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  1. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    And there you have it.
  2. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    You mean women up north, well outside of the Bible Belt, where they don't put up with it and will report it? Not really sure how that applies, especially since I'm not even talking about the sexual violence of which those numbers are comprised. I'm talking about the full range of abuse from...
  3. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    Just traveling around KY and TN, I don't see it either. Nobody would. But when you are immersed in it and deal with large numbers of people on a daily basis it becomes shockingly clear. I saw it when I managed restaurants and had 50, 60 people on payroll. You get to know these people on a...
  4. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    That's the difference between living up north and living in the belt buckle of the Bible Belt. When I lived in Ohio, New Jersey and Pennsylvania I didn't see much of it, but in Kentucky and Tennessee I see it more often than not.
  5. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    The country women I know routinely put up with an insane amount of abusive crap from their boyfriends and husbands. I don't know any that would tolerate sharia law, but I know plenty who willingly tolerate biblical law and the subservience that goes along with it.
  6. Turtle

    Why no celebration?

    That doesn't even make sense. There is no winning or losing with science. The truth wins. Reality wins. Science is merely the method used to find it the truth and reality of the natural world. When liberals and conservatives hijack science for their own purposes, that's not science.
  7. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    I've never seen one, either. Turtles aren't apple-ah-chee-uhn.
  8. Turtle

    Sprinter engine rebuilder in Texas region?

    There's a machine shop in El Paso, Car Parts and Machining or something like that, that I don't have any experience with personally, but I've heard they're pretty good. They do cars and trucks, gas and diesel, all sizes. I'd at least give 'am a call. They may be able to do it, or know someone...
  9. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    Which, of course, is blue.
  10. Turtle

    Excerpts from Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad."

    It goes back much further than that, to about 1250. As Twain in his book, and as others have similarly commented on, there is a stark absence of technological advancement and a general ignorance in most Muslim countries. It didn't used to be that way. The Qu'ran was penned in the late 600s...
  11. Turtle

    Modern Life In Appalachia

    Kentucky Is Exactly What You'd Expect: Married Cousins and Inbred Children
  12. Turtle

    Connecticut Sprinter Tech?

    Depending on which model year Sprinter... 08 and earlier: Danbury Dodge in Danbury (203-730-5737) Papa's Dodge in New Brittain (680-225-8751) Any model year: New Country Motor Cars (Mercedes) in Hartford (860-278-2000) Mercedes Benz of Fairfield in Fairfield (877-363-8407) There's also the...
  13. Turtle

    Bad Van Crash

    Well, since " unmarked Ford Cargo Van" is a phrase used ubiquitously in expedite, and this is an expediting web site, I certainly inferred expedite, especially since USA Today apparently actually used the words "unmarked" and "cargo."
  14. Turtle

    Modern life in Saudi Arabia.

    The chances of a Moose or any other individual leaving a forum due to a single person or a single issue discussed on that forum, is highly unlikely. When people stop posting on topic-themed or specialty web sites, it is invariably due to them being no longer interested in or participate in that...
  15. Turtle

    music spoofs

    Most of Bob Rivers' stuff is just brilliant. Probably my favorite is Me and Mr Magoo (stone cold parody of Me and Bobby McGee). No video in the Rivers parody, but the lyrics are just hilarious, and the singer sounds as if like Janice Joplin herself recorded it. Got a flat in Timbuktu Waiting...
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    Modern life in Saudi Arabia.

    Just because Moose feels it is Antisemitism does not make it so. He feels that any criticism of Israel in general or any of the Israeli government's policies fall into that category, the same as there are some who feel any criticism of anything within the Obama administration is a direct racial...
  17. Turtle

    Diving Turtle Returns to the Players Golf Tournament

    Diving Turtle's other historic dives at the Players Championships
  18. Turtle

    Modern Life in Brunei.

    Religion happens. Pity the everybody.
  19. Turtle

    Modern life in Saudi Arabia.

    Barbarism has many levels, none of them good. Islamic sharia law is hardly the only religious law that embraces barbarism on one level or another, and it's hardly the only religious law codified into law. Real barbarism? Is that some sort of a level of barbarism to which you find unacceptable...
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    music spoofs

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