Presidential Candidate Ben Carson sent out a graphic to supporters yesterday that included a map of the United States. Sort of. It’s not THE United States so much as a slightly re-imagined United States.
Look at this detail from the map and you will see a new layout for New England. Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts have been moved north, Connecticut and Rhode Island have been relocated to our east, and Vermont remains where it has stood for at least the last decade.
To be honest, I’m not even sure how someone could make this mistake, given the ready availability of free maps online.
Thx to my sister who sent me notice of this. Here’s the full graphic.
Actually ...
… in the several times I’ve run across this story and pored over the map, i could not see Vermont at all. Seems they just dropped it off the map altogether, and stretched out CT instead.
Now I see it. East of NY and west of CT. Odd.
our new digs
Heading up to the NEK to get to Hartford is a bit of a change, but we’ll get used to it. Driving down to the oceanfront at Greenfield isn’t too bad come summertime.
The real impact will be that the Selectboard can now call for the Local Option Tax, as there are no New Hampshire businesses across the Connecticut River to compete with.
There’s not much of a Connecticut River, either. It starts in Canada and empties into… White River Junction bay?
It's about time
I’ve been wishing for a long time that there was a nice ocean side beach in Greenfield and thank goodness it’s finally come to fruition. So tedious to have to drive 2 or 3 hours just to enjoy the scents and sights of a real ocean.
Thank you, Ben Carson for making this a reality!
Refugees
Gotta keep those damn refugees in their place, which is NOT here!
Trains
Trying to figure out the Amtrak route, now… is it over to Albany then down to NYC? Or up to the Canadian border and over to Hartford?
And what do you do?
This hardly exalts the cliché of brain surgeon, as far as top dog intellect goes. I’ve always disliked the ‘profession question’ that is often first asked in social settings. Far too many assumptions attached.
The more I thought, I wondered how is this map manglement even possible for an American adult, much less a candidate for president. Searching for answers, I found the attached image illustrating territorial understanding from Carson’s perspective.
Montpelier Thinks We're on the Atlantic as well.
I guess the legislature in Montpeculiar must agree.
Check this out.
http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2016/Docs/BILLS/H-0122/H-0122%20As%20Introduced.pdf
So the question is who’s more of a whack job now?
Shark Fin Legislation
Here is a link to the bill:
http://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2016/Docs/BILLS/H-0122/H-0122%20As%20Introduced.pdf
Here are the essential provisions of the bill:
BILL AS INTRODUCED H.122
(b) A person shall not possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a
shark fin, provided that a person who possessed a shark fin prior to July 1,
2015, may continue to possess: the shark fin.
1 (c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than $1,000.00
2 nor less than $400.00 or imprisoned for not more than 60 days, or both. Each
3 shark fin possessed, sold, offered for sale, traded, or distributed in violation of
4 this section shall constitute a separate offense.
Here is a link to the Humane Society’s advocacy of the bill:
http://www.gmad.info/documents/H122_SharkFin.pdf
We do not have elephant herds in the United States, yet we still ban the illegal ivory trade.
Oh Yes!!
Oh yes because it’s so important that the state of Vermont take a stand on issues that have nothing to do with or affect the citizens of Vermont.
I mean what would the legislature do if they actually solved some of our problems. They have to make it look like they’re actually doing something meaningful.
There are plenty of people
There are plenty of people who are concerned with cruelty to animals and people- whether they are directly affected by the issue or not. The fact that you feel we should only care about issues that directly affect us says volumes about you as a person. The world is much bigger than Brattleboro – even bigger than Vermont, as hard as that might be to accept.
Reverse engineering the problem
My most generous guess as to how this happened was that someone making the graphic found NE to be bumping up against the border of their graphic, and rather than move the whole country to the left, they decided to do the harder task of cutting out some states and moving them up.
But, when looking more closely, this can’t be. The edit moved the states further into the border. They all shifted north and east. What problem was this edit aiming to solve?
And where is the person who checks and approves these things before sending them out?
The amazing thing is the time taken to intentionally do this, given the ready availability of US maps to use. It’s not like they colored one blue when it should have been red. They changed locations of US states. And the person/people doing it thought that it was not wrong to do. This was not viewed as an error. In their mind, it was the right thing to do.
(The Center for Idiocracy has revised their IQ estimates downward.)
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For Mr. Mike: … almost as dumb as keeping a server for government business in your home, eh? : )
As for making shark fin soup illegal, it seems like a nice thing to do whether we are oceanfront or not. They make the soup by cutting the fin off a shark, then tossing it back in the ocean to swim finless.
Of Course
But of course Chris. There’s such a demand for shark fin soup in Brattleboro and Burlington.
Just another piece of trash legislation from the pinheads up north.
Heaven forbid they pass any meaningful legislation.
Meaningful legislation
Mike, if they passed any meaningful legislation, you’d oppose that too.