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by Ray Hall

Had the pleasure of having a long chat last week with a great local citizen of the Jordan area, up here in northeast Elmore County, Warren Colley. While we, as a rule, don’t consider our little corner of the world the high crime district, Warren was recently the victim of quite a loss of property when a gang of five, it turned out, broke into his home, stealing thousands of dollars of his possessions. This gang later decided to do another house in the Millbrook area. The lady of the house, living alone, and asleep at the time, awoke to discover five people ransacking her home. It turned out that she was an ex-marine, and slept with a 9 mm pistol under her pillow. She got the drop on the one nearest to her and the others fled out through the streets of Millbrook. The Millbrook police finally arrived and took the one the lady had the drop on into custody and impounded the vehicle. None of those running through the streets of Millbrook were ever apprehended. It turned out that the group was from New York, and some time later someone from New York showed up, paid the impoundment fee, paid the bail for the one the lady had caught, and they drove off back to New York. None of these parasites were ever heard from again. Warren’s opinion of the professional ability of the Millbrook police department is not one they would enjoy hearing. Warren believes that someone in the area, with the ability to “case the joints”, so to speak, determines the vulnerability of the home, i.e., if the husband and wife both work through the day, if the kids are in school, burglar alarms, guard dogs, etc., and provides a hit list for the New York parasites. They in turn pay this person a commission on the take. In Warren’s case, his dog was poisoned. There have been five homes in this area of the county that I know about that have had a similar type break in. In all cases, the husband and wife were away at work, the kids were in school or grown and gone. One of the more detestable forms of parasitism is the thief. As far as I know, no arrests, other than the one the lady in Millbrook held for the police to arrive, have ever been made. I have no idea if the county sheriff’s department ever arrested anyone on the five burglaries in this area. I would love to be wrong on this one. Oh by the way, one of the results of Warren’s victimization was that his home became virtually uninsurable!

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I still haven’t heard from Barry Mask, as to why he voted to table the Alabama Constitutional Convention resolution for the purpose of revising the antiquated state constitution. It was only a resolution, to allow the people of the state to say yes or no on calling one. Barry, I ask the question again: Are the people of Alabama incapable of making a wise choice in that regard?

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It was sickening to be made aware of the low life we still have in the area recently when the sign identifying the cemetery across from Cotton’s BarBeQue was defaced with the n--- word! You mistakenly think sometimes, that being fifty years down the road from the old racial animosities, such a neanderthal act is no longer a likely event. I can’t believe the people who think such an idiotic act is worth doing spend much time in Bible study.

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When the headlines read: “Dictator’s son declared winner in Togo election”, you just get the warm fuzzies about the legitimacy of the election results, don’t you?

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This has been a rough winter to sell global warming!

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There are at least 20 cemeteries scattered across Europe with over 104,000 of our country’s military buried in them. This is the only territory we occupied in over an hundred years of successfully preventing the entire continent from speaking German. It therefore grieves me sorely to have Obama groveling and apologizing to the nations of the world for our sins. We are not a perfect country. But we have helped many people, at great cost in money and life, without a great deal of gratitude.

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The birthdays, of which I am aware, that are coming up this week are those of: Bobby Joe Orr on the 11th, and Jinnene Griffith on the 13th. Happy birthday to each of you! Birthdays are a significant checkpoint in a life. And as you acquire the years, an acknowledgement of your mortality and preparation for eternity becomes evermore appropriate. If you know of a birthday or an anniversary you wish to recognize, please let me know a couple of weeks in advance.

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Thanks for your readership, response, and email. Email me with any item at redhill1@elmore.rr.com by Sunday evening. Don’t forget: “Eternity is a long time, about which, to be wrong!”

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