My Brain Is Full and I'm About To Empty It

Greetings and salutations from this little slice of heaven we call Dawsonville.  After surviving Snowmaggedon we have been blessed with a truly beautiful weekend.  The mercury topped out at 70 degrees here yesterday, and I am sitting on my back-porch in shirt sleeves this morning as I type.  Birds chirping, squirrels playing, and Ike barking at the neighbor's cat.  How does he know he does not like the cat.  He sniffs, not barks at, other dogs.  Do animals have an instinctive sense of "bigotry"?  Is it that simple?  Are all of God's creatures wired that way?

Anyway, my first thought for this blog was a simple one.  People are dumb.  I choose the word dumb here because I truly feel most people are not stupid.  Most people have some idea of wrong and right, some idea of white and black, and some idea of how to survive.  However, a lot of us (the human race) are just plain dumb. We don't pay attention, we don't learn from our mistakes, and then we can't figure out why we get stuck in the situations we get stuck in.  For example... On the morning news was a story about a drug bust.  The lady that got caught with 79,000 ecstasy pills was actually shocked at what was in her luggage.  Apparently a Greyhound bus was stopped and searched right here in Georgia on suspicion it had a passenger transporting large quantities of illegal drugs.  Anyway, they pull the lady off of the bus, and she states "My boyfriend gave me the bag to deliver for him; I didn't know what was in it."  If only I knew someone so trusting.

People also need to pay more attention when they are talking to people face to face.  I realize we live in Atlanta.  I realize that the left has gone out of the way to make the feminization of men and the masculinization of women an OK thing.  But when I take my daughter to the store and you see us in line pay attention to what SHE is wearing.  Telling me I have "such a cute little boy" when SHE has on a pink top, pink pants, and pink Nike's ($1 at consignment thank you) only shows me that you are an idiot.  It also tells me that you deserve to get hit by the car you did not see before you crossed the street.  And, I have a pretty good idea that you live your life with your head jammed up your...

But there are other things on my mind too; Egypt for one.  It makes me smile to think that men of power, no matter how secure they feel, are subject to the will of the people.  All it takes is for the people to actually care about something.  When people live in fear they will do about anything.  When people live in an information vacuum or propaganda state they will tolerate or begin to believe anything.  But, and this is a big but, when the human spirit is fed, and fear becomes anger, and anger becomes solidarity then the powerful are shown to be at the mercy of the people.  Isn't that the way is supposed to be?  Or is that the naive American coming out in me?

I also want to recommend an author to those of you that read spy fiction.  I had read Spy by Ted Bell, and just finished Tsar.  Good easy and exciting reading.  I give it a thumbs up.

What parents feed their 4 year old alcohol?  Sad events in Alpharetta.


Drug smuggling by catapult...I give it an "A" for effort!

I have not used this platform for pushing God in the past.  I have tried to keep it 85% Gracie and 15% rambling thoughts.  However, I was watching Charles Stanley this morning and the man still has it.  He gave a very educational and inspiring sermon.  For any of you needing a voice on the wilderness I recommend checking out InTouch.org.  Maybe it has something that can help you out.

Finally, a breath of fresh air from professional sports, Gil Meche is/was a pitcher for the KC Royals.  He was guaranteed $12 million this year if he just SHOWED UP to spring training.  Instead he called a press conference and retired.  He stated that he knew his shoulder would not last all season, and it would be wrong to take the money.  Wonders never cease.

OH, I hope the Packers beat the steelers 58-0.

Keep Smiling,

Rob

And this is what dinner looks like now!