A sad day in the Mahoning Valley (Ohio)

[JohnnyRingo]

GW is flying into Youngstown Warren Muni in about 15 minutes (2:00).

I hear he's bringing "Zell from Hell" with him and, of course, Y'town mayor McKelvey (D traitor) will be in the ass kissing line.

The local news has pointed out that, being a nice day here, that the airport is at capacity with Bushbots and advising people not to try going there. (Tickets and a picture ID req.)(?)

The support he's gained in the last few months here in the "Rust Belt" is disturbing, to say the least. The war seems to be the defining factor.

Has half of our population really become this blood thirsty?

I live on the glidescope for runway 14 and expect to hear AF1 overhead any minute now.
....A sad, sad day, indeed.

[cubsfan forever]

1. GOTV n/t

Professor 2

[MsMagnificent]

6. We're moving to that area

Husband has been out of permanent work for a year, he works in a highly specialized field. He was a vested employee in his old company but since Bush took control that job sector has just gotten worse and worse to the point of companies closing. He finally got a decent offer and we're moving to the Warren area shortly (Anyone know of a nice little country house for rent? :)

Anyhow, through all the people I've spoken to in that area only one person has been glad to welcome us to the community, which I initially found curious.

Now, I realize why.

I don't think I'd be too happy being out of work and having strangers move in from out of state to take a local job.

Here I'd like to say: I'm truly sorry.

But, we have to live too. Once there I was going to look for part-time work, now I think I'll stay home & wash my dishes and vacuum my floors for a couple months at least. I don't want to take any local jobs.
I only wish we could vote there, in Ohio, instead of voting in a 'Strong Kerry' state.

I'm fairly active in Animal Rescue and lately into politics, I plan to do the former and hope there will not be such a need for the latter.
Only after November 2 will any of us know...

However I'm truly puzzled as to why the polls in Ohio see-saw (dare I say flip-flop?) between Kerry and Bush.
Bush and his cadre, all on their own, set up our citizens to lose whether due to neglect, insufficient protection of those jobs or even a deliberate "who the F*** cares" attitude towards American job loss or their state of health.
(Awkward grammar there, but would rather post this instead of yet more editing)

Ohio has lost so many jobs, so many millions of it's citizens alone have additionally been put under the poverty line, so many millions in Ohio alone have lost Health Care...

I truly cannot understand why seemingly 50% of the population (or so) would rather ask for 4 more years of GW's "Love"
--to virtually volunteer to, male and female, bend over and nicely ask how much further to spread their cheeks cause they haven't been sufficiently screwed yet?

I really cannot comprehend this situation... is there an answer to this anywhere at all?

[cubsfan forever]

9. It is so unfair that good people

like you and you husband have dislocate to make a living. Your obvious passion for life and hope for a better future are inspiring.
As to what is wrong with working people who vote for Dumbass, I truly don't have an answer. My grand father (a union carpenter for 44 years) once said: "Any workingman who votes for a Republican is a g**damn fool." My family's thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Keep the faith, as I believe this nightmare of the past four years is just about to end. Take care.

Professor 2

[cubsfan forever]

10. I meant "relocate." Please forgive me

Professor 2

[MsMagnificent]

11. Thank you

for the very kind words!


It is hard, leaving your home and family, to uproot our lives and try to grow in a strange land... but at least we're not destitute.
Yet.

Thank you, again; it's mattered more than I can eptly explain. :)

[Joanne98]

2. I'm in Zanesville. I think we're going to win Ohio by 5 points

[skygazer]

3. Youngstown

Here in north east Ohio
Back in eighteen-o-three
James and Danny Heaton
Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek
They built a blast furnace
Here along the shore
And they made the cannon balls
That helped the union win the war

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces
Kept 'em hotter than hell
I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer
A job that'd suit the devil as well
Taconite, coke and limestone
Fed my children and made my pay
Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the 0hio works
When he come home from world war two
Now the yards just scrap and rubble
He said, "Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do"
These mills they built the tanks and bombs
That won this country's wars
We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam
Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown
Here in Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

From the Monongahela valley
To the Mesabi iron range
To the coal mines of Appalacchia
The story's always the same
Seven-hundred tons of metal a day
Now sir you tell me the world’s changed
Once I made you rich enough
Rich enough to forget my name

In Youngstown
In Youngstown
My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down
Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven
I would not do heavens work well
I pray the devil comes and takes me
To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

[KharmaTrain]

4. Is Trafficant's Toupee There?

I'm amazed we haven't gotten a jail cell endorsement by that area's former rep. Or is he a non-person now?

My sympathies. My his assholiness gaffe his way through another fear-mongering speech.

It's the Bubble Tour...soon coming to an end.

[JohnnyRingo]

5. He switched partys just before he "went away".

That pissed aff all his dem base.... He never had time to court the repub base here.

He left as a man without a party... or friend.

Now we have the young and very capable Tim Ryan in his stead... good trade.

[Red State Rebel]

8. I will never forget the first time I saw that thing....

He came on the tube for some reason and my son and I looked at each other and said "what the he@@???". We laughed for 15 minutes. Don't have a clue what he was talking about - his hair was too dang funny.

[AngryOldDem]

7. He's coming to Dayton tomorrow

And appearing in one of the most economically depressed areas in Montgomery County, in an arena that now hosts concerts from third-rate, has-been rock bands and the annual gun and knife show. This pit holds about 7,000 compared to the baseball stadium in downtown Dayton where Kerry was last week -- he had upwards of 10,000 there. The local Dems are urging protesters to come out and gather across the street at a factory that shut down during the last couple of years.

I always laugh when these clowns come to town because they either appear in or have to drive past some of the worst places in the county. Good that they see their handiwork, if they even notice.

All of it has the ring of poetic justice to me.