:-/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242351,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242351,00.html) 8-)
Not sure how useful your air nailer and chainsaw will be tho' ;)
I looked into this piece of property the other day. I'm afraid the price is a bit out of my range. Not quite sure what I would do there though either. Just walk around ruling myself. :-/
QuoteJust walk around ruling myself. :-/
A fulltime job, I'm sure! (Right, Sassy?)
Judy
Hey :-? But..... I would have a wonderful subject - if that was the case. ::)
Judy, need I say more??? :-? ;)
Glenn you must be famous...I saw this on the news and started laughing...Trying to explain you to my wife... I could not do it....She asked me if you were like Papa Smurf for the rest of us...
Of course I told her you were like this older guru like dude who we all looked up to with a beard....The Smurfs was all she could think of.....*LOL*
I would be procrastinator smurf...*LOL*
if I had that country I would trade off haven for tax purposes for the wealthy...Or gaming companies...And I would use the money to make the place a lot larger...Export in boatloads of rock and then build a resort condo...Truck in enough sand for a beach...
Uber wealthy could have a residence there and skirt tax laws..Paying me a tidy sum...
Heck the country has someoil and gas exploration rights they have territorial waters....I would sell those off and have a bunch of fun....
Maybe set up a topless resort where all the world's supermodels could come to get away from it all....
;D
Gee that would be a tough life... ::)
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Maybe set up a topless resort where all the world's supermodels could come to get away from it all....
;D
How much for a small condo? ::)
A smurf, eh? I always kind of thought of myself more as a little troll. :-/
...and then was she insinuating that you were a little smurf?
I think we need to talk to that girl.
...but if I had my own country would I really want to invite people from the masses to come and bother me with all of their little wants, needs, likes and dislikes? Next thing you know they'd be wanting to start a home owners association.... then I have to start making them walk the plank. :D
...and I still haven't figured out why you want to see me topless, Peter. :-/
Glenn...
Topless super models....Female....
Sorry bud...Don't think you qualify there...
Glenn if you are going to rule the world or even a small country...I think you need to limit the amount of people that come onto the island...Even if it was bigger...
Don't make the mistake of letting people think it is ever a democracy...This is your island you are the law....No need for hassles worries or debates...
Like the sign that hangs in my father's shop
Rule1: The boss is always right
Rule2: In times of concern, refer to rule Number 1
I am not sure where the smurf thing came from with the wife...She often calls me a Curmudgeonly troll....Just because I get fed up with dealing with the public and swear I am moving to the wilderness for the rest of my life...
I tell her friends and family that I hate people and want a life of solitude...She thinks that is a terrible thing to say....She comes home from teaching kids all day and cries because of the way parents abuse their kids and she wonders why I hate people???
There are good hard working honest people out there...But man....They are few and far between....When I say I hate people it is becomming a more and more truthful statement.
I don't know where the values our grandparents held so dear have gone...Or why they are quickly vanishing... Makes me sick to think about how many of the kids in school that are on free lunch....My wife does home visits at the start of every year and more and more of the kids live in squalor where the parents are abusing drugs, alcohol....She has all kinds of kids whose parents are in and out of jail for meth and then she has a bunch of kids whose parents were strung out on drugs when they got pregnant and the children are fetal alcohol syndrome babies....Which means they have all kinds of health and learning problems
I combine all of that mess with dealing with the public all day long and seeing people trying to screw you over for a buck at work...And it just makes me really want to live in the woods with no neighbors....
There are still a few places in Tennessee where you do not have to pay taxes on property...where if you bought yourself 50 acres you could have a few hogs, some chickens, goats and a cow or two and live off the land...Have a orchard for pears, peaches, apples, plums....Grow some sorghum for sugar and molasses....Make your own bread...Drink fresh milk...No chemicals or steroids in the food.
Learn how to make soap...Make our own pottery..Shoes and clothes...
I swear you would not see the likes of me much in town...I would take as much as I could haul into the woods by way of tools and try to make them last the rest of my life... If I could not grow it or make it I would just do without it....
I spend more and more time thinking about a life like this........
sorry to get sidetracked there....*LOL*
Having your own recluse would be amazing...
Why might I want my own country? Partly because I am opposed to having the public turned into snitches and monitors for government - a Nazi tactic as I see it. Things like this e-mail I got from one of my good larger business customers. They realize I'm crazy and don't care so my replies are OK. :) If you see your neighbor doing.....
Recorded here as an example of how to deal with some of the bureaucratic crap we are confronted with. Oh --- puhleeze don't rat me out to the appropriate authorities. ;D
Many times each city wants you to give them their payola for a license if you work there, however I am usually under contract or hourly contract to the companies that are actually doing the project and am not there long enough to get one - in my opinion. :)
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:21 AM
>To: TJ
>Subject: Gateway Welding
>
>
>Hi TJ,
>
> Can you get a copy of Gateway's business license?
>
>Thanks,
>Renae
From: TJ
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:26 AM
>To: Renae
>Subject: RE: Gateway Welding
>
>
>We don't have a copy of it on file, eh?
>From: Renae
>Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:36 AM
>To: TJ
>Subject: RE: Gateway Welding
>
>
>The copy we have is expired.
>
>Thanks,
>Renae
From:TJ
>To: Glenn Kangiser
>Subject: FW: Gateway Welding
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:33:30 -0800
>
>Glenn,
>
>Please scan and email me a copy of your current business license,
>apparently
>the copy we have on file of your previous license has expired.
>
>Thanks,
>
>T.J.
From: glenn kangiser
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:10 AM
To: tj
Subject: RE: FW: Gateway Welding
T.J.
Called Renae. She wants a city business license.
I went down to the county. I tried to apply for a business license. They
do not require a business license, so it is not possible for me to get you
one. [highlight]Actually I did that when I filed my fictitious name statement about 5 years ago-still the same here.
[/highlight]
If you are requiring a license for each city I go to to do a job for you,
then the cost is going to be in the area of $1000 plus city fees per license
based on my estimated time to obtain the license. I don't think it can be
easily handled except in person at each city agency. I will require the
fees be paid before commencing work.
I wasn't aware you were required to be a government policing agency.
Glenn
[highlight]Note that I work all over the state for them at the drop of a hat - no or very short notice many times and the drive can be 3 to 5 hours one way.[/highlight]
From: TJ
Sent : Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:08 AM
To : glenn kangiser
Subject : RE: FW: Gateway Welding
Glenn,
Disregard the request for the business license, I'll take care of it at my
end.
T.J.
simply amazing...
or not at all if you have been paying attention on this site for a while now
I'm not sure why it struck me the wrong way but it did. I started to reply a couple times then watered it down to the above. :-/
Looks like I'm not the only one.
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/12/22/1032.aspx
I wonder what dubya will do about this --- Blackwater? Waco? Wounded knee? ???