Welcome to this Week's Back Porch!
Let me start with, the way it worked on our porches here in Rosevine years ago. We would all sit around on the porch steps, Uncle Alton and granddaddy laid back in the porch swings, us kids on the steps and, if it was a Sunday, preacher Smith would be allowed the rocking chair.
One old man would say something he knew would get the ball rolling, and one by one, all of us would chime in on the subject and pretty soon there would be a lively debate going on about various issues affecting anything from the price of cattle to groceries to religion.
We talked a heap about politics and so I still carry on this tradition and some of yall may agree with me and some might not, that's ok cause i doubt I would agree with you on everything too and that makes the world go round, doesn't it?
I had a lady recently write and ask me why I use so many commas. This wonderful lady, bless her heart, allowed I could use a comma where one wouldn't dare go if it was any self-respecting comma in a grammar book, and I tend to agree with her. I was taught to err on the side of too much, too often, and sometimes I get carried away. Now, understand I’m still going to punctuate with commas or any dang thing else I please, but shoot, I do appreciate her noticing and maybe she can send me a Back Porch all cleaned up and edited.
Tamara's kinfolk wrote and told her she shouldn't use all milk in her morning gravy cause milk has too many calories in it and to make morning gravy 'figure friendly' Tamara should cut way back on the milk.
Well, now I beg to differ! In the first place if you make gravy right, there is about a quarter cup of bacon or sausage renderings in it and once you get past that, what's a little milk?
TAMARA'S MORNING GRAVEY
Fry up your sausage or bacon in a hot cast iron skillet. Go on! Render all that delicious meat down until it's offered up all that sweet, delectable grease. (I tried here to think of a more palatable word or phrase but nothing came to mind that would do justice to bacon fat like, well....bacon fat. Pork fat is a goooood thing! So, we will continue to say 'grease' cause it may be less offensive to some of yall than 'lard')
Take up the bacon or sausage and place on a paper towel to drain off the 'grease'.
Now your drippings are still hot and the flame still burns brightly under the heavy iron of the skillet so, spoon in an equal amount of flour into the hot grease and stir it around.
Add some salt and a LOT of black ground pepper.
Stir until this becomes a loose paste, nutty brown, and then ADD a little milk slowly while stirring.
Add a little more milk, but don't run away with yourself here...you want a creamy consistency.
Stir like Old Man Jim Becton's House burned (old saying meaning 'stir mightily!") until the gravy thickens and it is a nutty brown and little air bubbles are popping in the mixture.
Pour into a gravy bowl and hit it with a bit more pepper and a touch more salt to taste.
I LIKE SAUSAUGE AT THIS POINT, IN MINE!
If you happen to have some fresh ground sausage NOW is the time for all good sausage eaters to come to the aid of the gravy! Dump 'er right in that soft, liquid Heaven and gently fold it in together.
Ok, now is the time we can ladle up a heapin helpin onto the buttery underbelly of our biscuits!
Write and commiserate with Tamara on all these RECIPES ok? We would love to hear what YALL like to eat!
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Mach Choux
Texans pronounce this mock shoe and it is to die for! We had it last night with a huge pot of seafood gumbo. Gumbo is a whole different matter but the mach chouxis, well, something else, some kinda good!
The Trinity
A 'trinity' anywhere south of Leesville, La. means only one thing and it is not to be confused with 'The HOLY Trinity" of Biblical fame. A trinity is chopped celery, onion & bell pepper. Dice these vegetables anywhere from big hunks down to pretty finely diced, just dont make them so small they evaporate in a hot sauté pan or skillet.
Sautee the trinity in some kind of oil heated in a pan. Sauté until clear and soft, bout 5 minutes or so.
Add one diced jalapeno pepper, a drained can of whole kernel corn and some garlic and sauté this as well.
Let's talk meat! Andouille sausage, TASSO AND crawfish tails are THE ingredients for mach choux! If you aren't familiar with any of these meats, lemme tell you about them.
Andouille sausage is Cajun sausage and it has a particular flavor and is pretty spicy although not nearly as spicy as Mexican Chorizo, but spicier than Kielbasa. It is a more dense, tightly packed sausage too. I buy mine over at the Big Star grocery in Toledo Town but you can also get it on the internet.
