tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.comments2023-11-03T08:22:33.888-05:00Catawissa GazetteerCatawissa Gazetteerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comBlogger979125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-17703863794242695462014-09-16T15:38:12.894-05:002014-09-16T15:38:12.894-05:00Thanks, Harry. I keep thinking about it but it too...Thanks, Harry. I keep thinking about it but it took up a lot of my time. And all the arguments got tiring after awhile, too.Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-73171825727405825582014-09-16T12:21:18.513-05:002014-09-16T12:21:18.513-05:00Man , it has been awhile since you wrote on this b...Man , it has been awhile since you wrote on this blog! I hope you'll bring it back to life, looks like a good one.<br />Here in Georgia, we passed some sweeping laws to protect 2nd amendment rights last year, and they went into effect this summer. Our legislators went to great trouble to lawyer proof them, a fact noted by many of the MSM whining and weeping about the new laws. As usual they predicted carnage in the streets and as usual it hasn't happened.<br /><br />Farming is not so big an issue here as it once was. Most of our farmers are in South Georgia, and used to grow cotton. That's pretty much been replaced by cheaper cotton imported from India. The peanut farmers have been largely wiped out by peanut grown in New Mexico, of all places. So farming doesn't get as much attention as it once did.Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-4247521760903506232013-11-17T15:05:36.221-06:002013-11-17T15:05:36.221-06:00I am principal of a government run school. We are...I am principal of a government run school. We are a year around program and yet my wages are far less than my public school counterparts. I do have good health and retirement, but they have better dental and vision. I haven't had a cost of living increase for three years prior. This year we got a cost of living, but the social security change actually caused our salaries to go down. I have a hard time seeing where government workers are getting paid so much better.Bonnie Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052974547161586063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-35612212479091542182013-06-28T01:19:03.876-05:002013-06-28T01:19:03.876-05:00One salary would still be sufficient if every fami...One salary would still be sufficient if every family did not need two cars, more if there is a teen. One television is sufficient. Does every child over 10 really need a cell phone or iphone with an internet plan? Is continual eating out, fast food, and expensive processed food really what we need? <br /><br />I am not in any way suggesting that women stay home. But, both parents could work, both could do chores, kids could get a job, and there would be sufficient money for families that did not try to keep up with everyone else. Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14991571309786149363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-15146425871543633142012-07-05T09:21:38.607-05:002012-07-05T09:21:38.607-05:00Thanks, Geezer. I haven't been posting much in...Thanks, Geezer. I haven't been posting much in a while. I've gotten fairly busy, too. My wife, on the other hand, is putting stuff up all the time over at hers, www.movingontothepast.blogspot.com.<br /><br />She wrote this post and as I said, she's a way better writer than me.<br /><br />The Ozarks are great, aren't they? We live on the northeast side of them, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis. We spend way too much time (is that possible?) on the Meramec River up where it's skinny and clear. You guys probably have boats with pumps down your way, too, so you know how it is.<br /><br />I've been reading your posts and I really enjoy them. Thanks for stopping by.Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-72420304811594020122012-07-05T09:01:20.017-05:002012-07-05T09:01:20.017-05:00OMG, I found you through a link to my blog and wha...OMG, I found you through a link to my blog and what a treat. Busy mom = less blog time but I will check back. Your pictures remind me of the White River, I lived in the Arkasas Ozarks, but only 11 miles from Missouri, neighbor. THillbilly Geezerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02159833216517790861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-80991829700971804882012-06-28T06:59:23.798-05:002012-06-28T06:59:23.798-05:00I am from Croatia, and my opinion is close to your...I am from Croatia, and my opinion is close to yours but... one message drew my attention number 3231 from the date of 24.10.2009. In the message referred to the state of Yugoslavia. In fact we all know that such a state doesnt exist since 1991. ie from 2006. when the last two republics Serbia and Montenegro separated.<br />So it looks like that our Lady gave a message for a state that doesnt exist!Frizerski salon Anitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02330161375115511726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-77271923529532652012-06-11T03:05:38.067-05:002012-06-11T03:05:38.067-05:00A work mate recommended me to your website.
Thnx f...A work mate recommended me to your website.<br />Thnx for the resources.<br /><i>Here is my homepage</i> : <b><a href="http://erwengineering.com" rel="nofollow">Belleville Washers</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-67091648322223002292012-06-10T00:09:38.418-05:002012-06-10T00:09:38.418-05:00"Which just makes me even more certain that R..."Which just makes me even more certain that Republican/Democrat - Capitalist/Communist are all just different sides of the same coin."<br />~~~~~~~~~~~<br />“in hell there is democracy and in Heaven there is a Kingdom.” ~Saint John of KronstadtYahoobuckaroo's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-60023345239658435422012-06-08T09:18:59.511-05:002012-06-08T09:18:59.511-05:00Exactly right.Exactly right.salvagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01101734006944992476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-22208149070640002042012-06-07T20:07:40.499-05:002012-06-07T20:07:40.499-05:00You know, maybe I've just been reading way too...You know, maybe I've just been reading way too much Belloc and Chesterton lately but I agree with you on the industrial revolution. But I'd throw usury and unrestrained Capitalism in there, too.