Posted on 10/17/2018 3:01:35 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX
“Comments...please.” “The great state of Massachusetts should be ashamed...”
Two words; Barney Frank
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God. I sure hope so. Kennedy and Kerry, I hated and despised, but Warren adds an element of complete embarrassment and humiliation.
Are you from Assachusetts ?
You said it.
Even Vermont has issues with the displaced New Yorkers affecting the ballots. It’s a serious problem in the NE.
Massachusetts has less of a patriot influence than NY does.
That was just one district (heavily gerrymandered).
I feel your pain.
My problem is also family ties. I do not fear people in flyover country will shun me though. Ive been all over this great land and mostly get a good reception.
Im what the left calls a bitter clinger.
Or murder
Just get rid of public employee unions and every state in the Union would magically turn red.
I’m with you on that...a label I proudly accept and wear!
Ping
Keep praying.
Trump got elected.
Miracles can still happen.
I’m praying for one here in NY for Cuomo and Gillibrand to be ousted.
LOVE IT!!!!!
I will admit, that being a conservative up here in Massachusetts does have the occasional humorous moments I was working on a project once, and the woman that I was working with was extremely liberal. But she was very nice, very reasonable, and extraordinarily intelligent. She and I worked together for several years, and had dinner together on many occasions.
We can talk politics, she listens to my point of view without interrupting me or getting contentious, and can respect my point of view because she recognizes I have thought about it logically and exposed it too much introspection. I don't do this with most Liberals.
Im working with her in her office one day and this other woman walks in. She is clearly an Obama type of voter, probably in the borderline between the spittle-lipped leftist and the ones you can talk to. Since it was my project, I was allowed to set up the fake names of all the test patients that we were using. In this case, we happen to be using the names of states for last names, and my first test patient was named ALASKA, SARAH. As this other woman walked into the cubicle, she began railing about having to use a test patient named ALASKA, SARAH. She s cant wait until were done with this testing, because Im sick of looking at this womans name! I calmly turned around and said to her in a level voice: I like the name. And to be truthful, I would like to hear a lot more of it in the years ahead.
This woman turned and looked at me, her mouth was open and there was a look of utter horror and astonishment on her face. She stammered out You
you
youre
youre one of THEM! I know that she thought very highly of me and had respect for me, but since I generally dont make it a habit to walk around work and talk politics with people I dont know well, she was appalled to find out that I was a conservative! I could just see the gears turning in her brain thinking Hes such a nice guy! How could he be one of those evil conservatives?
Anyone who votes for Sackoshitea, Liawatha, Fauxcahontas, Psychgewea, etc, is INSULTING us real Indians. I say this as a Massachusetts resident. Here is something I posted in another thread when it was discovered that Faux had 1/1064 Peruvian, Mexican or whatever, and The Cherokee repudiated her claim:
I dont know about the Cherokee, but other tribes (including mine) never go by the raciss one-drop-rule.
Ones blood is never checked. People as white as snow are embraced by the Tribe when they marry into it, live the culture, celebrate the identity, and embrace the customs. History is replete with stories of frontier people, who either through their own volition, or circumstances beyond their control, began to live with a Tribe and eventually become part of it. There are even Hollyweird Movies that have that as their main theme, such as Little Big Man and Dances With Wolves.
In my own family, my Dads Grandfather (three generations ago) was Chief of a small MikMaw clan in New Brunswick Canada. His wife Salome, was a pure blood Inuit. Because my Grandfather came to the US because life was better there, he hid the fact that he was part MicMaw. It was a family secret because prejudice was rife against Indians.
My cousin got really deep into genealogy and went up to Canada to check out baptismal certificates and found a strange word on the documents of all my ancestors on Dads side...the French word SAUVAGE which, of course, means Savage...which is what the French people called Indians. Which is a pretty awful thing for a priest to write on a baptismal certificate, but there you go.
My sister moved to Maine, embraced the MicMaw culture, and was welcomed into the Tribe along with her husband, no blood test required.
Evidently the Cherokee do it a little differently, using a roll list from The Trail of Tears as their starting point.
Did you know that when the French explorers came to the Americas, they came as Frontiersmen and DID NOT bring women and children with them. So they married into the MicMaw tribe and thus French names like Landry, Sinclair, LeBlanc, Hashee, etc, became very common among Canadian Indians.
And...The French-Speaking MicMaw also suffered an exile, just like the Cherokee, called The Great Expulsion, and walked as far as they had to find a French-Speaking community. Some of them ended up in Louisiana! We call those interesting, Zydego-playing, clog dancing, People the Cajun which is, of course, short for Canadian.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow chronicled this History in the long poem Evangeline. I gotta read that one again, as it is the story of my people.
So, what the Cherokee Sec of State is PERFECTLY correct and reasonable.
BTW...I consider myself 100% AMERICAN and have NEVER checked the Native American box on ANY application.
Just Sayin.
That should be Faux-ca-hontas.
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