How about a thread...................

[Tobina+1]

I could care less about your opinion of Palin.  Or how you prefer your swine made-up (frankly, that's between you and your livestock).  I want to know who you'd choose to vote FOR!

[kshillbillys]

Well did not choose livestock for the white house YOU guys already did that with Opiga.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      I VOTE FOR JOE & DICK IN 12

[sixdogsmom]

I want to apologise to Pam; she started this thread as an exercise meant to be constructive. My sarcasm about Sarah Palin, although appropriate IMHO, it was not appropriate in this thread, and I do apologise. It was like throwing a solied diaper down in Utopia.  I'm sorry Pam.

[pamsback]

I did not see your rules. I gess we know who some of the lipstick wearers are now.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 MR. KSHILLYBILLY

Hillbilly, mr or mrs. I started this thread..... read the FIRST post.......I asked for constructive information and leave all the "party" propaganda in other threads so maybe we could have a conversation without a bunch of derogatory bullshit. I'm tired of the same old same old and wanted to maybe learn something instead of listening to a bunch of juvenile crap.I don't think ANY of us voted for Obama, I know I didn't and that isn't what this was to be about anyway. There are plenty of OTHER threads for Obama trashin. Yeah I didn't like Sarah Palin...so what?

Don't worry bout it SDM, I pretty much knew this was an exercise in futility LOL.

Tobina had an excellant idea with her post and we could have all traded ideas without insults if we had kept to what she asked for.

[larryJ]

Don't give up the ship yet!  Eventually, those with positive thoughts will realize that they should post here and others who wish to diss each other about their politics go on the threads that are already there screaming at each other.  

There are probably millions of good ideas that can be discussed here without slapping some one's hand.  Like, and I posted this somewhere, I think,---------------the other day I took my Granddaughter to the park.  I said something about the Cork squares that was put in place around the playground equipment.  I had not seen that at any of the other parks in the neighborhood.  If a child should fall, they would basically just bounce.  It is probably cost prohibitive for some towns, but it is a great idea.  I know we all pay taxes to the feds and the state, so asking for money for a project like this would probably not happen, but it would be nice.  I think I would look at it as an increase in my taxes, but I am directing where the money is spent.  

Larryj

[sixdogsmom]

Mostly around where I grew up  Larry, they used a deep layer of fine sand that was pumped from the Arkansas River. You just sank in when you landed with no harm, well at least most of the time. 

[Varmit]

Hillbilly, mr or mrs. I started this thread..... read the FIRST post.......I asked for constructive information and leave all the "party" propaganda in other threads so maybe we could have a conversation without a bunch of derogatory bullshit. I'm tired of the same old same old and wanted to maybe learn something instead of listening to a bunch of juvenile crap.

Just out of curiosity, why weren't sixdogs and tobina included in this?  Espcially seeing that they started in with the "degrogatory bullshit" first.  If we are tired of the same old politics then we have to abandon the policy of laying the blame for something solely at the feet of one party.

[larryJ]

All of the local playgrounds here, and we have many being in a large urban area, have sand.  Wednesday, I took to the local city park which is sand.  When we get back to the van, she has to empty her shoes and take off her socks and brush her feet off. 

Unfortunately, there have been incidents where some fool has buried nails or razor blades in the sand, like at the bottom of a slide.  We can't let her run through the sand without her shoes on.  It is a sad thing that there are these people around. 

Larryj

[Diane Amberg]

That is just awful! Why in the world would someone do that.

[larryJ]

Well, we have all kinds here.  That was one of the reasons I was so impressed with the cork.  It was colored dark gray basically with some lighter color designs.  That made it easy to see anything that would be dangerous.  We have those that start these brush fires also.  What are ya gonna do?

Larryj