Posted on 11/26/2011 4:46:50 PM PST by Chickensoup
This is a link to the paper's website although the letter is not published on the web:
To the Editor:
I really enjoyed Doug Davis' editorial. His tongue-in-cheek approach to the Republican Party was perfect. I have always said that you have to be one of the following to vote Republican: cruel, ignorant, stupid, naive, greedy, or traditional (one or both parents were Republican).
Education reduces biases and many Republicans just prefer to stay mean and thoughtless. It is easier to stay in the past than to learn new ideas.
Arthur Balcom Windham (Maine)
Kind note from local (apparently) environmental guy. I find it amazing that this level of hatred and ignorance is tolerated by his neighbors and employer.
To the Editor:
I really enjoyed Doug Davis' editorial. His tongue-in-cheek approach to the Republican Party was perfect. I have always said that you have to be one of the following to vote Republican: cruel, ignorant, stupid, naive, greedy, or traditional (one or both parents were Republican).
Education reduces biases and many Republicans just prefer to stay mean and thoughtless. It is eaier to stay in the past than to learn new ideas.
Arthur Balcom Windham (Maine)
Kind note from local (apparently) environmental guy. I find it amazing that this level of hatred and ignorance is tolerated by his neighbors and employer.
Tolerated? They probably share his hate. I have been to Windham Maine believe it or not. There isn't much there in the way of local talent.
Tolerated? They probably share his hate. I have been to Windham Maine believe it or not. There isn’t much there in the way of local talent.
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Actually there are a fair amount of conservatives in Windham and the surrounding towns. Lots of good hardworking people.
Lot of leftist haters out there. A lot! Ever run into one?
Smug BS from some egregiously ignorant yet self-satisfied, knee-jerk Leftist.
Why even post this nonsense?
Sometimes I think it is important to look at the politics of hate in one’s own backyard. We say we dont understand Rwanda or Rhodesia or Bosnia but this is the kind of dehumanizing hate that makes your neighbor into your executioner.
Ivy engineer MBA. You should see their heads spin - and spittel fly - when they play this “uneducated knuckledragger” stuff on me.
LSU vs you local High School JV ain’t pretty.
When I’m done - I hand them to my cardiologist. Those guys are just mean.
And why would any sane person go to Windham, Maine? Sort of like vacationing in Detroit.
· This is very interesting for all parties to read and think about.
· BE A PATRIOT...THINK!!
THOMAS JEFFERSON
At 5, began studying under his cousins tutor.
At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
At 23, started his own law practice.
At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America “ and retired from his law practice.
At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .
At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
At 40, served in Congress for two years.
At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben
Franklin and John Adams.
At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .
At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.
At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
At 65, retired to Monticello .
At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence .
John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .
>>> Thomas Jefferson
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
>>> Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive
the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
I wish we could get this out to everyone!!!
BFL
Your last quote is doctored.
I know a guy who lived in Windham, Maine for years.
Five years ago, he moved to another Maine town not far from me. He’s very conservative.
There’s no shortage of libs and other moonbats in southern Maine, however.....after all, it’s close to Massachusetts.
The same idiot who would rather attack us Fundies, Catholics and religious Jews vs. the Muslim death cult. Spends money on the SPCA and Emily’s List, saving cats and murdering babies. Hates Capitalism but adores a false economic system that cost 100 million lives.
There is no cure for the smug Progressive, only when he us trampled by the Socialism he gallantly supported will he learn. Many of these tools will die early because of ObamaCare in 10 or 20 years. Open borders and free trade will kill employment.
They will never learn, they are fundamentally self-loathing and suicidal. They are Kamikaze Utopians.
Intolerance and hatred are to be found everywhere. But, I am convinced that the most intolerant and prejudice people are found on the left side of American politics. Tell that to the next Dem you talk to, just for giggles.
I like it. Something a liberal just might comprehend. I rephrased it to fit as my new tag line.
Are you joking?
Windham Maine is where one of the nicest and largest lakes in Maine resides. Detroit? Windham is a lovely area filled with camps, woods, walking trails, and is very pleasant.
Perhaps you are mistaken
Nice to hear people fighting back.
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