Howdy friends and neighbors. Man, did I stir the pot last week with my attendance to the PACCS (prairie dogs, armadillos, cows, chickens and skunks) meeting where heated discussion over our endorsement for the Democratic nominee took place. My e-mail line was glowing red-hot as it maxed out on wattage from opinions that came in from across the plains like tumbleweeds into a five-wire fence on a breezy day. Of course, the range of discussion was about as wide as it was shallow. But, I do have to say that the porcine group caught my attention with their threats to protest and promise to cause total disruption at our final meeting at the Elks Lodge in Arnett, Oklahoma. The swine group has a severe case of the “red ham” and their tails have gone straight over the fact that their 27 delegates won’t have a say in the endorsement process. But, of course we all still remember the hanging jowl incident in the 1999 election process. A spokesboar for the porcine group, a middle-aged Berkshire, graduate from a bindweed league university and currently a professor of littermate behavior at Northwestern in Alva, concluded that the PACCS group had clearly violated their wallowing rights and they were planning to sue-way the PACCS. Within the porcine group, the feral and razorbacks are pleased with the endorsement of Clinton. But, they are just a small part and the porcine group seems determined to cause havoc in downtown Arnett as rumor has it, they have joined forces with the bowl-weevils and opossums. This endorsement issue is getting totally out of hand. I suspect the final convention will be as rowdy as the 1992 Reydon firemen’s ball, second only to the Vici rodeo dance in of ‘01.
I guess that’s about all I can make-up as I have truly stretched my narrow mind to come up with the above. Believe me folks, I’m reading it for the first time myself.
For the rest of my article this week I think I’ll just state the common sense view of some recent news. First, Governor Henry endorses Obama and gives a speech over fiscal responsibility by not spending our kids and grandkids’ money. Just a few months ago in his State of the State he talked about needing to quickly pass bonds to fund some projects. Bonds are debt for our kids to repay.
Oklahoma City can’t wait for an NBA basketball team so they pass a tax on average folks while the state legislature gives millionaires tax breaks so overpaid millionaire thugs can play ball. Meanwhile, small business entrepreneurs across the state must deal with more and more regulations and mandates while working harder to make up the 60 million dollar tax break. My thoughts? 60 million would have bought a lot of asphalt, concrete and bridge pilings and no, not for the Ford Center. It’s getting a $120 million face-lift. Too bad no one will be able to attend a game due to the fact that the I-40 cross-town is falling apart.
Farm Bill! I’m at the point that I think I’ll agree with Nancy Pelosi and we should just scrap the direct payments, crop insurance, disaster aid and counter cyclical payments (what ever that means) and just put all the money in the welfare and food stamps. Then, I can just quite farming, turn my land into a nature park and devote my time to hunting, fishing, filling out welfare and food stamp paper work, playing the lottery and attending NBA ball games. By the way, what does a food stamp taste like?
A wheat farmer in northern Oklahoma that has some wrinkles and few gray hairs made one of the best statements I’ve heard in the last years about the Farm Bill debate. He simply said, “what good does it do to put more money into food stamps when there is no one left to grow any food!” Amen!
I’m Monte Tucker, and that is what’s under my “Super Sonics” Hat.
