Border War
Portsmouth, Ohio and Greenup, Kentucky are fighting over a rock . No, really, it is a big rock.
For years this rock sat in the Ohio river just off shore of the city of Portsmouth. People from Portsmouth used to venture out to see it when the river was low. Since the modern system of locks and dams have been added to the river, this rock has been totally submerged for decades.
Then last year a team of divers decided to retrieve the rock for study . I'm sure there was a lot of time and expense spent in the recovery—this thing weighs 8 tons. All during the process, no one from Greenup, Kentucky bitched or moaned. However, now that the rock is safe and sound in a Portsmouth building, suddenly someone is crying foul. Probably just some piss-ant politician from Kentucky that wants his name in the papers started this. Anyway, now Kentucky wants to prosecute over it.
Neither Scioto County in Ohio or Greenup County in Kentucky have the resources to wage a silly war over a silly rock. Instead of fighting corrupt courts and politicians, wanton unemployment and a meth epidemic, they want to spend money on a rock?
Now, I'm quite familiar with Portsmouth and the string of idiots that make up its government and city, however this is just plain stupid. It is a rock well documented in OHIO history, pulled from the OHIO river and now kept in OHIO. If Mayor Kalb has a hair on his ass, he will order it dumped back in the river before turning it over to some Kentucky prosecutor who has some sort of Napolean complex.
For years this rock sat in the Ohio river just off shore of the city of Portsmouth. People from Portsmouth used to venture out to see it when the river was low. Since the modern system of locks and dams have been added to the river, this rock has been totally submerged for decades.
Then last year a team of divers decided to retrieve the rock for study . I'm sure there was a lot of time and expense spent in the recovery—this thing weighs 8 tons. All during the process, no one from Greenup, Kentucky bitched or moaned. However, now that the rock is safe and sound in a Portsmouth building, suddenly someone is crying foul. Probably just some piss-ant politician from Kentucky that wants his name in the papers started this. Anyway, now Kentucky wants to prosecute over it.
Neither Scioto County in Ohio or Greenup County in Kentucky have the resources to wage a silly war over a silly rock. Instead of fighting corrupt courts and politicians, wanton unemployment and a meth epidemic, they want to spend money on a rock?
Now, I'm quite familiar with Portsmouth and the string of idiots that make up its government and city, however this is just plain stupid. It is a rock well documented in OHIO history, pulled from the OHIO river and now kept in OHIO. If Mayor Kalb has a hair on his ass, he will order it dumped back in the river before turning it over to some Kentucky prosecutor who has some sort of Napolean complex.
I never heard of this rock till the controversy hit the news. It's nice to see that in the midst of all this political crap and Iraq, something normal is going on in America. I wonder if we can go to war with Kentucky over it?
You snowed in yet?
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Yep, snowed in. Was supposed to go camping with Boy Scouts this weekend but we canceled. Not because of the weather--our boys will sleep in snow or ice or about any condition--but because of when it hit. The roads aren't safe enough to get them there.
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