If you are one, THANK YOU. If you're going to be one someday, THANK YOU. If you sacrificed a loved one to war before s/he had a chance to become one, THANK YOU.
I hopped up on my soapbox here & after some thought, deleted it all. Let me just say, Veterans Day is in honor of ALL veterans. We had veterans long before we had this war in Iraq.
Thank you. Thank you ALL.
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I want to thank each and every veteran out there. We sit here in our homes and have no idea what you are going (and have gone) through just so we can enjoy our freedom which most of us take for granted. Your sacrifice is appreciated.
seen a news article the other day said 25% of the homeless were veterans. I wonder who the other 75% were. The lazy, can't imagine an a**kisser as being homeless. very few homeless in Clay co. If they are homeless they're not voting right. Sell your vote, get on welfare. any and all gov. subsidy programs are available.
That's a sad statistic. Personally, I think if you've served our country, you deserve a free ride for the rest of your life. I don't owe deadbeats a blessed thing. I don't owe those who are too stinkin' lazy to work a blessed thing. But dammit, we all owe our veterans. (I feel my soapbox unfolding ...) Very few things irritate me as much as vets who can't afford medical care because the VA hospital is too far away & they don't qualify for Medicaid because they "make too much money." I don't care if you rake in a bizzillion bucks a day, if you're part of why our country is free today, the very least you deserve is free medical attention. Especially if your medical issues are a direct result of that service.
Yes, I know a lot of people who have retired from the military & never saw a day of combat in their lives. Yes, most of those who commited 20 years or more of their lives are "set for life." That's as it should be. If you're retired military & you never left your desk, you're still retired military, willing to do whatever you were told to protect & serve our country.
It's the ones who were drafted & shafted that set my soapbox on fire ...
Cool your box down Rose, better days are coming, the Hill-Monster will see to that.
When is she leaving?
As a Viet Nam vet I know lots of guys who have gotten the shaft over medical benefits with myself included. Veterans should not have to pay a cent for medical coverage when they come back from a war but trust me the Viet Nam vets pay and pay thru the nose not only for medical benefits but had to get looked over when it come to jobs and life itself.
As for the homeless vets out there there were many things that has happened to them since VN and the other wars since then also. Many lost their homes because of job situations, divorce and other medical reasons. Some volunteer to be homeless because they cannot cope with life and its many downfalls.
Myself I came home from a war that should not have been fought and have fought every battle you can imagine here on the homeland but I am also blessed with a good strong family background and close nit family also so I am one of the fortunate ones and count my blessings every day.
God Bless America and God bless all Veterans across this country. God help those who criticise what we have done for this country and remember the draft dodgers running for President when you go to vote as to what a mess they made this country.
It is the VETERAN , not the preacher,
who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the VETERAN , not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the VETERAN , not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer,
who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the VETERAN , not the politician,
Who has given us the right to vote.
It is the VETERAN ,
who salutes the Flag,
AMEN.
Here's a thought. How about we take all the long term criminals out of our over-crowded prisons & give them a one-way ticket to Iraq? Then we can take all the able-bodied welfare recipients who say they're only getting welfare because "they ain't no jobs around here" & send them over there, too.
That way, the criminals could "clean up" (a lot of them are murderers, anyway, so they wouldn't require much training) while the welfare suckers rebuild the land (they say they want jobs, right?). THEN, instead of deporting them, we could send over all the illegal immigrants we can round up & send them over, too. They could teach the nice Iraqis how to do their own manual labor without complaining about it.
There. See how easy? I've solved the illegal immigrant problem, I've solved the prison over-crowding problem and I've solved the welfare problem.
The added bonus is that our real soldiers could come home, guard our own borders, teach our own kids to read, rebuild our own lands that have been ravished by hurricanes, tornadoes, fires & such AND they could do it without having to worry about some ingrate shooting them in the back for their trouble.
The Hill Monster would never stand a chance against ME ...
I am in total agreement with you, Rose. Also, don't you think it's a dirty crying shame that our soldiers have to have a high school diploma just to get shot? I think that all welfare recipients (men and women alike) should have to serve their country for their checks. Send that thought to the Hill Monster.
