say whaaaaat?

hat a surprise; it makes you say "whaaaaaaaaaaaat"?  

The election: what a horrible nightmare/joke on the GOP side, Trump is the most bigoted person I've ever heard open his mouth in public and yet he is yearning to be POTUS?  I am sorry if you are a supporter of his, it's not the American way, he is not the American way...he says make American Great again...we have yet to be great...we will be when we can leave bigotry, hatred, and the lust for blood, and destruction of our Planet behind us.  Some just can't bare the immigrants "invading" us, we are all free to leave. 

I'm supporting Bernie but Hillary will do just to get us out of this horrible time we find ourselves in, such a step backwards.  I lived in NYC long enough to hear all about Mr Trump and his "kingdom" and how he handles himself in business and how he treats people. He will seek out every dirty loop to undermine what ever he desires to destroy. I've yet to read or hear one GOOD thing he has done!  HE has done good for his Empire, for himself, his sons, his investors, his many wives, but for America?? Trumpitizing the land is not great it's separatism. 

Watched a Documentary (You've Been Trumped) about how his development "people" terrorized some Scottish land owners when he decided to build a huge golf course complex next to them...his people deliberately broke one man's water main and he was without water for weeks..he had stock to water, and his life was so disrupted.  Another land owners fence and garage was practically demolished when the Trump party said "one corner of his garage appears to be on our land" so they bull dozed it and his fence...this man had old property surveys in his safe and it showed the line was NOT where Trumps people said it was...the reason for this terrorism? Because these simple people lived a meager life but loved their land, they refused to sell to Trump...so he complained that his Billionaires who would come from around the world would have to look down upon those pig sty neighbors and it was not to his liking...so he tried to run them out by bullying and terrorism.

They held firm and were continually bullied by "Trump's Team." He had a security force who came on their land and arrested the Independent film maker who was making this Documentary...for NO Legal reason!  See big money buys everything, the law, the government, the land right out from under your feet..

Some of the land owners whose land was to be PART of the golf course were forced to sell when the Scottish govt, at this point, was in support of the project since Trump promised 1600 jobs would be made so these land owners were forced TO sell by the Government backing Trump in his land stealing of precious dunes... a one of a kind environment. 

He wrecked the natural dunes and built this Disney looking landscape in its place...he then abandoned the project  when he learned of the Scottish governments plan to have a wind farm off shore of his Mega-Trumpolis Golf Complex...so he sued Scotland to try and stop them from building an alternate to fossil fuel wind farm because it would ruin the view for his Billionaire golf patrons...he LOST thank goodness and now Scotland is no longer burning coal in their power plants I'm sure these wind farms helped make that a reality...so this man would have a say in our energy policy? He would appoint a Dept of Energy head?? Holy brimstone and fire. 

I would not vote for this man if my life depended on it and I believe all our lives depend on us NOT voting for him. Talk about hard times. We have seen nothing of the likes---Canada watch out for the influx of American illegals heck I'd chose Mexico over the kind of America Trump wants to build...

I now understand why I was unable to align myself with a few people...when my eye balls bought fell out as they are supporting this loud mouthed buffoon.  I can't think of one good reason to support this man.

Gotta love freedom of speech, wonder which of our Bill of Rights he will strip off first?? He said he will sue anyone who attempts to slander him...heck it would be hard to slander him he makes his opinions very public on camera! 

It will be the downfall of America as we know it if this man somehow gets the power he so lusts after...God help us all.

Where is the Duke when you need him?

hy do the Republicans think they are the only angry ones who feel like shouting?  That's why I created Writtin's, my place to say my piece.
We all feel that need.  I try hard to not speak out as much as I WANT to or I'd be like Trump shouting to the top of my lungs on a daily basis.  All the abuse of our system, the political lies, the corporate coop, the human abuse, the animal abuse, the environmental destruction; it's enough to drive a sensible person crazy.  Of course I do NOT consider D. Trump to be sensible or even sane on any level I can relate to. 

