Redneck Central

Still On The Mend

2007-12-28T15:19:00.000-06:00

I felt good yesterday and decided to spend some time at my house.. I got there bout noon and built a fire in the wood heater since the temps were in the upper 30's with a little wind blowin..

It went down hill slicker than snot on a door knob after that tho.. The firewood I got delivered was too green to make a good hot fire to get the house warmed up any time soon and a new leak in the roof decided to form after we had a bad wind and rain storm last week right above my 2 month old Technics stereo reciever/amp and its fried now, and I turned on my kitchen stove to make tea and a good cup of coffee and it aint workin now for some damn reason..

So when the Mrs. called at about 5 I had her just come and get me before anythang else went all to shit..

It was nice to get out a while but I aint ready yet to get very active.. I've been completely exhausted all day today and have spent most of it in bed nappin and restin.. But the fresh air was good and Miss Minnie Pearl was sure glad to see me..

The VA failed to make me an appointment to get my stitches and staples out last week and said to just come to their ER and they would do it but I said piss on it and took the damn thangs out myself.. I had the tool for takin the staples out in my med kit already and the anti-bacterial for it too.. Now all my zippers have healed up real good and havent had any problems with any of em..

My breathin is still real weak tho and I get short of breath real quick.. It seems that my astma is a lot worse now to me.. But I thank a lot of it is just the candles the Mrs. burns over here.. I didnt have any trouble with it at my house yesterday.. But my wind will come back to me eventually when I can get out of the bed and out of the house long enuff to get some exercise for my lungs..

But I thought they were just bullshittin me when they warned me bout bein down for 3 to 4 weeks if I had the little cuttin and 4 to 6 weeks if I had this big one.. Its startin to make a real believer of me now since its been a coulpa weeks and I'm just now gettin out of bed a little.. Sure as hell dont look like its gonna be in any hurry to get well soon but I guess I should consider myself lucky that I'm doin this good this soon knowin what bad shape that gall bladder was in and how long it had been that way..

But we aint had the best weather here for healin either.. Its been cold, wet, rainy, windy, snowy, some sleet, and finally gettin a little sunshine today..

Hope everybody had a good Christmas ..

Redneck Held Hostage: Day 8

2007-12-20T12:33:00.000-06:00

I miss my porch and my tree and Miss Minnie Pearl !!

I was healin right along real well till evenin before last when I did somethin stupid that has set me back a coupla days.. The Mrs. went on a shoppin spree around town and came home with her arms full and the door locked and was yellin for me to unlock it.. I couldnt get all the way to the door in my wheelchair so I got close and thought I could hop that last coupla steps.. One hop and I felt that icy cold searin hot pain run down my side under my ribs..

This is Thursday and I feel like I'm at about the stage of healin I was at Tuesday.. And I HATE it !! I guess I should know there are gonna be some set backs along the way but that dont mean I have to like it..

I had to get out and take care of my electric bill yesterday and that required a visit to the bank to do a little jugglin and then to the payment center and I made a swang by the house to collect my mail and look it over.. Everythang was in order but there was one of the cats dead in the middle of the yard.. Its just gonna have to wait till I get a little better before I can do the deed with it tho..

They must have cut thru or near my diaphram cause it has been hard to breathe since and even harder durin times of high humidity and there has been thick fog the last coupla days and a few hours of thunderstorms early this mornin..

Mostly its just depressin to sit around here with most of the windows covered and a view of not much more than a 50 foot stretch of barely traveled street.. A far cry from the hustle and bustle of my view from my house and the busy street and businesses and people walkin by all the time..

Somethin round here destroys radio reception so I aint got to hear my Talk Radio and the girls have their programs on TV most of the time but I dont give a shit bout TV anyway..

So I'm ready to get the hell outta here and back to my own house and comfort and routine and porch and tree and put these fuckin crutches back in the corner and be able to have the ease of rollin ALL around in my wheelchair and on my scooter and the love and company of Miss Minnie Pearl who dont give a shit if I get up in the middle of the nite makin noise fixin a cup of coffee and listenin to my music real loud..

I'm ready to fill my big ol 6 foot bath tub with steamin hot water and soakin my sore ol ass in it instead of tryin to see if I can at least get my whole big ol body wet in this gotdam wash tub-size thang the Mrs. has..

I LOVE my freedom at home and what I have here aint even close so if I have any more of these fuckin set backs I'm really gonna be one pissed off Redneck sunzabitch !!

The Energizer Bunny

2007-12-17T06:07:00.000-06:00

Considerin that I was more-or-less FIELD DRESSED and then most of me put back together 5 days ago, this ol Redneck is hangin in there pretty good..

Yeah, I caint have anythang done the easy way.. It always has to be the hard way.. They couldnt just do the scope on me and get it done quick, easy, and less painful and me be healed up sooner, they had to do the full rip and cut me from flank to flank all the way across my belly and thru all my abs and belly muscles..

But I'm a tuff ol bird and am bouncin back pretty quick any way..

The first thang I gotta do is thank the Good Lord for sendin me the best and most professional bunch of doctors and nurses that He could find.. Never in my life have I seen such a truely competent and compassionate group of medical staff..

But there always has to be at least one turd in the swimmin pool and this one happened to be in the most unlikely positions in the whole fuggin hospital.. God's own representive there, the Chaplain !! This old SOB was such a self-servin, self-promotin, arrogant asshole that it just made me sick to my stomach to see him in the hallways..

And once again I got to be an inspiriration to somebody else.. On Friday evenin I got unhooked from all my I.V.s and oxygen and was free to move about and the next chapter in my recovery was to have my bowel functions return.. That had to happen before I would be allowed to be dismissed from the hospital..

I knew from experience that a tried and true method to get that in motion was to have a good cup of coffee and a smoke, so I found what was to be the best the hospital had to offer in the way of coffee and put my pack of cigs and lighter in my pocket and proceeded to the smokin area downstairs..

Seems that the best coffee they had to offer was some of the worst I've ever run in to tho and left me mostly unimpressed to say the least, but I met a guy down there that was due to have his gall bladder taken out on Monday usin the scope but he was still wary of it since he was not a regular VA patient and had heard a bunch of the horror stories that have been spread about the VA and their hospitals..

The guy was in near mortal fear chain-smokin with shaky hands and was a little hard to convince that just 2 days earlier I had walked in in the mornin and a coupla hours later had the full-cut gall bladder removal and was then down havin coffee and a cig and tryin to shit so I could come home.. I even pulled up my shirt and showed him the trail of staples and stitches across my belly.. It just kinda left him with a blank look on his face..

I made sure that I passed on that I had seen many VA hospitals and medical staff and this one had the best I had seen.. I dont thank he was fully convinced but the relief on his face was obvious.. I wish him well and hope his recovery comes along as well as mine has..

The transition from the good pain meds I was gettin at the hospital to the ones you get in a Rx for when you go home leaves a lot to be desired but I'm makin do and movin around a lot less and a lot slower now..

The main thang was that I get enuff pain relief soon after my surgery that I could do the coughin that I needed to do to keep my lungs clear and not have pneumonia set in.. I got the point across to my docs and nurses that if I didnt get the pain meds I needed to do that, that I just wadnt gonna lay there and put myself thru the misery and that they would just have to deal with the pneumonia if they didnt cooperate, but that I would do my part if they would just kill enuff pain for me to be able to suffer thru the gut-wrenchin to do the coughin..

They must have taken what I said at face value and knew that I wadnt bullshittin em and hooked me up one of those morphine I.Vs that all I had to do was push a button and it gave me another dose.. It was set that I could only give myself so much and that if any more pain relief was needed they had to give it to me in other ways.. My morphine kept a record and they could tell what I had tried to get and knew from the sound of me tryin to cough that I was keepin up my end of the deal and they tried to also keep theirs..

But now that I'm home and on the less effective pain meds it sometimes leads to some cold sweats when I'm tryin to cough up some of those difficult hair balls that come along every now and then.. I cheated too and borrowed an oxygen machine from a friend that really helps to dry up some of the coughin..

The Mrs. is doin her part too and playin the part of Florence Nitengale and Betty Crocker rolled into one and cookin me some good Get Well Food and almost drove me nuts hoverin over me at first..

There is a lot more to tell but right now I'm at about my limit as to how long I can sit here and now I need to move to a more relaxed and comfy place for a while..

I hope evrybody has a great Monday..

Merry Christmas

Redneck Central-South

2007-12-09T17:40:00.000-06:00

Took a coupla days gettin stuff together but I got to spend 3 days/2nights at the farm and did some serious campin and huntin and shoopin..

The first day was great.. Nice and warm.. That night it turned cold and windy as hell.. Couldnt make coffee in the mornin cause it was too windy and dry and just stayed in the sack till late and then the wind layed some and I got up and built a small fire and had some good boiled camp coffee..

That evenin I went to the Stabbin Cabin in the back and sat and watched a shit-load of deer mill around but the one I was lookin for wadnt in the bunch.. Didnt see any hogs either but I saw traces where they had been around there..

That night the wind changed and it got warmer overnite and was really comfy by early the next mornin and I got up early and had coffee as usual..

That evenin I went to the Stabbin Cabin again and finally saw the deer I was waitin on and dropped it.. Gutted it and hung it and waited till the last mornin to skin it and quarter it..

Couldnt wait to get home and into a hot bath and put that fresh liver in a skillet.. Best liver/onions/brown gravy I've had in a long time..

I put the rest of the meat in ice water overnite to bleed it some more and let it age a little more too before doin a final trim and packin for the freezer..

Spent the day yesterday doin the trimmin and packin and freezin and put a big pot of fresh ribs on and then soaked em in sauce all nite and put em on the grill to smoke and caramel this mornin.. I caint describe in words here just how damn good those ribs were for dinner today !!

The Mrs. and the Kid were havin a fit for me to come over here and visit em some today so I wrapped em some ribs and came over..

Miss Minnie Pearl thanks she has died and gone to heaven now !! She is gettin the bones from the trimmin and some meat I culled from around the bullet wound..

The Mescans usually have their Mass at the Catholic Church next door on Saturday nites and she almost always barks at em till she is hoarse but I chunked her a few big bones with some meat still left on em to her right about the time everybody started showin up for Mass last nite and I didnt hear a peep out of her all nite..

My surgery is still ON for Wednesday mornin and I'm busy tryin to get my house ready to padlock for 2 or 3 weeks.. Looks like I'm gonna need that rest period after doin all this doin..

With all the liftin and strainin and workin and I've been doin and the weather I have my bad shoulder and my back really givin me fits right now too.. I hope the doctor gives me some good pain meds !!

I dont know how soon after I'll feel like sittin at the keyboard but I have some serious rantin to do bout the Enemy Within.. Not even shootin the Big Bore till my good shoulder was black and blue eased the rage much.. I thank the booger-eattin-moh-rons have gone completely off their fuggin meds now !!

So get ready for me to do some major hell raisin soon as I can sit up here again.. Maybe even before I go Wednesday.. The weather is supposed to go all to shit later today and I may shutter the house and move over here early.. Its just hard to leave that wood heater with my bad shoulder needin it like it is..

Sure is nice to see ya'll still stoppin by and good to see Don visit and leave a note too.. You may have the snow and weather in Kansas but it aint as bad as the fires and mudslides from where you just left, Buddy !!

I aint heard from Papa Ray lately tho.. Hope he is doin good..

And I'm still keepin you in my thoughts too, Ranter..

I hope everybody is avoidin the Christmas Confusion and are enjoyin the Season.. Merry Christmas..

Time Warp

2007-11-26T11:54:00.000-06:00

We are havin really shitty weather here and I have resorted to diggin out the old 8mm home movies from the 50's and 60's and watchin em..

Its a hoot I tell you !!

Not really much of anythang new goin on here with me.. I've been hangin out in the house stayin warm and eattin and havin a coldbeer or two and havin a snort of Sour Mash every now and then..

Miss Minnie Pearl has been a BAD DOG and kept shittin on the livinroom carpet and has been banished to her house again till it gets real cold..

Judgin by listenin to the news lately thangs in the world are swirlin round the toilet bowl faster and faster.. Its just gettin too damn crazy out there to keep lastin the way its goin.. I just dont understand the way people are on a suicidal trip to hell in the Fast Lane !! Nobody has any second thoughts bout the future and how they are gonna deal with it.. Its all about TODAY..

I did get some news from my daughter, thru my Mama tho.. She got washed out of the Navy on a Medical Discharge.. She didnt listen to dear ol Daddy when I tried to tell her that she had too many busted up places to make it thru Navy Dive Trainin.. At least she tried..

The Mrs. is havin trouble with her car now and looks like I'll be here on a regular or semi-regular basis to keep her wheels runnin now and should be able to post sometimes..

See ya'll again soon..

Gotta Slow Down Some

2007-11-21T15:31:00.000-06:00

Got to feelin a lot better and have been busy as hell tryin to get some thangs done at my house so havent spent much time here..

Gettin ready to start the cookin at my house tonite and then come here to do more in the mornin.. I dont have a wheelchair here and some thangs I just need it for to do and besides I just trust my oven more for cookin my rolls and bread.. Too damn much work to put em in an oven that I aint used to..

I wish for everybody to have a safe and bountiful Thanksgivin ..

Still Kickin

2007-11-13T20:04:00.000-06:00

I've just spent a miserable 4 days with an attack of my Chrohn's Disease and still aint up to 100 percent again yet.. Sure am gettin tired as hell of chicken soup too..

Bein sick has left me with little to relate other than the effects of it and I'm really sure you dont wanna hear the shitty details !!

The bright side is that I finally let Miss Minnie Pearl in the house with me to keep me company and she took to bathin me with sympathy and her tongue and rarely leaves my side unless she has to..

I'm gradually gettin back to almost normal except I tire real easy now and still caint get very far away from the bathroom.. But its just so damn aggravatin to see so much I need to be doin and just dont have the energy to do much of it, but I am tryin to tackle small portions of it at a time..

The pisser is that a good cold front is gonna come thru tomoro and its gonna be the perfect time to be at the farm and get a deer or a hog hangin up.. The store is out of my favorite Sugar Cure right now but is puttin it at the top of their list to order more.. Gotta have it to make my special Virginia-type Smoked Hams !!

Thangs are slowly gettin worked out and a little bit more organised now so maybe it wont be so long till I post again.. Hope everybody is doin better than I have been and I hope to have the comments back ON soon so I can hear from Ya'll.. See ya soon..

Countin Down The Hours

2007-11-06T19:25:00.000-06:00

I didnt know for sure I'd still be able to post tonite but SURPRISE !!

This ol puter is almost 10 years old and tryin to save and remove stuff is a helluva task to undertake.. Lotsa pics and letters from my Mama and a library of recipes and memories of friends long past..

The seperation of me from my puter is not your regular crash and burn of a hard drive or system.. You see, me and my puter have been together since right before I lost my leg and it helped me get thru the hard times.. REAL hard times !!

I'm just gonna leave a lot out of this part in between, but I'll just say that losin my puter is gonna be a lot like my ex takin my daughter and leavin me after 17 years.. Took me almost 4 years to get over that and it wadnt a very pretty 4 years either..

But I've managed to outlive and outlast a bunch of those sunzabitches that were my enemies 10 years ago.. Without them tryin to have their foot on my neck all the time its gonna be a different story this time and if they aint got the hint that if they dont like what Wild bill does then they can just suck ol Buck, then we can just go thru it all again.. I got news for em this time tho.. Wild Bill aint gonna be so fuggin nice about it !! It aint just fun and games no more..

I got some serious biddness to take care of and be sure that I'll try to get back here as often as possible to let ya'll know how its goin..

I wrote this while under the vast influence of Sour Mash .. Just so you would know..

The Dark Side Of The Moon

2007-11-05T17:26:00.000-06:00

A Failure To Communicate

The Mrs. is gonna be takin my computer with her Wednesday since hers got fried in a litnin storm a few months ago.. Why, it would just be torture for her to have to do without a computer !!

That means that I was right in figgerin that I would be doin "touch-and-go" with bloggin for a while.. Sometimes I hate it when I'm right..

I'm gonna see what I can do to swang another NEW puter soon and hope to be back to kickin dirt in the liberals faces..

Sure am gonna miss ya'll and I hope this aint gonna last for long..

No New Scars

2007-11-02T18:42:00.000-05:00

I made my appointment at the VA Hospital in Shreveport today and after all the Pecker Checkers rubbed their chins red they decided that since its been so long that I have suffered with my gall bladder that it has gotten scarred and inflamed the tissue around it to where it would be better to plan on doin a Full-Cut Removal and thats gonna cause me to spend close to a week as an In-patient and they gave me time to prepare for it..

December 12th is the new target date to get it out now..

I've already gone and got another load of firewood and aint nothin else pressin so I may load the trailer and make a trip to the farm and do a little piddlin tomoro.. Gonna be some fine weather for it and too warm to be curin a hog or hangin a deer, and besides, I've got a fresh half-gallon of Evan Williams Sour Mash and I caint thank of a better time or reason than now to go and enjoy a few swiggs and some beautiful countryside and a campfire.. Aint the colors out there somethin right now ??

Lost Pearls

2007-11-02T18:36:00.000-05:00

THIS site link has some good material on a very special Lady..

Not since LBJ has a President brought such a fantastic First Lady to the White house.. But you say, what about Mrs. Barbara Bush ?? Well, I consider her the First Mother..

From what I have seen, Mrs. Barbara Bush is very near a clone of my Mama, and that causes me to see her as the First Mother, not as a First Lady.. But Mrs. Laura Bush is a First Lady of the Highest Magnitude..

The Media has done America the worst dis-service that can be imagined by spotlightin Paris, Britney, and Lindsey, to this country's youth, instead of puttin Mz. Laura out there and showin what a fantastic Lady is made of..

No other First Lady has impressed so much on me since Mrs. Johnson, and I'm not so sure that Laura Bush dont even top her.. The thought that Laura Bush hasnt got the credit she so greatly deserves is a crime and can only rest on the shoulders of the Media..

She may not get credit from most of the rest of America, but she gets much credit and love and admiration from this ol East Texas Redneck !!

G.W. is a very lucky man, and so is America !!

If Not America, Then What ??

2007-10-31T20:54:00.000-05:00

Who Is Watchin The Ball

Do the U.S. Elections trump all other concerns ?? THE Debate last nite had me so frustrated this mornin that I had to turn my fuggin radio off.. Even Rush !!

All I heard today was that The Hildebeast flip-flopped on driver licenses for NEW YORKERS !! HOW BOUT THE FUCKIN BORDER, PEOPLE ??

And they say that The Hildebeast had a bad nite.. Well, I say THEY ALL had a bad nite.. There were no winners on that stage.. ALL LOSERS !!

You couldnt have melted every damn one of em and strained out enuff leadership to organise a gotdam 4-Family Garage Sale !!

And what makes those stupid sunzabitches thank that if they vote for an end to the War On Terror and all that War Money gets spent on Entitlements, that all of em in the Projects aint just gonna be put out to be slaves somewhere anyway ?? Black.. White.. No matter what color they are, they are gonna be somebody's slave..

Aint gonna be no anti-war, anti-American movies to go watch either.. All those dirtbags are gonna be in France or somewhere else..

I still just caint fathom how many of our fellow Americans need to be exterminated !! For nothin more than pure stupidity.. They are just too fuckin stupid to breathe !! Well, whats more important ?? The greatest Nation on Earth, or these bunch of leeches ??

They are truely The Enemie Within !!

A Short Break Today

2007-10-29T20:46:00.000-05:00

Short And Sweet

I sold some parts off my wrecked truck at the farm and me and the mechanic rode out today to take the parts off.. It was gonna take him a coupla hours so I went to the barn and started a little fire and sat and waited on him and stayed out of his way..

Some small limbs had fallen durin the high winds we had last week and I gathered some of them and put em on the fire and generally had a good time.. The mechanic was makin a lot of noise tho so it wadnt all that peaceful, but I managed to block a lot of it out and enjoy it anyway..

I sure do have a lot of mowin to do when I do actually get to spend some serious time out there.. I kept it mowed pretty often this year and it has caused the bermuda grass to get thick as carpet and crowd out most of the weeds and with the rain we have had it sure has that bermuda a deep green.. Gonna be a shame to mow it all but it aint gonna be that long till a frost turns it brown anyway..

I could see where the hogs have been up around the garden again and there was some good-sized tracks in the bunch.. That one should be big enuff to cure and smoke.. May even be big enuff to get a little bacon or salt meat out of it.. Gonna have to get a little cooler for curin tho..

Looks like I have been tagged to go over and put together tables and shelves and stuff for the Mrs. tomoro so looks like tomoro is not gonna be a farm day.. Probably just go ahead and make a day of it over there and mow and rake too.. A peecan tree in her front yard has a healthy batch of poison ivy growin on it and I'll have to make damn sure I get rid of that shit before The Kid gets into it.. Dont take much of that stuff to put The Kid in the hospital..

If I happen to make short work out of her yard then I'll do a little leaf rakin behind the house here too.. That wind we had last week piled up a bunch of leaves back there.. Be a lot easier to get em out now before they get wet and heavy..

Miss Minnie Pearl has been buggin me to let her come in the house and stay with me but I'm tryin to hold off till the Mrs. gets some more of her stuff moved.. It aint easy tho when Pearl puts her chin on the board in the front of her house and gives me the "sad eyes" treatment !!

I usually wait till its starts gettin pretty cool at nite before I let her in, but she seems to thank its cool enuff already.. I just dont know how long I'm gonna be able to put it off tho if she keeps givin me the eye tricks..

Well, I fixed fried taters w/peppers and onions and turnip greens and skillet of cornbread last nite and there is enuff cornbread left in there tonite to have a big bowl of cornbread and sweet milk and its callin me to right now !!

Are We Havin Fun Yet ??

2007-10-27T12:03:00.000-05:00

READ MY LIPS !!

I sat down with the Mrs. and explained the best and easiest Plan Of Attack in the process of movin her shit into the her house.. I explained it from what to move in first down to what to move in last, AND WHY.. I went thru the process several times with her too..

She slept a coupla times since then and now wants to move some stuff in.. And guess what ?? YEP, she has the whole process turned around bass-ackward, and is tryin to convince me that is the way I said ..

It just dont get much more liberal than that !! That kinda shit is straight out of the Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi Handbook On Liberalism..

I also thought me and Miss Minnie Pearl would get to go to the farm and have a little play time, but the Mrs. is gonna play on the puter all mornin and then drag out gettin any movin done the rest of the day and then it'll just be too late to go to the farm.. I just wonder if that wadnt her plan in the first place ?? Get everythang screwed up and then drag her heels till it was too late for me to do anythang.. But I wont have to put up with that bullshit much longer !!

Death By Gubmint

2007-10-26T13:36:00.001-05:00

They Just Caint Get A Break

Not everybody got everythang they owned consumed in the San Diego Fire area.. Some of the responsible ones had taken advantage of the ability to clear dangerous conditions around their property and were spared the devastation of the blazes..

They managed to save their property and animals from the Envio-Nut-created threat of disaster that they were forced to live with.. Now many are livin with the threat from the PETA and Animal Protection Nuts.. They have to stand 24/7 guard over their critters to keep Animal Control from confiscatin em.. Aint that a helluva note !!

They call these responsible folks "SURVIVALISTS" ..

But WHAT did these people actually SURVIVE ??

From my point of view they survived Gubmint Control and Regulation..

Its gotten pathetic now and its gettin worse by the day.. Its just impossible to be 100 percent compliant anymore.. You dont even have to be a property owner anymore to be the target of controls and regulations.. They even have people that check your trash to see if you are in accordance.. Did you seperate paper from plastic ?? Did you seperate your organics ?? Do you use the prescribed trash bag ?? Is your type of lawn grass allowable ?? Is it the right height ??

Gubmint needs to get the hell out of our lives cause they are creatin a lot of people out here that are gettin a gut-full of their control and regulations and are gettin really pissed !!

Sweet Thangs And Loose Nuts

2007-10-25T13:10:00.000-05:00

Rainin Peecans

I'm startin to get some real pretty colors on the trees in the view from my livinroom window.. I bet there is a sweet color display from the treeline out at the farm at sunrise and sunset too..

The trees are losin a lot of leaves too and I have been havin to mulch and use the mower to blow em up into piles for burnin.. The wind has really been kickin up too and its been quite a bit cooler.. Cool enuff to have kept the wood stove burnin all day and nite..

And the peecans have been fallin pretty heavy and we have collected a good batch of em and I have been crackin and pickin em out and gettin ready to have some brownies and fudge soon.. Might just mix up a batch of bannana nut bread too.. It goes good with mornin coffee..

I've been on the verge of comin down with an ear infection and been stayin inside mostly and pamperin my ear and its now on the way out and soon I should be over it.. I really dont wanna get somethin thats gonna delay my gettin my gall bladder out next week.. I dont know if an ear infection would cause em to cancel it but I dont wanna take any chances.. I'm ready to get the thang out now..

Damn, aint the news been somethin lately.. The liberals have had their grubby little hands all over everythang and everythang they have touched is turnin to shit !!

Their Foreign Relations Dept. now have the Turks attackin the Iraqi border..

Their Enviro Wing now have caused the destruction of a huge portion of southern California..

They have yet again wasted more valuable time in Congress tryin to get amnesty passed..

Pork projects have been piled into everythang that moves in D.C. ..

MORE TAXES and MORE TAXES and MORE TAXES ..

Its been enuff to make we not wanna look at the news lately..