Also, don't you think that most of the welfare recipients quit school so they won't have a diploma so they won't have to serve? Isn't that the ultimate draft dodger?
I still say the nigger has my vote!!
WHO WRECKED AT MAYSEL THIS MORNING?
coffee,coffee,coffee I love coffee!!!! Mountain dew oh yes I love that stuff!!!!RED bull oh man do I love that stuff by the way I am hyper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
New blog
http://talktohunters.blogspot.com/
Well, CB, looks like you've been usurped as the show stopper! LOL
Another lovely morning! Forty-five degrees, raining & miz'rble. Beats the heck out of snow, though!!
I wonder if all this rain has anything to do with the prayer vigil they had in ... was it Georgia? Maybe they underestimated their power down there! Or maybe they just need some geography lessons ... LOL
OH! LORD, it's hard to be humble, when your perfect in ............
Anyone know where to begin in filing a grievance against a school??? GGRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!
Now I think that the talk to hunters blog is gonna be good what with huntin season coming up and all.
Rosey! you are my posey.............?
is true many dont know what vets go through and i see many young people putting down veterans. the same young people are the same ones that aren't taught to stand when the national anthem is being played. go to a local ball game within our county and watch parents and kids. i feel like finding the parents of those kids and tell them they have failed in child rearing. we are patriotic compared to most places, but their are a few in every neighborhood. we need to be teaching our young to respect our nation and the ones keeping her safe.
as far as people not knowing what we go through i have been in the place called iraq and it is compareable to a place called hell. i was there right after the first war as part of security force and it wasnt to bad.
then i was there for this war and there is nothing that can prepare a person for the daily mortars raining fire and hell from afar. nothing to prepare young soldiers for the intense firefights. nothing to prepare soldiers for the sites of civilians dead. in the height of the war the insurgents were killing thousands a day. we never hear that part. that is why we stayed there so long. to stop the violence and i am proud to do my part and most other soldiers are too. when a soldier carries a small girl through a medical unit and she dies in that soldiers arms there is nothing to prepare.
Soldiers train for war to prepare, but nothing NOTHING truly prepares the men and women. these men and women especially the young, come back scarred for life, veterans are about 13% of the population but make up 25-30% of all homeless.
please write your congresspeople and stress that you support benefits for veterans.
Once again the CCC has proved out to be the joke of the county once again. Remember we have a saying around the county if its a "dead horse" let the CCC pour money into it.
Read AW's site as where Lupardis has once again broke it off in the Taxpayers by sticking them with a two mile stretch of railroad. Also wanting to stick it to you with keeping the dilapidated Dundon Bridge to pour tas dollars into from now on til who knows when.
Nothing new to Clayberry to pour money down the drain with no benefit to anyone in sight.
"please write your congresspeople and stress that you support benefits for veterans." ....
I have addresses for all our delegates, senators, representatives, etc etc etc if anybody actually wants to put pen to paper.
The CCC seems so far removed from anything that affects my life at all. I'm on the red-headed step-child end of the county ...
Oh how I love a red headed woman!!
I'm with you Ms Rose the CCC has their heads up their Arse when it comes to helping the people just like our Congress when it comes to the protection of American People.
I got an email a couple days back where our senators running for President voted against keeping the English Language as our nations Language. Obama won't wear a lapel pin with the Flag on it.
I think a good pair of cement shoes weighing 500 pounds each and the deepest part of the ocean is what is need for people who go against this country. Being against a political party is one thing but high treason against what our Veterans have fought and died for is just that (HIGH TREASON) and they should be hanged accordingly.
Wasn't Obama raised somewhere outside of the US?
Can't ya tell he's a Chinaman?
Well, send him back. Isn't everything from China being recalled??
LOL I'm wondering what the punchline might be to ...
A thick white woman, a half black man & a Mormon walk into a bar ...
http://www.wvrja.com/offimage/imagedisplay.asp?bookid=1398641
5:00 shadow?
Hmm. Should I have shut down for hunting season?? teeheehee
Heck no Rose this is the only time of year I am in demand around here. All the hubbies going crazy in the woods leaves wifie going crazy at home.
