We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.
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Assistant Village Idiot
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2017-02-12 15:28
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That finger of dark red on the Texas coast that juts into an area of deep blue in South Texas: I live on the fingernail. I like to think I'm on the business end of the capitalist sword.
I remember when they were considering establishing the Department of Education. Folks considered calling it the Department of Public Education. DOPE was a great acronym.
When Starbucks declared that they would hire 10,000 refugees it brought home the problem with refugees and immigrants. They are taking our jobs. Today a lot of young citizens work at Starbucks. They seem to like their jobs. But Starbucks will be outsourcing your jobs to "refugees". Thanks Starbucks. We will remember this.
Not necessarily accurate. Take TX-23, which is that big light blue area along the Rio Grande, a.k.a. southern border. TX-23 voted:
Year Margin of victory
2010-R 4.9 %
2012-D 4.8%
2014-R 2.1%
2016-R 1.3%