Global warming

[Kinser79]

(10-25-2017, 10:06 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(10-25-2017, 09:49 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-25-2017, 01:59 AM)Galen Wrote: More like I spent too much time at PSU listening to air-headed professors who had a specialty that ended with the word 'studies'.  Currently, I live in the People's Republic of Portland which means that there are large numbers of Boomer lefties around and they tend to be way more detached from reality.  They can't even handle basic math which is probably one of the reasons they are broke and too stupid to realize it.

If you live in Portland and think it sucks, vote with your feet.  There are plenty of places to live that better suit your temperament.

I think he would be far happier in a rural community in which people are much closer to the nitty-gritty of economic life and generally show few pretensions of elevated learning. Places with active mines, feed lots, and timber to be felled. That is reality for many people.

Maybe he can drive a truck. Long haul? He could listen to the realism of country music instead of the Haydn string quartets at the cocktail parties of what he considers pretentious intellectuals. One sees few pretentious intellectuals at Wal*Mart, let alone Dollar General.

If he is a medical professional -- there are plenty of small-town hospitals in clinics begging for medical staff. Communities in which one is more likely to encounter a high-school dropout born and raised here than anyone with a graduate degree except perhaps for some high-school teacher who lives to get away from the dreary hick town.

All in all, it is the dreariest lily-white communities that voted so heavily for Donald Trump.

And back to the pretention.  It would be understandible in someone who had earned it but you PBR simply have not.

I won't speak for Galen, but I will for me.  Given the choice between a string quartet and having to be with effete empty-headed intellectual snobs or drinking beer and listening to country music with my huntin' buddies (most of which are white) I'll take the latter thank you.

As for willy white communities...I've yet to ever encounter one, but then again my mere presence probably makes them not lilly white anymore.

I think I'm pretty much done with you PBR.  You've really started to bore me on a level I didn't think you could achieve.  Not even Eric the Obtuse has managed to bore me to this level.  I'm not sure if that is an accomplishment or not though.