Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by tom169
(Post 12147604)
Got some good family friends out there. I took a vacation once to stay with them. As I got off the flight from Chicago to Omaha Eppley airfield the first thing anyone said to me was "why would you want to come here on vacation?"
With that said, visiting the USA as a kid, even Nebraska, was amazing and quite fascinating. I wouldn't consider living there though. :rofl: |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by tom169
(Post 12147604)
Got some good family friends out there. I took a vacation once to stay with them. As I got off the flight from Chicago to Omaha Eppley airfield the first thing anyone said to me was "why would you want to come here on vacation?"
With that said, visiting the USA as a kid, even Nebraska, was amazing and quite fascinating. I wouldn't consider living there though. :rofl: |
Re: Restrictions on travel
1,896,190 people apparently....Lol
Would not be high on my list of states though.
Originally Posted by dc koop
(Post 12147602)
Who'd want to live in say Nebraska. You cant find a non-bible station on the car radio, it's all flat, all cornfields and lousy winters.
It's a fine upstanding red state though and I've heard that they're good at square dancing |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Giantaxe
(Post 12147124)
I'll take my facts regarding Mormons in California and the gay-marriage proposition in 2008 against your normal unsubstantiated anecdotes.
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Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12147640)
1,896,190 people apparently ...
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Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by morpeth
(Post 12147986)
Am unsure where I disagreed about what you stated about Mormons in California, and the gay-marriage proposition.
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Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
(Post 12148008)
The population of Northern Ireland in an area the size of the Czech Republic. That doesn't actually seem too bad when put that way.
The US has such vast untapped agricultural potential, I don't know why they want to grow everything in California and cause water problems. But fortunately we're getting a lot of rain now. |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by morpeth
(Post 12146506)
Two wrongs don't make a right.
One is an example of a privileged and entitled group that has pushed their views on everybody else for so long that, when they find that on occasion that they are unable to get away with it, they lose their minds and claim that they're the ones being oppressed. The other is a bunch of individuals who are minding their own business and actually are being bullied and oppressed by an organized group whose function it is to insert themselves in the lives of others and control their behaviors. I'll let you work out for yourself which one is which. |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Asg123
(Post 12148515)
No, it's bigger, nearer the size of the UK than the Czech Republic.
The US has such vast untapped agricultural potential, I don't know why they want to grow everything in California and cause water problems. But fortunately we're getting a lot of rain now. |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Beaverstate
(Post 12145735)
True the KKK is far more marginal than the communist party of America, and has quite less influence. A .001% joke.
A quick internet search says there are significantly more avowed members of the KKK than that of the Communist Party of America. That doesn't include skinheads, the Aryan Brotherhood and white supremacist fringe groups in general. If we counted all of these groups I would say that the influence is significantly less marginal than that the Communist Party of America. Based on my own personal observation ... the number of white supremacists who crawled out from under their rocks to support Trump were significantly higher in number than any "communists" who came out to support Bernie or even Hillary. |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12148593)
Ability to grow year round?
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Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Giantaxe
(Post 12148394)
I'm gently nudging you to see that California just might have more diversity of publicly stated opinion than you are trying to suggest through your normal "anecdotes".
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Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Leslie
(Post 12148670)
Really? How do you know this? How do you measure "influence"? This is a strange statement ... one group is a political party, the other is a terrorist organization masquerading as a political party.
A quick internet search says there are significantly more avowed members of the KKK than that of the Communist Party of America. That doesn't include skinheads, the Aryan Brotherhood and white supremacist fringe groups in general. If we counted all of these groups I would say that the influence is significantly less marginal than that the Communist Party of America. Based on my own personal observation ... the number of white supremacists who crawled out from under their rocks to support Trump were significantly higher in number than any "communists" who came out to support Bernie or even Hillary. The membership of the right wing groups such as the KKK does seem though very marginal overall, and from what I understand up to 25% of the membership of some of those groups are government informants. |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Originally Posted by Leslie
(Post 12148535)
Yes but it's not two wrongs is it?
One is an example of a privileged and entitled group that has pushed their views on everybody else for so long that, when they find that on occasion that they are unable to get away with it, they lose their minds and claim that they're the ones being oppressed. The other is a bunch of individuals who are minding their own business and actually are being bullied and oppressed by an organized group whose function it is to insert themselves in the lives of others and control their behaviors. I'll let you work out for yourself which one is which. I think both sides on the left and right are wrong when their actions and tactics go beyond civil and reasoned debate and try to force their views on others especially in suppressing free speech such as often one comes across in universities in the USA these days. The right may wish to pass laws formulated from their own religious views that effect others, while the left from their secular point of view wishes to pass laws that infringe upon the religious views of others. |
Re: Restrictions on travel
Am I missing something here? There's no "restriction on travel".
AB 1887 prohibits a state agency, department, board, or commission from requiring any state employees, officers, or members to travel It's clearly put in place so that nobody can be required, via their government employment, to go to a state where they may be subject to discrimination. Anybody can choose to go wherever the hell they want. What's the brouhaha? |
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