Congratulations on your son!
Boy Scouts are good. I was in the Cubs and the Scouts. My campouts were usually in the good company of my friend Roy Raymond, whose Dad was the garbage hauler back when that was an individual business. My Dad was raised as a Southerner but did not impart any racial prejudice to me, for which I am grateful. Roy was the only black kid in my school. If my Dad, a lifelong Republican and a true gentleman of the highest order, had been anything like the accusations about Republicans tossed about by the demolibs on this board, I would harbor all sorts of racial hatreds. But I do not. I treasure all my friends who are different from me, and I have quite a few.
I do object to the government's diversity program because of the wrong-minded way it goes about promoting it.
The government is wrong, not because of what it tries to achieve, but because it doesn't know WHAT it is trying to achieve. It preaches diversity because it says minorities are oppressed, and many have been. I believe it would have more success if it preached how much the so-called majority can gain and enjoy from knowing other than itself. The minority groups are perfectly capable in and of themselves, and they don't need the condescension of dogooder demolibs. That's why many minority persons, including some on this board, are won over to George Bush and conservative policies. Some of the best conservative thinkers are black, for example.
It was fun reading about your German shorthair dog. My brother had one many years ago, named Kaiser. My wife and I are partial to English Springer Spaniels. Annie Green Springer is 13 years old now and we dread losing her, as we know we must in a year or two. If you are having fence problems, get some chicken wire and afix it to the bottom of your fence and lap over the ground.
It's getting hot here too. It peaked at 61 degrees F. today. I doubt it will get much hotter this year.
Weren't you just swimming out of a flood a week or so ago? Wow! What a struggle that must have been. I live two blocks from the Mendenhall River, but it never floods that I know of and is pretty steady all year owing to the 1500 square miles of ice that feed it.
If I have any choice, I will never live so close to a river again and I'll make it a point to live on high ground. I hope we don't get global warming. I don't think I could handle a flood.
Someday you must tell me more about gold investing. I had a gold fund for a couple of years and 15 years ago had some fun running $500 up to $2500 and back down to $300 buying silver futures. If inflation ever perks up again, I expect gold will be in demand again, eh? |
