Brian Coulter: The dream vs. the scheme

The Longview News-Journal ^ | February 15, 2014 | Brian Coulter

[DManA]

A caller to a talk show this week (forget which one) made an excellent point.

Said “I get the feeling Obama dislikes me a lot more then I dislike him.”

[IrishBrigade]

...but attacking anti-amnesty legislators and their supporters, a threat made along racial lines is, pardon the expression, beyond the pale...

...utterly priceless...

[fhayek]

Interesting. I have no doubt that if you are white, if you are in business, if you believe in freedom, if you happen to think (and it is legal to do so) that government has become too big and oppressive, you are Barack Obama’s enemy. And he works harder to punish you than to try to actually solve America’s problems.

[Jimmy Valentine]

President “shuck and jive” pushing the race button. Last refuge of the incompetent

[Dante3]

btt

[Carry_Okie]

For the sake of argument, let’s assume Obama is correct.

So let's replace him with Alan West and we'll see who screams.

[Liz]

[Deagle]

Damn! Does this mean that Socialist/Marxist Idiot is out?

[Hardastarboard]

they don’t like the idea of a black president

I don't like the idea of a red President, in the sense of Commie red. If we had Thomas Sowell as our President, I would be in the clouds (hopefully for eight years).

[Hardastarboard]

I mentioned Thomas Sowell in a post after yours, but you’re right - Alan West would be even better. Then we’d see who the real racists are (hint - their party name begins with a “D”).

[Verginius Rufus]

Ann should know better than to think that "beyond the pale" has anything to do with "pale" used of skin color. That "pale" is derived from the Latin pallidus, meaning pale, wan, or pallid.

"Beyond the Pale" originally meant the part of Ireland not under effective English control--"pale" deriving from the Latin palus, stake.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ann didn’t write this. Look again.

[Fightin Whitey]

Not this guy either!

[2ndDivisionVet]

An old friend and former co-worker of mine is one of those “mountain man” reenactors who act like those guys.

[Cyber Liberty]

Who’s “Brian Coulter?”

[Fightin Whitey]

Yes, some of those guys take the reenactment stuff pretty seriously.

Then there are some guys here in the mountains who, besides the big pickup trucks and lots warmer gear, still spend plenty of time living a mountain life. Tough hombres.

[Elsie]

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMK21C_John_Colter

[Elsie]

[Fightin Whitey]

Thanks Elsie.

I live an hour or so north of “Colter’s Hell,” which was the derisive term applied to the Yellowstone Park area after Colter spent time there.

When he headed back east and described the place, few wanted to believe his reports of hot springs, bubbling cauldrons, geisers and the like: hence Colter’s Hell.

You probably know all that. What a life (albeit short) he lived, right?