Jean D. McKinnon
The first picture in this episode is a family portrait of the Quin family in Washington Georgia. The nine surviving children of Hugh Pharr Quin are sitting for the camera. Mr. Quin had joined the Georgia State Troops of the Army of the Confederacy at the age of 16, and after the war went to Washington to live with his sister. Mr. Quin was in the church choir of the First Methodist Church when he met the organist, Betty Lou DuBose. They were married January 22, 1879.
The original name of Mrs. Quin was Louisa Toombs DuBose. She was the daughter of James Rembert DuBose. His brother in law was Robert Toombs, the Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a man of whom many stories are told.
In this picture, Mrs. Quin is holding the hand of her second youngest daughter so she will not run away. This is Mattie Vance Quin. She is my grandmother.
After the Great War, Mattie Vance Quin was living in Memphis Tennessee, where she met Arthur Dunaway. Mr. Dunaway was a veteran of the war, and was from Paragould, Arkansas. On July 23, 1922 her first Daughter, Jean, was born. This is my mother.
Mr. Dunaway died in 1930, shortly after the birth of his son Arthur. There were hard times and upheaval after this, with the family settling in Atlanta. There her third child Helen Ann Moffat was born on December 12, 1933. This is my Aunt Helen and my mother’s best friend.
Jean lived for many years with her mother and sister at 939 Piedmont, among other locations. She joined the First Baptist Church and sang in the choir. She got a job with the C&S bank, and was working at the Tenth Street Branch when she met Luther McKinnon. He was a native of Rowland, North Carolina. They were married October 6, 1951.
They moved into the Skyland Apartments, which in those days was out in the country. Mom told a story about Dad taking her home from Choir practice, and going home on the two lane Buford Hiway. There was a man who went to the restaurants to get scraps to feed his pigs, and his truck was always in front of them. This was a serious matter in the summer without air conditioning.
Soon, they moved into a house, and Luther junior was born on May 6, 1954. This is me. Malcolm was born May 10, 1956, which did it for the children.
The fifties were spent on Wimberly Road, a street of always pregnant women just outside Brookhaven. It was a great place to be a little kid.
In 1960, we moved to Parkridge Drive, to the house where my brother and I stay today. The note payment was $88 a month. Ashford Park School is a short walk away…the lady who sold us the house said “you slap you kid on the fanny and he is at school”.
In 1962, our family followed the choir director from First Baptist to Briarcliff Baptist, which is where my parents remained.
In 1964, Mom went back to work. She ran the drive in window at Lenox Square for the Trust Company of Georgia until it was time to retire. She became a talk radio fan when RING radio started, and was a friend of her customer Ludlow Porch. She gave dog biscuits to customers with dogs.
During this era of change, Mom taught me that all people were good people, be they black or white. This was rare in the south. She later became disgusted with the War in Vietnam, and liked to quote a man she heard on the radio. “How will we get out of Vietnam?””By ship and by plane”.
Eventually, it was time to retire. Her and Dad did the requisite traveling, until Dad got sick and passed away February 7, 1992. Mom stuck around for a few more years, until her time came December 18, 1998. This is a repost.
Why The War Between The States Was Fought
Recently, Mr. Trump said something stupid about the War Between the States. After his comments began to filter into the marketplace of ideas, people began to react. There was a good bit of self righteous talk about how bad the Confederacy was. Maybe it is time for another point of view. This feature will have minimal research. Mostly, PG is typing things he has heard and thought. It is possible that some items will be incorrect. The reader is encouraged to do their own research. Comments are welcome.
When the colonies declared independence in 1776, nobody knew how things would turn out. First, Great Britain needed to be defeated. After that, the Articles of Confederation went into effect. “Under these articles, the states remained sovereign and independent, with Congress serving as the last resort on appeal of disputes. Congress was also given the authority to make treaties and alliances, maintain armed forces and coin money. However, the central government lacked the ability to levy taxes and regulate commerce…”
This arrangement was not working, and the Constitutional Convention was called. Originally, the CC was going to revise the Articles of Confederation, but wound up throwing the whole thing out, and creating the Constitution. This document called for greater federal authority. The issue of what powers to give to the states, and what powers to give to the central government, was contentious. It remains controversial to this day.
