December 13, 2007
By: Sid Riley
This column presents a non-partisan, conservative viewpoint about items of interest in our community and our lives. Focus is on items that are impacting your pocket book, your personal freedoms, and your rights. I hope that you will read the column regularly and that it occasionally influences your opinions and actions. Now, on to the subject of the week:
"I’m Thankful That I Live In the South. It May Be Called the "Bible Belt" by Some of the Yankees But I Had Rather Live Among "Bible Thumpers" Instead of "Liberal Loonies!"
I have often stated that after the Civil War the Yankees demonstrated how unaware they were when they went back home instead of "occupying" the southlands they had conquered. It was only during the past forty or fifty years they realized their error and began to leave the terrible North and move to our sunny South.
The first thing wrong with the North is---IT"S COLD UP THERE!
My poor, fragile body can endure heat much better than cold. Cold hurts, hot is uncomfortable. I had rather be occasionally a little uncomfortable than be in pain.
Another thing wrong in the North is the fact they have gone even further than we’re in the South have gone in allowing the Big Brother bureaucracy to take away almost all of their property rights, and have created an even larger bureaucratic burden by allowing it to swell to even greater proportions during the past forty years. The local taxes there are 50% higher than in most of the South. This may have been caused by their closer proximity to the magic kingdom of Washington DC, where bureaucracy reigns supreme and tax monies rain from the sky every day. We have Disneyland South…Washington is Disneyland North!
A third negative about living in the North is the percentage of "Liberal Loonies" that reside there. These LL’s are a segment of society that have lost contact with reality, and have become dedicated to social and /or environmental causes of such extreme doctrines that their ultimate effect would eventually be to destroy our nation. Most of these "LL’s " live and work in cloistered environments such as college campuses, hospitals, huge bureaucratic societies, or huge, isolated Northern cities such as New York City. It is in these abodes that liberal organizations such as the Civil Liberties Union and many others fester and swirl out their poisoned propaganda.
Another negative about the frozen North and its Yankees is that THEY USE THEIR HORNS! They will blow you away for the smallest of delay or hesitation. In the South it is considered a fighting level insult to have someone blast their horn at you. They are only to be used in extreme emergencies or for gentle "toots" as a greeting. I was once standing uncomfortably on a street corner in New York City when the light turned green and a poor vehicle in front of me had it’s motor die. Before the desperate driver could accomplish a restart, twenty five taxicabs brutally "honked" it to death! It was horrible to watch.
I had much rather try to reason with a gun totin’, tobacco spittin’, joke tellin’ Southern "good ole boy" redneck, than deal with a poison spewing, mindless, misdirected, speed talking Liberal Loonie.
I tend to divide those Yankees that move to our South into two groups, the "refugees" and the "converters". Of the two, I am much more tolerant of the enlightened refugees.
The enlightened refugee group are those unfortunate Yankees who came to realize they had created a horrible society up there and fled to the peaceful South to escape the lifestyle and conditions that existed in their North. A good slogan for this group would be "I wasn’t born in the South, but I got here as quick as I could!" This is the type of Yankee that tries to learn how to properly say "Y’aall".
I dislike most of the "converter" group. These are those Yankees that came to our South with a pocket full of Yankee money and who an arrogant attitude. They came down here feeling they could use their superior intellect to "instill change" and recreate the lifestyle of the North in some Southern area. In some parts of the Miami area, and a few other spots they have made significant inroads in this effort.
So, If you will help in the effort to keep the South as Southern as possible, you will be "Getting It Right’!
RUDAMENTS – Odds and Ends Worthy of Mention
- I especially enjoyed one part of this week’s County Commission meeting. The highlight for me was when what in my opinion was a rather nerdy, overbearing, and seemingly unreasonable "Code-a-crat" from the State EPA addressed the Commissioners. He proudly told them that the solutions to severe drainage problems that the county had installed several years ago at Compass Lake were in violation of EPA codes and the culverts and pipes must be taken up immediately or the county will be fined by the EPA.
I could feel temperatures rise as the Commissioners squirmed uneasily in their plush chairs. How dare some State Code guy come in and tell them they couldn’t fix the severe drainage problems in the manner they had decided upon!! I couldn’t help but compare the situation to the plight of many, many local property owners and business owners that had to deal with the same type of treatment from the local County and City "code-a-crats". The only difference is the Commissioners will solve the problem by merely spending a few hundred thousand dollars of our tax money to satisfy the situation, while the private citizens are forced to dig into their pockets.
- The Public Service Commission has gone back to Tallahassee. In a few months they will make the decision to allow Florida Public Utilities to raise their rates in Jackson County 43%. There is a slight chance if they receive enough public complaints they might reduce this ridiculous increase by some degree. Please contact them at :
Florida Public Service Commission
Office of Commission Clerk
2540 Shumard Oak Blvd
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0850
Refer in your comments to Docket # 070304-EI
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