Friday, September 30, 2005

Well, Fall finally fell on our community on Wednesday night at about 10:40 pm the with the arrival of the first cold front of the season. After the 100+ degree weather that we had been enduring during the first part of the week and the completely dry Hurricane Rita that went off to the east of us over the previous weekend, it was nice to get some cool weather. Temperatures dropped into the sixties and seventies and generally everyones spirits and attitudes seem to be better. If you are on line and have a need to check the weather, may I suggest that you try www.Alphaweather.com , this is one terrific weather site, and the weather girls aren't bad either. Enjoy the fall weather and have a great day.
You Are Never To Old To Learn ..... Tonight at the bar, I learned what it is to be a real man. Now that may sound funny but this was not funny in any way. One of our regular customers, "the pussy thieving son of bitch" that I referred to in an earlier posting in this blog. This gentleman is a retired career Air Force officer, he flew B-52's for more than one tour of duty over Viet Nam during the 1960's. He also defended our country as a member of the Strategic Air Command when not in Viet Nam along with other assignments in the service of our country. Tonight he was at the bar, enjoying the first real cool front of the fall when his night was ruined by a moronic imbecile. As is often the case in bars, politics is quite often the topic of conversation. Tonight was one of those occasions. We had been discussing the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when this idiot who was unable to add anything of substance to the discussion, decided to stir some shit and made the unbelievable statement that this retired officer was living on welfare and that he, the moron, was paying his salary. At this statement, the freshly insulted gentleman rose to his feet and asked the moron to repeat himself and explain his statement. I quickly interjected that what the idiot was referring to as welfare was in fact his retirement for more than twenty years of service to our country. Now this particular moron was a little too young to ever be concerned with being drafted for Viet Nam and too old to be worried with Bosnia or either the first or current conflicts in the middle east. The fact of the matter is that he never served his country or put himself in harms way for the benefit of others and to make the statements that he made tonight is nothing more than a slap in the face to every man and woman who has served this country. He has lived in this country all of his life reaping the benefits and profits from the greatest country on earth and then has the gall to feel this way about the people who protect it. In his opinion,they don't deserve their retirements or at least they should consider themeselves on welfare because he pays taxes. Well screw him! When challenged by the gentleman he went into a song and dance about how we should not have a conscripted military and how it was unconstitutional to have a standing army. When the offended gentleman stated that he enlisted voluntarily into the service, he was confronted by the agruement that he was not deserving of his retirement pay because he deemed it excessive as he had really not done anything to deserve the dollar amount of retirement pay and was therefore, by his reasoning, living on wellfare. The mind boggles at the depth of stupidity in some people. Now it does not matter if you think that the Viet Nam War was justified or not or if our current presence in the middle east is warranted, this has nothing to do with the service that a soldier provides to his country. When he was flying over Viet Nam with SAM missles being fired at him, the purpose and politics of the war deminished considerably while he was trying to dodge the missles and keep him and his crew alive. He didn't earn his retirement? BULLSHIT ! With a grace and dignity that can only be described as Gandhian in nature, the retired officer asked the idiot to drop the subject and leave him alone as he had left violence behind him many years before. Instead of just departing, the mentally deficient bar customer then vainly tried to act as if they were buddies and his comments were not as important as his need to buy him a drink. After insisting once more for his peace and privacy, the idiot finally left the bar. I cannot call this person a liberal because to do so would be an insult to liberals in this country who care about those people that have served our country. Many retired servicemen who consider themselves to be liberal would be equally offended by this persons' assesment of their service to their country. No, what we had here was just pure simple ignorance, stupidity, and a grasp of common courtesy and decency. The senseless and ill prepared ramblings of an insignificant peabrain. Why is it that people who have a little money always think they are brilliant? This diginified, retired officer showed me what it is to me a man tonight and to know that when you are in the right, bringing yourself to the level of his antagonist would be like trying to teach a pig to sing, it is a waste of your time and and annoys the pig. As I have heard this exceptional gentleman state before, he fought and defended this country for everyone, so that even idiots would have the right and the freedom to be wrong. Sir, I salute you and may God bless you and your retirement, which you so richly deserve. And while I am at it, God bless all of our military that serve or have served our country.