A post by Darin71 (and thanks Darin for sharing it. You just made my day.kg )

A true story,a long one-

1946 South Mississippi,USA a young black man returned from war in Europe.The Army as well as Mississippi weren’t the most racially integrated places in the world,but he didn’t care,he was going to make something of himself.He applied for a GI bill loan,but didn’t get it.
That didn’t stop him though,he was determined.He borrowed some money and put it together with some he had saved and bought a second hand single axle Mack truck and four bolster log trailer.The following day he began hauling logs under contract from the woods to the local plywood veneer mill.

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Mother Superior called all the nuns together and said to them, ‘I must tell you all something. We have a case of gonorrhea in the convent.’ ‘Thank God,’ said an elderly nun at the back. ‘I’m so tired of chardonnay’.

‘…Things stir beyond the frontiers. If we are not to swirl down history’s drain while singing We Shall Overcome, perhaps we should begin again to pay attention to ability. It is one thing, and a good thing, to insist  on equality of opportunity. Them as can cut the mustard should have access to mustard.  But affirmative action, meaning the hiring of those who would not be hired on their merit, lowers competitiveness in a world that is not going to cut the US any slack. White European males have been far away and gone the world’s most bounteous fountains of the sciences. Maybe we should keep them, even encourage them. The deliberate enstupidation of the schools to favor the unable, to make those who can’t or won’t look as if they could or have, is auto-Kevoirkian governance…’   the whole thing

‘..With Obama’s poll numbers as bad as they are and with his reelection prospects as bleak as any President’s in living memory, a massive and nationwide voter fraud campaign is already underway. And, if past elections are any indication, this vote fraud campaign will be successful to varying degrees…’

tomorrow. Will try to stay updated on the road.

‘..The Waitangi Tribunal is to release findings tomorrow on the legal place of Maori culture and identity and claims of ownership over native flora and fauna.
The Wai 262 inquiry will make non-binding recommendations to the Government about claims of ownership over Maori knowledge and native flora and fauna which claimants believe are guaranteed under the Treaty of Waitangi…’

‘After a record cold May and now a record cold June, Darwin is struggling to thaw out and there’s little relief in sight, according to weatherzone.com.au…’
The forecast for tomorrow is 18-31c  (64-87.8F)