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Floyd_Gondolli

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14. The National Parks point strikes a chord with me

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Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:46 PM

Aug 2012

I've become a big enthusiast over the last 3 or 4 years and it makes me want to vomit when I think about what Mittens and his cronies would do to our parks if they get the chance. The system is already underfunded but it will be even worse with oil wells dotting the landscapes of places like Rocky Mountain National Park or Yellowstone or Glacier.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] friendly_iconoclast Aug 2012 OP

Yep! He tells it like it is/was and might be! Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Aug 2012 #1

I wish my 67-year old father was as enlightened Animal Chin Aug 2012 #2

Don't worry Animal if what this man's dad said comes true you can believe it will change southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #3

DEMOCRATIC Party, southernyankeebelle catbyte Aug 2012 #9

I get corrected often. I just forget. So I know you all know what I mean. I guess I'll just use southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #13

Democrat is a noun. Republican is also a noun. JDPriestly Aug 2012 #19

Thank you. I want to tell you when I was a kid we had to break down sentences. I can't southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #25

I never got diagramming sentences either. English classes in general were the bane of my Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #27

Diagramming that was it. I hated school so much. Wow I'm impressed with your accomplishments. southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #28

That's a whole 'nother story, but I was in IT from '89 - 03. Today I work mostly with animals, Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #32

Wow that is an interesting job to work with horses. At least you don't get any talk back (LOL) southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #35

It's so much more rewarding than the never ending fight to do a good job within the Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #47

Wow sounds like you really are enjoying your life. I quit work about 6 yrs ago. southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #48

Sorry that you feel that way. maddiemom Aug 2012 #31

Opposite for me, but my GF just loved diagramming sentences. I think it's partly personality and Egalitarian Thug Aug 2012 #33

DemocrATIC is the adjective. Please don'temcourage this disrespect. maddiemom Aug 2012 #24

You know what I will use it the way I want. I am a DEM. Deal with it. It isn't being southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #26

Wow, your attitude is pretty hostile maddiemom Aug 2012 #29

P.S. You were very pleasant to everyone else making the same observation.de the same observation. maddiemom Aug 2012 #30

Thank you maddiemom. I am not a troll and I did respond before I read this reply. But southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #38

This message was self-deleted by its author southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #37

You forgot the comma after "Above all else" ... Fantastic Anarchist Aug 2012 #43

I'm also 67... maddiemom Aug 2012 #23

Thanks for sharing that! MineralMan Aug 2012 #4

He's a wise man MrScorpio Aug 2012 #5

There's nothing new under the sun.......... TheDebbieDee Aug 2012 #6

I've got an 83 y.o. pop as well Semi_subversive Aug 2012 #7

Your Dad's last paragraph refers, I think, to 1937 when coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #8

Romney, will make the 8 years of Bush trivial. Romney, will turn this RKP5637 Aug 2012 #12

Minor correction to both of you: that "SPENDING" on WWII reversed. n/t ieoeja Aug 2012 #15

Yes, I could have and should have been more explicit. Thought 'spending' was understood. But coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #40

coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #17

"USSR had been more or less overrun by the summer of 1941" - well, someone forgot to coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #39

coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #41

The American humorist Mark Twain once wrote that 'God created war coalition_unwilling Aug 2012 #42

coalition_unwilling Diclotican Aug 2012 #46

they won't raise ANY taxes. pay for anything? shirley you jest. pansypoo53219 Aug 2012 #10

I never jest. And don't call me Shirley. Brigid Aug 2012 #34

Your dad is my hero. Brigid Aug 2012 #11

The National Parks point strikes a chord with me Floyd_Gondolli Aug 2012 #14

The National Parks xxqqqzme Aug 2012 #16

friendly_iconoclast Diclotican Aug 2012 #18

ahhh... wise words indeed handmade34 Aug 2012 #20

A wise, wise man. WinstonSmith4740 Aug 2012 #21

Yes, I remember this. Brigid Aug 2012 #44

I think I'm in love. maddiemom Aug 2012 #22

Thanks! ananda Aug 2012 #36

Your dad is tapping into the same rhetoric I think I'm hearing lately...he's listening Sheepshank Aug 2012 #45