Monday, January 10, 2011

who controls our water supply

Who owns the water of the world? If we the average person of the world do not ask and raise our collective voices.
The large multinational companies, the IMF and the world bank are looking to the future to control and privatize the flow of the worlds water supply
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The IMF has the means to spend billions of dollars to build the dams around the world. They do not have the ability to spend hundreds or thousand of dollars in a million place. Large multibillion dollar dams in the 20th century has displaced 30 to 40 million people ...

Friday, January 7, 2011

random thoughts on a cold day

I can remember my father tell how he and another
guy would cut and chop wood all day. When they had cut a
couple of wagon loads they would take it to town and sale
it for twenty five cents a wagon load.
A huge storm that ravaged north Georgia
uprooted a huge 200 year old tree
A two mule powered wagon would be around
8 to 10 feet long by 4 feet wide and as deep
with side boards as it would be practical.
Money on a farm in foothills of
north Georgia in the early twenty century was on
a good day a hard thing to come by, I would imagine
Some of the things he did when he
Would slip off and make his way to
A secluded depression close by to
Small spring was one of those
things things that made NASCAR
as common as cool drink on a hot
Summer day

Friday, December 3, 2010

Flashback in time to the late 1940's. The missing change.

Across the street live the Briggs family they had two boys and a girl. Jack was the oldest, Lee was my age. I have forgotten his sisters name. That's something that thought I would never forget(Milly I think). Not for the reason you might think
My mother kept a small jar that she collected change. A habit she kept up to the day she passed away. During the late 1940's a nickel or dime bought much more that it does today.every now and again I would pilfer a dime or two from the jar. Needless to say ever time I took a coin Mother would find out and I would pay the ultimate price. After that I never touch her spare change again.
The change kept disappear and in larger amounts and I got blamed for it and punished. It was not until many years later the girl Milly from across the street confessed that she had stolen the money. I saw a look in my Mothers eyes that I never seen before or after ...



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Sunday, November 28, 2010

George Washington planted the idea of a day set aside for giving thanks for all the good of the past year. The underlying idea was that a civil agency would follow up.
Sarah Joseph Hale in 1846 began a 30 year long effort of letter writing to the President to declare a national day of thanksgiving along the lines that George Washington had started. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as s national day of thanksgiving
In 1939 FDR proclaim the last Friday as thanksgiving. Roosevelt
rational was as the depression was coming to an end a holiday before a Saturday would be a benefit to business. The America public
was so outraged at this that in 1941 Congress declared the last Thursday as a national holiday.
It would seem that FDR had the original idea of Black Friday...

Seventy one years ago the American public rallied against what they perceived as a wrong. The public began a letter writing campaign to congress that Congress was forced to take action. Their action was to pass the law stating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving
A campaign of letters/emails to your congress person might have more effect than the National Op-out day has had ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Parker Girls

early 1940's

Sometime during the early 40's I remember living in a duplex apparent the other family there last names Was the Parkers and they had two daughters one was Older than me and the other younger. The house was on top of the highway embankment that was a major highway as for as roads of that time. Across the road was a larger open area bound by a railroad tracks, a couple of roads and a large number of paths crisscrossed the mostly swamp. A great place for a bunch of semi-wild boys to fight wars, Indians and other evils.

Greenville at this time was the center of textile manufacturing in the state if not the world.
The family farm was not able to support such a large number of people. To this day I have no idea of how or why they chose to move to South Carolina but they did. It was one way to put behind them the passing of their first child. A brother that I would never know. He was born and died in 1939.
The duplex on highway 29 maybe 80 is just a vague memory. When I started school we
Had moved. We were coming up in the world. My father bought a used 1939 Chevrolet
4 door sedan black in color and giant back seat were I rode like a king. Not long after the we bought a 4 room house . The people that lived there were pigs..it took weeks to clean and make the house livable. The house was a big square box two bedrooms kitchen and a living room/parlor
Yep that right no indoor bathroom.......