Are You Kidding Me? Did I Just Hear One Of You Say History Was Not Interesting and Surprising?

The Beginning...

On February 12, 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded by 3 White civil rights activists, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling and Henry Moskowitz at a meeting in New York.

Concerned about the race riots and the future of Black civil rights in America, a group of 60 activists gathered in New York City on May 31st, 1909 to create the National Negro Committee. 53 committee members were White.

A year later, the National Negro Committee officially became the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The First Board of Directors...

Ø  National President, Moorfield Storey, Boston ... White

Ø  Chairman of the Executive Committee, William English Walling ... White

Ø  Treasurer, John E. Milholland a prominent New York Republican ... White

Ø  Disbursing Treasurer, Oswald Garrison Villard ... White

Ø  Executive Secretary, Frances Blascoer ... White

Ø  Director of Publicity and Research, W. E. B. Du Bois ... Black

The First 4 Presidents of the NAACP...

1st President was Moorfield Storey 1910-1929 ... White

2nd President was Joel Elias Springan 1930-1939 ... White

3rd President was Author B. Springan 1940-1965 ... White

4th President was Kievie Kaplan 1966-1975 ... White

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

The Kingston Trio Asked Long Time Ago, Where Have All The Young Men Gone? All These Years Later, We Still Do Not Know.

As a well known Noticer I started off today thinking to myself that I was going to take a day off from noticing things. Then I stumbled onto this web site and I could not help myself.

The first 9 pictures of humans on the Fitness Web Site Home Page are pictures of Women. If this site is emblematic of what’s going on in the gyms of the Good Ole USofA, then Male Exercising People (Men) appear to have all but given up exercising.

I know this can’t be true but does it not appear strange that a business that makes money from having people come into its gym to sweat is not advertising to bring men and their money into their sweaty establishment?

When the site does allow a few pictures of men near the end of its home page the poor fellows are Overweight, Exhausted and Look Confused.

If I am the only one confused by this confusion and you think you can explain it to me don’t explain it to me. I don’t want to know.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

It Is Hard To Imagine How Many Times the Gullible Among Us Buys Stuff Under The Influence Of Their Celebrity Gullibility

 

I have been seriously trying to lose weight since January 12, 2021. I have really worked at it and It Ain’t Easy!...

It’s not like Falling Off a Log.

It’s not A Piece of Cake.

It’s not Easy As Pie.

I have made progress but it has been Slow As Molasses.

(I’m done with the catch phrases.)

I have lost 18.2 pounds. A month ago today I had lost 15.4 pounds. This means I have I lost 2.8 pounds in this last month. I don’t know about you but this last month’s 2.8 pound weight loss does not impress me.

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On June 16th I heard a Local Celebrity say on a radio commercial, “With the Falling Off A Log Piece of Cake Easy As Pie Weight Loss Program (would you believe I made that name up?) you could Lose 50 Pounds by Labor Day!”

Now I don’t want to impugn the veracity of Celebrities, even local ones, but that is poppycock! I don’t think that much weight can be shed in only 2.5 months!

I can just hear my fellow Georgians saying to their wives/partners/significant others, “You know it’s got to me true. One of our Local Celebrities said it was true. It has the Celebrity Seal of Approval”.

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Local Celebrities have tremendous power to influence their Local Minions. Multiply that power 10 fold and you have the Gargantuan Influence that Hollywood Celebrities or Sports “Heroes” have over all their Minions spread all across the Fruited Plain. 

That’s why we have...

Established Hollywood Celebrities telling us How to Vote.

Future Established Hollywood Celebrities (have just made one movie) telling us what the Climatic Conditions are going to be like in our neck of the woods in 3,000 years, if we don’t take the action that they are being paid to tell us to take before next Thursday.

The Sports Super Hero telling the U.S. Army that Soldiers today should not be given Live Ammunition because they might shoot at a bad guy and miss the intended target and instead hit a Small Child innocently riding on his Big Wheel. 