Shopping season official now so lets get to wally world and look up that new stand in while hubby's away wifie will play.
Don't you just love dear season?
I am having some difficulty accepting AW's constipation as being newsworthy.
If its not that he's got the back door trots. There are medications for both, take it and be done with it.
Get Real World!! He is finally telling the whole county he is full of S#!+.
He's definitely in good company.
I don't think Andy's ever denied he's full of sh*t. Nor has he ever hesitated to tell the whole world about it. What generally p*sses people off, though, is the fact that he's never really given a rip. In fact, he seems quite happy about it. Which also p*sses people off.
just looking at AWs bridge pictures. He bitched because they wern't working on the bridge. now he's bitching because they are. bitch bitch bitch his lace panties must gotten so tight he can't have a bowel movement.
Hey anon. I wouldn't have told that on my self. How do you know he wears lace pantys?
I never said i wasn't knowledgable about the world. i been around a bit. I can also tell a SMARTA** when one wises off.
I also was constipated a while back and after about a week of it I was willing to try any thing anybody could come up with.
As some know my mother is 91 years old and very knowledgeable about things of the world. Anyways, she called to check on me and I told her about the constipation for almost a week. She told me she had just exactly what I needed and would bring it right over.
Well mom shows up with a half gallon of orange juice and one of them suppository things. I opened the orange juice and poured me a large glass, popping the suppository in my mouth and a big gulp of orange juice and that bad boy was down the hatch.
A couple hours later mom called back and asked how things were for me after using the suppository and I told her for all the good it done I should have stuffed it up my a**
hey LOLA I apologize for calling you a smarta--. got to thinking bet you got purterier panties than Andy. huhhhhh wanta show me?
Front or back, which would you prefer
Good lord. Yet another all time low.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
hey hey wesuns are from clay co you can't get no lower.
I think AW wears pink lace panties
I think AW buys his pink panties from the same place Melissa buys her Mr. Purples.
And all time low is getting from thanking a VET to visualizing aw's dwars and melissa's side kicks.
LOL I concur. Let's start over, shall we?
Thanks Dad, for serving for me, even though you are gone I know you can read this.
About that stone carving on White Pilgrim road, could someone please tell us former Clay Countians (who didn't know the stones existed) the story? AW said it was in his Communicator, so if anyone would read and share, it would be appreciated immensely.
Can't do that, the paper hasn't came out yet. Hot off the press at 3:00 today.
hate to say this. don't like the free press. but a few years back a story was published in the free press about faces on simmons fork of horse fork, i believe, THE story was printed by Clinton Nichols, should be in their archives if you can find it. Might be the same faces but don't think it is.
Did you get a look at the Clay County gal in CRJ?
Interestingly enough, she's the best looking of the three.
Wonder if that stop light will go when the bridge is finished? Darn good source of revenue for the county. With the new high school going on the ridge, traffic-traffic-traffic-traffic Heck they will have to put a speed bump in also!
I used to know a joke about speed bumps, but I forgot it. Too bad, too, 'cause it was funny! LOL
Wow. I just came from the Hur Herald site - that wreck in Calhoun Co looks wicked.
did you catch that where Jack Schaftstall pulled the four occupants of the other car to safety? JS was the driver of the wrecker.
I would still like to know about the stones. Has anyone read the Communicator?? Does anyone read it??
Maybe those were just AWs kidney stones.
I did read that Jack got all 4 people out of their car(s?). It's hard to imagine it could've been a lot worse.
Incidentally, I meant to make a big to-do on the 18th about this website being TWO YEARS OLD!! But then I totally forgot about it ... LOL
Two years??? It seems longer than that really. (I mean that in the best possible way.)
It's kind of like Cheers. (Except no one hollers CB!!!! when I post. BAHAHAHA!) All the regulars stick around and every once in a while someone new or a trouble maker pops in.
Two years eh??? Congratulations!! I'll drink that!!!
CHEERS!
CB
Hey CB, ya wasn't inferin to me was ya?
What do you mean? As being a trouble maker? Nah, I wasn't really referring to anyone specifically, just general instances that cause some and others to bunch.
CB
NORM!!!!
