two sides of the same coin.

After the beer party Gates said... Having spent my academic career trying to bridge differences and promote understanding among Americans, I can report that it is far more comfortable being the commentator than being commented upon. At this point, I am hopeful that we can all move on, and that this experience will prove an occasion for education, not recrimination. I know that Sergeant Crowley shares this goal. Both of us are eager to go back to work tomorrow. And it turns out that the President just might have a few other things on his plate as well.

Crowley said he wants to take a few days off and reflect but no apology to Gates. So... Gates wants to go back to work and Crowly wants to go hide!

acting stupidly!

This is about the most acting stupidly I have ever seen! This was the biggest farce I have ever seen. Look over Crowley's back is that Abe Lincoln's ghost? You know the police department made Crowley show up and he is setting at a table with two black men who make more money a year than he does and has to listen to Joe Biden. Notice Crowley is drinking his beer no doubt he needs the drink. That will make him think twice about arresting a black in his home.

Two cops in Georgia have went into the government computers checking on Obama to see if he has a criminal record and another cop in Boston sent out a email calling Obama a jungle bunny. around and around we go and where it stops no one knows.

found this on the net...

President Obama's plans for a conciliatory beer party between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley, the Cambridge policeman who arrested him, went off the rails this evening when Vice President Joe Biden unceremoniously crashed the event.
Mr. Biden, whom onlookers said was clearly inebriated, burst into the Oval Office just as the three men were getting the party underway.
Furious that the party had started without him, Mr. Biden reached into a tub of cold beers and smashed a bottle over the edge of Mr. Obama's desk.
Brandishing the broken bottle menacingly at the three men, Mr. Biden shouted, "All right you fuckers, who wants a piece of me?"
Officer Crowley, who said he felt pressure to show that he treats all citizens equally regardless of race, told Mr. Biden that he was "disturbing the peace" and asked to see his I.D.
"I've got my I.D. right here," Mr. Biden said, unzipping his trousers. "Say hello to Little Joe!"
After Mr. Biden was subdued by White House security and removed from the Oval Office, Mr. Obama said he felt that, despite the disruption, the event had been a success reported by Andy Borowitz. I am with little Joe!

Here comes the wacho deathers!

There are a bunch of right winger nuts saying Obama has a secret plan in his health plan to kill off all old useless old people. They say that we will be visited by a government official to ask us how we want them to kill us. my choice is morphine, how about you Rush Limbaugh? You wont have to buy your drug of choice on the street then will you? If they kill useless old people you are gone , Limbaugh!

“It‘s a whole new crazy conspiracy theory, unfolding where the craziest of them seem to be unfolding these days—among Republican members of Congress speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,” Maddow said.Maddow played some clips of lawmakers and pundits advancing the “deather” argument.REP. VIRGINIA FOXX (R-NC): Republicans have a better solution that won‘t put the government in charge of people‘s health care, that will make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans, and that insures affordable access for all Americans, and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.REP. PAUL BROUN (R-G): A lot of people are going to die. This program of government option that‘s being touted as being this panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price, is going to kill people.RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: People at a certain age with certain diseases will be deemed not worth the investment, and they will just—as Obama said—they‘ll give them some pain pills and let them loop out until they die and they don‘t even know what‘s happened.

Sweat

What are the necessities of life? What do we have to have to live?
1. food
2. shelter
3.water
4.clothing
How many people do you know that produce something tangible? something you can hold and say this is something that will nourish my body or give me creature comforts?
1-2 % of our population are farmers the average age of our farmers are 55 years old.

How many people in our country never eat a meal out side of a resultant? How many people do not know how to cook a egg or bake bread? We have moved from a producing society into a consumer society.

We have a population that can not feed them selves with out someone to produce the food and prepare the same.

We cannot eat dollars. We cannot survive if every one depends on someone else to provide our food and shelter.

God said man would produce his food by the sweat of his brow and I think that is what is wrong with our society. A large percentage of our society does not sweat and that is our problem . We are unable to sleep because we never do anything that makes us sweat. We are becoming a nation of Micheal Jacksons.

google someone

If you want to know something just about any thing you can find it on the computer.
We had a Doctor here in out area for a few years and he was gone one day and I had wondered were he was now. I had googled him before but today I found him.

