You Knew This Sh*t was Coming-

 So today, Mr. Biden has come up with executive orders of firearms. 

I wonder if he knows how little this will actually do? 

I am a gun owner. I own assault type weapons. 

I wonder if he really understands the only people who will follow the law are people who care little about the law anyway? 

They are going after people who are honest gun owners. 

I know people are all upset about the so called " Ghost Guns." Guns that don't have any sort of numbers/ That are put together by an owner themselves. You know, the damn government doesn't need to know if you own a gun or not. Seriously. I worked most of my life for government entities and they were the least people I trusted. 

If the government could somehow guarantee my safety, I may understand gun control, but they can't. 

I was afraid there would be a ban of the importation of firearms and ammo.  Heck, the only interesting firearms made today are made overseas. ( I am sorry a 1911 is boring, made before WW1, it is old technology)

I wonder where this will end?

Come to Their Senses

 Apparently, several people " Came to their senses" in the last 24 hours. 

In the last 24 hours I have had 3 wedding I was scheduled to be the officiate cancelled. 

One late yesterday, they were getting married in October, they cancelled. ( I look for them to marry later)

Two, one through an email, one through a Facebook cancellation, both June weddings cancelled overnight. 

I am hoping the bride came to their senses and decided " I don't need this." I am guessing the bride is figuring " I am already raising a child, I don't need another one to raise( the husband)...."

Anyway, I am open the first and last Saturday in June. I don't know, if I don't hear anything I may go to the Farm and stay up there the month of June. ( Or not, NE Texas get hotter than 9 yards of 'you know what' in the June. Even with a new Central Air system in the house.

Manned Up

 I know the mortuaries no longer do this for insurance reasons.....

But what ever happened to "Sitting up with the dead." 

I know I manned up and sat up with all my grandparents when other cousins would not. And I have dozens of cousins on both sides.

In the 70s, I say up with my grandfather ( Maternal, my paternal died before I was alive.) my Grandmothers both maternal and paternal. And I know I had dozens, literally, dozens of cousins on both side who would not do for fear, the grandparent would sit up.  

I do not know, even as a child I had no fear of dead people. I seriously considered at one time going to the Mortuary school McNeese State had in the 1970s. ( Perry, my brother did too)

But in the 1970s, when my grandparents died I was the first the volunteer to ( sit up with the dead.)  

It is a tradition that went back millennium, before embalming when people were not sure people were dead. 

Those of you reading this do not understand how spooky a funeral home is at 2AM. And generally, the person with you sitting up was " not quite right." 

It makes you wonder, what they thought of me? 

This is for my older readers.....Have you ever " Sat up with the dead?"

 

Come On...Really?

 So, the latest unhappiness revolves around having a " Vaccine Passport." 

The Vaccine Passport shows you have been vaccinated for the Covid virus. 

Already some state governors are keeping businesses from requiring  customers and others from being required to show a passport in order to enter the business. 

Why not? For years businesses have had no shoes, no shirts, no entry signs. 

For years students have been required to get a list of vaccinations in order to attend school. 

Heck, for me to be hired by the Buna ISD I had to show a negative TB test. ( Dayton ISD had "misplaced" mine and I had to get a second one at the Port Arthur City Health Clinic before I could go to work in Buna ISD. Port Arthur charged me "nothing" because I was a school teacher.)

Heck a 100 years ago, I had to sign a notarized affidavit that " I was not now, nor have I ever been a member of the Communist Party."( It was required of all teachers. I assume they no longer have to do this?)

I wonder how these passports will work? 

I know there will be passports developed for travel as you know most nations will require them for travel. I am assuming the US will require them for people traveling into the US. 

Heck to drive a car we need-  

A state issued license,
 Passing a written test and an on-the-road test,
 Proof of insurance,
 Use of seat belts,
 Working windshield wipers,
 Headlights

Heck, we inspect restaurants. 

Why can't businesses require that people are not sick? Or at least an attempt to prove they are not sick? 

 

Damn You to Hell Matt Witt

 I have got to go back to the doctor and get my meds changed. 

Last night I dreamed Matt Witt was in my front yard, singing and dancing around my flagpole.....