Two whole years. This thing's been like a lifetime commitment. teeheehee
Here's something that causes *me* to bunch. All the good shows were on TV when TV was free. Now we pay out the nose to see blood & guts & innards & such on every channel.
Maybe I should read The Only News That's Real News (yes, AW's site) first.
Did they find the dude from Mt. Olive?? What school was on lockdown?
Ya know, on my way to work yesterday, I saw some guys in orange, picking up trash along the interstate. There were 4 guys in orange - 2 on one side of the road, 2 on the other. There were 2 guys in brown keeping an eye on them. What struck me was that the 4 in orange, while "together," weren't really connected at the hip. I wonder if anybody's ever just pulled over, opened their door & let one of the guys in orange hop in?
It would be easy enough to do and not only that those brown guys weren't close enough to their vehicles to be able to get in them very quickly. Not only that, they should do like they used to and chain them together. That way if someone did stop to pick one up, they'd have to pick them all up and that would take longer. DOC just isn't thinking.
It's AW's way to feed you a tidbit and if you want the entire meal, you have to buy his paper. Then, you are not sure you have eaten from the entire buffet.
That's all well & witty, but it still doesn't answer the question. Is the dude still wandering around or did they catch him?
According to AW's website, the guy is still on the lam.
According to the news he is still out wandering around somewhere, so much for the work release program.
Someone mentioned why not pull over pick them up and drive on!! That happened in Nicholas county back in the early part of summer this year and when they caught the guy who only had a few weeks left to serve out his time got another automatic one year added to his jail time.
Don't think I would want to run off myself if it were me in orange knowing an extra year was the pay of the day once you run.
Now don't get glad nor don't get mad! But that little hike Brady is taking, will cost him for the man power for looking for him, pulse an additional 5 years chocked on to his bowl of fruit.
Sudan has decided to execute a teacher who allowed her students to name the class mascot - a teddy bear - Muhammed.
Think about all the people - especially kids - you know who say "Oh, God!!" & "Jesus Christ!!" the way Gomer used to say "Shazam! " The next time you feel like trashing our government, say, "MUHAMMED WEARS COMBAT BOOTS!" ... then, when nothing happens to you, at least take a minute to be thankful you're still walking the streets. Oh, wait. Never mind. We're Americans. We don't do that kind of thing, do we?
Closer to home ... Evel Knievel died yesterday. Somewhere in South Carolina, a former Clay County boy is a sad, sad man ....
Even closer to home, there's a current Clay County boy (not surprisingly, the nephew of that sad, sad SC man), who'd just love to step into Evel's shoes.
Who got thrown from their car at Maysel yesterday?
Come on Rosemary, tell us the rest of the story, us dinkel-flockers can't fill in the low gaps between the lines.
Some feller 200 pounds, 37 years old. Must of got hurt purty bad, it ripped the steering wheel off upon ejection through the windshield.
I have seen Jeremy Bruce Gill in the slammer several times in the past couple of months. Are they going to keep him for a while this time???
Yes, just weekends, 15 is the norm. Then home confinment for a good spell.
Do you think home confinement is a good remedy for anything?
It was Sherman Mullins that got thrown out of his vehicle.
Hmmmm. What would Jesus buy?
LOL I hate it when the conversation takes a turn I just can't keep up with.
How is Sherman?
Hey Rosey, thats what happens after you hit (40), I know, ba ha ba ha! Darn resipelelation just seems to fade away.
Well, ya know, they say the mind is the first to go & honestly, I think mine has been packed & ready for a looooooong time.
LOL
And then there's this ...
500 AM EST MON DEC 3 2007
A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EST THIS AFTERNOON. IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE...GUSTY WINDS WILL PREVAIL TODAY TONIGHT. FREQUENT GUSTS OF 25 TO 35 MPH ARE LIKELY. HOWEVER...THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF A STRONGER GUST...IN THE 40 TO 50 MPH RANGE... ESPECIALLY ON HILLTOP LOCATIONS THAT HAVE AN OPEN EXPOSURE TOWARD THE WEST. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT ... ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. WATCH FOR DEBRIS ON ROADS. USE EXTRA CAUTION. CONSTRUCTION SITES ARE ALSO VULNERABLE LOCATIONS. LOOSE OBJECTS SHOULD BE SECURED...BOTH AT WORK SITES AND AROUND THE HOME. SECURE OUTSIDE HOLIDAY DECORATIONS THAT COULD BE AFFECTED BY THESE GUSTS.
