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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 8 Sept.
7, 2012
From the
Editor
We’re still running in
circles after returning home from our “trek” to
After two weeks of political
conventions I’m astounded how Party “A” can say, “It is so” and Party B can
say, “It is not so” and we are left to figure out if it is “so” or “not” on our
own. When you break it down, the
conventions are actually a continual 2 or 3 day political ad. The important part of this is that they say
political ads only change the minds of people who haven’t a clue over what the
facts really are. So, in general, the
last one to speak (that would be the Democrats this election) has the greatest
opportunity of leaving a lasting impression on the ones who simply don’t know
or understand what’s going on. Oh yes,
lest I forget, how can we determine what “facts” are actually “facts?” With such a wealth of information at our
fingertips it should be easy, but as one of my professors back at
Looking at the RNC we have
to admit that Isaac had a major impact on their program causing shifts and
cancellations in their original schedule and a shortened convention. This was obviously not to their benefit. I do think it is appropriate to see the
rising importance of the candidates’ wives in this election. This so eloquently demonstrates the major
role that wives have in their husband’s success--not just in elections, but in
life. We’ve all known that for a long
time and I think it is only appropriate that they are now getting the
recognition they so deserve. I feel and
relish the role that Carolyn plays in my life on a daily basis. She is my GPS. Ann Romney did a fantastic job in her speech
and I think dramatically helped improve the favorability of her husband as a
formidable candidate. Chris Christy, in
my opinion, got a little “bum press” over talking so much about his accomplishments. I think I understood where he was heading--he
was trying to indicate that tough decisions can be made and one can receive
support for them (as he did) if presented properly--the kind of tough decisions
that Romney would have to make if elected and challenged with trying to turn the
economy around. I must say, I like the
guy (Christy). Unfortunately, as a
Republican, I did not see the “splash” in the RNC that I did in the DNC. Possibly Democrats are just better at
“Partying” than Republicans.
One thing that you must keep
in mind as you watch these conventions and listen to
the “roar of the crowd.” This is a
totally supportive and biased crowd.
They NEVER considered voting for the opponent. So the fact that they are excited means
NOTHING. What they do hope is that if
the convention speeches impress them, they will also impress those undecided
and uninformed viewers. Remember, last
impressions are lasting. Again,
advantage Democrats.
As far as the DNC goes, it
too had some really powerful keynotes.
Michelle Obama was quite good and that’s something coming from me as I
am not a fan of hers. I certainly won’t
go in detail here of why so don’t look for it further down. The real standout to me was her comments over
how poor they were as they started out their marriage. I reference the hole in the floorboard of the
car and Barack’s favorite coffee table that he got from the dump. I have one question. Given this start with loans for college, no
substantial jobs--a Community Organizer in
Now let’s look at William
Jefferson Clinton (a.k.a. “Slick Willy”).
Yes, he did deliver an impressive marathon speech last night. WJC is the “Voice of the Democratic Party.” While he’s purported as slick, smart, and an
accomplished statesman, he’s certainly not much of a role model. Interesting that people (especially
“Democratic People”) appear to have forgotten or have forgiven the fact that he
was impeached, engaged in an embarrassing sexual act with an intern--under his
desk in the Oval Office of all places, and irreparably shamed the office of the
President. What a great example for our
children. He is truly someone to look up
to. NOT!
I’ll now step off of my
political soapbox and retreat to the Keurig for
another cup of coffee.
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Jerry
Alford, Class of 1959
Galeen
Chain
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Jack
Whitson, Class of 1953
Paul
Whitson, Class of 1957
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
How Great
Thou Art
This clip is one of the most amazing and imaginative talents on the
web! For those who are not so geeky,
this singer had to record each of the tracks one at a time, and had to get the
timing just perfect in order for it to work.
LOTS of detailed technology went into this. And the song itself is beautiful. So, turn up your volume, maximize your
screen, click on the link below, then sit back and enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=dxCRIF0m79w&feature=related
PS Val Harvey,
this guy might “trump” you today on “How Great Thou Art”--but not “back in the
day”--ESPECIALLY if there were 4 of you (you’ll understand when you see the
video) -- mlm
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Billy Graham’s Prayer for Our Nation
This man sure has a good
view of what’s happening to our country!