Bustin Loose

2007-10-23T10:37:00.000-05:00

Negative Waves

Remember the old Clint Eastwood & Co. movie called "Kelly's Heroes" where Donald Sutherland talks bout negative waves ?? Thats what I've been livin with for 7 years now and the female Don Rickles found her a house and paid the rent on it and is gonna be movin out come the first of the month..

Its not but a few blocks away so we will still be spendin a lot of time together but now I wont have that negative attitude to deal with first thang every mornin..

Runnin this house on one income is gonna be a lot different tho and I'm gonna have to wait and see if I can still swang my internet connection and if not I'll have to rely on friends or go to the library to get connected.. That means that postin may be unreliable for a while..

If the weather permits I plan on spendin a bunch of time at the farm tryin to get my trailer house out there livable, so that is another reason postin may be sporadic..

Its been cool, rainy, and windy here the last coupla days and I have the wood stove lit and puttin out some wonderful muscle-loosenin heat.. Nothin works on an old beat-up sore body better than a wood stove's heat.. Really has come in handy too since somethin(probably one of the Mrs.' cats) crawled up under the house and died.. Havin to leave doors and windows open to be able to stand the smell.. But them fuggin cats are gonna have a new home too when she gets moved !!

So, I'm gonna be FREE, WHITE, and OVER 21 here in a coupla weeks and after that I'll just have to wait and see..

The Halter Comes Off

2007-10-21T16:29:00.000-05:00

Wild Bill Unplugged

Lotsa changes gonna be happenin here at Redneck Central in the next few weeks and I aint sure what the outcome is gonna be..

I dont know the full scope of how its gonna affect the blog yet and will just have to wait and see.. Its not gonna be a complete shutdown but I do believe its gonna be a lot less frequent..

The details will just have to wait but I will say that whats comin is somethin I have been workin on for over 2 years.. PERSISTANCE pays off !! Always remember that..

I'm busy havin a coldbeer to celebrate right now, so just trust me and tip one back for ol Wild Bill too and whoever it is that said all them prayers me, well, you now own a large part of my heart !!

The Good Lord works in mysterious ways..

My Time Of Year

2007-10-19T19:48:00.000-05:00

Nip And Tuck

NIP in the air and TUCK in the covers !!

It was a chilly 48 degrees here this mornin and Deer Season starts 2 weeks from tomoro mornin.. You can almost feel the Redneck tension in the air in East Texas.. Its almost like the male deer's rutt and the male Redneck's rutt starts about the same time..

With the cool temps even the coffee out of the old Mr. Coffee tasted special this mornin..

I've got a trailer-load of stuff to take to the farm today and then I plan on goin to get a load of firewood if its dry enuff at the woodyard to get in..

I have some carpet and chairs and cookin pots and pans to take to the farm and I need to bring my big fresh water can in and fill it with drankin and cookin water and take it and another can of gas out there..

It aint gonna take a whole lot of prep to be ready to set up camp but I am gonna be busy for a coupla days.. The weather is gonna be perfect for the next 3 days.. 50 at nite and 80 durin the day and plenty of sunshine.. Its just gonna be hard to get motivated to do somethin besides sit around the fire and cook and eat and just enjoy the surroundins.. But I caint stand to sit still for long at a time tho.. Usually just long enuff to recharge the batteries on my scooter a little and then I'm off at it again..

Yeah, I've still got a few chores to do here at the house, but Deer Camp is a PRIORITY !!

Just a little Deer Season History.. A coupla friends of mine used to have a club just up the road from the farm and on Deer Season Eve they would have a Deer Hunter's Ball..

Imagine a crowd composed of guys with beards, in cammo, and smellin like campfire and a buncha gals dressed to the 9's and perfect makeup and hair..

The parkin lot has all these Lexus and Vettes and Caddies surrounded by pickups full of guns and the back of em has the hog huntin dogs and deer corn and passed-out lightweights and pickups pullin stock trailers with their horses still in em.. Before the night is over, one of them stupid drunk Rednecks is gonna unload his horse and ride it thru the club !!

Fights ?? DAMN RIGHT !! But its usually those Little Miss Prim and Propers that get down and dirty.. You dont thank those GUYS are gonna risk sittin in jail on the openin mornin of Deer Season, do you ??

Opera ?? Plays ?? Concerts ?? FUGGEM !! You caint beat good ol Redneck Entertainment..

UPDATE: I thought I had posted this before I left today but it appears that I didnt.. I underestimated how much work it was gonna take to get the camp ready.. The cool weather and the rain has me plenty of mowin to do now and the tamaters have decided to produce some more and need weedin too..

I did get the stuff dropped off at the farm and then got a load of firewood..

THUG Attacks Grandmother !

2007-10-18T23:13:00.000-05:00

Contra Costa Times

Recruiting facility at center of storm
By Kristin Bender
STAFF WRITER

Article Launched: 10/18/2007 03:06:31 AM PDT

BERKELEY -- Flag-waving demonstrators far outnumbered a group of peace advocates who were protesting a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting center in downtown on Wednesday.
But groups on both sides of Shattuck Avenue slowed traffic and jammed sidewalks as they shouted back and forth at each other.

Police kept the two competing groups across the street from each other; there were no arrests.

One protester who was burning something was cited by police after he was warned by officers not to burn anything in public, said police spokeswoman Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.

Protests in Berkeley are nothing new.

A protest of a protest is unique -- even in Berkeley.

On one side of the street was CodePINK, Grandmothers Against the War, Berkeley East Bay Gray Panthers, Women in Black and other peace groups holding "no war" signs and chanting "out of Iraq."

On the other were military veterans, mothers and fathers of soldiers, members of the UC Berkeley College Republicans and Melanie Morgan, whose conservative talk show airs on KSFO. They waved American flags and chanted "USA, USA, USA."

But at times it was difficult to hear what either group was saying because each was trying to drown out the other as men on Harley Davidsons and frustrated motorists gunned their engines on the street between the groups.

"This is 2007, and we support our troops. We are not going to let CodePINK disgrace our military heroes," yelled Deborah Johns, a Granite Bay woman whose 23-year-old son is preparing to head to Iraq for his fourth tour of duty. "My son is a hero, and so are all the others who served this country."

One of the peace advocates, Sheila Goldmacher, a Berkeley woman with Grandmothers Against the War, said she was pushed and shoved by the flag-wavers. "They have a right to be here -- they do not have the right to be thugs," she said.

The military recruiting center at 64 Shattuck Square, just south of University Avenue, opened its doors in December after moving from an Alameda building that was slated to be razed.

But objections did not begin until last month when CodePINK, an anti-war group, began protesting the center.

"Our message is very clear. We are peaceful people. We don't want to send our sons and daughters into this war. I think the sentiment of Berkeley is on this side of the street," said CodePINK co-founder Medea Benjamin.

Statistics show that Berkeley is sending fewer sons and daughters into the military. In fiscal year 2001, which ended three weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, 22 Berkeley residents joined the armed forces, according to Department of Defense enlistment data. By 2006, with the Iraq war in full swing, just 15 signed on, nearly one-third less.

Berkeley's drop mimics a California-wide trend. The Golden State in 2001 was the nation's largest source of new enlistees, with 23,503 residents joining the military in 2001. But in 2006, 2,400 fewer residents heeded the call, and today California ranks second behind Texas in recruitment.

The recruiting office, which has been defaced with graffiti in recent weeks, was closed during the protest Wednesday, and a representative was not on site to comment.

However, in a recently published editorial in the Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper, Capt. Richard Lund, the Marine Corps' officer selection officer for the northern Bay Area, said he chose the Berkeley site because "of its proximity to UC Berkeley and to the BART station."

You Never Know

2007-10-17T20:41:00.000-05:00

Life's "Cards"

I've got a body repair shop right across the street from me and I noticed that they are in the final stages of gettin a '55 Chevy 2-door restored from the ground up..

So yesterday I went over to check it out never imaginin how much it was gonna depress me.. You see, the guy that owns it had bought it a few years ago before he retired and planned to have the car restored and completed bout the time he finally did retire and then tour around in the car for a while..

Aint gonna happen !! The car is almost finished now and the guy did his last week at work and a week later found out he had advanced cancer and is never gonna get to do that tour and now even rarely feels up to comin to check on how the car is comin along..

The guy sold the car and the new owner came by a coupla days ago to see it.. Bought it sight-unseen for $75K .. He bought somebody elses dream for $75K !!

Wadnt it Fleetwood Mac that had the song that said "do you have any dreams you'd like to sell" ??

Me ?? Dreams ?? Nah.. Not the tangable kind that can be bought and sold anyway.. I do have some real sweet WISHES tho.. The spiritual kind, like Peace, Love, Solitude, and Contentment..

Congress Is A Cancer

2007-10-17T17:41:00.000-05:00

The Congressional 'Peter' Principle

Honor sacrificed by others upon the Altar of Political Ambition

By Steve Schippert

This picture of an index card placed at the Vietnam Memorial is worth well more than a thousand words. It is exemplary of the character of a Marine who, rather than face vociferous Congressional opposition based on political objectives grounded in little more than a domestic public relations war, was asked to and chose to spare the nation such anguish and retire before he was otherwise inclined to do so. General Peter Pace has years of capable and needed service left in him. They have, for unconscionable reasons, been sacrificed by others upon the altar of political ambition.

His leadership, for over forty years guided by his “moral compass,” has always has been embraced by those who followed him. And so, upon his reluctant retirement, feeling he still had service owed to those he commanded and lost in Vietnam, he presented his stars to Lance Corporal Guido Farinaro where the fallen Marine is honored at the Vietnam Memorial.

In the picture, above the stars pinned to a simple 3×5 index card placed among other notes at the foot of the Vietnam Memorial, were the humble words, “These are yours - not mine!” He did the same for each of the six other Marines who, after Lcpl. Farinaro, also paid the ultimate price under 2nd Lt. Pace’s young command. Such selflessness had guided General Pace’s entire career, one which he personally dedicated to honoring the seven Marines who followed his orders in combat and died in service to their country.

In a September address to enlisted military personnel ahead of his retirement as a Marine and as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace described what drove him daily in his active duty service after Vietnam and the loss of seven Marines under his command.

He explained, “There was never a doubt in my mind what I was supposed to do with the rest of my life when I came out of Vietnam without even a scratch. And that was to try as best I could to serve this nation on active duty in a way that would pay proper respect to those Marines who followed me as their platoon leader and gave their lives for their country. Enlisted Marines who taught me what love on the battlefield was about. When I came home, I tried to give those in my charge what I could no longer give to those who had lost their lives.”

Lance Corporal Farinaro was the first Marine killed under then 2nd Lieutenant Peter Pace’s command in Vietnam. An Italian immigrant from New York, Guido Farinaro joined the Marine Corps because he felt compelled to repay his adopted nation through service to it. With his sacrifice on the battlefield, it is this nation which in turn will forever owe him.

No one tried harder or did more to attempt to repay that eternal debt than Peter Pace, United States Marine. Such is the honor and character of a good man. Such is the honor sacrificed by others upon the altar of political ambition.

2nd Lieutenant Peter Pace. Captain Peter Pace. General Peter Pace. Mr. Peter Pace. Each exudes leadership by example.

Yet a majority in Congress telegraphed their intent to oppose his renomination as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and create a national spectacle for the self-serving political purposes of staging public opposition to the President of the United States. And as displayed by many in that elected body, leadership by example is a sword that cuts both ways. The Congressional ‘Peter’ Principle was on clear display.

And with that came the end of the exemplary service of a good man and outstanding Marine. He now must - and will - find another avenue to serve and honor those fallen Marines whom he led.

Yet there is nary a Congressional leader who does not famously proclaim “I support the troops.” But the often hollow nature of these words has the effect of reducing such phases to little more than bumper sticker slogans. For they are immediately trumpeted following a sitting Senator who compares those in the United States Military as running abusive and torturous “gulags” and their actions no different from the genocidal “Pol Pot.”

“I support the troops” immediately trailed a Congressman’s hasty and false accusations of Marines as murderers based on the unscrupulous and uncorroborated accounts of those who supported the enemy on the battlefield. “Supporting the troops” remains the official position of a sitting Senator who falsely testified before the Congress he now serves within that his fellow servicemen in Vietnam had “cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan.”

These are the words from among those who warned that General Pace’s re-nomination confirmation process would be a difficult spectacle of political opposition. They are from the same Congressional leaders who unanimously confirmed General David Petraeus as a capable commander for the Iraq theater only to later accuse him of lying to them when he reported undeniable progress on the ground there.

Is it any wonder then that so many active duty and veteran military members cry out, “Please, spare us the indignity of such support.”

Character matters. It is, unfortunately, a trait lost on so many who cannot seem to wrap their minds around the concept of service before self. Peter Pace wrapped his entire adult life around it, exemplified by a simple 3×5 index card and a hand scribbled note.

For General Peter Pace (USMC, Ret.), his four stars rightly belong to Lance Corporal Guido Farinaro. But the empty collars those stars once adorned surely belong to Congress. And worse off are we all for it.

Gonna Need A Nap

2007-10-16T17:10:00.000-05:00

Smells Like Mama's Kitchen

I smoked a beef Rump Roast this mornin and cut it up and have had a pot of stew cookin on low since bout noon.. Damn stuff is bout to starve us to death !!

Its got a big jar of roasted onion and garlic, corn, Rotel Tamaters, diced tamaters, taters and celery, broccoli and cauliflower, and a bunch of seasonins, includin some Tony's..

It was rainy, gray, and gloomy here yesterday and we were scratchin for covers durin the cool nite last nite and a pot of stick-to-your-ribs stew seemed like the best medicine a person could ask for today..

Just about another hour and it will be time to dish up a big bowl to cool.. Ought to be just about enuff time to stir up a skillet of cornbread..

If I just had a campfire to sit around while I ate it I dont thank I could ask for anythang better..

Trick Or Treay MY ASS

2007-10-13T18:25:00.000-05:00

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I HATE Shoppin !!

That creates a buncha problems for me too.. It shouldnt, but it does.. The Mrs. goes shoppin bout every day or two and goes just about every where, but I just caint depend on her to get what I want or need..

I need somethin and call around and find what I need and how much it is and make sure they have it on the shelf, and in a matter of an hour or two, after I count out the money and give it to the Mrs. and make sure she knows what I want, when the Mrs. gets there they dont have it..

I always make sure I tell her that if they dont have ZACTLY what I want, DONT GET ANYTHANG ELSE !! I got tired of her comin home with shit that wadnt what I wanted and wouldnt work and was inferior quality and she got it cause SHE decided it was just as good, BUT CHEAPER !! But I still didnt get the change back from it bein cheaper..

So I send her to the store with the money and then they dont have it and she comes home without it and I dont get my money back.. Or, I send her to the store with the money for somethin and she comes home with it but needs whatever it was for herself and keeps and uses it herself and I'm still out of what I need AND the money..

The one that just really pisses me off tho, is when she says she is goin to get somethin and I give her the money and ask her to get me a couple of em too and then she comes home with just 2 of em and she gives me ONE of em and she keeps ONE of em and then we are both out of it the first day, or when she wants us to SHARE(split) the cost of somethin and I dont have the zact change for it and only have a Bill small enuff to cover the whole cost and dont get any change back for it, and in essence, I pay the WHOLE cost for what was supposed to be a SHARED expense..

Do you have a liberal in your house too, that thanks they know better what to do with YOUR money ??

And aint what I just desribed above, more-or-less, what The Hildebeast, Obama, Edwards, and the rest of the (D)s are plannin on and are ALREADY doin with OUR tax money ??

But its gettin close to Halloween and if the Mrs. hits me up for money to go buy candy for the neighborhood trick-or-treat kids and never makes it back home with any of it cause she gave it all away to the rich kids and adults around town, I promise, they'll never find the body !!

SMOKIN !!

2007-10-10T15:47:00.000-05:00

Diversions

Since I went on my Cigarette Strike the other day I have been smokin my pipe a lot more and enjoyin my smoke more.. But I have cheated and bought a few packs of Salem to have along the way and help keep the nicotine rage under control before I wound up in jail.. Them damn Salems are bout $6.50 a pack so you can bet your ass I aint bought many of em !!

The Freebie Queen(the Mrs.) ordered me some free pouches of pipe tobacco off a site she found and it is pretty good stuff.. When I smoke one of em it smells like cookies bakin and the Mrs. keeps comin in to see what I'm cookin.. Another smells like fresh tanned leather.. One of em is Irish Creme and goes real good with my mornin coffee.. I got some ceegars too but they are all old and stale and taste like dog shit smells.. There just aint any place here in town to get a good fresh ceegar.. Oh well, the pipe tobacco makes up for it..

Did I really just say "oh well" ??

As you can tell I've mellowed a little, OK a LOT, since last week.. I guess that means I'm over the hump of the initial little or no cigarette ordeal..

I did take RT up on his invitation and went over to Redneck's Revenge and took several bites out of his scam artist troll's ass and got him frothin at the mouth and ravin like a lunatic tho.. I was gettin kinda rusty and the needed the practice in dealin with those mouth-breathers and their bullshit..

I almost had the little tick-turd goin off the deep end yesterday and havent checked today yet, so there may still be hope for me that I can get him to completely lose it and start throwin shit and have a total melt down..

He has just about run out of ammunition and is down to usin the word "cocksucker" over and over now, so he is close to the verge of bein all spent out and will start lookin for a hole to crawl into.. Hell, I'm still loaded for bear and rested and refreshed and got plenty in reserve to pile on him..

Besides, its drawin a lot of undesired attention to his little CON GAME and the more he mouthes, the more money he will lose.. OUCH !!

Blowin Anda Goin

2007-10-10T14:57:00.000-05:00

Mt. Schnoz

The cool front I was talkin bout passed thru sometime in the last 24 to 36 hours and we woke to a perfect type fall mornin today, cept for one thang.. That cool air that has moved in is carryin somethin in it that my allergies just dont like..

I've got a full-blown allergy attack in progress with the itchy, watery eyes, tickley constant cough, and Mt, Schnoz has erupted in full flow !! Its bout the same thang as that virus I had a coupla weeks ago cept with these allergies I dont feel like I'm comin off a week-long drunk and got the shit beat outta me too..

Yeah, I've got some of Modern Medicine's best here to take but I wanted to get a post done before I took it cause sometimes it more-or-less incapacitates me.. Under certain conditions this allergy med hits me like you've seem some of those people that forget and take a double-dose of their Zanax or anxiety meds.. I do good to function well enuff to get up outta bed and get a drink and make a bathroom visit and make it back to the bed before I'm out of it again..

Anyway, now to the post I wanna try to get done..

I was listenin to my mornin Talk Radio, again, and Glenn Beck was goin on bout somethin that was bout a thousand miles away in my allergy adled mind, when I heard him say "and you are in your bunker, and they come to take your guns away".. For me, sometimes it dont take much like that and my lil'o pea brain goes off like a Richter Scale with a 8.4 right under it..

You know, a coupla years ago a comment like that would have maybe got a chuckle and a snicker out of me with a comment of somethin like "yeah, right, Let em try." .. But it just aint as damn funny now as it was then..

In these last coupla years or so we have seen em bring stuff up, like the Global Arms Control at the U.N., and the Assault Weapons Ban in Congress, and now talk of a gun ban for Vets, and the thought of me bein in a bunker and they are comin to take my guns away aint such a far-fetched idea..

I remember that around the first of the year G.W. had some kinda legislation passed concernin Martial Law and the pants-wettin leftists went snake-shit and started wrangin their hands, and I know G.W. aint the smartest man in the world but I know he plans on movin back to the Dallas area after he gets done in D.C. , but I know that even a booger-eatin-mohron would have better sense than try to take folks guns away and then try to move to Texas !! Shit, he wouldnt even be safe in the middle of Ft. Hood, which last I heard was the largest U.S. Military Installation in the world..

Nope, I thank the threat of me bein in my bunker and they are comin to take my guns away would be more likely to happen after The Hildebeast gets elected(bite my tongue) and Slick gets voted in as head of the U.N. !!

UH HUH, I hear you say "NAH, never happen".. If you can still find it, go back to Face The Nation Sunday-before-last and read the transcript of his conversation and see if it dont sound to you like he is already campaignin for the job of U.N. Head too..

Meanwhile, I'm gonna try and get my allergies under control enuff to go to the farm and see what I'm gonna have to do to get my bunker started !! I'm fixin to put this place here in town on the Real Estate market, again, and if it dont sell real quick then I'm also gonna start a bunker here at the house too ..

I'M SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK ABOUT IT TOO !!

An A-Rab What ?

2007-10-08T19:28:00.001-05:00

The Lone Ranger

My mind is stuck on this posse and vigilante thang today, so here is some more to thank about..

I mentioned the Vet that took down the Mescan flag in the last post and there was more I wanted to say bout it but decided to put it in a seperate post..

While many jumped and cheered over what he did, I hung my head in shame.. SHAME, that this Vet was alone.. Where the hell was his Band of Brothers ??

That street should have been lined with cars full of people with torches and pitchforks, and not just Vets either.. There should have been crowds raisin hell tellin those Mesans that this is OUR country !!

But because there was ONE VET that took action, he is now under threat of Legal and Criminal action against him.. Do you thank that Mescan bar owner would be talkin shit like that if he had seen a fuggin posse or vigilante committee behind the Vet when he took down the Mescan flag ?? I DONT !!

Maybe this Lone Ranger tactic was what the Vet had planned.. I DONT advise it tho..

I could get on the phone and make a few calls and within an hour I could put together a militia that would even put Poncho Villa in full retreat, and I'm sure this Vet could do the same..

That Mescan bar more-or-less declared war on America, and they had ONE VET, with a KNIFE, show up.. THAT makes me ashamed and sick to my fuckin stomach !!

There was a bunch of WETBACK SQUATTERS moved in outside town here a few years ago.. A Little Juarez Shantyville complete with Mescan flag.. They would always gather and come into town in an old school bus and just take over the grocery store or whenever they went.. Didnt last long tho.. Seems they had a big fire at their shanty town and everythang burned down while the Fire Dept. watched..

There is a little twist to this story that you may not be expectin too.. Wadnt a bunch of White Racist Rednecks that started the fire.. NOPE.. It was the Legals that wadnt gonna have the wetbacks destroy what they and their families had worked for years to establish in this community.. Imagine that.. A buncha Redneck Brown Americans.. Some of em and their Moms and Dads and sisters and brothers are friends of mine.. Yeah, imagine that too !!

Now, if America could just get her a buncha A-Rab Rednecks..

Lookin For A ROAR !!

2007-10-08T19:24:00.000-05:00

Guns Guns Guns And More Guns

I've been doin my usual this mornin and listenin to my Talk Radio programs.. The first comes at 5 AM and is a local Dallas production and lasts till 9 AM when National Talk Host Glenn Beck comes on.. Same station..

5 and 1/2 hours of Talk programs this mornin and they have repeatedly brought up guns, posse, and vigilante.. Beck even had The Nuge(Ted Nugent) on live speakin from a deer camp near Albany, Texas.. The Nuge definitely knows where to hunt !! I've hunted that area and the area round Ft. Griffin too and the huntin is great..

And the Vet that cut down the Mescan flag that was flyin above an American Flag at a Mescan bar got air time too..

People are talkin bout posse and vigilante now.. The BIG DOGS are talkin bout it .. And they aint talkin bout it like its a BAD THANG.. I aint the only one talkin bout it now and the ball seems to be rollin..

Those Big Dogs do research and the smart ones have a good feel of what is on people's minds before they jump on the air waves and support and promote shit like that !! They dont stick their necks out and put HIGH DOLLAR contracts and their and their family's future on the line if they dont already know whats gonna fly and what aint..

If the Big Dogs are on the bandwagon on it, then that tells me their polls and research told them that people are pissed !! People are pissed and they want somethin done, or they'll do it themselves..

I'm not just one lone voice anymore.. I'm now a voice among many..

Thankin It Over

2007-10-06T17:46:00.000-05:00

Anymore most blogs dont have a lot of comment from the person runnin it.. Most just post stuff that they found somewhere else and sometimes add a few words about it..

So its hard to get any kinda idea what others do in situations like mine.. Even tho many conservative bloggers go thru this, their solutions havent seemed to be what I would have done..

I've followed Kim du Toit(in the blogroll) for several years and thru several transformations .. If anybody has been thru the Trail By Fire, he has !! Thats why I give a lot more cred to what he says and save the parts I feel may come in handy some day.. One of the thangs Kim has written and that I saved called me back for yet ANOTHER look at it.. Even tho I thank I have posted it here before, I'm gonna do it again.. Its one of those good enuff that it ought to be Standard readin Material in every conservative household.. But dont wait for me to point you to his great stuff, go read it for yourself too !! Here it is..

Beating Despair
Kim du Toit
February 1, 2007
7:50 AM

I read this post at Kevin’s the other day, and it brought a few thoughts to mind. Here’s a sample of his gloom (excluding all the links):

I’m tired of it. I’m tired of standing up and trying to get people to look. I’m tired of “Global Warming” - the next boogeyman the people who believe that only an all-powerful State can save us from certain destruction (though many will unfortunately have to be sacrificed, of course - eggs and omlettes, you understand) are pushing as the excuse to control our lives. I’m tired of the War on Terror - to some extent a boogeyman itself - being used to build the mechanisms that can (and will eventually) be used to the same end. I’m tired of the War on (some) Drugs™ being used to disembowel the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. I’m tired of politicians butchering the First Amendment. I’m tired of the Courts eviscerating the Second. I’m tired of our institutions of “higher learning” turning out ignorant but politically correct useful idiots in an endless cycle that ever more resembles the swirling of a toilet bowl.