 All these gun welding yahoo's-- omg why don't they enlist in the Army if they really want to fight? If they were drafted they'd probably run off to Canada and hide...I'm so over it! Have no tolerance for that bully mentality...Yes we have a right to bear arms WHEN threatened! We are the most armed society in the world!! Yet it has not brought us together, it has not solved our social problems, it has not even won us a war in many many years.  SO what's the point...we also have freedom of speech.

This blog post tho, (okay I here and now officially make the t h o spelling of the word though correct English...and thru correct for the word through, and will spell it that way henceforth); is not about those topics per se but it's the daily struggle we all have that I want to speak about...the ones of us who have issues and try to go about solving it legally, or the right way. We  "do gooders" try to work within the system, not like the Ammon Bundy's of this land, or Isis, or the KKK who try to force their way around justice, try to rewrite the law with bullet holes, we take the right approach.  There is no guarantee either way.

Most of my battles are personal ones.  Case and point, I fought the battle against a medical clinic who placed WRONG info in my medical records...I fought them for months, in registered letters, reading numerous online statues of legalese to find out what the LAW has to say about that.  I went through ever channel, and even enlisted the help of my State Representative, and yet it was NEVER completely repaired to my satisfaction...they came 75% of the way then just ignored my continued demands of it being right 100%.  Finally I had to give up and walk away due to the stress and anger I was feeling after trying for 9 long months to right the wrong.  Sometimes you count a partial win as a win...the only reason I didn't get 100% correction was solely due to an arrogant director who decided her balls were more brass than mine. She thumbed her nose at legal statues and I could find no one who cared enough and had the clout to bring her to justice! The law tied my hands as it states a patient can NOT sue a DR for wrong medical info in their records, but must follow this procedure to fix the errors.  I did everything possible but when you're up against a liar, a manipulator, and an ego driven personality and  have no legal recourse and no money to buy representation,  you may as well stand up your white flag.  

I'm sure that director has used my case as a sounding board for these past 2 years when it comes to training the staff in the clinic on proper record keeping.  I didn't get my just deserves, but maybe I paved the way for ones coming along behind.  As long as people are willing to learn from mistakes and first and foremost admit mistakes were made. 

More recently another battle hill I decided to climb is one with my electric co-op.  No it's not about rates, altho that is probably a battle for later on my radar, its about the horrible mess they made on my land! The easement tree trimming is something they do yearly...this time they contracted a different company, this crew cuts the limbs with no thought to the life of the tree its attached to, let it fall to the ground, then run a big bush hog machine over the grounded trimmings in a apparent attempt of chopping them into smaller pieces.  In this case, of the easement on my property, the limbs did not chop up but were mangled and then thrown up against the tree trunks for the entire length of my Southern land boundary! It looks like a Bigfoot got mad  and starting kicking the shit outta the woods. This is how I am trying to get satisfaction:

• emailed the branch manager with my complaint
• got reply 3 days later
• he sent 2 reps to review the damage
• they had a long convo of which I was excluded and dismissed with a "we'll take care of it" statement, in other words they patted my ass and sent me home. 
• now I wait

I get so frustrated dealing with the Establishment that I do understand where the "let's just shoot them" mentality is coming from, but I'm too far left to stand under that flag! 

We all have to stand up for what we believe is the right thing...The upcoming elections scare the bejeeze out of me as I hear the rhetoric of these GOP candidates, and I see the pointing fingers of the Dems...where are the good guys? We need a John Wayne, a 

Daniel Boone, a John McClane.  Where are the do gooders who can also open up a can of whoop ass if need be.  No these are not perfect people, they made mistakes, but they tried to do the right thing for the right reasons.  (okay 2 of the 3 are make believe characters, but I'm sure there are people like them out there).

I am a big letter writer I've written and received replies from people like Bill Clinton, Lindsay Graham, other officials and it has not always been favorable.  It was my attempt to make things right as I see it...sometimes that's all we can do.  Write a letter, email, like on Facebook or dislike! We do still have some avenues open to us that are non violent....but that will disappear if we don't exercise our right to do so. I imagine dueling will become in favor once again...as it seems to me as a society we move forward technologically and move backwards socially.   

