I had fully intended to tell stories in the blog today......One including a trend among young people today that actually was a trend that often happened in the 1970s. Actually Sarah Locke reminded me of something that happened long ago that applies to today....
One of the stories involved a girl in a string bikini sitting in my lap, and no, it wasn't St. Debbie. That occurred about 2 years before I even knew St. Debbie existed.( I was almost "cool" at one time....What happened to me???)
Part of it is to let you people know everything that you think is new, is actually old....
Hell, this blog is about what you think is new is actually old....
We had a political assassination yesterday in of all places, Utah.
The country is all in turmoil because we've not really had a major actual assassination occur in a number of years.
As a youth, America was under turmoil like most of you do not understand, and I lived through it.
It was a 10 year period.
I remember vividly when I learned of it.
The 1960s, early 1970s were just different.
( I am going off the top of my head here)
-I vividly remember JFK's assassination. I was in Mrs. Park's class Room #12 when Arlen Portie( Yes, you Mormons should know her family. I've known the Portie's for 68 years), the Principal of Pine Forest Elementary came on the PA and told us that he had been killed in Dallas......
- The next day, I was at my Uncle OJ and Aunt Mart's house when Jack Ruby shot Lee Oswald live on TV. I witnesses it as a child, over and over again as CBS repeated it.
- In 1968 I was in a Weingarten's Grocery Store in Vidor. It existed where the City Hall of Vidor now sits. The long time clerk named Bobbye told us about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. And the adults were concerned about the long term events in the country. He had been shot by James Earl Ray standing outside his motel room in Memphis.
- Also in 1968, I remember getting up in the morning to learn that Sen. Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated after he had won a primary election in California. He had been shot and killed by a supporter of Palestine, a man by the name of Sirhan Sirhan, who was born in Jerusalem. I saw it on NBC.
- In 1972 longtime Alabama Governor George Wallace was was shot while campaigning in a presidential primary. He was not killed, but was put in a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. He was shot by Arthur Bremer. BTW, Bremer was paroled from prison after 35 years and in May of 2025, his probation ended. I remember seeing small story about he being "free" from government supervision.
Debbie and Kerry were walking a street a couple of years ago, in Derry, Northern Ireland, not ones to shy away from questionable places only to read where a car bomb exploded in an attempted assassination on that same street two weeks later.
These of course were people on both sides of the political ideology.
And as I told Mr. Howell on Facebook yesterday, there have been political assassinations since the beginning of time..... i.e. Julius Ceasar , heck there is a photo of Cousin Andy and myself in front of Guy Fawkes' house in York, England whose plot involved in perhaps the largest attempted political assassination in history. ( Many of you know I am fascinated with British History, especially English Church History, and had portraits of Tudor-Stuart Queens at one time in my home, but alas they've been replaced by wedding pictures of Reid and Yu 'April' Zhou.)
I am afraid we are going into a period of unrest, and this one I am afraid will be worse than better.
Here in America, we missed this,but, in the last week, there were 6 German politicians"mysteriously" die.
Russian drones infiltrated Poland's airspace yesterday and Poland shot most of them down. Poland is a NATO member.
They are ramping up talk of a European war. I know we have postponed a possible Italy/Switzerland trip.....We almost went to England literally yesterday. Found a deal with Delta/Virgin Atlantic Airlines, and were on the verge booking the flight and I'd found a German car( Bryant Long would be proud of me) I was about to click to rent when the phone rang. The person I sleep with has to adult later this week.
The world's economy is in the tank. Already conspiracy theorists are wondering if his assassination is " Hey look at this, not how bad things really are over here."
And don't be surprised if there is a riot in London this weekend near the UK Parliament buildings.
I am telling you, it is going to get worse before it gets better.
Finally.....
I keep some things from , well, everyone.
I get ugly, ugly messages from people concerning the blogs I write.
Especially, concerning Buna Schools.
The messages I receive from people are not the ones that bother me, and in truth, for years, I just blow them off. Mostly I think they are funny. And me being me, I make fun of them.
Lately, the messages have become more, hate filled.
When someone tells you that " I hope you wind up in Hell" well, people are different than when I started the blog.
And it's not the messages I receive, it is the people who don't write....They're the ones I worry about.
I can see some "not quite right" simp trying to impress some female associated with the ISD.
People, wherever in the world are " Not right."
Knowing me, in my mind I will rationalize me continuing to publish blogs on Buna Schools, but I may take a couple of days before I go after the district again.
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