BS: Maine Most Peaceful State

Subject: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 11:58 AM

This is a short but interesting read- with an appalling picture of housing conditions at San Quentin.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/maine-named-most-peaceful-state-america-143057945.html

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: kendall
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 01:28 PM

Most of us are too poor to have anything that's worth stealing. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 01:33 PM

It's the live and let live, mind your own business but keep an eye out for a neighbor who needs help life style.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Big Mick
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 02:16 PM

Interesting in that the ability to carry a weapon in that State is very liberal. Anyone can wear one openly, with a permit required for conceal carry.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: gnu
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 02:17 PM

Ebbie... "appalling" is mild. Disgusting and sickening come to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 03:17 PM

"Peaceful in Maine"????

I can hear the wind blowing through the pine trees outside right now, kicking up quite a racket. And some damn bird is chirping as well.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 03:50 PM

Well we have more fir and cedar in Washington but I can one-up you because we have frogs here..I think there is some sort of mating call going on..for the frogs I meant..

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Becca72
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 03:55 PM

We have frogs in Maine...
The sound of the peepers at night is really quite nice.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 04:03 PM

Peepers? Well, I'd suggest you pull the blinds.

(sorry!)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: saulgoldie
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 04:08 PM

Well, I think it is unfair of Maine to just be so all-fired smug and sanctimonious and make the rest of us look so bad. I think we should get a mob together and go up there and fix em up right. Alright, lads, who's wid me? Lads? Um, lads??

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: gnu
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 04:15 PM

"... fix em right."

It might be the most peaceful state but I would venture to say that has a lot to do with what SINS said. So. if I were your, I would think twice about tryin ta "fix em". Don't mess with tough, good people.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: kendall
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 07:48 PM

The Maine turnpike is littered with the bones of sharp operators who came here thinking they could snooker the rustics.

Look up The Brady gang. Damn fools thought they could just walk into a gun store and buy machine gun bullets!

I thought it was interesting that of the 5 most peaceful states, three of them are in New England.

By the way, Vermont has no concealed law.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Apr 12 - 07:51 PM

We're snowbound most of the year and at the mercy of the black flies the rest of the time. No time for crime.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 01:10 AM

"We're snowbound most of the year and at the mercy of the black flies the rest of the time. No time for crime."

That may work for Maine but it is equally true for Alaska- and here we've got plenty of time for crime. We'll have to dig deeper.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Allan C.
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 06:21 AM

I've been told that death is the most peaceful state.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: kendall
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 07:50 AM

Maybe it's because most of the state is bordered by Canada?

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 08:17 AM

How would anyone know that, Allan? If the god botherers are right, we could all be burning in hell.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Charley Noble
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 08:21 AM

Maine also has fewer law enforcement personnel per capita than other states. So maybe there's a lot more crime happening here that's not being reported.

I've been wondering about our apparent lack of crime these last few years. I still think it was a major crime that our current governor was elected. The idiots who voted for him should really be charged with something, or at least have their heads examined. So it goes!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 09:26 AM

With both Kendall and Charley up there? And Sins?

C'mon, pull the other one.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: SINSULL
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 11:43 AM

What about jacqui? And Maeve?

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:01 PM

Notice my name didn't come up....that's 'cuz I'm peaceful, damn it.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:08 PM

"I've been told that death is the most peaceful state."

"Maybe it's because most of the state is bordered by Canada?"

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:13 PM

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down, and take things easy.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: frogprince
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 12:24 PM

...and become one with Mother Earth. : )

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: gnu
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 01:56 PM

Thread drift...

I've been to Maine a number of times and always enjoyed the friendly people, the slooow pace, the beautiful scenery both along the coast and through farm country, the old architecture... but, the sense of community shines through most. Ya don't have to leave here to see because we get MPBN TV here. I try not to miss shows from Maine, about Maine.

Atlantic Canada also shares something else with our neighbours to the south, all the way to New York and, some, further. Our friends and relatives who went to live and work there. It's our natural trading route. Never really made sense to trade over the Appalachians, except that the border made our railroads and roads go east-west.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 04:44 PM

According to local news broadcasts, Rhode Island is NUmber 9. How did other people's states fare?

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 04:47 PM

Me again above! Sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 09:37 PM

Idaho: 16/50
Wyoming: 17/50
Montana: 18/50

But these figures are based on 2010...the last year for which (I assume) data is available.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,David E.
Date: 25 Apr 12 - 11:02 PM

Maine... New Hampshire... Vermont... Montana... Utah... Idaho...

