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I'm not suggesting you abandon the craftsman approach. You will learn a lot of good skills and build some nice things. At the same time however, take on some less challenging projects. Something like a work bench made out of plywood and 2X4s for your garage. With regard to the brad nailer, you need to make Harbor Freight tools your best friend. Yeah, a lot of people bad mouth there tools. Yeah, occasionally you will buy something there that truly is junk. That said, I have a garage full of there tools that all work great. I think you can get a brad nailer / staple gun there for $9.99, and if you go to there on line add get a coupon for a free LED flashlight or some other thing. You want to build a dining room table and you have never built a work bench for your garage? You will be surprised what you will learn about table building making a work bench. Also, you will have a kick ass work bench to do other cool projects Sage advice. The hardest part to build for any formal table is going to be the top. If you have to glue up your own boards you will also likely have to plane the top as well. You may be able to find a supplier of glued and planed 4X8 foot sheets. Here is my local supplier. http://www.bargainhuntcabinets.com/?page_id=821

I do woodworking all the time. Most I would have to admit are utility items for my shop and garage. Storage shelves, work benches, lab benches. Occasionally furniture items like coat racks, reading lamps, or end tables. There was a time when I went the no modern fastener route, but I gave that up about a decade ago. You can complete an entire project on a Saturday with modern fasteners. Mostly I'm talking about dry wall screws caped with dowel plugs. Of all the tools I have purchased that have made me a productive wood worker I would say my air compressor, and brad nailer make just about every project possible. The trick with a brad nailer is that you can tack your project together while also gluing the parts. You will be surprised what you can build. When I was a younger man I went the craftsman route. I get the zen thing. When I gave up on that I got a lot more accomplished. Also I built a lot more things. That taught me a lot about how to build things that looked good and were sound structures.

America first, the Netherlands second.

Just a funny onion link. Not disparagement of Joe Biden intended. http://www.theonion.com/article/biden-chokes-while-describing-hardworking-american-53364

Your list above matches up nicely with mine listed in post 327. So the KKK, created by the Democratic party, continues with the traditional Democratic party positions. Are you surprised? The Democrats made the KKK. They own the mess they created. Nice try, but the Republican party will never own that stink or shame.

You don't think money in politics is a problem? Who has deeper pockets than Uncle Sam? John Lewis was in Selma on Bloody Sunday fighting for civil rights. Something Republicans had been fight for since it's founding. He was fighting Democrats and their terrorist arm the KKK.

It seems to me that you confirmed the topic name here.

So please, where is your log comparable list of Republican party racist actions. You know, pulled off by the great savior of the Democratic Party Dick Nixon and his successors? Do Democratic voters and politicians simply stop being racists when the become Republicans? You should be able to give some examples. The US will be remembered for at least three great racist epochs. 1) Slavery 2) Jim Crow 3) Welfare All three perpetrated by the Democratic party. The insane thing is that Democrats just cant acknowledge the third as racism and all they have to do is read Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Racist epoch number 3 above.

My favorite part of your above quote is "it is clear that the racist southern vein vote Republican today" To me it says the Democratic party can change by individuals can't. What is it with liberals that you just can't see individuals, but only groups. Both you and Overtone have a hard time staying on topic. Again, why are conservatives insane and what should be done about it. But since you insist. For your reading pleasure. Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it. Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery. Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery. Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision. Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers. Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws. Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well-known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan. Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage. Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans. Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks. Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913. Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama. Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922. Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching. Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces. Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson. Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas. Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting. Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever. Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools. Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act. Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI. Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation. Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67. Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964. Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By the way everything after 1959 occurred during my lifetime. Not ancient history. Just yesterday really. How some people choose to forget.

What still no solutions? Still whining? Try being a little more creative. But since you bring it up I can't help myself. So you really think Richard Nixon was the savior of the Democratic party? All by him self did it really erase all that Democratic party history? From slavery, sedition, succession, the revolutionary war, Jim crow, lynching, segregation, etc.? Did Nixon wipe from the history books that the KKK was the terrorist arm of the National Democratic Party? All that wiped away by Richard Nixon? Even the taint? No kidding? From the slave owning of the party founder Thomas Jefferson, to slavery promoter John C. Calhoun, to KKK member Robert Byrd, and segregationist George Wallace all suddenly irrelevant? Wow, you must think of old Dick Nixon as the pied piper of the Democratic party. Isn't this topic about Conservatives being mildly insane?