Tasso is like Cajun jerky, only not jerked til it is dried completely out. Tasso is ham, lean and dried, and you use it mostly to cook with but it's good to slice up and eat at the table too.
Crawfish is crawfish and they taste mighty fine in mach choux or just about anything else. You can get crawfish tails in those plastic bags nowadays and that is far better than having to buy them fresh, boil them, then peel them like in the old days. The old days crawfish tasted better, though. Ah, such is progress, right?
Ok, the vegetables have simmered for about ten minutes now and you are putting about a pound of tasso or andouille in the simmering veggies along with about a half pound of crawfish.
SEASONING
A shot of dry white wine if you have it. Gives it a mellow taste and never hurt anyone cause the alcohol burns off but leaves that flavor of wine!
Cajun seasonings if you like. I use salt, pepper, cayenne, a liberal dousing of Tabasco, and a sprinkle of paprika.
Stir to mix the seasonings, wine meat & veggies, then pour about a half cup of HEAVEY CREAM into the skillet and stir well.
Yes, heavy cream. Yes, in with Tabasco, tasso, crawfish and veggies. This absolutely makes this dish!
Bring the mixture up to boil temperature and when it bubbles and pops, then turn the stove down to simmer and let 'er ride for about ten to fifteen minutes, stirring occasionally.
That's it! Economical, good for you, easy to make and delicious! The whole things takes less than 30 minutes to make is an excellent side dish with most anything, especially gumbo.
Try mach choux over baked potatoes. Try it with fried taters or grilled eggplant. This is good stuff and we hope you enjoy our version. I wish some of the folks down in south Louisiana would write and let us know what they think of our recipe and tell us about how they make mach choux, so why don't yall get your fingers clicking away on that keyboard and let us know something good to eat, ok?
SEND US SOME RECIPES!
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THE WEATHER
I guess talking about the weather here at
www.NuTrader.com Back Porch is just part of who we are. We are rural people, for the most part, and dang proud of that, and weather is a very important part of who we are and how we live. Even though folks mainly think of Texas as big cities now, like Houston, Dallas, Beaumont and the like, there are still a whole bunch of us who live in the sticks.
It's officially Fall, least it is in my book, anyhow. Yesterday, Monday, the first seasonal Norther blew in. A Norther is a weather pattern that blows cool, refreshing air into an otherwise stifling climate.
It was around 85 at 11 am and by 3pm the temp had dropped a full 20 degrees and it was slashing rain across the deep green landscape of East Texas.
It was WONDERFUL! This year has been hot and although not as dry as some, dry enough so's you'd notice the dust behind your truck on a dirt road.
I don't look forward to the seven or eight weeks of bone-chilling cold to come but to have some rain and to see the mists shrouding the highways was pretty darn great!
Write and let me know about YOUR weather cause I'm interested, ok?
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The LIVE Radio Back Porch
Sometimes things take on a life of it's own, don't they, without you ever having to work at it much and even though you may have reservations about that thing. That's the way the radio call in talk show is doing.
I'm kind of a shy fellow, pretty reserved about most things and I listen more than I talk but Tamara talked me into this radio thing and it IS fun! I like the heck out of it, especially since people can call in and talk and we have done two shows now (we air on MONDAY @ 2PM Central time on
www.blogtalkradio.com/ralphsbackporch) and on both shows people have been kind enough to call in and help us out.
We read some of YOUR ads on the air, we showcase some of our Nutrader sponsors, I talk about news from around here or news I think is interesting and we have some music and I wrap it up with some politics or something else absurd.
The show is a lot of fun and we are doubling in listeners with each show.
This week I talked about nipping violence in the bud and how if we took our jobs as parents in this society more seriously we wouldn't have the oceans of convicts in our mega-jails and how at one time Texas was the model for the countries penal system.
Which brings me to something our good friend and watch-dog, Jerry from down around Houston sent us about the Sheriff, Joe Arpaio out in Arizona.
Here it is and it bears reading again:
You got to love that Sheriff Joe!
Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said okay. The animal shelters are now all staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place in dog shows. The best part? His budget for the entire department is now under $3 million. Some friends adopted a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered, and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a microchip inserted the day they got him. Cost; $78. The prisoners get the benefit of about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free, just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the fees collected for adopted animals. I have long wondered when the rest of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and harvesting by hand. He has a pretty good sized hog farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later. We have six trees in our yard from the Prison. Yup, he was reelected last year with 83% of the vote. Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws, started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of a "Git-R Dun" kind of Sheriff.
Update on Joe Arpaio TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY: Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona) Who created the "Tent City Jail": He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but "G" movies. He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. Then He Started Chain Gangs For Women So He Wouldn't Get Sued For Discrimination. He took away cable TV Until he found out there was A Federal Court Order That Required Cable TV For Jails So He Hooked Up The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel. When asked why the weather channel He Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It's Gonna Be While They Are Working ON My Chain Gangs. He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero Nutritional Value. When the inmates complained, he told them, "This Isn't The Ritz/Carlton If You Don't Like It, Don't Come Back." He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails ails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
More On The Arizona Sheriff: With Temperatures Being Even Hotter Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), The Associated Press Reports: About 2,000 Inmates Living In A Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment At The Maricopa County Jail Have Been Given Permission To Strip Down To Their Government-Issued Pink Boxer Shorts. On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 Degrees Inside The Week Before. Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To Their PINK SOCKS. "It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace," Said James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1 year. "It's Inhumane." Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear, But They Didn't Commit Any Crimes, So Shut Your Damned Mouths!" Way To Go, Sheriff! Maybe if all prisons were like this one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have for themselves.
You know, it occurs to me that Sheriff Joe way out in Arizona doesn't have the market cornered on common sense and that IF, just IF, we as voters on a county level made it know loudly, clearly and with force WE wanted the same conditions for OUR county right here where we live and that if we as voters would accept NOTHING LESS from a candidate for sheriff, then we might put a plug in the leaking dikes of our local crime problems.
Folks a wise man once said, "If it is to be...it is up to me!" Well, WE can make a difference in our local political systems and I'm not sure that isn't where we ought to begin changing things.
I am certainly going to make a LOT of noise about changing things in Sabine County Texas in the next election and I advise YOU to flood your local newspapers, radios and right HERE AT
WWW.NuTrader.com with your thoughts, ideas and even demands for local candidates of all parties and persuasions!
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what yall are saying:
Ralph & Tamara:
Boy was this a good newsletter! I don't know just where to start............. Tamara I can 'feel your pain' as we are restoring an 80 yr old house while living in it. My husband is an electrician by trade and HATES plumbing, as he so aptly puts it "electricity don't drip". Anyway you sound like you'll do fine. Now for pagan holidays; they are only pagan if you let them be. When we are worshiping God and recognizing his Son's birthday does it really matter if it is December 25 or the middle of August? Christmas isn't Santa or was Santa a pagan god I didn't know about..........hmmm? You can't print what I think we should do to the child molesters so I won't even go there. As for the generation of uncontrolled, irresponsible, sit on your butt and let the government take care of you, that we see everyday; my question is HOW did we let it go this far? I for one spanked my kids and neither of them is deranged. There are just times that a 'time out' won't work. You couldn't PAY me to be a teacher nowadays they have to deal with children who have never had to be accountable for their actions and the teachers can't make them accountable so what do you do? They just pass them on to the next year and they end up getting out of school with no work ethic and no accountability for anything they do and we wonder why they end up in the penal system? I remember when Texas had a self sustaining prison system. My father put in a 'state of the art' at the time cattle feeding system outside of Huntsville years ago. The money we spend on housing,clothing and feeding prisoners could be put to better use. I also remember going to the prison rodeo. Can't you just see some of these 'gang bangers' riding a bull! LOL! You know if we went back to the 'chain gang' era maybe the criminals wouldn't say that doing the time is a piece of cake. Civil rights are for civil people. If you rob, rape, murder, molest or sell drugs you should be aware that you don't have any civil rights and that you will be expected to work your sentence off. I don't mean being cruel or uncaring of people but, these things can be done in a humane way and still get the point across. 'We The People' have got to remember that we ARE the government and should vote and act as such. Well, so much for my 2 cents worth. Since it's raining here I had a little time to spare and weigh in on this discussion. Opinions............you know what they say.
