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CBD relief for the pain weary

2017-12-20T18:30:00.003-05:00

Dear Friends

The answer to the question posed at the beginning of this post is a bodily function that is relatively unknown to the average individual searching for a way to improve their overall well being and healthy life functions!

Let us delve into the question! This subject may seem complicated so the vogue of this post will be to take one's apprehension and turn it into understanding that will give folks searching for relief from being pain weary a general knowledge of cannabinoids or what has been come to be referred to as CBD as part of the medical marijuana health regimen modality. I have included a link from an article penned by Anna Wilcox

https://herb.co/2016/07/28/endocannabinoid-system-dummies/

2017-11-07T15:19:00.002-05:00

Howdy Folks
Crazy World for sure when the folks are calling for armed guards in Churches and such
what does that mean for the religious concept?

PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMO PLEASE!!!

GUN TOTE'N BIBLE THUMP'N OR IS IT BIBLE TOTE'N GUN THUMP'N PARISHES BOTH SEEM STRANGE TO ME HOW ABOUT YA'LL?

A Time for Everything

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

 a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

 a time to kill, and a time to heal;

a time to break down, and a time to build up;

a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

a time to seek, and a time to lose;

a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

 a time to tear, and a time to sew;

a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

 a time to love, and a time to hate;

a time for war, and a time for peace.

should t here be another verse?

a time to shoot or not shoot

a time to reload or get more clips?

As I said in the beginning it is a strange unparalleled time

 in the world!

What is the answer?

Romans 12:19-21 

Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.

” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Ben Franklin stated that folks should be:

Civil to all

sociable to many

familiar with few 

friend to one 

ENEMY TO NONE!!!!!!!

NO ANSWERS FROM ME JUST MORE QUESTIONS!

IF ANYONE HAS AN ANWSER PLEASE LET IT FLOW FORTH FROM YOUR WISE MIND!

THANK YOU TILL NEXT POST!

SKULLDUGGERY

2017-10-30T14:20:00.001-04:00

He would be cagey enough to stay ignorant of any overt strife or any other skullduggery that could be laid at his door!

We utilize persuasion, skullduggery, and yes even force to subvert their
institutions, to destroy their present culture!

SKULLDUGGERY
Shady behavior; dirty work, hanky-panky

underhand dealing; trickery

OKIE DOKIESince #45 PT. Bluster claims there is NO Collusion with the Russkies lets change the word to something which is much more appropriate!
I fully believe that SKULLDUGGERY is a term that is much easier for most folks to understand than….. COLLUSION

SKULLDUGGERY=

underhand dealing, trickery,Shady behavior,dirty work,hanky panky these are but a few of the synonyms that can be used to describe collusion!It appears as though the old gop mantra of "repeal and replace"could move on to "LIE AND DENY"To use the word in a sentence goes like this;

Did the GOP candidate win because of Facebook skullduggery"tales of espionage and skulduggery, the company's apparently healthy bottom line was merely an illusion, the result of years of accounting Skulduggery

Okay lets all say it together!!!! SHADY BEHAVIOR!!

Now isn't that much more descriptive than COLLUSION!
PLEASE VIEW THIS LINK
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/skullduggery

Howdy Doody

2017-10-26T14:55:00.000-04:00

Who remembers Ol' Howdy and Buffalo Bob?

how about all the items mentioned by Chicago{the band}

Drive-in movies, comic books, and blue jeans, howdy doody, baseball cards, and birthdays. Please take me back to the world gone away.

Chicago (Band) quotes

Proud member of the Peanut Gallery!!

New Moniker for 45 I will be using!
Phineas T. Bluster--- could the T stand for? hmm let me see…...

Oh by the way please join the blog so you can comment on my ramblings!

Thank ya'll

2017-10-24T11:24:00.004-04:00

Howdy Friends Folks Compatriots
Okie Dokie you all know by now that I usually only run my mouth politically when somethings needs to be stated!

