Political Ranting

  I am not usually political on this blog, but I think that this needs printing, reading and remembering. For those of you opposed to this viewpoint, I will not apologize, for I feel that you have the right to your opinion ... as do I. Love from the desert!!!

               EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT CATHOLIC, THIS IS EYE OPENING

    When the Catholic Church was founded, there were no hospitals. Today, one out of five people in this country receive their medical care at a Catholic hospital.

    When the Catholic Church was founded, there were no schools. Today, the Catholic Church teaches 3 million students a day, in its more than 250 Catholic Colleges and Universities, in its more than 1200 Catholic High Schools and its more than 5000 Catholic grade schools.

    Every day, the Catholic Church feeds, clothes, shelters and educates more people than any other organization in the world. The new Obama Health Mandate could end all this and the tax payers would have to make up the loss. Also, all Catholic adoption services would come to an end; a human disaster.

   There are more than 77 million Catholics in this country. It takes an estimated 50 million Catholic votes to elect a president. I am asking all of you to go to the polls in 2014 and be united in replacing all Senators and Reps with someone who will respect the Catholic Church, all Christians, and all Religions with the exception of Islam.

    Mr. President, you said, "The USA is not a Christian Nation". You are wrong! We are a Christian Nation founded on Judeo-Christian values allowing all religions in America to Worship & Practice Freely. Something Islam will never do.

    Oh, by the way, on MUSLIM HERITAGE in America ...

Have you ever been to a Muslim hospital?

Have you met any Muslims in your American Legion Post, your VFW Post, your D.A.V.

   Post? If you have they are an extreme rarity.

Have you heard a Muslim orchestra?

Have you seen a Muslim band march in a parade?

Have you witnessed a Muslim charity?

Have you seen Muslims shaking hands with a Muslim Girl Scout?

Have you seen a Muslim Nurse?

Have you ever seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way 

   of life?

Ruminations

I had mentioned a lyric in a song on the computer the other day that pretty well described Valdez (Dr Stanley McGowen) and me in the early days. "… Running full throttle / with a long necked bottle / and a black hearse following me … ". Looking back at the 70's, I sometimes wonder how he and I (and a lot of our cohorts) arrived at old age as fairly normal citizens … indeed, the fact that we survived at all is something akin to miraculous. The 70's was an especially raucous decade if you traveled in our group. We drank too much, partied too loud and much too often, and generally made life a real problem for those that we cared about. There were many (including a couple of wives on my part) but one name stands out for me and that was Kathy Comaduran. She was a huge pain in the a** at times, and always too needy, but always loving and I am blessed to have known her … Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. She is now older, a grandma and very happy down in Texas. Ah, la memoria del pasado los amantes. I am glad that she found happiness, as I have finally found. Indeed, there are a lot of people who lived life full throttle in Cochise County in those days. I wonder what happened to them all. Too soon old, too late wise I guess.

    I am re-entering my Blog world at  lovefromthedesert.blogspot.com. That way I can write, as is my wont, without clogging up your e-mail inbaskets. I feel, as they say in Latin furor scribindi … a rage to write. I know that you guys do not have "furor lectio" … a need to read. So-o-o-o, I am putting my useless observations, poems and thoughts on the blog and then I'll just write the rare 'update' letter so that you know what is up with the ever fetching Ms Hilda and me. Speaking of Ms Hilda, she had her second eye done (cataracts) and they had to put in a lens, still waiting to see how it turns out but looking promising.

  Hilda has to work SLINGO at VFW Post 549 today, I called the numbers yesterday. So, we have spent the entire weekend at the Post. We watched a movie or two last evening and I did some work on the BLOG and the Post website.

    A news item from our local (fairly liberal) daily paper noted:  Births to unwed mothers in Pima County Arizona are not evenly distributed among racial and ethnic groups. Although Hispanics make up about one-third of the county's population, they accounted for more than half of the births to unwed mothers in 2011, Arizona Department of Health Services data show. By contrast, whites, who constitute just more than half of the population, accounted for less than a third of those births. The mothers of 9 percent of the children born to unwed mothers in 2011 were American Indian, 2 percent were Asian and 6 percent were black.


The first Hillary for President bumper sticker has been sighted. It said:
 Monica Lewinsky's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife for President

I Don't Always Drink Beer

I heard a line in a song on the computer that other day that pretty much described me and Valdez back in the day: "... running full throttle, with a long-neck bottle, and a black hearse following me ...". I sometimes wonder how we became old men at all.

As Arnold said ... I'm Ba-a-a-ack!

      Here I am again ... I've been gone for a year and a month. A lot has changed in a year, nothing really important ... but a lot of daily things. I am still happily with the ever fetching Ms. Hilda, but our lifestyles have altered somewhat. I write "Sunday Letters" every week, but I hate clogging up people's in-boxes. I have to write ... 'furor scribindi ' as they say in Latin. Here ... I can write and if no one reads it, Oh Well!!. I don't write for others as much as because I have to.
     A year ago ... last July, when I last posted ... I was the immediate Past Commander of  American Legion Post 36, and now ... I haven't really been there in 8-10 months. Hilda's endocrinologist asked her to stay away from 2nd hand smoke and Post 36 is a "smoking" Post. In early December, we started going to VFW Post 549 (I am a Life Member of the VFW). Now, Ms. Hilda (who joined the Auxiliary in December) is the Auxiliary President and I am the Jr. Vice Commander of the VFW. We have met a lot of people that we are very close to and have good times with. Life is full I guess. Not too bad for poor folks. I really do not miss the 'cliques' at Post 36 or the constant politicking (sp). I am now working (part-time) for AMS Retail Services as the Tucson Account Representative. I have 29 stores and set my own schedule, which allows me time to take care of Hilda and get off for Doctor's appointments and the like. I work 12-14 hours a week and it's a good gig.
    Hilda and I had a portrait taken ... that is funny since I am a photographer. But ... she will not smile for me. I mean, she smiles at me/with me/for me a lot ... but not when a camera is in my hands. I don't understand it, but that's life with Hilda. I think it has to do with her weight. A couple of years ago, her doctor put her on Prednizone (sp) to try and control her blood sugars. She went from 138 to 215 in 90 days and, although she stopped taking the medication, has never been able to remove the weight. She is still beautiful to me (and always will be).

     Her hypoglycemia unawareness is still giving her (and me) fits. Blood sugars going crazy all times of the day and night.

    I am getting back to my photography, as time permits.

  

 

    I hope to post more soon ... again, as time permits.

L.F.T.D.