It is Time!

I learned very early on, that North Carolina was not the land flowing with milk and honey my mother had described. Obviously at some point between when I was conceived and Dad retired from the Federal Government something changed.
But even then, about 1975, truck drivers were courteous and farmers were right up there with them in that.
It used to be that hwy 42 was the only way to get from Garner to Wilson, my only image of North Carolina. From time to time a farmer would be hauling his tobacco on that road, but the difference is, back then, they'd pull over from time to time to let traffic go by.
It's not that way today. Hwy 50 from Garner to Benson, and hwy 96 from Zebulon to 401 and 401 from that point into Louisburg has rude, HICK drivers who travel fifteen to twenty miles below the posted limit. They NEVER pull over to let traffic go on. Much of the road has a double solid line, so one is faced with a choice; be late for where they're heading, or break the double solid line and pass anyway. It is said that two wrongs do not make a right, but I can tell you. If I can get around these stupid hicks, I will do so.
It is time for law enforcement to enforce minimum speed requirements.
I've been a professional truck driver and I know about tying down loads, etc. The other day, one of these clowns had mobile home underpinning in the back of his broken down Plymouth Arrow pick up. He was probably unable to go above thirty-five without the sheets of aluminum flying out of the bed. He SHOULD have tied it down, but hes' rude like so many are today. He COULD have pulled over from time to time to let traffic get by, but he's an ignorant stupid HICK!
If I were driving a flatbed with an unsecured load like that, I'd be ticketed or at the very least pulled over by DMV.
Going fifteen to twenty miles per hour below posted is a hazard and an indication of idiocy.
There's even a stupid "country" song called International Harvester that brags about being an ignorant hick blocking traffic. They may as well carry a sign saying, "I'm ignorant! Aren't you proud of me!?"

Gale Storm: Dead at Age 87

Star of The Gale Storm Show and My Little Margie, dies at age 87. The ironic thing is that Saturday night I met a very out-going older biker woman in Benson who was a blond-haired (ala Clairol) dead ringer for the late star. The subtitle of the Gale Storm Show was "Oh Suzanna!" and I recall Cedric, a ships's steward and Gale Storm playing an entertainment director on a cruise ship and Zazoo Pitts co-starring with her, mostly from re-runs.

"Weetah Seex Yoo Geetah Egg Loll!"

There HAS to be a reason why suddenly Americans are so gullible as to accept the premise that the Government ANY government can run ANYTHING better than the private sector. There has been the systematic, read that "public" school dumming down of the population. This has included the indoctrination by the soviet style school system of the "students" into seeing nationalism as somehow an evil thing and the attitude that all must be "world citizens."
This Nation was founded by fallen men, but many, in fact MOST were redeemed by the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is a concept that is foreign to the population just described that has also been taught that "religion" is somehow evil. Once it was taught that George Washington was the Father of Our Country. You don't hear that much anymore and to tell the truth, many do not carry on his proud heritage and are, in effect, illegitimate sons (and daughters.) But it was George who said that our Nation was not started by religionists, but by CHRISTIANS specifically.
Very flawed me formed this Nation with the help of the Word (the Bible) of the very PERFECT God! Those guys foresaw all this mess that's being spoon-fed to the population, this hope and change rhetoric that is so quickly bringing hopeLESSness and tearing this country down, some think intentionally, into third world status.
One theory I thought was quite possible is this. Consider that the regime in China is Communist, although its leaders have learned that once disdained capitalistic practices work for their totalitarian system. Consider, too, how, if you go from town to town in the country, how many little Chinese food kiosks you see around and how many Chinese buffets. My theory is that in that food is the key as to why there's such mass insanity. People obviously aren't thinking straight and all we need to remember is Mr Reagan's words that it's the same FAILED |tax and spend policies of the Democrats only now it's on steroids and makes Marxism look like a Boy Scout Troop. Obama is carrying us into true Fascism! So there must be something in all that Chinese food that goes to the brain a brings about a population of Manchurian VOTERS!
Otherwise, it's just a case of people who are just stupid, gullible and are blinded by their hatred for "Dubyuh!"

The Geeze

Last night, in his honor, I wore his Swiss Army watch and sang "Cats in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin. My Dad, the Geeze continues to live in my heart but is with Jesus and Mom in Heaven (and with my Grandfather)
Dad used to speak with love of riding with Grandaddy (I never met him) on his insurance debit, singing "Happy on the Way." Dad regretted, "provoking him so badly, he bit the stem off his pipe!"
Dad wouldn't waste money on beer while attending UNC Chapel Hill because in his eyes it would be disrespectful of HIS Dad working long hours standing on his feet at Roebuck's Fruit Market in "Little Washington" North Carolina.
Sometimes the Geeze would tune up and cry because he so missed my Grandfather.
May people wrote my Dad off, but he was a man who, like me, finds the FACTS before making an opinion. Many people set an agenda and then seek proof that their foredrawn conclusions are true. I learned not to do that from Dad.
The Geeze...I miss him today, but soon, the Lord will bless me with another visit with him in a vivid dream and the day after will be great because it will be just as though we had a chance to hang out. I love you, Pop!