We no longer have face o face contact with people other than our immediate  circle...back in the day if you had some business to take care of you went there, you met people, you heard their side and you came to an agreement.  Now we get bombarded with "issues" and unless we go in search of many sides to the story we get an unrealistic view of the issue. 

There are so many ways to slice the pie but in the end we all eat from the same pie...

• Speak UP don't take it sitting on your hands with duct tape on your mouth
•  Vote
•  Back down only when you've exhausted every angle and only if you have gotten something in return
•  Do your part, stop waiting on someone else to do it
• And most of all do the right thing 
  If you don't know what is the right thing, just ask yourself this question- would I stand for this in my back yard? That one question can help you figure out where you stand.

IF I weren't such a hermit I'd run for political office just to see how far I'd get before I hit the wall to see if one person really could create change.  After watching Obama die in a GOP crock pot it makes me think democracy is dead or dying right before our closed eyes. 

Waiting on the Flat Line!

hat's your peak graph look like?
I don't know about you but me, I keep reinventing who I am...did you know I used to vote Republican? Now I wouldn't even if you threatened to cut my throat..lol  It's funny how we become intolerant of what we once accepted; as I age it seems easier to tell anyone who is running in a different stream than me to "take a hike".  I guess as we age we feel we've earned that right to know what and who we want around us pretty fast. 

I can be, and am, naive to a point then one of those light bulbs pop up and I whisper to myself "ohhh I get it now". It's okay to blame your raising, for who you have become, up to a POINT then its on your shoulders, those blaming mama for their problems have not peaked into adulthood they are stuck in adolescence! I'm thinking some people never actually do grow up...I heard this saying on a TV drama and it explained a "place of being" I had been seeking words to describe and that word is Peaked. It's like Peter Pan for eternity.

People peak as different stages of their life I won't say ages cause even some 60+ yr old friends of mine are signing up for online dating...I don't understand that but I guess they still haven't peaked sexually, emotionally, socially or maybe they have not peaked in confidence, or they have not peaked in enjoying their own company?  Can't help but insert we come into and out of this world alone so get ready. 

I am one of those people who spends a lot of time thinking!! I try to figure out the why, what for, and where fore of life around me looking for answers to those inner questions of what makes me tick and then that could give some insight on what makes others tick too! 

I think there is a peak in all stages and in each of our senses and in every  part of our life.  Our friendships peak, our relationships peak, our talents and abilities peak, our very life peaks then disappears.
If you lay it out graphically it would look like the Alps as we rise and peak and then drop to less than, but its not just one graph its so many parallel graphs; finally the parallel universe we speak of has been found.  Each of us has our peak graph just as we have our own DNA, our life line, our life span.

I think the trick is recognizing when you've reached peak and when you have not...like learning the same lesson over and over till you finally get IT! It will keep coming back to reteach you till you do.  

Visually I peaked in my 30's then in my 40's I'm wearing glasses, now I can barely see with glasses...everything is a blur so what I think I'm seeing is mostly my brain playing memory tricks on me.  It tries to bring into focus what it thinks the eyes are seeing.  My son has a photographic memory and I wonder if it's peaked yet?

Physically I peaked in my 40's and started down from there...what was once easy is now difficult to do if I worked out and put more time into it maybe I could improve a couple of degrees on my graph but I could never reach peak again...I can still sing fairly well so vocally I may be peaking this year, should I record a song just for prosperity? 

Financially I peaked in my 40's, I should have been $saving$ more then... romantically, where the heart is involved, I peeked in my 30's that's the age I should have been seeking my soul mate...not at 21 like I did.

