Please, Please, Let This Be Real

[BDKJMU]

Most useless thread (for me) ever

If there's more than 1000 people within a five mile radius of me I don't want to live there

When I retire I will never live within a corporate limit

I'll be on my porch with a six pack and a shotgun


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Don't forget the dog..

[BDKJMU]

Sounds like Frisco Texas. Cookie cutter city that went from 20,000 to 120,000 in a decade. Contrived, stand alone downtown in the middle of nowhere.

Both Conroe and Frisco are booming...difference is, Frisco is real up-scale while Conroe is more blue-collar

http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/ ... 5#p1103807

[houndawg]

Most useless thread (for me) ever

If there's more than 1000 people within a five mile radius of me I don't want to live there

When I retire I will never live within a corporate limit

I'll be on my porch with a six pack and a shotgun


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Welcome to the club.

[Gil Dobie]

Ft Myers and all those cities in the metro area are over 600,000 out of season and probably double that from January to March.

[89Hen]

lots of tattoos and nose rings too

You must have felt at home.

[mrklean]

I don't think many liberals are going anywhere. But if it were to become evident that they were leaving in droves, before you got too excited, I think you should contemplate the fact that the overwhelming preponderance of the best and the brightest in the high tech world are liberals. Also recall that the overwhelming majority of the "cognitive elite" in this country voted Democrat this last time. More so than ever in the history of polling as far as I can tell.

If the liberals all leave a disproportionate proportion of the country's top brainpower leaves. It's something that has frustrated me for many years. But if you're objective about it you have to admit it's the case. For the most part the people behind the smart phones we use, the portable computers we use, the software that runs them, etc., were and are liberals. Most of our top scientists in other fields too. I'm not saying I understand why it's the case. But I think it's the case.

IF they're so **** smart and enlightened, how come they display the complete inability to argue a point using logic? Instead they fall immediately to emotion and can't argue their way out of a wet paper bag.

I can say this about most repukes

[Gil Dobie]

lots of tattoos and nose rings too

You must have felt at home.

Tattoos and nose rings are pretty much common place in America now, just like a mustache or beard. Can't see them as easy on hockey players, but many many athletes have them.

[kalm]

Contrived, stand alone downtown in the middle of nowhere.

You sound a little bitter that people are making nice places to live. Not everyone can, would or should live in long established cities. But don't forget that Seattle, St Louis, Denver... every city, were all in the middle of nowhere before they were built.

Personally, I love the little "downtown" areas that have been created in the burbs. Sure beats the hell out of strip malls.

Not bitter at all. Frisco is just odd. It's a downtown built within the last decade or so with late 19th and early 20th century replica architecture and sterile chain style restaurants. Like I said...contrived. It looks nice though.



I just appreciate old school eclectic neighborhoods. EG for Cleets: give me a Wallingford neighborhood across from Seattle's U district, over that new area of mixed use mini high rises just off the freeway in Sammamish any day. I prefer saloons and dive bars to Hooters and Outback Steak House.

[89Hen]

You sound a little bitter that people are making nice places to live. Not everyone can, would or should live in long established cities. But don't forget that Seattle, St Louis, Denver... every city, were all in the middle of nowhere before they were built.

Personally, I love the little "downtown" areas that have been created in the burbs. Sure beats the hell out of strip malls.

Not bitter at all. Frisco is just odd. It's a downtown built within the last decade or so with late 19th and early 20th century replica architecture and sterile chain style restaurants. Like I said...contrived. It looks nice though.

I just appreciate old school eclectic neighborhoods. EG for Cleets: give me a Wallingford neighborhood across from Seattle's U district, over that new area of mixed use mini high rises just off the freeway in Sammamish any day. I prefer saloons and dive bars to Hooters and Outback Steak House.

You can't really build a new 'downtown' and have it be old, with mom and pop businesses. It's going to be new. It's going to have chains. What is possible is that you get a couple local chains and maybe a local chef opens a new restaurant or a new brew pub. The fact that they try to make it look like it's been there is fine by me. I'm not sure what kind of architecture you think would be more appropriate or appealing.

Locally, I do love going to downtown Frederick. It's old. It has unique stores and restaurants. It's also 30 miles from the DC beltway.

[89Hen]

You must have felt at home.

Tattoos and nose rings are pretty much common place in America now, just like a mustache or beard. Can't see them as easy on hockey players, but many many athletes have them.

No doubt. I was just goading Cleets.

BTW, very big difference on where you are though. On the beach in NC a LOT less tatts than Ocean City, MD. I do laugh though because all those tatts are going to turn really ugly in a few years.

[Chizzang]

Not bitter at all. Frisco is just odd. It's a downtown built within the last decade or so with late 19th and early 20th century replica architecture and sterile chain style restaurants. Like I said...contrived. It looks nice though.

I just appreciate old school eclectic neighborhoods. EG for Cleets: give me a Wallingford neighborhood across from Seattle's U district, over that new area of mixed use mini high rises just off the freeway in Sammamish any day. I prefer saloons and dive bars to Hooters and Outback Steak House.

kalm,
You know I love old town Ballard and Wallingford
But those take a half century of percolating and mild rejigging to land just as they have

In the meantime
We've learned how to jump start them with proper mixed use zoning
These things are hard earned and change comes slowly

[AZGrizFan]

IF they're so **** smart and enlightened, how come they display the complete inability to argue a point using logic? Instead they fall immediately to emotion and can't argue their way out of a wet paper bag.

I can say this about most repukes

No you can't. It's why libtards go curling up in a corner as soon as logic is applied.

[AZGrizFan]

You must have felt at home.

Tattoos and nose rings are pretty much common place in America now, just like a mustache or beard. Can't see them as easy on hockey players, but many many athletes have them.

