noeettica
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We are all brothers on the water From Yellow fin to Jon boat ;-)
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Post by noeettica on May 2, 2024 19:24:21 GMT -5
If they go about it right then fine otherwise send them back !!!  |
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Post by TRTerror on May 2, 2024 19:35:41 GMT -5
Looks like a Key West Charter...
Anyone of them wearing Man Buns or crotchless swimsuits?
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Post by swampdog on May 3, 2024 8:32:02 GMT -5
I see a boat load of desperate people not unlike folks fleeing their countries all over the globe. As long as dictators and warlords have the freedom to hold populations hostage, the fleeing their homelands will continue. One of the sad truths is that most safe countries can not absorb the onslaught of refugees and illegal immigrants.
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Post by nikonoclast on May 3, 2024 9:38:20 GMT -5
Random notes:
Not a single PFD in sight.
Remember when "the population bomb" was a thing?
Crowded people are reckless, thoughtless, people ... and it shows.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on May 3, 2024 9:39:41 GMT -5
I see a boat load of desperate people not unlike folks fleeing their countries all over the globe. As long as dictators and warlords have the freedom to hold populations hostage, the fleeing their homelands will continue. One of the sad truths is that most safe countries can not absorb the onslaught of refugees and illegal immigrants. I've always said I could not imagine living somewhere so bad that putting my wife and kids in something like that and traveling across open ocean seemed like a plausible idea. They know a lot of them never make it. |
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noeettica
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We are all brothers on the water From Yellow fin to Jon boat ;-)
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Post by noeettica on May 3, 2024 9:43:51 GMT -5
I see cell phones !!! Well groomed and decent clothes !!! so what's up with that  |
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Post by madm002 on May 3, 2024 9:56:22 GMT -5
Cellphones exist in every culture even the poorest. You would be surprised I used to go into the poorest areas in Latin America. Everyone has a phone. Prepaid for sure, but a phone. In Latam its all calling party pays.
I wonder what my ancestors that came from Ireland, Germany and Sweden looked like when they arrived. To be sure they all came via Ellis Island, except my paternal great great grandfather who came from Canada directly to Iowa. I think things might have been looser back then.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on May 3, 2024 10:44:02 GMT -5
Cellphones exist in every culture even the poorest. You would be surprised I used to go into the poorest areas in Latin America. Everyone has a phone. Prepaid for sure, but a phone. In Latam its all calling party pays. I wonder what my ancestors that came from Ireland, Germany and Sweden looked like when they arrived. To be sure they all came via Ellis Island, except my paternal great great grandfather who came from Canada directly to Iowa. I think things might have been looser back then. Actually I think things were tighter. I was fortunate enough to find my great-grandfather’s immigration papers from the records of Ellis Island. What made it pop up was my great-grandmother’s name. Trienta, which meant Theresa in Dutch. They had to have a sponsor, a job lined up, an address that they were going to stay at and money in their pockets. My great grandfather met all of the qualifications. He had a job lined up at the Pullman Railroad Car Company. They made luxury passenger cars for the railroad. Believe it or not they were escaping religious persecution. My great- grandfather was one of the original founders of the church that many of the Dutch attend today. They actually started it in a garage around 55th and Peoria in what is now Chicago but then was the town of Englewood, Illinois. |
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Post by johngalt on May 3, 2024 11:32:02 GMT -5
So what exactly became of the billions of dollars from such things like the Clinton Foundation, the tax money spent by the State Department, the millions of dollars paid to all the NGO’s?
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Post by madm002 on May 3, 2024 16:16:03 GMT -5
Cellphones exist in every culture even the poorest. You would be surprised I used to go into the poorest areas in Latin America. Everyone has a phone. Prepaid for sure, but a phone. In Latam its all calling party pays. I wonder what my ancestors that came from Ireland, Germany and Sweden looked like when they arrived. To be sure they all came via Ellis Island, except my paternal great great grandfather who came from Canada directly to Iowa. I think things might have been looser back then. Actually I think things were tighter. I was fortunate enough to find my great-grandfather’s immigration papers from the records of Ellis Island. What made it pop up was my great-grandmother’s name. Trienta, which meant Theresa in Dutch. They had to have a sponsor, a job lined up, an address that they were going to stay at and money in their pockets. My great grandfather met all of the qualifications. He had a job lined up at the Pullman Railroad Car Company. They made luxury passenger cars for the railroad. Believe it or not they were escaping religious persecution. My great- grandfather was one of the original founders of the church that many of the Dutch attend today. They actually started it in a garage around 55th and Peoria in what is now Chicago but then was the town of Englewood, Illinois. Dutch Reformed Church or Christian Reformed? I married a Dutch girl from Grand Rapids Michigan, her family was CRC. Joost the boat off come if you know what I mean. |
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Post by illinoisfisherman on May 3, 2024 16:38:25 GMT -5
First Dutch Reformed Church of Englewood.
It later became the Christian Reformed Church.
My great uncle is on a plaque at the church for serving in WW1. My father on a plaque for serving in WW2. They came to this country and were proud to be Americans. They instilled that patriotism in their children. My father actually signed up when he was 16 in High School. They waited for him to graduate and then he went into the “Army Air Corps”. Where has that level of patriotism gone now?
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Post by illinoisfisherman on May 3, 2024 16:41:30 GMT -5
The Dutch speaking people I grew up around definitely had trouble with some English words. It seemed that they mixed up the W’s and V’s a lot.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on May 3, 2024 16:44:02 GMT -5
They were all hard working honest people. Darn, they used to sweep the street and whitewash the curbs. Dad used to do in front of any older persons houses that couldn’t do it themselves.
That neighborhood is now the most dangerous neighborhood in Chicago.
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Post by swampdog on May 3, 2024 17:07:50 GMT -5
I always like folks sharing their family history. The early days in our country were hectic and very tough for everyone. As a nation we did commit some egregious sins against the folks that got here before we did, as well against those we bought off slave ships.
But find another developing nation that didn’t fight and claw their way into a better nation as a whole. It will be pretty difficult.
Today we need to treasure law and order and stand firm for democracy and the rule of law. Unfortunately a lot of the newcomers (not all of them but a great number) are out for personal gain, and can care less about our history and our future.
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Post by nikonoclast on May 4, 2024 8:48:39 GMT -5
The Reformed Church / Dutch Reformed Church was the oldest in our suburb.
( Back in the 60's, that denomination was the "state" church of South Africa. )
The little town's land, too hilly to farm, was bought from Indians by Dutchmen.
Several denominations built there, though the Catholic church was a latecomer.
That event caused many residents to think "there goes the neighborhood".
Of course, there was never any reason for a Baptist church.
( Or a synagogue, for that matter. )
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