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Location:West Georgia Chicken Farm Territory
Biography:Equal parts hill-billy, coon-ass, redneck, and cultured southern gentleman
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re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by Swamp Angel on 2/17/26 at 9:04 pm to
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in Boyd County, Kentucky.


Well, now... I never expected to see the place where I was raised mentioned on TD! Let me just say that it's a great place to be from. (I think you'll get my meaning if you've ever spent much time there.)

re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by Swamp Angel on 2/17/26 at 7:23 pm to
Thanks, Mauser! This took me right back to 1973 when I got one of these for my 5th birthday. Good times and a soaking wet shirt!

You make a good point (apart from mental evaluations for gun ownership). There should be mental evaluations for a plethora of things. Institutions need to be brought back and those who are mentally ill need to be homed there and not at large in public. Those who are committed to such an institution should have certain liberties restricted just as is done regarding felons. However, a mental health evaluation being made a requirement for owning a firearm is a step too far.

There should be a requirement for those desiring to teach in our public schools to undergo a mental evaluation long before such a requirement is made of those who seek to purchase a firearm.
And people wonder why our nation is turning into a hellhole.
Love that tank! I had stopped for gas in southern Indiana on the way back home from running a project near Chicago. There was an M3 loaded up on the back of a flat-bed semi being delivered to its new owner somewhere near Louisville. It was neat to actually see one "in the wild" so to say.

As always, great work on the model!
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I’ve never voted democrat in my life and I get texts and emails from democrats asking for money and begging to believe in their causes


You get these from the Dems because your information has been used to register innumerable homeless Democrat voters who are unable to obtain proper identification.

On the other hand - I, like you, have never voted for a Dem in my life. I made the mistake of giving my address, phone number, and email to the local Republican Party here in west Georgia. This has obviously been passed on to whatever fundraising company is employed by the GOP and I have been inundated with calls, emails, and text messages claiming some disaster or the other is going to occur unless I send money.

SCREW 'EM ALL in this regard. I make it a point every year to used a very large black marker to check the box on my tax return that I DO NOT WANT ONE DOLLAR OF MY TAXES TO GO TO THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

These people have absolutely NO SHAME!
Looks like I need to look into who is running against Brian Jack in the primary here in GA. (I sincerely HOPE he has a challenger, but this is Georgia where all you need to do is hold office to ensure nobody challenges you in a primary.)
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How have ICE raids and better border control affected your line of work?


Happily, they have not seriously impacted us in an adverse manner. We had already begun taking real steps in verifying our employees and our subcontractors and cutting loose from those who did not have legitimate work credentials.

At first it drove our labor up a tad higher (not a whole lot though) and had a slight impact on the amount of work we were landing with our bids for competitive jobs. As the other guys started getting employee rosters whacked they began making changes as well, but we were just a little bit ahead of the curve and had found the sweet spot for making adjustments in labor costs without becoming prohibitively expensive.

The writing was on the wall for all to see and most of us in the construction trades voted for it [for Trump]. So, for the life of me, I can't understand why other contractors in our various trades hadn't already put together contingency plans for just this very thing.
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I HATE modernism, library or not, buildings used to inspire and be beautiful, now it's all soulless like the people who build them.


Kinda like Soviet architecture, huh?
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When will we officially label Trans as a mental illness? Need to lock them all up in the psych ward.


I agree that this is what we should do in the US. However, this occurred in "Canadia". The US solution to this issue is to stop all incursions across the Canadian border by these trannies from the Great White North. We don't need to compound our current problems by allowing theirs to fester here too.
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Why, oh why, would they legalize beastiality?


Oh, come on now. You've seen what Indian women look like!
I'm curious as to how they were determined to be missing children. Were they found to be in "the care" of some of these illegals that have been detained and then discovered to have been reported as missing from their legitimate families, or are these children who have been searched out based upon a missing person report?

I'm not arguing or doubting the fact that they have been found, but is it done as a primary focus of rounding up these illegals or are they "collateral discoveries" when illegals are found? Either way, it's a very good thing to have located them and, I presume, returned them to their families.

We may not ever be able to completely eradicate such evil from within our borders but it seems this administration is determined to make a very serious dent in it!
I haven't used ChatGPT or any other of the AI generated interactive offerings yet. So far, I haven't felt the need for it. It seems like it would be helpful, but it would also dumb down the intellect if a person became reliant upon it.

All told, I don't really know a lot about it. I guess I'm sort of like my parents who never really felt the need to change from a rotary phone to the push-button phones when they became the norm. What I have seems to get the job done and there's no need to make the deep dive into everything that the tech world provides and offers for consumers.
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Same. I’ll drive both a Chevy and a GMC.


There's a difference?
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The peer-reviewed paper...


"Peer reviewed" is MSM news speak for "people with the same preconceived notions and agenda agree..."

You have to take a moment and step back to see who the "peers" of these people actually are, then it all begins to make sense sense. (Sorta like peer reviewed "climate science" papers.)

re: Moving to Tennessee...

Posted by Swamp Angel on 2/11/26 at 12:05 pm to
I'd say that Cosby, Gatlinburg, and Sevierville make up the "Golden Tringle" of the Smoky Mountains. You'll be smack-dab in the heart of the most beautiful section of the Appalachian mountains in its entire length.

Enjoy. And post pics of your new surroundings frequently on here!
Nope. Being a well-known and beloved former member of the LSU basketball team does not translate into success. Anyone remember a guy we all really loved as a player by the name of Johnny Jones?
Well, when she says, "We weren't allowed to just get up there and lie..." she is being quite honest. They really weren't allowed to just lie about s*** when the cameras started rolling. They had to plan and script the lies so they didn't provide obviously conflicting statements that would have been a red flag even to the most unhinged of their followers.
It's nothing to get worked up into a lather over. She's open to commie ideals that put money in her pocket.

The singular thing that I have noticed over the history of the Olympic games is how many former Soviet Bloc athletes used the Olympic games as an opportunity to defect to thee West for freedom. How many Team USA athletes who have espoused leftist beliefs have had the balls to defect to a communist nation when the opportunity arose at an Olympic venue?

Words are cheap. The lefties never prove their conviction to the cause they claim to believe in.

re: Pictures from days gone by....

Posted by Swamp Angel on 2/10/26 at 6:19 am to
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so you were a cheap bastard?


Give him a break. He didn't say he drank Schaefer!
There IS a difference.

People who speak Italian can understand Pavarotti. People who speak Spanish have no freaking CLUE what Bad Bunny is saying.