Had any group of antonymous states formed a federal union before? Usually, such a union is the result of a conquest, with one of the states ruling the others. It is unclear whether such a union had been attempted before, or how successful it was. When the “founding fathers” created the constitution, they probably did not foresee how it would play out. The current system, with a massive central government cat-herding the 50 states, would have been laughed off as a dangerous fantasy.
So the states start to have disagreements. One of the things they disagreed over was slavery. Yes, this was an important factor in the unpleasantness to come. Slavery also influenced a lot of the economic conflicts. The North wanted high tariffs to protect industry. The South wanted low tariffs, so they could sell cotton to Europe. There were many other ways for the states to not get along.
Finally, in 1861, the disagreements became too big to ignore. The south seceded, and the War Between The States began. The Confederate States of America was a looser union than the United States. The thought was that the states were more important than the federal union. Mr. Lincoln disagreed. (One popular name for the conflict was Mr. Lincoln’s war.) Many people say that Mr. Lincoln was not especially concerned about the slaves, but wanted to keep the union together.
How does slavery enter into this? Imagine the conflict over states rights vs federalism to be an open tank of gasoline. The lit match that was thrown into that tank was slavery. When the winners wrote the war history, it sounded better to say that the war was fought to free the slaves. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. This was a repost.
Home Of The Ding Dong Daddy
Home Of The Ding Dong Daddy is a chamblee54 look at city slogans. Below are some that made the cut in 2019. Branding Strategy Insider and Panethos contributed to this list. If have some time to spend looking at city slogans, Offices.net has the list for you. These lists are not updated regularly, and may contain slogans that are no longer used. Pictures today are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Algona IA Home of the World’s Largest Cheeto
Allentown PA Truck Capital of the World ~ Arlington TX And the crowd goes wild
Atlantic City NJ Always Turned On ~ Auburn WA More than you imagined
Ault CO A Unique Little Town ~ Baxter Springs KS First Cowtown In Kansas
Beaver OK Cow Chip Capital of the World
Bellingham WA City of Subdued Excitement
Bertram TX Home of the Oatmeal Festival
Breaux Bridge LA Crayfish Capital of the World
Bushnell SD It’s not the end of the earth, but you can see it from here
Cambridge OH Together for a Better Tomorrow
Cedar Bluff AL The Crappie Capital of the World
Chandler AZ High-Tech Oasis of the Silicon Desert
Cheshire CT Bedding Plant Capital of Connecticut
Cuba City WI The City of Presidents ~ Dubuque IA Masterpiece on the Mississippi
Dumas AR Home of the Ding Dong Daddy ~ Erie PA Feel the lake effect
Eustis FL The city of bright tomorrows ~ Venice FL Shark’s Tooth Capital of the World
Forestville CA Poison Oak Capital of the World
Freeland PA The most happening place on Earth
Fruita CO Home of Mike the Headless Chicken
Gas KS Don’t pass Gas stop and enjoy ~ Gilroy CA Garlic capital of the world
Glendive MT Good People Surrounded by Badlands
Glendive MT Where the best begins ~ Hershey PA The Sweetest Place on Earth
Hooker OK It’s a location, not a vocation ~ Knox IN Where opportunity knocks
Hyder AK Friendliest ghost town in Alaska ~ Knik AK Dog-Mushing Center of the World
La Crosse KS Barbed Wire Capital of the World
Linesville PA Where the ducks walk on fish
Lodi CA Liveable, lovable Lodi ~ Loveland OH Sweetheart of Ohio
Madisonville KY The best town on Earth ~ Marshall MN A Better Way to Live!
Menomonie WI Traditional yet progressive ~ Metter GA Everything’s Better in Metter
Mt. Horeb WI The Troll Capital ~ Nederland CO Home of the Frozen Dead Guy
Peculiar MO Where the Odds are With You
Prairie du Chien WI Where the bald eagle soars and the carp drops!
