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What's the Matter With Kansas?
Wall Street Journal ^
| December 6, 2004
| Steven Malanga
Posted on 12/06/2004 11:15:14 AM PST by RWR8189
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:15:18 AM PST
by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:19:40 AM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: RWR8189
Dem Credo: Don't let the facts get in the way!
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:21:54 AM PST
by
Edgerunner
(The left ain't right. Hand me that launch pickle...)
To: RWR8189
I went to school with Tom Frank and Ana Cox (aka "Wonkette").
They are both snotty, insufferable elitist snobs and dyed-in-the-wool Marxists - Frank openly so.
They're also both from Kansas, oddly enough.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:22:57 AM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: RWR8189
According to friends of mine at Cessna, the Wichita area has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the nation. Low cost of living too, ideal for young families.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:23:05 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(Gabba Gabba Hey!)
To: RWR8189; Mr. Mojo; dorothy; Toto; KANSAS; FlyingMonkey; witch; bad company; Darksheare; ...
Dorothy:This Mr. Frank is scaring me, Toto.
(Looks apprehensively at ruby slippers.)
To: RWR8189
Based on the fact a raving leftie lunatic hates us, I'd say we're doing things pretty damned right. I live in the KC area, drive through Shawnee often, and I have to tell you, this Mr. Frank is a lying sack of excrement. It's not a bad or economically depressed area at all.
If you want a bad area, go just north of there into Wyandotte County, where the crime rate is high, the economy is depressed (except for the western part where the new race track is located). Only two counties in all of Kansas voted for Kerry. Want to bet whether Wyandotte County was one of them? :-)
Wait a second... I called him a leftie AND a lying sack of excrement... will y'all forgive me my redundancy?
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:27:30 AM PST
by
Jokelahoma
(Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
To: wideawake
Yeah but from pictures of seen Ana Cox is pretty hot, no?
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:28:12 AM PST
by
marlon
To: RWR8189
I just gotta say something else...
I don't write for a paper, nor am I likely to write a book soon. But if I was to do either, I would research my facts to be sure I was right, not because I'm honest, but because if my facts are as wrong as his were, I would expect to loose creditability and my theories would be taken as wrong.
I suppose that if your theories are wrong to start with, why not back them up with untrue "facts"? Most people will not check up on the facts, so this would be effective propaganda...
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:28:28 AM PST
by
Edgerunner
(The left ain't right. Hand me that launch pickle...)
To: RWR8189
What's the Matter With Kansas?Dorothy is no longer there...
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:29:43 AM PST
by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
To: Clemenza
According to friends of mine at Cessna, the Wichita area has one of the lowest rates of unemployment in the nation. Low cost of living too, ideal for young families. The down side, of course, is that you're living in Wichita.
Wichita lives and dies with the aviation industry. Current unemploymnent is in the mid-5 percent range, not too high compared to the national average but higher than other areas in the state. For a while in 2002 the unemployment rate was pushing 9 percent.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:30:02 AM PST
by
Non-Sequitur
(Jefferson Davis - the first 'selected, not elected' president.)
To: marlon
Yeah but from pictures of seen Ana Cox is pretty hot, no?She weighed about 30 pounds more in college than she does now, and I suspect that if you saw her up close - rather than made up for her NYT Magazine cover - you'd be less than impressed.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:32:13 AM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: RWR8189
"What's the Matter With Kansas?,"Well, the wind blows too hard.
It snows too damn much.
It's too cold.
It's too hot.
It's too flat.
It has too much wheat.
It has too many sunflowers.
It's too far between Missouri and Colorado.
It's too far between Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Just kidding.
I spent 4 wonderful years in Kansas and loved it.
Not as much as I do my current home, but Kansas was good.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:33:27 AM PST
by
OldSmaj
(Islam is a false religion. It's adherents and followers are doomed to hell.)
To: RWR8189
Instead, "heaps of rusting junk and snarling rottweilers" blight the landscape.
Does a thirty's vintage tractor and a yappy mini schnauzer qualify? ;o)
To: RWR8189
BWAAAHAAAAHAAAA! I live in Kansas and I love it. Half a$$ jobs are a dime a dozen here. Half way decent jobs are pretty common too. Twice in the last ten years I have gotten disgusted with my employer, walked out and gotten another job within a half hour. I live in a 1600 square foot house I paid $36,500 for.
In thirty minutes I can be in a tree stand hunting or have a line in the water. Hour and a half I can be at the theatre or at the Royals ballgame. Schools are good weather is liveable.
There is crime but the cops prefer it if you shoot back. (something about less paperwork) I've lived many many places, been damn near everywhere. This is what I like. I choose to live here. When I die, there will be no connecting flights, heaven can't be too far from this.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:33:53 AM PST
by
bad company
(I'm a new Grandpa.)
To: Non-Sequitur
I would never live there myself. I find Seattle too boring as it is. Besides, Wichita is hot as hell in the summer, cold as the arctic in the winter as well out there on the prairie.
The point is, Kansas (whether Wichita or in the interior) is not some Dorothy Lange photograph of impoverished inbred hillbillies. Mr. Frank is an embarassment to the state.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:34:13 AM PST
by
Clemenza
(Gabba Gabba Hey!)
To: wideawake
Well good riddance to bad rubbish. Glad to hear they have left!
To: RWR8189
For generations, what is now called flyover country has produced a number of malcontents who are either born into liberal families or become liberal in college. They thereafter migrate to California or the Northeast where they find that kindred souls are more plentiful. From literary, educational, entertainment, or journalism pulpits, these apostates can look down upon the provincials in their home states, with the blessing of their new neighbors on the Left Coast or in the Boston-Washington corridor. Some early examples of this type are Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Henry Wallace. Many network news announcers like Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, and Tom Brokaw, are also of this type.
The author of this WSJ screed is just another whiner who snipes at "red state" America from the towers of Manhattan.
To: RWR8189
Everyone in my department is agog over this book. It never occurs to them that if people like Frank didn't view others with such contempt and condensencion, then maybe they would be considered worth listening to.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:39:16 AM PST
by
RightWingAtheist
(Marxism-the creationism of the left)
To: RWR8189
The only thing Liberal in Kansas is the Town of Liberal and assorted college professors.
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posted on
12/06/2004 11:39:23 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
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