“Heavenly Father, we come
before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance. We know Your Word says, ‘Woe
to those who call evil good,’ but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and
reversed our values. We have exploited
the poor and called it the lottery. We
have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it
justifiable. We have neglected to
discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it
politics. We have coveted our neighbor’s
possessions and called it ambition. We
have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of
expression. We have ridiculed the
time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today;
cleanse us from sin and set us free.
Amen!”
With the Lord’s help, may
this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that
we once again can be called ‘One nation under God!’
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
At the request of
Interesting
Tidbits
The following
is reprinted from the
Fascinating Kiowa
In each issue we have
several questions concerning interesting and fascinating facts about
- The first Indian tribe of which we have any
knowledge who came to
a. Comanches b.
- Who was considered to be the best historian of
the Kiowa Tribe?
a.
Big Tree b. Santanta c. Chief Komalty d. Chief Lone Wolf
- How many divisions of the Kiowa Tribe
existed? Each had its own chief.
a.
Five b. Seven c. Four d.
Six
- After the Washita Agency attack of 1874, who was
thrown into prison?
a. Santanta b. I-Satai c. Big Tree d. Geronimo
- What was Lone Quot’s
other name?
a.
Lone Wolf b. Lone Bear c. Spotted Bird d. Komalty
- Who held the rank of second chief standing next
to Lone Wolf?
a. Santanta b. Lone Quot c. Geronimo
d. I-Satai
- Who helped build the first
a.
Lone Bear
b. Lone Wolf c. Spotted
Bird d. Big Tree
- b.
- c. Chief Komalty
- d. Six
- a. Santanta
- c. Spotted Bird
- a. Santanta
- c. Spotted Bird
********
Flying over
Tour
different parts of
Turn on the sound, run in full screen (left click the little box at the
lower right of the You Tube screen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=KcuDdPo0WZk
News
Genealogical
Society Meeting September 11, 2012
The
Kiowa County Genealogical Society will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 11 in
the Jake Slaner Room in the Jane Phelan library,
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Home Again
The
editor’s returned home this week after spending a week at the camp grounds of
Atlanta Motor Speedway (AMS). What a fun
time! Karen, Mark, and Paige arrived on
Wednesday to join us and really set up the camp site. You can only imagine the camp site at a
NASCAR track unless you have actually had the experience. We park our RV’s so that the doors and
awnings face each other with enough room between the awnings to set up party
tents. The ground is covered with
mats—of course they are black and white racing mats. Tables, lounge chairs, a gas grill, a huge
fan to cool the great outdoors, and plenty of ice chests to cool our drinks
make up our outdoor camping area. Of
course, we have to “dry camp” as there is on power, water or sewer—just the
capacity your RV has on board. After 6
years of doing this, we are pretty good at it and have a great time.
Kevin,
Brenda, Raegan, and Parker joined us on Saturday. We were so glad to have our entire family
together and for Parker to meet his
In
addition to having the family together, we always enjoy visiting with the many
friends we have made over the years at the campgrounds. The same people park all around us so it is
“old home week.” All of those camping
around us decided to have a camp pool to pick the winner of the race. Mike picked a driver for me and threw in the
money. He made a great pick and I won
the pool which was a healthy amount. I
thought it would help with the gas expenses but he insists I am to buy
something for myself with it. Thanks
Mike for making a great choice for me. I
will let you do that again.
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
September 8 – Carolyn (Hester)
Martin
September 8 – Alice Law
September 9 – Tristan Howard
September 9 – Carie Stroud
September 9 – Lynn Davis
September 9 – Stormy (
September 10 – Karla
Armstrong
September 10 – Eddie Gibbons
September 10 – Ryvers Simmons, Class of 1989
September 10 – Kent Walker
September 10 – Jerry Downen
September 11 – Shawn Moore
September 11 – David Everett
September 11 – Glen Brazil, Class of 1971
September 12 – Garrett Copeland
September 12 – Ralph Jesse Dickson
September 12 – Jimmy Neuwirth
September 13 – Cat Coffman
September 13 – Pat Miller
September 13 – Norris Lee Dickson
Happy
Anniversary To:
September 8 – Cat &
Madoline Coffman
Humor
Love the Southerners!
