Hey, wait a minute, slow down here. Have a cup of coffee and relax. Take your time, do some more reading, learn more about these voices and community members. You might very well be pleasantly surprised.

Fine with me if you don't like something, but remember, the original post is a historical transcription, check the date out.

We are not a monolithic single dogmatic voice. Join in. Enjoy.

My understanding is that you were banned from the Olympian comments for breaking their rules.  Plain and simple.  Yet you blame the consequences of your behavior on the "tolerant, diverse left".

Your vitriol against the Left, particularly your accusations and rants about leftists sowing irresponsibility in the minds of the poor, is a thin veneer covering that fact that you, sir, have no sense of personal responsibility.

I have no doubt that if you do not buck up and show some decency, respect, and intellectual responsibility in your statements, you will indeed be banned from this site as well.  You will have nobody but yourself to blame.

The Canaanite's Call

The Top Notch Tavern in Raymond was originally opened by my great-uncle, who had been a moonshiner and bootlegger supreme in earlier years. I believe he died in his 50s of a heart attack during his trial for murder when he beat a business associate to death with a chair in Aberdeen. Alcohol was involved, I'm sure. That is one of the milder stories about my family in Raymond.

You failed to address my comment. And since your original comment was so beyond the pale, I'll repost my request:

Normally I wouldn't do this, but IV's post is so toxic and offensive to me personally that I am asking for an apology. IV is making some broad and totally inaccurate assumptions about my politics, how I get my income, or my motives in providing this historical post.

While welfare isn't exclusive to economically-depressed rural places I've known or otherwise been acquainted with numerous women who stayed on welfare after their men left them and the kids. Most of the ones I knew in Mason, Grays Harbor and Pacific counties were expected to get on and stay on, until such time as they could find another man.

Two of them, unfortunately, were the type to actually plan ahead on how getting knocked up might increase their benefits and/or the length of eligibility. This, of course, was with the blessing of their families.

I mentioned elsewhere an acquaintance who was practically disowned by her family for daring to put herself through the police academy and get hired. I suppose she was keeping a deserving male unemployed, plus was "not being a good mother"

Now obviously not everybody in those counties thinks that way. Not every Conservative or Traditionalist, not every Logger, not every Republican. Obviously there's welfare and welfare fraud in the cities and among Dem/Libs. And most obviously there are people who truly use welfare assistance as it was intended: to help them get back on their feet. Yet my accurate portrayal of three specific people and particularly their immediate families might be construed as Leftist Hate.

That is, hate against the families for having Moral Values. The Accuser will most likely agree with my assessment of "all welfare moms"

I wonder if telling a working blue-collar family man how to spend his money, especially in conjunction with July 4th, is Leftist. In other words let him drink it away.

I would like to see the substance in your argument. I think Steven expressed that he was hurt by your comment. Were you intending to hurt him?

In the Course of Events