Reinvention of the Boogie Man (aka Raw Hide and Bloody Bones)

While traveling through Tennessee this past weekend, I had the occasion to witness the reinvention of a legend. I make the trek to Sparta, Tennessee every 2nd Saturday in August to Decoration Day, a colloquial term only recognizable by true old style Southerners, and I've been doing this most of my life. One of the things I can remember from these trips when I was a child was that my cousins and I formed a loud, rowdy horde at my grandmother's house and did all the unsafe and unreasonable things that could be expected when you had several related children together on a summer afternoon without TV and air conditioning. That was a different time. My Grandmother's method of getting us in line involved the vague threat that "Ole Raw Hide and Bloody Bones is going to come get all of you if you don't behave" I spent many nights imagining just what such a creature would look like.

While I never saw an illustration of Grandma's boogie man, lately I have been hearing talk and witnessing fear of boogie men. On the side of one of the roads in Tennessee, I saw a large painted sign in the front of a home. It had in large red letters outlined in black the word "OBAMA" and then below "hates the Bible!" There was more, but I can't share that with you because one, I'm blind and couldn't see it and two, the kind of fanatic that would write something like this scares the shit out of me, and I didn't stop to take a closer look. This is not the only example I've seen lately. The Boogie Man is a ~gasp~ liberal, a ~gasp~ socialist, a ~gasp~ muslim. The Boogie Man has invaded the White House, the Capital Building, Ground Zero, all the States that border Mexico and is much touted amidst tears of angst as the "undoing of this country." Grandma could not have envisioned it better.

Shriners

There are so many causes I believe in strongly, it's hard to decide which ones to donate to. My limited income allows for only a few small donations a year.
One organization I always remember to give to is Shriners Hospital for children.
My reasons for that are as clear as family. In 1974 Shriners paid for the doctors, surgery and eye glasses that saved my niece's eyesight.
Now Shriners hospital is stepping up again, providing surgery, braces, and the expensive special foot wear to treat my 7 month old granddaughter's severe club feet.

I urge everyone to donate to this awesome organization. It is for the children and what cause could be better than that?

To learn more and perhaps make a donation, please check out their web sight.
http://www.shrinershq.org/Hospitals/Main

The times they are a-changing

I know I've talked a bit about the slavery system our prisons have become. Now I've started an petition to close the loophole in the thirteenth amendment that has for too long allowed this to go on.
Please watch the video and then go sign.




http://www.change.org/petitions/view/close_the_secret_slavery_loophole_in_the_13th_amendment

Fox, Fucktards, and Funnies

As we watch as Fox "News" yet again gets busted for journalistic
inepitude, those of us who haven't yet drank of Murdocks Kool-Aid
can't help but wonder how much longer will this joke of a network be
taken seriously?
What really gets my goat is, not only southern fucktards are being
hoodwinked by this organ of the Republican Party, but evidenty so is
the Obama administration.
How many times will they fire or force a resignation from one of there
own, simply because an idiot like Beck Hannity, or Brietbart, who has
absoultely no credibility with thinking people, distorts or out right
lies about an Obama underling?
Fox "News" serves two purposes. First is to make sure that the
corporate interests are protected. Second is to boost ratings among
the Christoids and Fucktards living in the Red States by appealing to
the lowest common denominator.
The rubes in the backwoods of Alabama, Tennessee, ect eat that
bullshit up like a starving hobo on a plate of gravy and biscuits.
Fox "News" has gotten very clever with their subtle messaging.
While standing in a TSA screening line this morning at Huntsville
Airport, a blathering cock sucker on their so called "Morning News"
was throwing code words out like " liberal" to his monkey audience.
While most thinking people never would consider "liberal" a dirty
word, the Fox audience does.
Thanks to the Bastard Regan, the fucker Gingrich, AM Hate Radio, and
of course Fox, no politician can ever apply the "L" word to himself.
So the Fox asshole trying to act all professional and independant,
just covering the news, managed to throw the liberal word in a dozen
times in a fucking minute.
This is what Fox does. They are not there to inform people. They are
there to spread lies about people they don't like.
How can anyone believe these clowns? It is simple.
The Fox bosses know their audience. And they know that if anyone can
believe that the human race exists in part because of a talking
snake... The will believe any fucking thing.

This too shall pass

I have had my share of difficulties in the last few days. But that's not really what this blog is about. We all go through tough times now and then. It's simply part of the human condition.
This afternoon I went out on my balcony to get some fresh air and a break from daily chores. I'd been feeling a little sad, a little lonely. I have a wonderful view from the balcony and it usually cheers me up to go out there.
As I sat there enjoying the calm I noticed a large white cloud. directly above it was a small, black one. As I watched, the dark little cloud dispersed, leaving the white cloud basking in a soft, golden glow.
I couldn't help thinking, "This is the way life is". We can let the little black clouds overwhelm us and completely miss the golden moments, or we can simply let the darkness disperse and find our calm in the aftermath.

Age and the Oil Spill

In 2008, when Barack Obama won the Presidency, I began to feel that I was aging. President Obama is the first President in my lifetime that is younger than I am. Since April, 2010, I have begun to feel another indication of my age. It is with much sadness that I realize that I will die before the full effects, much less any rehabilitation of the damage caused by BP's disaster in the gulf will be realized. It is a sobering thought.

let's blog something

Dear Spacetrucker,
When are you going to give us another of your pearls of wisdom? I concur with our fellow blogger that this site has too long been neglected, so I have added my piece, as Eve has added hers. Lets get this blog running again...please!!!!!!!!