What do you dislike about Kansas? (Kansas City, Lawrence: property taxes, live in, restaurants)

[j_k_k]

Originally Posted by TinaMcG

Wow -- someone here knows about loess!

I have to. I probably breathe much loess each day.

[G-Dog]

I hate the wind and the heat and the ignorant people.

[TinaMcG]

Well, you're hanging around with the wrong crowd, G-Dog. I'm no intellectual slouch, and I think the people here in NE Kansas are just fine. Sure, there are morons, but no more so than anywhere else.

I agree with you about the wind, haven't seen much heat that bothers me much...but the rain we had in 2008 is something I could do without. Three to six inches in a day is a bit much for my taste.

[straw hat]

The cows came up to Kansas Ccity, KS from Texas. It seams that people in the east wanted beef but not the smell or work involved with the cattle business. They wanted the Kansas City steaks.
Also if you ask people who have never been to Kansas to locate Kansas City, Kansas they either can’t locate it or they look at you like you have two heads because everyone knows Kansas City is only in Mo.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by straw hat

The cows came up to Kansas Ccity, KS from Texas. It seams that people in the east wanted beef but not the smell or work involved with the cattle business. They wanted the Kansas City steaks.
Also if you ask people who have never been to Kansas to locate Kansas City, Kansas they either can’t locate it or they look at you like you have two heads because everyone knows Kansas City is only in Mo.

The big agribusiness operations HAVE shifted out to the High Plains and away from the Eastern Plains and the Midwest Core. The stockyards in Chicago and Kansas City both closed in the late 70s time period. All of the feelots, packing plants, and slaughterhouses now are out in Garden City, Dodge City, Liberal, Lexington, NE, etc.

[straw hat]

People moving here then complaining that it isn’t just like the place they left. Kids get over it. Grown ups move on.

[Modron]

What do I dislike about Kansas. Well, Tuesday I get to decide whether or not to watch the Barack Obama's inauguration with my middle school students, the children who carried all kinds of fun comments to school during the campaign and following the election: "Maybe we'll get lucky and one of the hate groups will kill Obama before January, so we can have a white president." "Obama and liberals stab babies to death." "I wish Obama's mother would have aborted him." You know, the good moral values, midwestern, Christian talk.

I spent New Year's Eve in a double-wide trailer listening to people's 12-years-olds talk about those terrible "intellectuals." It was nice to be thought of and invited. But, 5 of the 7 adults had at least one college degree. And least two had master's degrees. You'd think they would not think "Sarah Palin was being ""crucified"" by the press." (Trust me, any other mother of a pregnant, unwed teenager would be roundly and throughly criticized.) Half of these good, upstanding fundamentalist Christians were divorced - the sanctity of marriage, you know. We got to listen to one of the divorced women criticize her husband wanting visitation with the kids. It was like being in one of those scenarios "eeevil libruls" tell about GOP trailer trash, only these well-educated people are ignorant by choice and want the same for the rest of the country.

I remember the days when I thought Kansas' values were real. But, they aren't.

I know, I know: "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven."

[TinaMcG]

Modron, if you teach middle school kids, maybe you can play their game with them. Ask them to define a "liberal". Have them cite their sources for the Obama-baby-stabber stories. Remind them that when they wish he had been aborted, that means they must think abortion is a good thing.

Ask them their opinions of someone who would not lash out when people tell lies about him. Ask them what they think of someone who listens to people who disagree with and oppose him. Let them talk about the pros and cons of solving problems by engaging everyone in the discussion, rather than bullying opponents into submission.

They'll probably be embarrassed to admit they are just parroting what their parents say, but you just might ingite s spark of independent thinking in some of them. If they're taught to hate at home, maybe you can get them thinking that there are alternatives to hate.

If that doesn't work, tell them you have the US Secret Service on speed dial.

[Modron]

lol, the Secret Service on speed dial. I'll have to try that.

[mostly c's]

redneck, rightwing, democrats. liberal open minded republicans, Kansas can a very confusing place to talk politics.