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Subject: [Leica] Daily Dose of Spring XXV Daffodils with Plum petals
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Mar 10 06:36:30 2006

LOL...
And true, 'back in the day' the vast majority of cotton pickers were neither
free, nor white, though many were under 21. ;-)


On 3/10/06 9:18 AM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>> 
>>>>      
>>>> 
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