Earlier this week, the North Dakota House of Representatives voted down a measure to repeal all the blue laws in the state. If you're not familiar, blue laws are really dumb laws that prohibit various activities on Sundays -- sometimes shopping, sometimes buying alcohol, sometimes buying cars, sometimes gambling, and sometimes working. They were created, primarily, to get people to go to church on Sundays (and not get drunk) and to "encourage a day of rest."
Hmmm, two Dakotas is one too many? How about making what was formerly Dakota Territory -- both North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and part of Nebraska -- into ONE state, with two Senators to represent them all. (Sorry, Rebecca and clan, I know you live there. I can't blame you; it's gorgeous country.)
I will take your word for it, as I never go to OK. The whole time I was in Nebraska (4 days) I felt as if I was caught in an episode of "The Twilight Zone." It was a very small town of about 7,000 people, and my friend's father drove me around pointing out the house where "our only negro family lives" and the house where the one couple in town lives who aren't married (which is apparently their only remarkable trait). The whole town shut up tight at 8 pm, including the bars and hotels, as far as I could tell. Little girls wore dresses and ribbons in their hair, little boys wore suits, and children said "Sir" and "Ma'am." It was eerie, and I couldn't wait to leave. Other than the eerie time warp, it was a very nice place. Rich, black, powdery soil that I wanted to take home in buckets for my pot plants. Good, healthy food. Good, healthy people. Lots of cows. I went into about 10 homes while I was there, and did not see a single book other than the Bible or agricultural tracts.
I totally agree with you. I cannot tell you how many people I've hired to work night/and/or weekends just to support their family because their "40 hour" job didn't pay enough. Or to go to school.Or couldn't afford childcare and needed the husband/wife to watch the kids. As long as the country keeps electing dumbasses, we are not gonna get the UtopiaLIvingWage. In the meantime we have to do what we can do. Non commenter mpf needs to take a class in Bus 101 to learn what is and is not pro labor and pro business. I would like to see him run a business closed 128 hours a week.
Nope. No alcohol sales in Baltimore County on Sundays. Which is really silly, since you can buy it in the city or the surrounding counties, so all it really does it piss people off by making them drive more.
Removing one Dakota WOULD make the flag simpler to draw. Though not as simple as Chancellor Bannon's proposed simplification: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C...
I can't speak to the Dakotas, but as I recall it, the counties that make up West Virginia split from Virginia when the latter voted to secede from the Union at the outset of the Civil War. It didn't have anything to do with the number of Senators as I recall my long ago history lessons. But, I'm happy to be corrected by those with faster internet connections or better memories or both or neither or something.
So, did I! Where did you land? I've pretty much occupied the land of the non-Jesus in the Far East where a small but fervent minority sing the praises loudly every Sunday; although, I did do a stint in Africa, also, too, where the Jesus-roots run deep and co-mingle with shamanism and other interesting artifacts from by-gone eras.
When you drunk bone and SUV on a Sunday coming home from the bar, you're doin' the Lord's work, son. the Lord's work. Some people just need a little lubricating to allow that Holy Spirit to slip in side and become an instrument of His mysterious Holy ways!
A fun exercise to engage in when you're throwing a party, is to load up the grocery cart with booze and throw a package of diapers on top. Then at the cash register pretend that you're out of money to pay for it all, and put the diapers bag. Man, I love that gag. Hey, I'ma gonna have me a party! Anyone wanna come to China! I'll have plenty of booze, but no diapers!
I don't think I understand how it has anything to do with slavery, in that it didn't happen until 1889. Slavery was dead and buried for a generation. Just sayin'.
No, it had nothing really to do with slavery. And it was the Kansas/Nebraska act that removed the Missouri comporomise requirement for borders for new states at a particular parallel (36/30) to be slave or free. Yes that had to do with slavery, only in that Kansas was slave and Nebraska was free But the K/N act allowed them to decide for themselves and not be one or the other because of where they were in relation to 36/30. All the states would be free, as slavery was dead for a generation already. The K/N act allowed Kansas' southern border at the 37th parallel. So SD's southern border was set 6 degrees north of that, with Nebraska in between. That had nothing to do with the fact that there was still ND further north. Congress had already decided to make new states out that way 3 degrees in height. Both ND and SD, as well as Kansas and Nebraska are all 3 degrees in height.
The making of two states had nothing to do with slavery. Congress was going to make two anyway. It's the southern border of SD that was related to slavery, not the fact there are two Dakotas.
