Charles Portis The Dog of the South
My wife Norma had run of with Guy Dupree and I was waiting around for the credit card billings to come in so I could see where they had gone. I was biding my time. This was October. They had taken my car and my Texaco card and my American Express card. Dupree had also taken from the bedroom closet my good raincoat and a shotgun and perhaps some other articles. It was just like him to pick the .410 – a boys first gun. I suppose he though it wouldn’t kick much, that it would kill or at least rip up the flesh in a satisfying way without making a lot of noise or giving much of a jolt to his sloping monkey shoulder.
When the receipts arrived they were in lumpy envelops and the sums owed were such that American Express gave way to panic and urged me to call B. Tucker in New York at once and work out terms of payment. It was my guess that this “Tucker” was only a house name, or maybe a hard woman who sat by a telephone all day with a Kool in her mouth. I got out my road maps and plotted the journey by following the sequence of dates and locations on the receipts. I love nothing better than a job like that and I had to laugh a little as the route took shape.
What a trip. What a pair of lovebirds! Pure Dupree!…
A thought provoking item to think on from the American College of Pediatricians – March 2017
ABSTRACT: The predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception—fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature. This statement focuses on the scientific evidence of when an individual human life begins.
ghostsniperNovember 10, 2023, 2:40 PM
Joe sed: “The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature.”
==========
But of course. Yes, it is human. What else could it be if not human?
I have always thought this.
Other than for medical reasons, they whole abortion thing should be about criminality.
And to think, females must ACTIVELY take the first step for avoidance to occur.
Some people think of it as a slippery slope but it is not.
It is a cliff.
Once you go over the edge there is no coming back.
It’s unfortunate that many females do not realize this, or pretend not to.
Snakepit KansasNovember 10, 2023, 5:25 PM
We as a nation have largely become Godless. Personal accountability is no longer in fashion. Gubmint checks are in vogue. Just print some money, what could go wrong? We have weak men and diesel dike women. There is not a man made solution to all of this, especially Gubmint inspired.
Deny your maker. He who tries, will be wasted. – Jerry Cantrell
Sadly they do not teach this on nursing school today. When I graduated from nursing school 55 years ago it was taught. Then again it was a catholic hospital nursing school.
Snakepit KansasNovember 10, 2023, 5:29 PM
Rita,
Nice to hear from you here. Our pope is loko-loko. We can always pick up our Bibles for self study and reinforce our knowledge of right and wrong.
ghostsniperNovember 11, 2023, 3:43 AM
Off with it’s nutz!
I don’t particularly care for the self check out thing at the grocery store.
Takes longer and there’s usually an issue along the way.
If you’re just picking up a couple things, knock yourself out.
But us rural folks usually buy quite a bit of stuff on our once a month hauls, so the so the self check process can be lengthy.
===============
Some people love self-checkout at the grocery store. Others hate it. One chain is getting rid of it.
“We believe colleagues serving customers delivers a better customer experience and therefore we have taken the decision to remove self-checkouts in the majority of our stores,” announced Booths, a supermarket chain in northern England that’s been selling groceries for more than 170 years.
You don’t serve customers anymore. In many unfortunate ways, customers are now the products.
When I go through a WalMart checkout, I note the multitude of ways I am discouraged from buying quantities. The few checkers available, the tight quarters, the small counter-area, in my state you must use a hippy bag (that only 2 years ago was banned for filth!). What most people don’t realize about retail is that they target x amount of growth per annum, and any more than that is discouraged and unwanted. Hell, some SOB’s want zero growth per year because: Marx.
You old ‘Tards who grew up in the last century think the customer is always right? Bullshit! The customer is in his right place (?) – ok, then that’s the goal.
Never forget that retailers were the arm of the governor during lockdowns. Which reminds me exactly of a certain country in the 30s-40s with a “G” at the front, and a “y” at the end. Private industry so regulated by the gubmint that they actually begin to assert gubmint policy.
Casey KlahnNovember 12, 2023, 7:10 AM
“Fill your hand you son of a bitch!”
ghostsniperNovember 12, 2023, 10:11 AM
winner winner chicken dinner!
Trooper John SmithNovember 13, 2023, 12:35 PM
Didn’t read far enough down before I answered.
ghostsniperNovember 11, 2023, 4:21 AM
$3.08
That’s how much I paid for gas yesterday, per gallon.