Being a Minion is hard. That’s why we need Celebrity Direction and Control because We Know Nothing!...Or do we?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

It Was Weird. I Was Sitting On My Porch Minding My Own Business and This Frenzied Mob Came Up My Street.

 

They all were wide-eyed. They looked like a Mob of Pakistanis going to the 7-11. They were very agitated and were frantically looking behind every house and bush as they frenzied up the street towards my house.

As they started looking behind my bushes I asked what they were so frantically looking for and their frenzied spokesman told me what I expected...They were looking for a Statue of Superman.

He said they were hell bent on tearing down all Superman Statues and they had been told that there was one in my neighborhood.

I knew what the answer to this question would be but I asked in anyway... “Why do you want to tear down Superman’s Statue?”

Several of them got really angry at my ignorance and for a moment I thought I was going to be set upon.

Then several of them shouted at me in unison, “Don’t you know there is no greater example of White Supremacy than Superman!”

I thought to myself, “Boy, is that silly” but I did not say that for fear of being physically attacked as they set upon me.

Not saying anything about their silliness was a wise move on my part. It has been a long time since I was in Vietnam. By not asking that question this was the first time since way back then where I felt like I had dodged a bullet.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe:

I bet the “Mob of Pakistanis going to the 7-11” comment in the first sentence of this Blog Posting confused you. Actually, I explained what this means in a Blog Posting several years ago but I’m glad to do it again.

Whenever we see news clips of Pakistan on the Nightly News there are always mobs of people going about doing everything they do. For example, if a Pakistani want to go to the 7-11 to get a pack of cigarettes, before he leaves home he sends text messages to 25 people and in no time at all he has assembled a mob to  accompany him to and from the 7-11.

During all of their comings and goings they are shouting, pumping their fist into the air and many of them are carrying and waving handwritten protest signs.

A Pakistani home is not complete unless it has a good supply of Handwritten Protest Signs.

I Know Stupid When I See Stupid

As soon as you saw the above Subject you knew of whom I was speaking...Or did you?

You say you don’t have a clue. Okay, I’ll tell you but, as soon as I tell you, you are going to say, “Of course, I should have known!”

It’s the Progressive Insurance Motorcycle Guy in Their Motorcycle Insurance Commercials

Motaur

This guy and these commercials Do Not Make Any Sense! There are so many unanswered questions that I don’t know where to begin...

Ø What the heck is he?

Ø Is he a motorcycle?

Ø Is he a guy?

Ø Was he born that way or was a curse put on him by an Allstate Frog?

Ø How does he empty his bladder?

Ø Does he have a bladder?

Ø Does he fall over when he stops rolling?

Ø Actually we have seen him not rolling and he does not fall over but why does he not fall over?

Ø Does he fall over when he goes to sleep?

Ø If he falls asleep and he does fall over, does he wake up because he fell over?

Ø Does he sleep?

Ø If he ever does fall over, how does he get up?

Ø Why do we never see Motorcycle Gals?

Ø If there are, in fact, no Motorcycles Gals, does this mean he is the last of his breed, if he is a breed?

Hold on a minute. One of these commercials showed Motorcycle Guy high on a bluff and he was watching hundreds of his breed rolling across the valley below him.

I got so agitated about all of this confusion and uncertainty I put on my Potted Plant Outfit and slithered my way into the palatial offices of Horace Progressive the owner of Progressive Insurance. He seemed a bit uneasy when he saw this Potted Plant standing in front of his desk but after I climbed out of my Outfit and he could see I was a regular person (or am I?) he settled down and became quite accommodating to my inquiries.

I asked him all of the questions I pecked out above (and a few more) and to every one of them he gave the same reply, “You know. I never thought of that”.

Finally, at seeing I was not getting anywhere, I asked my last question...  

Why Would a Motorcycle Owner Want to Buy Insurance from Progressive Because of These Foolish Commercials?

A look of anguish came over his face and he actually started to weep as he said, “You know. I never thought of that either”.

