Being a boater, a Florida Native (5th generation N. FL redneck) and
former oilfield engineer (I did drillstem testing so I truly know
about drilling operations), I think I am knowledgable about the
relative perils of offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Over the years, I have seen my home state befouled by the tourist and
real estate industry and overrun by people who simply do not belong
here. By comparison to the plague of yankees who have descended on us
drilling is purely benign yet tourism is considered clean industry.
MY beaches are now covered by northern condo filth to the extent that
I cannot even see the beach along highway 98 in Panama City and
Destin. Along MY barrier islands I have been threatened by idjit
snowbirds who think they actually own the beach in front of their
trashy stilt homes ruining MY dunes.
The salt marshes that produce most of food in the coastal food chain
that have been filled for building apartments will NEVER come back.
By comparison, Prince William Sound is almost the same as it was
before Exxon Valdez. Yet, we are not even talking about oil spills
here, THIS IS GAS DRILLING, NOT OIL. Any conceivable accident from
gas drilling is insignificant to that done each week by the tourist
industry.
Fishing boats from NW FL go to the waters of Alabama and LA because
they have better fishing BECAUSE of the oil industry. The drilling
rigs provide habitat for fish.
Local politicians here in N. FL pandering to the fears of foolish
liberals tell us that tourism provides jobs but all they provide is
minimum wage seasonable jobs. The gas industry provides very high
wage permanent jobs. Given a choice between being a cashier at a
Panama City Hot Dog Stand for $6.00/hr or a welder offshore, which
would you choose?

wrote:
Being a boater, a Florida Native (5th generation N. FL redneck) and
former oilfield engineer (I did drillstem testing so I truly know
about drilling operations), I think I am knowledgable about the
relative perils of offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Over the years, I have seen my home state befouled by the tourist and
real estate industry and overrun by people who simply do not belong
here. By comparison to the plague of yankees who have descended on us
drilling is purely benign yet tourism is considered clean industry.
MY beaches are now covered by northern condo filth to the extent that
I cannot even see the beach along highway 98 in Panama City and
Destin. Along MY barrier islands I have been threatened by idjit
snowbirds who think they actually own the beach in front of their
trashy stilt homes ruining MY dunes.
The salt marshes that produce most of food in the coastal food chain
that have been filled for building apartments will NEVER come back.
By comparison, Prince William Sound is almost the same as it was
before Exxon Valdez. Yet, we are not even talking about oil spills
here, THIS IS GAS DRILLING, NOT OIL. Any conceivable accident from
gas drilling is insignificant to that done each week by the tourist
industry.
Fishing boats from NW FL go to the waters of Alabama and LA because
they have better fishing BECAUSE of the oil industry. The drilling
rigs provide habitat for fish.
Local politicians here in N. FL pandering to the fears of foolish
liberals tell us that tourism provides jobs but all they provide is
minimum wage seasonable jobs. The gas industry provides very high
wage permanent jobs. Given a choice between being a cashier at a
Panama City Hot Dog Stand for $6.00/hr or a welder offshore, which
would you choose?


Wow...what a screed. Here's hoping a lot more people who "simply do not
belong here" crowd your neighborhood, and drive you to some sort of
violent retaliatory action.

Having lived in North Florida for nearly six years, I assure you your
local officials are not pandering to liberals, but to conservative
corporate interests who don't give a damn about anything except their
bottom line, and that includes your local environment.

Fifth generation redneck, eh? Did you marry your first cousin or your
sister?



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On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Being a boater, a Florida Native (5th generation N. FL redneck) and
former oilfield engineer (I did drillstem testing so I truly know
about drilling operations), I think I am knowledgable about the
relative perils of offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Over the years, I have seen my home state befouled by the tourist and
real estate industry and overrun by people who simply do not belong
here. By comparison to the plague of yankees who have descended on us
drilling is purely benign yet tourism is considered clean industry.
MY beaches are now covered by northern condo filth to the extent that
I cannot even see the beach along highway 98 in Panama City and
Destin. Along MY barrier islands I have been threatened by idjit
snowbirds who think they actually own the beach in front of their
trashy stilt homes ruining MY dunes.
The salt marshes that produce most of food in the coastal food chain
that have been filled for building apartments will NEVER come back.
By comparison, Prince William Sound is almost the same as it was
before Exxon Valdez. Yet, we are not even talking about oil spills
here, THIS IS GAS DRILLING, NOT OIL. Any conceivable accident from
gas drilling is insignificant to that done each week by the tourist
industry.
Fishing boats from NW FL go to the waters of Alabama and LA because
they have better fishing BECAUSE of the oil industry. The drilling
rigs provide habitat for fish.
Local politicians here in N. FL pandering to the fears of foolish
liberals tell us that tourism provides jobs but all they provide is
minimum wage seasonable jobs. The gas industry provides very high
wage permanent jobs. Given a choice between being a cashier at a
Panama City Hot Dog Stand for $6.00/hr or a welder offshore, which
would you choose?

Careful, you'll become the eighteenth dwarf.

But, you'll be welcome.

On Aug 10, 9:00 pm, John H. wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Being a boater, a Florida Native (5th generation N. FL redneck) and
former oilfield engineer (I did drillstem testing so I truly know
about drilling operations), I think I am knowledgable about the
relative perils of offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Over the years, I have seen my home state befouled by the tourist and
real estate industry and overrun by people who simply do not belong
here. By comparison to the plague of yankees who have descended on us
drilling is purely benign yet tourism is considered clean industry.
MY beaches are now covered by northern condo filth to the extent that
I cannot even see the beach along highway 98 in Panama City and
Destin. Along MY barrier islands I have been threatened by idjit
snowbirds who think they actually own the beach in front of their
trashy stilt homes ruining MY dunes.
The salt marshes that produce most of food in the coastal food chain
that have been filled for building apartments will NEVER come back.
By comparison, Prince William Sound is almost the same as it was
before Exxon Valdez. Yet, we are not even talking about oil spills
here, THIS IS GAS DRILLING, NOT OIL. Any conceivable accident from
gas drilling is insignificant to that done each week by the tourist
industry.
Fishing boats from NW FL go to the waters of Alabama and LA because
they have better fishing BECAUSE of the oil industry. The drilling
rigs provide habitat for fish.
Local politicians here in N. FL pandering to the fears of foolish
liberals tell us that tourism provides jobs but all they provide is
minimum wage seasonable jobs. The gas industry provides very high
wage permanent jobs. Given a choice between being a cashier at a
Panama City Hot Dog Stand for $6.00/hr or a welder offshore, which
would you choose?

Careful, you'll become the eighteenth dwarf.

But, you'll be welcome.

"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

On Aug 10, 9:27 pm, wrote:
On Aug 10, 9:00 pm, John H. wrote:



On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:40:28 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Being a boater, a Florida Native (5th generation N. FL redneck) and
former oilfield engineer (I did drillstem testing so I truly know
about drilling operations), I think I am knowledgable about the
relative perils of offshore drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.
Over the years, I have seen my home state befouled by the tourist and
real estate industry and overrun by people who simply do not belong
here. By comparison to the plague of yankees who have descended on us
drilling is purely benign yet tourism is considered clean industry.
MY beaches are now covered by northern condo filth to the extent that
I cannot even see the beach along highway 98 in Panama City and
Destin. Along MY barrier islands I have been threatened by idjit
snowbirds who think they actually own the beach in front of their
trashy stilt homes ruining MY dunes.
The salt marshes that produce most of food in the coastal food chain
that have been filled for building apartments will NEVER come back.
By comparison, Prince William Sound is almost the same as it was
before Exxon Valdez. Yet, we are not even talking about oil spills
here, THIS IS GAS DRILLING, NOT OIL. Any conceivable accident from
gas drilling is insignificant to that done each week by the tourist
industry.
Fishing boats from NW FL go to the waters of Alabama and LA because
they have better fishing BECAUSE of the oil industry. The drilling
rigs provide habitat for fish.
Local politicians here in N. FL pandering to the fears of foolish
liberals tell us that tourism provides jobs but all they provide is
minimum wage seasonable jobs. The gas industry provides very high
wage permanent jobs. Given a choice between being a cashier at a
Panama City Hot Dog Stand for $6.00/hr or a welder offshore, which
would you choose?

Careful, you'll become the eighteenth dwarf.

But, you'll be welcome.

"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

For the past couple years, I been setting gullible people like HK
straight, "Dukes of Hazzard" was NOT a documentary. Stop believing
everything Hollywood says. Lots of us rednecks are a lot smarter than
u might thank.

wrote:


"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

Just tell them to add salt back to the vegetables and then overcook them
till you can't tell what they are.

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:27:48 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Careful, you'll become the eighteenth dwarf.

But, you'll be welcome.

"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

What the hell is with people who don't like greens? My wife, bless her
soul, doesn't even like the smell of a batch of collards cooking in the
house. I keep telling her she's sick, but she says it's not her.

I've a friend here who gives me a bag of collards and green tomatoes every
time we golf. Naturally I make sure to golf with him at least once a week!

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:42:08 -0400, "Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall,
Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P. Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. "
wrote:

wrote:


"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

Just tell them to add salt back to the vegetables and then overcook them
till you can't tell what they are.

Nope, bacon. Lot's of bacon. And onions, and garlic, and some Frank's Red
Hot sauce, or whatever they call it these days.

John H. wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:27:48 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Careful, you'll become the eighteenth dwarf.

But, you'll be welcome.
"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.

What the hell is with people who don't like greens? My wife, bless her
soul, doesn't even like the smell of a batch of collards cooking in the
house. I keep telling her she's sick, but she says it's not her.

I've a friend here who gives me a bag of collards and green tomatoes every
time we golf. Naturally I make sure to golf with him at least once a week!

The REAL reason she doesn't like the smell of greens while they are
cooking is they actually give off a sulfur smell, which is a diluted
form of mustard gas. The longer you cook them, the more sulfur they
release.

While I have never tasted greens i like, Alton Brown says the reason
most people do not like greens are they are cooked too long. He
recommends you only cook them 45 min or until they are tender. I think
most southerners cook them till they are almost mush.

John H. wrote:
On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:42:08 -0400, "Earl of Warwich, Duke of Cornwall,
Marquies of Anglesea, Sir Reginald P. Smithers III Esq. LLC, STP. "
wrote:

wrote:

"round hear, we draw the line at 2nd cuzins but I got lucky an'
married a yankee who likes what I like ('cept she doesnt like
greens). My yank in-laws would be ok if they'd just learn to cook.
Just tell them to add salt back to the vegetables and then overcook them
till you can't tell what they are.

Nope, bacon. Lot's of bacon. And onions, and garlic, and some Frank's Red
Hot sauce, or whatever they call it these days.

Southerns have never found a dish that was not improved with the
addition of some form of pork.

If you like Frank's Red Hot, you would LOVE Crystal Hot Sauce. Better
flavor than Frank's and the same mild heat.