[Bee] A scene of desperation and panic unfolded on a Delta Airlines flight after the captain of the all-female flight crew announced over the intercom that everything was fine.
"Sure, just go on doing whatever you want back there. It's fine," said Captain Savannah Ross with a sigh. "Why wouldn't it be fine?"
The cabin immediately broke into a cacophony of shrieks and prayers, with passengers desperately trying to message loved ones to say goodbye. "We keep asking, but they won't say what's wrong," said Danny Evans, who had managed to reach his wife's phone. "Whatever it is, it must be really bad. We're in trouble, babe."
Passengers continued begging the crew to know what was the matter, but were met with the silent treatment. At last, the Captain returned to the intercom only to say, "You wouldn't understand" — setting off a fresh wave of hysteria.
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03/06/2023 11:15 ||
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Is that like when you argue with a women and she says "Fine"?
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There's a very real story of child abuse involving the FUMC currently. Of the situation, the woman in charge of the operation described the environment as "women being women". Perfect for Women's History Month. Perfect.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
03/06/2023 17:32 Comments ||
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[PJ] The people in eastern Oregon are generally patriotic and sane, and they’re tired of being subjected to the misrule of the far-Left kleptocrats in Salem, who care about them only as a cash cow to fund their socialist pipe dreams. Accordingly, some have formed the Greater Idaho movement, which actually hopes to detach Oregon’s rural eastern counties from the state and attach them to Idaho. This movement, as fanciful as it seems, is gathering steam, and that has Democrats enraged. Whatever else it may be, their rage is revealing.
Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow, a Democrat, said: "I’m very pleased this measure has virtually no chance of advancing into reality. It would be bad for all involved and bad for the country, and I am opposed to it at all levels." Bad for the country! When Leftists who have nothing but contempt for the America-First movement and seem to put America last in all their policy considerations, start declaring that something is "bad for the country," it must be very good indeed.
Fox News explained Sunday that Wintrow was "referring to a resolution making its way through the Idaho Legislature that wouldn’t move the Idaho-Oregon border but rather call for formal talks between the states’ legislatures about relocating the boundary line. Last month, Idaho’s House of Representatives passed the bill, which will now be debated in the state senate. It’s unclear if the bill will pass the Idaho Senate, but the chamber is, like the state’s House, dominated by Republicans." That means that it actually has a chance.
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Actually there is precedent (of a sort): the District of Columbia Retrocession. If the County of Alexandria can be 'moved' from the District of Columbia to the state of Virginia, legally if not strictly constitutionally, then a similar Act of Congress could move counties from Washington state to Idaho state.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
03/06/2023 7:40 Comments ||
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Thanks, Skid (#3) here's some more facts about Texas -
Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas (#14 particularly):
1. Port Arthur to El Paso : 889 miles. Port Arthur to Chicago: 770 miles
2. Brownsville to Texline (north of Amarillo): 956 miles. Texline to Canada: 960 miles
3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos, Tx July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike - 2008!
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston, Texas .
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America.
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10. The worst natural disaster in US history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island.
11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was " Houston ," but the Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
12. The King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.
13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a US rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979.
14. Texas is the only state to enter the US by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the US Flag, and Texas may choose to divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.
18. Texas has had six capital cities: Washington-on-the Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco, West Columbia, and Austin .
19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the US which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington , DC (by 7 feet).
20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the Washington Monument .
21. The name 'Texas' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning "friends". Tejas is NOT Spanish for Texas .
22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo. An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.
Posted by: Bobby ||
03/06/2023 8:44 Comments ||
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Portland PDX hasn't given a rats ass about those counties for decades. Now? Diff story. What changed? Same for CA and all other Dem crap holes. Expose the bastids. This is the way.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
03/06/2023 13:00 Comments ||
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Collectivists gonna collectivize. They want your tax money (all your property and wealth accumulated through labor, actually) What they don't want is your opinion. Of anything.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/06/2023 13:25 Comments ||
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Bobby, #23) Texas capital building dome in Austin is taller than the US capital dome in DC
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^ Yep and that's exactly what they are as well as all of NorCal. We're just living/breathing ATMs fueling this insanity. Folks who say a national divorce is not possible forget there are far worse things than a divorce. Far worse.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
03/06/2023 17:24 Comments ||
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[FoxNews] Washington Democrats are "disconnected" from rural America, freshman Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma rancher, said bluntly.
The left has long been accused of being out of touch with people living between the east and west coasts. It’s been reflected in shifting voting patterns that show swaths of the country where working-class, rural and predominantly white communities are turning redder in the broad trends of U.S. elections.
In areas where ballots used to be split between the parties, with more emphasis placed on the candidate, voters have largely shunned Democrats in favor of voting consistently Republican.
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Disconnected? Like the way Sherman was "disconnected" from the Confederacy? The way Turkey was "disconnected" from its Armenian citizens? Do I need go on?
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
03/06/2023 17:35 Comments ||
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The only rural folk that the Dems are after are the kids. They are targeting them through classroom indoctrination through lib teachers and/or teachers. Obama announced the write-off of the adults with his “bitter clinger” remarks.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
03/06/2023 20:14 Comments ||
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Call it "Idbegone".