Rainer A. Birk is in Andalusia , Alabama.

The Internet is truly an amazing tool.

10 weeks old

The chicks are 10 weeks old and should be laying in 10 more weeks.

alaska's gift to us.

summer flowers

25 of July

on this date my father was born in the year 1915.

chickens are not smart .

I have black chickens , white chickens and some red and white chickens. My chickens don't know the difference in color. It would be a better world if we could be like the chickens. If we could just except people for what they are not for what color they are.

Obama said

Obama: Cambridge police acted 'stupidly'
After spending most of an hour patiently reiterating his arguments for changing the health insurance system, President Barack Obama turned his press conference sharply toward an iconic moment in American race relations: The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. earlier this week by the Cambridge Police.
Gates was arrested for allegedly disorderly conduct -- a charge that was quickly dropped -- after a confrontation with a police officer inside his own home. Though some facts of the case are still in dispute, Obama showed little doubt about who had been wronged.
"I don’t know – not having been there and not seeing all the facts – what role race played in that, but I think it’s fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two that he Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home," Obama said in response to a question from the Chicago Sun-Times's Lynn Sweet.
Gates, Obama allowed, "is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts."
However Gates, he continued, "jimmied his way to get into [his own] house."
"There was a report called in to the police station that there might be a burglary taking place – so far so good," Obama said, reflecting that he'd hope the police were called if he were seen breaking into his own house, then pausing.
"I guess this is my house now," he remarked of the White House. "Here I’d get shot."
Undergirding the long digression, though, was Obama's place as a new symbol of racial reconciliation, and his long past in the trenches of the politics of race and discrimination in the Illinois State Senate.
"Separate and apart from this incident is that there’s a long history in this country of African-American and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," the president said, eagerly engaging the issue of racial profiling, a concern earlier in his career that has seen little White House attention to date.
Do you think a black man might know about racial profiling in America?

Henry gates

http://www.theroot.com/views/skip-gates-speaks
The Root Editor-in-Chief Henry Louis Gates Jr. talks about his arrest and the outrage of racial profiling in America.
Have you read about this, seems a Harvard professor returned home and couldn't open his front door, he and his driver forced the door then the cops show up accusing him of burglary . He provided a picture ID but the Cambridge police hand cuff him and take him in saying he wasn't polite to them. no kidding!
He was at the station for 4 hours and after telling him they were going to fine him 40 dollars they decide they will turn him loose and drop the charges.
now Obama gets in the act at a news conference saying the cops acted in a stupid manner.Cops are angry at Obama saying he has set back race relations by his statement.
Is it against the law to raise your voice when you are being arrested for a crime you didn't commit?
According to the cops they are real good guys and everybody else is in the wrong. What do you think?

the red hens

The six red hens are laying very well, I get four or five big brown eggs a day.They are pretty good hens but I will have to cull them when I let my new pullets into the chicken house because the red hens are mean. Remember the young rooster that I put in with them? They killed him !

I have read of people having trouble putting new chicken in a flock but I have never had trouble with this before. These old girls are killers.

butterfly weed

lock no.1 lock no.2

In the time when I was younger I was known to play a parietal joke on my friends if I saw a chance. 25 years ago I was working at Tyson food. I had a Friend working there named Velma. The company furnished us lockers I never used a locker because if I had anything of value I had it on me but Velma locked up everything she brought to work and she usually brought a lot of stuff.

As often happens in the work place there was a dispute about lockers and so management decreed that we had to share lockers. Velma told me that I would share with her not because we were great friends but because Velma knew I didn't use a locker.

Velma showed me locker no. 50 and said this is our locker and here is your key. I failed to mention Velma was as tight as the bark on a tree or maybe stingy is the word. This lock she had on her locker was about as big as my thumb and I was sure I had seen some like it at our local grocery for 50 cents.

