the left stops acting like babies. But in the meantime, I'm enjoying the liberal tears that has been flowing for nearly a year now.
I quench my thirst at the expense of the bernie people and hillary cultists!!!
MMMMMM!!! Delicious!!!
FEED ME MOAR TEARS!!!!!

 

You're a really shitty troll. The bar's not terribly high here when it comes to trolling, but even for those standards you're really shit.

 

Uh-oh. Somebody's angry. Its okay little lefty. Let your rage flow your tears! MMMMM!!!
Tell me again about your "standards" and how I'm a "troll" LOL!!!!

 

Jesus, this is sad.

 

As long as both sides are willing to compromise and not be all "My way...or the highway!" what Hank suggests in the above song is certainly appropriate, @Mr Smith 36.

However, as long as liberals continue being little dictators and try to ram their views down everybody's throats and try to make everyone walk in lockstep to their dogmas there's another Hank song that's more appropriate.

 

Well let's see what Skuzz thinks...

 

Tits?! Wrong, liberal!

Trace Adkins is the one who is correct!

 

Rixer,
I will agree that people have been a little rough on California. Part of it is because we have lived in other places where there was the same problems that California has but the people decided to make a difference.
I will use Mississippi as an example. We have a few hurricanes come through our state. We always rebuild. You do not hear about people demanding that the government do something. We just do it ourselves. Just recently we had a hurricane come through. Did you hear anyone from Mississippi complaining about the lack of help? The hurricane came through one day and before the end of the next day the people had the electricity back on to every single home.

In Mississippi it rains pretty often. During the summer it gets hot and sometimes it gets dry. We have quite a few fires. Our leaders put a fire ban in place. No outside burning for any reason, not even grilling. If you are caught with an open flame you go to jail immediately. Most of our fires come from people on the highway throwing cigarettes out. Our fire departments and volunteers stop them quickly. We do controlled burns every year.

Much of Mississippi is a flood zone. We have earth quakes. We have something here called Yazoo clay. It moves around and changes size according to the amount of rain. Makes it nearly impossible to build something on a permanent foundation, even a highway. We have learned how to handle it.

Maybe you can understand that people in other areas have the same problems as California but somehow figure out how to handle them. We do not have the great fires as we stop them before they happen. We do not have mud slides because we do not let the fires burn out of control making mud slides possible. We do not have as much problems with illegals as we actually arrest people who commit crimes and do not let them go with a hand full of cash and an apology for arresting them.

People in California could learn a lot from people in other states.

 

There will be no quick fix for it whatever "IT" is ...

One thing that disturbed me was watching a report where a passenger on a plane was stopped from singing the national anthem for a fallen soldier that was being transported on their flight ... the airline has since apologized.

Delta Passenger Says She Was Stopped From Singing National Anthem for Fallen Soldier
A Delta flight attendant prevented a Georgia doctor from singing the national anthem in honor of a fallen soldier whose body was being carried on the flight, according to a video by the doctor that has been making the rounds on Facebook.

Delta Air Lines said in a statement sent to The Times on Tuesday that it had contacted the passenger and was looking into what happened. The airline said it did not have a policy regarding the singing of the national anthem on its planes.

The passenger, Dr. Pamela Gaudry, an obstetrician from Savannah, Ga., made the video directly after the flight landed in Atlanta, saying she hoped that it would attract attention and even reach President Trump.

Dr. Gaudry, who said she was the wife of a Navy captain who died in the line of duty, said in the video that not singing was “the most uncourageous thing” she had done in her life.

“I’m humiliated by my lack of courage to sing the national anthem in my own country, on American soil, with a deceased soldier on the plane,” she said in the video.

But the doctor did receive her second wish, as the video was viewed more than a million times on Facebook and picked up by news outlets around the country. Dr. Gaudry did not immediately return phone messages requesting an interview Tuesday morning.

The attention her video received underscored the ongoing controversy around the national anthem following Mr. Trump’s repeated criticism of N.F.L. players who have knelt during performances to call attention to police violence against black people.

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Credit Dr. Pamela Gaudry, via Associated Press

In response to questions about the doctor’s video, the airline said that a Delta honor guard, a group of employees, many of whom are veterans, volunteer to greet every plane that carries a fallen soldier at the airport in Atlanta, as well as those in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Washington.

“The ceremony is somber and dignified,” said a Delta blog post from 2016, describing the tribute. “The coffin is pulled from the aircraft, while flags from all five military branches are displayed behind a military escort.”

Dr. Gaudry said that the plane’s captain had announced that the flight from Philadelphia was carrying a fallen soldier, Army Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29, who was one of three soldiers killed in an ambush in Niger earlier this month. A fourth soldier was later found dead.




The captain asked that the other passengers remain seated while the coffin, which had been accompanied by another soldier on the flight, was taken off the plane by an honor guard.

Dr. Gaudry said that she had been inspired to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the soldier left the plane and the coffin was carried out. She asked other passengers to do the same, and some agreed, she said.

As the plane started to descend, she said on the video that a flight attendant told her that it was against company policy to proceed with the singing.

A second announcement was made, asking that passengers be quiet as the soldier left the plane to accompany the coffin, Dr. Gaudry said. The announcement did not mention that singing the national anthem was against company policy.

“We all sat in silence as the honor guard took the soldier off the plane,” Dr. Gaudry said.

Dr. Gaudry told Fox News that Delta had called her to apologize and that Sergeant Wright’s family had also called, to thank her.

 

Clothes.
Clothes are the problem.
We can all get along a lot easier if we just take off our clothes.

 

Why the great divide in the U.S.A

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Rixer,
If he moved to Mississippi to make furniture he should have done a little research first. There is one of the largest furniture manufacturing plant in the U.S. already here and it produces furniture for many different brands. All other furniture manufactures lost out in the Clinton administration. A little research could have saved him from loosing everything.
Mississippi has always been a poor state. Just not much here to work with and the education system is the absolute worst in the U.S. We have in the last few years seen several auto manufactures move into the state and the largest tire manufacture in the states has broken ground for a plant.

The state being in the shape it is in is the reason I moved her and continue to live here. The only other place I would live is in Texas.
In Mississippi if you can read and write you can always find a fairly good job. The cost of living is low. The weather is great. The people leave a lot to be desired.

Have fun on your vacation and I hope when you return you are more like your old self. I miss him.