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. But seriously I'm not surprised. 
is all I got for that I guess. 
beat me to it.
our lives have been blighted by these mofos.
tricky dick, smiling washed-up b actor and trojan horse for shit policies raygun, BFEE I, BFEE II = such-a-catastrophic-failure-that-there-should-never-have-been-another puke within stealing distance of the presidency in my lifetime, and lo and behold 8 years later they install another one of these assholes.
Of course, not one of them legitimately elected, so there's that. A rogue's gallery succession of corrupt, venal tools installed in the U.S. Presidency. Gotta give 'em credit for getting pretty good at it.
(That's why in 200+ years, we still have not had someone from one particular 51% of the population.)
I was thinking along the lines of 98-99%. Personal preference I guess. 
do exactly the opposite. 
to keep beer cold without a cooler (from whence he got his name, you know), and showing College kids how to make bongs out of nearly every household object.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for Florida stories. I'm very fond of MacDonald, Dorsey, Hiaasen, Leonard et al. Serge is my favorite fictional serial killer, and I've hoisted a few with Dorsey a few times in Tampa, The Keys, and at Lucky's on "The Loop". I lived in Florida for five years, but the summer heat started making me ill, so I had to move back north (I know, very weird). I still love Florida though, and get there for visits whenever I can. I love your state, but I just can't live there anymore. The older I get, the worse the heat bothers me, the exact opposite of everyone else. I'm weird like that.
so we're originally from about the same latitude. The first two years there (2000-2002) I returned to New York for the summer months. The going back and forth and keeping up two residences became too much to handle. I sold the place up north and stayed in Florida year round. Then the summers started to make me sick, and I mean sick! Temperatures over 100 degrees every day with 100% humidity was just too much for this old body to absorb. Many doctors appointments and three summers later I decided enough was enough and moved back north. I love Florida and all it has to offer environmentally, but the wilting h-e-a-t made it impossible to stay.
I'm glad you're doing alright there, and hope you can keep your head with all the extreme right-wing loonies that live there. We need more "blue" people in Florida. Many more!
but it's god-awful hot in the summer. Stuck right in the center of the state. It's also the home of some of the craziest right-wing bastards in the world. Just south of the city there's a John Birch Society billboard. The first one I've ever witnessed in my life. I knew it was the wrong place for me the instant I saw it, but the mother thing........ I joined the Highlands County Democratic association and was immediately made President of same. There were only 8-10 active members at any given time, and I guess they needed some "new blood". It was the loneliest office in the country. I think there were only a little over 300 registered Democrats in the entire country, and most of them didn't announce the fact. Go figure. It was a very inactive and lonely job, and this was during the Bush campaign for his second term. Trying to get anyone to put a Kerry sign in their yard was next to impossible. After the election Mom died and I moved to St. Pete. I absolutely love the beach there, and I took many charter fishing trips (another of my passions) out of Tarpon Springs, and did a fair amount of Pompano (and the occasional Bonefish) fishing in the flats around the Tampa area.
I do love Florida, despite the love bugs, mosquitoes, other bugs as big as the birds up north, lizards, snakes, the terrible tourists......but the heat was actually killing me. It made me physically ill. I lost over 40 pounds and was absolutely skeletal. The Doctors couldn't figure it out (all they would say was that it was something 'environmental') so I moved back north. I put the weight back on and felt great again. Who knows what it really was, but I blame it on the heat. A wonderful place to visit for me, but I could never live there again.
I'll have to grab a copy and give it a read, on your recommendation, of course! Florida has more "colorful" and outright crazy people - per capita - than anywhere else in the world. I'd stake my reputation as a ne'er-do-well on that! 
And welcome to Democratic Underground. It's great to have you!
of the 19th century. Progress terrifies them. It must really suck to be them.
I want the one I voted for, the woman who won to be president right fucking now!
If you're a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, dishonest piece of shit Republican. Would we really expect anything else from them?
It would appear a good number of Republican women voted 'no' in order to get to that 59% number. The self-loathing must be horrible for them. I guess when you're told you're "not good enough" your entire life you get to believe it.
Too bad, GOP. It's going to happen, and sooner, not later. So go piss up a rope and continue your march to the 19th century. We certainly won't miss you.
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Back in 08, I went to my cousins' for a visit. She told me her Mother (no relation) wouldn't vote for Hillary or Obama...because
#1 A black Man? No way, no how.
#2 A woman? No way no how.
This woman is over 80 so she won't be around long. She also attended church where they had snakes.
Yes, she's in Alabama.
These old coots will go to their "reward" 
before most of the rest of us.
That's not likely to be accepted here. 