That day after work I stopped and bought another thumb sized lock just like the one Velma had on our locker. The next morning I arrived at work before Velma by design and took the old lock off our locker and put the new lock on then I settled down to wait for Velma to arrive, She tried to open the lock and failed after several attempts I said to her What wrong, Velma? she said for some reason I can't open my lock. I told her here is my key try it. Presto the lock opened. I told her since You use the locker more than I do you keep my key. OK, Velma said.
I Waited for Velma to go away and I switched the lock back to lock no. 1.

At break time the same song new verse. Velma couldn't get her key to work and mine did. Velma was very puzzled as she went back to work with my key again. I switched the lock as soon as she went out of my sight by this time I had a group of people watching the switch.

The last go around Velma got so upset I had to tell her what I had been doing to her. Velma was relieved to know she wasn't losing her mind.

funny kitten

this kitten has a unusual marking on his nose.

Black Australorp

Black Australorp chick in the middle. this chick maybe a rooster. The hatchery advertises they are 95% accurate on sexing so perhaps this is a rooster.

year of the female

This one of the pullets I raised under the little bantam. I like her color. I have 4 pullets and two rooster in that 6 and since I got the three part bantams out where I can see them I have two pullets and one rooster. that means I raised six pullets under that one bantam hen. This must be the year of the female.

We are getting rain again and more in the forecast.I went and turned over a large trash container in the chick pen so they can flee the water if they wish. I have never seen a July like we are having this year.

ethical pragmatist?

Snowbush told a tale about a woman who was screaming at the top of her lungs on the street, he sat down and tried to talk to her. She said she had AIDS which she had contracted from a person not a current lover and now she had to tell her lover.She also ask if snowbush thought that drinking water would cure AIDS?

After awhile snowbush moved on not having been able to help in any fashion except to tell her he didn't think water would help. She was still screaming.

I told the bush that I thought it was a mistake to stop in the first place and I would have kept right moving. He ask me if I was a ethical pragmatist? Now I didn't have a clue as to what he was talking about, I sort of understood the word ethical but as for ethical pragmatist I didn't have a clue so I looked for the meaning for ethical pragmatist.

As for ethics I not sure I have any ethics ,people who spend time talking about ethics are usually Governor of South Carolina or Alaska . I am a realist! or to use the big word a Pragmatist!

If I was walking down the street and my sister, brother, son or daughter was screaming to high heaven I would stop and do what ever it took to help my loved one as for anyone else I would go on by or if I felt it was a urgent mater I would call the cops. So I guess the truth is strangers are strange to me and will remain so whether they are screaming or laughing perhaps the best word to describe me is SELFISH.

newhome

I am so pleased that the chicks are in their new pen and can move around with out the mud and goup getting on them all the time.

The cause of a life time, Ted Kennedy

http://www.newsweek.com/id/207406/page/1

In this article Ted Kennedy speaks out about getting health care for all Americans and tells of his work over his career to gain affordable health care for every one.
He believes there will be a bill past this year and I hope he lives to see it happen.
I have two sisters that probably will retire if this bill passes . We looks for things that will make our love ones lives better and I sincerely want to see this bill pass.

click on the link and read what Ted Kennedy has wrote.

CHICKENS IN NEW HOME

You may have wondered about the chicks since I had not posted photos of them but we have had so much rain this week and the pen was a mud hole, the chicks were so dirty and were looking awful.

Sammy went out yesterday and built a tunnel from the brooder to the pen and they are all safely in the pen and really enjoying life.

wealth

Snowbush said...
Let's say you were a black American whose forebears were slaves. What would your life be like if they had stayed in Africa (where slavery is still very much alive, by the way)? I'm not defending slavery. I'm instead saying that the windings of history brought us all where we are today, and that terrible past acts probably mean that some of us are better off than we would have otherwise been. In fact, since there are probably few blacks who aren't partially white, millions of people wouldn't even exit.

I don't have many readers so I should be careful about pissing one off but here goes.....

The argument that if the slaves had remained in Africa their descents would have been less happy or lived less fulfilling lives is a false argument because you can't prove a negative.

