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[BIGNASTY]

In response to your Email Questions about where we're at. The evening before we were to leave for Niagara Falls NY. We went to dinner, when we were leaving the restaurant a group of protesters, protesting the problems in MN and LA were outside. I guess that SOME LIVES MATTER BUT NOT OURS. They broke out the windshield & side window on the Tacoma Eventually the Police were called by the restaurant to escort us out of the area. We have seen this event on TV news tearing up our car.

BIG asked us on the way back to the RV that night what I wanted to do? Go on to Niagara Falls or NYC, GET ME THE HELL BACK HOME was my request. 36 hours later we were safe at home.

BIG is now on his way back from Lexington KY where he and a friend picked up livestock for my Father & Son. He left the day after we arrived home from DC. Got some rest in Lexington and last I had heard from them they were getting coffee in Omaha NB. on their way home.


Penny

 

[SMcGrady]

I'm so sorry to hear this. It is really terrible. We are blessed to live in a land where free speech and the right to protest are protected. But, some abuse these rights as an excuse to riot, destroy, and terrorize.
My 6th grade social studies teacher said it very eloquently... "Your rights end where my nose begins".
It sounds like you were having a wonderful trip up to this point and it is such a shame that it ended on such a note. Take care, both of you.

 

[CBari]

Sorry to hear that the trip was cut short. It is a sad mixed up world we are living in enjoy your piece of heaven and be thankful for the time and food you did get to enjoy on your trip.

SMcGrady your 6th grade teacher had it right in my opinion.

 

[mwilson]

Sorry to hear about this, was hoping you might make it a little farther up the East Coast....glad that you are safely home!!!






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[SMcGrady]

Black people have no reason/right to protest? Black people are the only ones with dirty communities? All criminals are black and blacks are solely responsible for causing the problems?
Narrow minded indeed...

 

[mwilson]

Black people have no reason/right to protest? Black people are the only ones with dirty communities? All criminals are black and blacks are solely responsible for causing the problems?
Narrow minded indeed...

I don't see where it says that anywhere. I've read it several times.

 

[SMcGrady]

Then what was your point? Now you're just being obtuse.

Carry on though... I now recall why I stopped visiting this forum some time back. It has been taken over by a lot of "narrow minded" folks. It is too bad as it once was a much friendlier place.
Adios

 

[mwilson]

Wow, easy there. My point was "Work Together".....don't smash stuff up. People don't like it when stuff gets smashed up. The point does not get taken.

It's gone.

 

[mwilson]

This is how the protest went in Maine with "Narrow Minded Mainers" all over the place.....don't make an assumption about me or my State without knowing more.

Nobody busted up anything and look, they got together and talked.

You read waaaaay too much into the picture. My intent was not to offend anyone but when I found that it did I removed it.





PORTLAND, Maine — Last Friday night, with news of the recent killings of two black men and five police officers blazing across headlines and blaring from TV sets, a crowd marched to the Portland police station and began to chant.
“No justice! No peace! No racist police!” cried the roughly 200 people gathered peacefully to mark the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. The chant echoed a line used Thursday in Dallas, Texas, before a sniper shattered the peace of a march against police violence by shooting 13 officers and killing five.
Over the weekend, that message was repeated at protests across the country, some of which broke out in violence. But in Portland on Friday, it was cut short by a lone 17-year-old black activist, David Thete, who silenced the crowd with a reminder that they were protesting police brutality — not the Portland Police Department.
A few days later community leaders converged at Green Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church on Munjoy Hill, at an event meant to highlight Portland’s commitment to keep the peace in a city largely untouched by the kind of violence that’s dominated recent news cycles. Thete shared the stage with Portland police Chief Michael Sauschuck.
The local protest and the conversation that followed underscore an emerging reality in Portland — the city is approaching an unprecedented era of diversity, and some are questioning how the police can and should change with it.
“Violence can take many forms, and we have largely been fortunate in Portland not to experience those things,” Danielle Conway, dean of the University of Maine School of Law, said. “Our question is, how do we get ahead of this?”
For Conway, the persistent, nagging fear of violence from law enforcement is a fact of being black in America. It’s something she lives with even while feeling at home and welcome in Portland.
“I change my behavior every time I get in the car. I am more guarded. You can’t let your defenses down,” said Conway, who also served 25 years in the U.S. Army, obtaining the rank of lieutenant colonel. “I specifically edit the toys that I allow my child to bring in the car with us because I don’t want to get stopped and have a police officer think that shiny toy is a gun.”
Portlanders take pride in their city’s diversity, but its 15 percent non-white population is notable only relative to Maine overall, which, at 95 percent white,contends with Vermont to be the whitest state in the nation. Portland is far more homogeneous than America’s metropolitan centers and also less diverse than some similar-sized New England cities, such as Pawtucket, Rhode Island, andFramingham, Massachusetts.
But driven by a steady stream of immigration, the city is already twice as diverse as it was 16 years ago and may be on the cusp of a major generational shift.
The Portland public schools are dramatically more diverse than the city overall. This past school year, 58 percent of Portland students were white, while 25 percent were black, 6 percent were Hispanic, 6 percent were Asian and the remainder were of mixed race or Native American, according to district statistics.
Thete said city leaders need a plan on how to avoid the racial violence that sprung up even in cities, such as Dallas, that have focused on de-escalation andcommunity-based policing.
“I want to hear why they think this will not happen in our city,” he said.
Sauschuck said his department is committed to maintaining the close ties between the police force and Portland’s communities of color that were on display at the AME church Tuesday. In January, Portland hired Maine’s first Somali police officer.
But he admitted that’s not enough.
“I need to have more officers of color at the Portland Police Department. That needs to happen. We’re not where we need to be today in 2016,” Sauschuck told the hundreds of people who overflowed the pews at the church Tuesday.