<br /><br />The older I get the more of a Distributist I become. Return the power to the common man by returning him to the land - the land that he owns and works for his own benefit. Break up huge government, huge corporations and huge banks. Subsidiarity is the key. Let us live or lives in our local communities dealing with our neighbors in their small shops and on their small farms. Create local currencies or forms of exchange. Make the biggest government you ever have to deal with the one in your county.<br /><br />I'm just finishing "Crisis of Civilization" by Hillaire Belloc. He puts forth some really interesting solutions to today's problems, particularly since he put them forth in 1931. If you haven't read it I'd highly recommend it.<br /><br />And I still need to comment back on your blog. Somehow or another things just got busy around here and I haven't been doing much computin' of late. I only posted on mine because this whole issue of government employee pay and the way it's being manipulated by the right just hit me wrong.Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-28345922622986519412012-06-07T19:56:30.611-05:002012-06-07T19:56:30.611-05:00Just like the private sector and that's my poi...Just like the private sector and that's my point. Apart from the pensions most of the guys I know that have government jobs don't really make all that much money. The guys at the top? Well, that's an entirely different story. It sure seems to me that many in the Republican party are playing the same class warfare game with this issue that the Democrats do with the rich. Which just makes me even more certain that Republican/Democrat - Capitalist/Communist are all just different sides of the same coin.Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-48935008325508695372012-06-07T17:50:25.178-05:002012-06-07T17:50:25.178-05:00I've been too busy to read this until now. Not...I've been too busy to read this until now. Not much to disagree with here. I DO think the way teachers are paid is a bit crazy though. I used to date a girl out in House Springs that only made 20k teaching high school. That was about 15-years ago. I still doubt that the salary out there is much beyond 25k. But we have grade school teachers here in Belleville making well over 50k. Honestly, I don't think any grade school teacher is worth more than 40k in this economy, especially considering they'll have the entire summer off plus a ton of holidays that you and I will never get paid for. And if they do teach summer school they'll get compensated for it above and beyond that 40k. They also get a lot of paid trips for various purposes. Teachers along with cops tend to have ridiculous pensions and early retirement plans that are too good to pass up.<br /><br />Something else that bothers me is how high on the hog folks live these days. Every other house is a mansion compared to the houses people had when I was growing up. Everywhere you look there are nothing but expensive houses in new-ish subdivisions. Where do you even go to buy an inexpensive NEW house anymore? And the building codes make it very difficult to build a cheap house now. When I was a kid in East St. Louis, if a neighbor wanted to build a couple of rooms onto his house, the other neighbors would get together and help him do it. Things like wiring and air vents were simple back then. There were no regulations to speak of, and everybody just did the best they could. My dad built his own house when he was 14 years old. He had an aunt who knew a good bit about building, and she sat in a chair in the yard and told him what to do. Houses were so uncomplicated in those days with shingle siding and tarred roofs that anybody could build a house. They weren't fancy, but they really weren't too bad either. Fire hazards maybe, but it was worth the risk. Now you aren't allowed to take risks. And poor people are forced to rent for life. My neighbor rents and only makes about 22K per year. He has a hard job and is a few years older than me. He can't physically work a second job. The poor guy's worn out. He'll never own a home.<br /><br />What I wouldn't give to live in the days of Daniel Boone when you could just pick out a few acres of land and commence to building a house and farming. Life might not have been easy, but at least everyone had an equal chance. The Industrial Revolution killed that original American Dream. Fat cats are dream killers.Yahoobuckaroo's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-6139498175230643712012-06-05T20:53:04.009-05:002012-06-05T20:53:04.009-05:00SOME government employees are grossly underpaid, u...SOME government employees are grossly underpaid, usually the ones with the hardest jobs. MANY are overpaid, especially those with the cushy jobs. Sounds kinda like the private sector, doesn't it?Gorges Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777621500611603786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-35444371143612028292012-05-29T10:13:20.099-05:002012-05-29T10:13:20.099-05:00Thanks, Steve. I don't know if I'm going t...Thanks, Steve. I don't know if I'm going to do much posting of any sort anymore. I've just kind'a lost interest. There's just so much more that I need to attend to.Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-86854127591776724942012-05-29T07:18:21.016-05:002012-05-29T07:18:21.016-05:00It's about time you started commenting again. ...It's about time you started commenting again. Now that Ioannes has shut down his blog for the time being, you needto pick up the slack. Go for it, Cata!Steve "scotju" Daltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17864544146213840928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-54997481718352642682012-05-20T03:25:02.929-05:002012-05-20T03:25:02.929-05:00Thank you for the visit to my muddy truck photo. ...Thank you for the visit to my muddy truck photo. I never knew about the Buchanan's mud run before. Nice to have a source for my photo. Also nice to have fellow bloggers in the area.Kranky Grannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01395118246357066241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-78885715442774611902012-05-19T17:59:40.028-05:002012-05-19T17:59:40.028-05:00BTW, thanks for following!BTW, thanks for following!Gorges Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777621500611603786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-15108306756890594232012-05-19T17:57:39.730-05:002012-05-19T17:57:39.730-05:00Maybe the Dark Ages, maybe the latter days. I tend...Maybe the Dark Ages, maybe the latter days. I tend to think the second option!Gorges Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777621500611603786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-86942163636700048972012-05-19T08:50:01.714-05:002012-05-19T08:50:01.714-05:00Thanks, Gorges. It's been quite awhile since I...Thanks, Gorges. It's been quite awhile since I posted anything so I wasn't aware of the verification thing. I'll fix that.