Emotionally I think Im on the verge of either a complete break out or an epiphany or some kind of enlightening...as my tolerance for anything that rubs me wrong is as short as the fuse on a July 4th firecracker!  Emotionally I'm still learning how to cull out the good from the bad. Will I be vacant of feeling once I've peaked or so over joyed at the relief I will be brimming over with love? I'm so ready for this one to materialize! The anger, the disappointments, the expectations will soon be humming on a nice straight line...I will have peaked emotionally!! 

So as we peak we draw close to or withdraw away from certain behaviors, certain philosophies,  and we recreate the inner self over again.  We peak and move on to something new, someone new, something more challenging; another peak to reach...ebb and flow, ying and yang, wax and wane.

I think the worse thing that could happen to someone is to peak in life too soon, like the tv show said, "he peaked in high school". Finally I had words to put to a feeling I had about some folks who hung onto childish behaviors well into adulthood and I just couldn't put my finger on it!   If we peak too soon it's like in STONE, done, formed, over and out.  Some peaked or reached the top of their maturity in high school and never progressed beyond that point! It had me negotiating my past wondering what parts of me peaked in high school? I'm not searching that one too hard for fear of what I will find-;o(

I do not socialize well at all anymore I talk too much or  
I shy away because I can't bear being around people socially BUT I was NOT like that 10 years ago...FINALLY answers to my questions. If  you can't sit in silence with someone and feel at ease and comfortable socially you have not reached your peak...and when you do its all down hill from there you will enjoy your alone time way more than the time you spend around other people you will engage your inner self more and you will welcome the introvert in you. The extrovert will cower in the corner as you feel peace, comfort, and tranquility no matter if you're in a room full or with one...aw finally i believe I am reaching my social peak! 

Maybe if we had more of an understanding of our psychology we would be better human beings more tolerant and less judgmental... "oh I see you haven't peaked yet...now I get it". 

So how's your life graph has it flat lined yet? Sure hope so!!

Friday 13th goblins!

e peel the onion...and shed our tears...
Today was Friday 13th! I think know I am superstitious more so than most. I knock on wood, it has to be good wood my favorite is Maple..and If a black cat crosses my path I will curse aloud and it leaves me visibly shaken! Bad things always come in 3's...and I watch for the evil goblins to make things go bad on Friday 13th, just to name a few of my weird and strange idiosyncrasies.. 
My mom is 91 and losing her memory, it has not been slowly coming on it came on like a freight train...very rapid! At first it did only affect parts of her memory like repeating things she had told me over to me again and then again...but now its affecting all her thoughts... she can't remember how to do simple things like the laundry...its as if her thoughts are incomplete...she will declare she understands and at that moment she does...then seconds later she will have no memory of what we just discussed.

The problem is I fall into the trap of taking for granted she is understanding...like today we had a shopping trip to do I really NO longer enjoy taking my mom on shopping trips and these days shopping for our household means groceries and basic necessaries.  We don't really bother with much else..

On the way she found a $100 dollar bill in her wallet she thought it was a $10. SO I told her she should have just left that at home...but she said that is her lucky $100 bill...okay I understand Lucky and Unlucky! :o) so she tucked it into a secret flap in her wallet. 

So Mom wanted to go into Roses its a small discount store right next door to the grocery store so I got her a cart, took her inside the store and she reassured me she was fine I should go on and do the grocery shopping while she browsed inside the discount store...I kept saying are you sure, "Yes Im fine, I will wait right here for you to come get me when you finish." 
So I shopped and put the groceries in the van, and headed to Roses...I went in and she was right by the door waiting..I could tell something was wrong instantly..

"I've lost my pocketbook"! I don't even know if I had it with me when I came in here." She did cause I made sure it was in her cart...
So I asked where she was when you realized she didn't have it?
She was at the check out and when she went to get her wallet her purse was gone.  So I said let me ask if a purse has been found, cashier said nope..so then I tried to help her retrace her path...she had gone to the bathroom.  That's the first place I checked no bag...then I went back to where she waited and one of the store employees asked if I had lost a bag since one was turned into the office...
It was found in the ladies room....

Every thing was inside, but poor mom was so shaken she could barely stand up all she could think of was her $100 dollar bill!!

