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BigCountry

Bellefontaine, Ohio, UNITED STATES


Joined November 12th 2006

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I'm an artisan farmer/homesteader. I garden and raise my livestock as organicly as possible. I also make my own bread, quite a few of my own tools, brew my own beer, and try to walk as lightly upon the earth as possible. Since the idjits at NASA still haven't got us any other planets to live on, I reckon we ought to be maintaining this one, a bit better.

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Comment by BigCountry
on Reflections on Little Rock (Hannah Arendt)

January 24th 2009 22:20
I think Hannah is wrong on this. If you don't want to play with me that's fine, but you don't have the right to keep me from playing at the play ground. I can't remember ever being made to party with someone I didn't want to party with. It wouldn't be much of a party then, would it?
Another point; Didn't the Nazis have places they called "Judenfrie"? Meaning free of jews? I bet Hannah would have fought against that.
What it comes down to is that if I have a party at my house and I don't want black prople or Jews there then I can not invite them. But that is a private affair in my home or whatever. School, work, things like that should be open to all, sorry. I think Hannah was trying to justify her own bigotry. Hannah is also wrong in the assumption that school is a private thing. Here in the US of A school is a publicly funded institution, and is therefore, as it should be, open to all. If parents don't want their children to "associate" with certain kids or types of kids, then home schooling is an allowable option.

Comment by BigCountry
on Hiroshima was justified because it ended the war quickly

December 3rd 2008 20:22
Hey Simbad,
Sorry it took so long to get back; I don't get the eMail alerts to responses anymore.Would I kill 8 to save one? if the8 are my ENEMIES then hell yes!! Not if they are allies or neutrals though. You are right, the US is a self-serving country, show me a country that isn't. And war is the ultimate in self-serving.
The US was doing nothing to starve the Japanese prior to WWII. We just refused to sell them oil, or scrap metal. Something that everyone on the face of the earth thinks is a great thing to do to the USA. Arabs embargo the USA and everyone cheers. USA does the same to a nation that is occupying another and the USA is an evil self-serving empire. Quite hippocritical, wouldn't you say? No one is forced to start a war, but any nation has the right to defend themselves. Or is that every nation except the USA?
The USA is NOT a Christian nation, it is a secular nation who's population is about 84% Christian of 1 stripe or another. It was founded on Christian principals, though.
As for our poverty line, it's pretty high. I live below the poverty line and I own 2 vehicles, 9 acres of land and my own home. This is a great country to be poor in. Even the starvlings are 100 lbs overweight!!
We agree about the education in the US. Everytime we try to emulate Europe everything goes to hell here. I never could figure out why so many folks WANT to keep trying that.
Every country is full of prostitues. I've been to over 100 other nations and ran into whores in every one of them, and availed myself to quite a few of their services. Flash a couple of American dollars and they seem to come out of the woodwork. All countries have prostitutes.
Guns, yes we have lots of them, you say that like it's a bad thing. I'm quite poor (below the poverty line, remember) so I only own 9 rifles, four shotguns (got my deer yesterday morning, a 6 point), and a few handguns. The difference between the US and other countries, is that here EVERYONE is allowed to own a gun, other countries only the criminal element has them.
As for the French, they are allowing themselves to be bred out of existance by the the Arab immigrants intheir country and in another generation or 2 won't matter to ANYONE anymore. The same as they DON'T matter to America now. They have a rich culture, it's true. Examples of which include sinking civilian ships full of environmentalists, selling weapons to terrorists, and whining about their past glories.
The citizens of every country on the planet seem to believe the US is evil because we are successful as a nation, and as a people.They want us to be more "global". To stop hurting the feelings of other nations by being so successful, yadda yadda yadda. If other countries would take care of themselves and stop waiting for the US to take care of them, they would be better off. Instead of be so jealous about what we have become, look to us as an example of what you could aspire to.

