“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
So, like me, most of you probably grew up thinking that getting a decent education to whatever level you could attain would lead to a job and eventually a career where you could succeed. For traditional families, that may have even meant no outside job for the wife and mother so that she could handle … Continue reading Back In My Day: Nothing New Under The Sun – Another Great American Traitorous Deception
Country Music Star Morgan Wallen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atyWvGs9rR4 The way we remember him around these parts... One of the contractor friends I mentioned in the Scott Stallings BIMD is also good friends and worked with country music star Morgan Wallen's dad, Tommy, for many years in the construction industry. They lived near each other until recently as … Continue reading Back In My Day: From The Hills of Tennessee and Coal Country – Bad Boy Brings It While Working on Being A Better Man
Time to get back to Coal Country before I lose momentum on the story. This is a longer slog because it pushes along the personal stage setting for future connections. You can tell how difficult life was for Loretta as the coal miner's daughter, which sounded somewhat like the life of Dolly and my wife … Continue reading Back In My Day: Coal Country Heros – The Blue Side of the Mountain
Need to pass along some observations and a story or two in the current news. Just the usual Goober Gump deal for a story that means a lot to me. Will resume the Coal Country series in few days. Building Materials We have a couple of contractor friends who have handled a lot of work … Continue reading Back In My Day: Local Big Box News and … Golf?!
What could be more boring to some of you than talking about dirty, black dust smudged coal miners exiting a filthy, death trap of a mine day after endless day? Why go there with one of your stories, TradeBait? I have better things to do like walking the dog, staining the deck, and washing the … Continue reading Back In My Day: Coal Country Heroes – Music Edition
Going to take a short detour for today. I need extra time to prepare the next subject series and a breather from a hectic past few weeks on the home front. I also wanted to make sure there was an audience for what I have to contribute to The QTree. If the interest continues, I … Continue reading Back In My Day: Purposeful Lives
Many already know to whom I am referring. Very few men, if any, could honestly make the statement I am about to make. I married and climb into bed each night with a woman who slept with Dolly. Yep. I'm a traditional sort of guy, so making this admission is not what I normally would … Continue reading Back In My Day: The Mountain Songbird
When you get time and if you are interested in the subject of the Uniparty and The Club, I hope you will consider reading this HOH four part series. Please forgive my writing style and focus on the content and implications because stories like this one give us big clues. That said, let's finish this … Continue reading Back In My Day: House of Haslam – Conclusion
My hope is that you have invested time into the HOH series. I believe you will find it worth it starting today if you have questioned the commitment. I wanted to shorten this one. Impossible. It simply has too many nuggets to shorten. There is a soothing peace one receives in his or her spirit … Continue reading Back In My Day: House of Haslam, Part 3 – Lose/Win, Win/Win, and (Highly) Suspicious Minds!
As promised we will now move into the HOH rise to power within the expanding Pilot Oil empire in the vehicular retail fuel distribution industry. From the start of the business until Big Jim's buy out of Marathon's ownership, the company grew primarily through internally generated cash flow, smaller bank loans and funding from Marathon. … Continue reading House of Haslam, Part 2 – The Rise To An Industry Power