Mother Nature, I want to apologize for any part that I may have in global warming or any other thing that may be messing with you.  Although I personally had no part in the development of the Industrial Revolution, which brought about the development of the internal combustion engine or the invention of the steel tipped plow, which allowed the change in the great midwest plains, I am guilty.  My wife and I have 4 cars, a farm tractor and a lawn mower.  However, on the bright side, we live next door to a couple who have 2 Prius autos so that should count for something.

Your changes in weather are having effects that are wide-spread.  The lowly wolverine is having a hard time of it.  As you surely know, a wolverine will not “den up” (mate) in an area where the snow melts before late May.  The lack of snow in Glacier National Park is making it tough on them.  Snowing in Florida is a waste of a valuable resource.  An elderly henna-tinted Jewish lady enrobed in a mink coat and wearing leopard print hot pants and red spike heels doesn’t really need a cold snap.  I think that you have sent enough cool nights to the hill country of Texas to ensure that the peaches set this year.  And the poor polar bears.  No ice floes, no ice holes thus no seals peeking out of said hole and getting gobbled up by the bear.  What are the bears to do?  They are going to start eating Eskimos is what they are gonna do.  This will cause an uproar among native Alaskans and they will demand open season on the Snow Bear.  I can’t believe you would want that. There is just no reason for having it snow in the South.  People south of the Mason-Dixon line do not know how to function in snow or ice.  It seems to me that you are just being vengeful and you are too good for that type of behavior.  Someone has to be the adult in this situation.

My suggestion is for you to let it snow all you want north of southern Montana.  That will get  the glaciers back in Glacier Natl Park, save the wolverines and cause the ice sheets to form in the Bering sea.  I know, it puts an undue burden on Canadians and folks in the very far north of the USA, however, they know how to handle it.  I mean, really, those people have a sport called Ice hockey as a pastime and they do dog sled races.  They would be happier than clams if you should happen to double snow output in their area.

Again, I am sorry for the hole in the ozone thing but you know it has been scientifically proven that much of the ozone loss is caused by methane produced by flatulent cattle.

Gary the environmentalist

The Little League champions have been stripped of their title for gerrymandering.  Thats right, gerrymandering.  Redrawing boundries of their league until it encompassed an area filled with championship quality players.  I believe officials became suspicious when it was learned that none of the players actually knew each other outside the time in which they practiced baseball.  The fact that all of the players looked as if they were about 25 years old could have also been a warning that something was amiss.

The mother of one of the players is overwraught about the actions of the commission.  It was not the fault of the players that their team cheated.  “The team was a way to keep the kids off the streets”.  Breaking the rules kept them from crime filled lives.  ” Was this about league lines or was it about race?”  was her next question.  I could not for the life of me find any reference to her being supported by Al Sharpton.  But if has to be.  Those are his thoughts.  Wait, maybe those are the thoughts of a majority of minorities.  All the ills that befall them are caused by racism.  None of their problems are caused by the mindset that makes it okay to cheat because in the end it keeps the kids safe from the mean streets of Chicago?  Maybe it is okay to produce generational welfare just because you cant train a generation to do for themselves without cheating the system.  Is pulling oneself up by your bootstraps something that no longer can be done without cheating?  What the hell was wrong with that mother just stating that it was wrong to put together a team of young players who all stood 6′ 3″ tall and had 92 mph fastballs.  What was wrong with her stating that being suspended might teach the young men a valuable life lesson that little can be achieved through bending the rules?

Gary

Now  I am resentful that some of my friends, who had this eye surgery earlier, didnt clue me in on how much fun it is to see.  Seems to me like you would have been happy to share that info with an ole buddy.???

When pre-registering at hospital this week, young nurse asked me how my first eye surgery was progressing and I told her that it was great. In fact, I said, I was very surprised and elated that apparently the lens that the doctor had inserted had given me x-ray vision.  I told her that she had one of the cutest clavicles I had ever seen.  She fell face first into her computer keyboard and I thought the interview was over.  I told her I had been admiring her bones while we had been walking down the hall and that I hoped the other eye would allow me some depth perception.  Currently I could tell there was two of some things but couldnt determine the size.  I think the young lady seriously considered changing professions before our interview was over.  Medical services are an unusually unexciting profession I would think.

The PHS Class Reunion of 1961 is progressing splendidly.  I have a few more confirmed attendees and the count is above 20.  We need everyone to contact anyone you know who was in our class and make sure they know about it.  It will be next month before I finalize the meals so need to know how many wieners to buy.  You know those damned things come 10 to a pack and the buns come 8 to a package?  However you can use the extra wieners to make beanie weenies .

There was a discussion on the Pecos People section of facebook where a resident was complaining that the fat cat oilmen, who were making millions from the oil in the Permian basin were not giving anything for  the people who inhabited the towns within the oil play.  These greedy businessmen were simply not doing anything to revitalize the city.  He also advised clearly that he was a veteran and thought he deserved better treatment than he had received.  This person is so typical of what I think is wrong with our way of life that he ought to be bronzed and put in the town square of Pecos.  First, I would like to thank him for being a veteran.  My dad and 10’s of millions of other men were veterans of WW II,  I do not remember my father ever mentioning that he thought the government owed him anything for his service other than a ride back home from Burma.  I dont remember any of the fathers of any of my friends making such claims.  They were thankful to have the opportunity to start a life and family and do it with freedoms that other countries dont enjoy.   I dont remember my father ever mentioning that any businessman owed him any help in keeping up our property.  When the fence needed painting he bought the paint, gave me a paint brush and that was a summer project.  Of course, he did have to listen to me bitch about having to do the actual manual labor.

The “GIVE ME” OR “OWE ME”  concept was developed later in my life.  I dont remember the exact time when the change came about.  People now have been trained thru the use of “the Lone Star Card” and WIC that they are entitled to be taken care of by someone other than themselves.  They buy an 18 pack of beer and let the groups of benevolent people in the community have “school supply drives” to get their children supplies for school.  My father would not have let me touch a #2 pencil and big Chief tablet that had been purchased for me by someone other than he and my mother.  When I am at the grocery store and the cashier asks me if I would like to donate to the school supply fund I politely say no, not until the grocery store stops selling beer.

It is not going to ever change back to the old ways.  I know that.  There are too many people who are “OWED” and who are training their children to be “OWED” for us to make the change back to a society that is made up of people who take care of themselves.  A society that gives a helping hand rather than one who thinks they deserve to get that help. There is a difference in those two types of people.

Gary