I'll give you tattoos...but nose rings? I don't think so.

[Gil Dobie]

Tattoos and nose rings are pretty much common place in America now, just like a mustache or beard. Can't see them as easy on hockey players, but many many athletes have them.

I'll give you tattoos...but nose rings? I don't think so.

They don't always have them in place at work.

[mrklean]

I can say this about most repukes

No you can't. It's why libtards go curling up in a corner as soon as logic is applied.

TYPICAL

[AZGrizFan]

No you can't. It's why libtards go curling up in a corner as soon as logic is applied.

TYPICAL

Correct. It is typical of Libtards.

[JohnStOnge]

You of all people should know that what I posted is the truth. If you could snap your fingers this second and all of the people you and/or I might characterize as "liberals" would disappear from the United States, the United States would lose the majority of its people who are among its brightest. And I'm thinking a substantial majority.

My guess is that if you're honest about it you'd say you think the same thing.

John, that's just plain disingenuous. You see people like Zuckerberg and Gates and that little crip Hawking, and you think that liberals dominate the intellectual sweepstakes. Holy Jesus, conservatives can't hope to compete. Throw in the towel.

I give you Hillary Clinton. And the affirmative action king, the ace TelePrompTer reader, Barry Soetero.

I rest my case.

Not being disingenuous. One indication of what I am talking about is the fact that, ever since exit polling started tracking how people with graduate education vote, that exit polling has indicated that people with graduate education consistently vote for the Democrat in Presidential elections. At times it's made me want to get a graduate degree just so I can say I have a graduate degree and voted Republican.

This time it was particularly evident. People with graduate education voted for the Democrat candidate by an estimated 58% to 37% over the Republican candidate.

And yes I realize that there isn't a perfect relationship such that everybody with a graduate degree is smarter than everybody without one. BELIEVE me I know that. But I think there is a correlation between IQ and educational attainment level. People with graduate education average higher IQ than people with college degrees but no graduate education, people with college degrees but no graduate education average higher IQ than people with some college education but no college degrees, and so on.

There are also hints from other groupings involving high IQ populations. Like Jews voting for the Democrat over the Republican this last time by 71% to 23% and Asians voting that way by 65% to 27%.

I think that if you're objective about it you have to say that it looks like the "cognitive elite" tend to vote Democrat by a solid margin. And I've recognized that in the past during all those years when I supported the Republican candidate for President. It is what it is. There's no gain in lying to oneself about what the data clearly suggest.

[Jjoey52]

Dems also carried the drop outs, as the sating goes the under and over educated voted Democrat.


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[houndawg]

Dems also carried the drop outs, as the sating goes the under and over educated voted Democrat.


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They're a big tent, JoJo.

[houndawg]

Most useless thread (for me) ever

If there's more than 1000 people within a five mile radius of me I don't want to live there

When I retire I will never live within a corporate limit

I'll be on my porch with a six pack and a shotgun


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Don't forget the dog..

Has to be the right kind of dog... Redbone, Treeing Walker, Black and Tan....

I roll with the Treeing Walker, PBR, and a Remington 870....

[JohnStOnge]

Dems also carried the drop outs, as the sating goes the under and over educated voted Democrat.


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Yes I've written about that before. I've written on this forum, about previous elections, that my belief is that people who voted for the Republican had a slightly higher average IQ than people who voted for the Democrat did. But I thought that those in the extremes of the IQ distribution...those in the lowest 15% or so and those in the highest 15% or so...voted for the Democrat.

I think it might've been different this time. I think the average IQ of those who voted Republican may have been lower than the average IQ of those who voted Democrat. I do think the basic picture with respect to both those in the lowest 15 % and the highest 15% voting Democrat is the same. But I think the percentage of those in the highest 15% who voted Democrat increased dramatically.

And, obviously, I think that voting for Trump was a stupid thing to do. I don't care if you had an IQ of 70 or an IQ of 180. If you voted for Trump either in the Republican primaries or in the general election I think that was a stupid thing to do. MORE stupid if you did it during the Republican primaries. But stupid in either case.

[CID1990]

Dems also carried the drop outs, as the sating goes the under and over educated voted Democrat.


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Yes I've written about that before. I've written on this forum, about previous elections, that my belief is that people who voted for the Republican had a slightly higher average IQ than people who voted for the Democrat did. But I thought that those in the extremes of the IQ distribution...those in the lowest 15% or so and those in the highest 15% or so...voted for the Democrat.

I think it might've been different this time. I think the average IQ of those who voted Republican may have been lower than the average IQ of those who voted Democrat. I do think the basic picture with respect to both those in the lowest 15 % and the highest 15% voting Democrat is the same. But I think the percentage of those in the highest 15% who voted Democrat increased dramatically.

And, obviously, I think that voting for Trump was a stupid thing to do. I don't care if you had an IQ of 70 or an IQ of 180. If you voted for Trump either in the Republican primaries or in the general election I think that was a stupid thing to do. MORE stupid if you did it during the Republican primaries. But stupid in either case.

That had nothing to do with it


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[JohnStOnge]

Voting in a stupid way had everything to do with it. That's why we're in the situation we're in now.

[CID1990]

Voting in a stupid way had everything to do with it. That's why we're in the situation we're in now.

Those poor folks were unhappy about their economic situation, JSO


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[Jjoey52]

Actually when it comes to policy, Trump has gotten a good Supreme Court judge, has cut the illegal immigration back, and boosted the economy. I do not fault him for the Congressional health debacle. His problem is all the histrionics that have occurred nice he took office, some his fault, he needs to focus on policy alone and let staffers deal with the garbage.


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