I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

1Athena1

nom d'un nom d'un nom....

a.k.a. NUTSOS! (making the "cuckoo" sound)

River_Rat

Yep!

208sandy

Many years ago we used to spend July 1 - 4 weekend (actually the whole week) in Northern Idaho (Coeur D'Alene to be exact) we were living in Calgary at the time and whole groups of us used to take over the town and had the best time - the townspeople were so welcoming and they had the best fireworks display - however, it is very close to a place called Hayden Lake where you find loads of rightwingnuts armed to the teeth and quite often acting out - it has become a very spooky place and none of our friends go there anymore and in fact haven't since the 90s as it is just not fun - I wonder if that is the area the Citadel is planning to build their empire?

IllinoisLady

It all sounds so lovely ----  till someone really goes berserk.

Jackie

Enjoyful

That's funny! No HOA or recycling police or local ordinances...except for the rules we have about guns. And other rules we'll make up as we go along. Plus there will be a fee to conduct the annual arms testing and maintain the gun range. And the roads leading to it. Did I mention snow removal? And water and sewage pipes. And gun proficiency enforcement. And on and on....

River_Rat

Heck forget the other rules - I can't get past arming all the teenagers. That sounds like a stellar idea.

E, good points. Each family is required to have a year's worth of supplies so maybe they're going to just wait for the snow to melt or each family will also have to have a snow plow. I have no idea what their plan is to get unanimous concent for any new rule.

crazy4carrots

So ..... while lying in bed last night before drifting off, I had this brilliant idea:  Why not make the entire state of Idaho one giant "citadel" -- a refuge for all the RW militia groups, white supremacists and all others who desperately fear the "tyranny" of the big bad government, the UN, the "new world order" etc.?  Then Idaho can secede from the Union and be a country all on its own.  Of course, all the residents will have to surrender their U.S. passports, and won't be able to travel outside their safe little "country" and will only bother each other.  The U.S. and Canadian border guards will make sure of it!  They and their weapons will truly be FREE  --- and we'll all be FREE of them!

ETA:  So that it won't screw up the U.S. flag, Puerto Rico should become the 50th state.

IllinoisLady

Hope this comes in correctly.....in view of all that has gone on lately, especially some of the NRA/Citadel type stories.....I so enjoyed this one and wish we could hear about these types of things a lot more than we often do:

About One With $13K, A Lost iPad And A Generous Hero? (VIDEO)

2013/01/10

ByLorraine Devon Wilke

Video shot of Patrick Morgan @ US News

It’s been a tough last few months all around. An exhausting election, loads of incendiary politicians, environmental disasters and, most recently, tragic gun violence. We read about it, write about it, and debate it on social media, and wonder, where are the good guys? Some fear the “enlightened” are being outnumbered by those supporting the dark side, and that hope for a better world is doomed by ignorance and hate.

Nah.

I may be a glass-half-fuller, but I’ll be damned if I don’t believe that while the dark side might be a loud and cacophonous crowd (just look at thatinsane videoof Alex Jones or listen to any Limbaugh lambast), the good guys (and gals) are quietly and effectively making the world a better place.

Meet one of the good guys: Patrick Morgan. He works for Sunshine Cleaning Systems, a Florida cleaning services company, and is assigned to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. He was working the early shift last month when he came upon an iPad someone had inadvertently left behind at the one of the terminal bars. When he opened it up to see if he could find some identification, what he found inside was shocking: $13,000 in cash. FromU.S. News/NBC:

“I opened it first and I see the money and I closed it back,” he said.

Just minutes after Morgan alerted authorities about his discovery, the panicked iPad owner returned and gave Morgan $60 as a reward.

While I won’t make comment about a $60 reward for the return of something of that value (because this is a story about the good guys), what Patrick Morgan did then is what really shows his character and values: he took that $60 and gave part of it to a homeless woman outside the airport and the rest to a fellow employee who is going through some hard times.

They don’t makegoodmuch “gooder” than that.

@ US News

When word got out about Morgan’s good deeds – both the return of the cash and property he found andthe heartfelt gesture in giving away his reward – the Broward County Aviation Department decided no good deed should go unacknowledged. They arranged for a small ceremony and honored Morgan with a plaque and a gift. His own employer, Sunshine Cleaning Systems, also gave him a $625 gift (the equivalent to a week’s paid vacation).

