Pourquoi pas les deux?

Lol. Most of us are just inland Mainers and don’t know any lobstermen personally. Therefore we judge them from stereotypes and what we read in the news. No doubt this is unfair.

What are the stereotypes? Lobstermen are rich bastards. Lobstering is a closed, “in the family” type industry that doesn’t share the wealth with average Mainers. Lobstermen are belligerent drunks and drug addicts. Lobstermen are grifters who make their living selling revolting prison food to ignorant tourists who think it’s a delicacy. Probably all of this is unfair.

What do we hear on the news? “Lobstermen whine about wind power, say it will destroy industry.” “Lobstermen whine about not being allowed to kill whales, say it will destroy industry.” “Lobstermen rally for LePage, say Mills will destroy industry.” You guys come across as a bunch of whiny, hysterical, selfish motherfuckers in the newspapers. Probably this is not entirely your fault.

If you don’t want to be generalized in this way, express the diversity of your opinions. Organize groups to lobby in favor of offshore wind or whale protections, or to open up the industry and make it less insular and more accessible to people who didn’t grow up in lobstering families. The fact that you are generalized so much is partially your own fault for not showing us your other sides.

Unity makes me sad. It used to be such a great unique little college. Almost everyone who is everyone in conservation law enforcement, outdoor recreation and trail building nationwide came through Unity. Then the management fucked it all up. Don’t go.

You really think people in Spain are profiting from CMP? Spare us the appeals to xenophobia. An international class of investors who happen to have offices in Spain are profiting from CMP. The average Spaniard doesn’t see a penny of that.

Yeah they seem to have tripled their rates overnight a couple months ago. No doubt it’s to pay for all those ads they are spamming everywhere to convince us that we can’t live without them.

I think everyone is in the same boat.

Not sure if you’re joking but I actually have been camping there 3 times and your description is surprisingly accurate.

There’s no reason to go onto the Redington base itself. That would just be stupid. But you absolutely should go camping in the area.

Yes, there are some crazy stories about that place over the years. But if you honestly think you might just accidentally stumble into it while camping then maybe it’s legitimately not safe for you to go out in the woods anywhere. You would have to be completely oblivious to your surroundings, hiking miles out of your way through the most rugged parts of the Maine woods.

But yeah, there’s great camping, hiking, fishing, etc, all throughout the general area. Listen to your buddy.

The river drives on the Penobscot ended in the early 70s, so that must have been a huge change for folks in the northern half of the state.

Lol, Freeport has zero charm to begin with. It’s a fucking shopping center.

The Wilhelm Reich Museum in Rangeley is an interesting place. Closed in winter though.

When I spent a summer doing trail work in Grafton Notch (like 20 years ago), there was a hermit living there in the woods who claimed that the land the state park is on rightfully belonged to him. He was the nemesis of the park rangers.

Sometimes he would vandalize park infrastructure or send them threatening letters. They were always searching for his campsites and would destroy them when they found one, but he would just move to another one. The rangers said he had been there for years and years. No idea if he’s still there.

Labonvilles

Some people become homeless because they are drug addicts, but it is also true that many people become drug addicts because they are using to cope with the stresses of homelessness.

Yes, that’s the point. But actual goulash doesn’t resemble American chop suey at all. Not even a little bit.

Ok, I’m not going to argue with you about it.

Hungarians aren’t Slavs.

Hungarians would fight you if they ever heard you call chop suey goulash.

Name and shame this cheapskate farm for not giving their employees a full pig.

We call sneakers designed for playing tennis “tennis shoes”. It would be weird to call, like, basketball sneakers “tennis shoes” though.

Might as well say there’s lessons to be learned in kids mining coal or operating manufacturing equipment.

A lot of girls are going to have to hawk merchandise to pay the bills when they grow up. They can learn those skills when that day comes in about 15 minutes of on the job training. It is not something that they benefit from learning as a child. Let these poor kids be kids while they still can.

I fail to see how retail drudgery teaches “entrepreneur skills”. I’ve worked in retail before. There are no lessons to be learned from selling cookies. It’s child labor plain and simple.

Perhaps the girl scouts have some redeeming qualities, but the aspect that’s most visible is pure exploitation.

Well at least they’re doing something other than child labor, making those poor girls hawk their merchandise.

Nestle sold Poland Springs several years ago

lol

I read the article. That the author was a LePage stooge is confirmed by his biography. Whether Avangrid is paying him (or paying the BDN) is not something we are in a position to know, but it seems plausible based on the content of the article.