my little town

the town i live in is basically a tourist town there's lots of old buildings that have been renovated for the tourists to look at old cemeteries to visit and a water front to walk along and see where the cotton was shipped off to Europe and where the slaves were bought in to sell.stores that sell souvenirs and bars to get drunk in on St Patrick day but all towns have their seamy side the parts the tourist don't see or don't care to see after all if they wanted to see poor people slums and drug deals they could stay home see that .No this is a vacation trip a time to forget what is bad in life and enjoy the good things. pralines and southern cooking a picture of themselves standing next to the statute of the waving girl. Its okay I've been a tourist before i took in the sights took some pictures and ate some of the local cuisine then went home .Tourists travel in packs some walk some keep to the tour buses looking at the buildings and not seeing the people i guess the bad thing about tourists is that the jobs created by them are low paying and they don't tip too well but still they provide jobs for the people from the poor side of town

i know you wrote with your right

i started this blog with the idea that i could express myself in a manner that the whole world would see but as i look back i have found that i have been censoring myself i am trying not to offend to many people so i have left some topics alone and only slightly hinted at others mostly politics and religion i really have a lot to say about these two things. i think i, ll be braver in the future. these two things seem to go hand in hand. no ideology has disrupted more lives and caused more wars than these two. i am not an atheist but religion in the hands of man is a dangerous thing. of course theres been lots of works of charity and schools have been built and hospitals. all to advance the cause, to convert, to change the culture of the unbeliever, they say your ancestors were wrong this is the true way. or they say your way of governing is wrong this is the right way i will write more about these things in the future .and racism you know white people dont have a monopoly on rascism there are others .at the last moment i thought i could make a buck or two by publishing this blog but it seems no one is clicking on the ads. but i like doing this anyway and i,ll try to make an installment everyday

step right up

i have been told that a long time ago circus and county fairs always had a side attraction called a geek show there you could see the man who bites the head off live chickens or the man who drove nails up his nose or maybe someone who swallows live mice . it seems commercial tv has reached back into the pass to bring us a new updated versions of the geek show. shows like fear factor ,eating worms have more to do with disgust than fear,csi watching someone perform an autopsy is entertainment? Keep the line moving people and over here we have a male prostitute dressed like a woman a rather ugly one at that ( cops) and here's a man getting hit in the groin with a football that's always good for a laugh.watching people humiliate, lie to, and cheat each other isn't entertainment and besides once every four years is enough and thats not counting local elections guess ill just turn off the tv for while; well after i see rob and amber get married

family values

my son the marine called home last night he is stationed in okinawa he is so bright i always thought that he would have been an engineer or an architect but he decided to become a marine anything he says to get out of this towntheres is something about this town that makes our best and brightest leave they go to atlanta or even farther away vowing never to come back maybe being a tourist town has something to do with it there's a lot of sevice jobs some manufacturing jobs but the outside world offers more our small science museum was torn down years ago a clinic offering cosmetic surgery was built were it used to stand .i am still proud of him a lot kids he grew up with aren't doing so good at 19 he already know of kids that he played with when young who aready have a prison record or are trying be dealers or are just standing on the corners sadly my oldest son can say the same thing so many lives wasted i know its hard being a single parent but being a single parent isnt a new thing that just happened in the 20 century i think the difference is that families worked together to help raise a child uncles and aunts and grandparents were involved now nobody cares. Now it i got mine you get yours. how can someone not care if a close relative is in need of help. how can someone not see . i am glad my brothers step in when my ex stopped caring and kept ecouraging my boys to never give up and to keep trying to succeed we need more men like them in our families

lack of communication

its so hard to say goodbye to yesterday people are comfortable with the familiar, the things they are used to seeing and experiencing so when something different happens they become afraid and uneasy so when some one new shows up in the neighborhood and they are different from the majority. the people become uneasy they try not to show it but there is always one who is scarier than the others and he uses his fears to scare the others. he has seem the news and he knows how those new people are. never mind that the new people have moved there to get away from the same things he has heard about on the news .some the neighbors become like the sheep in animal farm (four legs good two legs bad) others think about moving a few want to welcome the new people but are afraid of becoming a part of the outside group.and anything the new people do will be suspect a house party be will be a meeting of drug dealers or a terrorist planners meeting or a satanic cult meeting.finally someone sells their house cheap it gets rented out real cheap to someone who just dont care about the neighborhood and they neglect the upkeep of their house. its the rent mans job to cut the grass they say. seeing this more people move out and more dontcare people move into the nieghborhood. coming home from work one evening the new neighbor looks around and turns to his wife and says, this nieghborhood has gotten bad we need to move

life goes on

the wizard of ox was on last night a remake and like all remakes of old movies it sucked the basic elements were in tact but show from an different angle. child bored, lives with aunt and uncle want to leave same as in star wars luke lives with aunt and uncle bored wants to leave. in the original oz movie dorothea( played by judy garland mother of liza ''let me at him'' minelli)gets caught in a tornado and ends trying to get back home after seeing life away from home isn't all that easy especially when you being chased by a witch seeking revenge for the accidental death of her sister and the recovery of her sisters estate( ruby slippers, looks like pumps to me)which by law belongs to her being next of kin and all. dottys companions have all the qualifications for the jobs they are given at the end of the movie they left in charge of oz. real politicians the tin man has a watch for a heart the the scarecrow has a diploma far a brain and the lion i forgot what the lion got for courage i think it was a bottle of scotch in the end Dorothea goes home or wakes up and find that kansas isnt so bad afterall. back in oz the scare crow gets indicted for recieving kickbacks from the mayor of munchkin city the tin man announces that he,s gay and is going live his life openly and the lion is found to have fathered a child by an inner emerald city teen girl went he was a young lion. obla dee obla dah life goes on

we didnt start the fire

the weatherman says its going to rain today it rained and hailed earlier this week. i wonder what went through the mind of the first human to encounter hail he probaly looked up an thought the thing that goes in the mouth to stop the inside hurt and makes the below me soft is about to fall down. imagine his surprise when the ice started to hit him he probaly ran across the fields thinking the boom,boom people in the way up there is throwing rocks at him. after making it to a safe tree he thinks the 'people in the way up there' must be angry at me but why. i will leave my catch here for them and when they see me go hungry to make them happy they will stop. it does, and he goes home to his family and they say it is good that you did that because we were scare when we saw the hard cold stuff fall. we should offer things to them whenever they become angry at us because we must have done something wrong. it was like that then and its is like that now when volcano erupts in an deserted area its just nature but when an volcano erupts and people get killed its god punishing the people. the same is said for earthquakes tsunamis and drought even though these things have been occurring long before people lived in the places where these things happen. you cant blame god because you built your house in a bad neighborhood. and you cant blame the boom,boom people in the way up there.