[FoxNews] Measure calling for formal talks between western states about moving border makes way to Idaho Senate
A campaign to have rural eastern Oregon secede from the blue state and join more conservative Idaho has "virtually no chance" of becoming a reality, according to Idaho's top state Senate Democrat.
"I'm very pleased this measure has virtually no chance of advancing into reality," Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Wintrow, D, told Fox News Digital. "It would be bad for all involved and bad for the country, and I am opposed to it at all levels."
Wintrow was referring to a resolution making its way through the Idaho Legislature that wouldn't move the Idaho-Oregon border but rather call for formal talks between the states' legislatures about relocating the boundary line.
Last month, Idaho's House of Representatives passed the bill, which will now be debated in the state Senate. It's unclear if the bill will pass the Idaho Senate, but the chamber is, like the state's House, dominated by Republicans.
Backers of the resolution support the so-called Greater Idaho movement, which seeks to incorporate about 13 Oregon counties, or 63% of the state's landmass and 9% of its population, within Idaho's borders.
Proponents of the idea argue it's about maintaining more traditional values, preserving a certain way of life, and being properly represented by the state's lawmakers.
"Yes, I am supportive of the Greater Idaho idea," Idaho Rep. Judy Boyle, R, told Fox News Digital. "I have lived along the Oregon border my entire life, so have many east Oregon friends. They have been quite frustrated with the liberal I-5 western Oregon corridor running their state and completely ignoring their values and needs. They have finally come down to asking the voters, county by county, if they want to join Idaho. Currently, 11 counties have said YES [sic]!"
Proponents of Greater Idaho note that 11 counties in eastern Oregon have voted for ballot measures to explore the move and that, according to some polling, Idahoans would welcome expanding the state boundary. In Oregon, meanwhile, polling has shown a roughly equal number of voters support and oppose the idea, with about one-fifth of the population undecided.
Boyle argued the plan would be a win not only for eastern Oregon but also for Idaho.
"Advantages for Idaho are gaining citizens with likeminded conservative values, gaining another congressional seat, moving the Oregon 'legal' hard drugs several hundred miles away from Idaho's population center, allowing these new Idaho citizens to remain in their existing homes and generational old ranches which relieves the pressure on the Idaho housing market, and brings more businesses, jobs, and innovators into Idaho," she said.
However, some of Boyle's colleagues counter that Idaho lawmakers should be focusing on the residents of their own state.
"I oppose wasting a single minute of our very short time in the Idaho Legislature working to solve the problems of a minority of Oregon's population instead of focusing our energy on the very real problems that we need to solve in Idaho," Rep. Ned Burns, D, told Fox News Digital. "The proposal to move state boundaries is virtually impossible to execute. In each state it would take a concurrent resolution passed by two-thirds of each body, then a vote of the citizens, then an amendment to the state constitutions, and finally an act of Congress signed by the president. The idea that this would happen is laughable."
Moving the Idaho-Oregon border would require the approval of both state legislatures as well as the U.S. Congress.
But now the measure is through the House and in the hands of the Senate. While the Senate vote may not fall entirely along party lines, don't expect the support of Wintrow, who echoed some of Burns' concerns.
"While there are vast political differences in our region, Greater Idaho is not the proper remedy for those differences," said Wintrow. "Our democratic republic depends on level heads coming together to find solutions to the issues that impact our citizens. Dividing state borders to create enclaves of politically like-minded people is the opposite of a healthy America."
Despite such criticism, proponents of the Greater Idaho movement believe they've gained momentum. Matt McCaw, a spokesperson for the Greater Idaho group, has said he's confident the measure under consideration will pass the legislature.
Meanwhile, former Oregon House Speaker Mark Simmons recently penned an op-ed in the Idaho Statesman, a daily newspaper, to explain why he supports a Greater Idaho, saying if they're successful they'll be "freeing rural, conservative communities from progressive blue-state law."
Beyond values, supporters also point to a recent analysis by the Claremont Institute that found the state-line shift could benefit Idaho economically, providing an annual net benefit to Idaho's state government budget of $170 million.
However, critics have argued Oregon's sparsely populated areas have high rates of Medicaid enrollment and could be an added expense to Idaho taxpayers.
A "Greater Idaho" would be as big as Montana and twice as populous, with the new land increasing the state's population by about 21%.
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[Bee] A scene of desperation and panic unfolded on a Delta Airlines flight after the captain of the all-female flight crew announced over the intercom that everything was fine.
[PJ] The people in eastern Oregon are generally patriotic and sane, and they’re tired of being subjected to the misrule of the far-Left kleptocrats in Salem, who care about them only as a cash cow to fund their socialist pipe dreams. Accordingly, some have formed the Greater Idaho movement, which actually hopes to detach Oregon’s rural eastern counties from the state and attach them to Idaho. This movement, as fanciful as it seems, is gathering steam, and that has Democrats enraged. Whatever else it may be, their rage is revealing.
