Another day in Maine…
Tag: maine
sighting
You will sit through 20 minutes of traffic. Then you will wait in line for 20 minutes while traffic crawls past you in a sometimes deafening roar. Then you will shell out $14 for a lobster roll. Then you will be truly happy. They claim to have the best lobster roll in all of Maine, and I believe them.
(possible destination on my way out of Maine Wednesday)
A day in Maine
A day in Maine… me, Dad and Faye. She does not like the back seat. She hasn’t looked at me since the ride.
My Dad, the “Mainer”
He’s Bronx, NY born and bred and he’ll never lose that NY accent, but my Dad has been in Maine a long time. This is a letter he wrote to what he lovingly (?) calls The Bangor Daily Snooze:
Proud of our senators
I’m writing to express my appreciation of Maine’s two senators.
As a registered Democrat, I’m going to vote for the Democratic presidential nominee. I think they’re both capable candidates in their own fashion. After all, nobody could do any worse than what we’ve had for the past seven years.
Given that recently, a majority of actions by the government come down on the side of benefiting corporate and profit motives, it is apparent that our present government is not of, for or by the people, but of corporations. So I’m kind of down on Republicans.
But then along come Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, Republicans through and through. Sen. Collins and Sen. Hillary Clinton have joined forces to introduce a measure that would track the brain function of servicemen before and after going into battle zones so we may someday find out that war is hell and makes people crazy.
Sen. Snowe is in Bangor listening to and apparently sympathetic with fishermen being forced out of business over a bureaucratic decision about ropes and whales. Over the years, I’ve noted many other actions by our senators that weren’t blatantly partisan, favored the well-being of Maine people, and showed an ability to compromise on complicated decisions.
I’ll vote for these two Republicans in the future because they give me hope that even Republicans have hearts and minds and still know our government is for the people. They make Mainers of all stripes proud.
Rich Meyer
Corinna
I’m just glad they’re skipping Maryland for the killings and the refugee nonsense. I was born here and I’ve been all over, but I like it here and I want to stay. My Dad lives up there in Maine though… I need to send this to him quick!
Seriously though, the creator(s) of this example used the most sparsely populated states for the killing and the next least dense (intended) areas for the refugees. Everyone here is in the major cities and on the coasts (with a few more in TX).
But it really is a strking visual.
What Bush’s invasion would look like in the United States — nickdouglas