Have a GREAT week!
Sherry
Sherry obviously agrees! let us know what you think.
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I love this site... It is very user friendly. It has a lot of information and well monitored.
Catherine Livingston from Center Texas sent this last week. Catherine has a booth in the Center Antique Mall on the Square and has been busy putting some great antique listings in the site. Yall be sure to let Catherine you saw her ads when your in there!
COMMON SENSE
There is so much junk going on in the so-called news that it is hard to know where to start digesting it all.
The dude in Thailand who had sex with the boys. Ok, he's been on the run for awhile now and was finally caught when the computer gurus unscrambled his face in the images.
I understand! This is a bad guy who has sex with teen & preteen boys for fun and games and frankly I think some country should seriously consider cutting his dinger off.
What I want to know is...how come they can catch a criminal who dallies with little boys halfway across the planet and they can't catch the Nigerian scammers right here who email us each and every day asking for money?
I guess it is all a matter of priorities.
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The baby in the toilet
There is a lot of talk about the young woman who gave birth to a baby, left that baby in the handicapped stall in a South Carolina hospital toilet with a note on her chest telling the next person who happened along when the baby had last been fed and asking someone to take her in and raise her well.
WHAT IN THE HECK ARE WE THINKING?
Folks, if I was to leave a batch of kittens or puppies on the side of the road some group or organization would be on me like white on rice in a New York minute for doing this and yet we make all kinds of excuses for this girl who gave birth and left her infant in a toilet on the floor for others to take care of and the bleeding hearts are making all kinds of excuses for this woman.
Is there no SHAME left in our decaying culture? How come it is excusable to leave a crying baby in a toilet when it isn't excusable to give away the Iggy dog whom Ellen gave away to a little girl without consulting the doggy rescue service?
Ellen Degeneres couldn't keep her little dog, Iggy cause Iggy didn't get along with Ellen's cats. So, reasonably enough, Ellen passed Iggy on to a little girl who wanted and would love a pet.
The fly in the buttermilk was, Ellen had signed a contract with the rescue organization promising to make them aware of when, and if, she was going to transfer the dog to another person.
Well, geez Louise! Ellen gave the dog away to a little girl who wanted a dog.
The rescue organization came in and removed the dog, Iggy for violation of contractual agreement and Ellen broke down on national tv and sobbed because of it.
Ellen had a dog she couldn't keep. The little girl wanted an unwanted dog. Seems to me like a match made in Heaven until petty bureaucrats muddled it all up.
The sad thing is, there is as much, if not more, TV news time devoted to the dog as there is to the girl who left a HUMAN baby in the toilet in a South Carolina hospital.
Stray dogs should get to go to anyone who will feed and care for stray dogs, period.
The girl who gave birth to a human child and left it to rot should be spayed on national tv.
That girl, no matter her circumstances, no matter her education or her background, or if she had no 'father figure' should be made to think of her child lying on a cold, hard bathroom floor every day of her life.
WHICH BRINGS US TO THIS:
We are sending mixed messages to the youth of America here. On one had we make all kinds of excuses for 'unwanted pregnancies" and what ignorant trash do with the results of these births and on the other hand we give seemingly free reign to school systems in Maine who make it totally acceptable to give out birth control pills and patches to 11 year olds!
A middle school in Maine has made it perfectly legal to dispense birth control in the nurses office to little girls.
How about spanking their butts first? How about calling Mom & Dad and saying "Uh, we got a situation down here...your daughter wants to have sex and as far as we can determine she's oh, bout 11 or 12. Say! We have an idea! Ya'll come on down and let's have a talk, umkay?"
GIVING BIRTH CONTROL PILLS TO LITTLE GIRLS IS WRONG. It means we don't care anymore. It means we are unconcerned. It means we are way too busy living what we laughingly call life to know, or care, about what is going on in our daughters and son's lives.
YOU CAN STOP THIS CRAP!