So that was probably the last trip alone in a store for mom it makes me sad to see the layers of independence being ripped away one by one...

But we decided to blame the Friday 13th Goblins instead!!

Expectations and other hard lessons

hat can you do when your expectations don't match up with the reality?

ANSWER=complain, learn, and move on lol...

I have learned a very valuable lesson! Sometimes I'm naive to the point of being ridiculous.  All I've done since my arrival back home after a 2 and1/2 month wonderful trip is clean, clean, clean! And as soon as the rain stops I have a huge yard clean up to do as well...

Why you say?....OH.... glad you asked...especially since I did have a house sitter, that was my first mistake!

I have been a house sitter in the past sitting at my sister's house and I never left anything for her to do in the house, or outside either, on her return...until they hired a yard service so I no longer had to do the yard clean up...but if limbs fell in the yard between the weekly yard service visits I would always have that picked up by the day my sis would arrive home...Nothing feels better to come home and all is "right"!  Well nothing could be farther from the truth with my experience when I came home on Halloween day. 

Sure it was trick or treat week...but really? And this person is was a friend!

 I totally expected way more for 2 and 1/2  months of room and; board (leave it better than you found it right?)...I had to mop the kitchen floor twice before we could walk on it barefoot  here is the RINSE water!

...my recliner was broken on one side and the foot pedal would not extend...it was fine when I left it.   It took me 2 days to get it fixed!  

 The wood floors felt sticky as the sitter has used "wet swiffers" on the floor...I told her I only use Murphy's Soap on the wood floors.  There was long grey hair all over the bedroom rugs, the bathroom floor, tub...no dusting has been done...she moved things around from where we keep it like our glasses, silverware, she left half eaten containers of food in the fridge, cabinets and on the counters...and SHE LEFT MEAT IN MY FRIDGE AND FREEZER! omg--she totally knows we do not eat meat SO WHY leave it FOR me to throw out? She brought in different cutting boards and left them on the counters as if to say "these are my choice and should be yours"...I ended up cleaning up behind her, tossing all that out! She put my dish cloths in the drawer without laundering them I think she rinsed, hung them up to dry, and then put them back in the drawer...

The recycle bin in the kitchen was heaped to overflowing with dozens of 2 liter soda bottles, milk bottles, processed food packaging...and yet I had instructed that recycles must be taken to the center weekly! And there was another large garbage BAG FULL of the same type stuff on the back screen porch laying in one of our porch chairs.  I have bins in place for this with lids because in the South you can't leave stuff such as that out..it draws vermin and bugs!

None of the 3 porches had been swept up. I left my important plants in the screen porch for easy watering and I asked her to move them inside if it turned frosty She moved them in (it was not frosty) and she stopped watering them all were dry and droopy...

She was to fill the bird feeders, and make sure the bird bath was filled.  Okay when it rains bird feeders need to be cleaned & dried out cause rain gets in and it gets all funky and moldy...I don't think she fed the birds period she allowed the seed I had put in to get low,  then it rained and the last remains got all soaked and moldy and then the day before I arrived she dumped fresh seed on top of that NOT one bird was at the feeders cause there was no way for them to get seeds out thru that gunky mess...the bird bath was green with algae and slime as well as all my yard fountains...the hummingbird feeder was left out to mold and mildew instead of being brought in washed and put away...she told me around Oct 1st that the hummers had left so I said Okay no need to fill that anymore...I guess she is the type that you have to explain every minuscule detail to but to me... an adult knows better!

The front and back yards are littered with limbs, sticks, pine cones...like a trailer load!!  I pick up sticks daily and I showed her the bins I use to do that with...and that was to be part of her chores...because I know how it can collect if  you don't do it daily...if you do it daily it takes about 15 mins a day! One wheel barrow had been half filled with sticks then left sitting on the lawn to collect rain water it was infested with mosquitoes...the firepit was full of standing water cause the drain hole was clogged...all the yard benches were 4" deep with wet leaves...