In short, I’m tired of watching Western Civilization commit seppuku with a dull, rusty spoon. No ceremony. No hope of restored honor. No hope.

It was the sentence ”I’m tired of standing up and trying to get people to look” which resonated with me, because I sometimes feel the same way.

But I refuse to let it get me down, because I have the antidote to that feeling, and it comes from (no surprise) Albert Jay Nock. In Isaiah’s Job, Nock writes:

One evening last autumn, I sat long hours with a European acquaintance while he expounded a political-economic doctrine which seemed sound as a nut and in which I could find no defect. At the end, he said with great earnestness: “I have a mission to the masses. I feel that I am called to get the ear of the people. I shall devote the rest of my life to spreading my doctrine far and wide among the population. What do you think?”

...and Nock responds that he’s going to be wasting his time: that “the masses” aren’t going to be moved by what he has to say, and all he’ll experience is a profound feeling of failure.
But, of course, Nock has the answer:

“There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it.”

And that is what keeps me going.

I’m not going to be as vain as to think that my job is anything as important as Isaiah’s. But in terms of what I write on this website, I will say that, by and large, I get most of it right—the rest being either through my own ignorance, or through the issue itself being insoluble. (I know I drive many of my Loyal Readers to distraction over my indifference on the abortion issue, to give but one example.)

What I don’t care about is whether what I have to say is popular, or finds acceptance with many people. The people who do agree with me, fine; the people who don’t are welcome not to—in Nock’s words, ”Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by.”

I am not as patient a man as Nock, though, which is why I don’t allow discussions of a radical nature on this website. (Some examples, again: I’m not interested in debating whether socialism is better than capitalism—it isn’t—or whether pure libertarianism is a feasible form of social order—it isn’t—or whether Hillary Clinton would make a good President—she wouldn’t.)

Of course, this lays me open to charges of creating an “echo chamber” on this website, a charge which was leveled at The Mrs. during a discussion of libertarianism on her website.

Frankly, I don’t care what people call me, or what they think of what I have to say. I say my piece; and those who like, can listen, and those who (don’t) like, can FOAD pass by.

Every so often, I admit, I do feel the way Kevin does. Here’s where it happens.

I look at my traffic numbers, and suddenly realize that my words are reaching a large number of people. But all that does is set me up for disappointment. I might issue a ringing call to arms, that everyone should write to their Congressweasel right away about Issue X; and then, when a total of three (3) letters actually get sent, I get depressed.

Of course, that’s the trap. It doesn’t matter that only three letters get sent; it doesn’t matter if no letters get sent. What matters is that I may have got one, just one person to think about what I’ve written, and be encouraged that he isn’t the only one in the world who thinks the way he does. That’s Nock’s message—and as soon as I remember it, I find tranquillity once more.

Because at the end of the day, Western Civilization will be saved not by great huge mass movements, or by heroic feats of socio-political evangelism. Western civilization will be saved by a whole bunch of individuals doing the right thing, one citizen at a time.

Sound familiar?

Outta Here For A While

2007-10-03T16:45:00.000-05:00

I QUIT !!

They have been advertisin a Smoke Shop across the Red River from here, bout 20 miles one-way, and today we rode over to check their prices and selection.. They didnt have any idea what we were talkin bout..

We could have driven another 20 miles, one-way, and gone to where we have usually been goin to buy our cigarettes and my ceegars but I got an attitude and decided "FUCK EM" !! I'm tired of drivin over 80 miles round-trip just to buy smokes I can afford without all the Liberal taxes on em, and decided on-the-spot that I was quittin ..

Thanks to a very very kind man and his generous neighbor I have a sack-full of some tobacco seeds of an excellent variety of smokin tobacco.. Next year I plan on havin a crop of my very own to pamper and create a ready-supply for me to enjoy..

I was sittin on the Smokin Bench over at the hospital yesterday.. A very nice and attractive and conservatively-dressed black lady bout my age came out and asked if I would mind if she sat and smoked with me.. My Southern Charm immediately took over and a "PLEASE DO" invited her to join me..

She pulled a cig out and I lit it for her, that Southern Charm Thang, and we began talkin.. Out of the blue she asked if I had been smokin long and I told her I had been smokin almost 40 years now, and she asked if I still enjoyed smokin..

I told her that I didnt just smoke to be smokin and satisfy an urge, and that I also enjoyed my ceegars and pipe and that a lot of times a strong cup of coffee or a coldbeer or a little Sippin Whiskey added and enhanced my pleasure of smokin.. She was called back in to attend to business and our visit was cut short then..

A little later a white guy a little younger than me and had a "ti-double-ger-er" personality(bouncey-bouncey) came out and fired up a cig and seein me stretched out on the bench and mellowed and likin my smoke finally calmed some and set down too.. Soon he was a lot calmer and takin slower drags and talkin slow enuff that I could understand most of what he was sayin..

He had "hot boxed" his first cig and put it out and took a long drank of the bottled whatever it was he had with him to wash out the foul taste from his last cig and then lit another cig.. He kept lookin at his cigarette as he began slowly smokin it like it was a new brand he was tryin and was givin it an evaluation of some sort.. He got a call on his cell phone and told some one on the other end that he had found the Smokin Area and that he was enjoyin a cigarette with a real nice guy and that he would be back up in a minute..

As he calmly finished his smoke he related that today his youngest son was havin rods placed in his back to correct curvature from Scoleosis(sp) and was gonna be a pretty big deal to deal with for a long time.. As he got up and took that last slow drag of smoke and put it out, he really seemed hesitant to leave.. We said our partin Well Wishes and he walked a little taller and straighter and seemed more at ease on his way back in..

In the midst of sufferin kids and chaos and insecurity a coupla folks took time to come have an enjoyable smoke and contemplate on the situation and gather rational thoughts on how to manage the situation they were faced with..

Soon the boney side of my ass told me it was time for me to seek somethin a little more comfy than that hard bench, and I went back into the Mass Hysteria that was inside.. Shit, them people didnt just need a cigarette, they needed a joint.. A BIG JOINT !!

I'm talkin bout people that instead of an enjoyable smoke opted for some popcorn and were so tense and shaky that they spilled most of it.. I almost felt compassion for em till I realized that these same skitzes were probably 100 percent behind a $100 per pack cig tax and smokin ban any where in the city, and would prefer eatin a whole bottle of Zanax or Prozac rather than takin a puff of a cigarette..

As you can tell by my posts lately, my attitude is headin south in a hurry.. I dont intend this to be a place where I keep comin to to spew a bunch of bile and post my hate, so I'm not gonna be postin here much any more.. The hate I feel is not unwarranted and not misdirected and I WILL NOT speak without sayin what is on my mind and until somethin other than hate can come from my mouth I wont be postin..

We Fought The Devil Today

2007-10-02T19:57:00.000-05:00

And we won..

Made a day-long trip into the heart of Dallas to the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital and back today.. Its our first trip there and they checked the Kid over pretty good but the only big test they did was bloodwork..

Traffic was the worst I've ever seen it and the number of Big Trucks was just amazin..

I let the Mrs. pick out the margaritas for us celebrate our safe passage and the margaritas SUCK, so this day is endin about as well as the rest of the day has been..

We still have more mileage planned for tomoro, but not as much.. If we even get CLOSE to a liquor store where they got my Salvadore Margaritas I'm gettin some cause this shit is N.A.S.T.Y. !!!

With the trip we had today I didnt even listen to any news.. I had BAD news around me 360 and I didnt need any off the radio.. I did notice that the SCUMBAGS are still pushin the LIE on Rush tho.. Such a dispicable buncha people they are..

I Am What I Am

2007-10-01T13:35:00.000-05:00

Defiant

YESSA MASSA !!

Thats all the (D)s and liberals wanna hear from us, and when we dont say that we become the Scourge of the Earth and are tearin this country apart and are every kinda -pheobe there is..

If we dont swallow the Liberal Mantra and toe the Progressive Line and bend to their destructive Policies, then we just dont deserve to share this country with em..

By usin the Constitution as a blue print, Americans have turned a wilderness into the greatest and most powerful and prosperous nation on God's Blue Earth, and yet, the (D)s and the Liberals beat and bend and try to change the Constitution, and not change it for the better but for the worse..

I'm tired of bein demonized, ridiculed, chastised, maligned, and lied about cause I dont want MY MONEY to be used for failed gimmicks and to buy votes and support from a bunch of Ticks On Society's Ass !!

I'm tired of bein told how cold and heartless I am cause I dont want my taxes raised and used to pay for shit that some sunzabitch is too fuggin lazy to work for themselves and I caint afford myself cause I PAY TOO MUCH TAXES, and they dont pay any at all !!

And I'm tired of bein told that I'm dividin the population cause I wont just say "YESSA MASSA" and give em everythang I've worked for and done without to have..

I'm just gonna stop right here cause if I say what else I gotta say I'll be called a RACIST !!

We've Gotten TRASHY !!

2007-09-30T13:04:00.000-05:00

No Deposit-No Return

A lot of people have talked about WHEN AMERICA STARTED GOIN TO HELL IN THE FAST LANE, and have made a lot of thoughtful attempts at puttin a timeline on it..

Some say Viet Nam was the turnin point.. Some say the 80's was the drop-off point..

I say it was the advent of the throw away container.. Soda bottles to be precise !!

When I was growin up my Saturday started with gettin with a buddy and the hunt began for Pop bottles to take to the store and collect the return deposit on em and then see how much we had made and then plan our day..

We usually started by headin to the 5 and Dime store downtown to raid the candy bins and get a sack of whatever our taste for candy was that day, whether it was the chocolate covered peanuts or the goowy-chewy coconut triple flavor chunks..

Then with our sack of candy in hand we would go to the White's Auto store and drool over the new bikes and the new BB guns and and racks of new rifles on the wall while we munched our candy and shared it with the store owner and his wife so they would be nice and let us sit on the bikes and fondle the BB guns and he would show us the new .22s and shotguns that had come in but we didnt get to hold em..

After a quick circle by the theater to see what the show was that Saturday and decide if we wanted to see it, we would head to the 7-11 store and go over the rack of balsa wood gliders and kites and sling shots.. If our bottle collectin had been good we would get us a toy to play with but we would usually skip the toys and head by the home turf and check-in and then head to Mrs. Mamie's Cafe(where all the black folks still got served in the back) and get one of her big greasy hamburgers and fries and a pop for a WHOLE DOLLAR..

After that we would go to the County Courthouse across the street and slide down the stair bannisters and look at the WANTED posters stapled on the wall by the Sheriff's Office and talk to my uncle Mervin a minute who was the custodian..

Then it was time to make a trip to the airport(which was nothin more than a dirt strip) and either watch the crop dusters come and go or if they wadnt flyin we would watch the cycle riders race up and down the runway or the dirt bikes jump the banks on the side.. They would even take us for a THRILL RIDE sometimes.. And one of the airport's neighbors had a bunch of gas powered model planes that he would build himself fly around out there too.. But one way or another the airport was always a place of excitement and it was FREE..

If we still had money left or the parents wanted to get rid of us bad enuff to pay our way and it was real hot or the weather was bad we would get a ride to the show and catch a movie, or go to the Drug Store and get one of the best strawberry malts I have ever smacked a lip on..

But when the no deposit-no return bottles came out it almost ruined me and my buddy's world.. He had to start helpin his dad at their store on Saturday to get his spendin money and I went to work for a used car lot washin cars to get mine.. We worked most of the day so our Fun Time was gone anyway..

But those pop bottles helped us learn to budget our money and plan our activities and work as a team and deal with other people on a financial basis.. When they started to disappear is when I thank our society as a whole began to become a Throw-Away culture.. Even America's babies and marriage became no deposit-no return !!

A whole American subculture(the homeless) learned that they could live off what the rest of us threw away.. Thus was born the Dumpster Divers and the Bag Ladies..

Whole camps sprang up of Nam Vets that hated their fellow citizens almost as much as they did the Gooks chose not to be a part of the society that spit and threw shit on em and called em evil names when they came home.. They too were no deposit-no return..

From the simple beginnin of the throw away bottle we have evolved to the point of a throw away Gubmint and Country.. Not zactly what I would call progress !!

Healthy Sucks !!

2007-09-29T18:00:00.000-05:00

Gettin "Healthy" Can Kill You

Me and the Mrs. have been tryin to take some weight off our fat asses and cut back on our smokin and drankin and get more exercise and eat better.. We thought we would be healthier and feel better..

BULLSHIT !!

I lost 35+ pounds and the Mrs. lost a bunch too, we cut our smokin WAY down and I even cut out almost all my ceegars, seldom do we have fried taters and peppers and onions anymore, we now have 1 pot of coffee in the mornin instead of 2 or more, we use filtered water instead of tap water, and we have been a lot more active than we have been in a few years..

So why are we gettin all these damn viruses and bugs ??

The Mrs. woke with a sore throat yesterday and has felt bad since and I now have the sniffles and tryin to get a bad cough, AGAIN ..

If THIS is what bein healthy is like, FORGET IT !!

OR, maybe I'm just jonsin to go to the farm and harvest me a pig and roast it and I'm just tryin to make excuses to go make a damn glutton out of myself and drank too much homebrew and smoke a bunch of ceegars and drank buckets of campfire coffee.. I bet I wouldnt be worryin bout havin the sniffles tho !!

I may just have to test my theory out on this.. Its all Cheryl's fault tho.. She keeps talkin bout goin to the Mountains !! Yeah, Cheryl's fault..

Dangerous Territory

2007-09-28T13:15:00.000-05:00

The World's BREADBASKET is almost empty !!

Somethin else I have touched on a time or two and ranted about some here is the severe shortage of grains in the U.S. Emergency Supplies stocks..

One thang that jumped out at me this mornin durin my early gatherin of news came from The Market Report.. Not only have the U.S. stockpiles of grain gotten to disastrously LOW LEVELS, now the WORLD's levels of grain have done the same thang..

I've gone thru what the dangers are that this poses so I aint gonna clutter these pages with it again.. There are plenty of places on the .net that can give you better and more specifics on it than I can..

But unlike a U.S. shortage and what that means, now its GLOBAL and takes the situation to a whole new level..

When it was just a U.S. shortage nobody seemed to give a shit and didnt care if the big fat Americans starved to death in a disaster, but now that its Global you can bet that its gonna be a big deal.. We just caint have the Third World folks doin without their corn cakes and tortillas, yanno !!

But, I'm gonna get goofy and put a tin-foil hat on for a minute here. So, could this have been a BUSH/CHENEY/ROVE plot to get back at all the dirtbag dictators of the world ?? Most of em have big supplies of oil and resources that they charge us dearly for and very little agriculture.. Maybe the plan is to see just how hungry the sunzabitches have to get before they decide their fuggin oil aint worth as much as they thought it was and our corn and wheat is worth a lot more than they thank they oughta have to pay !!

But thank about it for a minute here.. A major WORLD WIDE shortage of grains and the U.S. Gubmint is still shellin out MEGA BUCKS to farmers, NOT TO PLANT !!

Altho its not at all logical and only a little bit reasonable, I have come up with only ONE excuse for lettin this happen, and I'm just wonderin if anybody else comes to the same conclusion that I have..

Just ponder on it a while and let me know what you come up with..

Sins Of Omission

2007-09-27T13:33:00.000-05:00

Too Much Good News

There is so much good news from Iraq, that there is NO NEWS !!

What that means, is that there is not enuff BAD NEWS from Iraq to push on us, that no news gets reported..

But how long do you thank thats gonna last ?? You can bet your sweet ass that it wont last long until the media finds somethin to piss and moan about !!

The media bashed the Bush Admin. into the ground about there not bein enuff military gains in Iraq, while the (D)s in Congress obstructed and delayed any effert to increase manpower and equipment to make that happen..

IN SPITE of the (D)s, the Surge happened and military gains have been made, on a LARGE scale, and since then the (D)s have drummed on about the failures of the Iraqi Leadership while they kissed on Assad of Syria's ass so much that they gave him a Lipstick Rash !!

Now Iraqi Leadership is comin around and gainin organisation and so what are the (D)s and the media gonna harp on next, you reckon ??

Best I can figger, is that RECONSTRUCTION is gonna be the next big thang that gets beaten on.. Not enuff hospitals.. Not enuff schools.. Not enuff parks.. Not enuff electricity.. Not enuff McDonalds.. Not enuff Starbucks.. Not enuff cigarette taxes.. Not enuff Gun Control.. Too much obesity.. Too much Talk Radio..

NO WONDER THE SUNZABITCHES ARE SO FUGGIN SCARED OF DEMOCRACY !!

COPYKATS

2007-09-27T13:23:00.000-05:00

Not Bad For A HICK REDNECK !!

I know the news SUCKS, and I wouldnt blame you a bit if you havent, but, just on the chance, have you been keepin track of the Headlines lately ??

Have you seen whats been news concernin Bush and The Hildebeast ??

Drudge headlines said "Bush Advisin Hillary and Democrats"..

So, what advice did G.W. give em, huh ?? He gave em caution to watch what stance they took on Iraq in the campaign cause there may be some thangs that they find out if elected and may not be able to fulfill their promises.. In other words, dont make promises that you caint keep cause you dont know the whole story..

This past Sunday The Hildebeast was doin the Talkin Head programs and when asked what she was gonna do about some situation if she was elected, she said she couldnt make the call cause she wadnt "privy" to info that would be needed to make it..

You may recall that durin one of the discusions that me and Dora had a coupla weeks ago bout Blackhawk Down and Somalia, she asked me what I would have done, and I said I couldnt make that call cause I wadnt privy to the info I would have needed to make that call..

I'm tellin you that D.C. is readin this blog and copyin me !!

Hello President Bush.. I hear you are gonna be movin to Dallas after you get out.. Wanna go hog huntin with me sometime ?? Just dont brang Cheney with you !! snicker snicker

The State Of The Moh-Rons

2007-09-24T15:41:00.000-05:00

Where Is The Sheepdog

The Wolf is wanderin around New York and most of the Sheep and the Sheepdog seem to thank thats all right.. In fact, a bunch of the Sheep are gonna get together and listen to the Wolf try to justify why he is killin the Sheep..

And these are some of the very same Sheep that go completely batshit spaz over somebody sayin that there is a difference between the Male and Female brain and demand that they be banished from American Society and forced to pay reparations ..

Folks, does it, or is it, gonna get any more insane than this ??

The other day right before Act-Mad raced to catch his plane to the U.S., he was at a military parade in Iran where they showed placards and missles with "DEATH TO ISRAEL" and "DEATH TO AMERICA" on em..

These very same Sheep at Columbia that have INVITED Act-Mad on their stage are the ones that have banned ROTC and Military Recruiters from campus and would rather eat large doses of rat poison than see Bush, Cheney, or Rove give a talk on the same stage..

People, these Sheep happen to make up somewhere around 30 percent of our population and would rather see ANYBODY BUT BUSH leadin our country, includin Act-Mad or any of the other tyrants around the world today..

Scary aint it ??

But there really is no workable options available to us to remedy the Sheep..

If we took up Arms against em we would also face the Gubmint and Military in doin it.. Our only option is gonna be to hunker in our bunker and let the Sheep eat each other and when our enemies come to claim their conquest of a weakened country and the Gubmint and Military are busy with them then we can come out and see if we can save and rebuild our country and our society, if possible..

Like I said, SCARY !!

You would thank that somewhere among the Sheep there would be someone smart enuff to have already figgered this out and that their grand idea of a Socialist Utopia based on some nonexistant EU Xanadu JUST AINT GONNA HAPPEN and would be sharin their discovery..

Obviously I'm givin the Sheep a little more credit for logic and commom sense than they are capable of !!

But thats The State Of The Union as I see it today..

I Was Wrong Again

2007-09-24T15:25:00.000-05:00

I Thank I Over Reacted

A few posts ago I said that the attacks on our Military and Gen. Petraeus was gonna be the biggest disaster this country had ever seen.. It now looks like I'm gonna be proven wrong on that one, and I caint say I'm sad to see it..

In some examples I've seen that the attacks did do grave damage to the Troops morale and resolve.. But the deterioration hasnt formed on a scale of what I feared..

I underestimated the Troops ability to filter out the bullshit and their resolve to see the Mission proceed to completion, and for that I'm very very sorry..

Obviously the Media and their minions have had an affect on my thinkin and rationale in my perceptions.. And I have admitted before that I suffer from occasional mental lapses..

So before anybody tries to chisel-in-stone what they see me say here or make Gospel out of it, just remember that I can get it wrong too and sometimes react from The Heart and not The Mind.. But whether the mind is willin or not, the heart is always here !!

I LOVE THE TROOPS, past and present, and it really hits me hard when I see em attacked by their own fellow citizens and their own Leaders.. And I believe that such OFFENSE should be punishable by CAPITAL PUNISHMENT !! As in, HANG THE SUNZABITCHES !!

Who Would/Could Stop Me ?

2007-09-20T23:13:00.000-05:00

For the last coupla weeks Glenn Beck has been talkin bout "The Perfect Day" where the dirtbags kill a bunch of kids and people at American schools..

He says the aim of the dirtbags is to get Americans mad enuff to start goin house-to-house and door-to-door killin Mooselimbs and creatin a Holy War with the Mooselimbs World Wide..

Would it work ??

I'd get mad enuff, but we dont have any Mooselimbs here to go after !! But if we did, I just wonder, could somebody stop me from my rampage ?? I dont know who it would be cause there aint anybody on the Law Enforcement here that could.. But I figger thats pretty well what its gonna be like most everywhere..

So, if the Mooselimbs pull it off at the schools, and we eradicate a bunch of em, and a Holy War starts, is the Gubmint and the Military gonna have the balls to finish the job ??

The Pentagon has plans for just about any situation that military force is called for, but do the have a plan for Holy War ?? The Mooselimbs do !!

All About Advice

2007-09-19T13:33:00.000-05:00

Advice

If you thank that I only get into heated discussions with liberals here, you are mistaken..

I've been involved in a pissin contest on my Yahoo Group too.. IMAGINE THAT !!

Its left me wonderin bout a few thangs.. Mainly, Sage Old Advice..

All my life I've enjoyed sittin and listenin to the OLD FOLK'S stories and advice on life.. Those Revelations On Life have served me well durin the years and no doubt have saved my life a time or two..

But I keep goin back to somethin that I was told once..

"If you have been doin somethin the same way for the last 20 years, then chances are, you are doin it wrong today" !!

For longer than 20 years I have taken some advice to heart that I was given, and have tried to follow it.. That advice has come into question now and I'm wonderin if it is still as relevent today as it has been in the past..

Many Many years ago I was told that the fastest way to lose a friend was loan/borrow MONEY to/from one.. I've tested this theory a few times, and once a few years ago, and it still proves true.. But I'm wonderin if its worth the risk of losin a friend by gettin money involved ??

Another issue I've been given advice on, is to not get involved in other peoples Family Matters/Disputes.. My daddy was a 2-term Texas Sherrif and my brother retired after over 30 years as a Beat Cop/Ass. Chief./Chief of Police, and both said that a family dispute was the nastiest, most dangerous, and most dreaded call that they ever got.. My question is, IF/WHEN is a person OBLIGATED to get involved in somebody elses Family Matters ??

I'm not talkin bout the Personal Choice to get involved here, but the OBLIGATION to ..

This issue is weighin real heavy on my mind.. There are other factors involved too, one of which is the harsh and critical response I've had towards the liberals lately.. But I'm just sick-to-death of the liberals shirkin the fault and responsibility of their own actions and tryin to put the blame for it on anybody but themselves !!

The attack on Gen. Petreaus and the Iraqi Leadership the last coupla weeks has almost sent me over the edge, and I'm havin doubts about whether I even need to be postin and commentin here or on my Yahoo Group with the GOTDAM RAGE and CONTEMPT I'm feelin !!

Have I gotten so fuckin mean and angry that I need to take a breather and stay away and just keep my vile attitude and thoughts to myself ??

People should already have a good idea that if they go to a Redneck Blog that chances are they are gonna get to see a Redneck Attitude in action, but what I've had lately has gone WAY ABOVE a Redneck Attitude..

I aint proud of the way I've acted lately, but I aint ashamed of it either.. No matter how docile and calm an animal is, if you poke it with a stick or use the whip on it enuff, its eventually gonna get ahold of you, and it aint right to put the blame entirely on the animal, if at all..

I've been accused of creatin a "Jerry Springer" atmosphere recently, and that aint what I want.. But some folks say that is what makes it fun and interestin to be around where I post and comment.. Sadly, I aint been so fun and interestin lately.. But if I dont take a break and go IN-ACTIVE for a while and people with sticks and whips keep comin at me, I'm still gonna keep growlin and lungin at the end of my chain !!

I aint gonna say that its gonna make any difference, but if somebody that is thankin a little clearer than I am has some advice I'll definetely take it into consideration..

The Line Has Been Crossed

2007-09-16T16:47:00.000-05:00

This is from Hugh Hewitt's blog(in the blogroll) and its what I was referin to in my last post..

