tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post8322606323388482514..comments2023-09-28T07:35:14.342-05:00Comments on The IOpian View: Agents of ChangeIOpianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14988039144222890107noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-49534075747543135262008-02-28T21:44:00.000-06:002008-02-28T21:44:00.000-06:00That's why we have marriage because both genders l...That's why we have marriage because both genders lack something the other has. I personally really I mean really enjoy our differences.IOpianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988039144222890107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-8966641024768382362008-02-28T21:34:00.000-06:002008-02-28T21:34:00.000-06:00but, we are only equal in SOME areas, better in ot...but, we are only equal in SOME areas, better in others and less equal in others.<BR/><BR/>the feminist agenda has killed this nation and for that i'm sorry being affiliated with anything "feminist".<BR/><BR/>i enjoy being a girl.nanchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08809768490674110768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-70467778592251169332008-02-28T21:13:00.000-06:002008-02-28T21:13:00.000-06:00Now Nanc, that is not fair.I have never been again...Now Nanc, that is not fair.<BR/><BR/>I have never been against women's sufferage, and in fact the best people in my life have frequently been women.Pheloniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346467267055751387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-17161369518651852662008-02-28T10:19:00.000-06:002008-02-28T10:19:00.000-06:00i reckon i was also, phelonius - i was accused rec...i reckon i was also, phelonius - i was accused recently of NOT being the poster child for women's suffrage!<BR/><BR/>bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!<BR/><BR/>i was crushed i tell you.<BR/><BR/>*;]nanchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08809768490674110768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-14575107099559121492008-02-27T21:44:00.000-06:002008-02-27T21:44:00.000-06:00The Llano Estacado is the big sky country alright....The Llano Estacado is the big sky country alright. I remember spending a lot of time out there both over the caprock and under the caprock. I remember wind, and lots of it.<BR/><BR/>What I love about those old pioneers out there was the idea of self reliance. These were not people to sit on their asses and whine about stuff. They were hard men, no doubt. There are stories that still circulate Pheloniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346467267055751387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-33112414538598463732008-02-27T14:19:00.000-06:002008-02-27T14:19:00.000-06:00I been in and around Pampa, Dumas. Went to school ...I been in and around Pampa, Dumas. Went to school with John, Sharon and Liz Townsley from Dumas when I lived in Norway. My first girlfriend's brother, the one I wrote the post about, still lives in Duams. <BR/><BR/>Yep I indulged as well during that time and I think that is why I have such good memories but it was mostly the music was so good back then.<BR/><BR/>When I worked in the oilfield IOpianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988039144222890107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-27560158582533064172008-02-26T21:20:00.000-06:002008-02-26T21:20:00.000-06:00LOLOh yea we were poor. I remember in a town calle...LOL<BR/><BR/>Oh yea we were poor. I remember in a town called Pampa, just northeast of Amarillo, we had the habit of sharing meals with our neighbors across the street to make all ends meet. Dear GOD I loved it when it was my mother's time to cook because those crazy cajuns over there could turn hamburger meat into something so tough it took an extra set of knives just to cut it. <BR/><BR/>Beans Pheloniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346467267055751387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-36185386098145655822008-02-26T19:25:00.000-06:002008-02-26T19:25:00.000-06:00I must admit that if God let me relive any period ...I must admit that if God let me relive any period of my life the 1970's would be it without question. In particular 1975.<BR/><BR/>Same here. I understand the Texas Panhandle culture. Being an Okie I was cut from the same roll of cloth. My father was born in a tent in Drumright, OK during the Depression, the eldest of 9 children; my mother in a home with a dirt floor and 11 kids. <BR/><BR/>When IIOpianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988039144222890107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-58640747687457302512008-02-26T18:59:00.000-06:002008-02-26T18:59:00.000-06:00"The Great Depression sealed the fate of rugged in..."The Great Depression sealed the fate of rugged individualism."<BR/><BR/>Perhaps it did for a lot of people. I guess the problem I have with that is that my immediate ancestors were all dirt farmers and ranchers that did not leave the Texas panhandle during the dust bowl days, and according to them, the Great Depression was just an extension of what their whole lives had been about. You are just Pheloniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346467267055751387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-33180225628785845522008-02-26T18:18:00.000-06:002008-02-26T18:18:00.000-06:00I actually think it goes even further back and inv...I actually think it goes even further back and involves other social dynamics. At some point in the nineteenth century American culture changed from one where the common attitude of the citizenry went from self-reliance to one of dependance on institutions. The same thing happened in Europe.<BR/><BR/>The one thing all cultures hold in common is the need to earn a living according to one's wiles IOpianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988039144222890107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-49123173019941854562008-02-25T21:32:00.000-06:002008-02-25T21:32:00.000-06:00I am not so sure that was the genesis of the moder...I am not so sure that was the genesis of the modern situation, IOpian. I think the roots lay in the Wilson administration and its efforts to pass the League of Nations Treaty past the Senate of the US. That was when the ideals of Progressivism really took root, and you see the advent of educators like Dewey and the beginning, in this country, of the ideals of eugenics coupled with the rise of thePheloniushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09346467267055751387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-48796248709066761522008-02-25T13:10:00.000-06:002008-02-25T13:10:00.000-06:00That's the way I remember it. Seems it all started...That's the way I remember it. Seems it all started right after Kennedy was assasinated and by 1968the effort to dumb down the populace, make the women more masculine and the men more feminine was moving ahead full bore. 1975 was about the last time a decent American car could be bought and good education could be attained. <BR/><BR/>By the 1980's the checks written by the 1960's generaton were IOpianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14988039144222890107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8691997.post-83936289468550942272008-02-25T08:41:00.000-06:002008-02-25T08:41:00.000-06:00seems so simple.when did we go and complicate ever...seems so simple.<BR/><BR/>when did we go and complicate everything up?<BR/><BR/>must've been the sixties...<BR/><BR/>MORNIN' IOPIAN!nanchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08809768490674110768noreply@blogger.com