A Very Regional, Even LOCAL Concern:

This concerns the Clubhouse on Hwys 40/42 in Garner, NC:

Earlier this month, a huge banner read: "Karaoke Every Saturday Night at Nine!"
A week later, a communication from them to me said that for the summer, they were going to one night of karaoke per month. Last night was the first.
The previous time there, a clueless host played and repeated "dance song" after dance song twenty to one as opposed to actual karaoke songs with at least seven participants waiting to sing and vocally complaining. No one was dancing.
Most karaoke hosts turn making money playing music, which can be done with a jukebox, into PAYING money for it. The only difference is, SOME of the hosts who fancy themselves as "deejays" do wise crack, Howard Stern-style banter between songs. It would be interesting to see how they'd fare on the old Gong Show, at Charlie Goodnights or even at the Fox Theatre. The education would serve them well. Before you read any hate into this, I know some guys who use this approach, and as people, I LOVE them and they know I disagree with their approach and I don't do so disagreably!
So, once again, last night, singers waited to sing, one to three compared to so called "dance songs." Sorry, that's not karaoke. The pity is, there were good singers there, some even from out of town. Two girls were excellent and, while I did enjoy their dancing, I would have loved to have heard more than one song from them.
Everyone's an expert and one guy who claimed to have worked on air and always runs his mouth when it's his turn to sing, commented to me, that the formula that works is three karaoke songs and a dance tune. Even that, though I disagree with it, would be an improvement over the status quo at The Clubhouse.
As is my custom, I bought my meal there last night, which was mediocre at best. The Clubhouse is marked OFF my list (Onto my POO list) so that's income they apparently don't need, and less tip-age for the wait staff!
The Clubhouse, out of a possible five stars, doesn't even get half a star!

From the SOURCE!

I recently had a conversation with someone who knows. Someone who has direct contact with our fighting women and men in far off places, so this is, not from ABC. Not from CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, or CNN. And no, not from FOX News Channel, no. Straight from Afghanistan.But just like prior to World War II, like some Europeans and Americans, there will be those who refuse to believe the truth. (They're too busy swallowing the myth of some polar bear running out of ice and sadly, show more concern for them)
No doubt, and I hope you didn't believe your ears any more than I did when it was announced that terrorists, caught at war will be given rights, just as though they were US citizens. After denying it and referring to it as being absurd, yet another bait and switch lie from the Obama Administration. Terrorists, non-citizens will be "Marandized." I am certain, from cop shows you are familiar with the "You have the right to remain silent..." Speech, carried on a card by officers and now memorized after decades of use on CITIZENS. Enemy combatants are not citizens and should not be treated as such.
The result, straight from our forces in Afghanistan is, our forces will no longer take prisoners. That's right, take no prisoners. When lunatic politicians want to set these terrorist punks loose on US streets, it's the only solution.
Second thing. Straight from the field. US aide was given, in the form of medicine, immunizations and nutritious vegetarian FOOD to women and children in Afghanistan. The reaction by the Tahliban? All the little Afghan girls who received these life- supporting immunizations were publicly CRUCIFIED. You heard me right. CRUCIFIED...for those of you who don't understand that, that means they were hung to die on crosses! The rationale? The little girls were "defiled" by "Christian" medicine!
There is a growing resistence to the Ayatollah system in Iran, but Mr Obama cannot find it in his heart to speak one word of support for the freedom fighters. The only thing necesary for evil to flourish, is for good men to do nothing. But you know, I doubt more and more if you could by any stretch of the imagination describe Barack Obama as a "good" man.

Hey, Crosby Stills and Nash:

Where's the protest song, huh? Oh, I get it. You don't care that protesters in Iran are being murdered, including an innocent 13 year old by Ayatollah thugs. You don't care that your "messiah" Barack Obama does absolutely nothing to support the freedom fighters in this Jew-hating, Christian-hating regime. You HYPOCRITES!

This is Going to Hurt...BAD!