To argue that most of the negro race is part Caucasian and there forth would never have never been born is beside the point, What about the thousand of captured slave that died in the hole of the slave ships would they have been better off if they had remained in Africa? They would have lived a few more days perhaps and not have become fish food. How about their non decedents that died with them?

I have heard the argument put forth by snowbush by others and even if he states this isn't a defence of slavery this seems to be the case in my opinion.

As for the wealth of this country being built on slavery, all extreme great wealth comes to the rich on the backs of others be they slaves or the labor of others be they slave or free.

I know I am not very smart and I just proved it by trying to take on someone with the writing skills of snowbush.

Pat Buchanan and white folk

Pat Buchanan has opened his mouth about who built this country and proved he is a old fool. The white folk may have dreamed great dreams but that was because they slept a lot while the slaves did the work.
It is hard to dream while sweating in the sun with marks on you back from the whip and being ground into dust by white folk.

Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to sit on the Supreme Court.
"I do believe she is an affirmative action appointment by the president of the United States," said Buchanan. "He eliminated everyone but four women and then he appointed the Hispanic."
When Maddow asked Buchanan what purpose he thought affirmative served, he replied, "Affirmative action is to increase diversity by discriminating against white males."
Presented with the overwhelming statistic that 108 of 110 Supreme Court justices have been white, Buchanan reasoned, "This has been a country built basically by white folks."

definition of to build..1. To form by combining materials or parts; construct.
Anyone knows that this country was built on slave labor and the white folk were busy setting around in the shade or down in the slave cabins raping the young female slaves breeding more slaves to build more riches for the white folk.

There are slaves buried under wall street who died building the great city of New York.

cream always rises to the top

The mayor of Berryville AR. on the far right has a new cleaner uniform than other inmates. I wonder if he can get the wacky weed in jail and if it is a better quality than his usual smoke?

He has been promoted to cook in his pod which contains 5 prisoners.

I really would not run the fellow down in his time of trouble, my point is that even if fellows in high places goes to jail they still are treated better than the average "Joe six pack" even when it comes clothing. and some other perks.

I am sure that no matter how many perks McKinney gets he will be glad to leave the jail.

The mayor Tim McKinny maybe in jail but he has been reported seen eating in local restaurant. city says he was on lunch break.

Berryville Mayor Tim McKinney is rising to the challenge of being in jail.
Carroll County Sheriff Bob Grudek says he has made Tim McKinney a trusty, which enables the mayor to do work with other trusted inmates. McKinney is about two weeks into a 39-day sentence for drunken driving and possession of a small amount of marijuana.

Blue eye, Mo.

Blue eye, Mo. has been a place where many people in Carroll county Arkansas has traveled to buy liquor and since the cigarette tax has been in place many people travel to the state line for cigarettes. You also can buy lotto tickets there but now I have heard that the neighbor hood is on a fast track to hell.
Sammy mentions something I did not know since I don't get around much any more. A jail bird has set up shop in the wide place in the road just past the state line at the 86 junction.
Jim bakker has bought a track of land and moved his shady religious self to the state line....
The public is invited to numerous free activities this week marking the grand opening of Morningside, the residential community that is home to televangelist Jim Bakker. Morningside is a residential project on 560 acres, owned by developer Jerry Crawford, who credits Bakker with saving his marriage years ago and is located at the junction of Missouri 86 and 13 in Blue Eye, Missouri, about 30 miles south of Branson.
I thought I had been smelling the Oder of rotten eggs drifting on the wind and now I know it is the smell of fire and brime stone.

sammmm

A Pentagon-commissioned report urges the Defense Department to ban smoking in the military, even by combat troops in battle zones, a proposal that quickly ignited a controversy among service members.

oh sure, kill them with bombs not cigs.

Sammy has bought a large sack of dog food and he moved the dog food bowl on the porch to stop neighbor hood dogs from stealing his dog's food!

neighbor's cats don't say mew they say sammm

rained again

We had rain again , a good rain and in july a blessing.

