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My sister and her family are moving to Independence, Kentucky. Let me know what is around that area.
My sister and her family are moving to Independence, Kentucky. Let me know what is around that area.
Kentucky Motor Speedway is nearby in Sparta. That's our Busch Nascar circuit track which is owned by Jerry Carroll who has been trying to get a Winston Cup Nascar race there for some time now. I'm not a NASCAR fan, but KMS is one of the finest state of the art race tracks in the country slated to eventually seat 250,000 people. Independence is basically the Greater Cincinnati Metro area so King's Island Amusement Park is just across the river and the Cincinnati Zoo. Other than these things, I'm not familiar with the more local rural areas.
That's a pretty big racetrack. I can't say I'm a NASCAR fan either, even though I did catch a bit of the Daytona 500 the other week. My brother-in-law is working in Cincinnati, and from what I hear it's 15 miles from Independence. Tell me - how far a drive is it to Lynchburg, Tennessee?
That's a pretty big racetrack. I can't say I'm a NASCAR fan either, even though I did catch a bit of the Daytona 500 the other week. My brother-in-law is working in Cincinnati, and from what I hear it's 15 miles from Independence. Tell me - how far a drive is it to Lynchburg, Tennessee?
Probably over 200 some odd miles. Kentucky is about 180 miles deep from Covington to Ft. Campbell which is right on the Tennessee border. So add that to however deep into Tennessee Lynchburg is and that will be your total.
Great, well maybe I'll have to visit the amusement park while I'm down there for a visit some time. I guess there's a creek toward the end of the property where they're moving to so I'll be able to set up the ol' fishing pole there while I tip my hat over my eyes and relax against a shady tree. At least this might be my plan until I get there and find there's a sewage treatment plant on the creek a mile or two upstream. 😮
Great, well maybe I'll have to visit the amusement park while I'm down there for a visit some time. I guess there's a creek toward the end of the property where they're moving to so I'll be able to set up the ol' fishing pole there while I tip my hat over my eyes and relax against a shady tree. At least this might be my plan until I get there and find there's a sewage treatment plant on the creek a mile or two upstream. 😮
Well just to give you an idea, the state fish and wildlife service doesn't advise eating anything caught out of the Ohio River (mercury levels too high). The same goes for most of the major river tributaries in Kentucky that feed into the Ohio. Your best bet will be to fish the state lakes or private lakes/ponds in the area. Isn't it sad how polluted our major riverways have become due to industrialization? I'm not an environmentalist whacko by any means, but I'm a conservationist at heart.....and a former Boy Scout. 😀
Actually I don't think that conservatism at its heart opposes responsible treatment of the environment. The opposing side might have people believe that conservatives rape and pillage the environment, but this is not the case. In fact, I would say that since most hunters probably lean to the right they would be the ones who want to protect the wilderness from abuse. The problem with the left is that they seem to see this in terms of absolutes when it really ought not be. There is a balance between man and the environment; there is no rule which says that the woodlands are “sacred” and cannot be cut down. If a village of people will go starving if they do not have lumbering jobs because of some prohibition, then it's time to take a look at the balance and apply our reason. It's also a problem when environmentalists will threaten the very balance of power in the world - including our own democracy - if they promote ways to "hit back" at industrialized nations because of what they perceive is a contributor to global warming. This issue in itself is larger than many might think.
This is an issue that has been at the forefront for years here in the northwest. So many jobs have been lost due to the environmentilist crying about the spotted owls. Whole towns have been decimated. I worked for a mill in Yreka Cal. The wackos used to spike the trees so when the logs went through the blades the blades would detanate like a grenade, many guys were killed and injured because of those nuts.
I vaguely remember hearing about the spikes in logs. Pretty terrible. But it's an example of people viewing something in absolutes where it ought not be viewed. Nowadays it seems like fires decimate forests in the west, fires which could have been prevented from spreading by cutting some of these trees down. I thought I had heard that it was environmentalists who opposed this chopping. In the end everyone loses out.
True, due to exsessive conservation there is so much undergrowth that fires out here are huge and violent because of the amount of fuel they have to burn.
Environmentalism is the new religion and the pathway to the eventual police state…or at least a major contributing factor. The worship of Gaia (Mother Earth) is a dangerous idea because on the surface it seems so harmless and even potentially beneficial, but in the end, it's a recipe for tyranny and universal suffering. 😡
Everything in moderation. The earth was created to serve humans. As my Grandpa used to say about his tools: “take care of them and they will take care of you” and he did, but I can guarantee he never bowed to them or mistreated any other human because of them, they were what they were; tools. We cant just go in and cut down everything, but the earth is big enough to support us all very very easily. I read somewhere that the estimated human population was 20 billion, living and dead, and if that all were alive right now we would all have 2.5 acres to ourselves, you can do a lot more then you think with 2.5 acres. So they need to quit whining.
Well this thread got totally hijacked 😀 So I am going to hijack it again, I was listening to the radio today and they mentioned that there were 4 states that were commonwealths: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Kentucky. So Since you Donnie are from Kentucky I thought i would ask what a commonwealth was and why these states chose to refer to themselves as such.
Well this thread got totally hijacked 😀 So I am going to hijack it again, I was listening to the radio today and they mentioned that there were 4 states that were commonwealths: Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Kentucky. So Since you Donnie are from Kentucky I thought i would ask what a commonwealth was and why these states chose to refer to themselves as such.
Kentucky is a commonwealth most likely because it broke off from Virginia and just decided to continue what was done there.As to what distinction a commonwealth is as opposed to other states, I really don't know. I'd have to do some research. I think it's a superficial title though now.
