tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76585806851563007772024-02-19T12:14:25.873-05:00Georgia Mountains and BeyondMy Ramblings About My Home, My Life and the World Outside These Once Isolated MountainsGeorgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.comBlogger431125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-62490612461511729912013-04-05T15:35:00.002-04:002013-04-08T12:17:02.220-04:00Gun CrazyYesterday, I read an article about Liberty University considering a rule to allow the carrying of guns on campus and in classrooms. Liberty University is the Rev. Jerry Falwell's creation and of course it is a Bible college. I find it quite paradoxical that a religious institution would endorse the carrying of instruments of death on its campus. I also find it ludicrous that Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-69373312181181975992011-11-11T08:49:00.003-05:002011-11-11T09:44:45.830-05:00Heman Cain's WedgiesAs the GOP road show for the presidential nomination continues to unfold I have tried to analyze Herman Cain's support, which continues to remain strong regardless of the gaffes, the scandals, and the lack of real substance. What is it about this man that demands such support from a segment of the voting public? His supporters appear to be primarily those who attach themselves to the so-called Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-42828286212695123992011-10-30T18:39:00.003-04:002011-10-30T19:21:18.183-04:00The Cancer of the Southern Baptist ConventionThis article appeared in the Atlanta Journal this weekend. Shorter University has always been a respected institution of higher learning in Georgia, but now, under the iron fisted rule of the now right wing Southern Baptist Convention, it may very well begin losing its prestigious standing. "Pledges" have become the weapon of choice for right wing nuts to use against their followers to attempt Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-56559772412215120112011-09-12T09:20:00.000-04:002011-09-12T09:20:31.666-04:00Are the Terrorists Still Winning?The answer is simple. Yes. Over the course of the last few weeks there was an impending sense of doom as Americans were inundated with scenes of the September 11, 2001 tragedies, when commercial jets crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Yesterday, there were interminable memorials across the country. On TV there were constant Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-88471294048133156192011-07-04T18:26:00.002-04:002011-07-04T18:58:43.259-04:00We Always Thank the Veterans for Having Saved our FreedomI posted my opinion on Facebook the other day, that the 4th is for celebrating our Independence from England and the creation of this country. It is not Veteran's Day, Memorial Day or Armed Forces Day. These are the days we recognize our military veterans. It seems that at every turn, someone is thanking veterans and currently serving military for our freedom. When I think back, I think of Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-21502750504063375462011-05-20T09:16:00.005-04:002011-05-20T09:56:19.659-04:00OK, Which is it? Are the Dead Already There or Are They Going Tomorrow at 6 p.m.?Harold Camping, the aged, self-styled preacher in California, has meticulously calculated the end of the world to be tomorrow at 6 p.m. An earthquake is to begin in New Zealand and travel through Asia and Europe and around the world. At that time, the dead will be raised, and, along with the living, taken to Heaven. Of course the only ones taken will be true believers, whoever they are. The Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-12236646672488610352011-05-02T22:42:00.002-04:002011-05-02T22:50:44.265-04:00Dr. King's Message Still ResonatesA friend posted this quote on Facebook tonight from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love canGeorgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-70657734860331769332011-05-02T08:19:00.002-04:002011-05-02T08:36:18.773-04:00No Silly Grin, No "Mission Accomplished"Osama Bin Laden was killed in an apparent fire fight in Pakistan. He has been sought for twenty years for his masterminding of terror throughout the world. I just read that he was buried within 24 hours according to Islamic tradition. The President made the announcement last night about 11:30 p.m. with no silly grin and a "we got him." There was no gloating "Mission Accomplished" photo op on Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-1608926717983162752011-04-15T09:15:00.002-04:002011-04-15T09:49:14.873-04:00Arizona Does it Again, GA to Follow, I'm SureThe Arizona state senate has passed a "birther" bill with Donald Trump's blessing. Fortunately, it is Arizona that is leading the country, now, in Neanderthal legislation, but I'm sure my state will jump on the bandwagon in the next legislative session. It just passed an "Arizona style" immigration bill, designed to run Latinos out of the state and bankrupt hundreds of businesses. The next Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-11981911913351174502011-04-12T18:32:00.002-04:002011-04-12T19:30:20.851-04:00GA Republicans Can't Escape Their Ingrained Trend Toward FailureThe disastrous Georgia legislative session is almost at an end. Since the GOP took over the state in 2000, Georgia has been on a downhill slide as Republicans began to methodically take apart all that had been built. Typically, they began to chip away at the public school system and environmental laws and regulations. They appointed inexperienced people to lead government departments, about Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-26125732741986332202011-04-06T09:01:00.007-04:002011-04-06T09:44:42.951-04:00Oh, Miss Scarlett, We Must Fight the Kenyan and Secession is the Only AnswerLast night after a Civil War lecture an acquaintance told me afterward that we, presumably the South, should secede again. In fact, he said, it is almost inevitable. That state's rights thing, he mused. I had to laugh, and that did not set well with him. He had just heard about secession, as it took place in our local county. He heard the list of reasons for secession, but he settled on Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-71419583711437161382011-02-21T22:00:00.002-05:002011-02-21T22:17:11.157-05:00The "God Language"A friend posted the following on Facebook today:"We may say all the right things and have the God-language down. We may sound very compassionate and very holy. But our true self is displayed not by our words or even our intentions. Our true self is displayed by our actions." Steve ScaliciIt set me to thinking about something that has been bugging me for some time. The "God Language." It Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-45907761379384971442011-02-12T21:36:00.002-05:002011-02-12T22:12:32.037-05:00A