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head/But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' redCryin's not for me/'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'/Because I'm freeNothin's worryin' me.

yesterday

It is 1:15 in the morning and I have completely forgot on July 13, my bother Gilbert Powell was born. He is the same age as my children and some times I just forget about him.

problem?

Folks in Colorado have been complaining because they have more ladybugs than they want. I would like to have this problem.

I awoke to distant thunder and we are getting rain again this morning.

dog food

sammy feeds his dogs in a pan out side. The other day I saw a blue jay eating from the dog bowl now the neighbor cats has found the food. He will have to buy more dog food.

welcome sound

It is 5:30 in the morn and we have the welcome sound of rain on the roof.

My bantam hen has 9 hatchlings and of the first six 4 are pullets all that remains
to be discovered is what sex the 3 half bantams will be.

My chicks will soon be large enough to be relocated into the large chicken pen.

My tomato plants have began to set fruit. since I got such a late start because of bad soil Sammy bought this is the first year I have not had ripe tomatoes by this time of July. Since the plants are late perhaps I will have ripe tomatoes until frost this year.

I am not going to able to keep all of my pullets because I will have too many for the space that I have so I will have to pick the keeps and decide what to do with the others. My brother has said he might like to have some hens if he can get a pen and house built to hold them. I told him I didn't want to supply any more raccoon food.

I think I will cull the 6 hens that are my layers now. I might be able to keep 18 hens in my house and pen, maybe if they are not cramped for room.

new kittens

The neighbor's torses shell mama cat has new kittens. She brought them out for viewing this morning. Look at the blue eye of the one hiding in the weeds.

should have went faster

RISING SUN, Md. - A Delaware man who claimed he lost his pants faces drunken driving charges after authorities say the deputy who pulled him over noticed he was in the buff below the waist.
A spokesman for Maryland's Cecil County Sheriff's Office said 41-year-old Jonathan Schultz "was driving commando" and only partially covered with a towel on his lap, though he was wearing a shirt.
Lt. Bernard Chiominto said Schultz was stopped Saturday near Rising Sun for going 69 mph in a 50-mph zone.

cutting off you nose to spite your face!

I have tried to keep my mouth shut about Micheal Jackson and the circus in California on his death and burial but Betty over at dogs and new tricks has set me off.

I notice that people keep saying he was a musical genius and they really liked his music.

I didn't like his music. I thought it was just so much screaming as for his videos I can not find anything great about a grown man prancing around in black tights and screaming in a high pitched voice while dancing and grabbing his crotch with a white gloved hand.

He was accused of being a pedophile, never convicted it is true but the fact that he in a TV enter view said he liked to sleep with children can not be over looked by some of us.

It is said he never had a childhood and that is why he was the way he was, perhaps but the fact remains he was one odd person to say the least. He had so many operations on his nose he had no nose left. His skin was white whether this was caused by a physical aliment or by bleaching of his skin I don't know and I could care less.

OJ Simpson has disappeared into the Nevada prison system and MJ as gone to his grave and at the risk of being labeled a racist I wont miss either man.

MJ was one sick puppy and all the yelling about his great music can not change the fact. He cut off his nose to spite his face and died and all the media yelling how great his music was can not change that fact and all that remains to be learned is how many drugs it took to end his life.

CIA a rogue elephant

CIA is a rogue organization operations with out answering to anyone.. Seven lawmakers say that they were lied too by the CIA.
So what are the "significant actions" that these seven lawmakers insist were kept from Congress Another theory being bandied about concerns an "executive assassination ring" that was allegedly set up and answered to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh reported in march that the CIA had a assignation program that reported to Dick Cheney and they went into countries and killed people on their list.



Panetta himself was kept in the dark about the program -- whatever it was -- having only been told about the classified activity on June 23. "His own top leadership didn't even brief him that this program existed," said Eshoo.
The day after he found out, on June 24, the CIA header briefed members of Congress about the matter. Two days later, on June 26, the seven lawmakers wrote Panetta asking him to publicly correct an earlier statement he had made, in which he declared that it was not the CIA's "policy or practice to mislead Congress."
Asked why it took two weeks for that letter to Panetta to become public (news of the letter broke on Tuesday evening) Eshoo said it was simply a matter of clearance.
"I was informed by one of the committee lawyers that the letter should be classified and so it was sent to him classified," the California Democrat replied. "The lawyers made a determination recently that it did not need to be classified so we made it public."