And most of OK.
Hmmm, two Dakotas is one too many? How about making what was formerly Dakota Territory -- both North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and part of Nebraska -- into ONE state, with two Senators to represent them all. (Sorry, Rebecca and clan, I know you live there. I can't blame you; it's gorgeous country.)
I will take your word for it, as I never go to OK. The whole time I was in Nebraska (4 days) I felt as if I was caught in an episode of "The Twilight Zone." It was a very small town of about 7,000 people, and my friend's father drove me around pointing out the house where "our only negro family lives" and the house where the one couple in town lives who aren't married (which is apparently their only remarkable trait). The whole town shut up tight at 8 pm, including the bars and hotels, as far as I could tell. Little girls wore dresses and ribbons in their hair, little boys wore suits, and children said "Sir" and "Ma'am." It was eerie, and I couldn't wait to leave. Other than the eerie time warp, it was a very nice place. Rich, black, powdery soil that I wanted to take home in buckets for my pot plants. Good, healthy food. Good, healthy people. Lots of cows. I went into about 10 homes while I was there, and did not see a single book other than the Bible or agricultural tracts.
I totally agree with you. I cannot tell you how many people I've hired to work night/and/or weekends just to support their family because their "40 hour" job didn't pay enough. Or to go to school.Or couldn't afford childcare and needed the husband/wife to watch the kids. As long as the country keeps electing dumbasses, we are not gonna get the UtopiaLIvingWage. In the meantime we have to do what we can do. Non commenter mpf needs to take a class in Bus 101 to learn what is and is not pro labor and pro business. I would like to see him run a business closed 128 hours a week.
Nope. No alcohol sales in Baltimore County on Sundays. Which is really silly, since you can buy it in the city or the surrounding counties, so all it really does it piss people off by making them drive more.
Seriously? You can buy likker but you can't buy clothes? Doesn't that lead to a lot of naked drunks?
Yes, those are even better examples. Thank you!
Not as many as you'd think. Just lots of pissed off people with mismatched socks 😕
Removing one Dakota WOULD make the flag simpler to draw. Though not as simple as Chancellor Bannon's proposed simplification: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C...
I can't speak to the Dakotas, but as I recall it, the counties that make up West Virginia split from Virginia when the latter voted to secede from the Union at the outset of the Civil War. It didn't have anything to do with the number of Senators as I recall my long ago history lessons. But, I'm happy to be corrected by those with faster internet connections or better memories or both or neither or something.
So, did I! Where did you land? I've pretty much occupied the land of the non-Jesus in the Far East where a small but fervent minority sing the praises loudly every Sunday; although, I did do a stint in Africa, also, too, where the Jesus-roots run deep and co-mingle with shamanism and other interesting artifacts from by-gone eras.
When you drunk bone and SUV on a Sunday coming home from the bar, you're doin' the Lord's work, son. the Lord's work. Some people just need a little lubricating to allow that Holy Spirit to slip in side and become an instrument of His mysterious Holy ways!
When I'm day drinking in my car on a Sunday in the Holiday Inn parking lot, I'll check you out... and offer you a short ride.
A fun exercise to engage in when you're throwing a party, is to load up the grocery cart with booze and throw a package of diapers on top. Then at the cash register pretend that you're out of money to pay for it all, and put the diapers bag. Man, I love that gag. Hey, I'ma gonna have me a party! Anyone wanna come to China! I'll have plenty of booze, but no diapers!
I don't think I understand how it has anything to do with slavery, in that it didn't happen until 1889. Slavery was dead and buried for a generation. Just sayin'.
No, it had nothing really to do with slavery. And it was the Kansas/Nebraska act that removed the Missouri comporomise requirement for borders for new states at a particular parallel (36/30) to be slave or free. Yes that had to do with slavery, only in that Kansas was slave and Nebraska was free But the K/N act allowed them to decide for themselves and not be one or the other because of where they were in relation to 36/30. All the states would be free, as slavery was dead for a generation already. The K/N act allowed Kansas' southern border at the 37th parallel. So SD's southern border was set 6 degrees north of that, with Nebraska in between. That had nothing to do with the fact that there was still ND further north. Congress had already decided to make new states out that way 3 degrees in height. Both ND and SD, as well as Kansas and Nebraska are all 3 degrees in height.
The making of two states had nothing to do with slavery. Congress was going to make two anyway. It's the southern border of SD that was related to slavery, not the fact there are two Dakotas.