Maine might do it. Other states might do it...but when it comes your turn to step up to the plate and argue for right......well, that's going to be up to you and you alone.
So....Ellen gave her dog away and now Iggy is up in the air. The infant in South Carolina is well-fed and happy and probably way better off than she would have been with her trashy, crack-head mother.
The little girls of that school in Maine are getting fed a dose of nasty in the form of birth control pills...and we watch the news and wait for something to come our way in Texas, Montana or Arizona and what in the world will we do when the time comes to make a choice between right and wrong?
I hope you read this and remember and when it comes time to stand in the gap for the right thing, you unflinchingly do that right thing.
Can I count on you? Write me back and let me know what you think about this, ok?
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A Miracle in Michigan
Now, I know I make a lot of fun about Michigan because Tamara is from Michigan and, well, Michigan is an easy target, but the other day the Wrath Of God reigned down on Michigan and several other states in the form of severe weather, but what I want to talk about is a flat-out miracle, if there ever was one!
After the storms passed and when folks began to dig out of the rubble of homes, shops and businesses in that part of Michigan a couple had lost their baby, a 14 month old baby girl who was nowhere to be found.
Neither was this couple's home that they had built last year or their clothes, furniture, household items and anything else not tied down.
The main concern was that baby! Neighbors came and they searched and searched but to no avail until a neighbor heard a faint whimper. He shushed the people around him and homed in on the soft cry until he pin pointed the sound from beneath a mountain of debris.
Under thousands of pounds of storm damage they dug until they came to a mattress covering the baby girl who was none the worse for her ordeal, alive, safe...in the hands of God. The mattress had covered the child and made her safe until Mom & Dad could find her and folks, if that ain't the work of Almighty God, I have no idea what is!
So, we say a prayer today for all the victims of last weeks devastating storms and we get to say a prayer of Thanksgiving for a life touched by the Devine.
Thank you God for letting us know that our paltry fate is in your Great hands!
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How to Deal with Door to Door Salesmen
) Go to a second-hand store, buy a pair of men's used size 14-16 work boots2) Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns & Ammo Magazine3) Put a few giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazine4) Leave a note on your door that reads:Hey Bubba, Big Jim, Duke and Slim,I went for more ammo. Back in an hour. Don't mess with the pit bulls -they attacked the mailman this morning and messed him up real bad. Idon't think Killer took part in it but it was hard to tell from all theblood.
Anyway, I locked all four of 'em in the house. Better wait outside.Cooter:-)
Althea OdomRiding a horse is not a gentle hobby to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire.IT IS A GRAND PASSION.
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As yall know we are now doing the Live Call in Swap Shop on Mondays 2 PM cst and this is growing like a weed! We talk and chat and read off your ads you post in
www.NuTrader.com and what we would like is for yall to CALL us and chat about what you have for sale, what you want to buy, when & where your garage sales are, what EVENTS you are having, PRAYER REQUESTS & most anything else you'd like to let others know about.
The number to call is 347 215 8849
Give us a call and let us know what's on your mind, ok?
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Jaw Sugar
I never got over old women giving me jaw sugar. Oh? You don't know what jaw sugar is? Well, pardner you have lived a sheltered life to say the least!
Jaw sugar is little kisses you get on the jaw. Old women give them, mothers bestow them on babies and children, your sister gives you one when you leave home, ladies give 'em to husbands out the door on the way to work.
A little sugar is always welcomed and appreciated. The most poignant sugar is when you are leaving loved ones and the day seems to stop magically as you load into the car and prepare to leave grandmaw or momma or someone loved and cherished.
Someone leans down and gives you the softest peck on the jaw and that kiss is a lifetime of love and wonderment. That little peck says "Goodbye, I love you and hurry home" better than any words will ever express and it don't matter who's looking or what's happening around you, for one long, slow moment you are at peace and the world has the potential to be bright and sweet when Momma or Grandmaw gives you a little jaw sugar.
The next time you hug and kiss someone you love, remember that life is a fleeting thing and we are but travelers upon this mortal coil and soon our lite fades away but the memories of old women giving jaw sugar, well....those memories keep us safe and sane in a sometimes wicked world.
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TAKE BACK AMERICA!