I began to feel sorry for him so I put on my Potted Plant Outfit and slithered out of his Palatial Office with all of my Unanswered Questions still Unanswered.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe:

 This from

The Motaur ads are ridiculous, yes, but we’ll see many more commercials like this for as long as brands and agencies focus on creative contrivances over connecting authentically with their audiences and communicating reasons to buy.

Don’t You Dare Call Me That!

I apologize for all the ads that now appear throughout my Blog Postings. It was not always that way. Google Blogger does this. I have no control over these ad insertions. I know it makes my Interesting Commentary harder to read. Stick with it because it is worth the effort...Or is it? J

It is amazing how quickly they (whoever “they” are) change What Has Always Been into What They Now Say It Is.

Before we know what’s happening they (there “they” are again) are standing in our way with their hands on their hips looking all of us sane people right in our disbelieving faces and defiantly saying, “How Dare You Question What We Say What Has Always Been Is Now!”

Yes, I know I did it again. I have created Dear Reader Blog Confusion. Hang in there because I think I know where I am headed...Or do I?

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A couple of weeks ago a U.S. Congresswoman was making a statement of some sort and in the middle of it she said “Birthing Person”...

Ø Some people did not notice.

Ø Some people thought, “Did she say what I thought she said?”

Ø Some people said out loud, “What did she just say?”

Ø Some people said, “Huh?”

I don’t watch as much News Reporting as I once did because it is too depressing and I can’t do anything about it except get depressed.

It is very likely that these kinds of things have happened while I was not watching the news during the 2 weeks since I heard the Congresswoman say “Birthing Person”...

Ø The was a spontaneous march in Washington DC where the spontaneous marchers were carrying pre-printed spontaneous signs that read, “Birthing Persons R Us”.

Ø There was a motion put on the floor of the Senate that proposed that if any Senator used the word “Mother” that offending Senator would be barred from Happy Hour until they publically apologized to all Birthing Persons everywhere.

Ø There were Panel Discussions of very smart already-been-birthed people on College Campuses all across the Good Ole USofA where the Subject of Discussion was, “How offended should Birthing People be if someone disrespects them by calling them “Mother”?

Ø Outside their World Headquarters in Kansas City, MO Hallmark held a bonfire of their entire inventory of Mother’s Day Cards.

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According to Yahoo News (see below) the Federal Government has now put its Stamp of Approval on the use of the term Birthing People...  

“President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget proposal uses language that supplants the word “mothers,” referring to women who both deliver a baby and raise the child, with the phrase “birthing people.””

Fella’s Recommendation: You ought to read over the above link more than once. It may sound like Fella made it up but my Foolishness makes more sense than this Silliness. There is a good chance the 6 Bullet Points in the beginning of the news article (“birthing people”) is as far as you get before you start screaming.

When are the Not-Crazy People on Planet Earth going to stop being buffaloed by the Crazy Chaos Contingent and say to them...

 That’s Silly! We are now going to stop paying any attention to your campaign to attack everything that has always been true. We will not be getting into further discussions with you about such Silliness. We are going to wrap our collective arms around Common Sense and Ignore You!

We Don’t Care If This Hurts Your Feelings!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: You have not seen it all until you see this airport sign...

What’s Wrong With Us?

I did a quick search of my Blog Postings and it looks like I have only used the phrase, “What’s Wrong With Us?” one time before today. The way this country is headed, it’s a wonder I don’t use it once a week.

If you want to read the Blog Posting where I did use it, click here: https://forii.blogspot.com/2014/01/sometimes-i-am-proud-as-can-be-about.html

It’s kind of sad and a sign of the times that, if you want to search for someone with the first name “Dennis” on the Internet and you type in “Dennis” into the Search/URL Bar at the top of your computer screen, the first name that comes up on the list (most often searched name) is “Dennis Rodman”.