Hello to all,
I have had an exciting week and have had some different experiences. I again had an opportunity to accompany some DV trips off the Camp VIctory Compound and see some more of Iraq and some of my former Cadets. On Wednesday I took a helo to Taji and had an opportunity to see the base where my son William was stationed when he was here in 2003. The change is amazing. many repaired buildings, hard trailers for living quarters a huge new dining facility. That is a far cry from when William was there living in bombed out buildings with no showers and eating MREs for meals. On Saturday I was able to go and see my former Cadet who was wounded. He is fine, in great spirits and continueing his important work. Our soldiers are resiliant and hard working. He did not drop a beat in his contribution to the war effort. Later that day I went and saw another former Cadet on his compound. He is working hard and in great spirits even in light of his living conditions which are the bare minimum on his newly created base. He is living in a tent with 12 other soldiers and existing in a sea of 6 inch deep dust. But he is charging on and preforming his duties cheerfully. These are two of the great dedicated soldiers that are out here fighting the war and trying to keep it away from home. I owe them very much and will take them to dinner when I see them at home. I am very proud of them. So far I have been able to see 3 of the 5 Cadets that I have out here.
Now I would like to talk about the politicalization of the Military. First let me explain that every member of the Armed Forces takes an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Not to suppport any party, office or person. We take that oath very seriously so much so that the oath I took 34 years ago at UCLA is still important to me, very real, and drives my actions. I am always under that oath. It is one of the reasons I came back on active duty and deployed to Iraq.
We soldiers have political views but they have no place in the preformance of our duty. We serve under the President and it does not matter what we think of that president or what party he is from. We execute his orders and take direction from him as the Commander and Chief through the Secretary of Defense. That is how the Constitution is set up. Those civilians give us our marching orders. However we are not political spokesmen for the President or for any political party. We speak our minds and then take our orders and execute them. Hopefully those orders are in line with our assesments and the operations we prefer. But if not we execute anyway.
GEN Petraeus developed a strategy sometime last year to handle the terrorism in Iraq, to reduce the violence and control the nation. That strategy came out of his indepth study of insurgency and his development of the new US Army Counter Insurgency Manual. He discussed that strategy with the Congress during his confirmation hearings and Congress overwhelming confirmed him, to include Harry Ried and Hillery Clinton. That strategy was in line with the President's ideas on how to defeat the terrorists. Congress gave GEN Petraeus the mandate to report back to them on the progress of the war. He asked for some time to see how the surge developed and how successful it would be. The date was set for Sept.
Well the surge is definately working. I read all the data the intell reports and listen to many of the briefings. GEN Petraeus is out among the Divisions, units and soldiers daily he has a better grasp of what is happening in Iraq then any other person in the US. He reports what he sees and knows. However for purly political reasons Congressmen, Senators, news persons and political committees like MOVE ON.ORG choose to call this wartime Commander a LIAR. By extension they call all of us liars. The CG (Commanding General) is reporting the situation, he is not cooking the books or distorting the situation. The surge is working. We are not spokesmen for the administration nor flunkies for the President ...
We serve you, we report what we see, we live in difficult circumstances and only want to win and get back home. We do not like being targets and being away from our families but we know what both the cost of war is and also the result of war, both to win and to lose. Yet we fight and none of us are crying to come home. We want to finish this war by wining and giving Iraq a democratic future and killing AL Qaeda. Yet MoveOn.org in a disgusting display calls the CG a traitor. Do the Democrats who take money from MoveOn distance themselves from that ad? NO...
The militray, one of the most trusted and apolitical institutions in the Nation, has been disrespected by a political party using an institution (Congress) that at this point in time has a lower poll rating then the President. If we are to be disrespected by them for doing our job and reporting honestly as required by Congress then we may at some point in time be forced to take sides in the political debate. Do you really want us to be political. Ads like Move on.org do untold damage to the image and professionalism of the military by saying that we already have taken sides. We all take it personally. If you dont repudiate both the disgusting ad and those who support it we will find a military prone to take sides in political battles. I know many who don't agree with the war will discount what I say and my position on the course of the war. However I am in a position to know what I am talking about. I won't tell the lawers how to work the law, or doctors how to operate, but I am an experienced soldier at war in the war zone in an office next to the CG. I know what I am talking about.
The Democrats had expected 6 months ago to hear a negative report in Sep and then attack the President for his failed war policy. When that did not happen they did not know what to do so they attacked the messanger and have done irrepairable damage to the military. Don't forget, we dont go to "die in" demonstrations in Washington we are out here really dying for you, for freedom, for the United States, and we are not asking to come home. We are asking for you to let us win this.
Well enough I am beginning to sound a little too serious. Actually we try to keep it light out here as to take ourselves too serious can also be dangerous. Thank you all again for reading through this long post. It is important, at least we think so.

Marc
Fighting Irish War Dog
ROAD

comment: How long do you thank this country would stay free, if the ones fightin to keep it free, QUIT ??

And how many attacks on American Soil by the Mooselimbs do you thank it would take for the Military to come lookin for Democrat Heads after the Military were forced to withdraw from Iraq on such bullshit as was thrown out by the (D)s and MoveOn this last week ??

And if the (D)s persist in their attacks on the Military, how long do you thank its gonna be before the Troops start to have Partisan conflict among themselves ??

Any ONE of these would be catastrophic and is not far enuff out of the realm of possibility to suit me..

And here is a little refresher that I saved from Poweline(also in the blogroll) that expresses the sentiment from the (D)s.. Without the prize of power, the (D)s would be perfectly willin to see this country destroyed..

I have a friend who, in a phone conversation last weekend, said the unsayable. Come to think of it, this friend makes a specialty of saying the unsayable. That is one reason he is invaluable.
He said, “The Democrats have to win in 2008 — I mean, the whole enchilada: House, Senate, and presidency.” You ought to know that my friend is a staunch conservative Republican. “Why?” I said. “Why do they have to win?” He answered, “Because that’s the only way they will be fully onboard the War on Terror. They won’t fully support it otherwise, because they will always be trying to trip up the Republicans. If you want the Democrats onboard the War on Terror, they have to be in charge. Period.”

A dark, dark proclamation. And redolent of ol’ Joe, the one from Wisconsin. I am not entirely convinced of its wrongness, however.

What MoveOn said and the Democrat's agreement with is gonna lead to the destruction of our Military and leave us fightin for our existence in our own streets !!

The Democrats are against America and our Military, and that makes them my ENEMY !!

A Day Of Disgrace

2007-09-10T21:00:00.000-05:00

Its all I can do not to just break down in sobs !!

The damage the (D)s did to their Party, the Institution of Congress, the Military, and all of America today amounts to the greatest disaster this country has ever seen..

How can you fix somethin this FUCKED UP without first tearin it completely down and rebuildin the whole gotdam thang ??

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

RT's Been Stealin My Material

2007-09-09T16:34:00.000-05:00

Thats really just a joke, but a post of mine that was meant for here showed up over at Redneck's Revenge(top of the blogroll) yesterday, where I also contribute, and I had a follow-up post that I put up over there today also..

Is it just the places I visit or has the whole .net gotten slow lately ?? Even Drudge has been slow bout updatin his site and most blogs are a week behind..

I used to have to sit here half the nite readin all my sites I usually go to, and lately I have been huntin new sites to get some readin material.. It aint been cause of a lack of stuff to write about either.. There is a swirl of news out there that aint gettin passed on but I guess people are just wantin to follow MSM's lead and pound on the same ol shit day-after-day or not post at all..

But I'm gettin over my CRUD now and feelin better and it no longer sounds like a TB Clinic in here, so I spect I'll be doin more postin here.. Its supposed to be coolin off here this next week and that usually means that I get the "bakin" bug and start lookin at stuff to go in the oven.. No doubt that I'll find somethin I'll wanna post here too.. I already have a few recipes in mind..

But if you get to "jonsin" for one of my posts and dont find it here, check over at RT's and see if he's done stole some more of my posts !! snicker snicker

A BRAIN-DRAIN

2007-09-07T19:31:00.000-05:00

I was outside workin in the yard yesterday when my scooter had a TOTAL electrical system melt-down !!

It HAD an electric brake on it but it overheated and fried and set the whole damn bunch of wires under me to smokin and meltin.. So I started grabbin wires and yankin em loose and pullin em off the batteries and finally got the whole thang disconnected beofre it started blazin..

The electric brake is completely fried and I took it off and spent this afternoon puttin $50 worth of new wires, switches, and solenoids on the scooter.. I had to start from SCRATCH too.. From the batteries to the switches to the solenoids to the motor, but I just got it all put back together and it has been a puzzle of major proportion..

Dont know what I'm gonna do for a brake now, but I'll thank about that after I give my brain a rest.. And on top of that, everybody in our whole house has come down with a summer head and chest cold.. I magine its the same thang that everybody else has been passin around.. Our's dont seem to be as severe as what some folks have desribed.. Some said they got over their's in a day or two while others said it lasted a month..

Right now I'm mentally exhausted and and just dont have the energy to get excited over anythang and thro a big rant at it..

Who Will Fill The Shoes ??

2007-09-06T18:34:00.000-05:00

I Was An Admirer Too

I do have a touch of culture in me, I just dont let it out much.. Luciano Pavarotti made it hard for me to keep it on the inside tho and I would have to let it out..

I never saw him in person and only listened to him on records and radio and I do have one CD that he and Celine Dion do a duet on.. I've never heard him on one of those Super-Duper sound systems, but his performances didnt require it.. The PASSION and EMOTION carried well thru just about any means of reproduction..

When he sang he had my undivided attention..

He was a very gifted Artiste and shared his gift.. But the gift is now silent and the voice stilled and another Magnanimous Icon has gone away from us..

Heah, Divo.. Be sure to tell Bob Wills and Stevie Ray Vaughn that Wild Bill says "HI" and that I miss em, just as I'm gonna miss you..

S.N.A.F.U.

2007-09-04T15:25:00.000-05:00

Not Movin Very Fast Today

Like I said last nite, its been an eventful weekend and Holiday !!

I've got a little ditch that runs from under the drip line of the carport out the back door and down the side of the house and out thru the front yard to the street.. It keeps the rain from backin up and runnin under the house.. Its been siltin in and has needed cleanin out for a while now.. The last time I did it was when hurricane Rita was headed this way.. That was right after Katrina too..

So I've been tillin and haulin the dirt from the ditch to over in my empty lot next door to try and have a small garden over there next year, if I'm still here.. And I'm makin it a little wider and deepenin it by about 4 inches too.. Its a LOT of dirt to move tho usin my scooter and a little Red Wagon I've fixed to hook on the back of my scooter..

The long trek from the ditch to the lot takes a lot of juice out of my batteries on the scooter and I have to stop and rest and re-charge the batteries pretty often.. That gives me time to sit under my little hickory tree and have a few coldbeers and that also means that I have a lot of company stop by to sit and visit..

One of my visitors has been an old friend that is C.R.A.Z.Y. !! Certifiable.. He has been sent down to the Nut-House and spent time down there and then was sent to prison for 6 years too.. His wife had left him and taken the kid with her and he went nuts again and was gonna kill himself and held the cops off in a stand-off and they sent him to the Pen for 6 years for it.. He's been back for several months and he aint gotten much of his sanity back.. Still NUTS !!

But I have known the fella since he was just out of diapers and we have had a lot of contact with each other over the years thru buildin Hot Rods and Street Racin and partyin, but we aint ever really run-around together..

I went nuts for a few years too when my ex left and took our baby away with her, so I can understand him on that point and have a small amount of sympathy for him, but sometimes I feel that he is enjoyin it a little more than he should..

So him and a coupla more that stopped by explains the CRAZY PEOPLE I was talkin bout, and of coarse Oscar and Felix.. BTW.. Felix is out of jail and is lookin for a new place to live now, but his attitude is a lot different now and his Mama had him come over and apologize to us..

My neighbors behind us, the ones that thro trash over the fence are the WILD NEIGHBORS I was referin to.. They had a non-stop party that started Thursday nite and ended sometime after midnite last nite.. I'm talkin bout a P.A.R.T.A.A. too !! 50 people, loud music, fuggin kids runnin thru-over-under-in everythang and screamin at the top of the lungs the whole time from daylite till after midnite.. But the most irritatin thang bout em was that some BIG FAT BITCH must have gotten a new truck that had the loudest fuggin alarm on it that I have ever heard, and she made a million trips to that damn truck and kept that damn alarm goin off bout every 5 or 10 minutes..

Lord Bless Miss Minnie Pearls heart .. That bunch of HEATHENS was right behind her house and kept her stirred up all thye time, but I got her out and put her on her chain out under the hickory tree with me most of the time.. I thank me AND her deserve some time at the farm lettin our nerves settle back down and gettin our blood pressure back within a safe range !!

Yesterday evenin we(me, the Mrs., the crazy guy, and a coupla other friends) were sittin out under the hickory tree havin a coldbeer and talkin when all of a sudden there was cops, all kindsa cops, comin out of the woodwork SWARMIN the whole neighborhood and this side of town !! Lights but no siren goin and racin up one street and down another.. A neighbor from behind us on the east side(not the trashy ones) walked up the street and the Mrs. walked out to talk to her and she said she heard on the Poleece Radio that shomebody had been shot and they were tryin to find the shooter and he was in our area..

The 2 friends got scared and left and went home and I stepped in and put my pistol in my overalls and went back out and we sat there some more till we heard from the neighbor again and she said the shootin was in a field out behind where the crazy man is stayin so he went to check his place and I had a few more coldbeers and finally came in the house too.. I still aint heard any more bout it tho..

That explains the shootin..

While I was out workin on the ditch yesterday mornin I put a pork roast on to smoke and the Mrs. did the honor of makin us a big pot of pintos and smoked pork roast with it.. The beans came out hard and the roast cooked all to pieces but they sure do taste good so they will get et anyway.. So thats the cookin part..

Thangs have got a little more back to normal round here today.. Just the NORMAL CHAOS to deal with..

I'm stiff and sore and hurtin like hell from the diggin and haulin dirt and my ass is blistered from sittin on that hot plastic scooter seat all weekend so I'm havin a calm leisure day today.. But I sure would like to get my chores caught up here at the house so me and Miss Minnie Pearl could go to the farm and do the leisure thang right soon !! Restin here at home is all right but it dont give the Total Relaxation like squirmin down into my big thick cotton mattress on my army cot at the farm does..

We are lookin at bout a 60 percent chance of rain here for the next coupla days and that means I dont have any idea how much of my chores are gonna get done, and whether my bad shoulder is gonna heal enuff to let me do anythang anyway.. But I've got a big pot of beans and smoked pork roast and gonna make a skillet of cornbread and I'm gonna stuff my big ass and finish that 6-pak of coldbeer thats left from the weekend in some frosty mugs and the neighbors and the crazy people and cops and the shooters can all just SUCK OL BUCK !!

So how was ya'll's weekend ??

It's Been Crazy !!

2007-09-03T20:50:00.000-05:00

I aint even gonna try to explain it all.. It involves neighbors GONE WILD.. Shootins.. Crazy people.. Lotsa coldbeer.. Cookin.. Hard work.. Cops runnin everywhere.. And I'm TIRED !!

Calgon, TAKE ME AWAY !!

I Love Taters Too

2007-09-02T16:44:00.000-05:00

I like taters fixed just about any way they can be done.. But I guess my favorite is sliced and diced and fried with some onions and peppers in a big cast iron skillet.. A big pile of em on a plate with a drizzle of Ranch Dressin and I'm a Happy Camper !!

Here are a few other ways to fix em tho that you may not have seen and wish you had seen..

Cajun Fried Potatoes Recipe

Yield: 1 Servings
4 lg White potatoes, unpared, -scrubbed -Boiling, salted water
1/2 ts Salt
1/4 ts Ground white pepper
1/4 ts Ground black pepper
1/4 ts Onion powder
1/4 ts Garlic powder
1/8 ts Ground cumin
1/8 ts Ground cayenne pepper
About 2 c. oil, for frying

Cut the potatoes into 1" cubes. Add to boiling salted water. Cook just until fork tender but not mushy, about 7 minutes Drain and cool.
Meanwhile, in a bowl, combine the salt, peppers, onion and garlic power, cumin and cayenne pepper. Add the potatoes to the spices. Toss to coat all pieces evenly. You may do this much in advance and hold the potatoes as long as an hour before completing the dish.
Heat about 1" oil in a wok or deep skillet to about 350 degrees or until a piece of potato sizzles when added to the oil. Add the potatoes. Fry until golden brown on all sides, turning frequently. Remove from fat, drain and serve immediately.

You can serve these Cajun Fried Potatoes with ham and cornbread to make a tasty meal.

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Cracker Barrel's Hashbrown Casserole

Ingredients: 2 lbs. frozen hashbrowns
1/2 cup melted butter
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 pt. sour cream
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 cups grated cheddar
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 cups crushed cornflakes
1/4 cup melted butter Cooking Instructions: DEFROST hashbrowns.

COMBINE next 7 ingr. and mix with hashbrowns.

PUT all in a 3 qt. casserole.

SAUTE cornflakes in butter and sprinkle on top.

COVER and BAKE at 350 for about 40 min.

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Apricot-Glazed Pork with Potatoes and Cabbage

Make this one-dish wonder of a meal in less than half an hour. Tender pork loin glazed with apricot preserves and speckled with paprika; cooked and served on the same platter with cabbage and potatoes.

1 medium onion, peeled and thinly sliced
1 teaspoon butter
3 cups shredded cabbage
1 pound boneless pork loin roast, thinly sliced
1 pound potatoes, scrubbed and cut into matchsticks
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 cup apricot jam
1 tablespoon brown mustard
1/2 teaspoon paprika

Place onion and butter on a large, microwave-safe platter. Microwave, uncovered, on HIGH for 1 to 2 minutes or until the onion is slightly softened. Add cabbage; toss to coat. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, turning back one edge to vent; microwave on HIGH for 2 to 3 minutes or until the cabbage is soft. Push the cabbage mixture to the center and arrange pork strips decoratively around it. Place potatoes in a ring outside the pork. Season vegetables, pork and meat with salt and pepper.
In a small bowl combine apricot jam, brown mustard and paprika. Drizzle over the pork. Microwave, covered, for 10 to 12 minutes or until the pork is no longer pink and the potatoes are tender.
Makes 4 servings.

Cooking Tip: Thin slices make this meal possible to cook quickly in the microwave. A 'matchstick' in this case is 1/8 x 1/8 x 2-inch long shape, the classic julienne.

A Sordid Tale

2007-09-01T23:15:00.000-05:00

I have a coupla neighbors, who I'll call Felix and Oscar.. If you are thinkin along the lines of The Odd Couple you would be correct.. Oscar is Mescan descent born in America and Felix is black.. They got cross-wised today and Felix decided to vent his frustrations by gettin violent and Oscar came out in the front yard and saw me and the Mrs. outside and asked us to call the cops for him..

They showed up and inspected the blood and wounds on Oscar and took Felix to jail to cool till Monday.. After that we got Oscar to come over and sit and have a few coldbeers with us and talk..

Seems that Felix is gonna be lookin for a new place to live when he gets out Monday, and we found out that Oscar has Depression Tendencies, so I have been keepin an eye on him this evenin..

We talked Oscar into goin down to the Tex-Mex Cafe I was talkin bout the other day and he loved their food and its a comfort to him to get food here that he is accustomed to gettin in San Antone where he is from.. And so we got some food in him and convinced him that the best place for Felix is in the jail where he caint hurt himself or anybody else..

It got dark and we all moved to our own respective indoors and then a little bit ago I noticed that Oscar had come outside and was listenin to some kinda sad music on his car stereo, which the big stink was over Felix throwin Oscar's indoor CD player and ruinin it.. So I went over and sat and had a coupla more coldbeers with him and talkin some more and then he went to see if he could talk to some of Felix's relatives to get em to come and get his shit from the house before he got out of jail Monday..

Now, roommate squabbles aint nothin new and I wouldnt even thank bout postin somethin like this if there wadnt a point I wanted to make in doin it.. So, here is my point..

You see, Oscar is a conservative that worked to make ends meet and finally got an entry-level job at Exxon and made a hand for em em and worked himself up in position and when his facility shut down he got a cushy severence package and he invested it and instead of takin a lump sum he gets a regular monthly dividend while the rest still draws interest.. He likes this area and with his Exxon income and with no debts for car or morgage he can take one of the lower payin jobs available here and still live a modest life and be happy..

Felix on the other hand is a liberal and has sponged off his family and friends and has only recently even gotten his own car.. He lives paycheck-to-paycheck workin as a stocker at the Dollar Store and spends most of that runnin up and down the streets and wont even go to interviews for a better payin job.. But since he caint seem to live within his means and since Oscar has this nice extra income it falls on Oscar to pay all the rent, all the utilities, and buy all the food.. Because its not his fault that he pisses all his money away and dont have anythang to contribute..

But aint all us taxpayers in pretty much the same situation ?? How many of our taxpayers dollars have gone to buy those thumpers that have irritated us durin the day and kept us awake at night !! How many car payments you reckon that we have made for those cars with the flashy wheels and new paint job ?? How many bottles of booze or viles of crack you reckon our money has payed for ??

I caint go on without completely losin my cool, but I'm tired of these sunzabitches livin LARGE on my DIME while bitchin bout the waitin line at the bank to cash their checks !!

Cast Iron Cookin

2007-08-31T16:40:00.000-05:00

Cowboy Venison Swiss Steak recipe

1 1/2 pounds venison steak
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon garlic salt
3 tablespoons butter
3 onions
1 stalk celery, diced
1 cup tomato sauce or beef bouillon
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

Trim fat from meat and cut into serving size pieces.

Mix flour, salt, pepper, garlic salt and pound into steak.

Melt butter and brown meat. Add remaining ingredients, cover and simmer or bake at 325 degrees F for 2 hours, or until tender.

Harvest Time

2007-08-30T18:53:00.000-05:00

I've talked a lot about food here and now I seem to be gettin a LOT of recipe and food searches that lead folks here..

But its harvest time and time for the County Fairs to kick off and people are gettin in the mood to do some cookin and join in the festivities that are takin place everywhere and the weather is coolin off some, in places, and that tends to increase the appetite too..

I'm also spendin more time outside and at the farm myself and dont have time to keep a close eye on all the news, and most of it seems to be BULLSHIT anyway, so, I plan to do a little recipe postin and talk a little more bout my favorite bad habit.. FOOD !!

I plan on postin recipes and talkin bout food that most of us can, and do, cook.. And I know that several of you that visit here have weekend getaways and gatherins in your back yards too, just like I do.. So I plan to have some stuff that you can fix ahead of time and pack in a cooler and take with you so you can enjoy your time relaxin or doin what you usually do when you get to that "slice of heaven" instead of cookin and washin and cleanin..

I'm a firm believer in aluminum foil in my cookin !! Specially when at the farm or deer camp.. I wrap enuff stuff in each pouch for 1 person to make a meal on and freeze it(saves on ice in the cooler) and then by Day-3 I dont even need to thaw it to be ready to cook it..

I dont know bout ya'll, but I have the damndest time with people just showin up at meal time and wantin somethin to eat.. Sure is nice to just reach in the cooler and take out more of those foil pouches and puttin em on the fire with the rest of em..

Life dont have to be complicated.. Sometimes we just make it that way..

The writin on the wall tells me that our GOOD DAYS may be numbered, so why dont we try and enjoy em while they last.. And the best way I know to have a good time starts with somethin good to eat..

Dammit, ENUFF !!

2007-08-27T17:15:00.000-05:00

I have heard about Michael Vick till I'm bout to PUKE !!

He has admitted his guilt and is supposed to be sentenced today, but do ya'll realize that the man is most likely gonna get a sentence harsher than a lot of people do that have been convicted of rape, robbery, and sometimes even murder ??

The man is involved in a brutal and violent sport FOR A LIVIN, and has been made an idol and star from bein on the Grid Iron where 300+ pound men run at each other and see how hard they can hit each other..

Millions of people glue themselves to the TV each week of football season to watch this stuff too.. Its SPORT.. SO IS DOG FIGHTIN !!

I dont care for Sports much.. I used to like Women's Beach Volleyball, but I didnt like it for the sport so much as I did just lookin at the players.. But I dont really have a problem with other people gettin caught up in the rivalry.. The fanatics and the Sports Junkies irritate the shit outta me tho.. They disgust me cause they know every fuggin stastic of all the players yet dont know shit bout their job or their kid's school or teachers or even their wife and kid's shoe sizes or when the registration is due on the vehicle they drive every day !!

And I dont mind dog fightin either, but I dont like the Michael Vick version of it.. Dogs that are used for fightin are vicious animals and thats what they do.. THEY FIGHT !! I dont like the torture and killin of the dogs when they are losers tho..

But people are goin apeshit over Vick tho.. What really chaps my ass bout it, is that a bunch of the people that thank Vick should HANG for his actions, are the same stupid assholes that wanna pull out of Iraq and let the MASS MUDER begin of 100's-of-thousands of PEOPLE !! HUMANS !!

THAT just aint right, Folks !!

That makes bout as much sense as these dumbasses that join the Military, in the middle of War Time, to get a $25,000 to $35,000 enlistment bonus and then wanna commit suicide when they get orders to go to Iraq or The Stan !! Total mindless morons that should have all possibilty of Procreatin, Drivin Priviledges, and Votin Rights removed.. But, unfortunately, this is the same kinda people that are in charge of runnin our Gubmint and makin and enforcin our Laws !!

So, whenever people start trashin the cut-and-run-from-Iraq crowd, is when I'll start trashin Michael Vick ..Till then I just want these stupid sunzabitches to Shut The Fuck Up !!

For The Last Time

2007-08-26T20:57:00.000-05:00

I hope this will be the last post bout the peecan tree.. It aint a peecan tree no more !! Its now officially a fuggin LOG..

It burnt off at the ground and I pushed it over yesterday and I've got it burnin at both ends and there is a chunk bout 5 feet long and 3 feet around now thats left..

