AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 633) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | October 15, 2002 | All of Us

[Mr. Mulliner]

Posse Comitatus? Don't you mean Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati?

[kayak]

LOL!

[Utah Girl]

Red Green! I love Red Green, and their multiple uses for duct tape.

[lysie]

Here's some info:

It appears perhaps an act of Congress could allow the military within our borders..if I am reading it correctly.

[lysie]

Hi UG...When is the Red Green Show on...and what station? Never heard of the show.

[Utah Girl]

My 2 cents worth? If the capability is there to find the sniper(s), who cares where the help comes from to track this guy down? Just mho...

[oldcodger]

I used to have a liberal friend who was always ranting about society, and vague, unknowable forces making people do things...I like to avoid this way of thinking as much as possible, even when it suits MY agenda as in the case, which you've outlined so well.

You stated that very well, Molly. Amen!

[Utah Girl]

Red Green is this Canadian show that uses duct tape, a lot. Story of a guy and his lodge/garage and his very strange friends. It is a strange little show. We get it in Utah on the PBS station on Saturday nights, it is very popular here in Utah. We always have a contest with Iowa to see which state can donate the most during the Red Green show when it is pledge time. Here is some more information.

Red Green is a bearded Canadian carpenter who's really handy with his hands, and can find great uses for duct tape. He hosts "The Red Green Show", where he and his nerdy nephew, Harold, teach the viewers how to make excellent and useful crafts, as well as give marriage advice, from their home at Possum Lodge. Also, he plays games with Dalton Humphries where he must try to get him to guess a word by giving examples of it or saying a sentence it would be used in. Red also appears in a black-and-white series with the bungling Bill Smith were they show young viewers things like how to hunt and the existence of gravity. Other characters who frequently appear are the deprived Ranger Gord, who lives on top of a 100-foot tower on top of a 200-foot hill, has been guarding the watch tower for 16 years without a vacation and has no friends; the golf-obsessed loser Bob Stuyvestant who knows nothing about women; Buzz Sherwood, a daredevil pilot; and Winston Rothschild III, a loyal!

[jtill]

Oh, man, I love him! Unfortunately, we don't get the "Red and Green Show" in CA, but when I'm in Maine visiting, we watch it every Saturday night! I think I'm going to have my kids video tape it for me. It's a great show.

[lysie]

Thanks, UG..I'll have to check our local PBS station.

[Mr. Mulliner]

The Red Green Show is (or was) a Canadian show aired in the US usually on PBS stations. We used to watch it on Sunday nights in Seattle, but I haven't seen it since we moved back in July. They are apparently in their 12th season. If you do a little search on Google, you'll come up with lots of Red Green Show sites. It has a very large cult following.

It's kind of off beat, but I think it's hilarious, especially for men who can laugh at themselves. Red Green is the head of the Possum Lodge, a lodge for men in some small town in Canada. Harold is his nephew who is a 100% dweeb. They have a bunch of regular features on the show such as "Handyman's Corner" (if women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy), "Adventures with Bill," and a game something like Password. There are a bunch of goofball members of the Possum Lodge who make it onto the show regularly.

Here's a good website where you can learn the basics about the show: The Red Green Show.

[Utah Girl]

(if women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy)

That is absolutely my favorite line from Red Green, and sooo true. :)

[lysie]

No Red Green show locally , but I did see where some of the old Red Skeleton shows are scheduled on Saturday evening.

[lysie]

Apple season around here. An awful time to decide to be on Atkins. That apple bread recipe sounds good right about now. :-)

[jtill]

I used to have a liberal friend who was always ranting about society, and vague, unknowable forces making people do things...I like to avoid this way of thinking as much as possible, even when it suits MY agenda as in the case, which you've outlined so well.

For years and years I have been preaching that the lack of accountability and responsibility in the world has to do with all of the psychobabble that goes on. I'm so sick and tired of hearing, "I'm not responsible. My mother/father/sister/brother/someone else is at fault because they did thus and so to me.

Surely, there are those who have horrid things happen to them that they can not rise above, but that has to do with character and personality. Others with the same, and sometimes worse things, rise above their problems and become contributing members of society.

I sometimes wonder if a lot of this didn't start with Dr. Spock and his no discipline doctrine.

[jtill]

Apple season here too and the apples are delightful. I'm especially fond of Figi. We don't have any apple trees, but we have oranges. I can hardly wait until February!

[Mr. Mulliner]

I like to hear the guys at the lodge saying their "pledge": "I'm a man, but I can change...if I have to...I guess."

Here are a few other favorites:

"Keep your stick on the ice."
"It's so darned easy and idiot can do it and I can prove it."
"Be the very best you can be --- considering..."
"Here's the part of the show where we cater to the young people- or as we call it, 'filler'."
"ANY tool can be the right tool."
"What's the difference between a Lodge member and a canoe? A canoe tips."
Harold: "You guys are scary when you get together." Red: "Well Harold, you're scary all by yourself."

[JRandomFreeper]

I would love to hear what others here think of this idea. Is it a violation of Posse Comitatus? Is it a Constiutional problem? Or were these the ravings of a certain segment of the members of FR?

As long as the military is in a supporting role, and not arresting people or serving warrents, it's perfectly legal. There is a segment of FR that sees dictatorship around every corner.

/john

[lysie]

As long as the military is in a supporting role

And that would mean the finding role would be acceptable?

[Utah Girl]

LOL! I just love those comments. "ANY tool can be the right tool". My dad goes white when he hears me say that. :)