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New Year's Eve Open Thread

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Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines12/31/2013 6:04:51 pm PST

My new co-conspirators:
Democrats of Palo Pinto County.

In some ways, this group has a much tougher task than the clueless Lubbock County Democrats. Unlike Lubbock, the county is overwhelmingly white and rural. Still, they do at least as well as the Lubbock Dems, probably because they exhibit few, if any, traces of moonbattery.

Btw, that beautiful courthouse stands in the unincorporated hamlet of Palo Pinto (population 425). It looms out of the countryside like a Greek temple in the Amazon jungle. Mineral Wells (pop. 16788) is the local metropolis but must defer to tiny Palo Pinto as the county seat. I know the area very well from the air, having undergone flight training at nearby Fort Wolters back in 1970. Wolters was deactivated in 1973.