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Ybor City project rat.

ER — 9/12/2008 3:29:00 AM (archived)

Long before I was old enough to even know what politics was, I knew that world was a myth. The world of Lincoln Rockwell paintings and Dick and Jane readers simply did not exist in my universe, no one I knew lived like Timmy in "Lassie". No one I knew even had a dog. And when we moved from the city to the country it wasn't like I thought it would be from what I saw on TV. It was a lot more like the Little Rascals, except there was no Buckwheat. Everyone I knew lived like the Ricardos and the Mertzes, the Cramdens and the Nortons.

No, I'm not saying it was hell on earth, I had a good time as a kid and I was happy. I was never hungry and I had good clothes on my back and shoes on my feet. I was brought up in city projects, spent my adolescence in suburban tract housing and went to high school with redneck kids in the country. But the farms in rural Florida didn't look like the ones in Mayberry. They were tomato and strawberry and citrus factories and they were worked by migrant workers.

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Sarah Palin's Myth of America - ER - 9/11/2008 6:02:25 PM
- But Palin's embrace of small-town values is where her hold on the national imagination begins. - Lindy - 9/12/2008 3:07:01 PM
- re: Sarah Palin's Myth of America. - Ok... - Marcia - 9/12/2008 3:47:36 AM
  - A lot of Klein's premises in that article are incorrect. - TB - 9/12/2008 4:32:15 PM
    - OMG - Lindy - 9/12/2008 5:40:22 PM
      - Oh Lindy...what have you done? - McFly - 9/13/2008 12:02:50 AM
  - re: Sarah Palin's Myth of America. - Ok... In Other Words, I agree with that one. (n/t) - Marcia - 9/12/2008 3:49:23 AM
- That's heady stuff. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 2:35:18 AM
  - Ybor City project rat. - ER - 9/12/2008 3:29:00 AM
    - Freudian Slip? - ER - 9/13/2008 6:26:05 PM
    - You don't get it. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 7:11:12 AM
      - But I got this much... - ER - 9/12/2008 10:40:59 AM
        
        " Right or wrong, the Left thinks the world can be better, the Right doesn't care as long as ..." (n/t) - they don't have to live in it - 9/12/2008 3:26:06 PM
        
        re: But I got this much... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/12/2008 12:57:12 PM
        
        Of course, the slander is half-hearted... - ER - 9/12/2008 1:35:37 PM
        
        I'll Take Melting Pot Over Muticulturalism Anyday - Marsby - 9/14/2008 3:07:04 AM
        
        I can live with that assessment - ER - 9/14/2008 2:31:38 PM
        
        re: I can live with that assessment - Marsby - 9/15/2008 12:57:19 AM
- Sounds like someone really doesn't like America. - Lee - 9/11/2008 11:23:13 PM
  - re: Take another look at Joe Klein - SteveS - 9/12/2008 1:53:13 AM
    - I'm sure he does like Bush. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:11:21 AM
      - You been drinking much? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/12/2008 4:35:13 AM
  - Never heard you define yourself so cleary as a white supremacist. - RobVG - 9/12/2008 1:19:22 AM
    - Lee's master race - ARRELL - 9/12/2008 6:14:25 PM
      - Except the beer ain't American. - ER - 9/13/2008 1:35:53 AM
    - And that makes no sense. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:22:44 AM
  - Play that funky music, white boy. - ER - 9/12/2008 12:33:27 AM
    - You must not be able to take it either. - Lee - 9/12/2008 3:17:58 AM
      - Hey Lee, from one white man to another... - Buck Galaxy - 9/13/2008 6:25:12 PM
      - We? WE???? - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 5:29:54 PM
        
        Just making a retort Mary Anne. - Lee - 9/12/2008 11:36:06 PM
        
        The Red and the Black... - Mary Anne - 9/14/2008 2:31:52 AM
        
        The Cubans have a saying... - ER - 9/13/2008 1:24:08 AM
        
        Keeping this impersonal - Lee - 9/13/2008 3:08:51 AM
        
        So how does this prove the superiority of the white race? - ER - 9/13/2008 1:45:46 PM
        
        The only person talking "superiority" is you. - Lee - 9/13/2008 4:07:38 PM
        
        Since you asked. Here's the real deal. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/14/2008 12:10:06 AM
        
        Awesome post - The Silent Majority - 9/15/2008 3:40:05 AM
        
        Oh, your reply right here does a pretty good job of talking up white supremacist opinion. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/13/2008 4:37:15 PM
        
        Q.E.D. - ER - 9/13/2008 6:56:54 PM
        
        What's really funny. - alcaray - 9/13/2008 8:34:08 PM
        
        Not only that, - ER - 9/13/2008 11:07:44 PM
        
        You've got that wrong. - Lee - 9/14/2008 12:57:30 AM
        
        So you're saying it's white capitalists who are responsible? - ER - 9/14/2008 1:53:39 AM
      - You're out of line, Lee - RobertS - 9/12/2008 4:57:51 AM
        
        I agree, Robert. - Lee - 9/12/2008 11:26:56 PM
      - Geeze, at least get your ethnic slurs right... - z - 9/12/2008 3:38:11 AM
        
        a little more on this slur... - z - 9/12/2008 2:35:25 PM
        
        In some parts of the South and West... - ER - 9/12/2008 6:49:07 PM
        
        A veces estoy harto de explicar a esos pendejos - z - 9/12/2008 9:12:04 PM
        
        I don't know what a "pupusa" is... - ER - 9/13/2008 1:33:56 AM
        
        Tasty, sort of empanada-like. Central American... El Salvadoran? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/13/2008 5:30:07 AM
        
        It sounds absolutely dreadful, - ER - 9/13/2008 2:16:02 PM
        
        pupusas are pretty popular hereabouts - alcaray - 9/13/2008 6:47:53 PM
      - The real reason we come here... - ER - 9/12/2008 3:33:15 AM
        
        I suspect they hold no attraction in this case. - Bowser - 9/12/2008 7:49:12 AM
- Gibson's first interview. Got her first passport this year, and ready to be president.. - Bowser - 9/11/2008 10:23:22 PM
  - She's a female GWB who doesn't trip over her tongue. Yet. (n/t) - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:14:20 AM
  - Unfortunately I think Sarah Palin missed her true calling in life - z - 9/12/2008 2:10:18 AM
    - Yeah, DEAD Ringer for Tina Fey of SNL Fame - carl - 9/12/2008 3:09:24 PM
      - You think she's got that much of a sense of humor? (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/12/2008 6:48:02 PM
    - Hmmmm - Eri - 9/12/2008 3:15:23 AM
      - No, she's the religious fanatic who would have eagerly judged and burned the witches... (n/t) - z - 9/12/2008 3:22:24 AM
        
        Well... - Eri - 9/12/2008 1:03:14 PM

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