Just came back from breakfast--which has become a bit of a stress each morning.
Today Joyce, (B&B owner) in talking again about how she is so good at budgeting, told me that she would be saving money next year, as she will be old enough to go on Medicare and would, thus, not have to pay for health insurance. Then in a few minutes her husband Dan came in from outside. He said he had to come back cause he had forgotten his papers for the partial disability benefits he gets since his stroke. On top of that, the other day she had informed me that they live off what they make from the B&B and save their Social Security checks; then they use these savings for SS for renovations on the B&B. I just love these conservatives who hate Socialism and the tax and spend liberals.
In making conversation I started to tell Joyce about how interesting it was to visit the Children's home yesterday. But she is one of these people that as soon as you bring up a subject, she has something better to say. So today she started telling about Sara and her baby. At first I thought it was a relative, but then realized that we were talking about...you guessed it..Sarah Palin. Then we gravitated to a real relative who has a disabled child who goes to a special school in Pittsburgh.
"She takes the bus to school, and she gets along with the other kids so well. They are black. (Smile) All the other kids on the bus are black. They are so lovable. Those people really know how to be...just so enjoyable. (Smile)."
Some of my best friends are Jews [blacks]. See I'm not racist, like Murtha said.
Eveyln Raper
Redjeb has been doing his usual, walking to a cafe downtown in the morning to have his tea and read the NY Times. Except today they only had Earl Gray (don't get new teas until Mondays) and his NY Times is from my laptop, which he has started taking with him. The local paper can be read in about 5 minutes cover to cover.
One of the front page stories today, photo and all, was about the young woman in Texas, who was robbed at an ATM by a black guy with a six inch knife. As story goes, after robbing her he noticed the McCain signs on her car (she was canvassing for McCain), so he beat her up, knocked her down and carved a backwards B on her check. (Hope that doesn't give the opposition any ideas).
Now I ask you: Why would he do a backwards B? Perhaps he is a dyslexic mugger. But I offer this explanation: If you look in the mirror and carve (scratch, as it looked like from the photo) a B on your own face, it would come out backwards-- a mirror image.
Why not a little attention for yourself and the campaign, or as an excuse to your mother for some unapproved of behavior (a.k.a. Tawana Brawley for those New Yorkers who remember that case)? I suspect the B stands for Bitch.
Eveyln Raper
1 comment:
Your doing the best that can be done and the blogs are wonderful.
Try not to let the difficulties get you down.
Obama will have to find a way to be the president for these people too.
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