BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Potential crime victims turning the tables, with sometimes fatal consequences  | ajc.com

"'More and more people are exercising their right to defend their property,' said National Rifle Association president Carolyn Meadows, who lives in East Cobb. 'I don't think any civilized person is going to jump up and down because someone is killed, but if there's a choice between the law-abiding and the criminal, I'm glad the law-abiding are the ones left standing.'"

Most vivid memory of family reunions, my mother's side of the family, would have to be the impressions seeming all six Uncles and 3 Aunts, although living scattered  throughout mostly southern Arkansas and  northern Louisiana, were always there, never without there spouse, always with every cousin I knew I had, or could remember keeping me  busy / no reason to miss any not there; that every Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, everyone was there in the same tiny depression era built farmhouse  born and raised,  small rural community of Banks, Arkansas.


With the nearby smalltown of Warren,   considered The Tomato Capital of the World just being the county seat for a well known crop branded, The Bradley County Tomatoes.





The same area also famously known as The Morrow Bottoms of Arkansas,  birthplace of Legendary Giant, BEAR BRYANT.

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