“Patrick is such an outstanding and honest person,” Larry Calufetti, president of Sunshine Cleaning Systems,said in a statement. “What he did speaks volumes about his personality.”

Morgan was deeply touched by both the gifts and the ceremony. And this time? He said he’ll keep the money!

Ultimately it’s not about the money. When faced with a real moral choice, he did the unfathomable. “It’s just a good feeling to know that I returned it and that’s the bottom line. I wasn’t looking for anything.”

Score one for the good guys.

kayfh

Another Canadian, with another idea. As I understand it, a person can only be the president of the US for 2 terms. Hillary Clinton, as amazing as she is, might not be the next nominee by the Democratic Party, because of a multitude of issues. Including the possibility that she just doesn't want to be. But what about drafting Michelle Obama, brilliant lawyer, amazing human being? She would beat anyone the Republicans could nominate (because they are, IMHO, so last century ;-) ). Then she runs, and wins, four years later. That makes 16 years of Obamas. Wait. This gets better. Then draft the two Obama daughters. Each of them gets 8 years. 32 years of Obamas!

If the survivalists are going to head for the hills (mountains). Let's give them something to be VERY afraid of. Hopefully they will STAY there!

YramAL

Thanks Jackie. That's a wonderful story.

Mary

1Athena1

Lindasa, I'd rather this all happened on an island so that we don't have to live next to these people. How about somewhere in the South Pacific. Safer for them and safer for us. Bullets can only travel so far.

Can you imagine the US and Canada having to sign treaties with these people? All the subsidizing we'd have to do?

IllinoisLady

Interesting Athena....I used to say that criminals ( the super  bad ones ) should all be put on an island way far away, given cows, pigs, etc.....seed for growing their own food, and then govern themselves.  Maybe there is a need for more than one island. 

So many of this kind seem totally incapable of being outside their own narrow viewpoints long enough to glimpse the things other folks readily pick up. 

Jackie

CherrylH

Kayfh, Positively brilliant!!!!

bluedahlia

I think I'd move to an Island.  They can all move to Alaska with their beloved Palin and keep an eye on Russia!  Freeze their asses off!  Target practice on snow flakes.

I took public transit yesterday so I am pooped but much better than yesterday.  My regular programmer moved to France and the Dr. I saw yesterday was very arrogant.  Wasted trip!

1Athena1

Socialist medicine, Blue! We have NO arrogant practitioners here in the good ol' USA.

bluedahlia

P.S.  Left Wendel and Lilah "loose" in family room and all was ok when I got back 10 hrs, later.  I think they have a beter understanding of each other!  haha!  He's a bit calmer and Lilah seeems to have the upper hand so far.  She was very afraid of him before.  Wonder what happened?

1Athena1

She let Fossil know who big sister is, perhaps?

Hope to see picture of Fossil and Lilah being friends....

bluedahlia

YAY for Girl Power!  hehehehhee!

bluedahlia

Wendel Fossil Spartacus has his first vet appt. on Saturday.  The receptionist laughed her butt off when I gave her his name!  She asked if there was a Jr. at the end.  hahahahahahaha!

bluedahlia

This is so true. 

pupmom

OMG, what a name! Have you posted his pic yet? To have such a big name I suspect he is very tiny! 

QuinnCat

It wasn't too long ago (this century, though barely) that I worked on a fire in Montana, up near the Canadian border, not far from the Idaho Panhandle (aka Ruby Ridge country).  Montana was burning up that year, so everyone was there, fed firefighters, mutual aid (states), military, even Australians and Canadians (loved working with those Canadians...talk about a nice bunch, sorry, Suzie, compared to those Aussies).  Some of the African-American military reported back they were actually told to leave the local Woolworth type store in the nearby town of Libby. This is white supremecist country, no doubt.

If dogs are anything like cats, I guess the rule is to let them work out their differences, even if it gets a little nasty.  One will always come out on top and that will be the relationship (without further fighting), forever more.

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

pupmom

I knew it! What a darling baby! What do you call him for short? 

bluedahlia

Just Wendel!

pupmom

I may just have to get me Wendel's twin!

QuinnCat

So Blue - when you leave the house for that long, do both dogs "hold it?"

crazy4carrots

Pee pads -- greatest invention for little dogs!

Kam, that business about the AA military being told to leave the store reminded me about an extremely good series now on PBS -- "The Abolitionists" -- probably the first in-depth telling of all that those brave folks went through for their fellow human beings.

River_Rat

Jackie, thanks for that nice piece.