My heavens! He had not played basketball in more than 2 decades nor been to North Korea to chat with Kim Jong-um in several years (been there to chat 5 times) and he’s still this much of a Person of Interest to Internet Searchers!?

This is a sign of something or other about our country. I’m just not sure exactly what sign that is but it’s probably not something that indicates we have nothing to worry about.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

You Don’t Need a Spare Tire Until You Need a Spare Tire

First of all I want to make clear that every single one of the Toyota Vehicles I have owned or driven have been a pleasure to own and drive. This commentary is directed at one small issue I have with my 2016 Prius. In a sense it is smaller than small issue because it is invisible, or more accurately said, it is not there.

Toyota did not provide a Spare Tire with my 2016 Prius

I'm told they did this to help with their Fuel Economy Requirements, Trunk Space Considerations and the Dangers Involved in Setting up a Jack on the Side of a Road.

A Fella Wise-Ass Comments: In regard to Fuel Economy, why would Toyota be concerned about increasing the MPG in my Prius from 59 MPG to 59.5? It seems to me that Toyota should have worried less about the Prius and more about the Land Cruiser (14 Combined MPG).

Instead they provided me with a Tire Repair Kit which Toyota contends will inject some gooey stuff into the tire to seal a small hole, pump up the tire, temporarily fix my flat tire and save my day...Or will it?

(To be fair, Toyota is not the only manufacturer that is using these Tire Repair Kits. I’m afraid this is the wave of the future.)

Did you notice I said above, "a small hole"?

Lately I have been saying to myself, "Self, what if you have a large hole out in the middle of the Western Good Ole USofA while you are going to or coming from that Dude Ranch in northwestern Wyoming you are going to be going to and coming from this summer?"

If I get a flat tire and the tire is not gooey fixable because the hole is too big, I would have to call AAA to have my car, my wife, me and my daughter towed to civilization.

I started picturing the look on their faces when I ended the call to AAA (if I was lucky enough to have connected with a cell tower) and told them, "They said they would be here in about 4 and a half hours...give or take an hour or thereabouts, as they say hereabouts". 

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I decided I needed to buy my own Compact Spare Tire...

Ø Let me make this clear from the get go, I consider my Toyota Dealership Service Guy to be very good at what he does.

Ø When I told him I was going to try and be a Dude this summer, he showed me pictures of his own personal horse that likes to stick his (her?) tongue out when posing for pictures.

Ø After my Service Guy finished looking at me like I was crazy, he calculated my Spare Tire and Wheel Price be $267. 

Ø I thought that was a lot of money and I frantically started thinking of possible other alternatives. (My definition of a lot was going to change a lot before this saga was over.)

Ø My Service Guy recommended I go to Pull-A-Part (modern junk yard) and buy a spare tire from one of one of their junked cars.

Ø The 3 locations of Pull-A-Part in my area did not come close to having a spare tire for me to buy.

Ø I called another Toyota Dealer and got a quote over the phone of, "Somewhere around $1,500". (This is what I was referring to when I commented about my changing definition of a lot above.)

Ø I researched on the Internet and found out that in 2016 there were 5 models of Prius and only 2 came without a spare tire but all had the wheel well in the back where I could store my spare tire (if I ever got one).

Ø Not everything you find out about on the Internet is true.

Ø The dealership took out the flooring of the Way Back (formerly known as the Trunk) and found out there was no wheel well back down there.

Ø That meant I would have to store the tire behind the front seat on the floor or in the Way Back on its floor.

Ø I called Toyota Motor Sales because I am a retiree from Toyota Motor Sales and just knew they were going to fall all over themselves trying to help me.

Ø They treated me like they never heard of me.

Ø This was probably true because the employee I talked to probably had not been born when I retired.

Ø I went back to my Service Guy and told him to order me a Cheap Spare Tire and Wheel priced at a mere $267.

