Buying a candy bar during the depression

This must have taken place during the early years of the Great  Depression.  We  had hauled a load of cotton to the gin and my brother Jesse and I were nearby as the cotton was unloaded.  Someone gave us a penny each and my brother, who was three years younger than I, headed for the little country store.  Jesse didn't know the value of any coin, but he knew money could buy candy.

He walked into the store, pointed to a nickel candy bar and laid his penny on the counter.  The lady clerk  hesitated but my brother was already removing the paper from the candy,  I knew you did not buy a five-cent candy bar for a penny,  "I'll add this," I said, giving the clerk my penny,  She said "I guess that will be all right."

I wish I could say her generosity was rewarded, but people had no money and bought on credit.  When time came to pay they still had no money so the store, like many  others, went broke and closed.

Did I get any of the candy bar?   I do not remember.

Obama fails people seeking jobs.

Is Barack Obama totally ignorant about  the economy or is the only thing he cares about is political gain?
In over an hour of his report of the state of the union, he never offered any real plan to create jobs and put suffering people back to work   He refused to take the opportunity to okay the Keystone Pipeline, which would have added thousands of jobs

Obama claims he has created six million jobs. Where, in China?

We need some one to call the end to the BS the government puts out about a recovery. The truth is we have fewer people at work than we did in 2009.  The media joins in putting out false information, including the real figure on unemployment.  Sure, you can just not count all the people who are not working but desperately want jobs. As long as we follow Obama's policies, the economy will suffer and millions will be seeking jobs and not finding any.

Congradulations, Jen

You've  made it with me for 41 years Jen..  Who have believed it if they had seen you trembling and crying while I waited at the altar? Love always, Roy

Can't you feel it --Obama says global warming causes our cold weather

When it's hot, the globalists blame man-made global warming and want to add more regulations and costs; when it's cold, the environmentalists (all the same nuts) blame global warming and insist on more regulations and costs.

President Obama is a typical example of one who pushes this nonsense.  With weather  experts calling this the coldest in a century, Obama continues to say we have global warming and need to regulate and spend.
Actions by Obama and people like Al Gore have  badly damaged our economy and cost millions of jobs.  Congress must oppose more regulations and spending.

Jessica preached today

Daughter Jessica preached at Apex United Methodist Church today.  We would liked to have been there to support her, but Louisiana to North Carolina is a little far, although we did go to Ohio last summer  when she preached.  Mark, Julie, Lily and Oliver were present today.

Dad == the pole vaulter

For a period of two or three years I tried pole vaulting, utilizing standards   I made from scrap wood and a section of bamboo  as a pole Obviously, I had poor equipment, I vaulted wrong and not very high.

Once Dad watched my feeble efforts and asked for the pole.  I thought he surely was not going to try something so unfamiliar to him but he took the pole and ran toward the six foot fence around the chicken yard. He hit the fence; it bounced in and sprang back and he wound up on his back and on the ground.

I rushed over to him, afraid he was hurt, only to find him laughing, That, though, was his last try to be a track and field star.

Is pot smoking why Iran is beatting our butt?

Official policy of the federal government toward marijuana is use of it is harmful and unlawful.  President Obama on the other hand in an interview in the New Yorker seems to support smoking pot, saying alcohol is worse.

Can you imagine the anger and frustration of parents whose kids take up using pot and argue the president says it is okay?

The federal government has medical evidence that use of marijuana while young results in permanent brain damage.  Perhaps, that is why Iran  is able to claim they are winning in developing nuclear weapons.  Iran also threatens the oil shipping routes in the Mideast.  Is pot smoking why Iran is winning?