Man, this year is just flying by. Down in Weatherford (Texas) we just had our first minor freeze and here comes Thanksgiving. The leaves are falling and those that haven't are turning color. Needless to say, my Harley is spending a lot of time in the garage these days.
I hope everyone has noticed the chat column on Medicine Park's website. That was a good idea on Muriel's part. I havent seen a name I recognize yet but I keep looking. As I was reading the column today I couldn't help but wonder how many people actually know there is a place to correspond with other MP folks. There is actually 2 places, not to mention email. One is Muriel's chat column and the other is right here on the Old Timer's Blog. Maybe it is just over-presumptive for me to think everybody has a computer and an internet provider. Hopefully, we will find out after this article publishes.
On a different note, we just had an historic presidential election and aside from the news agencies, I haven't read many commentaries on the winner, it's as though nobody dares! I'd really be interested in hearing the viewpoints of Oklahomans on the topic. By today's standards, I guess I would be quickly classified as a racist if I criticize this guy very strenuously. Be that as it may, I just cannot buy that he is qualified to be President. He has no military background whatsoever; no experience of leading anybody, let alone a country that is engaged in two wars and a broken economy; he is all in favor for abortion, completely opposed to gun ownership, and will select several Supreme Court judges during the next four years; and is going to be handicapped throughout the world by his race and his middleastern name. Yes, I said race. Regardless of where I have traveled in this world, black people have been mocked and subject to a line that separates them from others, whether people will come right out and say it or not. I heard it in New York, Indiana, Mississippi, Texas, Ohio, Arizona, Hawaii, and even Japan and China. Yes, I know, there is always someone poised to criticize you if you dare mention anything about race., Well, the way I look at it is that if I have to go around being subdued on the topic of race but the other races can take shots at mine without being accountable for their words, then who is it that is getting their rights trampled? People are just too sensitive. I had to ask myself, who are the majority who elected this rookie Senator? My guess is that whether he is qualified or not, people of his two cultures (black and middleastern) did not stay home on election day if they were registered to vote, they turned out big time. For them, McCain was destined to lose to anyone with black skin and a middleastern name (Hussein Obama), even it was a grocery store carryout. Keeping America solvent and victorious was not these voter's first priority. The next four years are certainly going to be interesting, if nothing else. I sure hope Obama gets lucky and is able to do the correct things it will take to carry America forward. Does anyone have thoughts on this subject besides me? Go ahead and sign up for this blog and post your opinion.
How is the economy affecting Medicine Park? Has the price of gas dropped like it has down in Texas (1.80 at WalMart today). We lived there during Eisenhower's third term and JFK's first year (gas was 20 cents per gallon)and the economy was hurting then too. Good jobs were few and far between for the adults and times were just hard. I wonder, does anyone remember old Sergeant Bill? He was a WW1 veteran who had to fish in the creek every day just to avoid going hungry. Poor guy, I really felt bad for him. I always made it a point to stop and talk to him. As a newspaper deliverer, I got to know a lot of Medicine Park people, all of them good folks, and almost all of them scratching to get by. In spite of those hard times, there was a comradery among Park folks that would transcend the years and prove to be the bond that kept us all together over the decades. So when the newly arrived, more affluent residents take up living in the Park, please know that the people you refer to as 'Parkies' have become connected through decades and generations of mutual struggles that you just had to be there for to understand.
For a post on a blog, this is getting a bit long. Do take the time and effort to login to this blog and and post a response, it is as much yours as it is mine..................Jack