Fella Digression: You may not find this interesting but I am in control because it is my Blog and hold on because you are almost done with me and my Blog (for today only I hope). I was the Owner Services Manager for American Motors Corporation (Google it) more than 40 years ago. (We were the first company to have an incoming 800 number.) AMC (figure it out or Google It too) had recently changed the name of my department from Customer Complaint Department to Owner Services Department. Toyota has moved on from those ancient times. Their Customer Complaint Department is now called Brand Engagement Center and their former Phone Answerers are now Brand Engagement Advocates. 

As Fella has been known to say, “That’s progress”. (Fella’s Digression is over.)

Ø I went to the dealership to pick up my cheap tire but they had ordered the wrong size tire and I had to go back 2 days later.

Ø When I went back, the quoted price was $100 more than the cheap price I had already been quoted.

Ø My Service Guy figured it out and he told me what he figured out by saying, "They still have the first wrong-sized tire on the invoice. They are charging you for 2 tires".

Ø I don't know who "they" are but I don't like them one bit.

Ø The final price was $255.

The bottom line is we have our Cheap Compact Spare Tire and we also have room for our daughter.

I just have to decide the location for the Cheap Compact Spare Tire (see pictures).

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you need more info about Missing Spare Tires (not just Toyotas) go to this site: https://www.torquenews.com/1083/shopping-guide-2021-why-you-should-demand-spare-tire-your-new-vehicle. As that American Express Commercial used to say, "Don't leave home without it".

I Worry About the Young People of Today

I apologize for all the ads that now appear throughout my Blog Postings. It was not always that way. Google Blogger does this. I have no control over these ad insertions. I know it makes my Interesting Commentary harder to read. Stick with it because it is worth the effort...Or is it? J

(I Understand Aristotle Felt the Same Way About the Young People Of His Day)

How often do we hear someone say or write...

“The young people today have to deal with a lot of pressure!”

Fella thinks the young people of today don’t know what pressure is.

I got this from Only Friend and a Newspaper Article about the deceased Father-In-Law of a friend of ours...

He was a Marine in WW2...
>He was in Pearl Harbor during the attack. (Decemebr 7, 1941)
>He was on Midway during the Battle of Midway. (4–7 June 1942)
>He spent time on Guadalcanal. (Contested from 7 August 1942 until Japanese stopped contesting the Island 6 months later)
>He was at the invasion of Saipan. (Combat on the island was from 15 June to 9 July 1944)
>He was on Tinian (where the planes that dropped the 2 Atomic Bombs took off from) when the Atomic Bombs were dropped. (August 1945)
>His last combat mission of the war was to venture into the jungle and try to capture alive a POW to explain to the POW that the war was over.

Ah yes, today’s young people have it tough...Or do they?

Wanna read all about him? Click here: https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/pearl-harbor-survivor-mack-abbott-dies/

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Yes, Sidney, You Articulate Your Words Very Well. You Speak At A Pace That Is Easy to Understand. Those Are Exactly the Reasons Why We Can’t Hire You To Be The Voice Of Our Commercials.

I readily admit that this Blog Posting is too long, however, I have inserted a $50 If You Simply Click Here Link somewhere in it. Relax, be patient and you will be $50 richer when you are done enjoying yourself.

Have you noticed how fast Commercials talk at us? My ears have trouble keeping up with them. More to the point, they go by so fast my ears have trouble understanding them.

If buyers can’t understand them, why run them at all?

The Radio Commercials are worst than the Television Commercials (I don’t know why but I don’t have to know the answer to all the whys in my life...Or do I?).

The Guests and Talk Show Hosts on Radio Talk Shows are required to talk faster than it is possible to understand them. Then the Commercials come on and the Guest and Hosts sound like they talk slow when compared to the Commercials Talkers.

I know the answer to this why. Since the reason the Commercials exist is to make us spend our money on whatever the Commercial tells us to spend our money on, why would Commercials not talk slow enough so that we could understand What the Heck They Are Saying? The answer, as usual, is money.

Commercials cost money to create and they cost more money to shove them Down Our Throats. The thinking of the people who create and shove these commercials is, “We gotta tell them as much as we can before they realize they are listening to a Commercial and they stop listening”.