I once enjoyed excellent health care. When I was a child, my Dad, who was a Federal employee, back in the era of actual Civil Servants, and he opted for the option of joining a brand new concept in health care that was a type of co-op called Group Health Association. I may not be accurate, but I seem to recall Dad paying ten bucks a month for family coverage...no co-pays.
Time moved on and when I worked for the State of North Carolina, a second option was offered as an alternative to the entrenched Blue Cross and Blue Shield monopoly. Most long time state employees were indoctrinated into the BC/BS system and didn't really want to give Kaiser Permanente a chance and set to run them out of the state. Well, eventually, the good ole boy network of smoke-filled rooms and dirty politics ran them out, but I can tell you, Kaiser was the best health care I've ever had.
One has only to ask those who have moved here from Socialist regimes how health care was in "the old country" to get a real heads up on what Obama and his crowd want to do to us.
It's plain and simple. Obama LIES! Why should we be surprised that a Marxist, which he is would lie to achieve his socialist goals? Thank God for alternatives to the dinosaur media exposing this. This week, Obama denied goals for a "one tier" system, but thank GOD that other speeches he's made to his other socialist friends expose that indeed a one tier system is the goal!
Options? There simply will BE no options. Prices come down with competition...not from a Soviet style system built on INcompetence!
People are bending over and grabbing their ankles, but it's not a doctor headed toward them with a rubber glove on his hand, it's Obama and the other Socialists, and trust me, this is going to HURT!

The Mocha Mussolini

Once again, the Dems are trying to cause widespread panic and reform health care in the image of the US Postal Service. If you've forgotten, they're the ones who originated "snail mail!" In fact, they have to use FedEx in order to have any semblance of living up to the "neither snow nor sleet" motto they USED to follow.
My educators used to say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch." In this age of MTV, State-run education and other wacky notions of the 21st Sentence...er uh Century.
It's all being sold as something that is "for your own good," when, in reality, Obama and his crowd have no interest whatsoever in the betterment of their fellow man and only want to build the huge bureaucracy. Their motto should be "better things for better living through huge government."
But they'd have to use it very tongue in cheek.
Now, some of you will read the title and think, "Uh huh, racist sucker." NO, I was for the real black man who opposed Obama back when he was ushered into the Senate by the crooked Chicago machine, Dr Alan Keyes.

What Do I Press for English

Yesterday, just for laughs, I turned the analogue TV at the radio station on and started surfing what USED to be the channels. Much to my surprise, an image appeared. It was channel 3. What was airing? SPANISH, apparently explaining the change from analogue to digital. Can't have the illegals not understanding what's going on, now can we.
This country has gone insane!

"Sh-Huh It Happens"

Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time will no that this writer is know prude when it comes to word usage (I would have said verbiage, but I dumbed it down to an eighth grade level as they told us to do when I began writing commercial radio copy)
Recently a friend of mine commented that the "f" bomb has been rendered inefficient due to its constant use. In a bygone era, namely Woodstock (the ORIGINAL one) motion picture producers, in an attempt to be avant garde, did what would be known now as closed captioning of the film every time someone on stage uttered the "f" word, just in case the stoners viewing the film failed to pick up on that.
Earlier, while touring Europe, specifically in France, a young Jim Morrison began his Doors hit "Light My Fire" with a barrage of "f-bombs" to the syncopated rhythm that characterizes the end of the song. That was about the most outrageous thing one could do at the time, but not really, when you consider much of the audience didn't speak English.
Fast forward to the twenty-FIRST century and a group booked on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno as "The Doors" (but only had Manzareck and Krieger as members) performed the song in the same manner with the same "f-bombs" on live NBC television. One would think that this many decades later, even the potty mouthed Jim, had he lived would have matured at least a little, but Ray Manzarek still has the sixties mindset. "Far out, Man!"
It seems that everyone, or at least a lot of people think they are Howard Stern (very fitting last name, when you consider he behaves like a rear end!)
Country Music, always last to catch on to trends has gotten into the cheap attention-getter frenzy. The song, "Shift Work" has the line, "A big ole pile of sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeft work!" In it, and I'm sure the audience initially hearing this thought the lyrics were different than what they turned out to be.
The latest cheap trick is from Sugarland, the Country Band with the wannabe Janis Joplin blonde (with a mouth that looks like Lyndon Johnson's) exclaiming, "Sh-HUH it happens." (Oh, I get it!) I guess I'm the only one who is wishing we could mature beyond pre-teeny bopper little boy mentality.
Guess it's just another example of the dumbing down of America.

Rawhyde

In such a very short time
My hero, you became,
The world knew you as Rawhyde,
Peter Batton was your name.

You brought us all such happiness,
Our fifteen minutes of fame,
Love you gave with the click of the lens,
Caught in every frame.

I still expect to see your face,
Whenever there's a flash,
I look around to see my friend,
They say you're scattered ash.

But me, I know much better,
Alaska resting place?
I feel your spirit every day,
I almost see your face.

I know we'll meet again, my friend,
You've spoken of your faith,
Until that day you're in my heart,
And cheering on my race!

copyright 2009 John H Roebuck