Nekkid. 

I yelled at him to " Put some clothes on" and he just laughed....And said, " I'm Dean Martin."

I shot him in the "pills" with a BB gun. 

Last thing I remember in the dream was he was hollering and running down the KCS train track.....Still nekkid.  

I got to get a new prescription.

 

Less Than 50%

 For the first time since they started keeping records on this, less than 50% of American belong to any church. The percentage is like 47%. 

I am not shocked. I am an ordained minister. Am an alumni of a theological seminary. I grew up in a time in which I went to church Sunday Morning, Sunday Night, Wednesday Night, heck whenever the doors were open, I was at church.....To the point, I think I was in Europe the last time I was in church. 

I no longer associate myself or actually am a member of any church. 

Why should I? I get nothing out of it when I go. The sermons are boring. The music is pop music dressed up with the words now saying " Jesus" instead of talking about romantic love gained or lost. 

The people in the pews have nothing in common with me. They speak English( barely) and I've been to England( the UK) 3 times in the last 6 years. ( We plan to go to England in 2022.) 

The church cares more about telling you what to think and what you can't do, rather than get you thinking. 

Churches are so caught up in politics it makes you wonder. One group has become an arm of the Republican Party. And telling you what to do.....Another group is ' Woke ' and want to make you feel bad because you are a white male. 

One religious side supported the GOP so long they don't know how to condemn their own, such as the congressman out of Florida who is alleged to have been having sex with 17 year old girls. Paid for women to travel, bought elaborate gifts, gave them cash...And showing nudes of women who they slept with to other members on the floor of the US House of Representatives. 

The lowest group with church membership are the millennials.  

My child is a millennial. He hates the church and all it stands for. Not God, not Jesus, the church. Why should he like them? Church members have done nothing but question everything he's done throughout his life. Including question why he " Couldn't get a white wife?"

The church has no one to blame but themselves. The entertainment factor. The money factor. The fact they want laws that effect other people, because they don't want other people to do whatever. ( drink, gamble, etc.)

There is no missionary spirit. They really don't want someone different or a little strange to sit on the same pew as they do. 

And in truth, who wants to spend an hour on Sunday with a bunch of Karens.

There's No Place Like Home....There's No Place Like Home.....

 Deb and I spent the last two day Tuesday-Wednesday in Houston. It was her turn for doctor's appointments. I guess we are of that age. 

We had enough points that we could get a hotel room for free, so we stayed Tues-Weds night at the Hyatt Regency downtown Houston. 

Yes Sir, Jed Clampett and Granny come to town. 

The Hyatt Regency has 900+ rooms, and is 30 stories ( We were on the 23rd story) and I think occupancy was at <10%.  Nice hotel, but downtown Houston was dead. Literally due to Covid, no one was working or staying downtown. 

We had a hard time finding a restaurant that was open, and for lunch was lucky to find a Wimpy Burger open. ( Good burger, next to the Hyatt.) 

Due to the traffic alone, I could not live in Houston. And I understand road rage. We got horns blown at us for well, we are not sure what we did. All I know is one time I had my hand on a 9mm with hollow points ready to shoot our way out of the situation. 

The doctor situation was no better. As a visitor( care giver as I was referred to at one place) I often had to wait in a "visitor jail" complete with a jailer, who regulated when I got in and out of my holding cell. This of course is due to Covid. 

On the way home after we found a Tex-Mex place in LaPorte. ( Gringos on Underwood near San Jacinto Monument. Pretty good Tex-Mex. We always travel down Hwy 225 to avoid I-10 in Houston and Baytown.) We are just amazed at how much the Barber's Hill area is grown with suburban sprawl. I made the remark as we saw the " Houses Starting at $350,000" being built, "It won't be long before they will be building subdivisions in Anahuac."....Sure enough on Hwy 61 which leads to Anahuac off I-10, I see signs for new homes being built in a new subdivision in Anahuac ISD. Houston is headed this way. 

The trip reminded me that I was so glad to teach in rural parts of the state most of my career. 

And here is the sad part, we're going to have to travel back for more tests. We do have more points for a room. Maybe we can find an affiliated hotel not downtown to stay.