Is the CIA still answering too and doing Dick Cheney's dirty work?

On the other hand...
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life. No kidding!

Helen has a black eye.

sister always wants to have a sparkling house and she climbed on her sink faucet to paint her ceiling. now her bathroom is sparkling but she fell and she isn't so sparkling.

Gladiolus

I like these flowers because they come back every year. I have yellow and pink colours.

GladiolusThe Latin word gladius, meaning "sword," and this flower was named for the shape of its leaves. Gladiolus was also called "xiphium," from the Greek word xiphos, also meaning sword. This flower is said to have represented the Roman gladiators.
British Gladiolus used the stem base (corms) as a poultice and for drawing out thorns and splinters. A mixture of powdered corms and goat's milk was a favorite remedy for colic. In the 18th Century, African Gladioli were imported in large quantities to Europe from South Africa.

going to market

Price of gas has made it necessary for chicken producers to cut transformation cost.

The state of California is having money problems and today they spent 4 million to bury Micheal Jackson. Money well spent!

7 weeks old

hollyhocks

When I was young, many years ago everyone had hollyhocks growing in their fence row or around the out house. If nothing else would grow you had hollyhocks to put some colour in your yard.

don't talk about me!

BURLINGAME, Calif. - Sarah Palin defended her claim that Barack Obama "pals around with terrorists," saying the Democratic presidential nominee's association with a 1960s radical is an issue that is "fair to talk about."

She said Bill Ayes is a terrorist.

Sarah said...
... [it] strengthens my faith, because I'm going to know, at the end of the day, putting this in God's hands, that the right thing for America will be done at the end of the day on Nov. 4. So I'm not discouraged at all .

"Well, I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there," Sarah said, soon after she was found to have engaged in wrongdoing and unethical activity in the "Troopergate" investigation .

She accused David Letterman of being a pedophile.

now she says if the news media prints any thing about her she will sue. So give her what she wants , let her fade away.

I really did it this time!

I get so wrapped up in this blogging I forget that some people other than the few I know might read my post and that is the case now.
I posted about the Palin baby and someone who has a Downs Sym. child read it. I would never want to add to the burden of such a person.
Let me assure my readers that our sister was the best thing that happened to our family and we loved her all of her days.
this is a link where my sister, Fleta wrote about Debbie and since she is more able to express how we felt about Debbie I will give you the link if you care to read about Debbie Lee.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~powell/debbie.htm

My sister Fleta has a gift with words.
Copyright © 1994 by Fleta Aday. I have walked the halls of darkness In the deepest valleys of despair Where a single ray of sunshine Can bring joy beyond compare. For it is only in its absence, We can appreciate peace of mind. The simplest little pleasures are turned to ecstasy by the climb.

On the death of a sister by Fleta Aday
We shared a bond of time and place,Our lives entwined like threads in lace. Her mother, my mother, her father mine. We shared a room, a space in time.Same time and place in the Universe,All things were shared with sister first. Who will I share with from now on?Sister’s gone, Sister’s gone.

The reason?

Could the reason Sarah resigned be trig Palin? maybe. My family had a child with downs syndrome and it is a 24 hour a day,7 day a week job to care for a child like this.

My mother cared for our sister for 33 years and the problems that children have with this aliment are almost more than a parent can bare at times.

People who have never faces this aliment can not begin to know what worry, heart ache, and love a child with down syndrome presents to a family.

Trig is 15 month old and can not walk, probably can not set alone and may not be able to support his head in a up right position.

running with the big dogs.

Sarah Palin is resigning, mudflats thing there is a federal indictment coming her way, something to do with using government products to build her house.

Some think she is going to go to work for FOX.

She says she is going to work outside the government for change.

Some think this is a good move so she can run for president.

