Buna ISD- Special Called Board Meeting?

 So, it seems a special meeting has been called by the Buna ISD Board of Trustees. More info when it becomes available....

It Used to be About S*x

 Hell, I can't remember when Sports Illustrated(SI) was actually relevant in the sports world. So many online sports pages that beat SI on everything.

It used to be, the SI swimsuit issue was a big damn deal. It sold copies. It got subscriptions. 

I remember when I was teaching in both Magnolia and Dayton, the coaches would " steal" the swimsuit issue from the library and it would wind up in the Field-house. Heck, I remember one librarian in Dayton would hide it behind the counter like it was a Playboy at the local 7-11. You had to ask for it. But that was long before the internet. 

Men who wouldn't dare buy a Playboy or a Penthouse and bring them home, would buy the swimsuit issue. Hell, I am sure that weekend, the wife got a couple of "passes" made at them. Maybe the evening the magazine was purchased.

Yesterday, as I scrolled Facebook, it seemed like every 5th post was photos of Martha Stewart's swimsuit layout for SI....All posted by females. 

A guy who would post a 25 year old female in a bikini on Facebook would either be crucified or considered a creep.

Sorry, folks, but guys are visual. We just are. If we weren't, the human race would end. And finding females attractive now is well, bad. Especially if you aren't a super handsome guy. Hell, guys are afraid to even glace at a female now.

Yeah, the swimsuit issue is now like everything else. Political.

81 year old, a stroke survivor, a trans......

I am 65 now and I find older women more and more attractive, but a woman almost 20 years older than me? Well, that's a " Bridge Too Far." ( Could be I don't care for Martha. Sorry, she's a felon. Pay your damn taxes like the rest of us. Then again, her photos are so air brushed, AI enhanced who knows what she really looks like?)

And a trans? Come on, most men ain't interested in " Chicks With Dicks." ( You want to be trans, that's your business, just don't think I am a horrible person because I don't find you sexually attractive.) 

The stroke survivor? Well, I'd be afraid of getting us all " stirred up" and wind up with a trip to the ER.

Sorry, I often think at night that I don't have that much more time to go, maybe 10-20 years, and hell, that's enough.

I'm Calling Bullsh*t

 It's been a while since I've called it. 

So, yesterday, I look at Netflix and the top TV shows.....Number 1 is Queen Charlotte. Okay, I'll bite.....

Biggest bunch of bullshit fiction I have ever seen. 

That somehow, British Royal Society in the 18th Century would accept a person of color as the queen.....Well, I am sorry this revisionist history has to stop. 

Hell, I watched a little and it is no far from what really happened with Charlotte and George.....Other than George went mad.....And people will believe it is true. 

Say what you want, George and Charlotte didn't have a an interracial marriage that changed history. 

Now the thought that Charlotte was black did not come around until the 1990s when a historian by the name of  Mario de Valdez y Cocom came up with this " theory. "

He claimed that Charlotte descended from an affair between King Alphonso I of Portugal and his Moorish Mistress. This affair allegedly happened in the 1100s. Charlotte was born in 1744. 600 years after the "affair." 600 years tends to change a lot of DNA background, even if the affair was true, and most historians have questions about the ancestry used by de Valdez y Cocom.

Charlotte, who was German, had no mention of her or any family members, being black. And trust me, there would be in the 1700s some historical sources here.

Then there was the fact that Netflix made both both George and Charlotte, " Pretty people."

They were not.

Charles Dickens referred to both in a " Tale of Two Cities" as " There was a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face on the throne of England."

I am trying to make this short. 

Finally George. 

This is George III. This is the King of England during the American Revolution. He wanted to keep America, as a colony. He saw us as children. 

F*ck George. I don't care he went mad. Yeah, I am a bit of an Anglophile, but with George III, all bets are off.  Like his son, the Prince Regent, who became George IV asked George..." Why don't you die?"

Damn, Y'all Are Done, Just Done

 After prayers this morning, looked at getting some "cool" sunglasses, then, I start my reading of the world's newspapers. It is one of the pleasures I have done all my life, read the paper. 

In the WAPO this morning, one of the articles is on the Southern Baptists.( SBC)

It seem the SBC lost 500,000 members in 2022. 

They are hemorrhaging people like mad. 

416 churches and 165 missions closed last year. 

I've said this for 40 years, " Getting involved in politics is going to wind up hurting you. I can't see Jesus showing up and saying he's a Democrat, or Republican." In the scope of things, I don't think he cares.  

Heck, how many of you think the SBC church in your community is a clique? Heck, you wouldn't be welcomed even if you joined that church?

Say what you want young folks generally don't go to church.

Heck, I left years ago, rules against dancing, drinking, well, just the rules. Many when I read the Bible, well, I question. Then there was that " Eye Opening Experience" in SBC seminary.  

