Memorial Day

Uncle Bubba watched one of those self-serving news story about the Vermont marble used to make the headstones of our fallen service men and women. In the sadness that we have to have such an item, it was Bubbie's view that at least we are honoring them with our own materials, mined from our own country, carved, shaped and finished by our own citizens. This was not the intension of the news story line, but in this day and age any glimmer of our former America is worth pointing out. Within the camera shots presented in the news piece it appeared that no illegal aliens were employed in the work environment and no foreign countries are profiting from the death of our heros, at least not in this small capacity. A rarity today y'all; Vermonters, Uncle Bubba salutes you!

It has been reported that 6000 Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And after 10 years can anyone say who we are fighting with over there? Uncle Bubba attempted a Google search to find out how many troops we have still fighting in the Middle East and it turned out to be futile. He told me that he typed in "How many American troops are fighting in the Middle East?" and couldn't find a definitive answer. Why?

Uncle Bubba thanks the American Troops and their families for their service to our country. God bless you all.

Fall of the Wall, Fall of the World

Uncle Bubba was laid back in the lazy boy, he'd reared back and shifted it into low and was cruising the channels on his jumbo flatscreen. Have you noticed that there is some annoying lag in channel surfing, whether its due to the amount of bandwidth needed for HD or what; does anyone know? So as he's flipping through channels, it hangs for a moment on one that shows Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev shaking hands and then quickly cuts to a longhaired dude wildly whacking on the Berlin wall with a sledge hammer and Bubbie's thinks, "That was a big mistake!" And he's right. Ever since the fall of the Berlin wall and thusly Russia, our world has turned to stinking steaming mound of manure. Like it or not, the Cold War gave the world some structure with the two superpowers acting as bookends holding things together. Think about it; how quickly has the world's civilization declined since those heady days of faux freedom? Now our enemies are now sneaky, unseen, dirty sand dwellers with no geographical boundaries or civilized ethic. They don't fight and kill soldiers, they kill anyone anytime; civilians, woman and children. And the world economy has bottomed out sinking our ship and leveling us all to an elevated 3rd world status. Let's be honest, our policing of the world and multiple war strategy is nothing more than our fearful leaders' solution to job creation. What better way to employ our young adults? If we bring them home, there aren't any jobs here for them short of boarder patrol. In Bubbie's view, we should be careful of what we wish for; how many screw-ups have we perpetuated in the name of spreading democracy? Oh, and happy Cinco De Mayo gringo!

Obama's Osama Coup

Now that's a mouthful and if Uncle Bubba had a buck for every time he's heard to two names mistakenly interchanged this week... Bubbie's childhood friend, Grizzly Bore Goutfoot thinks that Osama's death is fake, a ruse portrayed by the President. His basis is that there hasn't been a picture showing a dead Osama. For God's sake, does our national interests have to appease every Joe Blow American and his cockamamy ideas? The thought crossed Uncle Bubba's mind to Photoshop one and send it as a joke, but only for a moment. It wouldn't be worth wasting one's time; after all, as Bubbie said, he's trying to have a rational conversation with an irrational person. But Uncle Bubba's response was that he thinks he's dead and it's a moral victory. It doesn't end the wars or change the rotten state of the world. It just feels good to know that one less asshole is in the world. Now if we could just get Palin to shut her hateful pie hole; but that's another story for another day. Here's an argument; maybe the uncertainty caused by no picture of Osama's carcass is driving his followers absolutely crazy. If it's messing with their minds then so be it! Keep them in the dark and see how they like it. In Bubbie's view, we need to get a life and turn our attention to rebuilding and enjoying our American lifestyle.