Better check your history books about the origins of slavery and Jim Crow. Both are firmly enshrined in the Democratic party. you're welcome

I think we can all acknowledge that the camps will be almost exclusively white and males. That should actually expedite the process. I think you need to go look at the map showed earlier. Those insane folks have a lot of room to roam. In fact looking at that map I would say the opposite of the above is true. Sure they have their own agenda, but stopping the sane is right their at the top of their list. By having work camps we can change their exercise from chasing weed smokers to generating electricity. Listening to phone calls? Who is doing that at the moment? Somewhat insane. Isn't that like being a little pregnant? Which brings to mind other possible solutions. Political eugenics. Brilliant. Acme requested solutions in post 302, after 301 posts of whining examples of conservative insanity. I don't think the whining is working. At least I'm providing solutions to the insanity. You are just moping. Now who's world view is on display. I like the "spawn of evils" comment the best. Now not insane, but evil. But who was more insane/evil than Ronald Reagan? I seem to recall old Ronnie having quite the affinity for the US Military. Funny how we are still free. The above whining won't fix a thing. I read "quit adding to the means" as doing less then nothing toward a solution. Come on, you can do better than that. edit----- Hey, Didn't Ronnie get in trouble for calling people evil? In fact I think it was an entire country. Overtone and Ronnie. Birds of a feather.

Yeah, I'm sure the conservatives felt something very similar when Bush was elected after Reagan. All nonsense. The pendulum swings. The danger today however is that when it swings back those insane Conservatives will take control of Obama's pen and phone. Chaos! Yep, for the safety of the sane (aka progressives), we will just have to lock them down in re-education work camps. Besides those conservatives like work. It sets them free. Oh Yeah, stay on topic. As Acme states in post 302 the topic is why do conservatives behave the way they do (insane) and what can be done about it.

Not true. Those insane folks think that a government that does nothing does best. I with the Senate they can stop the appointment of any judge.

What you actually said was..... We have three co-equal branches of government. If they don't work together nothing happens. Nothing happening is what those insane conservatives want. Look at that map again. Don't count the insane out yet. I said camps not ghettos. To protect progressives against the insane you need a lock a key. That's the only way to stop the insane from anti-progressive-activities. You are not looking at the big picture. The education is simply to help them understand the necessity of keeping them locked up. To explain the need of their work walking on the big electrical generating treadmill whenever the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine. A frequent forced watching of "An Inconvenient Truth" will help them appreciate the virtue of their labor. Before you know it we will be living in a progressive paradise.

You don't understand how Senators get elected?

You are right. Taking away there wealth and capacity to make wealth simply isn't enough. I know, we can re-educate them as well. So we don't waste to much money on the effort we should first concentrate them in camps and make them work to pay for there education. By concentrating them in camps we can also keep them away from their guns. Last leg? Perhaps you missed the last election. The sooner we round them up, take there wealth, and stick them in re-education concentration camps the better.

Why do they behave the way they do? Because they have jobs and money. What can be done about it? Take away there jobs and money. Is that the obvious answer you are looking for? What other answer could a liberal possibly want?

I used to put a note on my refrigerator that said "Please don't drink all my beer", and after that there was always one left.

A good place to start would be to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I remember being where you are. Roommates can be a challenge but you learn a lot about human nature living with people primarily for financial reasons. By the way, roommates don't have to be your friends. Maybe better if they are not. If you can’t cut roommates try tiny little dives in the bad part of town. Just don’t own anything worth stealing and don’t lock your doors. When I couldn't take roommates any longer that is what I did. I look back on that time of my life with fondness. I would definitely relive every minute of it. I remember feeling rich when I had my current bills paid, some food in the pantry, and twenty bucks in my pocket. I don't think I ever felt freer.

Also ignored is that before European colonialism, the primary system of government in the lands of discussion was feudalism. Moving from feudalism to colonialism to dictatorship sounds like a recipe for poverty.