<br /><br />I'm not suggesting that we become a Catholic country, though as a Catholic I'd not have a problem with it. At least for the country. It would be the Church that would suffer the greatest harm. It may be a divine institution but it's run by men so it'll be corrupted with that much power.<br /><br />It's happened before.<br /><br />I'm more interested in seeing our country maintain it's roots in Christendom. Embracing Catholic social teaching without embracing the faith would do just that.<br /><br />But it seems we've chosen materialism, whether from the Progressive left or the Fascist right. Both look to the material world for their comfort. One wants to take everything from the "rich" and redistribute it to themselves through government power. The other wants to take everything too, and it uses government just as egregiously through tax law, banking regulations or lack thereof, zoning laws, special deals bribed from our elected officials and on and on. Then finally, when all else fails, by placing our descendants in a state of permanent servitude through debt to back up the "too big to fails".<br /><br />The only answer to this is to return to Christendom and reject the worship of the material world. Return power to the families and local communities where it belongs and where we can keep an eye on it. <br /><br />But I'm afraid we've gone too far for that now. The education system, most likely by design, has failed to provide a true classical education so most don't even understand what they've lost nor do they have the critical thinking skill necessary to understand the arguments as to why we should return to it.<br /><br />So, I'm thinkin' God's going to smack us 'longside the head with a 2x4 to get our attention. It's the pattern that we see over and over in both secular history and the Bible.<br /><br />Get ready to say hello again to the Dark Ages...on steroids!Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-33295455596607958162012-05-18T23:40:04.629-05:002012-05-18T23:40:04.629-05:00Being a Baptist, I won't agree with the GOP ne...Being a Baptist, I won't agree with the GOP needing to basically embrace Catholicism, but I certainly would rather see a Catholic president than the muslim we have, or the mormon we may get.<br /><br />BTW, are you aware that you are using word verification?Gorges Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777621500611603786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-53187917208755726512012-05-18T21:21:29.501-05:002012-05-18T21:21:29.501-05:00Chesterton was brilliant, especially when it came ...Chesterton was brilliant, especially when it came to boiling a complex issue down to the very nub. I'm also a real big fan of Hillaire Belloc. I'm reading "Crisis of Civilization" now. What a fantastic piece of work!Catawissa Gazetteerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04939761313614220536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-86787741763096977152012-05-18T18:28:18.581-05:002012-05-18T18:28:18.581-05:00"The problem is us. We've bought into the..."The problem is us. We've bought into the promise of material salvation and now we're going to reap the results of that decision in collapse and misery."<br /><br />In 1908, The Times newspaper asked a number of authors to write on the topic: “What’s wrong with the world?” GK Chesterton’s answer at that time was the shortest of those submitted. He wrote simply: <br /><br />“Dear Sirs, I am.”Yahoobuckaroo's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-46493846460712187802012-03-21T20:35:38.053-05:002012-03-21T20:35:38.053-05:00>Every single female animal on the planet gets ...>Every single female animal on the planet gets along quite well without artificial means of controlling their menstrual cycles, as did all female humanoids for well over a million years.<br /><br />So... you don't take any modern medicines, wear shoes or do anything else that improves your life over what we had a million years ago?<br /><br />>Just more nonsense to sell you a pill. <br /><br />Contraceptives as hormonal treatments are a scam!<br /><br />>Do you honestly not know that these people are paying higher premiums than me specifically because of what you just described?<br /><br />No, I did not know that, can you show me your insurance companies page that describes it? I know that some employees will ding their employees for being unhealthy and I know that non smokers get a break and rightly so.salvagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01101734006944992476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3857800884501324974.post-55866703756040985912012-03-06T21:34:37.066-06:002012-03-06T21:34:37.066-06:00Every single female animal on the planet gets alon...Every single female animal on the planet gets along quite well without artificial means of controlling their menstrual cycles, as did all female humanoids for well over a million years. Just more nonsense to sell you a pill. The act of having sex can increase antibodies (as I wrote in another comment at one of Mr. Usher's blog posts a while back); however, so does exercise.<br /><br />"Here's some more, let's say you have a man who eats junk food, a pleasure far more unnecessary that sex wouldn't you say? Should you have to pay for his insulin? What about a man who doesn't exercise because he's lazy and as a result leaves himself open to heart disease, should you have to pay for the bypass and pacemaker? What about a smoker who gets the exact sort of lung cancer connected with tobacco? Should you pay for his chemo? "<br /><br />You seem to be under some delusion that I'm paying for these things. Do you honestly not know that these people are paying higher premiums than me specifically because of what you just described? And I'm finding my non-smoker discount quite enjoyable.Yahoobuckaroo's Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621308885893253608noreply@blogger.com