Posts by Bill Wilson
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Reading the headlines over the weekend, it is a sad testimony to humankind. Rapes, murders, beheadings, kidnappings, ransoms, censorships, mandates, oppression, and the list goes on and on. The easy thing to do is disconnect. The hard thing to do is to engage. Many people are asking: What can I do? The answer is not…
Read MoreThe Farm Chronicles: That old Chrysler
It’s kind of funny how those early memories pop into your mind. Mom and Dad had this 1957 Chrysler four door when I was about six years old. I think the original paint on it was two-tone white and beige. They had it repainted for whatever reason to a turquoise and white. It looked pretty…
Read MoreThe dark Biden purgatory
“Oh, we are for the little guy. Corporations should pay their fair share. We want to tax the rich. This $3.5 trillion budget won’t cost you a cent.” As my Dad used to say when I was little, “It’s all a bunch of BS.” When I asked him what “BS” meant, he would look over…
Read MoreStupidocrisy: A whole lot of stupid going on
In 1955, Roy Hall and Dave “Curly” Williams wrote a song when they were fishing on Lake Okeechobee in Florida. Big Maybelle first recorded it in March 1955 on an arrangement by Quincy Jones. Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Levi Kreis also recorded versions of the song “A whole lot of shakin going on.”…
Read MoreA CNN COVID Obituary
Former US Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, American war hero, husband, father, and grandfather, Colin Powell, 84, passed away Monday morning “due to complications from Covid 19,” the Powell family wrote on Facebook. Powell was fully vaccinated and also suffered from myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the…
Read MoreMandate Mania
Lawsuits are being filed, people are being fired, frontline workers such as police, EMTs, and nurses are being fired or threatened with their jobs, the Biden Administration is threatening the military with discharges—all over vaccine mandates that are making their way through the court system. Despite a less than 2 percent mortality rate reported for…
Read MoreThe Farm Chronicles: Berry farm visit
We were in the midst of our 1963 Great Western Tour and everything was going just swell. As an eight-year-old dedicated to everything “cowboy,” the trip West was a bonanza. We saw real Indians (Native Americans—no disrespect intended), cowboys, wild horses and all sorts of places with their story of the wild West. But you…
Read MoreThere you go again
There was a famous line in the second 1980 presidential debate between President Jimmy Carter and challenger Ronald Reagan. When Carter tried to twist Reagan’s record as governor using hyperbole, Reagan responded in his fatherly and affable way, “There you go again.” The point was made. As Americans facing much dire circumstances than even Carter…
Read MoreStupidocrisy: Record job quitting and vax mandates
The media and politicians are in an uproar over the latest Labor Department monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey showing that a record 4.3 million people quit their jobs in August. Analysts are pinning the job quitting epidemic on the COVID 19 pandemic. They say that workers are running out of their jobs screaming…
Read MoreMandates as a civil rights issue
In what is becoming a crucial civil rights issue, vaccine mandates are being opposed across the country. The Biden Administration ought to sit up and take notice that police, health workers, teachers, transportation workers and a host of unorganized pockets of citizens are standing up for their rights in a true to life “my body,…
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