Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don: Been there, done that. El Paso is pretty far west and if I remember correctly the only minerals there were dust. As far as mosquitoes go my intent was to compare them favorably to some northern visitors. Nathan's comment about us picking cotton is neither original or accurate. If you recall from history 101 when cotton was king, cotton pickers were plenty. Don, one other thing which puzzles me more than some of those Texas suicides. It seems as these Yankees can't wait to get here so they can tell us rednecks how great it is back home. Figure that one out for me. Walt p.s. Don't think I mentioned voter fraud but will gloat about sending Kathleen Harris your way. As far as the wets go my last experience along those lines was very interesting. Him: (with rusty sawed off 12 ga in his hand.)"Gimme money M****F****". Me; "yes sir, amigo, and could I enlist your support for Gov. Bush in November"? >You may have to move to West Texas then. Beautiflut country, wonderful >citizens, no income tax, lots of room at cheap land prices(you will have no >mineral or water rights however) so that you can acquire a few hundred acres >at a nominal price so that you can never feel crowded. You can choose your >climate by moving north or south, that also changes the humidity as well. >And, if you like mosquitoes, the coastal regions will have a large >population of the critters as well. > >I am only saying this with a small part of my tongue in my cheek. Texas is >very un-Yankee like; where else can someone commit suicide by shooting >themselves in the back five times with a bolt action rifle? If you think >voting fraud started in Chicago then I have a ballot box for you, for a long >time there were more votes cast in some of the Big Bend counties than there >were registered Democrats, it must have been all those illegal aliens coming >over to vote for Johnson. :) > >Don >don.dory@gmail.com > > >On 3/10/06, Walt Johnson <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > > >>And without malice aforethought I said: >> >>Nathan: >> >>Having lived in bug-infested swamps and overcrowded Yankee cesspits the >>choice is clear. Mosquitoes have more personality and they don't talk as >>funny, Y'all knowhatImean? >> >>Walt >> >> >> >>Nathan Wajsman wrote: >> >> >> >>>Don Dory wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>As to the overpopulation in Florida, impose an income tax for the >>>>first ten >>>>years of residence and I believe the snow birds will go elsewhere. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Having lived in Florida for 6 years, and still visiting my family >>>there occasionally, I am always amused how the good old boys complain >>>about the "damn northerners" while not recognizing that without those >>>people and their money Florida would still be a bug-infested swamp. >>> >>>Imposing an income tax would indeed be a good idea, not to chase >>>people away but to provide additional money for the state to improve >>>schools and other public services, which are among the worst in the >>>country. >>> >>>Nathan >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >