Howdy friends and neighbors. “And that’s the ball game folks!” November 4th 2008, it finally got here. By the time this hits print, we should now who our next President will be, unless Florida fouls it up again. You know, they’ve only had eight years to fix it. I still have to laugh though, a government entity that selects government officials, that is run by government appointees, still hasn’t been fixed. Funnier still, Oklahoma hands down has the most efficient, most accurate, tamper-proof voting system in the US, and no other state has copied it. Anyway, somehow it will get done and campaign ad season will be over. I have a newfound love for TiVo. Watch a program after the fact and skip the ads!
Here a while back, I had one of the Presidential debates on. I was mainly looking through my new issue of Fastline (farm equipment ads) while the two ‘08 windbags were deflating like whoopee cushions and telling each other their tax reduction plan. All this while my four-year-old boy was playing in the middle of the living room floor. He could care less about how the two guys that never had a job were going to create jobs. Then I thought to myself and wondered who was debating for the top seat in America when I was four? And, does it matter today? I wonder if the two, I think it was Regan and Carter, were telling Americans the same story we hear today? So, I guess in 28 years, the feds haven’t solved anything. Will it matter 30 years from this week? Only if you let it….
I would like to publicly thank the two men who are vying for the district 60 Oklahoma State House seat: incumbent Purcy D. Walker and challenger Dan Gambill. Both of these guys ran a good clean race that makes me proud to live here in Sunny Point. Both candidates just expressed how they wanted to serve District 60. Honest, clean, hard working guys that look you in eye while giving a firm hand shake and ask for your support. Not a bad word about their opponent, but instead compliments. I wish you both could win! Isn’t there somewhere on that ballot we could put ’em?
Well, I can’t seem to come up with much this afternoon, or evening, or,,, what time is it again? Well maybe the roosters union will put a stop to this clock-changing thing someday.
Just a little reminder why I live and work on a farm and ranch from a four year old. The other day, Mason told my wife, Danielle, “Momma, my most favorite things are eating watermelon, sewing with Mema, and combining wheat!” Amen!
I’m Monte Tucker, and that is what’s under my sprung forward and fell back hat!
Hello Monte,
When I read your question, “Who was running for the ‘top seat’ when you were four years old?”, well sir, it got me thinking – “who was running for the top seat when I was four years old?”. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, and Google, I quickly learned that Alf Landon was the Republican running against Franklin Roosevelt.
Yes, I’ve been around the barn a few times, considering the fact that I’ve lived my entire life here on Long Island, NY. But when I lived here it was definitely rural, and it was a place most people would ‘visit’, then go back to New York City. My first job was on one of the last vegetable farms in Queens County. Got the fantastic wage of forty cents an hour. That was during W.W. 2 when the farmer had trouble getting help — and way before all the illegals came pouring across the border. Believe it or not, but most of the ’stoop’ labor or harvesting was done by Polish immigrant women, and kids like me did the weeding.
I enjoy your commmentaries. Keep ‘er going !!
George Stenby