It's Getting Crazy Out There

[JerryBaumchen 1,436]

Hi folks,

Talk about insanity:  They are in Carter County . . . to help run the command center there, providing supplies and resources for those in need. 

FEMA workers threatened by armed group in Tennessee (thehill.com)

Jerry Baumchen

[riggerrob 643]

23 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi folks,

Talk about insanity:  They are in Carter County . . . to help run the command center there, providing supplies and resources for those in need. 

FEMA workers threatened by armed group in Tennessee (thehill.com)

Jerry Baumchen

Poorly-informed hill-billies. See Nancy Isenberg's book: " White Trash, the 400 year old untold history of Class in America."

[ryoder 1,590]

I'm reminded of a joke from the era of LBJ's "War on Poverty". A reporter asked some rural hick what he thought about it:

"I don't know much about it, but I can tell you if he comes around here, he's in for a hell of a fight!"

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

8 hours ago, riggerrob said:

Poorly-informed hill-billies. See Nancy Isenberg's book: " White Trash, the 400 year old untold history of Class in America."

Simple farmers, the common clay of the West. You know...

Morons.

[riggerrob 643]

Amusing that you mention "common clay" as the term also came up while reading Nancy Isenberg's book "White Trash."

"Clay eaters" was a derogatory term referring to poor whites who lived in swampy areas of the USA's Southern States. Some of those poor people were in the habit of eating clay to compensate for poor diets. A disadvantage is that some types of intestinal worm eggs can lay dormant in clay for years. Eating clay to compensate for a vitamin B12 deficiency created another problem: intestinal worms.