It was late evening. The sun was setting on the small town of Alva Oklahoma, a virtual wide spot in the road and seat of Woods county Oklahoma. As I hung around at the grain elevator where my dad worked I hooked up with a truck driver who was brooming out his trailer. I had never had close company with a black man. In the mid-1960’s Alva the “Norman Rockwell” painting of a small American town, had one family of blacks. I had seen them about town but never had the nerve to approach.
The older black man was more than cordial when I volunteered to grab another push broom and help out. I was stricken with how comfortable I was with his gentle, quiet manner. A good first meeting. There is a comforting feeling that comes with a good man, it permeates the air about them, and lays to rest any fears you might have. A fellow who is at rest with his conscience brings little conflict into relationships. We broomed out his truck and I got my first look at the cab of a high dollar semi tractor. It was like a space ship! All smooth and lit up. Quite the deal for a kid from the sticks. I envied Ike.
Sheriff Clark has the same “center of granite” feel of an individual who has a simple set of beliefs, a clear vision of right and wrong, with a mixture of compassion and strength, all in proper proportion. Ike, long since dead, shared a place with sheriff Dave Clark, he was a good man.
Well, how many discussions about the ”nature of truth” or “what, exactly, is a lie?” do we have to slug through to get to the only answer? Truth is truth. The consequences may differ, but the essence is immutable. If it has the nature of deception as the crux of the conversation, it is a lie.
Create a past. Play with the language, set the masses against each other. Get out that old dog-eared copy of ‘1984′ and follow the instructions for building a new society!
If you pay just a little attention to the issue of true illiteracy, you will see it all around you. How many times have we witnessed some club-handed attempts at the written word and that weird printing/cursive hybrid so many have adopted in lieu of learning to write cursive. Fact is, illiteracy is cool. At least that is the current trend in achieving ghetto-pass legitimacy on the pop-cult cool-o-meter. Good grades, proper English, cursive writing, etc., are all signs of capitulating to the will of the “man”. And that won’t do.
Joey has been recruited to fulfill the psychosexual/homicidal dreams of an Aussie Jihadi. Finally a little originality!>>>>>>>
“Where is my aluminum foil hat? I sense a conspiracy in the tree line!”. “By the way can I have a job that includes thermonuclear bombs?”
Why I couldn’t comprehend Obama backing the bro’hood during the Arab Spring. This information has been available but it appears that Obama and his co-horts didn’t research their decision well enough, or they just instinctively back their spiritual brothers in any anti-western culturel insurgency out there. Obama will not stop till America is humbled and hobbled. Could he be humbling and hobbling America as punishment for our terrible colonialism. (I don’t know either but there must have been somewhere where we colonized).
He mentioned Islam during his inaugural address. It seemed precariously inappropriate for our fearless leader to extend the olive branch, so specifically, and and in so doing exalt one faith, above all others?!
A group hug, milk and cookies, get out the mats and it’s nappy time!
THE DOCTOR CAREFULLY PLACED LEECHES AROUND THE HEMOPHILIACS TORN AND BLEEDING WOUND?
The screen doors really improved ventilation on our new submarine!
Neville Chamberlain invited world war two in for a cup of afternoon tea while waiting for a miracle. Several million Jews shared tea with Adolf and Neville. Dolf and Nev went home that evening. The Jews have not been seen since.. One might assume they are still waiting for a miracle.
You ever pull a splinter out of you finger? That moment just before you pull it out. Pause, hold for a moment grimace and pull!
It hurts and it takes just a moment to “screw your courage to the sticking point…” You can endure that moment of pain and give it a good yank, or you can spend the next millennia waiting for a miracle.
Wish I had a nickel for every time I have heard people say “I would never just sit there and take it! I would fight to my last breath!” at the sight of a victim, about to get shot. The fact is that most die of denial. Your average person just can’t fully believe that they are about to die. They seem to die WAITING FOR A MIRACLE.
“BAMA Plans on executive action in changinggun laws.
Tex Gov. Gregg Abbot advises Obama on where he can store the gun legislation. “First you should fold it four ways and then !@#$%%^&! Come and get them!” (The guns that is).
It seems the honeymoon is over. But not to worry too much. Like everything Mr. Obama does he is long on lecture and short on real effect. Executive orders are only applicable to federal employees. The states have naught to fret over, they can just refuse to enforce the edict. And they can all stand, face DC., and say nanny, nanny boo-boo !
SOME FISH SWIM IN SCHOOLS. IT IS TO CONFUSE PREDATORS.
It is a matter of too much information to process. In order to hit a moving target the predator must judge distance, relative speed of the prey, the trajectory of the lunge, and that point in space, ahead of the prey that the two will meet in a accurate lunge, yada, yadda, yadda…… just a whole lot of figuring. . The following clip is cool but optional for those who understand and DONT HAVE A COUPLE OF SECONDS TO MAKE AN OLD MAN HAPPY!
I get a similar “deer in the headlights” reaction from my Granddaughter Maci when she finds herself before a riot of pleasurable choices on the candy isle of a Quik Shoppe.
I have writers block. From too manychoices. Cataclysmic events are developing too fast. I have been stuck for five days and the news keeps coming, each event on the heels of the last so rapidly I can’t decide which story to respond to.
Pathological liars. The Ugly American
ISIS, center of gravity of the middle east. Baghdadi (Grand Poobah) Leader of ISIS eats infidel babies and craps Jihadists.
“Bama’s plot to fill the states with dependant Democratic voters is in high gear. As millions cross our southern border and snuggle down in our welfare state for some ‘Bama phones” food stamps and scones. Welfare, originally meant to be the last resort for desperate women with children, has swollen to encompass a life style marked by privilege and inactivity (at least as far as work goes).