Bud Light

 I have not drank a beer in this country in....Well, I can't remember when. Now in Britain.....I am telling you Rev. James Buckley or Brain beer is the stuff to drink...

Could you imagine a preacher in this country lending their name to a beer?

I don't think in 65 years of life I have drunk a Bud Light.....In college, we drank Coors Light, but that's another story. 

As I have said before, if I am drinking, well, let's drink some whiskey. 

But again, I digress.

So, sales of Bud Light are down 21% in this country due to their "trans ad campaign." Which amounted to one beer can with one trans person printed on the can. An "influencer" whatever that means.

I know what Bud is trying to do. The Gen Z generation are not drinking beer and they are trying to get them to drink more beer. They think Gen Z is a bit more open to the LGBT community and this was an attempt to appeal to them. 

Problem is, they slapped their traditional Bud Light drinker in the face.  

Bud Light is an inexpensive beer whose traditional drinker is a person who drinks a beer or two or 12 after a hard day at work. A job generally involving sweat and outside work. Sorry, but older people are having a hard time with LGBT. Oh, they are more accepting then in the past, but many feel like this was being shoved down their throats.

The people at Bud just plain old messed up......Trying to get a different generation to drink their product, they lost a traditional drinker. 

Don't be shocked if Bud Light is re-branded. Bud comes out with a " New" beer......But is reality, it's just Bud Light in a new can. 

 

It's the End My Friends- Buna ISD

 No, the district is not ending.....

It is literally weeks until school is out.

People, let me remind you, if you don't like your job, go do something else. I know some people who have left Total, Exxon-Mobil, etc because they just did not like the company. 

Same thing with Buna ISD. 

It's a job folks, just a job. 

They will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat. And trust me, trying to do good sometimes just isn't enough in the school business. 

And forever Buna ISD has been one of the poorest paying districts in the region. 

Now, I enjoyed my time at the Buna HS. I really did, but if I was there now, I'd go ahead and retire or somehow get out of there. 

Things are not good there now, they really aren't. And patrons aren't happy either. 

I hear from patrons every other day about mess that is going on in the district and well, they are going to move their kids. And I do not blame them. 

Move people. You don't owe anyone anything. It's work. It's work. They'd fire you in a New York minute.

Epilogue

 Epilogue 

I was asked by a couple of people to write a follow-up to the trip. 

The good, bad, ugly. 

We generally try and rent a car made to hug roads in Britain. They are super narrow and even many of the major highways in places are built for only one vehicle. Goes back to the days when they were built for horses and carts. 

It's why I drive a 12 year old Honda, so we can " step-up" and rent a German car. 

In the past, we have driven Audi's, BMW's, even a top of the line Volkswagen. 

We had a Mercedes-Benz. 

 

It was the biggest POS I have ever been in. One of the most miserable cars I have ever ridden in. Even the navigation system was trash. We wound up using the GPS on my cell phone. We knew it was bad when it took us over a mountain that wasn't really for normal passage and down the National Bike Path in Wales. 

No fooling, Bryant Long knows what he is doing. Get the BMW. Great for handling. 

We hated the following places.....The Lake District.....Devon......Cornwall....I wish we had never wasted our time. I wish we would have stayed longer in Wales. 

We loved Wales and the Yorkshire Dales( Think " All Creatures Great and Small.") and York....

The people of York and Wales, were, just great. 

In the pub in York and man sitting beside us just struck up a conversation, nice as he could be. Made suggestions for food, and drink. He was 'dead-on" for both. Come to find out he worked at the Nestle Chocolate factory there in York. He's been making Kitkats for the last 8 years. 

 

Likewise an older couple and his brother just sat down by me in an adjoining table in the hotel and just talked. From town, came in for lunch. I was having tea. 

 

Same in Wales, in the village we stayed in, you couldn't meet friendlier people.....Again, my philosophy, " Folks is folks....   "

We got so lost in the Midlands trying to avoid a wreck on the major highway, we went through villages you know no American has visited in years. All had pubs you wish you had time to visit.....Places with names...' The Green Dragon' ' The old White Swan' and next to the school, ' The Robe and Chalk.' ( I wondered how many teachers went into that pub after classes to have a pint or 4? )

People the food there is actually pretty good. And they fry potatoes and fish better than anyone in America. Somehow this country can only turn out old, or mushy, or cold, or just bad fried potatoes. 

 

The British countryside is lovely. hills, lots of green, lots of sheep. As you can tell from our posts. 

 

Lots of history, and typical of the British, the Germans bombed in in WW2 and well, we rebuilt it like it was in 1550. 

 

I pretty much am writing this to avoid writing on the "Trans" subject, and may do so, I see a lot of stupidity  on BOTH side of the argument. Again, no one happy. We are just looking for something to complain about.....Or the Texas Legislature. 

Anyway, if you have the opportunity, visit Britain.