She left burnt scented candles in jars in the living room? WHY? I should have said NO candle burning... she had put in one of those plug in Glade scent thing...we don't use those type things it uses electric unnecessarily...and smells like perfume..yuk.  

She made several long distance phone calls to some man she knows...yet when I tried to call and let her know our itinerary for returning home she never bothered to return my call. She finally contacted me via an email 6 days later! I never saw it until I returned home.

So never again! In the future I will close the house down, ask my neighbors to keep a watchful eye out and hire a yard service to keep the  yard up that way I would have had nothing to do but relax when I returned and I'm sure it would be cheaper than 2 months of utilities we paid for her to be in the house including satellite TV we had planned to have put in vacation mode.

my yard birds appeared immediately after hanging the cleaned feeders.

But since I chose to have her come here I have the house cleaning and yard work to do.  I was trying to help someone by giving them a cozy place to stay for 2 months since she has no permanent residence.  On the positive side she took the household garbage away, she swept the floors, she changed the linens in the bedroom but left her used towel on the rack in the bathroom, the kitchen was straight and counter tops and dishes all clean but the floors have to be mopped weekly WE live in the country where no paved walks exist so just coming and going makes dirt..the electric bill was about what it normally is and the water bill was lower than average...so I guess in her mind she helped us... in my mind it was a bad idea to have her here.  I guess I expected more in return I didn't think I'd have to come home and clean up behind her. 

My expectations were way out of proportion to the reality. I think Im about as picky as the average bear.... I thought I may be able to save someone else from having the same experience, so fair warning and beware!!

4 score and so long ago!!

Hen different views collide the point can get lost in the bloodshed...

I have some time to contemplate I realize I have neglected my think tank blog. As a serious thinker it's necessary to have down time to exercise that option without it then no thinking gets done only doing...

I have not been watching the news on the Confederate Flag controversy not wanting to get sucked into the debate here in SC.  I am originally from Tennessee, but some of my friends have strong opinions about it and have shared their feelings.  

I am southern born and raised, family roots I have traced all the way back to Europe and the 1624 sailing of the ship Anne from England on which my 10th Great Grand father and mother were passengers on their way to Plymouth, Mass. When they arrived the population of Plymouth was 36...they were granted  land (that did not belong to KING JAMES I, but none the less was granted to them) and they helped create this country...by so doing they also helped to do the wrong thing! They multiplied, and helped push and eradicate the native population and they helped the slave trade!

One line of my family fought in the Revolutionary War against England, some were sailors, some were foot soldiers, some went on to become trappers and guides alongside with the likes of Daniel Boone, and as the roots of the family tree spread west they settled in TN, some moving onto Missouri and Texas.  Some of the kin in my line fought with the TN volunteers for the C.S.A.  Some fought for slavery some against we were a house divided as many were. Some were killed, some wounded, some deserted, some did not fight but it affected all their lives. 

When the unrest between the North and South began some of my ancestors had slaves in their homes, some had one some had as many as 11. It was a common practice through out the New World. Just as the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for 300 years after the building of the pyramids; slaves from Africa were brought to the New World and sold at the Maryland Slave Auctions, and later the Washington DC slave auctions on a regular basis.  It was the Dutch traders who brought the first African slaves to Jamestown colony in 1619... so slaves arrived before my forefathers did, before the fight for independence, before the Constitution!  Even while the Constitution was being written "All men created equal" slavery was going on...so I think it meant all WHITE MEN are created equal by the rights of King George III 

As crops of cotton and tobacco were exported to the old world at the same time goods were being imported; all this was dependent on the tradition of having indentured servants then slaves to keep up with the demands.  It was with the use of slaves that Southern land owners became rich and with such wealth comes power and control.

 When the still new Union of the United States saw how well the Southerners were doing they decided to capitalize on this wealth by enacting tariffs to help build up the treasury ...it was seen as giving the wealth earned in the South to the industrializing of the North and the budding expansion of the West.  When Kansas-Nebraska territory was being admitted to the Union, much ado was made of whether it would be a free state or slave state as most northern states had become free states by 1806.  