Somewhere along the way the U.S. was stolen from us. The Constitution is ignored, the Bill of Rights seems to be a joke and the government we trust to secure our liberties and defend our nation has jerked us around until our necks are stringy.
Democrats? Sheesh! I wouldn't touch them with someone else’s voting finger! Republicans? Oh yeah...they were the folks who promised us a new moral revolution in this country, right? Republicans promised us integrity and honor back in the White House. Let me ask yall....do YOU feel like there is honor in the words of our administration?
We have had two things against Clinton....uh two things we can verbalize, and we seem to want to talk incessantly about, the oral sex with a woman he wasn’t married to, and then lying about that same oral sex in front of BOTH Congress and the people of the United States.
So, we turned to the Republican party to steer a course for the US into more moral waters and what happened? Folks, the Republicans are as money grubbing, morally bankrupt and sneaky as the Democrats...well, maybe that's going too far.....but dang, don't those folks in Washington look as if they belong on wanted posters?
So, who the heck will we vote for? YOU tell me who you like....you tell me who you want in office! If I was to put a gun to your head today and make you make a choice, what and whom, would that choice be?
Let me throw THIS into the mix.....I heard James Dobson is pulling out of the Republican camp.
Uh huh......NOW tell me what's on your mind! Yeah, I dare you to come out and be real about all this! I dare you to justify $3.00 a gallon gasoline & rampant illegal immigration and wait! I DOUBLE DOG DARE you, anyone....to tell me what the benefit there is in the LandToSea Treaty!
ralph@nutrader.comwww.Nutrader.comRadio Show 347 215 8849
Office number 936 288 0832
Ok, here's your chance to tell me what good is coming from the so-called conservative, Christian, faith-based administration we have in office and more than that, what the heck are YOU going to do about all this voting business come next November when my son, Jess, is going to have to pack his ditty bag and deploy back to Iraq after he's already spent 18 months in that Hell-hole?
Am I PO'd? You bet I am and each and every one of you should be too! Our military has DONE IT'S JOB. THEY FOUGHT THE BAD GUYS AND WON.
They toppled Saddam's little screwy government. Tanks rolled into Baghdad. We WON, folks! Now Iraq needs to step up and make a government.
And the U.S.? Well, we need to give these guys and girls a ticker-tape parade on Broadway and all the fuss and bluster of a hero's welcome...HOME.
Either BEAT 'EM or LEAVE 'EM ALONE.
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WOW......I BETTER CALM MY BUTT DOWN!
How>>>>>>>>>>by letting yall know about our business partners!
WHERE DO YOU FIND OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS???
Why, in the BUSINESS DIRECTORY @ NuTrader, of course!
Go to
www.Nutrader.com and browse through the Business Directory. If you ain't got it, someone there has it and I bet you need it!
Plus that, make sure you call these people and let them know what the VALUE of advertising is! We do them a good job and sometimes we feel a bit unappreciated cause we can't hardly ever get the PAYING CUSTOMERS to respond!
Maybe you can! CALL them, EMAIL THEM, DROP BY AND POKE THEM IN THE CHEST and tell them you saw them on
www.NuTrader.com and old Ralph is talking his fool head off about them and you want some action!
Oh? And advertisers? If yall want to be mentioned here or on the LIVE RADIO SHOW....well, you got to get in touch with me somehow!
Recent Advertisers: Click their name to see their ad!
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Chic Repeats - They have moved again... but its just so that they have more space for great merchandise. You can now find chic repeats in Lufkin on Denman across from Cook's Tire. Their location isn't the only thing that’s new! a new price system and they now have credit for your gently used merchandise!
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WHOEVER GETS THIS, EMAIL ME!
It takes but a minute to make someone feel warm and welcome and it takes a lifetime to help someone get over something.
Take a minute today and email us with your recipes, jokes, thoughts and such and let us know we are being heard, ok?
ralph@nutrader.comwww.NuTrader.comRalphs Back Porch 347 215 8849
We enjoy each and every one of yall and hope we can hear from you soon!
From TEXAS, this is old Ralph saying goodbye and good luck...Have a blessed day!
Ralph
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