I know ya'll are tired of hearin bout the damn thang and I'm tired of the thang out there burnin for the last 2 months(almost).. I've been burnin on that thang since June 5th when the top fell out of it and have had a fire goin on it since then, minus just a few days.. I just wonder how many call the fire dept. has gotten bout somebody smellin smoke ??

Me and the Mrs. and the Kid took a ride on some backroads today.. Looks like the hunters are startin to move in and set up their camps.. I've been seein a lot go by on the street lately.. Must have been a good year for em cause the Class of campers and trailers has improved.. Not as many blue tarps this year.. I've seen a little bit better Class of 4 wheeler this year too..

With the rain we had this year the deer should be grass fat and not grain-fed like the past few years.. The cattlemen havent had to feed bought feed like the drought years.. The deer do a lot of feedin from the cattle feeders too.. But grass-fat is good for me too..

I'm seriously thankin bout bustin up a spot to put a patch of wheat or rye in the back corner of the farm close to the bus.. But I thank I would rather just sour some grain when I get ready to get me a hog.. If they get used to comin up regular they will only hang around and root-up the pasture too.. If I just sour some grain and put it back there when I wanna kill one, they can smell it for a long distance and will come to it anyway.. The deer run all over the place all year anyway and if I mow a path thru they will follow it and I can mow it thru up closer to the bard and just sit in camp and hunt deer while sippin my coffee and eatin and cookin..

They get used to the smoke and smells of me and the camp and I've had em come up to within 30 feet of my camp while I was sittin and sippin my mornin coffee and warmin by the fire.. But I've been out squirrel huntin and the wind come up and I took a nap to wait and see if the wind would lay and woke up with a 6 point buck smellin of my boots. And I've had em sneak up right behind me while I was payin attention to my favorite squirrel nest and the sunzabitch would snort and scare the shit outta me..

So, I guess the peecan tree is gonna be history now and huntin and campin is gonna take its place here in these pages.. Hope you aint dissappointed.. snicker snicker

America Goin Redneck !!

2007-08-24T13:46:00.000-05:00

I know that some of you have your reservations bout vigilantism. but I aint thru talkin bout it yet.. And it seems that the subject is gettin a lot of attention around the .net and the Talk Radio circles too lately and since I talked about it here..

Since I talk about stuff and then I hear or see it in other more popular places, it makes me wonder if there aint somebody monitorin this blog for ideas cause I've noticed this happenin a bunch of times in the past coupla years, or maybe, I'm just ahead of the "curve" !!

Today I tuned my radio to the channel that I usually listen to Rush on and I had forgotten that Rush is takin a day off and he had Walter Williams fillin in for him.. Guess what Walter was talkin bout today ?? Yep, vigilantism !!

Seems that Walter is IN FAVOR of vigilantism too !! He thanks that people policin their own neighborhoods would be a GOOD THANG, just like I do.. But if you thank he is just advocatin a Crime Watch or Citizens On Patrol kinda deal you would be wrong.. His idea is that a bunch of vigilanties approach the gangs on the street corners and to tell em to get out or they will be whooped OR shot.. NO SHIT, he said that !!

Kim du Toit(blogroll) also had somethin bout this subject too the other day, as has a bunch of others.. Altho, I havent seen anybody else propose a Hangin Post on every corner, but Kim did have a sweet pic on his post and I hope he dont mind that I include it here.. It brought a big smile to my face, imagine that..

But just like me, Walter thanks that its the Gubmint's Number 1 job to PROTECT its citizens, and when it dont the citizens are bound to do it themselves..

I got a piece of news the other day that makes me uneasy.. A fella I know was up in the less policed sections of town here and got stopped on the street by a group of kids wearin blue hankies(read Crypts here) round their heads that tried to rob him and when he resisted they hit him in the face with a pistol.. Jim tends to be on the Redneck side himself and when they hit him with the pistol he spun his truck around and went after em and scattered em to the shadows !!

Several times in the last 10 years the gangs have tried to move in here and each time they got run out.. But not by the cops but by the people.. Each time they have come back they have been bigger and stronger and more violent.. Its gotten ugly gettin rid of em before, but I thank its gonna get really ugly this time..

But these gangs dont just show up, they are usually associated with somebody local that sponsors em.. I know people and have friends that will tell me what I need to know and I'll soon have a better idea of whats goin on..

Still Burnin: The Peecan Tree Saga Continues

2007-08-23T14:12:00.000-05:00

Thats right, the damn thang is still burnin.. Has been burnin for over a month now.. It'll have been burnin for 2 months before long..

I now have most of the top part burnt that fell not long ago and it has since been burnib around the bottom of the trunk down next to the ground.. It still has a fairly big part of the trunk left that is about 10 feet high but has burnt in a tapered shape that gets bigger toward the top.. If it was turned upside-down it would look like a missle..

I thought about climbin up and cleanin the ash out of the top and settin it on fire again but decided to just let it burn thru the bottom and fall over and then set the whole piece on fire on top of the rest of the stump to finish it burnin all the way down to or below ground level..

But after the peecan tree my pyro activity aint over with yet.. I've decided to go ahead and take down the cedar tree next to the peecan tree too.. The cedar was badly mangled and disfigured in the same ice storm that started the demise of the peecan tree..

But unlike the peecan tree I thank I'll just cut the cedar down.. Shouldnt take but 2 cuts to have it all the way down to the ground..

This old cedar is about 18 inches thru the center at the bottom part and I'm thankin bout takin about 12 feet of the bottom part to my cousins saw mill and havin him cut me some planks out of it.. I might wanna make somethin out of em..

But I thought ya'll might get a little kick out of knowin that that damn tree is still burnin after all this time.. But its bout to kill me smellin that thang burn all the time.. It makes me hungry when the wind blows a puff of the smoke my way.. I smelt it in the middle of the nite the other nite and I had to get up and eat a bowl of cereal before I could ever go back to sleep..

Some women opened a little Tex-Mex cafe downtown not long ago and I got the Mrs. to go down and get us a little samplin of some of the stuff they had.. It really is good too !! Not like the big restaurant a coupla blocks from here.. The big place serves "old folks" food, if you know what I mean, and the cafe has stuff with some kick to it and they leave a little of the grease in their meat dishes.. The Mrs. got a big styro servin tray of beef/chicken fajitas w/beans and rice and chips that took both of us to eat it and cost $6.95.. Best fajitas I've had in 20 years !! And I got a coupla soft tacos that couldnt be beat.. I thank I'll see if the Mrs. is up to us havin somethin else from there for dinner tomoro..

I hope that damn tree gets finished burnin before I gain back all the weight I've lost..

Chigger Bites

2007-08-22T17:56:00.000-05:00

I spent the afternnon and evenin out at the farm yesterday.. Got a lot of mowin done and sone garden work too.. But the main goal yesterday was to start gettin a huntin camp cleaned up and set up..

I got the trail mowed in all the way to the back where the bus is and around the well and the garden and the area in front of the barn and my cookin spot in front of the barn.. Looks real good now.. Next is gonna be cleanin out the barn.. AGAIN.. That is gonna be the hard part.. I got LOTS of shit that I have put in there, like windows and doors and benches and tires and lumber and fence posts and electrical wire.. Aint none of it much worth a shit, but its in there anyway.. I'll probably just use the lumber for the camp fire to keep warm.. Beats huntin up a bunch of limbs and its handy where it is..

I'm still gettin a bunch of tamaters but they are startin to get kinda small, but the taste is gettin even better now.. I took about a dozen that were golf ball to tennis ball size and put em in the tub that I use for waterin the garden and then put a buncha cold well water in there and got em chilly and had a feast on em..

For the first time this year I got a coupla chigger bites too.. Just above my ankle and the thangs sure are itchin.. Best cure that I've found for em, after they bite, is to take the cherry of a cigarette and put it close to the skin over the bite and hold it there for a coupla seconds till it stings real good.. It deadens the spot a little and makes a water blister that drowns the little bastard.. When the blister busts take some Neosporin and put on it and it'll be gone before you know it..

But if you know you are goin into Chigger Country, dust your boots and the botton part of your pants with Sulphur and you wont have em bite you in the first place !! I'll know the next time I go out there..

Bout another month and it will start coolin off in the evenins every now and then and I plan to try and talk Billy into goin out and cookin on some of those cool evenins.. He likes to go out and have a steak and taters around the camp fire too and it'll do him good to get to do it again.. Its been a while since he has done it and it'll give me some company too.. Do us BOTH good..

The Fall is my favorite time of year and it looks like I'm gonna get to spend some time out at the farm this year and that makes it even better.. Gonna do some huntin and cookin and drank a little coldbeer and enjoy a slice of life.. Wish ya'll could come join me..

Job Security: Be A Minority

2007-08-22T14:53:00.000-05:00

from: http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=2506

MOSTLY CAJUN has a post on teachers that bears some lookin into..

But when you step back and look at it, this just highlights the fact that the problem goes way past teachers and touches a lot more professions than education..

Quotas are forced on just about ALL employers.. They are also a big part in College Admissions too.. But, like Cajun shows, even if an applicant (whether in the Public Workforce or Higher Education) doesnt meet requirements, then the requirements need to be changed(LOWERED) to ACCOMODATE those with lowered knowledge and skills and work ethics..

DI-VER-SI-TY, yanno !!

What we wind up with is a workforce and schools(both student and teacher) that dont do any more than they HAVE TO !!

But how is our society supposed to survive, let alone make any advancements, when its more advantagous to hire a minority and then tell em to stay at home that they will get paid anyway, and then hire a non-minority to do the work that needs done ??

And what happens when blacks and mescans are not the minority somewhere ?? They just change the wordin in laws and regulations that deal with it so as to keep the blacks and mescans with an advantage..

Our society is not gonna be able to survive this, so the only question is, os how long its gonna take to completely destroy us ..

A New Military Parent

2007-08-20T14:16:00.000-05:00

I got a phone call from my daughter out in Phoenix bout 10 PM last night.. I thought, "OH SHIT" !! She knows to call me late when she has somethin to tell me that she dont wanna get a big fuss about.. She knows I'll have a full belly(either food or coldbeer) and will be unwillin to get all excited bout somethin before bedtime..

A lot of you may remember that back several months ago my daughter, Angela, signed up with the U.S. Navy as a Diver and was to leave on my birthday, September 25th.. She called last nite to tell me that she had gotten anxious and had requested a quicker date to begin Boot Camp and that she had got it and was leavin at daylight this mornin for Chicago..

I thank she was slow bout callin because of the fact I had some reservations bout her joinin back when she told me she had looked into it but didnt have anythang chiseled in stone yet.. But we talked a while and finally I told her that the job(Marines) she was wantin to go in for left me with a bunch of doubts about, whatever the job was, but if that is what she wanted to do I would support her in it..

She went and tested and was offered a bunch of different jobs and I thank she had listened to old Pop and did a little more research on the job she was thankin bout and had changed her mind and chose to go for the Navy as a Diver.. She LOVES water and swimmin and is stout as a linebacker and I thank she will EVENTUALLY like bein a Navy Diver..

Altho I have my doubts bout what Angela's motives behind this are, I'm still sure the desired outcome is the same point of destination: bein on her own and gettin away from her mama, and financial and benefit security.. But at no time has she expressed any feelins of Patriotism(to my dismay) about it, but I thank thats because of peer pressure and the fact that her mama is a stone-cold liberal..

But, she does have some physical limitations from some wrecks she has had.. She wiped-out 2 cars and a donorcycle(motorcycle) and has back problems and a wrist that aint at full potential.. Therapy and excercise has gotten most of it under control but she is still gonna be put to the test and may get washed-out and put into some shitty job that she aint gonna like, or given a Medical Discharge.. And THIS is what we had most of our talks of it over.. If this does happen, it aint gonna be a big surprise to her tho..

She is smart and seems very determined about what she is doin, so, if the Navy builds some confidence in her they will have a definite assett to their mission..

So ya'll join me in givin her a proud send-off and wish her well in her endeavor a New Navy Recruit..

Then watch this:

http://www.whc.net/rjones/USN/USN_team.html

Are We Communicatin With D.C. ??

2007-08-20T14:12:00.000-05:00

What We Dont Know Wont Hurt Us

Many Gubmint-Run Programs have been designed and implemented for America's security.. A bunch of em are SECRET Programs.. But they aint all that secret..

There are Boards and Committees that oversee these programs that have (R)s and (D)s on the membership list and these programs just rock along just fine till the NYT or other media decide to disclose em and then the (D)s decide that these programs infringe on Civil Liberties or are unconstitutional..

Funny how these programs can function for years without any waves but then when they are made public they suddenly are cast as an enemy of every person in the U.S. ..

Tho funny, it aint a mystery why tho.. Political Gain is behind it and the (D)s are the MASTERS of that trick.. SHAMEFUL !!

Many of the programs used today were designed and put to work by Administrations BEFORE Prez. Bush took office, but have been disclosed and come under fire SINCE G.W. took office and the WTC attacks..

Secret programs that were used and abused by Slick and The Hildebeast suddenly became dangerous and needed to be outlawed when an (R) got elected to the White House, and after 9-11, when we needed em most to help save our counrty from disaster..

After the disclosure of the FISA Program by the Media, there was wailin and knashin of teeth about it, till, the (D)s found out that was a losin proposition for them.. For all the (D)s attempts to pose FISA as a way for the Gubmint to listen in on their conversations to Granma back in the Old Country, people didnt care !! People let D.C. know that what they DID care about was that we needed our country safe, and FISA was a big part of that..

The Leadership found out just how much we cared about security when Immigration came up before em.. People let em know In-NO-Uncertain-Terms that security mattered to em and securin the Border was TOPS on the list..

So, after all the propaganda bout the FISA Program, Congress came back and gave even MORE power and secrecy to the same FISA Program that the (D)s had such a problem with before.. But even after they got THE WORD that we wanted security and fixed FISA, they still are draggin their feet on securin the Border..

But its Election Season and there is Political Gain out there to be had and that Gain is supposed to come from the immigrants.. I have a feelin we are gonna be seein a lot about immigrants in the news in the near future and that the (D)s are gonna be out there panderin to em, and whether they like it or not, the immigrants and our security are joined together at the hip !!

Illegal Immigrants are a big problem for us, and so is our security.. The more illegal immigrants we have the less security we have.. But as long as the (D)s
can pander to and exploit the illegals vote the less secure we are gonna be.. Until we secure our Border and secure the Vote, this is what we are gonna have.. When we get our Vote secure and our Border secure, then we will return to a Leadership responsible to the American People.. Until then, we will share our control over our Gubmint with any other country that can sneak as many votes, I mean people, into our country as possible..

Whether the illegals here are castin votes, or castin bombs, they are still just as dangerous to us.. Until Congress gets off its ass and does somethin bout both, we are still not safe, and they dont seem to be in any hurry to do anythang about em..

TIME is runnin out for us, Folks !!

Just Leaves Me Wonderin

2007-08-16T15:05:00.000-05:00

Since I made that last post about vigilante committees I've been to a lotta blogs and news sites where vigilantes have been mentioned and some not just in passin thoughts..

While I aint seen none of em callin for hangin posts on every corner like me, there have been a bunch that have expressed that they would have a blind-eye to any violence that befell the dirtbags in their area.. But I figger most of em already have practice at it from not wantin to get involved and just turnin their heads at other violence they have seen..

It aint much, but its a start !!

Have YOU Had Enuff Yet ??

2007-08-14T14:51:00.000-05:00

I love old Westerns !!

You know the kind I'm talkin bout.. Audie Murphy and Gabbie Hayes, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Roy and Dale, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Lee Van Cleaf(sp), Richard Boone(Paladin), Bonanza, Gun Smoke, Wagon Train, Rawhide, and all those that dealt with dirtbags with a Heavy Hand, and more or less, tamed a lawless frontier..

A lot of what those old movies and TV Shows depicted had a lot of truth in it and showed us how thangs were done back then..

Those old shows showed us that somebody with a badge was scarce and that when somebody showed up at your door they were usually met with a gun in their face till their motives were discovered..

Back then when a dirtbag went on a rampage he didnt have many choices.. His choices were mostly limited to gettin the hell out of Dodge cause he was either gonna have Matt Dillon on his ass or a posse was gonna be makin tracks to catch em and put em in jail or a vigilante committee was gonna be comin after em with a rope and a bullet..

Even if the Badge or the posse managed to get to the dirtbag first and get em back to jail, alive, there was a lot of times that the vigilante committee would show up at the jail with torches and pitchforks and demand that their brand of Justice be administered to the dirtbags..

I'm just gonna come out right now and admit that I thank its time for the vigilante committees to come back !!

The dirtbags are winnin folks !!

We have cities and even states in this country that are designated SANCTUARY for the dirtbags.. The old movies had The Badlands where the dirtbags would run to to hide and be safe from justice, now they can pick between OVER 30 major cities in this country where they can hide and not have any worry bout facin a badge or a judge, and even if they do get caught and see a judge, they will just be let go.. Do any of you call that JUSTICE ?? I damn sure dont..

We've got dirtbags runnin our streets day and night rapin and robbin and killin and stealin and sellin dope to the kids, and the Gubmint's solution is to put a fuggin camera on every corner.. How bout we put a gotdam HANGIN POST on every corner ?? It would be a helluva lot cheaper and have a helluva lot better results..

In case you are wonderin what brought this on, its the story bout the 4 kids that got shot in New Jersey and 3 of em killed, execution style, and the dirtbags that did it and their history in the JUSTICE SYSTEM !!

This story is just the icin on the cake tho, there are plenty more that have got me to this point..

The best(or worst, dependin on how you look at it) was the story of the illegal that raped and beat a 9 year old girl a coupla years ago in Ohio.. Seems there was a small community within the city that had a safe house for new illegals and one of its inhabitants drug this little girl in the house and repeatedly beat and raped her.. Seems that a vigilante committee soon after came in the middle of the night and set the house on fire and left a message on the outside walls for everybody to see.. Seems that they had a MASS EXODUS of illegals soon after and the local shop owners were reportin that business was WAY DOWN !! And, NO, the badge didnt catch the dirtbag and neither did the vigilante committee.. But if you thank I would feel bad if they had found the dirtbag swangin from a near-by tree with his dick stuffed in his mouth, you would be badly mistaken !!

So just keep in mind the story of Ohio and the vigilante committee the next time you hear a badge tellin us "there was nothin more we could do" !!

GO AHEAD, PUNK.. MAKE MY FUGGIN DAY !!

Am I A Hero ??

2007-08-12T20:16:00.000-05:00

My friend, Marnie, thanks so and sent me a notice that I have had my name added to list bein looked over for HERO OF THE MONTH at The Veterans Voice magazine..

http://www.theveteransvoice.com/Hero.html

Of course there is a list as long as my arm of folks I'd rather see there, but, I really dont have any choice in the matter..

I'll let ya'll know if I hear any more about this..

Thanks, Marnie..

We've Got The Food BLAHS !!

2007-08-12T15:07:00.000-05:00

Its that time of year for us again.. You know, you are hungry but nothin you can thank of is what you WANNA eat..

Me and the Mrs. have been strainin our brain to come up with somethin we are actually hongry for.. Not just somethin to eat for the sake of eatin, but somethin our taste buds are callin out for..

She says she wants somethin sweet, and I've been tryin to get her talked into us havin homemade peach, apricot, or bannana ice cream.. I could almost live on ice cream durin the hottest part of the summer, but she is afraid she will put the pounds back on that she has shed so far..

A good steak is also one of my favorites for the summertime too.. Mrs. du Toit(in the blogroll) has a post about her version of a good steak, tho hers and my opinion on steak cookin technique are vastly different.. Yet, we both agree that smotherin a good steak with all kinds of sauces and salt is a Crime Against Nature !!

Steak is one of the foods that RECHARGE the body's system AFTER you have stressed it or had it under a heavy workload, while pasta dishes serve you well BERFORE you put your body thru hard labor.. But what the hell do you eat when you look at these foods and just say "NAH, not hungry" ??

Well, the best I can come up with, for today at least, is to thro some hamburger in the skillet with some taco seasonin and dice some onion and lettuce and heat a bowl of refried beans and make burritos with queso melted on top.. Add a generous drizzle of my salsa and that is what we are gonna pig out on, that is if I can ever get myself talked into goin in the kitchen and gettin my ass to work on it.. And maybe have a big bowl of cold peaches with a glob of manez(thats mayonaise for you city folk) on top..

I'd still rather have a big bowl of my homemade ice cream, but, oh well..

I've Had A Helluva Day Here

2007-08-11T18:28:00.000-05:00

Little nitnoid bad shit has been happenin to me all day.. Hadnt none of it been enuff to totally ruin my whole day, but after a while and after repeated failures of shit that turns small projects into major repairs to even get back to the small projects, then its enuff to really get on your fuggin nerves !!

Before I even finished my first cup of coffee this mornin the Mrs. started harpin bout goin to the garden today and kept at it every 5 or 10 minutes till I gave in, even tho I knew it was supposed to be over 100 degrees today..

So I started gettin ready to go and the battery on the mower died on me and I had to put another battery on it then a swith on my scooter went out and I had to re-wire that damn thang till I get another switch for it and then when we got to the farm this other battery went out on the mower so I had to take a battery off the scooter to put on the mower and that left me usin my crutches to get around and do anythang I had to do out there in the, did I mention that is was over 100 degrees today, heat.. The Kid is PMSin and the Mrs. is Menapausin and that was a pleasure in itself..

And then a little bit ago after we got home and I got cooled off and got online I found an article bout the Dixie Chicks at The Abilene(Texas) Reporter News and had a good super-snarky BWAHAHAHA type post all written about it and we had a fuggin power surge that knocked my puter off and blew a fuse in it and I had to tear the damn puter apart and replace the fuse, AND I lost the post bout the Dixie Chicks I had worked for about 30 minutes on..

NOW, the link to the Dixie Chicks is gone and instead I'm sittin here tellin ya'll bout how bad shit has been happenin to me today.. Did I mention that it was over 100 degrees today ?? Hell, now I'm losin my damn memory too !!

I'm gonna keep on tryin to post somethin to make it worth stoppin by here for.. Hell, I kept on wonderin if today was the 13th but that aint for a coupla more days.. Dont know if I'll make it past then or not !!

Gina Sends Her Love

2007-08-10T16:40:00.000-05:00

I got an update from Gina Elise, who is the Star Attraction at Pinupsforvets(in my blogroll), and she says she is ready to kick-off the '08 Calendar Season and is makin plans for the visits to the many places that wounded Military and Vets get grouped at..

I heard WONDERFUL reviews from her campaign last year and I expect this year to eclipse last year by a factor of X.. That makes me happier than hell too, cause I know that will help her get to see more of the wounded Military and Vets ..

Considerin that this is a homegrown project, you can just imagine the time, effort, and energy that this demands, and since last year was such a hit, you can tell that demands wadnt just met, they were exceeded !!

Gina, we send our hopes and wishes for another successful year this year, and I send my heartfelt appreciation for all you do..

Little Iraq

2007-08-09T18:50:00.000-05:00

The folks out in southern California had their furniture and dishes re-arranged again.. The eggsperts have been sayin there was another BIG ONE on the way, and this wadnt it..

They are sayin that there is an 8.1 just waitin for the right time to unleash complete devastation on that whole area and up to 350 miles away.. That sure is gonna leave a bunch of folks in some serious conditions..

I let my imagination wander for a few minutes and tried to get a picture in my mind of what it would be like out there, and each time I came up with the idea that it would be worse than I had imagined, and then I realized that I just caint fathom how really bad it would be..

Just the number of deaths due to the heat would be staggerin.. With no electricity for fans or air conditionin or home respirators it would cause an enormous death toll..

Raods would be impassable and people might have to walk for miles to get to a place clear enuff in the debris field for a chopper to land and take on passengers..

Yet, people are still crowdin in as fast as they build em a place to live..

A Pleasant Surprise

2007-08-09T13:08:00.000-05:00

I aint ever had pre-mixed Margaritas, straight out of the bottle, taste as good as those did.. We had a machine for em down in South Texas when I worked on the ranch down there and it didnt even make em as good as those the other day was..

I usually get the Jose Brand but it was $20 bucks a half-gallon and I wadnt sure I was THAT margarita hungry, so I got a cheaper bottle at $13 bucks and my buddy at the liqour store said he sold a lot of it and it was some good stuff..

After we got a good taste of it and seen how good it was and how good they were goin down we circled back by and got another bottle of it.. It has been on the verge of 100 degrees here this week and after fightin that damn tree I was suckin down some margaritas.. It just HIT THE SPOT !!

I did suffer the after-effects for a coupla hours yesterday mornin but it wadnt too bad and didnt last long.. But I did have a HELLUVA appetite yesterday tho.. We ALL did and ate like we aint done since it started turnin summer here a few weeks ago..

I took 3 pounds of hamburger and made patties and grilled em on the cooker outside and we almost ate the whole damn bunch yesterday.. After eatin all that meat yesterday I plan on us havin a huge chef's sallad for supper tonite.. With pepperoni and onions and fresh tamaters we picked this mornin and cheddar cheese grated in it and whatever else I find I wanna thro in it..

It finally got dry enuff that I had to water the garden again this mornin and it soaked it all up in a hurry.. Everythang still seems to be doin good out there.. The tamaters are still bloomin and the white beans I planted are comin right on up and the okry is startin to put out a little and the peppers are makin good too..

I sure do need to get some mowin done out at the farm but I still aint got the floor replaced on the trailer yet and I caint load the mower on it to take it out there and I need to get that row of pintos planted before it gets too late.. I may try to get that trailer useable again this afternoon, if the heat will let me.. I aint gonna push it tho cause I've done had a bunch of those Heat Strokes before and it gets easier to have one the more you have.. I may just do a little today and a little tomoro cause it aint worth makin myself sick over..

