Big Rick

I won’t even take a flu shot that has been around for years. Not likely to take an experimental version very soon.

11 minutes ago, GlennWest said:

Reckon I should just leave this site

Getting very politically correct

Try Port Arthur RV on Hwy 365

was just there for a few weeks, nice place and nice folks

Let’s be clear on terms.

Texas requires a CARRY permit which can be either concealed or open. There is no longer a concealed carry permit.

Also a lot of the traction issue depends on the slope of the ground.

You can purchase an extension that will connect to your existing tank plumbing. Check an RV store or a propane dealer

The real answer is.........

it depends on where you are at the time.

many places nearly any service is good. In some places, Verizon may be better than ATT and vice versa.

2 hours ago, Kirk W said:

In this entire thread, I have not seen one statement that this is the only way. But it is the way that is working at this time and until there is a better way, most of us will support it. It is sad that it has had the economic impact that it has, but that is still better than doing nothing until our medical system collapses under the burdens that were coming before the move to masks and social distancing. In time there will be new and better answers, we hope. Until then it is the best that we have. We do need to find ways to help those who are harmed as a result of the mandates.

There will always be those who object to any new health action. There are those who refuse vaccinations, others who object to blood transfusions, and probably any medical procedure that we could name. 

CDC has now said that COVID only deaths are less than 6%:

8 hours ago, hemsteadc said:

I used to hear this 'unproven' argument from a global warming denier.  I think he called it 'unsettled.' He didn't understand science either. 

Science evolves, it changes with changing circumstances.  People used to think the earth was the center of the solar system.  That it was flat.  And with religion getting in the way and actually executing people for belief in science, it's a wonder we know anything. 

Think of it like a criminal trial.  We don't KNOW the defendant committed a crime because nobody was there to see it, but we rely on the preponderance of EVIDENCE to reach a reasonable conclusion.  That's science. Is it ever wrong? Yes, but we have a much better chance of being right with this method than any other.  

When I hear our beloved president et al badmouthing medicine for first not requiring masks, and then changing their minds, I just cringe.  They don't understand how this works.

Preponderance of evidence is one thing, but making up “science out of whole cloth” and calling it fact is another. Global climate change is part of nature. The made up facts of man made global warming is a complete hoax

5 hours ago, Barbaraok said:

Actually SCOTUS decided this sometime ago.  Laws were passed over a century ago that gave local officials the job of declaring emergencies in cases of disease transmission - think Typhoid Mary.  Thus when a epidemic occurs, it is the job of local officials to do things like quarantining people who posse a risk.  Wearing a mask is a simple thing to do.  But if you hate your fellow man ........

SMH!

you are not convincing me and evidently I am not convincing you.

Done with this topic.

8 hours ago, Barbaraok said:

Boy did you blow that one!   I lived for 5 yrs in Smith County, easy to spot county lines, because that is where all the liquor stores were located.   At every election there was an initiative to allow open liquor sales in the county.  Baptist ministers and LIQUOR STORE OWNERS IN THE BORDERING COUNTIES were the driving force AGAINST it!   

And to go further, it is possible to have wet cities and dry cities in the same county.    

Like I said, COUNTIES cannot enact an ordinance a CITY can. A wet dry election can be held in a city or county and the PEOPLE decide what they want, not the politicians!

7 hours ago, Barbaraok said:

But you said they couldn't do that.   And some counties do have mixtures of dry and wet cities in them.   How long have you lived in Texas?

All my life! 69 years.

i said the commissioners court Or county judge could not decide on their own to have a law. A vote of the people is completely different. How long have YOU lived in Texas?

Have you studied the State Constitution?. I have and know that a county can not enact an ordinance 

The citizens of a county can vote on some items to enact such as the wet dry issue. In fact many counties are wet but the individual cities in them can be dry. Cities can pass ordinances via their city council but mayors cannot declare something to be a law!

16 hours ago, RV_ said:

If counties can't make their own laws then why are their so many counties in TExas that are still dry, yet the state is wet?

Source: https://www.tabc.state.tx.us/local_option_elections/wet_and_dry_counties.asp

The entire county holds an election to determine wet/dry. The local government does not decide on its own.

8 hours ago, Kirk W said:

And you know this how? As it happens, here in TX there are many counties that have passed such measures through the county commission and cities that have via the city councils. Sometimes such agencies must take the roll of a parent in requiring citizens to do what is best for them, just as a parent will make a child take medicine that tastes bad. 

In Texas, counties make not make ordinances. They can only follow State law, says a guy formerly in law enforcement.

Cities can enact ordinances via their city council, mayors, county judges, etc cannot do it on their own. Unfortunately that is the case in many locations, I.e. Harris County

If a business requires a mask to enter and I need or want their service/product, I wear a mask.

if some tin horn politician tells me I have to wear a mask, well good luck with that! No one has convinced me they have the authority’s to declare on their own that I have to wear one. No law was passed, just their Fiat.

Go used a year or so, let someone else take the big hit on first year depreciation 

I would say, you are not really missing anything,

I have about given upon broadcast television. If it is not Covid, it is riots, or bash Trump, or Kardashians, or Megan and Harry.  Yuck..........

They asked for mine also and I am nowhere near the area of the 44th parallel 

I could cAre less about his toy car 🚙 r battery that I will never buy.

I want the Starlink so us folks in rural areas can get decent internet.

I am a CAT adjuster, I have been adjusting claims for nearly 40 years. Most CAT firms will want experience unless there is a major catastrophe and they need bodies, then they will help train.

Many RV parks have rentals on site

28 minutes ago, Larry Burkett said:

Yes, i replaced the breakaway switch a couple weeks ago because it was loose. 

Did the buzzing start after you replaced? If so we can narrow it down to a faulty unit purchased or a mistake in installation.

Look at the nest routers.  One router with satellites, no dead spots

2 hours ago, nwtraveler said:

I don't need Facebook. Anything I need to know I can learn from DW.

 

And in my case Google!

Six months or so ago, a cousin called me saying she could not find me on Facebook. I told her that I did not have or want a FB account. I told her that if I wanted anyone to know what, where, etc I was doing, I would call them and tell them.

She jokingly said” is that why you never call me?”

I said that is EXACTLY why I don’t call you!