As your life sails on into the late sixties and early seventies, one of the realities you begin to deal with is the increasing number of funerals of friends and relatives you are presented the opportunity to attend.  My friend Wilson Jolly had to say goodbye to a great lady this week as Ms. Adele took leave of this temporary assignment we are all given called life.  Linda and I really enjoyed the moments we were able to spend in conversations with her and Wilson.  Wilson, our sympathies to you and we will make your proposal a commitment in the near future.

FTH

From the pictures I have received of the passengers in panic as they waited for direction from the captain and crew of the Costa Concordia, it may be that Carnival Cruise Lines will need to go back to lesson  number one regarding the proper procedure and location of the captain and the crew during the abandon ship routine.  They should be on the ship, directing the evacuation, not on the shore, serving as cheerleaders!

FTH

Hong Kong is considered to be one of the most desirable cities in the world in which to do business!  It has a flat tax and a tax code book with 72 pages.  Businesses in the USA are screaming about the tax code.  Reckon it is because our tax code book contains 72,000 pages?

One of the fairly accurate barometers of the condition of our society are the letters sent in to the Dear Annie column each day in many of our newspapers.  The idiotic enabling by parents with their children, in many of the problems posed in this column, rather than insisting that they do the right thing, is a great part of the perpetuation of a society with a large percentage pf parasites in it!

FTH

Alabama really needs a recall option !  It would greatly increase the sensitivity to the people who sent them for our politicians!

FTH

Something that would really be nice for old folks is to have all waitresses wear name tags in restaurants.  In fact, any business that has real live people on the front lines of their customer contact front, such as stores, hospitals, offices, etc., would really be doing people like me and Billy Hunt a favor.  Billy just refers to all the women as “Lady” and all the men as “Bud”.

FTH

It is difficult to imagine that in a beautiful state like Alabama, where you encounter so many great people, that any of them would derive pleasure out of watching roosters kill one another!  The fine for cockfighting is $50.  The take for a weekend of chicken killing can be $40,000!  Not much of a deterrent here is there?  That encouraging and watching poultry destroying one another in a cock fighting ring is a fun time for a person has to say a lot about the mindset of that person!

FTH

Some simple sentences to remember that will make for a happier place for all of us to live would be: "I was wrong." "I am sorry." "Please forgive me." "Thank you." Say them whenever needed and say "I love you" often—whether needed or not.

FTH

Those Occupiers in Oakland  are poster people for a garbage producing lifestyle!  They can trash a park in a very short time!  Wonder if their parents take pride in their contributions to urban improvement?

FTH

Quote of the week: "In the swift rush of great events, we find ourselves groping to know the full sense and meaning of these times in which we live. In our quest of understanding, we beseech God's guidance. We summon all our knowledge of the past and we scan all signs of the future. We bring all our wit and all our will to meet the question: How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward the light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?"  - Dwight D. Eisenhower

FTH

The  birthdays of which I am aware, that are coming up this week are: Kim Griffith, Rebecca Hall Davis & Mark Hall on the 2nd,  Betty Fulmer, Jimmy Monk, & Tony Buenger on the 3rd, Amber Griffith & Wayne Hall on the 5th, and Eddie Harper on the 7th.    Happy Birthday to each of you!.  Let me know a week in advance of people for whom you wish to mention for birthdays or anniversaries. Thanks for your readership, emails, phone calls, and debates.  Email me at redhill1@elmore.rr.com by Monday evening.

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