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That reminds me of a new technique the Radio People have started using on unsuspecting us.

In the Old Days...

Ø We were notified that a Commercial was coming because the Announcer would say, “And now a word from our sponsor”.

Ø This was known as Fair Warning and it was our signal that we now were going to have an opportunity to part with our money. We had options...

>Listen to the Commercial and possibly Part with Our Money.
>Listen to the Commercial and possibly not Part with Our Money.
>Jump up and go to the Rest Room to take a Rest.
>Jump up and go get a Beer.
>Some were more accomplished TV Listeners than were others and they had actually trained themselves to take 4 Minute Naps. When the Commercials started, they went to sleep immediately and woke up at the very moment the Commercial ended so they could see more of what they were wasting their time watching when the Commercial came on to interrupt their watching.

In the New Days...

Ø Radio Commercials have gotten really deceptive.

Ø The Commercial starts off sounding as if it was an actual news event and it takes about 20 seconds before we realize that it is just another Commercial...
>”My friend I want to tell you about something that actually happened to me while I was on a family vacation with my family in Florida. We were having the best vacation that our family had ever had and, after buying some gifts in a cute little gift shop, we got a notification that our Identity Had Been Stolen! Thankfully we had the protection afforded to us by our membership in Identity Security R Us...”
>The Commercial goes on the scare the Living Daylights (if you are in Ireland, you would probably hear Scare the Bejesus) out of us and we are told, if we love our family, we are compelled to sign up immediately.

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Another thing that has changed about Radio Listening in recent years is Commercial Saturation. If I were silly enough to be a member of Congress, I would be standing up there poking holes in the air with my finger and saying...

“My fellow Americans, I am compelled to stand up before you today to propose a Bill of Clarification. It is incumbent upon me to Sponsor a name change for what we have come to know as Radio Talk Shows. With the passage of the bill, which I have named, the Tell It Like It Is Radio Talk Show Clarification Bill (or as it has come to be known as the TILIIRTSCB bill). This bill requires that all former Radio Talk Shows be re-named Radio Commercial Shows.”

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Here come the part of this Blog Posting where you are going to say to your collective selves, “I can’t believe Fella actually took the time to record all this useless information”.

I have a Radio Talk Show (until it is properly re-named) that I used to like but now I turn it off a lot. I turn it off when the Commercials start.

Yes, I actually recorded this minutia using my stop watch and a pencil and paper...

Ø I turned on the show in the last half hour of the 3 hour show with 14 minutes left in the show.

Ø A Commercial was already in progress, so I don’t know how long the Commercial Interruption had already been in progress.

Ø The Commercial that was in progress was about helping businesses get employees to work in their business.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about how to get a home loan.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about the talk show host’s podcast.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about relieving body pain.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about how we can donate our cars, vans or boats.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about how to get term life insurance...
>This Commercial always makes me chuckle.
>It tells us to call their phone number and Big Lou will answer the phone.
>Stop and think about this claim.
>If the show has 15,000,000 listeners and 1% of them are enticed to call in that means Big Lou is going to have to talk to 150,000 insurance seekers.
>Can this guy be that good?
>The strangest part is the Commercial is always ended with, “Big Lou’s like you. He’s on meds too.”
>I’m not sure I want to have a person, no matter how big he is, to handle my insurance needs if he is hooked on medications and he gets 150,000 phone calls every time that Commercial runs on the radio.
>I guess there is always the chance that his medications are Smart Pills but I’m not sure there is such a thing as Smart Pills.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about real estate.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about buying insulation for our homes.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial for the Weather Channel.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about the Radio Commercial Show that was going to follow this Radio Commercial Show.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a very short musical interlude.

Ø That musical interlude was followed by a Commercial that started off talking about inflation and was worded so I thought it was a part of a newscast but it turned out to be about how to get a home loan.
>If you are still reading this Blog Posting and you are paying attention, this is the same Commercial as the second one on this list above.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial from that guy who loves his pillow so much he wants all of us to buy one just like it.