Comment by BigCountry
on Hiroshima was justified because it ended the war quickly

November 12th 2007 00:51
Garry,
You're an idiot. Every country that decided to "study war no more" ceased to exist. Ask the Tibetans what happens when you refuse to have an army. I agree that peace, prosperity, and contemplation of God and His creation should be the highest goal a person or community should aim for. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen until the Lord comes back. When he comes back, I'll throw away my nukes, Until then, like Colonel Tibbets, I'll drop one on the enemies of my adopted nation and sleep like a baby afterward. The US didn't bomb Pearl Harbour, the Japonese did. They started a war, we finished it.
Lots of countries hate the US, mostly because they can't get their act togethor enough to compete against us. Those that copy us, have done VERY well. Ask the Japonese.
You talk about how evil the US is because we dropped a bomb on a country we were at war with, a war THEY started, then turn around and laud a bunch of cowardly terrorists for 9/11. You're not only an idiot, but you're a hippocrite to boot.

Comment by BigCountry
on Hiroshima was justified because it ended the war quickly

November 20th 2006 13:13
ChrisM
You are absolutly correct in that Truman was also sending a message to Stalin. The Germans, and the Soviets had their own nuclear programs trying to develope an atom bomb. We found out not long after the war that the German program had not amounted to much. We had no such info on the Soviets until they exploded their own.
As for Hirohito having offered a conditional surrender: It's true, he did. His conditions were that the US cease hostilities and they would, too. It was proposed that the Phillipines become a Japanese Protectorate, and that the puppet Empire of Manchuko become the Japanese Prefecture of Manchuko. Except for those "adjustments" the US and Empire of Japan return to their pre-war territories. That's not a surrender. That's a ceasation of hostilities, a ceasation that leaves the US Territory of the Phillipines in enemy hands, along with 1/2 of China who was our ally.
It was DECADES before all the Japanese finally surrendered. On Guam they still had hold outs up in the jungled hills in the 70s. In the Phillipines they were still coming out of the jungles and burning the Philipinoes crops as late as 1973 before they killed the last one to refuse to surrender. In Japanese schools they still don't teach about Pearl Harbour.
Nuclear weapons are terrible things.I hear about how terrible America is because we have nukes. I have been told we are arrogant for one reason or another. But every country I've been to (over 100) we were on the front pages of the local newspapers, and the broadcast news spent more time discussing doings in America, than in their own nations. It's one reason I came to America. I have never regretted that decision.

Comment by BigCountry
on Sculpture by the Sea 2006 (part 2)

November 16th 2006 13:09
Pretty strange stuff, Adrian. I guess it REALLY is art, 'cause I don't know if I like it or not. Some I thought were beautiful, some just ugly, but most were thought provocing (sic). Thank you.

Comment by BigCountry
on Limericks Needed

November 14th 2006 18:57
That is so cool! thank you, Adele. I'll try to crank out one or 2 more.

Comment by BigCountry
on Limericks Needed

November 13th 2006 23:07
I checked my email last eve
the spam count :100 and 3
I thought with a sigh,
"What a waste of my Time!
does anyone actually read these?

Comment by BigCountry
on Limericks Needed

November 13th 2006 15:51
I once got some spam from "hot Stocks"
it preceded the one for cheap botox
it deleted my fun
to find that I'd won
the best selling cure for small cocks

Comment by BigCountry
on Description of an orgy party

November 13th 2006 13:34
I went to an orgy back in my first couple years in the Navy. It was different in what you are describing in that everyone knew each other. It was....ok, I guess. But I never cared to go back. It was just....tacky. I'm not sure how else to describe it. A bar with a punch bowl full of condoms, and folks all drinking and screwing. I remember 6 guys sitting around a table with girls under it blowing them. They were trying to carry on a conversation like nothing was happening. the first to smile or cum lost. There were a lot of married couples, but lots of single guys and girls, too. They bragged that the orgy had been going on for over 12 years, every weekend. Prolly still going on for all I know.

Comment by BigCountry
on Limericks Needed

November 13th 2006 02:29
There once was an Aussie named Ahmed,
who hadn't a brain in his head,
He started a fight,
'cause he thought he was right,
but discovered his ignorance instead