But if ya'll like a good margarita look for the stuff I got.. Its called "SALVADORE" and like I said, its a lot cheaper that Jose..

Takillya Does Strange Thangs To Me

2007-08-07T17:07:00.000-05:00

For one thang, I caint type very well.. I'm havin a Margaritaville Moment here and its just 5 o'clock and the Mrs. is done gone to bed and I'm still ready to party .. Somebody PLEASE put some Brooks and Dunn on REAL LOUD and start takin some clothes off !!

LET ME RE-PHRASE THAT !! Only the Redneck Gals under size 11 Need apply !~!

WELL, dependin on REDNECKNESS, I could go up to a 13, but you really gotta love some Gary Stewart !!

Cheers !!

Wild Bill WINS !!

2007-08-06T19:07:00.000-05:00

That big-bad-bitch is ON THE GROUND and burnin its little heart out..

Youd thank that it was a big to-do around here judgin by all the traffic that has come by here since I got it down.. It has been one Parade after another and they all are drivin slow and got that neck strained as far as they can get it out the window.. Some even stopped in the middle of the street to watch me pullin on it.. Excitin place around here, huh ??

That tree fell zactly where I wanted it to, just like I wanted it to, and couldnt have been placed any better if I had used a chain saw.. When it broke it fell like it was on a hinge with the rest of the tree and fell right back to the bottom half.. Now as it burns it will just slide down the bottom part and keep burnin, unless we have another good rain and puts it out..

Now if I can rest good tonite without that damn tree on my mind I can do a days mowin at the farm and give my garden some attention, then I'll be ready to "cut a fat hog in the ass" and get back to chewin some liberal ass !! But just by glancin it looks like G.W. has been keepin the fire hot under their ass while I was busy.. How bout that new surveilance bill that went thru ?? Its got them liberals sqwallin like a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockers !!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!

And they caught the two "students"(dirtbags) in S.C. near the Naval Weapons Base with "firecrackers"(pipe bombs).. GET A ROPE !!

They killed another Top Al Q in Iraq too..

All I need to hear now is that the Border Fence is AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, and I'll be a happy camper..

Right now I have a bottle of hooch that has "the tree is down" writen on it and its callin my name.. Cheers !!

Its Like Watchin Hair Grow

2007-07-30T16:19:00.000-05:00

I set my old peecan tree on fire a coupla days ago and am gonna see if I can burn it down instead of cuttin it down..

Here is what I've got.. Its a straight trunk, about 3 feet thick, up to 12 or 14 feet, then it has/had a fork and is hollow in the middle of it with a big hole, then a big limb goes up about another 10 to 12 feet and had a long limb that reaches out toward the street, and is broken off above that..

I set the fire in the hole at the 12 foot level and it has burned about half way around and half way thru now.. If it burns like I want it to, it will burn in half at the 12 foot level and the top part with the long limb will fall and still stay well in my yard.. But if it burns crazy it will twist when it falls and likely thro the long limb into the street..

So I'm havin to keep an eye on it in case the limb goes out in the street and I have to get it out before a car hits it..

But its like watchin hair grow watchin this thank s l o o o w l y burn.. But I've got a new, full box of ceegars and a coupla bottles of homebrew cold and I just sit on the porch and watch it and wave at everybody drivin by honkin and hollerin at me..

But I'm gettin impatient and am bout ready to get a gallon of gas out and douse the sunzabitch and burn the whole damn thang where it sits !! NAH. Not really.. I'm havin too much fun tryin to guess what time its gonna do the deed..

But I really would like it to fall when there aint much traffic on the street.. I could just see some crack head drivin by when it fell and freakin em out and have a wreck !! My luck, the asshole would probably run over ME when he crashed, then run off..

We just had a t-storm move by just to the south of us and pushed some fair gusts of wind thru here and had that long limb rockin that tree for a minute.. That tells me it aint gonna be too awful long till it falls.. I just wish it would wait till after the 5 o'clock traffic gets over with..

I've got a pot of pintos with diced ham ready and a loaf of bread that will be ready to come out of the oven in about 30 minutes and after eatin I guess I'll assume my position back on the porch and have a tasty after-supper ceegar and enjoy the rain-cooled breeze some more..

Got Tamaters And Onions ??

2007-07-28T16:19:00.000-05:00

Mountain Man was askin bout some recipes for Salsa, so thought I'd just get down with the Program and go Hog Wild on you and give you what I got, and thats a bunch.. Too much to try and cram in the comments and I can keep track of this post and if anybody comes back later and has questions bout it I'll know where to look..

I'm one of those cooks that goes by "dabs and pinches and sprinkles and handfulls" .. I Just be sure to remember that I got BIG hands !!

I like the HOT kinda salsa so I tend to go by the Cajun recipe that I got from Mostly Cajun whose blog is listed in the blogroll.. I'll try to point out the ones that look HOT to me and the Cajun recipes so you can adjust em to your likes..

Most of the recipes I have are for small batches, but if I'm gonna go to the trouble of makin this stuff I'm gonna do a BATCH all at one time and only have to clean up once.. Ans small batches makes it hard to get a uniform taste and hotness.. One time your onions will be strong and the next they will be sweet and one time your peppers will be hot and the next they will be mild.. Folks that grow onions and peppers know this but others may not..

I've found that the best way to make salsa is make a bunch of it at one time and do it in stages, and it can even be staggered over a coupla days too to prevent you gettin in a hurry or havin to do it durin a hot part of the day or takin too much time out of ONE day..

Standin on my one leg at the counter choppin gets old real quick so I do most of my choppin and slicin and dicin and peelin one evenin and then start it cookin early the next mornin.. I make 2 gallons at a time in a stainless pot and that takes enuff jars to fill my 5 gallon pot with jars and lids that I use to sterilize em in..

If you like your salsa the Chunky kind, you are gonna wanna peel your tamaters too, but I like the sauce kind so I just run my tamaters thru the blender and dont have to boil and peel my tamaters, so that keeps me from burnin my fangers and hands too !!

So here goes with how I make it:

I start with about 8 cups of good sweet onions(use less the stronger they are) and about 10 Jalepenos(use less the hotter) and a coupla Cayenes and a good handfull of finely chopped Cilantro and 4 heapin tablespoons of minced roasted garlic, then I start blendin and addin my tamers till I get the pot up close(a coupla inches) to the top.. After that gets good and hot and cooks for about an hour I have a taste and see how I like it and I can get an idea what its gonna be like and add more of anythang I thank it may need..

After about 45 minutes I taste it again and I should have it bout where I want my onions and peppers and garlic to be and then I add the juice of 6 medium limes and 3 heapin tablesppons of salt and stir and taste again and make any adjustments to that that I thank it may need..

Now its time to just cook and stir till I get it where its thick enuff for me.. The thicker I want it the longer I cook and stir..

Now here are some others I have:

2-3 medium sized fresh tomatoes (from 1 lb to 1 1/2
lb), stems removed, finely diced
1/2 red onion, finely diced
1 jalapeño chili pepper (stems, ribs, seeds removed),
finely diced
1 serano chili pepper (stems, ribs, seeds removed),
finely diced
Juice of one lime
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional: oregano and or cumin to taste

Start with chopping up 2 medium sized fresh tomatoes.
Prepare the chilies. Be very careful while handling
these hot peppers. If you can, avoid touching them
with your hands. Use a fork to cut up the chilies over
a small plate, or use a paper towel to protect your
hands. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and hot
water after handling and avoid touching your eyes for
several hours. Set aside some of the seeds from the
peppers. If the salsa isn't hot enough, you can add a
few for heat.

Combine all of the ingredients in a medium sized bowl.
Taste. If the chilies make the salsa too hot, add some
more chopped tomato. If not hot enough, carefully add
a few of the seeds from the chilies, or add some
ground cumin.

Let sit for an hour for the flavors to combine.

Makes approximately 3-4 cups.

This one I got from Mostly Cajun:

Four or five Roma tomatoes. You want a meaty tomato. Most groceries will ave those pear-shaped Romas. You want these ripe, no green showing.

Tomatillos. These are bit more exotic, looks like a little green tomato, an inch or so in diameter, generally snuggled in a thin papery husk. You’ll want a couple. If you can’t find tomatillos, don’t go sit in your front yard and commit seppuku. Just throw in an extra regular tomato or two.

Cilantro. A good handful. Now, cilantro will generally be found in the vicinity of the tomatillos, but a lot of stores carry cilantro next to the parsley.

Peppers: For the run of the mill folk, at least ONE jalapeno IS necessary. If you’re more adventurous, bump this up to two or three. If you’re more experienced and enjoy a bit MORE bite, add a serrano. If you’re a flippin’ capiscum FREAK, add a habanero. Note, though, that the name is “Pico de gallo”, which translates to “peck of the rooster.” It’s supposed to have some bite. The flavor of the jalapeno is, in my opinion, essential to the dish. Since it’s supposed to be a condiment, you will want to make it hotter than you can stand it on its own.

Onion: Half a fist-sized yellow or white onion. If you’re thinking :what the h*ll am I gonna do with the rest of that onion, well, go back and double everything I’ve listed above, and use the whole thing.

Lime: One large, or two small. Or lemon.

Salt

The procedure:

Chop up the tomato and tomatillo. Do this rather fine, maybe an eighth-inch dice. Discard the seeds before you start chopping. Do the same thing with the onion. If your onion has seeds, well, I don’t know what to tell you…

Chop up the peppers. Here’s a little trick. Cut the peppers in half lengthwise, then clean the seeds and white membranes out under running water. You’ll have fewer problems. Also, after you’ve been handling peppers, you want to make darned sure that you wash your hands very carefully, two or three times, before you a) rub your eyes or b) attend to private bodily functions. Take my word for this. Fail to heed this warning will happen ONCE and provide onlookers with the stuff of hilarious legend on your behalf. They will enjoy it MUCH more than you will, I guarantee. Anyway, chop your choice of peppers up finely, maybe a bit finer than everything else.

Chop up the leaves and tender stems of the cilantro.

To assemble the pico de gallo, dump the whole mess of ingredients into an appropriately sized bowl. Sprinkle a couple of pinches of salt over the top. Squeeze the juice of your lime or lemon over the whole mess. Stir it together well. Let it sit for at least a half an hour in the fridge for the flavors to mingle.

Discussion:

This stuff is great on top of a pile of beans and rice or other dishes. It adds a wonderful freshness to bland foods. Dump a tablespoon on top of scrambled eggs. Better yet, fold it in the middle of a cheese omelet. Put some on top of your pasta. Let your imagination run wild. It keeps for about a week in the fridge, if you can stay out of it that long.

Now, there you have it: a guideline recipe for pico de gallo. Feel free to juggle things around a bit. Wanna get freaky? Take this recipe, and add three or four avocados, coarsely mashed, for a guacamole that’ll put you over the edge.

And here is a link to a whole bunch of recipes, not that you'll need em after gettin mine:

http://www.pepperfool.com/recipes/salsa_idx.html

Folks are gonna have their "druthers" on how they want their salsa so some or most may want more cilantro in theirs but I find that it covers up the taste of the peppers if you get too much cilantro in it and I like the taste of some good peppers in my salsa.. To me thats what makes it salsa.. And you may have other peppers that you like the taste of in your salsa too.. And you dont have to have fresh tamaters to go in it either.. There are some good store bought canned tamaters out there too.. And you would be surprised at how close they can taste to homegrown once you heat em up.. A trick I have learned about store-bought tamaters, is that you can stick em in the nuker oven for a minute and it will bring out the REAL tamater taste in em..

I hope everybody has good results with their salsa, and remember, that nothin tastes as good or good for you as what you grow, cook, and can yourself, and the Pride in doin it will make up for the effort it takes..

Audition For Trained Seals

2007-07-28T14:33:00.000-05:00

That circus that they called a Democrat "debate" the other day is now bein shoved at the Repubs.. Now, realize that the Media and You Tube is puttin this dog-and-pony show together, so you can already tell what a circle-jerk its gonna be..

At the (D)'s version of this thang they had a goofy sunzabitch in a fuggin snowman costume askin questions, so you can take a guess at what they will have comin at the (R)s in theirs..

Most of the (R)s have just laughed at em and aint gonna show for this thang, but McCain and (I thank) Paul say they will show for it.. As if these two aint already made asses out of themselves enuff, they are gonna show up and find out just how fuggin stupid these numb-nuts can make em look now..

Any (R) that is stupid enuff to show up for this shit, is stupid enuff to fall for the "here, pull my fanger" trick too, and aint got what it takes to be POTUS !!

America, and The West, are in SERIOUS TIMES with SERIOUS THREATS facin us, and this aint NO TIME for the candidates to be bendin over and strikin a pose to be made an ass of..

The Left is in no way serious about the present and future danger that faces us, and You Tube and the Media are part and parcel of the Left.. This You Tube presentation is not gonna be any more serious than the Left is and they may as well have Goofy, Pluto, Donald Duck or Mickey himself leadin it..

The (D)s are afraid to go on a Fox debate and answer serious and hard questions, but they expect the (R)s to go on YOU TUBE and answer questions from the likes of a fuggin snowman !!

Folks, we need serious Leadership and we need the People to WAKE THE FUCK UP and join the REAL WORLD !! But I just dont see it happenin and THAT worries the shit outta me ..

Slowly Makin A Comeback

2007-07-25T23:37:00.000-05:00

My garden and the area around the barn where I camp is slowly makin progress at lookin like it is useable again.. But the heat and humidity is really takin a toll on this ol Fat Man tho..

I finally got all my tamater plants weeded today but I still dont have all of em tied back up but I do have em kinda stuck up on the rest of the tied ones and off the ground.. Damn Fire Ants are bout to eat my ass up too.. I hopped off my scooter yesterday and sat down to start weedin the tamaters and happened to sit down RIGHT on top of a nest of Wolf Spiders that were mostly 5 to 6 inches across em and there were probably 10 or more of em.. I had my gloves on and made a fist and started playin "whack a spider" with em..

I got 2 new rows tilled and got 1 of em rowed up and planted with White Beans and it wont take long to get the other row rowed up and planted with Pintos again..

My okry and pepper plants are doin good and the okry is finally bloomin and puttin on small pods now and the peppers are covered with blooms and peppers just about ready to pick.. The tamater plants are loaded with tamaters still and lots of blooms too.. Picked another Wal-Mart bag full of em today.. Gonna be time to make another batch of Salsa soon and this time I'll have some of my own peppers to put in em, and this time I'm gonna BAN the Mrs. from the kitchen while I make it !! She didnt let me put enuff peppers in the last batch and it came out Gringo Style.. Now when I open a jar of the old batchI have to mix a bunch of Tony Cachere's Cajun Seasonin in it to get a little HEAT in it.. Its good that way but just aint the same as havin the peppers COOKED in it like its supposed to..

My new battery on my scooter is workin out much better but I still need to get one more to get the LASTIN POWER up where I need it to be.. And my generator is needin to have the carb cleaned on it again.. All this moisture we have had has it gunked up and I'll have to take the bowl off and clean it out and I thank I'll put new fuel lines and filter on it while I'm at it..

We have one more day, tomoro, of good dry weather before the rain and storms are supposed to move back in, but I dont know if I'm gonna feel up to doin it again tomoro or not.. I'm tryin not to wear myself down too much and open myself up to gettin sick.. There is a virus goin around these parts now that really knocks your ass in the dirt.. Kind of a Summer Cold, but wrings all the energy and wind out of you and has a cough that will really hurt you..

Since we took the Kid out of school, we aint had all the sickness we used to have.. Sure is nice too !! When she was in school we could count on us passin some sort of bug at least once a month.. Now I caint even remember the last time we suffered from somethin other than what we got from eatin or drankin too much from, but them dont count ..

I sure was hopin that I would get the garden and all caught back up so that I could take Miss Minnie Pearl with me and spend a coupla days and nites out at the farm without havin to work all the time and that we would get to play some, but looks like the rain is gonna be back about the time I get caught up and by the time thats over it will be time to start workin again.. The moon is goona be right for a nite at the farm soon too.. Sure is nice to sit out under a big bright moon and listen to the critters callin and gettin active ..

But hell, its time for me to get to work on the yard and projects I need to do here at the house now too.. Besides clippin the hedges and mowin, I wanna set whats left of this old big peecan tree on fire and see if I can get rid of that ragged lookin thang out of the front yard and I have a new faucet to put on the kitchen sink and new light switch to put in the bathroom and I still need to clean the deep freeze before I fire it up to put the stuff in it out of the garden, if I ever get enuff.. And I wanna put a new door on the big shop and move a bunch of stuff I have piled on the west side of the house so I can put a longer chain for Miss Minnie Pearl so she can have a bigger area to run around in.. And. And. And.. Aw Shit, I give up.. I aint ever gonna get it all done and be caught up so I can go play at the farm with Miss Minnie Pearl !!

Democrat Insurgents

2007-07-24T15:43:00.000-05:00

from HERE ..

http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/07/coercion.html

Neither side needs the love or loyalty of the population nearly as much as its cooperation. The insurgent must have nondenunciation so that he may carry on his war against the authority from the midst of the people. The counterinsurgent needs information, so that he may determine the nature, power and membership of the insurgency. Because a credible threat of sanction (death or torture, for example) frequently outweighs love or loyalty, the side that imposes stiff penalties for noncompliance will often win the cooperation of the people away from the side that inspires merely moral support for the merits of its cause. ...

comment: Is this not how the (D)s work in Congress too ??

I know that I've seen it at work here and heard of it at work in other places.. The (D)s runnin for elections have said that if an (R) got elected they would cut off or cut Social Security to the elderly or that wanted projects "in the plans" would be cut or that UNwanted projects would be pushed thru..

We have heard of Murtha makin threats against other members on the House Floor when they countered his PORK Projects and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have been known to make threats to those who didnt see eye-to-eye with what they wanted and how Junior Members of their ranks voted..

I've seen The Hildebeast rally the rest to vote against Troop Fundin and Withdrawl then at the last minute vote FOR it as to position herself in a POSITIVE LIGHT..

The tactics of the (D)s are very similar to those of the insurgents in Iraq that Tigerhawk describes in the Bellmont Club linked post above.. And the Media does their Handy Work for the (D)s here just as they do for the insurgents in Iraq !!

The (D)s and the Media have declared war on America just like Al Q has !!

"AMERICA IS BAD AND EVIL AND MUST BE DESTROYED" is not just the Mantra of Al Q, it is also the Battle Cry of the (D)s and the Media ..

My REDNECK Is Showin !!

2007-07-22T14:22:00.000-05:00

FIRST OF ALL, I DONT BELIEVE A WORD OF IT !!

I'm talkin bout the report of Troops runnin over dogs and all that bullshit that was put in an article somewhere, supposedly by a Troop In The Action in Iraq..

There have been plenty of the "thankers" that have debunked this story, but what I wanna concentrate on, is just what if there was truth in it.. Would I get pissed about em runnin over a dog ?? Nope.. What if it had been a dirtbag shootin em a fanger ?? Nope !! But a bunch of people have their union suit twisted over a fuggin dog, but what I get the red-ass over is that they didnt have anythang else to worry bout besides doin some kinda juvenile/sadistic bullshit that took their "eye off the ball" ..

FIRST, they give us stories bout em feelin that when they go over there they KNOW that aint gonna be comin home alive.. Now they want us to believe that they dont get enuff of the killin so they have to go after the critters that are over there and aint keepin their eye out for an IED or a Sniper..

It just dont match up with the stories I've been hearin from the Troops over there..

I hear stories of em "procurrin" some loacls goat and havin a BBQ cause the (D)s back here have stretched the supply lines mighty thin and they have run out of grub, even an MRE, to eat, and they have broken a nose or two after they caught some dirtbag that set off an IED and it hurt or killed a member of their outfit.. Myself, I'd prefer em to take the sunzabitch over on the back side of their vehicle and leave the bitch in a puddle of their own bllod to rot !! Just be one less that the Military version of the ACLU (JAG) can turn loose back on the population and the Troops..

The Rules Of Engagement the Troops work under are UNREALISTIC !! These suzabitches say they want a war, well, give em a fuggin war and stop treatin em like a buncha PROTESTERS !!

Stick A Fork In Me !!

2007-07-20T20:22:00.000-05:00

I've got pink places that aint meant for me to have pink places !! I've soaked up a lot of sun the past coupla days and have slap-dab wore myself plum out..

My por pitiful garden is gonna take a lot more work to ever get it back in shape tho.. My beans and peas just flat drowned out !! So did the squash and the hogs ran thru my ties and stakes on the tamater plants and drug them all down on the ground and the rest was under about 4 feet of grass..

But I got about 4 acres of the grass pushed back and got one row ready to replant beans or peas and try to get a stand goin to have some to put in the freezer for this winter, but I may have to battle the damn grass hoppers for them now.. Wish I had a way to catch a mass of em so I could make a small fortune of sellin em for fishin bait..

Yesterday I saw a little rain shower comin off in the distance and by the time it got to me it had got to be a pretty good rain, and I got my ass soakin wet before I gave up and came to the barn.. But that cool breeze t5hat came with it sure was nice after bein toasted by the sun and I wouldnt have minded just sittin out there in it if I hadnt been afraid of lightnin hittin me..

I dont know if I'm gonna have the gumption to go out and do it again tomoro tho.. Looks like the rain is slowly creepin in on us and gonna be a high chance of us gettin wet again tomoro and the next day, so I aint countin on gettin to go out again tomoro.. But I've got it where I can get around on the scooter and my crutches now and I really need to concentrate on gettin my tamaters back up off the ground and get the stakes and ties back on em.. But as bad off as my tamaters are, they still look 100 percent better than most of the others I've seen around here.. Everybody elses I've seen have turned yellow and brown and mine are still dark green and full of small tamaters and blooms.. If I put in a days-work on em I should be back in Tamater Business !!

A damn coon(I suppose) got into my corn seed and now I have corn plants scattered all over the place and most have ears on em and are doin good.. Within a coupla weeks I should have enuff corn ready to have a big mess of Skillet Corn.. Maybe two !!

ONE New Battery

2007-07-18T20:22:00.000-05:00

I've been tryin to get out to the farm for the past 2 days and aint got there yet.. Each day I get on my scooter and go out to try and get all my shit gathered and loaded on the trailer and then I have to recharge my scooter batteries before goin anywhere.. By the time I get the batteries recharged its too late to go to the farm then..

I broke down and went down the street to the Parts House and bought a new AMERICAN battery.. Aint no Mexico on this baby nowhere !! Piss on Wal-Mart and there Mescan and China sellin asses !!

And I got one of those SUPER-DUPER batteries too.. Its a MARINE DEEP CYCLE and will have a lot more ROAD TIME to it between charges.. It cost about $40 bucks more than the battery I usually get, but hey, its AMERICAN !! Its about twice as big as the usual battery and takes twice as long to charge, and when I got this one home it wadnt already charged, so I'm gonna have to charge overnite and I'll be rip-tearin-ready to go to the farm bright and early(and cool) in the mornin..

I still need 1 more of these kinda batteries, but I'm gonna wait and see how my scooter handles the extra weight from this bigger battery.. The ground is still pretty soggy from all the rain and the scooter cuts some good ruts with my big ass on it and the extra weight may just be too much to get around with.. I used to have big and wide TURF tires on it till they wore out and to replace they cost $80 bucks a piece.. Shit, my tight-wad ass replaced em with the $30 bucks a piece regular street tires !! But this is Texas and before long the ground will be dry and baked as hard as a brick batt again..

But the weather is supposed to be dry again tomoro then we will be back to possible thunderstorms again for a few days, but at least it will be cool again.. Gonna be in the 80's and have a nice breeze.. Caint beat that with a stick !! Specially in the middle of July in Texas..

So. if I'm too tired to get on here and do much "jawin" for a day or two, now you will know the reason..

Dont Laff, You're Next !!

2007-07-17T13:22:00.000-05:00

from HERE : http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/17/Business/Cigarmakers_in_a_pani.shtml

Cigarmakers in a panic
The federal tax on each cigar could rise from 5 cents to $10.
By JAMES THORNER
Published July 17, 2007

Eric Newman punches the numbers on his calculator and gapes at the results one more time.

It's no mathematical error: The federal government has proposed raising taxes on premium cigars, the kind Newman's family has been rolling for decades in Ybor City, by as much as 20,000 percent.

As part of an increase in tobacco taxes designed to pay for children's health insurance, the nickel-per-cigar tax that has ruled the industry could rise to as much as $10 per cigar.

"I'm not sure in the history of man, since our forefathers founded the country in 1776, that there's ever been a tax increase of 20,000 percent," said Newman, who runs the Tampa business founded by grandfather Julius Caesar Newman. "They had the Boston Tea Party for less than this."

When it comes to tobacco sales, cigars are just a speck compared to cigarettes. In 2006, the nearly 400-billion cigarettes sold domestically dwarfed the 5.3-billion cigars.

But cigars are intertwined with Tampa's lineage.

Though the local industry has shriveled from foreign competition and domestic consolidation, cigarmaking still employs more than 1,000 in Tampa. About 900 work at the factory, offices and warehouse of Hav-a-Tampa, owned by foreign tobacco giant Altadis.

Newman machine-makes 35,000 cigars a day at 16th Street and Columbus Avenue and imports hand-wrapped varieties from Latin America. He estimates Florida makes or imports 80 percent of the cigars consumed in the United States and predicts devastation if the new taxes are approved this summer.