Abolitionists such as John Brown wanted a slave uprising he tried to arm slaves with his attack at Harper's Ferry and the South saw this as a Northern supported sign of aggression against their way of life. After the Wilmot Proviso was approved declaring the lands taken from Mexico in the Mexican-American Revolution would be paid for with 2 millions dollars from the US Treasury and that this area would be slave free; the South no longer had the representation needed to continue expansion of the idea of slavery, they were outnumbered since representation was determined on the volume of land being represented.  The ultimate tipping came in 1850 when California was admitted to the Union as a free state, now slave states totaled 15 anti 16.
The idea of sovereignty where each State could decide its own way of being slave or no slave was already in discussion by the southern leaders and during the Nashville Convention GA and SC had agreed secession was the best course, as  Abe Lincoln, an abolitionist, was elected President in 1860.  The South saw this as the death to their way of life, and South Carolina seceded the Union in December of that year.... the Civil War began 4 months later... 
The rest is history.  The Civil war was a result of almost 60 years of non agreeing factors north, south, and then west.  The South thought, "if we can't beat them we won't be part of them," so they tried to sever their left hand....in a way. 

I understand the history, I do not however agree with it.  I personally would never think slavery of any kind is okay and would never have been party to it, some of my forefathers thought differently, they didn't want to change the way of life they had grown accustomed to, so they fought to keep it. In my opinion they were wrong...slavery is wrong, stealing land is wrong, destroying the culture of native tribes was wrong, fracking for gas and oil is wrong, fighting in Iraq and Iran for oil is wrong, killing over religious differences is wrong, so many wrongs do NOT make us right.

The Flag of the CSA represented a rebellion of the South against freedom and change. So by continuing to fly it was to me saying we STILL rebel against change...I'm glad its gone, now there will be other axes to grind, but that one of the Flag can be laid to rest finally, alongside the blood that has not dried on Southern soil.  Pride is most of the time foolish. 

Home On the Range?

hat are they thinking?

I was surfing google maps wondering where along a certain route I may be able to see birds came across this green patch on the map, 
The Pawnee National Grasslands...
SO I said "AWESOME" went looking for more info and found this review (I copied and pasted) from someone who visited a yr ago:

avid Auerbach

11 months ago-This used to be a beautiful, peaceful prairie with nothing but native grasses, sunflowers, llizards and other wildlife along with the Buttes seemingly popping out of nowhere. That was about 5 or so years ago. We just went back there again in spring 2014 and it's a sad sight. The Pawnee National Grassland could now be called the Pawnee National Gasland as it's become an industrial wasteland thanks to fracking EVERYWHERE. Drilling, flaring, waste pits where "produced water" aka carcinogens are evaporating into the air you breathe. Not to mention big rigs burning their diesel and hauling wastewater, flying across every dirt road around with no concern for speed. It's a shame we live in a corporate controlled country that allows this to happen to our lands.

and from a visitor 5 months ago:

Brandon C

5 months ago-I have only been here while working for a fracking crew. I quit months ago but i had a hard time working on a national grassland; helping to destroy what was once beautiful land. It has become arid and dusty with little to no wildlife due to all of the activity and traffic the fracking has brought.

Samantha Teng

a year ago-Black and the other day to see you are not the way

And it brought to mind this...

"never is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day"

This is extremely discouraging to me, I've been waiting my whole life to have the chance to explore and travel, I will be 62 in about 60 days and finally I will have the time and hopefully the funds to travel at my leisure, while I've been whiling away my time paying into a tax system, look what they have been doing with my money?

All I can say is "THOSE BASTARDS" Im sorry but this is not acceptable...
How sad is this? RUINED before I could get there to see and enjoy it...
Wonder what else I will discover that I IN TRUSTED to my government, has not taken care of with my tax dollars? GREED brings nasty, nasty Earth, nasty Sky, nasty Words.
*SIGH*

Can we fix Nasty?