It was nice meeting you people!!

I once read someone the riot act because they suggested that (as someone not from this area)this Valley was full of the most intolerant, narrow-minded, bigots they've ever seen, who look down on people who are not from here or look/talk like them, and judge, judge, judge. Now I'm beginning to think she was right, and I'll add to that ignorant and ill-informed. However, that being said, not all of us are like that. I am a lifetime Wheeling resident, born and raised. Honestly I wouldn't have wanted to grow up anywhere but here. I've had more friendships and opportunities here than in a big city, where I would have been "just another face in the crowd." I just can't believe those words came from people in my own backyard. It's disgusting.

Irisheyes, I just watched that video. WOW. Talk about backwards!! They're like cartoon characters.

The one lady who says "This is a Christian Country"!!!

Uh, lady??? This is NOT a Christian Country and you are a bonehead. The First Amendment of the USA grants us a crazy little thing called "Freedom of Religion".

Right here, folks. The FIRST part of the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

HA!

great post! thx

Hints: 1.)Our Lady of the Rockies 2.)Chinese New Year Parade (big drunken party) 3.)St. Paddy's Day Parade (big drunken party) 4.)Evel Knievel Days (big drunken party) 5.)Copper mining 6.)The Continental Divide 7.)Anaconda

Yeah, we definitely have a lot of r..e..d..n..e..c..k..s.., but I don't think they give interviews to online newspapers, generally.

We get a lot of weirdos moving in here trying to start their own militias and what-have-you, because it's so remote. White Supremacists tried moving in but didn't find any sympathy. We generally aren't racist like that. We run those people out of town FAST. They are NOT welcome here! They end up moving north to Alaska...!

... AS for your last statement about escorting out of town- well I bet you that missoula is one of the only counties that obama takes 'cause I know first hand that the majority of montana is rednick and lots of them pro'lly think the same as Ms. chaney (they just keep their views within the family) hopefully I'm wrong but I am quite scared that the white enemy will defeat the black friend because of that BS

mavis, what town or county are you from? not that you'd care to answer me on this lame-0 board and I completely understand if you dont; it's just that I love Big Sky country and have spent plenty of time from libby to hardin, explored the lolo and bitterroot, seen our lady of the rockies and paddled the clark fork and I am always curious as to where the people who visit the wheeling area are from.

Now we know there are people in the world, Chaney for instance, who have no qualms about wearing their back-***w@rds views on their sleeve. Bet Chaney had no idea that people from all over the place would be reading it and dragging her through the mud for it.

Not that she would CARE, but you never know. Maybe she's embarrassed of herself. And like I said, now I can tell everyone who ever wants to visit Montana: Don't you DARE be talkin' trash like that if you come out here.

We are ARMED to the teeth out here, don't forget! We'd escort you to the edge of town and send you on your merry way.... SOUTH!

actaully it has been posted on some sites, along with the look alike hair picture. this is what their campaign is talking about. hate, and hair. whoa!

MORE SPECIFICLY: "His (Obama's) name makes him sound like he is a Muslim from the Middle East. ... That is not what we need," AND WHO IS WE?- COME ON LADY!!! If only they would have printed her picture as well...

That oughta make stupid quote of the year and Casey Junkins should get co-idiot award for publishing it.

Where Sarah goes, trouble follows....

Food for thought.

"Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Jeannette Who?"

You might have to click around to find it. I can't post actual links here.

And put that in the Google search bar, not your browser, sorry.

That was back in 1916, before women nationwide even had the right to vote! Most states were still throwing women in jail for fighting for suffrage, but Montana had already granted women the right to vote and ELECTED ONE!! In 1916!!!

We're different out here!

Google this: "Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Jeanntte Who?"

Copy and past that link into your browser to read about her.

As you can see, I'm pretty opinionated, and like I said we have a local Muslim lady in town who's from the Middle East, and she's the ELECTED president of our school board here in this little Montana town, where about 99.99% of us are white, but pretty open-minded.

A couple of years ago, in fact, the Senior Class at the high school all ganged up together and decided to elect a little girl with Down Syndrome to be Homecoming Queen. TRUE STORY!!

That's the kind of town I live in. We are a very giving, neighborly type of place out here. We wave to passing cars on the highway, and talk to each other on the sidewalk.

SO, that's how we are out here! And I was MAD!! Got it? Thanks!

Red...here you are referring to the "influx" of posters with "no connection", not to mavisdarling specifically. That is what I meant when I said "How do you know who has or hasn't any connection?"

thanks for pointing out how ridiculous and less than fact finding folks will post on here and sort of bully us along the way. welcome. check out the biden videos. and they didn't even talk about his hair! cool, huh?

Maybe I'm wrong, or maybe she presented her point of view poorly, but I see troll.

LTRRTL - what I am "alleging"...which is actually fact reported by CBS News... law is not to purge voters within 90 days of the election. And there are 19 states that were doing it. For those who were purged, there was no reason (legit reasons are death, duplicate reg, address change). This is from the report: In Mississippi before the March 2008 primary, a county election official — from her home computer — secretly deleted 10,000 voters from the rolls.

During the 2008 New Mexico caucuses, thousands of registered Democrats found themselves improperly knocked off the rolls.

Ohio election integrity advocates point to massive voter purges before the 2004 election that totaled more than

RedDish, this is a national issue. It would be different if someone from Montana or wherever posted comments about local topics..the 2-man cruiser issue, local elections, etc. The topic is of national interest. So we should only allow locals to post? How would the paper enforce that? And how do you know who of these has or hasn't any ties to the local area? Did you do background checks on them?

Oh McCain will certainly win both this area of Ohio and all of West Virginia (except maybe Monongalia Co) and it wouldn't surprise me If he won the election because money talks and the wealthy want him in the Oval Office despite his VP not being qualified in the least to become President of the United States if it came to that.....

Well, have fun posting here. Your over the top rhetoric will fit in quite nicely with the left wingers on this site.

I'm sorry Montana is such a boring cultural wasteland that you look elsewhere to feel culturally superior...

Didn't the unibomber have a high IQ?