Maggie's Farm

"40% of Young Women Want to Leave America."

This is the symptom. The problem is our education system. There is no country and no people in the world who are not the result of violent or terrible acts of their country or their people in the past. But, for political reasons it is desirable to lower the self esteem and pride or Americans and this is how they do it. They are doing it because America is too strong and they want to weaken it. Ask why and you will understand what is going on. That 40% are ignorant, not in an intent to be insulting but simply in the true meaning of the word. And because they are ignorant they are perfect useful idiots.

I am 82 YO. I remember when JFK was elected and my high school teachers were excited to see such a wonderful man become president. I remember when he was first seduced to put soldiers into Vietnam and why he wanted to. I believe he sincerely wanted to free the Vietnamese and to restrain China and Russia. I think, that before his assassination he came to realize that his advisors and the bureaucracy was using him and if he had lived the Vietnam story would be very different. But Johnson was a professional politician and as dirty as they come and he wanted the Vietnam war. And now 55,000+ young American men dead for what? I had friends who went there and never returned. For what? You have to be old enough to remember the national feeling about Vietnam when it started to understand that the useless idiots were all in. It was only when Nixon was elected that they turned against Vietnam and only because they wanted Nixon to fail. Sound familiar?

I just finished lunch and was reminded of man's greatest invention. My wife wanted potato soup from Safeway for lunch and it's a 50/50 chance that they will have it, they did. So while she served up two bowls I said I would look for bread. "Look" because often I'm disappointed; day old or just unattractive French bread or Baguette. And sure enough I get to the bread section and there is one loaf of French bread and a very tired hard old baguette sitting there. Frustrated I'm about to keep searching hopelessly and one of the cooks passes by pushing a cart of fresh bread. And we're off. I can't catch up all I can do is follow until she stops and starts loading a rack near the cashiers. I ask if I can take one from the cart and she replies of course... and it is still hot!! Oh my god, not just warm but hot. We quickly pay for it and get home where I consume half the loaf with real butter. Oh my god! It is so good.

Bread, is man's greatest invention. You could argue cheese or even butter too but IMHO it's bread hands down. But what about the steam engine or cars or even computers? But it was farming and being able to store food and prepare that food that makes everything that follows possible. If you are out hunting all day avoiding a pack of hyenas trying to shoot an arrow into some game you don't have time to tinker with bits of metal to make a steam engine or a car or a space ship.

No! It's bread and of course the grain that allows you to make bread that can be stored forever if need be. Potatoes or beets too of course and chicken and rabbits but even then you have to acknowledge that without bread you couldn't stay in one place and have the time to plant those things or raise those animals. Disagree if you will but I need to take a nap now and dream of supper with that same bread toasted with jam on top...