Many casual smokers are well heeled enough to plunk down $10 for a premium puff. But would they pay $15 to $20 for the same pleasure?

"Why don't we just go out of business?" Newman said. "Here, you can run our company, Mr. Government."

Here's the source of the controversy: The Democrat controlled Congress has sought an extra $35-billion to $50-billion for the state children's health insurance program. The program distributes payments to the states to help buy coverage for kids not poor enough for Medicaid.

Cigarettes, which accounted for more than 95 percent of tobacco tax collections last year, are the main focus of the bill. Federal taxes on a pack would jump from 39 cents to $1.

But the legislation has dragged cigars along for the ride. The industry operates under a 4.8 cents-per-cigar tax cap.

Under the proposed bill, taxes on "large cigars," a category that includes all but the tiny cigars sold in 20 packs like cigarettes, would rise to 53 percent.

A U.S. Senate version of the bill under consideration today in the Finance Committee sets the maximum tax per cigar at $10.

"We are a very small industry. We're the fly. The cigarette industry is the elephant as far as tax collections are concerned," Newman said. "We've been roped in with conglomerates that own cigarette companies."

Newman's eyes and ears in Washington, Norm Sharp, president of the Cigar Association of America, was dumbfounded when the legislation went public Friday.

"I thought there was a typo. I thought they meant 10 cents per cigar, not $10 per cigar. I was stunned like everyone else," Sharp said.

Sharp's organization represents 66 members, including Newman, Altadis and Jacksonville's Swisher International, the global company that makes Swisher Sweets.

The association has lobbied to exclude cigars from the bill, but bristles at the public relations challenge: How do you oppose a sin tax Congress has rigged to help sick kids? Senate staffers couldn't be reached for comment.

In Newman's view other companies declined comment and left the talking to Sharp, it's not just unfair but also immoral to overtax a product enjoyed not by addicts but by worthy pleasure seekers. The average aficionado smokes about three cigars a week at about $3 to $5 apiece, according to the cigar association.

"A good wine. A good scotch. A good bourbon. A good cigar. It all enhances the quality of life," Newman said. "We're in the relaxation business."

The Bush administration may inadvertently come to the industry's aid. The president has vowed to veto the bill, not over the cigar provision but over objections to expanding federally financed health care for the non-indigent.

Several business in and around Ybor City, usually blind to the workings of Washington, will be craning their necks toward the capital.

"Things happen strangely in Washington," Newman said.

comment: So, G.W. is gonna veto this POS, but what happens in '09 or '10 when the (D)s have all the power they need and a list as-long-as-your-arm of other thangs they wanna tax ??

Earlier this year I put a note out at a place I thought I might find somebody willin to help me get some tabakker seeds, and sure-nuff, a fine fella stepped up to the task and I now have a small sack of a shit-load of tabakker seeds.. GOOD seeds too !! I sure am grateful to that kind man that showed pity on me in my time of want..

I'm perty sure that there was some that saw my note and wondered just what kinda person would be wantin tabakker seeds in this day and age..

Truth is, the writin has been on the walls for a long while now, and it just keeps gettin bigger !! The sadder truth, is that there are a whole bunch of other stuff on that same list too, and before Big Gubmint gets all of your money they want, you are gonna be doin without a whole lot of shit that you are no longer gonna be able to afford !! DIDJA HEAR ME ?? I said, DOIN WITHOUT, unless you also see that writin on the wall and make arrangements for a source other than the one you rely on now..

Do ya'll like to have a little smear of honey on your bisquit ?? Have you priced honey lately ??

The Kid LOVES juice, and the Mrs. had her Miss Vickies all twisted and knotted this mornin cause those little cans of OJ was ON SALE in the add for $1.29 a can.. Aint been all THAT long since I was fussin bout how many of those same cans of OJ there were in the fridge in the way, and she said they were on sale for 69 cents a piece and she couldnt resist that price..

What if the (D)s hit you with this kind of tax on your favorite after shave of parfum ?? Your bath soap ?? How bout tea, coffee, milk, or (please help me) coldbeer ??

Just take a look around you and imagine what is gonna be on the list they will jack-up the tax on when there aint gonna be anybody to veto it, and in fact, will be the Ringleader of the bunch plannin on ROBBIN YOU ..

Somebody refresh my memory a little, but, wadnt it Jim Stafford that sang the song "The Wildwood Flower" ?? Talkin bout sittin there on that sacka seeds !! But it was Bocephus that sang bout "A Country Boy Can Survive" ..

My PECKERWOOD liberal brother in the Big City is gonna have his fat ass draw up so tight you wouldnt be able to drive a 16penny nail up it with a 2LB shop hammer when he sees this ceegar tax !!

Off To Do My Civic Duty

2007-07-16T12:50:00.000-05:00

I've gotta get out of here in a minute and do Grand Jury Duty.. I dont mind and am actually lookin forward to since its my first time, but I KNOW what to expect.. The Case Load here and all around us has been filled with Child Sexual Assault cases and I dont expect this one to be any different..

On another development here:

With all the rain we have been havin there is a new change thats happened that I've become aware of.. Seems that animals here have gone thru a morph and I have been given exclusive pics of one example..

Ya'll have a good day and I'll make an update later..

Skinnin Hogs

2007-07-15T18:24:00.000-05:00

And I'm bound and damned-determined to get this one hung and cleaned !! After tryin all I know to get the Wild Bill post links to work, and not havin any luck, I decided to just do the whole damn thang over again !! But I thank Wild Bill is worth it.. I just hope that Mr. Cassidy will understand about me usin his stuff here..

From here: http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/310882.html

I wasn't going to say anything because his family has asked to keep it quiet, but people are asking and I feel it would be wrong for me to pretend I don't know anything. Wild Bill is in the hospital, he had a major heart attack about two weeks ago and is recovering, but very slowly. His family has asked that people not try and figure out where he is, not try and visit him, not call on the phone, not make a tent city in the parking lot. If you feel compelled to send him a get-well card, you can do it here:

Bill Guarnere
c/o Gene Guarnere
2800 Dogwood Lane
Broomall, PA 19008
USA

I realize he's got to go sometime, you can only cheat death for so long -- but I keep thinking "not now." My thoughts are with Bill, but also with our Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines who are dying young, every day, without the opportunities that Bill's had. All of you in Iraq and Afghanistan, come home safe and soon.

*EDIT* i guess it's stupid to turn comments off when people might feel a need to express themselves.

If ya'll will hang with me thru all this shit, ya'll are some good folks..

Gun Owners Under Attack Again

2007-07-14T14:55:00.000-05:00

Alabama Mountain Man, listed in my blogroll, has a post that you should read if you are a gun owner or 2nd Amendment believer..

You can catch it HERE..

Seems as tho the NRA is gonna sign-off on this POS !!

Have you ever seen a doctor that didnt have solid ethics ?? Ever seen an anti-gun doctor before ??

This Law that is bein talked about is gonna make it as easy for the "gun grabbers" to find em a doctor to back em up in takin somebody's guns away, as it is for the ACLU to find em a liberal judge to take away a Cross or Ten Commandments from a school or courthouse !!

I know who this Law is SUPPOSED to be used FOR, but I also know damn-well who it will eventually be used AGAINST !!

So if you have any plans to keep your guns handy for when the Dirtbags try to take over, you better find somebody, anybody, to raise some hell at about this !!

Thanks, Mountain Man, for keepin us up on this..

Another Wild Bill

2007-07-14T13:39:00.000-05:00

Seems as tho there is another old War Horse out there named Wild Bill that is havin a little trouble with his health lately.. If you go HERE and look at his pic you will see that me and this other Wild Bill have somethin in common besides just our name..

kylecassidy.livejournal.com/310882.html

This site seems to be the place that people are leavin Well Wishes for Wild Bill at.. If you might wanna leave a Get Well Soon of your own, then I would be grateful, and I'm sure it will make you feel good for doin it..

This site belongs to a fella named "Kyle" and he has a book comin(or already) out at Amazon.com that sounds kinda unique.. If you are a person with eyes that still work good enuff to read books this book might interest you.. Its about guns, the people that own guns, and the homes that the people who own guns keep their guns in.. Has lots and lots of pics and the sample pics looked really interestin..

Joe Citizen(from my blogroll) knows full-well how I disect a pic !! He takes a lot of pics and I thank that it kinda peeves him that I take his pics apart piece-by-piece and find stuff that he hadnt even noticed was in it..

Kyle's site has some interestin readin there too.. He has animals and friends and contacts that he shares with his readers.. He has a style there that is what I would like this one to be like.. Maybe one of these days..

UPDATE : I thank I got it figgered out now..

I'm really sorry bout the problems..

Shot At And Missed. Shit At And Hit !!

2007-07-13T16:09:00.000-05:00

From HERE I got this headline:

NAACP NATIONAL CONVENTION

Dems pledge to undo what Bush has done
Cheers for change fill Cobo during candidate forum

From HERE I get this story :

Just imagine how the LSM would be covering today's economy if a Dimocrat were in the White House. Why it would be trumpeted as the greatest economic boom in over 50 years!

Dow and S&P 500 hit record highs!

No inflation in sight!

Unemployment remains at record lows!

Deficit dropping!

Steve talks about the LSM's coverage of the economy and jobs.

• 2001-2: The economy isn't growing.
• 2003-4: ...okay, it's growing, but it's a jobless recovery.
• 2005-6: ...okay, it's growing and creating jobs, but only the rich are benefiting.
• 2006-7: ...okay, it's growing, creating jobs, and wage growth is beating inflation, but we're still beleaguered by the dreaded deficit.
• 2007: ...okay, it's growing, creating jobs, creating higher wages, and the deficit is disappearing, but, uh, we still need to raise taxes because, uh, let's see... yeah, that's right: because there are still too many rich, and because the oil companies are making too much profit. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Yep! Let's go after all those eeeevil rich people and those eeeevil oil companies. Like I said earlier, that worked real well back in the '70's didn't it?

But the rich are getting richer (because they keep doing the things that make them rich - saving and investing) and the poor are getting poorer (because they keep doing the things that make them poor - dropping out of school and having kids they cannot afford - but there are always lottery tickets).

Yep! It's a great time to be a SRF©

So, I'm not a "Single Rich Fucker" but there aint NO WAY I want thangs to be changed by the (D)s !! Higher taxes and bigger gubmint and more gubmint control aint my way of thankin when I want CHANGE ..

When I talk about change, I mean that I want more Border Security and illegal immigration enforcement..

I want the Troops to be able to do their job without any Political PC bullshit bein forced on em.. PC is NOT a War Tactic or Stradegy and shouldnt be tried to be made one !!

I want DHS to be an effective form of Homeland Security and not just another way to distribute a buncha fuggin PORK money to the Gimme Crowd !!

I want our Congress get busy with actual GOVERNING and not be consumed with POLITICAL WITCH HUNTS against the Party out of power..

I want somethin done about the rogue prosecutors runnin ruff-shod over innocent people ruinin their lives, families, careers, and health ..

I want somethin done about the AACLU (Anti American Civil Liberties Union)too .. That buncha sunzabitches have been on the attack of any ethics, morals, religion, or patriotism that has been a part of this Nation since its conception.. Tarrin and featherin would be my first impulse, but I'm feelin kinda generous today..

I want somethin done about the almost complete ransackin of our emergency supplies of grain and foodstuffs that the gubmint maintains.. We have ALMOST NO reserve supply on hand.. Rice, wheat, and corn are almost all gone.. If another Depression happened or an AlQ attack or oil embargo that shut down fuel supplies, there wouldnt be the ability to grow more, or the time to do it.. There would be NO Bread Lines or Soup Kitchens this time !!

And I want somebody to run that Organized Crime Organization called the U.N. off American soil !! I'm tired of payin ransom to that buncha sunzabitches !!

And I want to see oil drillin platforms goin up in ANWR and in the Gulf and minin operations for Oil Shale started in North Dakota and Wyoming..

But the fact is, that there are a lot of thangs a lot higher on my list that need to be done than what is on the (D)s ERGENT LIST of thangs to change..

Everythang Is Soggy

2007-07-11T16:03:00.000-05:00

The rain has been so much and for so long that everythang in the house(and outside) is just limp and soggy and molded..

All the salt in the house except the big kitchen shaker that has rice added wont pour.. If you open a bag of chips you better be prepared to eat the whole bag cause they get soggy and tuff if you dont.. We have those big Tupperware cereal boxes for our cereal and that dont help.. A crispy cracker is somethin I aint had in months !!

I'm out of Murphy's Oil Soap cause I've used it all tryin to keep the gotdam mold off the kitchen cabinets and panelin..

We were supposed to have a coupla days of dry weather but a line of storms and rain are movin in again now.. And I had my trailer loaded with all the shit I thru away out of the shop and I unloaded it and thought I was gonna get to get the hoist off it too but I caint do it in the rain now..

There was a bunch of clothes in that stuff I thru away and now its piled up on my empty lot next door and is gonna be too wet to burn for a month.. A month if it didnt rain any more, that is..

The Red River to the north of us has been at or above Flood Stage for about a week now and expected to stay that way for the rest of July due to the Corp of Engineers openin the Denison Lake gates and Hugo Lake overflowin.. Sulphur River to the south of us has been just below or just above Flood Stage for almost 2 weeks now, too..

I thank we have had enuff rain now and I'm ready for it to stop for a while !!

The storms are rollin in now and the litnin is gettin kinda "mean" so I better shut this sucker down a while..

I'm Still Here

2007-07-09T20:44:00.000-05:00

We had a coupla days break from the rain and I decided to get some thangs done that needed tendin to..

Back in 2000 when we had the big ice storm, a friend's storeroom got flattened by a tree and I let her put her shit out of it in my shop to keep till she got another storeroom built or bought..

That was 6 1/2 damn years ago and her shit is still here !! She has moved twice since then and each time she hauls more shit into my shop and each time the shit has gotten more scattered out till there wasnt any room for nothin but here shit anymore..

Well, I carried all her shit outside and threw a bunch away and reboxed some and cleaned the shop up good and then put all that was left back in.. I put it back in in the corner and crammed it tight to where I now have a useable shop..

While my shop has been stuffed with all that JUNK, my trailer has been had to be left out in the weather and now I'm gonna have to replace the boards in the bed of it.. So not only did I lose the use of 1/3 of my shop, my trailer has rotted out and I'm gonna have to buy new lumber for it.. And NO, I really dont thank my friend appreciates it either !!

But that is where I've been and what I've been doin for the last several days.. It has been hoverin around 90 here, the temp and the humidity.. So, its been a sweaty job and has sapped all my energy and gumption.. I havent even had enuff energy to post anythang after I come in.. I've worked till almost dark a coupla days and had a lot of folks stop by to talk and so it has taken a lot longer than it should have..

I've still got one corner that has a bunch of my stuff in it that I need to go thru and do somethin with but thats gonna have to wait till another time.. That plastic seat cover on my scooter has turned my sweat into some kind of acid that has left my ass R.A.W. .. And since I have Grand Jury Duty next week I have to get my butt back in shape to sit and listen to testimony for long hours without bein in pure agony..

But how much ya'll wanna bet that they call and schedule my appointment for my gall bladder test durin this next week too ??

I just wanted to stop in and let ya'll know what I was doin and brag on myself a little for all the hard work I've been doin.. I hope I get some energy back soon cause there sure is a lot of shit I wanna do some HARD RANTIN on that has been happenin lately.. Has the world just gone completely fuggin NUTS lately ??

A Story For The Occasion

2007-07-04T13:11:00.000-05:00

Here is somethin I got in an email a few years ago and I thought it was worth keepin, and now I thank it is worth sharin too..

OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM....IN GOD DO WE TRUST!

Unless you know all four stanzas of "The Star Spangled Banner" you may find
this most interesting. Perhaps most of you didn't realize what Francis Scott
Key's profession was or what he was doing on a ship. This is a good brush-up
on your history.

(Editor's Note- Near the end of his life, the great science fiction author
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story about the four stanzas of our national
anthem
However brief, this well-circulated piece is an eye opener from the dearly
departed doctor......) "I have a weakness -- I am crazy, absolutely nuts,
about our national anthem. The words are difficult and the tune is almost
impossible, but frequently when I'm taking a shower I sing it with as much
power
and emotion as I can. It shakes me up every time."

NO REFUGE COULD SAVE: BY DR. ISAAC ASIMOV

I was once asked to speak at a luncheon. Taking my life in my hands, I
announced I was going to sing our national anthem -- all four stanzas.
This was
greeted with loud groans. One man closed the door to the kitchen, where
the
noise of dishes and cutlery was loud and distracting. "Thanks, Herb," I
said. "That's all right," he said. "It was at the request of the kitchen
staff."

I explained the background of the anthem and then sang all four stanzas.
Let me tell you, those people had never heard it before -- or had never
really
listened. I got a standing ovation. But it was not me; it was the anthem.
More recently, while conducting a seminar, I told my students the story of
the
anthem and sang all four stanzas. Again there was a wild ovation and
prolonged applause. And again, it was the anthem and not me. So now let
me tell
you how it came to be written.

In 1812, the United States went to war with Great Britain, primarily over
freedom of the seas. We were in the right. For two years, we held off the
British, even though we were still a rather weak country. Great Britain
was in
a life and death struggle with Napoleon. In fact, just as the United
States
declared war, Napoleon marched off to invade Russia. If he won, as
everyone
expected, he would control Europe, and Great Britain would be isolated. It
was no time for her to be involved in an American war.

At first, our seamen proved better than the British. After we won a battle
on Lake Erie in 1813, the American commander, Oliver Hazard Perry, sent the
message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." However, the weight
of
the British navy beat down our ships eventually. New England, hard-hit by
a
tightening blockade, threatened secession.

Meanwhile, Napoleon was beaten in Russia and in 1814 was forced to
abdicate.
Great Britain now turned its attention to the United States, launching a
three-pronged attack. The northern prong was to come down Lake Champlain
toward
New York and seize parts of New England. The southern prong was to go up
the Mississippi, take New Orleans, and paralyze the west. The central
prong
was to head for the Mid-Atlantic States and then attack Baltimore, the
greatest
port south of New York. If Baltimore was taken, the nation, which still
hugged the Atlantic coast, could be split in two. The fate of the United
States, then, rested to a large extent on the success or failure of the
central
prong.

The British reached the American coast, and on August 24, 1814, took
Washington, DC. Then they moved up the Chesapeake Bay toward Baltimore.
On
September 12, they arrived and found 1,000 men in Fort McHenry, whose guns
controlled the harbor. If the British wished to take Baltimore, they would
have to
take the fort. On one of the British ships was an aged physician, William
Beans, who had been arrested in Maryland and brought along as a prisoner.
Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and friend of the physician, had come to the
ship to
negotiate his release.

The British captain was willing, but the two Americans would have to wait.
It was now the night of September 13, and the bombardment of Fort McHenry
was
about to start. As twilight deepened, Key and Beans saw the American flag
flying over Fort McHenry. Through the night, they heard bombs bursting and
saw the red glare of rockets. They knew the fort was resisting and the
American
flag was still flying. But toward morning the bombardment ceased, and a
dread silence fell. Either Fort McHenry had surrendered and the British
flag
flew above it, or the bombardment had failed and the American flag still
flew.

As dawn began to brighten the eastern sky, Key and Beans stared out at the
fort, trying to see which flag flew over it. He and the physician must
have
asked each other over and over, "Can you see the flag?"

After it was all finished, Key wrote a four stanza poem telling the events
of the night. Called "The Defense of Fort McHenry," it was published in
newspapers and swept the nation. Someone noted that the words fit an old
English
tune called, "To Anacreon in Heaven" -- a difficult melody with an
uncomfortably large vocal range. For obvious reasons, Key's work became
known as "The
Star Spangled Banner," and in 1931 Congress declared it the official anthem
of the United States.

Now that you know the story, here are the words. Presumably, the old
doctor
is speaking This is what he asks Key:

*Oh! Say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we
hailed
at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly
streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof
thro'
the night that our flag was still there. Oh! Say, does that Star-Spangled
Banner yet wave, O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
*
("Ramparts," in case you don't know, are the protective walls or other
elevations that surround a fort.) The first stanza asks a question. The
second
gives an answer:

*On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep Where the foe's
haughty
host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the
towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it
catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, in full glory reflected, now
shines
on the stream 'Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! Long may it wave O'er
the
land of the free and the home of the brave!
*
("The towering steep" is again, the ramparts. The bombardment has failed,
and the British can do nothing more but sail away, their mission a failure.
In the third stanza I feel Key allows himself to gloat over the American
triumph. In the aftermath of the bombardment, Key probably was in no mood
to act
otherwise. During World War I when the British were our staunchest allies,
this third stanza was not sung. However, I know it, so here it is:)

*And where is that band who so dauntingly swore that the havoc of war and
the battle's confusion a home and a country should leave us no more? Their
blood
has washed out their foul footstep's pollution. No refuge could save the
hireling and slave from the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave, and
the
Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
*
(The fourth stanza, a pious hope for the future, should be sung more slowly
than the other three and with even deeper feeling):

*Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes
and the war's desolation, Blest with victory and peace, may the
Heaven-rescued
land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then
conquer
we must, for our cause is just, and this be our motto --"In God is our
trust"
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free
and the home of the brave.
* I hope you will look at the national anthem with new eyes. Listen to it,
the next time you have a chance, with new ears. Pay attention to the words.
And don't let them ever take it away ... not one word of it.
AND IT'S SUNG IN ENGLISH !!!

From John Mark Reynolds

2007-07-04T02:09:00.000-05:00

from here:
http://www.scriptoriumdaily.com/2007/06/27/patriotism-and-the-christian/

Patriotism and the Christian

John Mark Reynolds

06.27.2007

The love of country is an excellent school for the soul.

Patriotism is a good measure of the maturity of a man. Young men of our era are often too self-centered to love country, old men too cynical, and all of us have been taught that self-interest and self-esteem trump the needs of the community. Find a true patriot and you will find a man with virtue.

Amongst Christian academics, especially in Christian colleges, it has become almost fashionable to mock patriotism. Sadly, despite noble intentions much of the “religious right” leadership has failed, giving some semblance of justification to this scorn.

In the last few years, many Christians have become justly dissatisfied with aspects of the “religious right.” Too many of the self-appointed leaders of the movement have lacked a sophisticated understanding of Christian culture. This has led a few Christians to search for a “religious left,” but the general unwillingness of the left in the United States to defend traditional morality and the unborn make this move morally difficult.

The religious right had many successes, but too often it has been content to be on the defensive. It reacts to attacks on traditional American culture, sometimes confusing America with the broader culture of Christendom. The United States may choose to be part of a Christian civilization, but to her shame in areas such as slavery and abortion has not always done so. Prophetic voices from Christ’s kingdom helped end slavery and continue to attack the culture of death, but sometimes these voices have been too muted.

Christians on the left are too proud to be patriots and Christians on the right are often too uncritical of the nation. America runs the risk of having the liabilities of an association with Christendom without the benefits . . . since in this decade America has been ruthlessly attacked by enemies who make no distinction between the two.

Make no mistake. The 9/11 terrorists hate America for her virtues as well as her vices.

If the United States were more consistently part of Christendom, if the nation was perfectly in harmony with Christian civilization, then Islamic fascists would hate America all the more. It is true that part of what these radicals hate is Western decadence.

But what if, by some miracle, a golden age dawned and all American sins vanished? Flourishing Christian universities full of women who wished to serve the world in the name of Christ Jesus would be equally offensive to these terrorists. To the extent that all the Western nations remain part of Christendom, they will remain in danger.

Some attempt to “get out” of the conflict by abandoning their nation and living as if Heaven had already come to earth.

This is a false and treasonous option.

The City of God is not yet in our midst fully and so Christians have a duty to the nation that maintains virtue in this life. Until Christ comes to bring His perfect Kingdom to the Earth, we have a dual citizenship. We cannot love the City to come if we have not learned to love the city we see now. Augustine could see the sins of Rome and still weep to see it fall to the barbarians.

The barbarians have sacked the city we call home. They have killed the innocent. Justice demands action. Forgiveness is the task of individuals, not institutions. I can forgive those who offend me. Nations cannot.

Christians cannot retreat from the world in order to save it. Biola has always understood this lesson. There has not been a just cause in the city of man in the ninety-year history of this institution that has not seen sons and daughters of Alma Mater act. So it must be this time.

Of course, we are more than citizens of the earthly city. Our first allegiance is elsewhere. Patriotism, the love of country is a lesser love. There are greater loves, including the love of our Sovereign God, which is the love to which all loves point. Patriotism, properly understand, is the love of the city and of her just laws that points us to the greater City and the great Law Giver.

We might think of patriotism then as a kindergarten of love. If we cannot love our nation, from which we have received so many tangible benefits, how will we love a God that we have not seen?

But aren’t we called to be global Christians? What of the great missionary heroes who loved the world more than their own nation? What of them?

Some special souls are called to love a people not their own. This is safest (I have noticed) when they first have learned to love their own folk.

I dare not claim to be so developed in my love of God. Some may be able to love their neighbor so well that they can move on and love somebody else’s neighbor, but not I still find it hard to love the guy next door!

There is a great danger in the walk of faith in pretending to virtue we do not have.

For most of us, doing our duty to country is a first step in the harder obedience of the love of God. Those who have mastered the graduate levels of love are beyond our reckoning. They are the men who move beyond this little love of place and time, to embrace the world.

Most of us pretend to this greatness so we can avoid the hard disciplines of the lesser love.