Watch for deflated inflatable snow globes!! & dresses might not be a good idea today ...
Has anyone else looked at AW's Clayberry webcam? It seems like it has gone with the wind.
I haven't got past the Flake he has in the picture at Rite Aide parking lot. FLAKEY
I meant to make a big to-do on the 18th about this website being TWO YEARS OLD!!
How about changing the page its almost that old now.
AW's web cam is saying he needs do, money money money!
Yeah change the page. Do you have anything Christmasy? Or perhaps something for Hanukah or Kwanza! >; D
Make a new page for each of the 12days of Christmas. That's a good idea isn't it? I'm full of 'em!!!
How 'bout I give you my password & YOU come up with something for the 12 days of Christmas?? LOL
In my repertoire of good ideas, that one doesn't seem to be hitting the radar.
Oh yeah! That snow is coming dooooowwwwwwnnnnnn!
WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO!!
Clay & Kanawha counties are on a 2-hour delay! WOOO HOOOOO!!
Yes, I'm faking that excitement. I'm the mom now, not the kid. That changes *everything*. LOL
They closed Clay County schools for the day.
Yeah ... now the kids seem to think I should be whipping up a 6-course breakfast for them. teeheehee
Hope everybody has plenty of milk, bread & toilet paper! (I always wondered about that toilet paper part. I mean, isn't that something you already have plenty of? Do you think snow causes ... more toilet paper usage? LOL)
Sure it does, because the comsumption of milk and bread is so much higher.
We have 4WD we're coming up to your place for breakfast!!! YUM!
CB
Read about all the whop to do about the two trees in front of the old courthouse and how we should call the courthouse to keep them. Here's a thought for you.
Once upon a time a long time ago there was some young men who began there lives when they received a letter that read something like this.
Greetings from the President of the United States of America YOU have been selected to serve in the United States Military Service to fight for the Freedom Of These United States of America and the Freedoms Therein. You will be given a few weeks of training and then sent overseas somewhere where there will be two pine trees to represent you and your buddies who will loose their lives, legs, arms, eyes,stomachs, minds, be deprived of medical care, be deprived of assistance for daily living, be deprived of pain medicines and other aspects normally enjoyed by others who have not had to fight for this country. In some instances you will even be deprived of a place to live and a bed to sleep in.
All the above is true right here in Clay County and instead of haveing a memorial dedicated to the Veterans who gave there all placed in an area where all can visit safely in the center of town and because there is two trees not even native trees, once again we are ready to (KICK) our veterans.
I know not one veteran that was given the opportunity to fight for this country or to save two trees. They were all told to fight to the death to defend this country and its freedom and alot have done that and noone even knows who they are.
C'mon up, man! We made snow ice cream & had 6 bowls - that counts as a 6-course breakfast, right?? BAHAHAHAHA LOL
I think the trees should stay. Surely to goodness there's a COMPROMISE in there somewhere.
Sexual harassment at work-is it a problem for the self-employed?
If it is, you could just fire yourself then be your own legal representation to ... um ... get you off. teeheehee
Is there a valid reason for the school system to not make closing/delay announcements until 11 p.m.? Does somebody really think at 9 p.m. that some miraculous warm up is going to take place? Or maybe DOH will perform some sort of voodoo that'll magically clear the roads? Good grief.
Speaking of DOH, I just saw Scott Samples on Channel 3! Proof that he was out in the midst of it all, hard at work last night. Better him than me ....
I for one would like to see the memorial in place with or without the trees. Why not compromise and cut off the roots on the sides of the trees near the memorial site and the limbs on the one side of each tree that way if they fall the would surely go the other direction instead of falling on the statues or wall or whatever they have in mind to put there. If the trees die then remove them. There now the problem is solved lets get to work on the project now. git r done
Ms Rose surely you don't think anyone in Clayberry is smart enuff to call school off at a decent hour or even delay it for that matter. Like yesterday instead of having school on time they waited two hours and we all know the mess got worse by 9 a.m. Most of the snow fell between 7 and 9 and the kids would have been in school safe and sound. You know what they say let er snow then.