Richmond MI With Time for You
Rochester NY I’d Rather Be in Rochester – It’s Got It
Saratoga WY Where the trout leap in main street
Savannah GA Turf Grass Capital of the World
Snellville GA Snellville, where everybody is proud to be somebody
Strong ME Toothpick Capital of the World ~ Talent OR Our Name Speaks For Itself
Timewell IL Time spent in Timewell is time well spent
Walla Walla WA The city so nice they named it twice
Washta IA The coldest spot in Iowa ~ Weed CA Weed like to welcome you
Bishop Talbert Swan
Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan “Calling a Black POTUS married 25 yrs to 1 wife with 2 children, no mistresses, affairs or scandals, ‘the antichrist’ but a racist white POTUS married thrice, 5 kids by 3 women, mistresses, affairs & scandals, ‘God‘s anointed,’ proves your religion is white supremacy.” @chamblee54 “This tweet indicates that your religion is sophomore logic.” I posted a screenshot of this exchange on facebook, and got a reply. “Luther I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Or maybe I just don’t want to know” Let the fun begin.
Bishop Talbert Swan is a professional Jesus worshiper, who uses the word “Bishop” as his title. BTS is the author of Closing the Closet: Testimonies of Deliverance from Homosexuality. Last year saw Bishop Talbert Swan permanently banned from Twitter for ‘hateful conduct’ “Although Twitter did not specify what Tweet got him banned, Swan believes it was a Tweet he sent out in May in response to someone asking him to follow Candace Owens … “I responded by writing ‘No thanks, I’m on the no coon diet’,” he said.” If you want to know more about BTS, google is your friend.
Lets break down the tweet that started this. I tried to find out who said both that BHO was the Anti-Christ, and then said that DJT was G-d anointed. This is a problem with twitter hypocrisy theater … there is seldom an actual person who said all these terrible things. If you google “Barack Obama Anti-Christ,” one of the results is from Snopes: Is Barack Obama the Anti-Christ?
“Calling a Black POTUS married 25 yrs to 1 wife with 2 children, no mistresses, affairs or scandals, ‘the antichrist’” The mixed race BHO is, indeed, married to his first wife. Either BHO did not fool around, or had the grace not to get caught. This neither proves, nor disproves, that BHO is the Anti-Christ. Nor is it the complete story. BHO did some good work. He also enabled America’s military to murder thousands of Muslims in Asia and Africa. Maybe any POTUS is the Anti-Christ.
“but a racist white POTUS married thrice, 5 kids by 3 women, mistresses, affairs & scandals, ‘God‘s anointed,’” BTS capitalizes Black, but says white in lower case, preceded by a value-added slur. Admittedly, DJT is a gnarly character, with an exuberant marital history. DJT is about as much God anointed as BHO is Anti-Christal. “Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”
“proves your religion is white supremacy” The comments made by “you” about BHO and DJT indicate that “you” say foolish things. It does not prove anything. It certainly does not prove that “your religion is white supremacy.” Is WS a tax exempt organization? Does WS have ministers, a deity, rituals, prayers, and sunday morning traffic jams? Do you show your faithfulness to WS by saying stupid things about crooked politicians?
There is my response to consider. It is a satire of the preceding tweet. I said indicate, rather than prove, for obvious reasons. I said sophomore logic because fecal references are redundant. The word sophomore is derived from “Greek sophos (wise) + mōros (foolish.)” While the wisdom of the BTS tweet is obscure, the foolishness is obvious.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
May 6, 2019
May 6is a day in spring, with 35% of the year gone by. It has it’s fair share of history, some of which did not turn out well. In 1861, the Confederate Congress declared war on the United States. In 1937, a German zeppelin named “Hindenburg” exploded while trying to land in New Jersey. In 1940, Bob Hope did his first show for the USO, somewhere in California.
Roger Bannister ran the first sub four minute mile, on May 6, 1954. The current record is 3:43.13 by Hicham El Guerrouj on July 7, 1999, with a party with Prince to celebrate. Since most track meets now use 1500 meters, the mile record is obsolete.
On this day, Georgia executed two notable prisoners. In 2003, Carl Isaacs was put to death. Mr. Isaacs was the ringleader in the 1973 Alday family killing, in Donalsonville GA. Five years later, in 2008, William Earl Lynd was poisoned by the state. This was the first condemned man to die after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that execution by poisoning was constitutional.
