manure truck rolled into creek

[coppertop]

Tut tut grassfarmer, childish behavior doesn't become anyone !!!

I have been critical of our local council on this site when I felt they were not making good decisions particularly in the areas of land use, so that would hardly qualify as being a FAN !!
I have never in the past nor will I in the future be a FAN of disrespect to anyone regardless of who or what race they are. Any elected official that acts in a manner which shows disrespect to any citizen should not be re-eleced but again, that is the choice of the people .
At any rate, I enjoy many of your posts and have found them informative. If you choose not to respond to mine that will be of no consequence to me, I imagine the grass will still grow out here in the west and the cows will be fat and sassy in the fall !!!

Good luck with your endeavors grassfarmer.

[grassfarmer]

Maybe you should listen to your own advice - "childish behavior doesn't become anyone" indeed. Seems you spend a lot of time on pointless windups just so you can act all offended when someone responds to them. Rather quick to gloat too when you think you've "won" another round in your silly little game. Well you can find someone else to play with because I've better things to do with my time.

[cowman]

Despite my own love to roast the government whether municipal, provincial or federal, I have to agree with coppertop that anyone who puts in the effort to run in politics deserves some respect! It really is a thankless job and believe it or not I think most politicians do it out of a sense of civic duty...not the hope of getting both front feet in the trough!
So while I might not agree with them, I can certainly respect the effort? It lets slackards like me off the hook!
Now you guys don't get all bent out of shape on this! Its supposed to be like a coffee shop here! You exchange ideas, philosophies etc.? At the end of the day you just might learn something?

[cowman]

grassfarmer: Not sure if I qualify for redneck status or not? I do believe in gun control...I believe about half the idiots who own guns shouldn't!
I guess I drive a monster truck. I need one to haul a trailer with a tractor on it. No big boogie tires or big spotlights though...just a one ton deisel.
Not really my style to throw rascist comments at passing motorists, but I might be considered a rascist because I do get upset with certain people thinking they have special rights the rest of us don't have? And yep, Hutterites would rank right up there! They don't think they need to conform to the laws of the land? Don't need to have their picture on their driver license? Can build a factory in Kneehill county...on Ag B land? You and I can't do that, why should they?
And lets not forget while they were living away in pastoral bliss in Canada my old man was getting his ass shot off in Holland and my uncle was lying dead at Casino!....so we could have this group demand its rights?

[coppertop]

cowman, gun control is a hot potato isn't it? There are many people who should not own guns but apparently they can get them and build up an arsenal, and shoot mounties and innocent citizens.
The Liberal gun control did not work and has cost billions, so there has to be a better way than forcing law abiding citizens to register guns.

I believe in the right of citizens to practice their religion but I certainly hope the government wins the round with the hutterites regarding photos on drivers lic.
If you and I are required to have a photo on our lic. then so should they.
Recently a Hutterite sect applied to construct a new colony in one of the municipalities in the Peace region. The site they chose was in an exclusion zone in the county's municipal development plan, and the county advised their consultant of that prior to the application being filed with the NRCB.
The colony paid no attention to the county, felt they had the right to build on that partiular piece of land regardless of what the county had in their municipal plan.They could have moved the proposed headquarters two miles down the road on other lands they owned but were adamant that they be allowed to build on the site they had chosen.
The application was turned down by the NRCB, and the colony was refused a Board hearing.

The issue of what type of vehicle people choose to drive is one that as PureCountry has pointed out has been flogged to the limit on this site. If you or I or anyone for that matter choose to purchase a big old gas guzzling pickup, SUV etc., and put on a stetson and drive down the road it should be our business, and doesn't necessarily make us a redneck.