This is my thoughts on Senator McCain! I am stating that although 45 can be called many things a PATRIOT is not one of those adjectives!! THANK YOU SENATOR MCCAIN FOR YOUR MERITORIOUS SERVICE!

Any individual that has never served one second in standing up for the UNITED STATES and our principals should just keep their mouth SHUT about any man or woman who has stood up to protect his fat rich ass!! Bone spurs my ass.Bonehead would be closer to the truth!

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

John F. Kennedy

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

George Washington

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

Jesse Ventura

Thank you Jeff Flake for standing up for your values and the United States of America and for your conscious thoughts on America's well being as a country that does not need to be made GREAT AGAIN! It has never stopped being Great but there is a pitch man that is trying to kill the greatness of this nation by the ill spoken attacks on everyone that is not of his king like governance!

Workin' in the field till you get your back burned
Workin' `neath the wheels till you get your facts learned.
Baby i got my facts learned real good right now.
You better get it straight darling:
Poor men wanna be rich, rich men wanna be kings,
And a king ain't satisfied till he rules everything.
"Badlands"

Thank you Bruce Springsteen for these apropos words!

Check out this Bruce article:
http://thestake.org/2016/03/08/the-price-you-pay-how-bruce-springsteen-explains-donald-trump/

Next Post is about the opium crisis here is primer;

It was a major drug bust with more than 1,600 arrests and the confiscation of 11,000 pounds of a highly addictive substance.

No, this wasn’t a DEA raid of a major meth operation, or an Interpol investigation into international drug smuggling. It was the year 1839 and the Chinese government was cracking down on British importation of opium. The drug issue was a powder keg that led to a series of wars between the two countries over the course of more than 20 years and changed both nations for generations.

To the British, the Chinese crackdown was a matter of business. It was a perceived trade imbalance on the British end due to Chinese officials requiring silver in trade for their goods, most notably tea, that led the British to realize that opium could tip the scales in their favor.

The British government, initially through its East India Company, had tried trading everything from woolens to scientific instruments to pottery, but the Chinese only cared about precious metals.

But when they realized opium was becoming more and more in demand in China the British knew it was their ticket in. Opium was not widely produced in China, but was grown extensively in India, where the British had taken control of production. By the 19th century, poppy cultivation and opium production had been firmly established in India, mainly in Bengal and Bihar. It was a major part of India’s agricultural market with tens of thousands employed in the far reaching, and lucrative, business.

2017-10-06T18:16:00.001-04:00

A bit of a Hippie Tribute today to Sam Caldwell!!

So long Tom Petty /weed prohibition began 80 years ago ….Now Tom is roll'n another joint and roll'n down the road!!!

https://www.leafly.com/news/pop-culture/tom-petty-and-marijuana

https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/drug-war-prisoners-1-2-true-story-moses-sam-two-denver-drifters-became-cannabis-pioneers?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=B2C%20NEWSLETTER%202017-10-04

BEING NAKED

2017-10-06T16:32:00.001-04:00

BEING NAKED

Okay dokie !

How many of you ol' hippies remember skinny dipp'n… say at the quarry in Fairfield , Benner's Pond, Sunny Hole or anywhere for that matter!

I recall a crowd of hippies taking a break from the Ott House, being butt naked at the ol' Friends Creek swim"n Hole, enjoying nature in various ways…... as the uppity Charnita land holders would saunter past on their rented steeds!

The expressions on their repressed faces were absolutely Hilarious to behold!!!

“An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!” ― Ramana Pemmaraju

BY MADISYN TAYLOR

"There is a freedom in being naked that few enjoy because we have been learned to be embarrassed."

For most of us, it is probably difficult to remember the last time we were comfortably naked for a period of time longer than 20 minutes or so. Many of us are only naked for the length of time it takes us to shower or bathe. We quickly dry off and put our clothes or pajamas on, without taking even a moment to enjoy the feeling of the air against our bare skin. Most of us learned that this was the way to do things from a young age, and we may not have been exposed to another way of thinking, but many cultures regard nudity as completely acceptable, even in somewhat public settings. If you have ever had the good fortune to assimilate yourself to this way of doing things, you may have found the experience liberating enough to allow it to influence the rest of your life.

