Friday Follies

I am writing this on Friday but I intended to write something brief each day. So much for following through on that idea. So I will give out with the whole load of verbal hay on this one day and see what happens as I go along.

On Monday, I had my second blind man’s lesson on how to get along on the computer and email. We worked on the lesson for some time and I found out that I can do more than I thought I could. I added an attachment to an email to my daughter and she posted it on the blog. I will now attempt to give some expression to some observations that came to me during the time I was in the lesson.

I was actually afraid to start trying to type and I put it off until late Friday afternoon and I now know how silly that was.

This week has been full of so many political events that cause you to hold your head that I just had to put forth some old coot wisdom and see how. After the Civil War ended the South endured a period that was famous or infamous for the arrival of carpetbaggers. They came with the intention of looting the South of everything they could get by being associated with the winning side. We tell ourselves that such an ugly time in history is over, but all I have to do to see it in.

Modern dress is to look toward the northeast and locate the national edition of the Carpetbagger Congress. I was once so naive as to really believe that senators and representatives actually had the better good as something they wanted to come about. I no longer think that at all. I intentionally did not use upper case for senator and representative because I don’t think that most of them deserve that consideration. Most of the national polling indicates that the great majority of citizens think very little of our carpetbaggers filling and stuffing their loot into their personal carpetbags while telling us as they are stuffing that they really have our best interests in mind.

If you stop, look and listen as if approaching a railroad crossing you will get the idea. If the crossing gates are all down and the lights are all flashing and the whistle is blowing in vain, if you stay on the tracks, ignoring the facts, then don’t blame the wreck on the train. Just take a good look and you can see that the carpetbagger special is on the tracks and bearing down on us. I most certainly want to get out of the way of the Carpetbagger Special, but I don’t really know how to go about it. The power of the political carpetbaggers is so great that there seems to be no readily available way to derail the runaway locomotive and get it off the mainline before it causes a major train wreck.

I have lived most of my life in Louisiana and I know what poor government can destroy. Our history our state government has performed in a manner that would qualify this state as a preeminent banana republic. Louisiana has been recognized as a leader in corruption, bribery, nepotism, incompetence and a number of other categories too numerous to mention. And one of the amazing facts about Louisiana is that seventy eight percent of those born in this state still live here. To me that just says the people are great enough to somehow overcome the continuous inept and ugly leadership that we have endured. It also helps that some of the best food preparation in the country is located in this state. I think some of these natural chefs could make asphalt taste like chocolate.

You also have to factor in the sports climate here. Tiger worship is a state religion that often occurs on a Saturday night during the fall. The fun and frolic of the football season can divert our attention to the raids and attacks that our local carpetbaggers get going during the week. Somehow I hit the incorrect key and changed the indention of each line and I don’t have any idea what I did to cause this and don’t know what to do to change it back to normal. I will simply muddle on and hope that I can get it corrected later on.

But now I need to return to the local behavior of our carpetbaggers. The normal mode of behavior is foremost of them to have their daily priorities.