Foreign Policy DisasterImagine if you will, the Tea-publicans in charge of the U.S. government at this time. Egyptians, fed up with the corrupt dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak, revolt, demanding democratic reforms. U.S. President, Sarah Palin, reacts, saying that a democratic Egypt means an Islamic republic and a deadly danger to Israel. She immediately doubles U.S. military aid to Egypt, urging Mubarak to shoot to Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-24201080841117282722011-02-09T10:27:00.002-05:002011-02-09T10:32:31.180-05:00Today's Liberals VS Today's ConservativesI saw this on a friend's Facebook page today. Although many of those who fought for the things we take for granted would not be considered liberals today by a thinking person, certainly the teabaggers and their ilk would consider them so. One would not be able to get one of them to read more than a line of this without a violent explosion.A Day in the Life of Joe ConservativeJoe gets up at 6 Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-43549473456950894202011-01-17T15:46:00.003-05:002011-01-17T16:04:57.806-05:00MLK Today?In the wake of the terrible shooting in Tucson nine days ago and on this day in which we celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr. there is much talk about his philosophy of peace and nonviolence. A friend just posted his "I have a dream.." speech on Facebook and rued the fact that he isn't here today. It got me to thinking. What if he were still alive today?In my humble opinion Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-27714108225981863032010-11-24T09:12:00.004-05:002010-11-26T11:02:36.582-05:00Death Panels, Birthers, and Common SenseSince President Obama was elected, the nuts have come out from under their rocks. People you thought were normal, commonsense types have gone completely berserk. There are more conspiracy theories than you can count and many people that I know have swallowed them hook, line and sinker. There were Sarah Palin's death panels. Supposedly, if a national health care law was passed, there would be Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-48115821763324082692010-11-20T09:50:00.003-05:002010-11-20T10:08:36.106-05:00Love Abortion?My most recent post was about voters and how they are led like sheep to vote against their own best interests. There were several comments, one of which stumped me, because it had no relation to the post. This isn't unusual because I have found that reading comprehension is a major issue out there. However, this one had me shaking my head.One of my blogging friends, Rainlillie, commented thatGeorgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-23332099683466117092010-11-13T13:42:00.002-05:002010-11-13T14:05:15.798-05:00We Often Bite the Hand That Feeds UsThis week I showed my cousin my grandfather's (his great grandfather) miner's union card. He told me something I did not know. My grandmother received a small pension from the union as a result of my grandfather's death in an accident in the Pocahantas Mine in West Virginia. It was a small amount, but in 1920 and the years following, it was a lifesaver for a widow with six kids in the N. Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-81631588299500243912010-11-08T11:44:00.002-05:002010-11-08T12:12:26.891-05:00GA Voters' Strange TwistHere in Georgia last week, the voters spoke. But what did they say? There was an item on the ballot to fund more trauma centers, which the state woefully lacks. The funding would have come from an addition ten dollar fee on vehicle adveloram taxes. The voters in this state voted it down. Even in my home country where there were several serious accidents a few weeks before the election Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-62755082945868737772010-11-07T09:01:00.003-05:002010-11-07T09:26:20.359-05:00Attack Iran?Lindsey Graham, of S.C. has given us a glimpse of what will happen, should the GOP triumph in 2012. In a speech in Canada, Graham called for an attack on Iran to remove it's military and nuclear capabilities. He stated that he "hoped" that the people of Iran would take the opportunity to remove the current government. This is kind of like George W. Bush attacking Iraq in the "hopes" that thereGeorgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-35524059664205102502010-11-02T21:06:00.002-04:002010-11-02T21:20:22.562-04:00Turning Back the ClockAs I write this we are seeing the clock turned backward in this country. Only two years after the Republicans were turned out because of the horror of eight years of their leadership, they are being elected right and left. Simply amazing. They got this country into the mess that it is in with eight years of typical Republican fiscal and social irresponsibility, and voters actually vote them Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-68899446084564814722010-11-01T14:34:00.000-04:002010-11-01T14:35:33.514-04:00Hi, I'm a Tea PartierA very good description of a Tea Bagger.Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-56359191579404677102010-10-29T16:40:00.002-04:002010-10-29T17:04:04.795-04:00That Old World MentalityThis week a new neighbor took issue with my comments on Facebook, regarding the RV park across the creek. My comments were rather negative and revealed my consternation that fall is hear, the leaves are falling, and now the eyesore is becoming very visible. He immediately began to laud the fact the many of the RV's were more expensive than his house and, therefore, it must be a great place. Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-40961875279846691792010-10-27T10:24:00.002-04:002010-10-27T10:42:15.562-04:00This Baffling ElectionAs we approach the mid-term elections. I find myself baffled as to the outcome. I feel in my bones that the polls are wrong, but there is this undercurrent of racism and misinformation fostered by FOX News, the Internet, and the teabagger Republicans that is unmistakably scary. Are Americans so racist and so stupid that they will vote to put the Republicans back into power?After eight years ofGeorgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658580685156300777.post-15127005318364329792010-10-25T22:48:00.003-04:002010-10-25T23:11:34.211-04:00Georgia's Uphill BattleIn Georgia these days we have an uphill battle against backward leaning Republicans. From the late 1960's to 2000 Georgia progressed in so many areas. We had a nationally recognized Department of Transportation, a highly regarded State Parks system, and a strong environmental lobby with a sound environmental policy. Our barrier islands were and still are the best preserved on the east coast. Georgia Mountain Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12476804374376833046noreply@blogger.com1