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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Friday, September 11, 2020

Laying Down a Firebrake Line: Trump, Nick, Dabo, Trevor, Deshaun, Shelby and Bob Inglis

   In case you haven't been paying attention the world is on Fire from California to Oregon and Wash State and yesterday in Hendersonville one of the Trump boys, I think Kim Gillyfoils boyfriend from Fox News, said Obama created America's racial tensions.

    I think he is lying and he knows it or he is ignorant as Hades. Did you see the game last night between the Chiefs and the Texans, the one with Two National Anthems and a show of Unity. I bet Nick Saban and Dabo Swinney heard about it , and Paul Finebaum too. I'm just wondering what David Wilkins and William timmons thought about it. I talked to Bama Senator Richard Shelby office this morning to make sure he was aware and to help bring the octagenarian "Legend" of the University up to speed.

     Cause Dick was there when Trump called two of Nick Saban's Heismann Trophy winners Sonsabitches in Huntsville in 2017.

   Don't take my word for it, read Mississippi Republican Operative Stuart Stevens book It Was all a Lie. Shout out to boy Trump Stevens opens first chapter with the N igg er quote from Lee Atwater's 81 memo about Gop race strategies morphing into Tommy Tuberville's politics of guns and mendacious resistance to abortion.

    Tommy and his backers in the Baptist church of the Highlands and their 18 campuses across Central Alabama where Bama fans in the stands go to pray should check the great piece at Religiondispatches.org on the racism and anti science ideoglogy of Liberty U and Falwell Sr that carried over saturating the campus before super Trumper Falwell Jr fall from p grabbing or whatever he did in the bedroom that has your average Southern Baptist deacon all dizzy these days when he is trying to figure out who Jesus wants him to vote for.

    I got a picture text from a loved one this morning which gives the finger to the NBA and NFL. I guess this loved one wasn't happy with Deshaun Watson and Patrick Mahomes and the commercials and commentary last night. And Lebron James had him upset already.

   Well Dabo Swinney and Nick Saban and Trevor Lawrence aren't for rioting and looting neither is Darrien Rencher nor his buddy from Anderson SC Chadwick Boseman. But this is a moment where what passes for good Republicans like Bob Inglis, Ben Sasse, Mitt Romney and some of us are hoping George W. Bush and Cindy McCain and George Wallace's daughter Peggy Wallace Kennedy to say this is enough of these lies and distortions from Team Trump.

    Check Tom Friedman piece in NY Times on the Politics of Humiliation. That is part of the conversation for White folk , working white folks, laborers and truckers and police union members who think America has betrayed them. But Deshaun and Trevor have the High Ground with Nick Saban at this moment. Lets have the legitimate conversation Friedman raises.

    But Whatever the question is, Donald John Trump is not the answer. And if your Bible tells you different then I must not be able to understand your Bible.

   As for Thanksgiving I plan to sit at the table with my Loved one. Because My Daddy was a Baptist preacher and my Momma his wife. And they love Me and They Love the loved one with the meme cause Jesus Loves us All.

    God Bless America, though let us pray Trump's Chickens come Home to Roost before Nov 3 in Hendersonville, and Franklin Graham's heart, and the soul of First Baptist Church Spartanburg and their Truth for a New Generation Conferences.

  Amen

  Steve Earle sings Laying down a Firebrake Line



 

1 Comments:

Blogger Randall Balmer said...

Nicely done, Stephen.

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