Dale Earnhardt Jr

Tweet:
"All Americans R granted rights 2 peaceful protests Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable-JFK"

Your move NASCAR.

Insults

The poet Robert Burns could not stand criticism. If you want to insult somebody, he has a certain style.
A letter to a critic:
"Ellisland, 1791.

Dear Sir:

Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution; thou marriage-maker between vowels and consonants, on the Gretna-green of caprice; thou cobler, botching the flimsy socks of bombast oratory; thou blacksmith, hammering the rivets of absurdity; thou butcher, embruing thy hands in the bowels of orthography; thou arch-heretic in pronunciation; thou pitch-pipe of affected emphasis; thou carpenter, mortising the awkward joints of jarring sentences; thou squeaking dissonance of cadence; thou pimp of gender; thou Lyon Herald to silly etymology; thou antipode of grammar; thou executioner of construction; thou brood of the speech-distracting builders of the Tower of Babel; thou lingual confusion worse confounded; thou scape-gallows from the land of syntax; thou scavenger of mood and tense; thou murderous accoucheur of infant learning; thou ignis fatuus, misleading the steps of benighted ignorance; thou pickle-herring in the puppet-show of nonsense; thou faithful recorder of barbarous idiom; thou persecutor of syllabication; thou baleful meteor, foretelling and facilitating the rapid approach of Nox and Erebus.

R.B."

Thou dotard!

BOYCOTT Motel 6

They apparently are sharing their guest lists with ICE.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/motel-6-calling-ice-undocumented-guests-phoenix-immigration-lawyers-9683244

If this proves out, I hope they go bankrupt.

Irma heading straight for me.

Question is whether it will veer east some and stay over water or grind up the coast.
Either way we are screwed.

My brother informed me that nothing would be left.
He might be right.

Wooooo! People in NE SC not playing.

Stores are being emptied of coolers, water, batteries, and whatever else.
There is usually a lot more time before this starts.
They see what's coming.

Fire ants

If you want some protection from floating fire ants, mix up a spray bottle of dish soap and water. The soap will cause the floating mass to break apart and they gone drown.
I'd just avoid them and leave them alone unless they came calling.

If you are going to head north on I95,

you better go now. If there is a shower near Manning in SC, it will be shut down. It could be shut down in the entire state.
You can look for alternate routes if you are stuck on it, but good luck. There ain't none. Look at a map. You are going to get off on secondary roads or worse. People are nice in general but you might run into anything from Miss Hospitality to PeeWee Gaskins.

DM me if you can. I have relatives all over the state who are relatively hospitable. Don't talk about Trump and learn a Bible verse or two. I think in a real mess they would help but everything is so surreal who knows. Better than drowning I guess.

Jose coming!

If GPS navigation was Southern:

Science 101

I learned something while I was in line at the bank. The two mooks behind me started talking about the weather. At first, they were just making general observations about the flooding and Harvey.

Then one of them said, "The sun is getting closer to the earth." I just thought ok so far. Then he said that the sun was gonna run right into us before long.

I looked at my feet and thought "Good lawd."
I almost turned around and asked him for a donation since we were gonna be fried to a crisp soon.
My Mama would have failed his ass. He would not have left her classroom thinking that.