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I'm just picking on Spokane...although the meth problem and it getting totally dark at 4 en 30 in the winter is top rate...
If I ever get up the the Puget Sound area again, I'll probably stay. There's only a handful of places I could make that statement about.
I'm just picking on Spokane...although the meth problem and it getting totally dark at 4 en 30 in the winter is top rate...
Surely you're not complaining. We have far too many wannabe bikers, with new leather and new metal, buddy biking 281 during June. Someone needs to thin them out.
I flew into Spokane once, it was nice. But once you got to the edges of town and outside it was more depressing than deep East Texas as far as the people went. Beautiful area though."Very agricultural" is usually the nice way of describing a place that's rural and chalked full of bible thumping white trash.
Which is exactly how my friends from Seattle describe Spokane
Looks like BigCarbon is gonna up WA like it s up everywhere else.
With Proposed Rail Expansion, Northwest Confronts Its Clean Image
SPOKANE, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest’s sense of itself can sometimes seem green to the point of parody: a medium-roast blend of piney peaks and urban cool, populated by residents who look descended from lumberjacks or fishermen.
Now, plans by the energy industry to move increasing amounts of coal and oil through the region by rail, bound for Asia, are pulling at all the threads of that self-portrait.
Last September, the first trains of crude oil from the Bakken fields in North Dakota began chugging through. Since then, energy companies have drafted proposals for new storage, handling and shipment capability almost equivalent to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which is facing a deeply uncertain path of federal regulatory approval.
Mile-long trains from the coal mines of Wyoming already run daily, and the load could more than double if three big proposed export terminals gain approval and financing.
The expected outrage has ensued.
The proposals “do violence to many Northwesterners’ concept of their place and what it stands for,” Alan Durning, the founder and executive director of the Sightline Ins ute, an environmental research group in Seattle, said in an e-mail.
Environmental groups led by the Sierra Club have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the BNSF Railway, which dominates the freight system, of violating the federal Clean Water Act by letting coal spill into waterways from its tracks. The State of Washington, in assessing the permit application of a proposed coal terminal near Bellingham, said in July that it would take a macro-environmental approach, looking at impacts of the project along the entire length of the coal transit route, including the burning of the coal in China.
But with the promise of jobs, the effort is moving ahead. The biggest oil shipment project yet proposed, which would be able to process about 360,000 barrels a day, was given an initial lease approval by the Port of Vancouver, Wash. The reality of the Northwest’s environmental image has always been more nuanced than the stereotype suggests. Huge dams on the Columbia River make Washington and Oregon Nos. 1 and 2 in the nation in renewable hydroelectricity. But the cheap electricity from those dams fostered an aerospace industry that is hardly carbon neutral. A multistate planning compact made the region a national leader in energy efficiency. But Washington’s big oil refineries can pump out more old-fashioned gasoline than all but a handful of other states.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/20...ean-image.html
I don't get it can you elaborate? I don’t live in Texas but have worked with Texans & they are some cool folks…
He's Canadian. 'nuff said.
Maybe it's just sensitivity from living here most of my life but Texans have an especially irritating " y'all I'm from Texas" arrogance that annoys me to no end. I realize every other state's citizens take pride in their home but Texas arrogance and pride comes from an especially y place. "We're Texas! We could be our own sovereign nation if we wanted herpaderp!", acting like the only reason they haven't seceded yet is because they're doing the rest of the country a favor by sticking around. Texans don't like to be lumped in with the South because "we do things differently here in Texas" even tho they really don't and the state is littered with the same uneducated trash as the rest of the South. Texans act friendly but even that's a fake ass friendliness tinged with an arrogant "See we act friendly and hospitable because we ain't like them no good rude New Yorkers because we're TEXAS and we're better than you!" but let a Texan sit in a long line at Walmart with a Middle Eastern running the register and it won't be five minutes till you hear everyone in line ing about the towelheaded cousin of Bin Laden who don't know how to run a dern register and needs to get the outta herr.
And it seems trivial but the one thing that really defines asshole Texan arrogance is their stupid chili quote "if you know beans bout chili, then you know that chili ain't got no beans" as if the simple act of putting beans in chili exposes someone as a Yankee communist piece of who needs to move to France.
Thats some great stuff...monosylab1k...
I am from Los Angeles...Would love to hear your thoughts on LA...
i don't know about ppl who live there, but Californians who now live in Texas are even more annoying than actual Texans. Anytime a California staple makes it's way to Texas they all semencloud over it and overrate the out of it. In N Out is great and all but it was really funny to see how emotional Cali ppl got when they first opened in Dallas. Also, when Trader Joe's first came here everybody i knew from Cali went on and on about how i'd probably in my pants the first time i shopped there. It was nice and all but nothing special. My theory is that Cali ppl in Texas miss the weather so much they instantly become overly nostalgic about anything Cali related and thus overrate the out of it to Texans. It's mostly a Cali thing too because i doubt any Texas transplants get all orgasmic anytime a new Whataburger opens up in another state. Then again, its probably because their at ude is "shoot if i wanted to eat Whataburger i'll go do it in TEXAS by God"Thats some great stuff...monosylab1k...
I am from Los Angeles...Would love to hear your thoughts on LA...
the Spokane/ Coeur d' Alene area is really nice. Beans and nigs are almost non existent, you might come across a tomahawk chucker or two but that's it. People leave their keys in their ignition and doors unlocked. Its what this entire country could've been like if it was for whites only. And it doesn't rain like it does in Seattle.
I have yet to venture into deep east Texas, but is it really that bad, as in worse-than-NW-Texas-bad
I can't imagine anything worse than the towns on the 287 highway in between Amarillo and DFW.
Even the people in places like that who are not white, grow up in the same culture of ethics. Not like street s .
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