Lowest I’ve seen in quite awhile.
I fill up about 8 times per year.
My wife fills up about 4 times per year.
“The more it costs, the less I use.”
Casey KlahnNovember 12, 2023, 7:12 AM
Biden has sold near half of the strategic oil reserves; it’s the election year. I think the video I just skimmed through shows Biden receiving Xi in SFO, and the homeless being swept out.
They care, but only once every 4 or so years.
ghostsniperNovember 12, 2023, 11:42 AM
If that asshole were to do time for all of the crimes he’s committed he’d have to expend about 50 lifetimes.
Or.
Have his hide peeled in 1/4″ wide strips.
ghostsniperNovember 11, 2023, 4:31 AM
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Ghostsniper, The first thing I thought of when I saw the picture was of some long haired freak strutting across a stage gyrating, jumping, faking his playing abilities while screaming stupid lyrics and over ripe individuals in the audience going through mid-life crisis. Give me a beautiful sunset any day.
ghostsniperNovember 12, 2023, 6:53 AM
Maybe your glass is half empty Joe.
Mine is half full all the time.
I’m a player, for the past 50+ years, so when I see that thing of beauty I see “possibility & joy”.
FWIW, that company made a signature version for the dood at the link below.
Notice he has long hair (so do I) but he isn’t screaming and gyrating.
He is demonstrating possibility and dedication to something that brings him joy.
I’ll hazard the guess that his glass is half full too.
Ghostsniper, Looks like he is playing a real guitar. Also, sounds like he knows how to play it.
ghostsniperNovember 12, 2023, 11:48 AM
That video was made about 1994 from his “Acoustic Planet” LP, notice how calm and sedate he is.
But.
Just 10 years prior in 1984 he played guitar with Jefferson Starship and there he was gesticulating wildly all over the stage like an uncivilized jungle savage.
How in the world is it possible for 1 person to be so diff???
Real World Address for Donations, Mash Notes and Hate Mail
Gerard Van der Leun
1692 MANGROVE AVE
APT 379
Chico, Ca 95926
Green Pants Interior by Klahn
Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Gerard Van der Leun
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[Rooster confronts the four outlaws across the field]
Ned Pepper: What’s your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?
Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge
Parker’s convenience. Which’ll it be?
Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster Cogburn: What did Rooster say?
Rooster Cogburn: What did Rooster say?
“Fill your hands, you sonofabitch!”
Charles Portis The Dog of the South
My wife Norma had run of with Guy Dupree and I was waiting around for the credit card billings to come in so I could see where they had gone. I was biding my time. This was October. They had taken my car and my Texaco card and my American Express card. Dupree had also taken from the bedroom closet my good raincoat and a shotgun and perhaps some other articles. It was just like him to pick the .410 – a boys first gun. I suppose he though it wouldn’t kick much, that it would kill or at least rip up the flesh in a satisfying way without making a lot of noise or giving much of a jolt to his sloping monkey shoulder.
When the receipts arrived they were in lumpy envelops and the sums owed were such that American Express gave way to panic and urged me to call B. Tucker in New York at once and work out terms of payment. It was my guess that this “Tucker” was only a house name, or maybe a hard woman who sat by a telephone all day with a Kool in her mouth. I got out my road maps and plotted the journey by following the sequence of dates and locations on the receipts. I love nothing better than a job like that and I had to laugh a little as the route took shape.
What a trip. What a pair of lovebirds! Pure Dupree!…
Cool, short read:
The Sinking Of The Bismarck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck
portside is left
starboard is right
standing on deck, facing the bow
A thought provoking item to think on from the American College of Pediatricians – March 2017
ABSTRACT: The predominance of human biological research confirms that human life begins at conception—fertilization. At fertilization, the human being emerges as a whole, genetically distinct, individuated zygotic living human organism, a member of the species Homo sapiens, needing only the proper environment in order to grow and develop. The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature. This statement focuses on the scientific evidence of when an individual human life begins.
Joe sed: “The difference between the individual in its adult stage and in its zygotic stage is one of form, not nature.”
==========
But of course. Yes, it is human. What else could it be if not human?
I have always thought this.
Other than for medical reasons, they whole abortion thing should be about criminality.
And to think, females must ACTIVELY take the first step for avoidance to occur.
