While digesting your description of the disaster Katrina was and is, and the disaster the liberals (always) are, I felt a tap on my shoulder!!
T'was made by a greatly respected persona from Days Gone By, John, with a message for you and The Finest.
I thus shall defer, and now turn the platform over to this fellow to relate his thoughts on this utterly revoltin' development.
"Hey there, Johnny boy - - know how you feel, all riled up by the scene down there...ignoramuses spoutin' right and left ('specially from the left!).
I happen to know a lot about the affected area, spendin' considerable time up and down the Mighty Mississippi, and even wrote a book about it -
Reminds me of when they were spewin' all over that I was dead -
I tell you, that rocked me, and I had to do a reality check...concluded "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
Well, son, that's *almost* what I said; a little altered by liberals of my day - - here's the God's truth of the whole matter, the way I scrawled it:
You know I always had a few things to say (chuckle, chuckle), and this fellow
and I agreed about this:
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
"Well, son, guess you agree things haven't changed a bit, and I say it's up to you to carry on with cogent mutterings..:))"
"Turnin' you back over to LadyX, with one more thought: "That's just my 2 cents, JH2..:))"
Wow, Dear John - - you brought words from A True Master of them!
Yep, the Dem Dogs still are loaded with fleas, and still scratch us to death dealin' with 'em....
~ LadyX
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit--how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies--oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.
- "The $30,000 Bequest"
Thank you dutchess for the work on the thread & for getting us started today. Great graphics & LOVE the pledge - little cutie all bundled up in old glory. I am sure some members of the John "flag" society would object but I LOVE IT.
John wonderful essay.. a little time off & you come back with bang up posts. and Ms Maggie... what JH2 would be complete with out your "dear john" letter, wit, humor & graphics..
thanks you all for the smile. I had NOT read the essay yesterday.. just quickly scanned for key words. it is great!