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[Dabeel]

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I am not worthy

Don't feel bad Matt, I am not worthy either............ shame on you Mike(Caldigr2) for teasing us like that and leading us to a site that won't let us read your post............you old salty digger you[]

Doug

 

[pyshodoodle]

ORIGINAL: cordilleran

I'm glad I got your attention. Fact is, education and intelligence are not mutually inclusive.

That's a cop-out from you, cord.

I see you're on your ultra right-wing fear-mongering soapbox again. You say stop being afraid, while trying to strike fear into us all with the destruction of civilization as we know it because this country may pass some type of univesal heath-care system. Where do people without healthcare now go to get their cancer treatments, cord? Do you work in the insurance industry? At least congress has an excuse for being afraid because they are subject to high-paid lobbiests to brainwash them. Fact is, whatever happens with healthcare, we will adjust... as we always do. It is not the end of the world. You really need to relax a little bit, cord, and stop spewing your inane drivel.

 

[CALDIGR2]

OK, this pic had to be shrunk a bunch to fit this site's requirements, but here's one food from that pit. Round, aqua, with "keyhole" designs. Huge pontil and problem free.

 

[Wilkie]

Michael, thank you and congratulations on a nice dig (I think). That "one" bottle you showed us is a nice one. Please post more for us to drool over. It isn't "that" much trouble to post on this site, 'cmon, even some of the inbred folks from back east have figured out how to do it......[]

 

[GuntherHess]

Nice bottle, would like to see the cleaned up version of it.

 

[CALDIGR2]

The old pit was a "busy" one. Tons of busted crockery and bottles, and only a dozen OP "keepers". The Rockingham spittoon in this pic was whole, though. Go figure. This is the pit just prior to backfilling.

 

[bottle_head9]

Please don`t take this the wrong way cord, but if you would speak in words that most of us didn`t have to look up in dictionary you may get quite a few more listeners.I did fairly well in school. I actually spent two years in a community college, but it would take me about an hour to break down and actually understand what the hell you just said.Just speaking my mind.[8|]

ORIGINAL: cordilleran

I'm glad I got your attention. Fact is, education and intelligence are not mutually inclusive. God forbid that a person has both and experiential knowledge beyond the pale, to boot, they find themselves on the outside looking in. Here's where things get unsavory. As a lifelong searcher I have witnessed the closing of the American mind. No longer are U.S. campuses a place of free inquiry and thought. As indoctrination centers, colleges and universities have devolved into think tanks for a very narrow interpretation of reality. With numerous laurels a person of my standing is persona non grata. With my numerous degrees and professional accolades and a dollar bill (plus tax) I am afforded the opportunity to slake my thirst on a cup o' java. So much for diversity and tolerance, mere buzz words for those intent on shackling free minds and free will. We can rally around the banyan tree and sing the praises of democracy, but when entire peoples are subjugated and disenfranchized based on their race and sex, then a cauldron of disenchantment is the soup de jour. Oppression, however, is an equal opportunity destroyer. If you haven't been touched by the growing miasma seeping into collective consciousness you will. Forget emotion, forget social propriety, go ahead and forget those treasured baubles and long-term dreams. Many already have. We are moving into a period of history never realized before. Call it the Dark Ages Redux. Let me be so brazen as to extrapolate on the immediate future. When the foundations butressing civilization give way, civilization collapses. Four elements constitute civilization: economic provision, political organization, moral traditions and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. Civilization begins where chaos and insecurity end. Currently, we live in an age of uncertainty as never before. Unlike the most recent cataclysmic conflict, World War Two, we neither know the enemy or fear that the enemy is living next door. The greatest triumph during this great upheaval is that people were unified for the common good. There is an underlying sense of hostility punctuating the people in their daily discourse. Civility has taken a back seat in the bus and today, people have been divided to the point of near anarchy. Moral tradition has been thrown out the window as so much bathwater along with the infant comprising our greatest strengths. As I touched upon earlier, the pursuit of knowledge has been severely curtailed by anarchist gatekeepers and what passes for art is politically motivated. The leftist powers-that-be recognize this and have effectively infiltrated mass communications, public education and yes, even traditional houses of religious worship. When a person is bombarded with politically charged propaganda day after day, he or she begins to believe the propoganda as truth. Such is the power of real-time propaganda and political division yields to the one voice mantra. Economic division is easily solved in the totalitarian construct -- make everyone needy. Universal health care is but one venue toward this end. Of course in theory universal health care sounds attractive. In reality the incentive for quality health care goes out the window with the baby and higher costs with a lottery system of healthcare becomes the norm. Need cancer treatment? Take a place at the back of the bus. Funny how I fought against such oppression as a soldier. Moreover, it is ironic that my father and my father's father -- all socially upstanding men -- fought in great wars to prohibit the insidious scourge of absolute oppression from poisoning the peoples of foreign lands and here we are weighing the merits of socialism. In closing let me say that when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life. Stop being afraid, speak your mind and throw off the ever-tightening shackles before a few stalwart souls have to shed their brave blood for the collective good of the masses.

 

[pyshodoodle]

Deprived of his vocabulary, cord would have nothing of relevance to communicate. He is naked and feels insignificant without his words. For this reason, it is improbable that he will change. Without his big words he has nothing. Ever wonder why you hated history in high school and love it now? The history book writers have the same sense of superiority over the rest of us as cord (who has self professed to be more intelligent than 90% of the people in this country) tries to exert over us. It's a conspiracy to make us think we are stupid and so we never bother to learn what we should. You just assume the history book must be right, but never bother taking the time to see what it really says. Eventually, though, some of us find that big words did not make history. Everyday people made history and once that little light goes off in your head, history becomes enjoyable.

 

[pyshodoodle]

Thank you , Caldigr2 for finally posting some pictures. If you had done that in the first place, I may have been able to keep my big mouth shut! Could you please post some more pictures? I like to look at pretty pictures!

Kate

 

[Wilkie]

ORIGINAL: bottle_head9

Please don`t take this the wrong way cord, but if you would speak in words that most of us didn`t have to look up in dictionary you may get quite a few more listeners.I did fairly well in school. I actually spent two years in a community college, but it would take me about an hour to break down and actually understand what the hell you just said.Just speaking my mind.[8|]

Just do like I do, if I start reading it and find myself bored after the first sentence, just skip the rest and move on.