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Posted on 05/27/2015 2:11:24 PM PDT by RandallFlagg
Dogo Argentino...impressive animal that. I saw one up close once. They’re gorgeous and friendly dogs. If I had more house I’d have one.
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Crowder is correct. It is no longer a friendly neighborly thing to strike up a casual conversation with strangers. It can be dangerous.
I know only one person who can do it. My nephew. He is like Will Rogers who never met a stanger he didn’t like. But for the most part - don’t talk to me and I won’t talk to you.
The Black dude on the bike may have been on a bike in his ‘Sunday best’ because he couldn’t afford a car and he felt self conscious about it.
Excellent writing, excellent description of what the country has become.
The author is lucky he wasn’t assaulted by the bicycle rider. Such conversations can turn deadly. And his bringing up race in the conversation with the lady in the van is just suicidal. He’s right, America has changed and it is a far more dangerous place. My suburban grocery store has started posting uniformed, armed guards. I haven’t seen any reason why, but the management has and the clintele has become much more diverse, lately.
Hopper is the most awesome of dogs. Truly.
Or maybe he got a DUI and had his license pulled ... see I can speculate too.
I don’t know where Crowder lives but everyone around us is talking CWII. I’m talking about the wine aisle at Kroger. Its everywhere. :-)
“Aw come on man, you ain’t gotta do me like that.”
At least he didn’t call him articulate!
“Hey man, its a free country..!”
Ever notice how people don’t say that anymore?
Dogo Argentino, a truly terrifying dog if you unexpectedly happen upon one.
As a former meter reader we were warned constantly about these dogs. We watched videos on them. A meter reader that was mauled by one was brought in to tell his story. Yikes. He had contact with the dog for a year before he became complacent and turned his back on the dog. One time was all it took The dog did not bark, it took his ass down and mauled the S out of him. I never came across one but the guys who did told me that pit bulls had nothing on the dogo
Yes, 'they' have also turned me into that person.
I get accused of being 'aloof and distant' (Well I am) Used to work in the field and when coming into the office would 'chat up the ladies' if one changed her hair I would comment, etc.... Went in one day and the Owner said one of the 'girls' was complaining about me causing a 'hostile work place' ... he normally didn't talk like that and the hostile work place phrase was basically foreign at that time..
Couple months later the Owner said the 'girls' were telling him I ran around looking mad all the time and wouldn't speak to them. (I never bothered to ask who 'turned me in').
If I brush up against a pole or brush and get paint on my shirt etc I DON'T touch it the second time to see if that was the source.
Yes, 'they' have also turned me into that person.
I get accused of being 'aloof and distant' (Well I am) Used to work in the field and when coming into the office would 'chat up the ladies' if one changed her hair I would comment, etc.... Went in one day and the Owner said one of the 'girls' was complaining about me causing a 'hostile work place' ... he normally didn't talk like that and the hostile work place phrase was basically foreign at that time..
Couple months later the Owner said the 'girls' were telling him I ran around looking mad all the time and wouldn't speak to them. (I never bothered to ask who 'turned me in').
If I brush up against a pole or brush and get paint on my shirt etc I DON'T touch it the second time to see if that was the source.
I have to admit. I always get nervous when I’m ordering food from a black person at a restaurant and they ask me a question like “chocolate or white?” or “dark meat or white meat?”
I’m thinking “Crap!!! How am I supposed to respond to avoid offense?”
I watched a 2008 TED talk on liberals versus conservatives on various moral measures.
Diversity is a challenge to in group loyalty, something conservatives value but liberals want to attack because they see it as unimportant to morality. Likewise, they challenge sexual purity rules because they want the freedom and want to undo those rules for their own personal pleasure.
IMO, the difference between “diversity” and undermining sexual mores is that most sexual immoral acts are in private with only indirect acts to others. Interjecting new people independent of the local culture and social ties adds curiosity and complexity liberals too lazy to travel abroad like, but they ignore the costs: ESL classes, refugee programs, higher crime because of weaker social ties, balkanization into new enclaves of new immigrant groups, lower native worker pay because of low skill immigrants competing for work.
In short, the “diversity” is just like the moral dimensions of obedience to authority and sexual purity, but with far greater and more negative social repercussions.
Ever seen a Schipperke?
Think: a 100 pound dog’s mentality in a nine pound dog.
Cute as a button, but will charge and jump ya if you’re not paying attention.
I’d read that captains of old ships used them to hunt down rats onboard.
I probably should have mentioned for everyone replying to this thread to address the commentary to Steven Crowder. But, I had to post and run so I could get to work.
Better a Dogo Argentino than a Dogo Roado- my name for the mongrel dogs in Tonga that overrun and roam the roads.
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