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: kendall
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 08:04 PM

Maine is God's country; he just don't spend his winters here.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Bobert
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 08:30 PM

When ya'll gonna put a peace sign on the state flag, Capt'n???

B;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: gnu
Date: 26 Apr 12 - 10:56 PM

Kendall... hehehehee! Whot about summahhh... swahtin skeetahs and yah blahck flies? Ohhr, is tha lahbsta thaht good thaht ya don't mind tha flies?

Sorry if I didn't get the accent quite right. I really don't do it justice... kinda base it on MPBN and them theyah fellahs from the sou'eastun sho'e of Nova Scotia what talks like some a yer Maine folks and my limited travels in your beautiful state.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. I'm countin on it, anyway. Don't wanna end up in the cellah... eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Apr 12 - 08:09 AM

gnu-

Ye hav' no ideer how we talk to each othah in this areaer.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:20 AM

I ain't never lived in Maine. Maybe there is a connection of some kind there.

- Chongo

p.s. Anyways, it is obviously not the best place for my line of work, which is fightin' crime...specially real violent crime. I figger if a case don't include at least one stiff from the getgo, it is hardly worth takin' on. I need the excitement factor. It motivates me to work a lot harder. True, a dead client can't pay...but his grievin' relatives or his estate can.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 07:46 AM

Maine; where excitement goes to die.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Charley Noble
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 10:35 AM

Kendall-

I like it!

I suggest you propose this to our beloved Governor, before he shuts the entire State down.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 10:55 AM

I kind of figure his last remark about corrupt middle management in state govenment is going to disturb the peace a bit.
I love his blanket statements that condemn everyone within two hundred miles for the crimes of one or two.
All welfare recipients are lazy; all middle managemnt is corrupt.
Meantime he makes sure his family and buddies get jobs others have worked years to qualify for.


heh heh
Let's go at it Mainiacs!

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 11:49 AM

Kendall, I love that! What a great bumper sticker. LOL!!!

It's kind of like the motto of my home:

Orillia - The Town That Never Wakes

And then there's Blind River, Ontario:

"I Got Blind Drunk in Blind River" (there's nothing else to do there)

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:07 PM

Well...except have sex, that is. The two activities are often linked, I hear. And that accounts for the fact that the population of Blind River has not dwindled to zero, but is in fact growing.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:20 PM

The population of my home town never changes. Every time a baby is born someone leaves town.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:20 PM

I've moved 16 times in 40 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:22 PM

Could the actual reason be historic? That being, because Maine was technically part of Canada for a short time after the British "took it over" in the war of 1814 -(but gave it back later, because it was just too peaceful).

:)

""Nova Scotia Lieutenant-Governor Sir John SHERBROOKE led a force from Halifax into Maine, capturing Castine on 1 September. By mid-month British forces held much of the Maine coast, which was returned to the US only with the signing of the peace treaty"" Source, Canadian Encylopedia

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Ed T
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:26 PM

""because it was just too peaceful""

I should have stated, "possibly" because it was just too peaceful.

I don't contend that I am an expert in understanding British reasoning during the "early years" in British North America.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:27 PM

Made me laugh, Captain.

Maine was also technically part of Massachussetts for a while. Go figure.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:40 PM

"I've moved 16 times in 40 years."

Geez, Kendall! You're almost as inactive as my Dachshund!

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 12:57 PM

I thought the Brits gave it back because they found it too boring even for them.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: gnu
Date: 28 Apr 12 - 01:11 PM

Ed T... I was told by a history buff many years ago that the Brits who negotiated the treaty "agreed to" the wrong river because they didn't know the geography and couldn't read their own maps. As I recall (?), he said the border should have been three river systems further.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: kendall
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 12:28 PM

The Webster/Ashburton treaty of 1843 settled all that.

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 12:45 PM

I would move to Maine in order to help liven things up there with a little creative violence, but I got committments here in Chicago that I can't just walk away from.

Maybe a short vacation, though...

They got some good bars in Maine?

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: gnu
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 01:31 PM

Bar Harbor is reeeal nice. Go on a sunny summer day and bring yer shades. >;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 04:40 PM

Chongo-

Yes, we've got some good bars for you, waiting at the State Penitentiary at Warren.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Maine Most Peaceful State
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 06:35 PM

Even the "wild" blueberries in Maine are peaceful and not singing the blues. "Eat a few of of them and you can spit in three different colors, blue, purple and violet".