Taurus is the sign for those whose blood starts to pump May 6. Included are:
Maximilien Robespierre (1758) Sigmund Freud (1856) Rudolph Valentino (1895)
Orson Welles (1915) Willie Mays (1931) Rubin Carter (1937)
Bob Seger (1945) Tony Blair (1953) PG (1954) George Clooney(1961)
To make room for these folks, someone has to die. For May 6 this would mean:
Henry David Thoreau (1862) L. Frank Baum (1919) Marlene Dietrich (1992)
This repost, written like H.P. Lovecraft, has pictures from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Born To Defy Heteronormativity
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Valedictorian of Utah’s homophobic university comes out during graduation speech
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Stepmother sentenced to death penalty for murdering 10-year-old
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How Klan Lawyer Sam Dickson Got Rich
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Neighbors upset area is becoming a trash dump
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“Right-Wing Gentrification Gangs”
Evan Thomas Anderson, and May 13 Charlottesville White Power Rally
A kinder, gentler racism Stormfront.org strives to make extremism mainstream
Activists aimed to spark local ‘protest’ about Buckhead white nationalist
Sam Dickson in His Own Words American Renaissance, July 28, 2017
Neighbors fed up with thieves stealing from front porches
ALLEN GINSBERG’S 1956 POEM ‘AMERICA’: A LOST ENDING
Stacey Abrams passes on Senate race, complicating Georgia for Democrats
‘whites only’ note in school bathroom: ‘Racism has taken over our school’
Racist note placed in bathroom at Bremen High School now labeled a “hoax”
Users call it getting ‘Zucked,’ say talking about racism is censored as hate speech
H-F Students’ Blackface Photos Rock Homewood; H-F Walkout Planned
What’s it like watching 28 people die?
Accidental Drug Overdose Killed Man in Democratic Donor’s Home, Coroner Says
Second death in home of Ed Buck also ruled accidental meth overdose
James Woods Is In ‘Twitter Jail.’ Here’s The Tweet That Got Him Suspended.
At PATH400’s northern point, secret gravesites uncovered
School Pooper’s Lawsuit Says Mug Shot Ruined His Life
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She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart.
White gang forcibly tattoos a racial slur on a black man and spells it wrong
High school may erase mural of George Washington: ‘traumatizes students’
White men believe it’s a more dangerous time for men than women in America
why i went ghost for seven months and why you should too
Rotten fish? It’s a delicacy ~ are you a rotten fish?
On The Importance of Not Writing
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Former Texas lethal injection drug supplier speaks out
Elsa Lanchester Was Born to Defy Heteronormativity
Navy strike group deployed to send ‘message’ to Iran
engineering of consent ~ quillette/IDW ~ I F*cked an Instagay ~ weird food
singing to the choir ~ Gore Vidal and Revisionism ~ emory con$truction
University Committee Erotica ~ Robert Earl Butts ~ Scotty Morrow
electoral college ~ soycialist ~ clemency denied Scotty Morrow
Joyce Ann Barineau ~ Eugen Schoenfeld 1925 – 2019 ~ 9th most dangerous
Dickson legal directory ~ dickson key west ~ Sam Dickson
blondie ~ Stacey says no ~ faraday speaks
Sorry, Buttigieg doesn’t have its own entry in RhymeZone. Our best guesses of rhymes for Buttigieg are below: smut disease, cutting jig, rusty rig, but believe, conducting heat, insulting each, corrupt elite, disrupted gene, butting each, mistrusted each, blood disease ~ urban dictionary trending words – May 01, 2019: 1. Sketti 2. orgasmic sounds 3. boner 4. Love 5. Pepper Grinder 6. Beanjuice 7. DIRTY AMY 8. momba 9. woke millennials 10. Sex 11. Dirty Chloe 12. Scaley 13. long back 14. Sus 15. titty day 16. Chris 17. APRIL 30TH 18. Winding You Up 19. Mudbone 20. fake deep 21. Cleveland Hot Waffle 22. creap 23. Etika 24. Raptor 25. left overs 26. Infrastructure week 27. Spitting-feathers 28. wind up 29. pip pip the diddly do 30. to go box ~ The number one item of Mr. Morrows appeal: “1. Morrow claims that Hispanics were underrepresented in the composition of the 1994 grand jury pool, and the 1999 traverse jury pool in violation of the Sixth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, OCGA 15-12-40, and the Unified Appeal Procedure.” This is an appeal that is not going to save the condemned. ~ By all accounts, Morrow was a poor witness. Walker later recalled that the “cross-examination was a disaster” because Morrow failed to show “remorse and shame” and “was as flat on the stand as [he had] ever seen him.” The jury convicted Morrow on all charges. At sentencing, trial counsel depicted Morrow as an otherwise peaceful man who “snapped” after a lifetime of “rejection” and “emotional difficulty.” ~ “Morrow requested a last meal of a hamburger with mayonnaise, two chicken and waffle meals, a pint of butter pecan ice cream, a bag of buttered popcorn, two all-beef franks, and a large lemonade.” Morrow’s final words: “I love you all. God bless.” ~ I just listened to the story by “Best Intentions” ” This is a powerful story, about some of the unanswerable questions about race. While not as extreme as that story, I have felt myself caught in damned if you do/ damned if you don’t situations. Thank you for this story. ~ #Facebook may be the only people that consider #MiloYiannopoulos #dangerous ~ It appears that the A properties are across the street, and down a few houses. Are those vacant lots, or rental properties? Antifa is *fighting racism* by encouraging people to dump garbage in a POC neighborhood. ~ Dictionary.com’s Most Searched Words In 2019 So Far 1. Exonerate 2. Ruthful 3. Self-made 4. Naked 5. Ultima Thule 6. Vulva 7. Momo 8. Furlough 9. Bandersnatch 10. Gesticulate ~ 050319 11:21 am Go to xxx, to get damaged tire replaced. The man said it would take two hours, and they would call me. The man told me that tires put on in 2014, by xxx, had 97k miles. I looked at his screen, and saw that the mileage on the vehicle was 97k. 2:15 pm I get the call that the tire is ready. A half hour later I don’t see or hear anything, so I go look in the parking lot. The man told me the reason it was taking so long was a broken stud on the rear wheel. It would take two hours, and $129 labor to fix. He said after he finished doing something, he would let me know something. A half hour after that, another man told me that it would take 45 minutes, and could not be done today. He then asked in the back, and said it would be 45 minutes after they got the part. I was standing in front on the desk, waiting for a confirmation, when he told me to take a seat. 4:30 pm I see the vehicle in the parking lot. 5:15 pm I am standing in front of the service desk. The man said they would tell me if the car was ready. I say it is in the parking lot. The man said they did not tell him anything. The key was on the service desk. The man looks in the back, and several locations around the service desk, before he finds the paperwork. 5:21 pm I pay for the service. The credit card machine does not work at first. ~ UPDATE: Scotty Morrow was pronounced dead at 9:38 pm, May 2, 2019. ~ Georgia used to buy execution drugs from an illegal dealer located in a limo service in London, England Now it is “compounding pharmacies” whose identity is kept secret by law ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress. ~ selah
Candidate Middle Names
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was recently featured at chamblee54. There are twenty three democrats who want to replace Donald John Trump. What are the middle names of these seventeen men, and six women? Are there any descriptive initials, other than Bernard Sanders? Are any middle names as appropriate as Donald John Trump?
The name game is different for women. Some marry, and take the last name of their spouse. The six women in the race take different approaches. The most traditional is the former Kirsten Elizabeth Rutnik, married to Jonathan Gillibrand.
Four of the lady candidates are married, but do not use the name of their current husband. Three are Tulsi Gabbard (Abraham Williams), Kamala Devi Harris (Douglas Emhoff), and Amy Jean Klobuchar (John Bessler). The former Elizabeth Ann Herring married, and divorced, Jim Warren. She kept the Warren name after she married Bruce H. Mann.
Marianne Deborah Williamson is the least conventional lady in the race. Williamson was briefly married. In 1990, she gave birth to a daughter,” “India Emma. … Williamson steadfastly refuses to reveal the identity of the father, leaving a blank space in her political narrative that she understands may cause controversy.”
Most of the early presidents did not have middle names. The custom of having three names did not become popular until after the War Between the States. Four of the current candidates … Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Bernard Sanders, and Andrew Yang … do not have middle names. Mr. Sanders has the most honest initials.
Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg stands alone with two middle names. The only President to have two middle names recently went to the Kennebunkport in the sky. Most of the other candidates have boring middle names. Michael Farrand Bennet, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., Cory Anthony Booker, John Kevin Delaney, Maurice Robert “Mike” Gravel, John Wright Hickenlooper Jr., Jay Robert Inslee, Wayne Martin Messam, Seth Wilbur Moulton, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, Timothy John Ryan, Eric Michael Swalwell Jr., William Floyd Weld.
