Posted on 05/20/2004 6:08:07 PM PDT by chance33_98
Right now, I am without AC, because our unit broke and we don't yet have money to replace it. Do you think I should call the Red Cross?
Ha!
MARINES always have!
Semper Fi BUMP.... Good Story.
"ummm... electric water?"
It goes with the electric chair.
PING
It can also be taken as a symptom of mental illness by the father.
And it also sounds really fishy. Could you possibly imagine yourself in this situation?
I would really hesitate before judging this one.
Exactly my thoughts on the situation.
Police persuaded them to leave the camp, promising help them find food and shelter.
"You must conform. You will be assimilated. You must conform. You will be assimilated. You must conf..."
"What was so clear was that their living conditions were unacceptable, but their relationship was a real deep love and caring for each other," Barkley said.
Unacceptable? I surely hope that Barkley's six year old daughter has as good a relationship with her father, and that she ends up with as good an education. Since she's probably in a public school, I don't have much confidence.
Surely. It's your UN right. /sarcasm
Jesse and Roy never had AC. In south-central Texas. During the summer, they would hang wet sheets in the house and run fans at night. During the day, they wore ties and long sleeve shirts (always). And never whined. Ever.
After Jesse died, Roy did buy a 'swamp cooler' (antique evaporative cooler). For one room, the parlor. But he didn't run it unless we were visiting. It caused mold, we were told.
/john
Well now she will probably have to go to a gubbermint screwl and will be dutifully turned in to a Teenage Mutant, pregnant by 16, drug addict.
The best thing for this child was most likely to stay where she was.
***ummm... electric water?***
Sure, where do you think electric eels come from?
Cheers to Barkley! He is an exceptional man! Cheers to the father and daughter, too, as they are quite exceptional!
I have faith in the values her father instilled in her. She's a good person.
The best thing for this child was most likely to stay where she was.
I understand the romanticism involved in this story, but it could very easily be a bunch of baloney.
Is there ONE person out there who would actually like to see his child living under these circumstances?
Is there ONE person out there who thinks this is a rational response to drugs and sex? Or is it possible (if even true) that there is more to the story?
Never heard of Secondhand Lions.
I have lots of stories about my great-uncles. Roy would turn on the oven, and then go looking for a match to light it. His right hand was terminally devoid of hair. He wasn't big on eyebrows either.
/john
I wonder how they fared in the winter. I guess in Portland it rains a lot in the winter and perhaps isn't very cold.
I remember reading some statistics that claimed that if given a chance, fathers make better single parents than mothers.
I can imagine if this were my husband, he would do equally as good a job of educating our daughters. He has a gift of teaching and isn't squeamish about living in the woods like I would be. He can spend hours just "being" with our girls while I constantly think of other things I "need" to be doing.
What an interesting story. Interesting too, that the reporter put the "spin" on it that he/she did, that this wasn't really a case of some nutjob hiding from the world, but somebody actually getting by in fairly good fashion with a very minimalist lifestyle.
It's true that this guy was squatting on public park space and we can't go around letting people do that, or parks wouldn't be usable anymore. That's not what they're for.
But I have relatives not far up the generational chain that lived pretty much the same as these two. We all do. Seems to me that they likely had a better *real* quality of life than most folk today have.
Hair: ping to an interesting story.
Yes. My baby girl is Texas Army NG. I would have rather seen her in a spider hole in a park out west than in the hands of CPS. And she agrees. She toughs out rougher circumstances during drill weekends.
/john
I remember being 12 and reading at a "12th grade level". It really isn't all that difficult, which is why public schools are so scary.
But I also had a lot of practice. When there's nothing else to do and you read all day, you'll probably learn something.
I wonder why nobody asked questions at their church? Seems a bit odd, I guess.
Thank you for the Post!
Very, very, moving.
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