History, like a great river through time, is changing it’s course. Rome failed to see the handwriting on the wall. And “the glory that is Rome” is no more. Egypt, central to the history of the middle east, held a zenith in cultural evolution for more than a millennia. Where are the builders of the pyramids now? Where is the rescue vessel for the third world? WE are the lifeboat now.
The better angels of mans virtue cannot solve the problem of the third world foundering but the icy waters of the briney deep are breaching the gunwales. Our boat sinks deeper with each immigrant snatched from the chaos of the third world. Inevitably, we founder.
. And the world waits in quiet desperation. Waiting for something, anything to turn the course of events for us. Maybe a new leader for the world?
IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF “WILL IT HAPPEN,” IT IS A MATTER OF WHEN.
EGYPT, OUR LONG TERM ALLY, feels the hate from the Obama administration. We are at a low tide in our relationship with Israel. Our single ally in the middle east, is quite reachable by the Midrange ICBM”s that Iran is developing (and recently testing in violation of the Obamas “Nuclear Confusion” treaty ). NO, they are not supposed to have this weapon. YES, they swear they nave no nuclear intent. YES Obama chooses to do nothing. YES Obma is helping them complete their readiness for committing nuclear holocaust.
911 was a humble enterprise, three thousand plus casualties. No planes (accept for the POTUS), were in the air. And a lot of fightersflying around ‘lookin’ for the shit’. Wal Street bobbled, and the nation staqgered. Imagine just two suitcase nukes nukes that take out washigton D.C. and New York. City? POTUS (Bush at the time) was being shffeled around to confound any potential assasins.
What would happen if it were just two suitcase nukes. One could incinerate Manhatten Island. Two culd make both the Island and Washingato D.C. smoldering cinders in a nano second. Just this attack on two important unban centers would, paralyze America.Or float a mega tonnage warhead into New York Harbor,
Whenever Bama sees any white man, his internal eye sees this.
The big bad colonialist subjugating he and his bros.
BAM brought the savage colonialism to it’s knees And like most narcissists he believes he is special, and it is this ‘annointed’ quality the gives him the special insight to know what is best for everyone in theworld. Only other very special people can understand the Systemic Colonialism that has America under it’s spell. To bring it into parity wit the rest of the world our leader wisely DESTROYED THE ECONOMY AND SWELLED THE WELFARE ROLES to the point that over 40% of Americans are on the dole in one capacity or another.
The late great United States An anemic third world giant
All cascading now, all in motion. The arch villain, surprised even us this time. He turned out to be our leader.
We used to gather round the ol’ black and white T.V. near Christmas and all watch the Peanuts Gang. We had three networks and four channel selections, So what might be a Christmas special among a crowed of other such programs actually became a family tradition. Each spring, when the tornados tread, “The Wizard of OZ” was the family bill of fare, In the fall “the Great Pumpkin made his spooky appearance on Halloween.
It’s Linus who delivers the goods…. simple, sweet, full of love and spiritually inspiring.
These days, with countless channels and viewing options, we get to see the most embarrassing bit of ‘special education’ I have ever witnessed. I can’t contrive such idiocy as proselytized by our first couple in their comments about the show. So here ya go………. It’s almost impossible to see this and not cringe a couple of times……
POTUS confronting the San Bernardino shooting. At first we didn’t know what to think. Just another disgruntled nut-job or Jihadi assault. Pres. opted for the whacko model and let the 2nd amendment have with both barrels. BUt as information painting a picture of a couple of Jihadis began to obscure all other Motis Operendi the caterwauling from the Oval Office became distinctly muted. ‘Bamas erstwhile beaming countenance has sunken into a preoccupied, slack-jawed stare.
Look at the vid below. The mood is not the recent rather combative persona evidenced by ad hominem lunges at the GOP in virtually every news conference. Now he sports the look of a man who just saw his legacy blown to bits. His name will forever be in an eternal death dance, coupled with these two murderers.
LOOK AT ME! I AM FLYING. a BLUEBIRD OF BEAUTYAND OMNISCIENCEThis is not my time. As a giant to history, I strive not for today but for the day that I will be exalted above all others. For I believe that eventually, someone will say I saved the world! So screw the problems of today. They are not as important as my legacy!
ISIS will come and go. Ho hum! I know I can’t beat them. So I can’t put the cherry on top and win a fight. .The next president will have to clean up that little mess. But, alas, malcontents will be with us always…and there is no glory in that.
Nope, Saving the planet is my thing. America is just a failed experiment. At best we are ignorant and damaging to the rest of the world, deliberately killing the brown people and their cultures for fun and profit. WHO CARES if the United States, rife with racism, and reeking of metastasized capitalism, endures or not?
POTUS elects to carp at GOP for serving as a recruitment tool for ISIS? He calls Paris a setback. I wonder what the reaction would have been if France stated that 911 was just a ‘setback’.
Again his competence to lead is called into question. People are dying and dead. The world is on fire. Chicken little is fried. The rabbit died?, (ages me doesn’t it), all forms of harbinger are spent and the handwriting on the wall is the last word. “Washington is next.” So say ISIS.
President Obama, springing to action in response to the terrorist attack on our long term ally, France, CHEWED OUT REPUBLICANS! Are we Duh-oomed by our dear POTUS? (Duh-oomed is when you get socked by someone because of your leaders stupidity.) DUH-OOMED! I SAY!!
Joey
History, like a great river through time, is changing it’s course. Rome failed to see the handwriting on the wall. And “the glory that is Rome” is no more. Egypt, central to the history of the middle east, held a zenith in cultural evolution for more than a millennia. Where are the builders of the pyramids now? 
JACKHAMMERJOHN 