Ballotpedia and wikipedia were used to research this feature. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the pictures, in Maine, in October 1940.
Joe Biden Fundraising Survey
@JoeBiden“Our campaign is all about the people. That’s why we want to hear what issues are most important to you! Take this super quick survey to share your top 2020 priorities with Joe.” Sleepy Joe is fulfilling the VPOTUS tradition of running for POTUS. An essential part of the process is the opinion poll, with one crucial question at the end. Our slack blogger decided to take the test.
“Which issues are most important to you? (enter each on a new line)” Getting new knee pads for Colin Kaepernick. Finding a new cookie recipe for Hillary Clinton. Getting Milo Yiannopoulos a haircut, and a name that is easier to spell. Having McDonalds declared the national hamburger.
“Do you approve of Joe Biden’s 8 years as Vice President? How would you rank Joe Biden amongst all former Vice Presidents? Among the top 5, Above average, Right in the middle, Below average, Among the bottom 5.” Ranking performance as a VPOTUS is tough. Mr. B’s big moment came after Obamacare was passed. He was heard saying “This is a big fucking deal.” Other than that, the biggest achievement of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is not dying in office, or arranging the demise of the President. Do we really want someone middle named Robinette as President?
Not dying in office is important. Between 1812 and 1853, three veeps perished in office. George Clinton served under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. He died April 20, 1812. Elbridge Gerry, the namesake of Gerrymandering, also served under James Madison, before he met his maker on November 23, 1814. Maybe Dolley Madison put something in those snack cakes.
The third dead veep, William R. King, deserves a paragraph of his own. Mr. King was plausibly said to be the boyfriend of future President James Buchanan. We don’t know if this puts Mr. King in the top 5, or the bottom 5. Mr. King died April 18, 1853, after being VP for six weeks.
The only 19th century VP to serve two full terms was Daniel D. Tompkins, serving from 1817 – 1825. Mr. Tompkins was the first VP with a middle initial. “Tompkins was baptized Daniel Tompkins, but added the middle initial “D.” while a student at Columbia College to distinguish himself from another Daniel Tompkins who was a student there.” Harry S Truman is another VP with a standalone middle initial. The S stood for nothing, just like Mr. Truman.
Two early vices, John Tyler and John Cabell Breckinridge, went on to serve in the government of the Confederate States of America. Millard Fillmore was promoted to President, and had an impressive set of initials. The office of Vice President has had ups and downs, leading up to the modern embarrassment of Spiro Agnew and Daniel Quayle. Ranking JRB is too much work, and is not important. Only one question matters. “Can you chip in as little as $5 to activate your membership?”
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
#NationalDayofPrayer
Today is the #NationalDayofPrayer. This is a repost. Pictures are from “The Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library”.
Good Morning G-d. Please give me the slack I need to make it through this busy life. I have a birthday soon, and am getting older. Please give me less pain, both above and below the neck. Thank you for letting me get this far. Thank you for the gift of sobriety, and the memory of inebrience. The gift of moderation would have been helpful. Help me to overcome body chemistry telling me to be unhappy. If this doesn’t work, help me hide it better.
Please tell Christians to make less noise, joyful or otherwise. Help me to forgive Christians for their good intentions. Give Christians the gift of humility. Let us know that a real man keeps control of his temper. Please tell those praying today that it is better to listen than to talk.
Please find a happy medium for Atlanta water. Let us have neither drought nor flood. It would help if the developers would move to North Carolina, and the politicians would develop a conscience.
G-d, please try to get along better with Allah. This is important. Maybe if you and her got along better, then all those religious crazies would hate each other less. Help white people and black people get along better. Please be good to the people who have already lived, and are now deceased. Please understand that I am not in a hurry to join them.
Help Mr. Trump with the mess this country is in. Help Israel get along with her neighbors, and live within her borders. Help the world solve the carbon dioxide problem.
Thank you for the birds that sing. Thank you for dogs, and dog owners who clean up. Thank you for earth, air, fire, and water. Thank you for people who enjoy this prayer. Help those who are offended to get over it. Namaste, amen, all my relations, Good Bye.
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