Let's all migrate to Liberal, Kansas!

[Elidor]

http://www.cityofliberal.com/

"Mr. S.S. Rogers was the first homesteader in what would later become Liberal. Outside of the Cimarron River, water was very scarce in Southwestern Kansas and there was usually a charge for even a small amount; however Mr. Rogers always gave his water free to passing travelers. Quite often he would hear a reply of "that's mighty Liberal of you" from the grateful recipients.

What a great reminder of a time when the word Liberal was a compliment! I'm on the next bus! Who's with me?

"Because of county seat difficulties between Springfield and Fargo Springs, the Rock Island deflected its route southward and really created the town of Liberal. Originally the survey called for the railroad to leave Plains in Meade County and go through the center of Springfield in central Seward County and cross at the more accessible crossing of the Cimarron River, but the townspeople of Springfield offended the construction crew and the road was changed to cross the Cimarron River at Arkalon. Upon reaching the end-of-the-line, Mr. M.A. Low ordered the surveying of a new townsite a mile east of the Rogers place, having purchased part of four sections of land there for that purpose in the center of the present day Liberal, Kansas."

Commission

View the agenda and read the minutes for Liberal City Commission meetings and find out how you can get involved in your City's politics.

Recreation

Enjoy a walk in the natural setting at Arkalon Park and practice your swing at Willow Tree Golf Course. Also, take advantage of our semi-pro baseball team, the Bee Jays.

[madaboutharry]

1. Liberal, Kansas is also the location

of Dorothy's House from the Wizard of Oz. You can take a tour there and meet the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow. I know there is a rather funny joke I should be making about now, but I'm too weary to think of one

[Elidor]

6. There's no place like home...

There's no place like home...

[camero]

13. Bush is such a Cowardly Lion

That he would run away from Toto. Actually, He has all the characteristics. No heart, or brain, or courage.

[rucky]

2. The Bee Jays?! Take advantage of them?!

Liberal, indeed.

[Silverhair]

3. I've been there. Small town in the middle of nowhere...

all farm country, flat terrain, and deep in the heart of Republican country.

[Melsky]

4. But if we all move there

it really would be liberal!

[Elidor]

5. We must take it over!

30,000 of us and 19,666 of them! We can dominate! We'll start a zionistic movement to reclaim the Liberal promised land! Our mission is to turn Southwest Kansas into a formidable liberal stronghold.

[ima_sinnic]

7. count me in

in the heart of Republican country, as someone says above?
we will be an inverse heartworm: radiating healing outward to the disease that surrounds it.
:smoke:

[SiobhanClancy]

8. Can't we find some place....

on the OCEAN instead??:)

[roguevalley]

9. BWAHAHAHAHA! Where would I put my tree house? :-D

[SiobhanClancy]

10. Try a tiki hut instead...

anything you can do in a treehouse you can do in a tiki hut!:)

[Fovea]

14. There is a sea of grass there

And if you like thunderstorms and wind there is a lot to say for it.
I am a bit fonder of the Flint Hills parts of Kansas, and the Neosho river valley in the Southeast.

Oklahoma is really interesting country, too. The Cimmeron country, and the Ark/Ok border in Cherokee land is wonderful to bike through.

On Edit... The whole area from around Wichita to Enid and east to Fayetteville has an 'odd' feel to it. Like the magnetic poles have already started to shift there.

I get the same kind of feeling in Arcadia valley in the North East Ozarks. Around Tom Sauk mtn and Elephant Rocks, I can't find my ass with both hands and I grew up not far from those parts.
Get me out in the woods there, and I am lost. My late brother and I wandered around for three hours, trying to find camp once.

[politicat]

Oh-Kay, HH.... *backing away slowly....*

30,000 of us who can't agree on what candidate to back and you want us to all pack up and relocate everything (jobs, employers, families, schools) to

the middle of gawd forsaken Kansas? :silly:

Are you out of your cotton pickin' mind!?! :crazy:

On second thought... better there than Phoenix.

See you in Kansas! :grin:

Politicat

[woofless]

11. I've been there

You ain't missin' a thing.

Woof

[reknewcomer]

21. What do you have to offer that is more exciting?

Where does it begin and end?

[camero]

12. BOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGG

Kansas is flatter than I am.

[Lizz612]

22. Kansas is significantly flatter than a pancke.

Its true!
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i3/kansas.html|FLATTER!>

[camero]

25. Ha, knew it

Flatness in order:
Kansas
Me
Pancake

Now I have proof. :silly:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. Also the home of one Bob Dole... well, his Kansas home, that is

I have been there too. I have never seen a town so mis-named.

[camero]

16. Dangit, I shoulda stopped there

I might have gotten some free Viagra. Doc says its all in my head.
(I did not go there) :P

[Webster Green]

17. If its about the name......

How about Weed, California. Nice little town in Shasta County. Pretty liberal too!

[Fovea]

18. Or Peculiar Missouri

Tightwad, Mo. Perhaps.

[camero]

19. I stopped there

It was very peculiar.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

24. It is very Peculiar... at least it was 35 years ago.

doubt it has changed much, unless KC is that far east now.

[camero]

26. Just added a truck stop

A truck stop in Peculiar? Whoda thought?

[Kanary]

30. Punkin Center, CO?

Doesn't get much funkier than that.

Kanary

[ima_sinnic]

23. actually that really IS the place I always talk about moving to

. . . ever since I saw the community college there advertising for biology faculty, some time ago. I got curious and looked into where Weed might be and it looks perfect. I pictured it being kind of "granola-ish" around there.

[pfitz59]

29. "Trinity Smokes Weed!"

Stock headline whenever we beat 'em!

[camero]

20. Let's all move to.

Intercourse, PA

[cosmicdot]

27. perhaps we should try using "liberal" more in every day situations

n/t

[coda]

28. No need to try and convince anyone. It's already been decided.

:-)

Free Speech Zone Established In Remote Location
Wednesday, 22 October 2003, 10:33 am
Column: freepressed.com

Free Speech Zone established in remote, sparsely populated location

Congress establishes nation's sole protest area for anti-war hippies wishing to gripe about Bush policies.


Liberal, KS. -- Freedom just got a whole lot freer. That's the message from Congress after overwhelmingly passing legislation that established a national free speech zone outside of Liberal, Kansas.

“This is a great day for freedom lovers everywhere,” said Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS). “For the first time in our nation’s history we’ve created an area where concerned citizens can strut their first amendment rights.”

The national 75-acre free speech zone will be located thirty minutes from the farming town of Liberal, Kansas. A chain link fence topped with concertina wire surrounds the field where the zone stands.

“Protestors who wish to vent their frustrations about Bush domestic and foreign policy now have a place to gather,” said Ted Stevens (R-AK). “Our democracy is stronger for having created a place where free people can use the freedom of speech guaranteed to them by the founding fathers in our bill of rights.”





IMAGE: Republican legislators agreed that protesters would have plenty of room to wear their costumes and play their drums and whatever else they do at the nation's one and only free speech zone in Kansas.





The free speech zone is clearly marked so as to prevent ordinary Americans from wandering in and having their minds blown.



more.....

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0310/S00185.htm

http://www.freepressed.com/freespeech.htm