 

[JR]

BIG and family I'm glad all are safe.

What crazy times we live in. I don't watch basketball but was watching the local (Cleveland) news when the Cavs won the title a "posse" of dip****s decided to destroy a police cruiser just outside the arena. The car was completely totaled, windows smashed, car flipped on its roof. All in celebration, eh? Every one of these tards were on camera on live TV and yet no arrests were made. I watched the morning news the very next morning and no mention. Nothin in any of the local papers, either. People can say what they will but it takes a special crowd to pull something off like this on live national television with no consequences.

And that is what we refer to as different standards for different folks.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Sorry to hear about this, was hoping you might make it a little farther up the East Coast....glad that you are safely home!!!






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Mr. Wilson
Gail had fully intended to show up at the Freightliner Dealership and see you. We were going to Acadia National Park, he has some old photos of when he was there last in the mid 70's its truly on our lists of " Must Do's" One of the reasons why we went on the trip was to explore regions of the US and return to the ones that interested us the most. One of the problems we found with a New England visit is timing, Gail's only real passion for the year is his hunting. That takes place from the first of Sept. to the Middle of Oct. & if lucky in a draw into Nov. That's the time that he said that New England is at its most Beautiful with the turning of the trees. We have planned to return next year for a more in-depth visit into New Brunswick & Nova Scotia.

When he was discharged from the Military in Maine, he attended the Montreal Olympics in 1976 went to the Boxing, Judo and Wrestling ( I guess he liked fighting) Sorry if this offends anyone but he wasn't real keen on going to Quebec & Montreal, just like when we went to France he said that the people were kind of Snotty until you pulled out a wad of "Green Backs" But being able to speak French I want to see them and I don't have to tell you when I tell him something its done. :-laf

I hope that nobody believes that all Black People are like the ones in DC. We have friends that we both worked with in Calif. and don't see that as being a part of any Genetic thing like some of the people on the Network News and Internet have suggested. We have ALWAYS believed that there is Good & Bad in all nationalities.

Gail was totally surprised when several of the Men he served with, came to visit the Vietnam Wall Memorial with him. One of the Men that gave Gail blood on the helicopter was Black, I don't know for sure but I don't believe in my heart that Gail would have refused his gift. When they met at the Memorial Mr. Samson walked up behind Gail and asked him if he " Still likes them Pork ribs" That was a Great thing to see, Gail's done Much better after that visit and the Disabled Veterans Memorial visit.

Worth any of the cost to repair our car

Penny

 

[jhenderson]

Black people have no reason/right to protest? Black people are the only ones with dirty communities? All criminals are black and blacks are solely responsible for causing the problems?
Narrow minded indeed...

It werent Mormons that trashed their vehicle.

 

[mwilson]

It werent Mormons that trashed their vehicle.

Careful, you'll be over in "Obtuseville" with me.......

 

[BIGNASTY]

I had to look up what the word Obtuse meant !!!!!!!!




ob·tuse
əbˈt(y)o͞os,äbˈt(y)o͞os/
adjective
adjective: obtuse

• 1.
  annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
  "he wondered if the doctor was being deliberately obtuse"
  [TABLE="class: vk_tbl vk_gy"]
  
  synonyms:
  
  stupid, slow-witted, slow, dull-witted, unintelligent, ignorant, simpleminded, witless; Moreinsensitive, imperceptive, uncomprehending;
  informaldim, dimwitted, dense, dumb, slow on the uptake, halfwitted, brain-dead, moronic, cretinous, thick, dopey, lamebrained, dumb-***, dead from the neck up, boneheaded, chowderheaded
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [/TABLE]

I wish next time you folks wouldn't use such big words that people like me have to use the dictionary to figure out.

Obtuseville isn't such a bad place I've lived there most all of my life.







