Great blog article

[soon 2 retire]

This is a link to today's post in the Home on the Range blog. A woman named Brigid owns the blog and I think she has posted here a couple of times before being scared off which puzzles me because she doesn't seem like she's someone who scares easy. Anyway this article meant something to me because I saw a bit of everyone here in it. If this belongs in the political section I'm sorry.

http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2 ... t.html?m=1

[Les Staley]

This was driven home to me today. A rancher that lives a couple of miles from me came over with his tractor and post pounder, and helped me set about 110 yards of fence posts, ran four strands of barbed wire, set a 12 foot gate, and helped clean up after the job.. my wife fed us lunch and refreshments after, and this guy was almost insulted that I offered to pay him for his time and gas... He is a fellow gun-nut redneck country bumpkin. Not really rare, in this area, but it's nice to know that they are out there... Les

[Barcelona Rick]

Great read sir......and the bacon, fried eggs and toast makes me hungry......


rick

[Tycer]

There are some things/people on this earth that are so real I am stunned. Brigid is one.

[AJMD429]

One of the ironies I see in life is that the 'rednecks' and 'hilljacks' and other neighbors of mine who are like Bridget - the type that my wealthy liberal-arts-degreed friends make fun of on a regular basis, are the ones who are the most informed about not only real-world things like fixing a tractor or birthing a goat or re-wiring a barn, they are also more informed about national political and economic matters, and even international ones. They are also far more 'tolerant' and 'inclusive' of those who choose a different lifestyle, religion, or are of different ethnicity, despite the stereotype by the self-anointed wealthy liberal academics.

It's even funnier when such pseudointellectual types talk down to the hillbillies like me, blissfully unaware that I not only hold two professional degrees (pharmacist, physician), but was in the top 1% of my peers academically for the first six years of college, and the top 10% for the last seven (I guess once I got married, my priorities started slipping ). The thing is, those things merely help me perform my calling in life, but don't make me a superior human being; many of the people I am humbled by don't even have a high-school diploma, and I've got friends who never set foot on a college campus (and never even went on bike-tours of Europe ), who know a hundred-fold more about world history, economics, and politics, vs. many if not most 'degreed' individuals.

But we've all seen how so many of the self-anointed 'academic' crowd uses any minor achievement or personal socioeconomic status as a bludgeon to remind the rest of us how we should worship their 'progressive' world-views (like being totally dependent on centrally-planned government 'programs' for all our needs, vs. being self-sufficient and strong so we can help our neighbors), and that we should completely abandon all our own life experiences and knowlege of world history and U.S. history and economics and political science, and blindly accept their 'new' fascist/socialist ideas as gospel, so they can make the world a better place (kind of like Joe Stalin did... ).

But hey, what do I know - I'm just a gun-totin' buck-tooth hilljack...

[Blaine]

One of the ironies I see in life is that the 'rednecks' and 'hilljacks' and other neighbors of mine who are like Bridget - the type that my wealthy liberal-arts-degreed friends make fun of on a regular basis, are the ones who are the most informed about not only real-world things like fixing a tractor or birthing a goat or re-wiring a barn, they are also more informed about national political and economic matters, and even international ones. They are also far more 'tolerant' and 'inclusive' of those who choose a different lifestyle, religion, or are of different ethnicity, despite the stereotype by the self-anointed wealthy liberal academics.

It's even funnier when such pseudointellectual types talk down to the hillbillies like me, blissfully unaware that I not only hold two professional degrees (pharmacist, physician), but was in the top 1% of my peers academically for the first six years of college, and the top 10% for the last seven (I guess once I got married, my priorities started slipping ). The thing is, those things merely help me perform my calling in life, but don't make me a superior human being; many of the people I am humbled by don't even have a high-school diploma, and I've got friends who never set foot on a college campus (and never even went on bike-tours of Europe ), who know a hundred-fold more about world history, economics, and politics, vs. many if not most 'degreed' individuals.

But we've all seen how so many of the self-anointed 'academic' crowd uses any minor achievement or personal socioeconomic status as a bludgeon to remind the rest of us how we should worship their 'progressive' world-views (like being totally dependent on centrally-planned government 'programs' for all our needs, vs. being self-sufficient and strong so we can help our neighbors), and that we should completely abandon all our own life experiences and knowlege of world history and U.S. history and economics and political science, and blindly accept their 'new' fascist/socialist ideas as gospel, so they can make the world a better place (kind of like Joe Stalin did... ).

But hey, what do I know - I'm just a gun-totin' buck-tooth hilljack...

Dam Hippies.....

[Malamute]

I like the tactical farm yard slippers Doc.

[Blaine]

And don't grip that machete too tight....if you let it rotate in your hand, the blade moves faster (like the end of a whip) and cuts better.

[JerryB]

Thanks Doc, very well said for an educated man. Many years ago I had a doctor friend in Tennessee very much like you, thanks for the memories.

[AJMD429]

And don't grip that machete too tight....if you let it rotate in your hand, the blade moves faster (like the end of a whip) and cuts better.

Normally I just twirl it really fast on my pinkie, and move through the brush/goats/bad-guys like a brush-hog.

We took a bunch of family pics with those fake 'hilbilly teeth' just to bother some of our more 'sophisticated' relatives, but some of the other attire was just our ordinary 'chore' clothes.