A
Looking in his rear view
mirror, he saw a Florida State Trooper, blue lights flashing and sire
blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then
110, and then 120. Suddenly he thought,
“What am I doing? I’m too old for this!”
and pulled over to await the trooper’s arrival.
Pulling in behind him the
trooper got out of his vehicle and walked up to the Corvette. He looked at his watch, then
said, “Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes.
Today is Friday. If you can give
me a new reason for speeding—a reason I’ve never heard—I’ll let you go.”
The old gentlemen paused
then said, “Three years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back.”
“Have a good day, Sir,”
replied the trooper.
The owner of a golf course
in
The secretary thought a
moment, and then replied, “Everything but my earrings.”
A senior citizen in
When asked why, he replied,
“I’d rather be in
The young man from
Bubba replied, “Did y’all see who it was?’
The young man answered, “I
couldn’t tell, but I got the license number.”
A man in
The man replied, “I got a
flat tahr.”
The passerby asked, “But
what’s with the flowers?”
The man responded, “When you
break down they tell you to put flares in the front and flares in the
back. I never did understand it
neither.”
A
The driver replied, “Bout
what?”
The sheriff pulled up next
to the guy unloading garbage out of his pickup into the ditch. The sheriff asked, “Why are you dumping
garbage in the ditch? Don’t you see that
sign right over your head.”
“Yep,” he replied. “That’s why I’m dumpin’
it here, ‘cause it says: ‘Fine for Dumping Garbage.’”
***
Y’all kin say whut y’all want ‘about the South, but y’all never heard o’
nobody retirin’ an’ movin’
North.
From the Email
“Bag”
September 1, 2012
I wrote you earlier during
the excitement of winning the house. Time has passed, stresses have
surfaced, finances have been stretched to pay part of the up-front Federal Tax
and we know that April 15th is looming.
My girls are taking care of
all the details on this, thank goodness. We feel the Lord has
blessed us in winning this and that things are going to turn out well.
Here it is! Connie, my
daughter, is having Open House from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday,
September 2. If you would like to see the house, feel free to take a
peek. We are having good response to showings and hopefully will have a
contract soon.
Pictures of furnishings were
made during Parade of Homes and are not in the house at this time. It is
staged but not furnished.
We got possession of the
house August 16th and it has been on the market a week. We
are praying for a quick sale.
Frances Herod, Class of 1945
Note: Cannot save the PDF of
the house and pictures in the web version of the paper.
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September
5, 2012
Hey editor,
Two new addresses for your fine paper: Louis Sims of
Gene Wheeler, my classmate of '51; married to Liz
Heine of Con 8 (father Carl Heine was manager of gin there). Now retired USAF living in
I told both about your newsy letter.
Peace,
Jim Harvey
P.S. We will be in
Political
Fodder
Reagan Quotes
All of the following are
quotes from Ronald Reagan.
Socialism only works in two
places: Heaven where they don’t need it
and hell where they already have it.
Here’s my strategy on the
Cold War: We win, they lose.
The most terrifying words in
the English language are: I’m from the
government and I’m here to help.
The trouble
with our liberal friends are not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that
they know so much that isn’t so.
Of the four wars in my
lifetime, none came about because the
I have wondered at times
about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them
through the U.S. Congress.
The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal
government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.
Government is like a
baby: An alimentary canal with a big
appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
The nearest thing to eternal
life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.
It has been said that
politics is the second oldest profession.
I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Government’s view of the
economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Politics is not a bad
profession. If you succeed, there are
many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
No arsenal, or no weapon in
the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of
free men and women.
If we ever forget that we’re
one nation under GOD, then we will be a nation gone under.
********
Executive
Order
This interesting
but somewhat worrisome and make one wonder what is the reason for issuing this
Executive Order.
http://kaygranger.house.gov/weekly-enewsletter-executive-order-you-should-know-about
This is not some
conspiracy website, but the website of U.S. Congresswoman Kay Granger from
Obituaries
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Peoples
Cooperative Funeral
http://www.peoplescooperativefuneralhome.com/
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
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