So, we must love the city to which we are called. Most men must love God and their own home country. For most me (and for many of my readers), this country is the United States of America.

Never trust a man who is not saintly, but who cannot love his people.

It is good to be reminded what is at stake in the War we now fight.

The United States is a nation governed by an ideology that is part of the West. To its very core this Western civilization is one of Christendom’s proudest achievements. This very idea, the West, is under attack and it is the duty of all Christians (including those not in the West) to rally around it and save what can be and should be saved.

So again: we are faced with a question, “How can we live in this dangerous time? How can the barbarians at the gate be turned aside? How can the West be saved?”

Oddly, I believe the answer must lie in rejecting falsehoods so many of us have been taught. We have been taught that cynicism is wisdom. We have learned to despise our fathers and mock those in authority over us. We have been taught that the clever student is also the one who “sees through” his elders. Too often, we deny our home and heritage with the pride that says, “We know better than they did.”

Such an attitude cannot help us through the days ahead. In dark days, it is fatal to individuals and to the community that holds it. Scripture warns us that those who despise God’s leaders and forget their heritage do so at their own peril.

Cynicism seems to work well in times of peace. It is cool . . . and our medium of choice, television, is a cool medium. The cynic risks nothing. The cynic never faces betrayal, for he has no cause. He never faces pain, because there is nothing he loves. Of course, the cynic is actually impotent. It is the believer that dares to dream and build. But in times of peace, the cynic can live like a parasite, mocking the believers from a safe distance. Our bitter little hearts can mock with impunity; our humorless, selfish souls can find a bastard joy in ridicule.

Not for us the true pain and true joy of the builder, the believer. We are “wiser” than that.

But of course, this is no more a time of trial than any other time! We only more clearly recognize the battle, not ultimately against flesh and blood, that we always face. Our cynicism in peacetime has left us in danger of being unable to believe in the victory of justice in a dark time.

The way forward for us as a people, as Christian educators, is to remind ourselves first of who we are and how we got to this place. We need once more to honor the fathers and the sacred places of God’s providential actions in our lives and in our nation. Only then, having restored the memory of these great things to our minds, can we know the way forward.

How do we know this? The lesson is all around us. Who does not know the insanity of the college student who tries to outgrow his parents by pretending he has none? You cannot escape your heritage. We can build on the faith of our fathers, change as a result of it, reject what is evil in it, but we cannot live as if it were not real.

comment: Happy 4th everybody..

Its All Comin Together Now

2007-07-03T15:36:00.000-05:00

Itried my latest batch of homebrew and it is now ready for "prime time" and I canned 2 gallons of salsa yesterday and the ribs are ready to marinade and I got a coupla big steaks to grill too.. From the looks of it tho its gonna be rainy and soggy so figger its gonna be much of a get together after all.. It aint gonna rain forever(Ihope) and we will still get to us a good time sooner or later..

The Mrs. started whinin when she saw how many jalepenos I was gonna put in it so I left out a bunch of em and now my salsa is kinda whimpy !! I can still stir in some cayene pepper before I serve it tho and it wont be quiet so whimpy..

I dont know what the problem was with my cilantro.. It had a darker and milder taste than I am used to cilantro tastin like.. It aint bad, but just not the same.. It may just not be as fresh as I'm used to..

But I did get rid of a shitload of my tamaters that I have had stuck all over the house.. All the window sills have been full and pansfull on the washin machine and dryer in the laundry room and there wadnt a spare inch of counter space and we have a huge, long counter..

I didnt let any "lips and assholes" get into my salsa either !! Thats my term for stuff that gets thrown into products you buy, like bologna and hot dogs.. I culled every little hard piece of tamater and any tuff skin on the onion and cleaned all the seeds and white membrane out of the peppers and trimmed all the stems and wilted bits off the cilantro.. So it was all good stuff I pur in my salsa.. I used the ripest of my tamaters too so it has a rich mater taste and smell to it.. My limes wadnt as ripe as I would have liked but they wadnt real hard either..

Anybody else make homemade salsa and have some special ingredients that you add to it ??

I Could'nt Live Like That

2007-07-02T13:12:00.000-05:00

THIS post at Belmont Club, in the blogroll just really gets my hackles up !! The comments to it pisses me off real bad.. You ever see a bunch so damn scared of the WILD ??

That bunch there talk about the critters we around here deal with on a regular basis like we talk about The Concrete Jungle they deal with.. But I trust the critters we deal with a lot more than the critters they deal with !!

From the comments I come to the conclusion that they are speakin from what they have read in books more than what is "gathered" knowledge of the wild..

I have sat and watched the deer and wild hogs on one side of me while I could hear the sounds of the populated world on the other.. I've listened to the coyotes call till it was drowned out by the honkin of horns and the screechin of tires..

From the comments at Belmont Club I would guess the commenters would be more at home in the confines of conditioned and filtered air that they would in the fresh natural breeze.. Nope.. I dont thank I could live like that..

Everythang Is On Hold

2007-07-01T12:55:00.000-05:00

The Champaign of Bottled Homebrews

A lady that is in my Yahoo Group has a husband that is a SOF Troop that is currently on his 4th tour of Iraq.. He worked hard enuff to impress somebody with a buncha brass on their collar and got a few days R&R home..

I had planned to have a batch of Homecomin Homebrew ready when he got here and have it delivered along with some fresh garden veggies to welcome him home and show some appreciation for what he does for us..

As could be expected, the weather screwed the Homecomin Homebrew and it didnt get bottled in time..

I talked to her and explained the situation and told her that I had a special coupla bottles left from my last batch, but seems that she aint too worried about the homebrew right now..

So, I'm sittin here today havin a bottle of that last batch I saved and havin a ceegar with it, and DAMN, it sure is good..

I plan on poppin a top on a bottle of the new batch too before the day is over.. That is if this first bottle dont knock my lights out !! This last batch rates right up there at the top of some of the best I have ever made.. Its stout and tart enuff to make your tongue water after havin a sip and dont leave an after-taste like store-bought beer does..

This is the kinda brew that you drank from a cup, like the "mountain shiners" do you see in the old movies.. You dont neccesarily have to wear the overalls when you drank it, but it does add a little "ambiance" to the occasion..

This damn weather sure is playin hell with all my plans I try to make.. I've been plannin a day or 2 at the farm to get caught up on my mowin and tillin but with it rainin damn-near every day it makes it hard to get anythang done.. I barely get to mow the yard here at home while the grass is, at least, almost dry enuff to mow without cloggin the mower between rains.. Yep, we are havin rain and thunder again today too.. Had a good shower yesterday afternoon but I thought that if it just rained a little and cleared up this mornin that I would still be able to go to the farm this afternoon and get somethin done, but it has persisted in keepin on rain for the last coupla hours now.. Gonna be too wet to do any mowin today now..

I've got my chain hoist loaded on my trailer now and I need to find another tree to hang it in.. I've had it in the big peecan tree in the front yard for about 10 years but the old peecan tree, the same one that has been fallin down, finally rotted the big limb I had the hoist hangin in and I parked my trailer under it and sure enuff it feel onto the trailer the other day.. I dont have any more trees big enuff here at the house to hang my hoist in that are anywhere that I can still use it so I figger I will just hang it in a tree at the farm.. I've got plenty of big oaks out there that will be strong enuff to pick up just about anythang I wanna pick up..

Now understand that this aint no small hoist.. Its a 30 TON hoist and weighs about 500 lbs. !! It aint gonna be an easy task gettin that big sucker hung in a tree out there.. The tree limb that I would like to hang it in is about 20 feet up and I aint figgered out how I would get it up that high yet.. Just another one of my projects that has been put on hold cause of all the rain..

The Mrs. has plans for me to produce a batch of my famous bbq ribs for the holiday, one day this week.. She plans on makin some tater salad too with em and I guess I'll make a pan of baked beans to go with all that .. Kinda hard to have ribs and tater salad and then not have baked beans with it.. Just wouldnt be "proper", as my daddy would say.. And never can tell, I might just get energetic and stir up a big bowl of cole slaw so the tater salad and baked beans dont get lonesome..

My neighbor-buddy, Billy, is havin a birthday July 4th too and we usually invite him down to join us and celebrate with a few coldbeers but he is supposed to be goin to she his gravely ill sister in Indiana either today or tomoro..

Last year we still had our "house guest" with us and Sherry and her husband came over and Billy and Gunny stopped by and joined us too..

The Mrs. aint said nothin bout whether anybody has said anythang about joinin us this year.. Billy is probably not gonna be here and our house guest aint welcome here anymore and neither is Gunny.. Its our turn to visit Sherry so dont know if they will come or not.. But we live here on the Main Drag in town and you never can tell who will drive by and decide to stop and visit, specially if they see me cookin and grillin and sippin !!

If anybody happens to be in the neighborhood, ya'll stop by !!

Supporting My Claim

2007-06-29T12:47:00.000-05:00

The Belmont Club, in my blogroll, had this to say:

Timing is everything

"Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders," says the Politico. Glenn Reynolds thinks that after having "suckered" President Bush into destroying his coalition they sense the time to strike.

Pelosi and Reid in making the conventional political calculation and headcounts, may be ignoring the underlying reason for the immigration bill's defeat: a concern that the President was not doing enough to ensure national and border security. By making attempting to force a withdrawal from Iraq now, the Democrats seem determined to show that not only are they deaf to that message but don't mind opening themselves to the accusation that having failed to undermine national security one way, they will now proceed to try another. There may be good reasons for supporting a withdrawal from Iraq and as there were good reasons for supporting the defunct immigration bill, but Pelosi and Reid's reported plans will convey none of them.

I noticed that as soon as G.W. came out in strong support of the amnesty plan that there was somethin behind it and that same day or early the next day the (D)s dropped their calls for an immediate withdrawl from Iraq.. Coincidence?? I dont fuggin thank so !! I've said that G.W. supported the amnesty plan cause that was how he was gonna get the (D)s to let him keep the Troops in Iraq.. A VERY Dirty Deal, if you will..

Now that the amnesty plan has met its doom the (D)s are gonna be back to pushin the withdrawl from Iraq and they are gonna push with a vengence now.. This only backs up my claim that there was a deal tween G.W. and the (D)s on amnesty..

But like Belmont Club says, the (D)s dont understand that the American people want SECURITY, and we want it NOW..

No Amnesty

2007-06-28T17:33:00.000-05:00

The amnesty plan finally got its just reward today and I'm havin a celebration to honor its demise.. Wanna join me ??

I'm just glad this nasty thang is behind us now but I have a sneaky suspicion that the (D)s will turn their attention to the withdrawl from Iraq now.. Sounds like the squishy (R)s are gonna be joinin em too..

I dont know for sure but I thank that the amnesty was tied to the (D)s softenin on Iraq.. We will know soon enuff now that amnesty is no longer in the spotlight.. If the (D)s come back with a vigorous attack on Iraq now we will know for sure then..

I had the best supper last nite that I can remember in a long time.. I picked a sack of white beans out of the garden and cooked em with some smoked bacon and onion in em and made a skillet of cornbread and fried a skillet of taters with onion and peppers in em.. We made pigs of ourselves on it and I wadnt the only one that enjoyed the hell out of it..

We have been pickin a shit-load of tamaters too.. We got em everywhere in the house and I plan to make a huge pot of picante soon out of em with some of my garden onions in it and a friend traded me some jalepenos from here garden for some of my tamaters to go in it too..

Mt tamaters are gonna need some work on em real soon cause I have been givin em some fertilizer and we have been havin plenty of the rain that this whole part of the state has been havin that has produced some huge tamaters and the stakes and line I have tiein em up has started to break and fall.. I'm talkin bout tamaters as big as your hand too !! Some of em weigh a pound or more..

I've also been gettin plenty of snap pintos and some green beans too but these white beans just rocked my world they were so good.. I should also be gettin some peppers soon and the squash and okry is comin along good now.. The peppers have pods on em but no blooms yet on the squash or okry..

The rest of North Texas has been gettin some heavy rains to the point of bein bad floods but we have been gettin just glancin blows from it.. Still we have had rains that came up over the street curbs and covered the yard and flooded under the house, and we live in a high spot of town.. Usually when it starts to move anywhere it moves over us before it goes on away so we could still have some trouble out of it yet..

My neighbor behind me has his drainage route piled up with shit and it is makin the water from his yard pour over into mine and it runs a foot deep or more at times.. That aint gonna happen for long tho cause I'm gonna build a dam on the fence-row to block it from comin over into my yard and all his shit he has piled back there is gonna float away down the street on the other side or back up under his house..

But so far I have had to water the garden from the well a total of 3 times now and that was a coupla months ago.. I just need it to dry enuff to get about 2 more rows tilled so I can get started on my Fall garden.. I wanna put some onion seed out and some more greens.. I may still have time to get some cucumbers started before it gets too hot to do any good.. I dont care nothin bout em but the Mrs. wants some..

I got a call from the VA the other day and they said I wadnt allowed Dental so now I gotta find my letter that says I am and get it to somebody and get back on the list for a dentist visit.. I'm still waitin to see when I'm gonna be due for my sono on my gall bladder.. Come to thank of it I aint got my meds yet either and I usually would have had em by now.. I guess I need to check on em .. I can do that online tho and aint no biggy..

I thought I was gonna get to get ALL my property taxes paid today but when I got there and talked to em I still have another bit to pay next month.. That'll just give me somethin to celebrate then since I have the amnesty plan goin down in flames to party to today.. I caint have too much fun all at one time or I couldnt stand it..

I'm Ashamed Too

2007-06-22T16:26:00.000-05:00

Steve, at THIS post, says that his Grandpas would be ashamed of our countrymen of today for their laziness.. I'm ashamed of their laziness too, and their cowardice and treason and UNpatriotic actions and underminin our President..

I'm not in any shape or position to do anythang about em and often feel HELPLESS about the situation.. I just go take care of my garden and try to get stuff in order so that when thangs go all-to-shit that I'll be somewhat prepared to deal with the situation and may be able to even help others..

I'm NOT helpless, I'm just not needed right now..

But Steve is right in his post.. Just where will we really fight Al Q at ??

A Date With Destiny

2007-06-21T15:38:00.000-05:00

Well, I've got an appointment with the "pecker checker" tomoro and I'm startin to get the "dreads" over it.. Its gonna be a new one that I aint seen before so I know I'll have all the same ol bullshit to go thru.. Tests, and then the million questions and all the same ol "quit smokin", "watch your diet", "your blood pressure is high, you need meds for it", "how much do you drink", and all the other shit I aint even gonna speak of here..

They always wanna look at my stump and see what a fucked up job the "Butcher" did when he cut my leg off and ask another thousand questions about it.. In other words, they worry and question about everythang except what needs to have attention paid to it..

I'd feel better about it if I thought I was gonna get the ball rollin on some thangs I NEED done, but I dont have very high hopes of gettin the results I want.. I figger I'll just get my meds renewed and if I'm real lucky I'll get an appointment to take some more tests in Shreveport before long..

I guess I better go start to make my list of stuff I dont wanna forget when I get there.. I still aint sure what all I wanna bring uo to the Doc yet.. I guess it will depend on what my impression is on em first, then I'll see how far I want em to take it.. If its one of those spaced-out nuts I'll just let em let me die in peace and not let em drag my sufferin out for a long time while they use me for a fuggin guinea pig..

I'll try and get back here with an update tomoro evenin, if I'm able..

Mental Fatigue

2007-06-18T18:09:00.000-05:00

Yeah, I know, I've been kinda scarce around here lately..

My mind is just so tired from seein all the faults and the wrong that is happenin and not bein able to do anythang about it..

Its so disgustin to see people that should know damn-well-better than do somethin the way they do yet fly headlong into it with abandon.. Its like society, as a whole, has Altzheimers !!

Even tho they have done somethin a dozen times the same way and every time it all turns to shit, they still do it the same way again and again..

Nobody seems to learn from mistakes anymore and nobody accepts advice from those that have done somethin before and nobody looks at history anymore and be-damned if there are instructions for somethin..

Did America not learn any lessons in Gulf War I ??

Did America not learn any lessons with the first Illegal Alien Amnesty ??

Did America not learn any lessons with the Iranian Hostage Crisis ??

Did America not learn any lessons from the Gas Crisis in the early '70's ??

Did Israel not learn any lessons when its enemies amassed on its borders ??

Did Russia not learn any lessons when it began The Cold War ??

Did the World not learn any lessons when the Mooselimbs began The Crusades ??

I guess I'm just stressin out on shit and maybe I need to just post some recipes for a while.. I know that I need it to stop rainin for a while so I can get to spend some time at the farm again.. But I aint gonna take any more of them hot-ass Hot Links out there with me anymore !!

The First Day Of A/C

2007-06-12T18:35:00.000-05:00

Last week the Mrs. bought an A/C unit that is a little bigger than the one we had and I have spent the last coupla days puttin it in..

Yesterday I took out the old one and got the cage for the new one installed.. Today I got the new unit brought in and stuck in the cage and got the wirin replaced and connected..

I fired that mother up and the kid is in the other room lookin for a blanket now..

A buddy was supposed to come by and help me yesterday but he never showed, so I just did it myself.. I've got a few muscles that aint any better for the wear and tear but I'll live over it..

A nice little thunderstorm passed by real close while I was doin the major part of the hard labor and got it real nice and sticky for me and that left me kinda soggy when I went to hookin up the new wirin to the breaker box.. I dont guess I have to tell you that I was a little leary bout pokin my long sweaty fangers in there with all that voltage, but I got it did !!

I've had that damn A/C unit on my trailer since I went and got it last week and aint been able to haul my mower back to the farm so I could hook the tiller up to it and get a coupla rows ready to plant the squash and okra and pepper plants that the Mrs. picked up for me last week, so my plants have now started saggin and droopin and may not last till I can get em in the ground.. Not to mention that the damn grass is gettin so tall that it hits the front of the car drivin in..

Looks like that about the time it gets hot enuff to turn on the A/C that I'm gonna need to be spendin all my time out at the farm tryin to get it mowed and tilled and cleaned up.. But at least that will take my mind off the high-ass electricity bill, now that we got that big-ass A/C unit !!

Thank I'll just have a big frosty mug of coldbeer and a ceegar and a long soak in the tub.. Could be worse..

Have You Noticed It Too ??

2007-06-11T21:50:00.000-05:00

I saw a headline today that said Truck Traffic was bein inspected for terrorism goin into New York City, and I have seen that there are several places in the South that are gonna be havin D.O.T. Truck Inspections, in several places around here too..

Kinda makes me wonder if I dont need to be doin some thangs that I've been puttin off till I got all my taxes paid !! I've got till 01 July to pay em before all that extra penalty and interest goes into effect, but I already have the money rat-holed but want to wait till after I have my "pecker-checker" appointment the 22nd of this month, just in case I have to go into the hospital and the Mrs. needs a motel room for a coupla days or gas money to drive back and forth..

There sure is a lot of shit that I need for my camp and it is worryin me.. I've GOTTA have 2 new batteries and I really need some bulk foodstuffs too, like oatmeal and rice and dried beans.. But that kinda stuff tends to get infested with bugs real easy and you caint store it for long periods of time without it gettin to the point that it just aint fit to eat.. Several of my emergency meds are goin out of date and need to be replaced too.. Those take longer to get too..

I need a new CB and my "kicker" box is broke, so I'm not gonna have my long range communications I thought I was.. My kicker box ran on 110 AC and if/when I get a new one it will be 12 volt this time.. But for that I'm gonna have to devise me a hand powered generator to keep the power output up to proper levels to be able to make long distance contact.. Runnin my 5000 watt Power Base generator a lot will eat up my gasoline supple real quick and never can tell what the gas supply will be like after a while.. I've got an old kids bicycle that I have rigged with an alternator off a car but I caint seem to get any output out of it.. What I need is an old timey car generator.. I used to have one but my Daddy gave it away to somebody.. He was always good at givin MY shit away !! I figgered I could put a kid on the bicycle and have em peddle and keep the batteries charged.. Might take a little bribin tho.. Maybe I can find somebody around here that knows what I'm doin wrong with the alternator and can set me straight on it..

But it definitely sounds like the threat of terrorism is on the increase and action is startin to be geared up to counter it.. I just wonder how long it will be before the official announcement is let and who is gonna make it.. I've got better thangs to worry bout right now tho and I'm just gonna go ahead and act like the announcement has already been made.. I've always thought that Threat Level was a bunch of shit.. They dont change it till AFTER somethin happens anyway..

Tomoro is probably gonna be a busy day for me so guess I better go get a little rest..

What A MESS !!

2007-06-05T15:17:00.000-05:00

We loaded up and went to the farm and picked a few more tamaters just after noon today and when we got back we found the top 2/3rds(bout 40 feet) of our big peecan tree in the front yard had broke off and was all over the front yard.. It had tore down the phone lines and ripped the cable anchor out and ripped the wires out of the junction box too.. I had to get the ladder set up and get my tools and put up a new anchor and run the wire to the house and connect the wires back into the junction box..

I called the Fire Dept. and let em know that I was gonna be havin a fire in my front yard for a few days and plan to set it ablaze after the folks leave that work in the businesses close by.. No use in smokin them out..

It coulda been a lot worse like it was after the big ice storm we had in 2000 but its still bad enuff to cause me a lot of extra work that I dont need..

I had planned to go spend a coupla days at the farm and get a little more cleanin and piddlin done out there but it looks like the plan has been changed for me now..

Damn shame I dont have somethin to cook to put on that good ol peecan fire I'm gonna be havin !! I bet I have me a big ol pot or two of campfire coffee before I get thru with it.. I got me a whole box of my ceegars the other day at half price, plus 10 more free and I bet I have me a few of them suckers too !!

I started a SPECIAL batch of my homebrew yesterday too, but those details are gonna be for another post..

The Day Before The Day: June 4th

2007-06-04T19:28:00.000-05:00

From HERE

For Israel, There Was No Peace Before The Land
By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON -- There has hardly been an Arab peace plan in the past 40 years -- including the current Saudi version -- that does not demand a return to the status quo of June 4, 1967. Why is that date so sacred? Because it was the day before the outbreak of the Six Day War in which Israel scored one of the most stunning victories of the 20th century. The Arabs have spent four decades trying to undo its consequences.

The real anniversary of the war should be now, three weeks earlier. On May 16, 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Nasser demanded the evacuation from the Sinai Peninsula of the U.N. buffer force that had kept Israel and Egypt at peace for 10 years. The U.N. complied, at which point Nasser imposed a naval blockade of Israel's only outlet to the south, the port of Eilat -- an open act of war.

How Egypt came to this reckless provocation is a complicated tale (chronicled in Michael Oren's magisterial history "Six Days of War'') of aggressive intent compounded with fateful disinformation. An urgent and false Soviet warning that Israel was preparing to attack Syria led to a cascade of intra-Arab maneuvers that in turn led Nasser, the champion of pan-Arabism, to mortally confront Israel with a remilitarized Sinai and a southern blockade.

Why is this still important? Because that three-week period between May 16 and June 5 helps explain Israel's 40-year reluctance to give up the fruits of the Six Day War -- the Sinai, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza -- in return for paper guarantees of peace. Israel had similar guarantees from the 1956 Suez War, after which it evacuated the Sinai in return for that U.N. buffer force and for assurances from the Western powers of free passage through the Straits of Tiran.

All this disappeared with a wave of Nasser's hand. During those three interminable weeks, President Lyndon Johnson tried to rustle up an armada of countries to run the blockade and open Israel's south. The effort failed dismally.

It is hard to exaggerate what it was like for Israel in those three weeks. Egypt, already in an alliance with Syria, formed an emergency military pact with Jordan. Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco began sending forces to join the coming fight. With troops and armor massing on Israel's every frontier, jubilant broadcasts in every Arab capital hailed the imminent final war for the extermination of Israel. "We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants,'' declared PLO head Ahmed Shuqayri, "and as for the survivors -- if there are any -- the boats are ready to deport them.''

For Israel, the waiting was excruciating and debilitating. Israel's citizen army had to be mobilized. As its soldiers waited on the various fronts for the world to rescue the nation from peril, Israeli society ground to a halt and its economy began bleeding to death. Army Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, later to be hailed as a war hero and even later as a martyred man of peace, had a nervous breakdown. He was incapacitated to the point of incoherence by the unbearable tension of waiting with the life of his country in the balance.

We know the rest of the story. Rabin recovered in time to lead Israel to victory. But we forget how perilous was Israel's condition. The victory hinged on a successful attack on Egypt's air force on the morning of June 5. It was a gamble of astonishing proportions. Israel sent the bulk of its 200-plane air force on the mission, fully exposed to antiaircraft fire and missiles. Had they been detected and the force destroyed, the number of planes remaining behind to defend the Israeli homeland -- its cities and civilians -- from the Arab air forces' combined 900 planes was ... 12.

We also forget that Israel's occupation of the West Bank was entirely unsought. Israel begged Jordan's King Hussein to stay out of the conflict. Engaged in fierce combat with a numerically superior Egypt, Israel had no desire to open a new front just yards from Jewish Jerusalem and just miles from Tel Aviv. But Nasser personally told Hussein that Egypt had destroyed Israel's air force and airfields and that total victory was at hand. Hussein could not resist the temptation to join the fight. He joined. He lost.

The world will soon be awash with 40th anniversary retrospectives on the war -- and on the peace of the ages that awaits if Israel would only return to June 4, 1967. But Israelis are cautious. They remember the terror of that unbearable May when, with Israel possessing no occupied territories whatsoever, the entire Arab world was furiously preparing Israel's imminent extinction. And the world did nothing.