Larry the Berry knows best. And Clark and Samples are always on top of every thing. Notice how they plowed and salted after most folks had went to work. P*ss poor planning. Each and every person in the county who gives a d*m orta go up to the state road garage and tell em so.
Clark and the Samples needs to be ran out of the county period. Just some roads get worked and the others they could care less about.
Any one else just see the great G W Bush turn the Christmas tree lights speech just now? I don't believe he could say the Lord's prayer if it wasn't before him to read. by the way, is g w bush a Vet? No, he couldn't be, the way he stutters, sorry Mel, no offence. gw would of been discharged before he got in.
Hey, I know why they don't call school off in the night during a storm. They don't want you to sleep in and enjoy your morning.
Well, here's a no-brainer for them. The older you get, the more sleep you need (want). If they'd make the stupid call by 9 p.m., we could all go to bed earlier AND sleep in.
Winter's not even officially here yet & I've already had enough.
They would do it if G W Bush had to drive in it, heck it would be proclaimed a national holiday.
I'm with you Ms Rose this weather is sickening. Save some of this rain, sleet, snow and snot for summertime I surely don't need it now. All the above just makes MUD this time of year and I hate it.
Give me 90 Degrees and then warm up.
Looks like a bad wreck on Route 4 this morning. HealthNet landed on the Queen Shoals bridge. Anybody know anything?
There's a little blurb and some footage on the WSAZ website.
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/12245401.html
Update on the wreck.
FROM WSAZ:
Police say a woman was killed and three others hurt after a head-on collision near the Kanawha-Clay County line.
It happened at about 7am Friday on Route 4 about a mile from the Clay County line.
According to Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputies, a witness said that a south bound pick-up was attempting to pass a vehicle when it struck a mini-van traveling north.
Deputies say Mary Villa, 25 of Procious, was driving the mini-van; and Chris Taylor, 21 of Bickmore, was driving the pickup truck.
Villa was flown to CAMC General in Charleston where she later died. Deputies say Taylor and his two passengers were taken to the hospital. No word yet on their injuries.
Who is Chris Taylor?
Three emergency vehicles headed back up towards Clay County about 6:30 p.m. Haven't heard why.
Probably finished with their run.
Do they do that with their lights and sirens blaring?
There was another accident yesterday evening at the same place as the first accident. It was bad but not as bad as the first wreck.
That's a lonely, dangerous stretch of highway.
Where was it exactly? Before or after you get to the bridge (heading to Charleston).
Hey what happened to the new 12 days of Christmas page? I'm still waiting for that.
Yeah, yeah, whatever. LOL
Have you seen the Geico commercial with Peter Frampton?? EGADS!!!! LOL
Is it going to ruin my 1970's vision of him? That happened with Shaun Cassidy and I'm not sure I can face that kind of heartache again.
CB
LOL I strongly suggest you never turn your TV on again, lest it sneak up on you when you least expect it. Gone gone gone is the wild, untamed, begging-to-be-touched white man 'fro. Man, oh, man, is it ever gone ... LOL
Hey Rose, was you a Hippy, or did you just skip that phase of ???????
Billy built a gullotine,
Tried it on his sister Jean,
Said Mother when she brought the mop,
These messy games have got to stop!
LOL I'm a little young to have ever been a true hippy. But I do still love the patchoulli ... LOL
I think your brothers had the hippy era covered!! Does that leave you to be a Gen X'er? What were between hippies and Gen X'ers anyway?
Uh Santa....whats a matta with ya? That's a little sick! Funny but sick!
CB
What was between????? Draft dodgers,more than likely.
LOL Ya know, I heard something on the radio today about how Generation X'ers were turning 40, so I reckon that does make me one. How embarrassing! I had no idea! What the heck is a Generation X'er? Do I get any money for it???
My My My could I be the first to give you some$
I guess the answer is No No No!
Somehow, I think that might be a trick question. LOL
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