Sign of discontent in a red state.

We need more people like him, willing to stand up in public.

http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/13329891.htm

Woodford man posts count of dead soldiers

By Andy Mead

HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER



VERSAILLES - Many people have strong opinions about the war in Iraq. Wayne Scott also has a large front yard on a busy highway.

With 4-foot plywood numbers screwed to posts, he protests the conflict by tracking the number of Americans who have been killed in Iraq.

"I don't think we're hearing the truth about what it's all about," he said last Thursday, after updating the numbers to 2114.

Scott's farm is on U.S. 60 near the Woodford-Franklin County line, between Versailles and Frankfort. State traffic counts show that more than 5,000 vehicles a day pass by.
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BTW, the writer, Andy Mead is a good guy. He's not afraid to go after the rich and powerful.

Because, for example, it violates the local home owner's associations rules, and they use that as a cover to crush the person's freedom of speech, on his own property no less.

Good on 'im!

in the association. All the other board members are absentee owners. I can do what I want in my yard and nobody gives me shit.

That kicks ass.

Why? Why aren't all lives lost something to be posted? Only 2000 lives lost in over two years. No wonder these "Americans" want to continue the killing.....

places like KY, WV etc. have long traditions of independence and saying "F* off" to gasbag powerbrokers who try to take for granted that said states are in "their" camp. Let's watch for surprises from places like these, and work to hasten them. I'd say blue could move south to WV, KY, IL, IA, MO. If I've forgotten a detail of the 2004 returns map, pardon, it's the idea that matters.

companies.

If you can find "Harlan County USA" watch it to get some idea of the heart of the Kentuckian.


Read the works of this man to get more info on the soul of our state.

http://www.bobsloansampler.com/ Him and his wife are terrific people. They have helped in our fight against mountain top removal.

Read this:

http://www.bobsloansampler.com/columns/col11.htm

region and Louisville by my SO who grew up in Luhville (sp?). For a(n upstate) New Yawka who hadn't been west of the Appalachians except for the West Coast, it was kind of an eye opener, but not really. Seems like the country probably wasn't much more wild when Mr. Boone came through 200 years ago (and no, that's not a cheap stereotype, the limestone and woods in the country near Boonesboro look like they've been that way for a long time). You may not have gotten as rich as other parts of the country, but you also didn't lose your freedom. Keep it that way! Good folks there, and with an egalitarian orientation to the common man that's part of the key to driving out the unAmericans who have usurped our government. By, of, and for the People is the watchword.

Pretty country down there.

You go up to the wilder parts of eastern Ky you might have difficulty understanding their speech. Every now and then you will hear some archaic English terms. The folk music of that region comes straight from the late 18th century.

between the haves and have-nots was so depressing and the pride of ignorance syndrome is very powerful there.

towns in that area. The horse farm crowd and old money can be pretty snooty.

:patriot: :applause:

But in September 2005, The Courier-Journal's Bluegrass Poll showed that for the first time, a majority of Kentuckians (56 percent) said they disagreed with the way Bush had handled the war.

Scott, 54, said he has received words of support from a few neighbors, but no criticism.

"Most people in a situation like this, they won't come up and say they're opposed" to what he's doing, he said.

He also said he probably has not changed any minds with his display.

"People have their own opinions," he said. "But I don't approve of it. I want to protest it.

"I want to say these soldiers are dying in vain, for nothing."