Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass... This will be my last 'Musings of a Dumb Ass'. Originally I thought it would be neat if my grandchildren had a way of seeing how their Grampa seen 'things' and how he was put together in the head, and I started putting my thoughts down in a permanent way. Oddly enough, others showed an interest in it, so it became a blog. After a few years I'm finding my own thoughts boring and my deductions and predictions depressing. I've found the average one is unwilling and/or incapable of accepting the obvious and is oblivious to the direction dishonesty takes us, leading us all, of course, to a bad end. I find this very depressing. Over the years I've been incredibly correct and the record will bear that out. The Iraq War is, was, and will be a disaster that will likely present the greatest damage yet to come, My relationship with God and the hereafter is no closer to understanding than it was, and time itself is still the most incredible and powerful and likewise the most misunderstood phonomena that we experience. All this has basically been the premise of the mental wanderings of "Musings of a Dumb Ass" and settlement of any of the subjects is not to be had, and further discussion is mute. So, I've fell into something much more fun that I will be doing, I'm writing a blog about a trailer park called 'Whispering Hope' and what goes on with those that live there. I'm having a hoot with it and unlike truth, no one is afraid to immerse themselves in it, and I welcome any who has been following this blog to join me there. It's a hell of a lot more fun!!! The address is: http://www.smalltownnation.com/jerrydale/ ...come over sometime..... So long fellow Dumb Asses..... you were all interesting.......

Musings of a Dumb Ass

There will be many words written between now and when it happens, some explaining why, others disecting reasoning, searching for just cause. But in the end, these are the words that will ring true. If Saddam Hussein is executed, the war will take on an entirely new definition. My words aren't written from fear, because I think the bastards should pay, although We failed miserably in identifying who the bastards are. My words are written from logic. We've never understood the first damned thing about what we done, and for that we will pay. And if the power of reason and understanding doesn't become a guide for what we do, then we will never have enough assets to win anywhere at anytime..............

Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass.... I just came from WalMart on a buy a few things/gather some information trip, and came to the conclusion that it's silly for me to continue on in my personal dislike and boycott of that company. We are far, far too gone for my attempt at saving the country to matter any more or have any effect what so ever, so why bother. I'll take advantage of the cheaper prices and let the independant merchant go to hell, because his route is pre-determined anyway, no matter what I do. But there were important and meaningful observations made on my trip that are indicative of our landing spot when our free fall in our economic insanity hits bottom. It's all there in the marketplace of our lives, which is laid out in plain fashion on the floors of WalMart. The move to a more upscale and higher priced clothing line is simply an expansion of third world suppliers that they're charging more for, that cuts into China's standing as THE principle supplier to Walmart. Same quality clothing but one must note that the workers in Bangladesh work for even less than the Chinese as do most of the true third world countries that are now squeezing the Chinese out in WalMart, Even Wrangler and Levi's have found the foreign labor market and all their garments are proudly identified as being made by the starving Heathen across the planet, but their labels do say that U.S. material was used in their manufacture. But not to worry, China, you're still well represented in the households of every address in America. I checked on appliances, electrical gadgets and whatever else I had time to pick up and look for country of origin and found that recognizable brand names were on the same lists as the clothing..... all from China or a third world country. Those names included Hamilton Beach, Hoover, Bissell and continued on and on. In fact the only thing I found made in America was Mason Fruit Jars. We can feel good about most of our processed food, because the great majority of it is made within our shores. But we all know who works in our food processing plants don't we?? Of course!!!! The illegals!!! Whoopeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! That means we don't really have to work at all because there's no where to work!!!!!!!!!! Right???? That does raise a sobering question. where DO we work? Not many Manufacturers left. No, there isn't. When you consider all those employed directly for the government, Local, State, and Federal, then those contracted by and because of, those in the medical field which is about 80% supported by government funds, those in defense, those in construction funded by government money, those on Social Security, those on Disability, those on Welfare of one kind or another, regardless of descriptive name, those who work for WalMart, then there just ain't many left. Of those left, most of them are employed in the service industry pampering the rest of us in some way. Have mercy on us when a crises big enough to either blockade or shut off the shipping lanes in the seas. We have no factories to start up again, nor anyone to staff them. We gave all that away long ago, to never come back home. We'll have to learn the long forgotten art all over again of 'doing without'.......

Musings of a Dumb Ass

Musings of a Dumb Ass... After 9-11 my little town displayed the same silliness that most of the country showed in trying to make everyone feel safe against 'the terrorists'. We really couldn't identify just exactly who that was, then or now. We somehow managed to create a deadly adversary literally without a face or a name. El-Ahab or al-qaida never did quite do it for me, and still doesn't. All we've actually accomplished is to establish what apparently is going to be a perpetual uncertainty about our security and make life a lot more complicated for the average American, and so expensive we may not be able to continue being us, notwithstanding unable to conduct life because of this governments attempt to be everything to everybody and in the process being what will cause us to fade away as the greatest power that ever was and the ONLY place to be from on the planet. No politician ever passes up the chance to scare the daylights out of the public no matter what it's about, but just hang around and what ever was important will change tomorrow, except for the claws of young oppression in a continuing trek to oblivion. Case in point; When 9-11 occured my little town became so paranoid they hired an overweight doofus to sit across the street and guard the water company against someone from one of those countries 'who hated us because we love freedom'. Of course after about two years or so doofus disappeared. likewise a big deal was made over at the capitol ( I live six miles from our State Capitol ) and all of a sudden local guards who were born here and knew scores of those working in the Capitol were suddenly demanding the proper I.D. from those they went to school with and next door neighbors. That has gone away also. In the aftermath I quit going to State Government buildings I used to frequent because I liked to hang around where 'things happen' . It was offensive to me to stand in front of someone I knew and be insulted. Yesterday, it bcame necessary for me to go to the State Capitol on business, and guess what.... there was no security in any form, the doors were ALL wide open, and I am overjoyed that we beat them damn terrorists at their game. But when did that happen? When was the decision made to open all the doors at The Capitol? Isn't it dangerous anymore? Where are all the crazies locked up at? When did the threat disappear? I'm confused and still love freedom. Don't we need to protect ourselves? Where's the guards? We can't be allowed to just walk around anywhere we want. Can we?..............