BIG

 

[jhenderson]

Mr. Wilson
Gail had fully intended to show up at the Freightliner Dealership and see you. We were going to Acadia National Park, he has some old photos of when he was there last in the mid 70's its truly on our lists of " Must Do's" One of the reasons why we went on the trip was to explore regions of the US and return to the ones that interested us the most. One of the problems we found with a New England visit is timing, Gail's only real passion for the year is his hunting. That takes place from the first of Sept. to the Middle of Oct. & if lucky in a draw into Nov. That's the time that he said that New England is at its most Beautiful with the turning of the trees. We have planned to return next year for a more in-depth visit into New Brunswick & Nova Scotia.

When he was discharged from the Military in Maine, he attended the Montreal Olympics in 1976 went to the Boxing, Judo and Wrestling ( I guess he liked fighting) Sorry if this offends anyone but he wasn't real keen on going to Quebec & Montreal, just like when we went to France he said that the people were kind of Snotty until you pulled out a wad of "Green Backs" But being able to speak French I want to see them and I don't have to tell you when I tell him something its done. :-laf

I hope that nobody believes that all Black People are like the ones in DC. We have friends that we both worked with in Calif. and don't see that as being a part of any Genetic thing like some of the people on the Network News and Internet have suggested. We have ALWAYS believed that there is Good & Bad in all nationalities.

Gail was totally surprised when several of the Men he served with, came to visit the Vietnam Wall Memorial with him. One of the Men that gave Gail blood on the helicopter was Black, I don't know for sure but I don't believe in my heart that Gail would have refused his gift. When they met at the Memorial Mr. Samson walked up behind Gail and asked him if he " Still likes them Pork ribs" That was a Great thing to see, Gail's done Much better after that visit and the Disabled Veterans Memorial visit.

Worth any of the cost to repair our car

Penny

A wise man judges others not by the color of their skin, the church they go to or the money they have, but by their actions.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Sorry for not getting online to see what's going on, BIG has been busy with two projects simultaneously!! The group is in the process of erecting a 20,000 sqft calving barn/ Veterinarian office for large and small animals. Our Niece is coming home and needed an office to practice with her husband. BIG & Crew have just done the footings and poured the concrete. The Butler Building? (I don't know if its a type or brand of building) is going to be erected by a professional crew with the size of some of the metal beams that are on site, its more than BIG can handle.

The second project is our home addition, when it was first built it was intended for Gail & I to grow old in. We've grown in family size and with that our home is often filled to the point of being uncomfortable. We have a wall of glass at one end and that will be moved out to the end of the 25' X 30' addition along with the extended walk out basement and a covered deck surrounding half the house, the kitchen although well designed by YOURS TRULEY is very efficient but lacks capacity for some of the large gatherings we have especially around the Holidays. I'm having BIG remove the wood cook stove and install a new set-up that will allow me to make things that were next to impossible to do with the wood stove, heat and temp control were lacking.


BIG was asked what he was going to do with the extra room in the basement? he has a few more workout machines that he wants to put in our Gym. So that's it for now.


See Ya!!

Penny

 

[BIGNASTY]

Been out of touch (normal for me ) started the building addition on the house got it weather tight and then along came hunting season. Been doing that for about a Month and a Half and finished up with a 100% success rate on Elk and 90% rate for Mule Deer (some didn't want the mule deer even thought they bought the combo tag????? )

Going to Indianapolis Indiana for a reason that I wont discuss ( I don't really believe it either) and don't want to start an argument that some seem to enjoy.

Glad to see that the world SUCH AS IT IS still spinning in the right direction and that there's no reason for the cops to shoot some xxx hole that sorely needs it when they point a Vap Cigarette that looks like a gun barrel and takes a shooting stance OR when some MORON pulls out a gun TOY OR NOT and points it at some cops and when they get their xxx blown away the other ? go nuts HA HA HA HA HA

just have to wonder where this world is going, Have had several enlightening & entertaining ENCOUNTERS ? with Gen X and Millennial age group folks, While hunting and bringing in game to the processor. Not all, but most are living in a world that is not in our Universe, We have a few but nowhere near what the Large Cities have, I just have to wonder when they brought back the Twilight Zone and put it on Reality TV?


Hope that the East Coasters survive the approaching hurricane, I made mention of one last time and was told that, ITS NO BIG DEAL WE DEAL WITH THIS ALL THE TIME!!! Sandy must have heard that and was a little more than the ones that are dealt with ALL THE TIME.

Take care and have a good rest of the year stay out of harms way and keep your choice of protection loaded and within arms reach

BIG & Penny

 

[Regcabguy]

I recently met a neighbor with an accent. I asked where he was originally from as I'm fascinated with accents. He replied" I'm from South Africa" He's a naturalized American for 12 years now making him a true African- American. He's white, We Had some good laughs.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Here in Indiana has some accents!!! You haul pronounced u hual I thought that they wanted us to use or rent a u-hual*
BIG