I think she found Alaska dull after all the glitter of the campaign trail. time will tell . As usual Sarah talked and didn't say anything useful.

In her speech she quoted Douglas MacArthur, we are not retreating we are just moving in a new direction. Sarah should know what quote MacArthur was known for was, Old soldiers never die they just fade away.

doctor

I went to the doctor today and he prescribed a round of antibiotics for my wound. I have know this doctor for 30 years. While waiting on him I got to coughing, you know how it is the harder you try to stop the more you cough I went into the hall to get a sup of water. Doctor came in as I was getting the water. I took a small drink and set it down. right before we were finished Doctor picked up my cup like he was going to drink it. I said doctor that is mine. after I left I realized he was smelling my water to see if I was drinking a drink something besides water.. I laughed about it because I don't drink that sort of thing.LOL

pets

OXFORD -- Owning an exotic pet had tragic consequences for one Sumter County family Wednesday.
Authorities confirmed a 2-year-old girl was killed by an 8 1/2-foot-long albino Burmese python.

I don't understand how anyone would keep such a reptile under any substances. People need to get a brain.

When my daughter was 18 years old she had a friend who was always going to these pet shops and Janet came home one day from Harrison and announce she had seen this PET snake and the shop wanted 100 dollars for it. I said No! she got mad and said she was going to buy the snake. I told her I had an ax and if she did I would take the ax and kill the snake as soon as she brought it in. We didn't get a snake.

I have read that there are hundreds roaming around Florida that have escaped or been turned lose when they get too large to deal with.

On this site I read there are people posting about their pet snakes and always say I LOVE MY SNAKE! yeah and it will love you to death. I read one the other day where someone had killed a copperhead snake and had a photo of it and some fool posted and said I wish you hadn't killed it, I would like to have had it.

Some post pictures of their snakes and ask that no snake hater comment, I don't!
A few years ago a man in Harrison had a rattle snake and it bit him, he was hospitalizes and the law went and killed the snake. The same fellow was at Tyson and had a rattle snake in a cage showing it. I saw it now I wish I had called the cops .

A few years ago I read that a family was on welfare, at that time the welfare put the family in a motel and gave them money to buy food for the 3 children. That fool man used the money to but a big snake, It got into bed with the man and woman and bit the lady on the butt , they had to cut the snake's head off to get it to turn the fool loose.

The news reported the family were very upset about the death in Florida of the two year old, yeah sure!

Helen Thomas

I told you I named my rooster and I have decided to name that hen that was riding the other hens. I have watched the news conferences of the president. for 40 years and Helen Thomas is my hero and has been for years so I have named that red hen that thinks she can be a rooster Helen Thomas.
Helen Thomas has been after the current leadership again.

This is her latest attempt to hold their feet to the fire...White House press secretary Richard Gibbs deflected the question, but that only raised the ire of Helen Thomas, UPI’s veteran correspondent who has long been at the top of the White House press corps totem pole.“We have never had that in the White House,” Thomas said, referring to the degree that press events are pre-scripted in the Obama administration. “I’m amazed, I’m amazed at you people who called for openness and transparency…”That’s when things got testy, and Gibbs looked very uncomfortable as Reid and Thomas took turns attacking his evasive answers.

In memory of Harry Truman, give them hell Helen! I am a Democrats but I don't believe in following along just because our leaders are Democrats.

Mark Sanford

Come on in Mark.


The bantam hen that has 9 chicks of different ages had two that were very noticeable roosters and since Kelly took the old mean rooster to the sale my 6 ladies in the laying pen had not had any male championship.

I had read that when a flock of hens don't have a rooster in the flock one of the hens will start trying to mate with the hens. I really thought this was just a story but yesterday I saw one of the red hens covering another hen trying to be a rooster and I decided that a rooster was needed in the hen pen.

This morning I was able to grab one of the roosters, He made a terrible scream thinking he was headed for the frying pan but now he is in with 6 sex starved hens and will soon learn to do the deed or learn to run very fast.

I have never named my chickens but when I tossed him among the 6 ladies I said I christian you Mark Sanford!