That did it. The show was over, or so I thought, and we were encouraged to tune in tomorrow.

Then the show continued after it was over and...

Ø A Commercial came on about a pill we could take that would balance our nature.

Ø That Commercial was followed by a Commercial about how we could get out of our Evil Time Share.

Yes, My Dear Readers...

The Last More Than 14 Minutes of the Show Was a No Show At All.

IT WAS ALL COMMERCIALS!

Aghhhh!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: I lied about the $50 If You Simply Click Here Link.

True Heroes (Not Sports Figures) Deserve Our Respect No Matter How Long Ago They Performed Their Heroic Deeds

 

I may have published this Blog Posting before but I can’t find it in my records so I have expanded it and pecked it out again.

13 years ago we visited a World War One cemetery in Flanders Field in Belgium. We were being shown around by a guide when we noticed that one grave stood out from the rest because it was covered with Flowers and Decorative Ribbons.

We ask the guide about the decorations and she explained (in bullet point format)...

Ø This grave was so highly decorated because it was a new grave (in a cemetery for a war that ended 90 years ago)...

>From Wikipedia... The Iron Harvest is the annual "harvest" of unexploded ordnance, barbed wire, shrapnel, bullets and congruent trench supports collected by Belgian and French farmers after ploughing their fields. The harvest generally applies to the material from the First World War, which is still found in large quantities across the former Western Front.

>During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other during World War I were duds, and most of them have not been recovered. In 2013, 160 tonnes of munitions, ranging from bullets to 15-inch (38 cm) naval gun shells, were unearthed from the areas around Ypres.

>Unexploded weapons—in the form of shells, bullets, and grenades—buried themselves on impact or were otherwise quickly swallowed in the mud. As time passes, construction work, field ploughing, and natural processes bring the rusting shells to the surface. Most of the iron harvest is found during the spring planting and autumn ploughing, as the region of northern France and Flanders are rich agricultural areas. Farmers collect the munitions and place them along the boundaries of fields or other collection points for authorities.

Ø Human bodies are still uncovered also.

Ø Whenever a body is recovered it is buried with a Full Formal Burial Ceremony.

Ø The people from the nearby towns show up in significant quantities.

Ø Many arrive with flowers in hand.

The flowers and decorative ribbons are the result of the homage paid to an unknown soldier who died a long time ago who was highly honored when he was recently buried in his new grave.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

We Don’t Trick People Into Coming To Our Country

 

We are under attack from ourselves in the Good Ole USofA because our form of Government is not perfect. Personally I blame Thomas Jefferson because he put these words into The Declaration of Independence...

We hold this truth to be self-evident, that the Good Ole USofA is perfect.

...Or did he?

This Country has spent more than 200 years not being perfect while at the same time doing a gigabunch more things right than wrong.

Since the beginning people coming from all over Planet Earth have been trying and are still trying to get into the United States.

If they come because they thought the Good Ole USofA was perfect, they soon realize that is not the case. They also soon realize that it is a terabunch (a terabunch is a thousand times more than a gigabunch) better than where they came from and, more often than not, they begin the process of trying to get other members of their family to join them here.

What Thomas Jefferson really wrote was...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Pursuing Happiness does not Guarantee Happiness but it is a lot better than living in a place where the National Motto is If You Are Seeking Happiness Furgedaboudit.

Did you just say you wanted something to Think About? Think about this...

Of all the people who have come to America from a Communist Form of Government...

Ø How many of them have ever been overhead saying, “Do you know the name of a good lawyer? I want to sue! No one told me that this was a Free Country!”

Ø How many sit with their family at the dinner table at night talking about how great it was under Communist.

Ø How many decided to leave the United States and go back to the Communist Country they came from?

They all would probably agree with this statement...

Back in the old country we did not have much but no one else had more.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella