This is just immoral...:angry:

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
You've never been, obviously.

No I havent and said that but that doesnt make it boring. I have been to alot of states and all have there differences. I cant judge them on what I have seen by just driving through.

[chequita guevara]

Yes, actually you can judge a place by driving through it. It's very easy. You look out the window and you say, "My god, this is the most boring place I've ever driven through." This is not something you'd say driving through the Rocky Mountains or Kentucky. On the contrary, driving through either of those place would inspire you to write ballads about the shear beauty of the land. Now, there's a great deal of divserity in between, but North Dakota is definately on the bottom end of that scale. South Dakota would be, except that in the far weastern reaches, it actually has some terrain that does something besides being used to test levels.

[Ted Striker]

You can't judge a place by seeing the land that exists 10 miles to the north and south of whatever freeway you happen to be driving on at the time.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yes, actually you can judge a place by driving through it. It's very easy. You look out the window and you say, "My god, this is the most boring place I've ever driven through." This is not something you'd say driving through the Rocky Mountains or Kentucky. On the contrary, driving through either of those place would inspire you to write ballads about the shear beauty of the land. Now, there's a great deal of divserity in between, but North Dakota is definately on the bottom end of that scale. South Dakota would be, except that in the far weastern reaches, it actually has some terrain that does something besides being used to test levels.

You are talking scenery, there is a lot more than scenery in the wrold.

ACK!

[Odin]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Yes, actually you can judge a place by driving through it. It's very easy. You look out the window and you say, "My god, this is the most boring place I've ever driven through." This is not something you'd say driving through the Rocky Mountains or Kentucky. On the contrary, driving through either of those place would inspire you to write ballads about the shear beauty of the land. Now, there's a great deal of divserity in between, but North Dakota is definately on the bottom end of that scale. South Dakota would be, except that in the far weastern reaches, it actually has some terrain that does something besides being used to test levels.

The state would be nice if there was some prairie left to look at instead of wheat, wheat, wheat, soybeans, sugar beets, and more wheat.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Tuberski
You are talking scenery, there is a lot more than scenery in the wrold.

I was being kind by only considering their scenary. Do you really want to get into what there is to do in the Dakotas?

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Odin


The state would be nice if there was some prairie left to look at instead of wheat, wheat, wheat, soybeans, sugar beets, and more wheat.

Its one of the states that farm country what do you expect, Macys and bloomingdles on every corner. But what do I know Im a dumb ass Texan.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski

Its one of the states that farm country what do you expect, Macys and bloomingdles on every corner. But what do I know Im a dumb ass Texan.

The Dakotas have street corners?

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Id hope so either that or they drive in circles all day.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
did you just pass through it?

You do realize it takes a day to "just pass through" the Dakotas.

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Hell it takes a day and a sack lunch just to drive thru texas> the dakotas ahh that is a piece of cake.
I forgot the 18 pack of beer too.

[Gatekeeper]

Yes, the Dakotas are quite "boring."

See, if you live in Florida (I just pulled that state out of my hat, it wasn't a deliberate decision, nosiree), you have to deal with crocodiles/alligators, fire ants, multiple hurricanes, twisters, sharks, refugees, wet heat and so on. The Dakotas share two of those things — wet heat and twisters — and one thing Florida doesn't have: blizzards.

I, too, visited Florida for a week — went to Orlando and Disney World. Had a blast, enjoyed every day of my vacation and was glad to get back home. Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Unless, of course, I could bring my family along and land a healthy five- or six-figure job.

Gatekeeper

[Mr. Harley]

One other thing to remember is that Food Stamps are a military program. They were started after WW2 because of the number of individuals unfit for the draft due to childhood malnutrition, and they wanted a bigger draft pool for the next war. Cut Food Stamps, threaten the military.

Even worse than cutting Food Stamps is cutting WIC - Women's - Infant - Child voucher program. Unlike foodstamps it is almost impossible to abuse, you get a voucher that specifies you for example can get milk or Orange Juice, plus Cheese with a max price. That's why so many US grocery stores have little labels with WIC on them in the dairy isle.

A doctor on WIC (she was fresh out of med school and had a child) discovered that the guidelines were decades old and promoted the old high-fat, high-carb diet. You often couldn't even get vegetables, or minimal amounts. She has been pushing changing the program.

The Bush administration has been advocating cutting/underfunding WIC now for years. I find it obscene when compared to all the subsidies pushed by Bush and the Republican controlled Congress. Let's not even discuss the value of the taxcuts, and who received them. It's so stupid - the value of nutrition during the prenatal through the childhood years is incontrovertible
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[Mrs. Tuberski]

Has anyone here seen what you get out of wic??? for the woman who is pregnant it supplies what it can MILk eggs cheese peanut butter juice. for the mother that just delivered the same and formula and rice cereal for the baby unitl the child reaches 1 year old. Wic and food stamps should not be cut.

[Kidlicious]

Food Stamps ARE a farm subsidy though. Just thought some of you might not realize that.