barefoot on the streets of Cheboygan

I don’t think Saddam agreed to any no fly zones, I think we decided on them unilaterally. The Kurds were gassed before the no fly zones, that was the main reason we put them in, we felt bad about urging the Kurds to rise up and then standing around with our hands in our pockets while he slaughtered them.

And the Kurds are certainly not nomadic. If they were they would have packed up and left long ago. They have lived as far back as history between Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Of course those three countries have only existed in the past 100 years, and it’s been around that many years that the Kurds have wanted their own country. They did quite well within the Ottoman empire, Saladin was a Kurd, but in these new countries they are just an oppressed minority.

And they are the only guys out there that are willing to fight ISIS, they just retook that podunk border town we have been bombing the fuck out of for about a month. Of course they have Kurdistan to fight for, while their erstwhile allies just want to fight Shiites. And for all that the US still wants to keep them in Iraq, not that we have much to say about it, thank God.

You know if you all country folk with your hearts steeped in goodness unlike us slickers whose hearts are owned by Satan, had seceded from the Union fifty years ago, Beagles the Bohunk would never have been allowed into Podunkia because they wouldn’t want no slickers. He would probably have ended up running some shooting gallery in a neighborhood carnival watching the tin deer pass by.

Sure all the bumpkins liked Detroit well enough when it was making the big cars and they could leave the back forty and get a good job. But anymore when Detroit is a handbasket case they want to send it to hell.

They did write some beautiful sad songs while they were there though. I am thinking of Detroit City and Streets of Baltimore. We have an area here about five miles north of downtown by the lake called Uptown where all the hillbillies flock to. I’ll wager there is no place in Cheboygan where the urban immigrants gather. I guess when you get used to wearing store-bought shoes there is no going back.

I see where the Supremes are taking up gay marriage. Probably less than a year from now you will be gay married to your gay dog, but on the brighter side you can both probably go hunting with matching deer rifles.

What is up with Old Betsy anyway? Did you ever bag a deer in this last season.