WHO IN THE PLUPERFECT HELL DUG ALL THESE HOLES

Who in the pluperfect hell dug all these holes – and I wish he would stop digging.

 

One of my favorite movies – a classic in black and white – is God’s Little Acre.  

In a way I identify with that movie, except instead of digging the holes, I have spent my life filling them in. 

I just had my septic tank pumped out and the kaka pumper man said that judging by the level in the tank I may need to replace my drain field in the near future: four or five grand.   

I have always looked down the road and believed I could see smooth riding ahead; but when I get there some son-of-a-bitch has filled the road with more holes.

  

I get a good income tax return and a cap falls off a tooth…   It seems there is always something to keep my head just above water level.

I have rolled past the hump of my seventh decade but unlike Tietie l don’t have the undying confidence that there is gold at the bottom of the next hole.  

Don’t get me fucking wrong.   I am a fortunate person and I know it.   I am in good health for my age; I have had great adventures; I am married to a beautiful young wife; I live in rural Maine in an area I love; I can still ride my scoot; I have two Maine Coon Cats and a bottle of John Jameson whiskey on the cupboard. 

But son-of-a-bitch, it would be nice if Tietie would quit digging holes.

Maybe I need to catch me an albino – and make him look through the ground and tell me the drain field is all right.

the Ol’Buzzard

I CAN TAKE OR LEAVE ZOMBIES

BUT I AM DEFINITELY GLAD VAMPIRES ARE BACK.

Charlaine Harris has started a new series.    West of Bon Temps, Louisiana, in the west Texas town of Midnight – population 10 – the story continues.

  

In the first of the series, Midnight Crossroad, we meet the cast of characters – a strange group that choose to live in the middle of nowhere to protect their privacy.   It is a murder mystery with a strange cast that leaves you wondering.

In the second book, published this year, you find out more about the residents. 

Midnight is a spot in the road in the middle of west Texas nowhere.  If you ever travel through you might have the urge to stop and gas up and use the restroom at the convenience store; but you would be advised to travel on through; unless you are unafraid of vampires, weretigers and witches with talking cats.     

Traveler Beware!

the Ol’Buzzard

A BREAK FROM POPE MANIA

If you grew up in the fifties then don't sing along with this song - I dare you.

If you didn't grow up in the 50's than you missed the start of rock and roll.

the Ol'Buzzard

POPE MANIA

We are caught in a tsunami of Pope mania.  It is easy to forget that the Pope represents a religion that imposes a broad cavern between perceived reality and what is actually real. 

We now live in a world where the socio-religious would impose their dogma on all mankind.  The purpose of the Catholic Church (and all religions) is to consolidate ignorance under the banner of immortality.  If life after death doesn’t exist there is no reason for religion; so the Catholic Church deals with death by abolishing it.

Twenty percent of the world in Christian and sixty percent of that world is Catholic; and for that Catholic majority the Pope is the direct, infallible representative of God.

It was Popes that instituted the Inquisition from 1231 to 1820.  Millions were tortured by the Catholic Church and died horrible deaths, including many scientific notables at the hands of the inquisition. 

God has released his wrath and then changed his mind many time with the succession of Popes.   Even in the last century Pope Pius XII supported the Nazi rounding up and imprisonment of Jews.

  

Now this Pope is expounding somewhat limited liberal ideals.  Along with addressing climate change he also states that women who have had abortions and homosexuals may not go to hell if they return to the church and confess their sins – not well received by much of the misogynistic Catholic clergy that believe Eve was responsible for original sin and homosexuality is an abomination. 

The Catholic Church, which this Pope represents, requires blind faith and allegiance.

    

The Churches’ doctrines are:

• A belief in the virgin birth and other outlandish miracles.
• The veneration of human sacrifice and transubstantiation.
• Sexual suppression – opposition to birth control…
• Female phobia – dictating female reproduction policies…
• Censorship.
• A promise of resurrection and an afterlife.
• The repression of logic and suppression of scientific enquiry – stem cell research...
• Intolerance, bigotry and pious outrage – organize opposition to gay rights initiatives.
• Expounding a belief in Gods, angles and demons.   Now, in the twenty-first century, the Catholic Church still has a group priest especially trained to perform exorcisms on the mentally ill.

Religion thrives in the absence of reason.   The greater the absurdity the stronger the beliefs. 

This new Pope is expounding some liberal ideas, but saying that women who have had abortions and gays may return to The Church is the equivalent of the evil witch of fairy tales that eats children sending flowers and candy packages to pregnant women.  He is still the representative of a repressive and indoctrinating religion defending twelfth century dogma in a twenty-first century world.

the Ol’Buzzard

FUCKING OLD PEOPLE

"Don't fuck with old people

they don't like being old

and it doesn't take a lot to piss them off."

quote stolen from a Yellowdog Granny post

the Ol'Buzzard

TRUMP IS AHEAD IN THE POLES!

Everyone, both Republican and Democratic pundits, are wondering how Donald Trump is carrying 27% of the Republican Party in the poles.

  

I don’t see what the mystery is.   This is the 27% of the Republican Party base that supported Michele Bachman and Herman Cain in the 2012 election – the same people that elected Louie Gohmert and other Congressional wingnuts.   These are the same people that marched with the tri-cornered hats with tea bags hanging from their clothes; these are the same 27% that live on Fox and Friends.

To me it is no mystery.  These people have always been here but disregarded as nut cases until organized by the Republican Party and given a platform to scream from in the 2008 election when it seemed that a black man was going to be elected President.   

This group is poorly educated, not bright and easily manipulated.  For years the leaders and shapers of the Republican Party gave this group lip service – they fed them bullshit and told them it was cake.   They could count on them showing up at the poles as long as they gave them a piece of red meat to chew on. 

And then in 2008 they showcased them – used them to create dissension at Democratic events and to appeal to racist, conspiracy theorist and religious zealots.     

Now, like the Frankenstein monster the Party can’t control them. 

The Republican mainstream keep reminding us that regardless of his appeal, Trump won’t be their nominee and they are probably right; because at some point there will be a concerted effort to bring him down.   In the meantime they are biding their time to see if he will implode on his own.  

Even if Trump, or anyone else, would run as a third party he would have no chance, because it is not the popular vote that elects the President, but the Electoral College; and the members of the Electoral College are appointed by the two major parties.

The game is fixed.

And let’s not forget that it is fourteen fucking months left before we have a vote.   It is like a fifteen mile marathon and everyone excited about who is ahead at mile one. 

On to a more important subject: I haven’t cleaned the cats litter box this morning and they don’t like it when their box is dirty.

the Ol’Buzzard  

WOMEN AND SEX

I’ve got to admit Yellowdog Granny got me thinking with her post on her hiatus from sex (not sure if she was bragging or complaining.)  

My only knowledge comes from acting as a willing participant; so I really can’t say definitively what women think of sex. 

Jackie Kennedy is quoted as saying, “Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.”

You may think that was tongue in cheek, but I am not too sure that what she said is not what she meant (ponder this sentence for a minute.)

My wife and I have always had great sex, and still do; the woman spins my prop.    But, I can be naked in bed waiting for her and she might stop and feed the cats or wash a glass left in the sink on her way to the bedroom – If she was in bed waiting for me – hell, a pride of lions couldn’t distract me.

Maybe it is me naked – do you think?   A man in his mid-seventies naked: not the most alluring thing I can think of. 

Sorry, no pics.

 I seem to age, but she doesn’t.   She is still the same beautiful woman who’s bones I jumped standing knee deep in snow, ten feet off a snowshoe trail; what doesn’t seem to me so many years ago.

the Ol’Buzzard