Some people think of it as a slippery slope but it is not.
It is a cliff.
Once you go over the edge there is no coming back.
It’s unfortunate that many females do not realize this, or pretend not to.
We as a nation have largely become Godless. Personal accountability is no longer in fashion. Gubmint checks are in vogue. Just print some money, what could go wrong? We have weak men and diesel dike women. There is not a man made solution to all of this, especially Gubmint inspired.
Deny your maker. He who tries, will be wasted. – Jerry Cantrell
Sadly they do not teach this on nursing school today. When I graduated from nursing school 55 years ago it was taught. Then again it was a catholic hospital nursing school.
Rita,
Nice to hear from you here. Our pope is loko-loko. We can always pick up our Bibles for self study and reinforce our knowledge of right and wrong.
Off with it’s nutz!
I don’t particularly care for the self check out thing at the grocery store.
Takes longer and there’s usually an issue along the way.
If you’re just picking up a couple things, knock yourself out.
But us rural folks usually buy quite a bit of stuff on our once a month hauls, so the so the self check process can be lengthy.
===============
Some people love self-checkout at the grocery store. Others hate it. One chain is getting rid of it.
“We believe colleagues serving customers delivers a better customer experience and therefore we have taken the decision to remove self-checkouts in the majority of our stores,” announced Booths, a supermarket chain in northern England that’s been selling groceries for more than 170 years.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/grocery-chain-removing-self-checkout-223323874.html
You don’t serve customers anymore. In many unfortunate ways, customers are now the products.
When I go through a WalMart checkout, I note the multitude of ways I am discouraged from buying quantities. The few checkers available, the tight quarters, the small counter-area, in my state you must use a hippy bag (that only 2 years ago was banned for filth!). What most people don’t realize about retail is that they target x amount of growth per annum, and any more than that is discouraged and unwanted. Hell, some SOB’s want zero growth per year because: Marx.
You old ‘Tards who grew up in the last century think the customer is always right? Bullshit! The customer is in his right place (?) – ok, then that’s the goal.
Never forget that retailers were the arm of the governor during lockdowns. Which reminds me exactly of a certain country in the 30s-40s with a “G” at the front, and a “y” at the end. Private industry so regulated by the gubmint that they actually begin to assert gubmint policy.
“Fill your hand you son of a bitch!”
winner winner chicken dinner!
Didn’t read far enough down before I answered.
$3.08
That’s how much I paid for gas yesterday, per gallon.
Lowest I’ve seen in quite awhile.
I fill up about 8 times per year.
My wife fills up about 4 times per year.
“The more it costs, the less I use.”
Biden has sold near half of the strategic oil reserves; it’s the election year. I think the video I just skimmed through shows Biden receiving Xi in SFO, and the homeless being swept out.
They care, but only once every 4 or so years.
If that asshole were to do time for all of the crimes he’s committed he’d have to expend about 50 lifetimes.
Or.
Have his hide peeled in 1/4″ wide strips.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
The last day of this year will be
123123
She never did it before.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7TT0mX_2KeQ
Is this the most beautiful thing you have ever seen or what?
WoW!
https://www.kieselguitars.com/images/instruments/k-series/k-series-buckeye-large.jpg
Ghostsniper, The first thing I thought of when I saw the picture was of some long haired freak strutting across a stage gyrating, jumping, faking his playing abilities while screaming stupid lyrics and over ripe individuals in the audience going through mid-life crisis. Give me a beautiful sunset any day.
Maybe your glass is half empty Joe.
Mine is half full all the time.
I’m a player, for the past 50+ years, so when I see that thing of beauty I see “possibility & joy”.
FWIW, that company made a signature version for the dood at the link below.
Notice he has long hair (so do I) but he isn’t screaming and gyrating.
He is demonstrating possibility and dedication to something that brings him joy.
I’ll hazard the guess that his glass is half full too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK0JjHufo3Q
Ghostsniper, Looks like he is playing a real guitar. Also, sounds like he knows how to play it.
That video was made about 1994 from his “Acoustic Planet” LP, notice how calm and sedate he is.
But.
Just 10 years prior in 1984 he played guitar with Jefferson Starship and there he was gesticulating wildly all over the stage like an uncivilized jungle savage.
How in the world is it possible for 1 person to be so diff???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TrfuxFlnZ8