Posted on 09/06/2010 5:21:58 PM PDT by Nachum
I’m fortunate that my grandma is still alive at 102. She has lost two of her three sons (including my dad) and 7 of her 8 siblings. She was the oldest.
Can you imagine the extreme weather...and NO weatherman! Of course, I remember as a kid that we learned to watch the sky. You were never so far from home that you couldn’t pedal there pretty quick when the sky turned.
It just amazes me how the “intelligent” stupid left keeps thinking that people in flyover country are dumb.
And they’ve never had to work as hard.
You can also happen on the frequent amazing situation when that so-called “idiot” farmer happens to be an expert on something specific like aviation history, or legumes or oriental rugs....or ....
well...you know what I’m saying, you’ve met them. It’s always a privelege.
My great grandmother know all the weather sayings that for the most part are fairly accurate.
Wind in the west, fish bite the best.
Wind in the east, fish bite the least.
Wind in the south blows bait in the fishes mouth.
Wind in the north, fishermen don’t go forth.
She is the last person I knew who actually used her weathervane as more than decoration.
Well...nowadays we BUY the fish at the supermarket.
And we complain if there are no strawberries in December.
You made me want to go fishing. My dad was a fisherman.
I used to sit on my grandparents’ dock in Arkansas from before sunup to after sundown, if allowed, during our summer vacation there...catching bluegills and sunfish.
Eventually, my grandpa (mom’s mom) taught me that I had to clean them and fillet them myself. He had a board...with the nail...and you had to slam the fishhead over the nail through the eyes to get the nail to hold the fish steady while you scaled it.
Oh my. I might have been a Tomboy...I so clearly remember doing that.
At the end of my dad’s life, we lived in a small town in Maryland that had a park with a stream that ran through it. My father started a fishing derby. He had friends at the Ag Department and they donated 300 trout from their “secret” program....
And the stream was closed off and the trout dumped in a couple of days before...
And the derby was a HUGE success in its first year. It was free for kids.
It was a blast to help those kids catch those hungry trout.
My father and brother stood and cleaned those kids’ trout for hours and hours ‘till they got blisters on their hands....
I hope that derby is still going. I would think it is. The town council and the Bassmasters were quick to get involved and call it theirs.
Ahhhh....memories....
“they refer to people with jobs as “worker ants” and they HATE them.”
Don’t stop now. What else does the head union scumball call workers? I know lots of union “worker ants.” Sometimes I get this urge to harass them for their native stupidity. Tell us more.
Thank you, Salvation. The picture and prayer were very inspiring and uplifting.
You want the skinny from me? It’s been awhile. “My” Socialist Workers hung out in my college of the University of London.
They liked to distribute their newspaper.
I was a curiosity as an American who had lived overseas for awhile. Perhaps they saw me as some kind of a friendly thing. I WAS a friendly thing...maybe I was a thing to be respected...who knows?
At THAT time, the conservatives had had CHARGE of England....
I was an American conservative and perhaps they found it charming.
America, after all, had MUCH LESS racism than England in 1990. England has really never confronted its racism.
Even though the conservatives had had control of England...the socialism was everywhere. We think our public housing is bad sometimes...England’s was a cesspool.
The Socialist Workers were like a cult. They looked for the disenfranchised...now REMEMBER...the UK pays for people to go to college.
So...the very premise of “you are oppressed” was bad....but people will believe it. England was already pretty socialist....
The socialists weren’t here as much when I came back. I think American students would have laughed them out of town. Even liberal ones.
But socialist workers are NOT about work. That’s NOT what they want. They want forced redistribution of wealth.
If you are WORKING...they hate you in America. They LOATHE you. You are a “worker ant”...you have no “greater comprehension of the struggle”...if you were a REAL human...you would strike.
If you can’t strike you will do the very LEAST...so as to drive your corporate masters (employers) to their knees.
The boss has no right to his large house. The rich are not entitled to what they have earned because they have earned it on the backs of the “worker ants”.
The socialists will talk a nice game, until you realize what they are. The organizers DON’T work. They try to breed resentment and hate.
They got a grip in England because the economy was bad. They wait until you are unemployed and then they come in and tell you that you were used and you should never trust the employers again...
Oh...I should tell this story about Union bosses.
I had a close family member that worked in a union shop in DC FOR the federal government for over 20 years.
The buildings are historic and the things in them. One day, people in the shop were cleaning out some room...and a worker (who happened to be black) was cleaning stuff out and was talking to my family member (who happens to be white) and he said they were about to throw something out...but he wanted to know what it was...and he came to my family member because my family member knew about antiques...
My family member said, “If you are throwing this out...I want it...it’s a shoeshine stand...in early days, a young black man would often make a living by shining shoes...and this is a shoeshine stand...”
Well...my family member did take it home and found out within a day or so that the union steward had talked to the guy who was throwing the thing out and they were charging my family member with “racist speech”.
See...my family member IS a conservative...he wasn’t a troublemaker...by ANY means...
...and he wound up having to go to classes for saying that “a young black man” would shine shoes....
I’M sooooooo glad he’s out of DC now. I remember him telling me when it happened and I said, “You should ask them WHY they are upset? Are they mad that you said a black man would try to earn a living?”
OF course, that would have been counter-productive...he just had to kiss ass and say, “I didn’t understand how that was racially insensitive....”
True story.
I watched the entire clip, and you should too.
This guy has some very REAL positions that resonate with the average “workers”.
It's like going from doing math long hand, to a calculator, to a computer. He wants to secure a job for the lowest common denominator.
He actually has some very good points with regards to globalization and multinational corporations. I DO NOT agree with his solutions for American workers.
This guy is looking way beyond the party politics of today.
He will through his Democratic pawns under whichever bus he chooses when it suits HIS interests.
I think we will see him through his hat into the political arena, and challenge Obama in 2012.
He doesn’t have a PRAYER of getting into political office.
He knows it, too.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.