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Post by pepesdad1 on Jan 8, 2019 15:10:02 GMT -5
...age old story of scapegoating...happens every couple of generations, where some people need to feel that someone else is the cause of their misery...they only need to look no further than their mirror.
Mexico can be a wonderful place...long as you stay out of the areas where the narco cartels are operating. They don't care about anything except themselves and their product...all else is expendable.
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 8, 2019 15:35:35 GMT -5
As a white, heterosexual, Jewish male without bible or guns, I do not consider you a terrorist. Just saying . . . . You've told us quite a bit about yourself here. Why not pop over here and tell us more about yourself. Welcome to the forum. |
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Post by jackdiamond on Jan 8, 2019 20:20:19 GMT -5
I wish you the best of luck. I often fantasize about your way of living, but I'm far too attached to the clay I was born on.
If, in your travels, you ever pass through Western Oklahoma, please shoot me a PM. I'd love to have a pipe and a chat with you.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Jan 8, 2019 20:28:11 GMT -5
I tell you where I’d go. Zihuatanejo. Zihuatanejo. It’s in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel, right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing. One of my favorite movies since I was young. I watch it a few times a year. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2019 20:42:49 GMT -5
America is just fine instead of watching the news worry more about the community you reside in and make it better. Really the crap they promote is not what real Americans stand for or believe as a whole. United we stand and the only thing dividing us is media rhetoric.
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Jan 8, 2019 21:00:59 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your troubles. Everything will work out just fine! I think you dodged a bullet and hell! its Mexico whats not to love?
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Post by trailboss on Jan 8, 2019 22:21:17 GMT -5
You just have to be aware that if you read much of what is in the media, you do not get a clear picture of where a good percentage of the American public is at.
For whatever reason, douchebaggery on a grand scale seems to dominate public discourse, and politics seem to infect entertainment that used to be an escape from it all.
I watched the Golden Globe awards the other night, and enjoyed the class that Carol Burnett and Jeff Bridges has as they accepted their much deserved lifetime awards... true class.
Some of the others... true a$$.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 8, 2019 23:44:15 GMT -5
If you live in Mexico you will have to leave your guns back here. Only cartel members can have guns in Mexico.
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Post by bigwoolie on Jan 9, 2019 8:42:41 GMT -5
I wish you the best of luck. I often fantasize about your way of living, but I'm far too attached to the clay I was born on. If, in your travels, you ever pass through Western Oklahoma, please shoot me a PM. I'd love to have a pipe and a chat with you. Thank you. I will do that! |
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Post by Scott W on Jan 9, 2019 19:41:11 GMT -5
Best of luck!
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Post by priest2705 on Jan 9, 2019 19:47:52 GMT -5
Not going to go into the whole story, but found out this week that the outfitter in Wyoming that I was going to work for this summer doesn't seem to be on the up-and-up. So I've walked away. I don't need the trouble. My wife and I, as I've said before, live in an old rv and I work seasonal with horses. I have no rent or mortgage, no car payment, no credit card debt. Nothing. I can work pretty much non-stop for 90 days and make enough to live on the rest of the year if we want to. I get paid pretty good for what I do, because I've been doing it for a long time and I'm good at it. And it's a dying art. I'm in Mexico at the moment, at a friends house. That's where I was when the whole WY thing fell apart. My wife and I are very seriously considering just moving down here. The 3-month job at the training stables in Florida every year is more than enough to support us the rest of the time. The truth is, I don't recognize my own country any more, as much as I love it. I feel like I've somehow become the enemy. As a white, heterosexual, Christian male with Bibles and guns, I am considered a terrorist by the very country my family has helped settle, build and fight for since the mid-1600's. Im not starting a diatribe on politics, but am I the only one on here feeling this way? Are there others who've entertained some of the same thoughts? While I may disagree with you politically, I still wish you the best of luck in making the right choice for you and your wife. Being a black, Christian, gun owning heterosexual who's served, gone where Uncle Sam sent me, fought who the government sent me to fight, and damn near bled to death in a Bosnian street, I will always remember what my mother taught me. She lived through the Civil Rights movement, and she always said that, no matter how this country may look at people of color, this is still the best country in the world. And, having traveled to every continent except Antarctica and seen combat on all of those except Australia, I have always agreed with her. I may joke about moving here or there, but this is home, and will always ben home |
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Post by bigwoolie on Jan 9, 2019 20:08:08 GMT -5
Not going to go into the whole story, but found out this week that the outfitter in Wyoming that I was going to work for this summer doesn't seem to be on the up-and-up. So I've walked away. I don't need the trouble. My wife and I, as I've said before, live in an old rv and I work seasonal with horses. I have no rent or mortgage, no car payment, no credit card debt. Nothing. I can work pretty much non-stop for 90 days and make enough to live on the rest of the year if we want to. I get paid pretty good for what I do, because I've been doing it for a long time and I'm good at it. And it's a dying art. I'm in Mexico at the moment, at a friends house. That's where I was when the whole WY thing fell apart. My wife and I are very seriously considering just moving down here. The 3-month job at the training stables in Florida every year is more than enough to support us the rest of the time. The truth is, I don't recognize my own country any more, as much as I love it. I feel like I've somehow become the enemy. As a white, heterosexual, Christian male with Bibles and guns, I am considered a terrorist by the very country my family has helped settle, build and fight for since the mid-1600's. Im not starting a diatribe on politics, but am I the only one on here feeling this way? Are there others who've entertained some of the same thoughts? While I may disagree with you politically, I still wish you the best of luck in making the right choice for you and your wife. Being a black, Christian, gun owning heterosexual who's served, gone where Uncle Sam sent me, fought who the government sent me to fight, and damn near bled to death in a Bosnian street, I will always remember what my mother taught me. She lived through the Civil Rights movement, and she always said that, no matter how this country may look at people of color, this is still the best country in the world. And, having traveled to every continent except Antarctica and seen combat on all of those except Australia, I have always agreed with her. I may joke about moving here or there, but this is home, and will always ben home Thank you. Thank you for your sentiment, and thank you for your service. I have a son in the Air Force and another son who is a Marine. I too have lived in, worked in or visited many countries. Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa, Bosnia, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. I do love this country, and will be coming back 3 or 4 months a year to work. But at the same time, for myself and my wife, some hard decisions have come due. I wish you and I could sit and have a pipe and a cup of coffee. I think I would really like that. |
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Post by priest2705 on Jan 9, 2019 20:13:05 GMT -5
While I may disagree with you politically, I still wish you the best of luck in making the right choice for you and your wife. Being a black, Christian, gun owning heterosexual who's served, gone where Uncle Sam sent me, fought who the government sent me to fight, and damn near bled to death in a Bosnian street, I will always remember what my mother taught me. She lived through the Civil Rights movement, and she always said that, no matter how this country may look at people of color, this is still the best country in the world. And, having traveled to every continent except Antarctica and seen combat on all of those except Australia, I have always agreed with her. I may joke about moving here or there, but this is home, and will always ben home Thank you. Thank you for your sentiment, and thank you for your service. I have a son in the Air Force and another son who is a Marine. I too have lived in, worked in or visited many countries. Papua New Guinea, Australia, South Africa, Bosnia, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. I do love this country, and will be coming back 3 or 4 months a year to work. But at the same time, for myself and my wife, some hard decisions have come due. I wish you and I could sit and have a pipe and a cup of coffee. I think I would really like that. I would love that. Tell your son Semper Fi for me. I respect whatever decision y'all make, always do what's best for the 2 of you. From my own experience down in Mexico, I can say that the people are fantastic, the food is amazing, and when I was deployed there with my team to do some counter-kidnapping training, we enjoyed our time there |
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