Perhaps you swam topless in Tahiti or took a sauna in Sweden or Finland. In many American cities, you can find the experience of unselfconscious nudity in a Russian or Korean spa. You may have noticed the lack of vanity in people who are comfortable with their naked bodies. Old ladies and young girls sit side by side, seemingly without concern for how they appear. We see that it is not necessary to hide our imperfections; from cellulite to wrinkles, all is accepted with equilibrium. We can see the beauty and naturalness of our different bodies, accepting ourselves as just right, just as we are. Being naked in front of children can be discussed with your spouse and a plan developed for your family. Children have their way of letting you know when they are ready for a clothes-only family.

If this sounds appealing, you might try carving out some time in your day in which you let yourself be naked. You could delay dressing for 10 minutes after your shower, gradually increasing the time to 20 minutes or half an hour. You might also want to try sleeping naked, a sensual delight that is especially wonderful in hot summer months. If you have a private garden, a naked sunbath might be just the thing. Whatever your choice, finding time to be as naked as the day you were born can awaken feelings of contentment, freedom, and self-love.

"Let it all hang out Friends"

A note on Immigrant workers

2017-08-27T13:25:00.004-04:00

Sheriff Joe Arpaio can now go on the record with the racist heroes 45 finds so enticing to his views, alongside the portrait of his racist hero # 7 {indian killer}, his trail of tears, being a land robber to plant cotton on those lands, need more be stated!

I haven't heard 45 denounce Jackson as a racist murderer on many sides, native American, slaves and those who stood against his racist policies

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com

The Art of the Deal, opens with this now-familiar tall tale: “I don’t do it for the money. I’ve got enough, much more than I’ll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form.”

"Donald Your art form is ugly"

or anything else for that matter

so lets not buy his skewed rhetoric

Smart phones social inadequacy devices for the socially disabled! A new word {SMOMBIE} and a new world for certain!

2017-08-22T14:55:00.000-04:00

What a Gorgeous day here in PA! Please Enjoy the input!

Does anyone under the age of 40 know what this device is known as?

I just returned to my humble abode after a short ride in the rural area in which I reside, it just amazes me that in this rural area with a lot of new folk building their McMansions that they all must have broken arms or maybe its just their brain pan not being up to operating temperature yet. At one time in this area when you passed a neighbor or anyone for that matter you would give and receive a simple wave, an acknowledgement of some sort, a friendly social message, now one should consider themselves fortunate for a possible nod,very seldom a wave. Mostly what you see is dead stare or even sometimes the one finger salute!

Yet I see folks running their piehole on their so called smartphones what a joke that term is! When a device is brainier than the operator, that is not very{SMART} but is that a good thing?

Here is a bit of input I recently stumbled upon concerning smart devices but lets says not so brainy operators!

Here is a new term to me {smombie…combo of smartphone and yes zombie} you see the fools everywhere, a person walking and not paying a lick of attention to where they are, nor what they are doing, possibly not even knowing who they are without checking their name tag!!!

Hence what is the next law?

"Distracted walking" with the penalty being the loss of smartphone for a number of days, months or in some cases life with no phone. lmao or even making them use a rotary dial bakelite phone on a party line with Mr. Jones,Ol' Miss Biddy, and five other folks listening in on granny's chocolate chip recipe and the gossip in betwixt ingredients!

That is for all of the geezers that know what a Bakelite phone or a party line is!!

Now in Augsburg, Germany the city fathers have had to embed pedestrian traffic signals in the sidewalks so the operators of SMARTPHONES who are obviously not bright enough to keep from being run over at crosswalks and such!

In Chongquing, China, slow moving walking lanes were established on sidewalks called "mobile lanes for slow moving smombies!

PLEASE enjoy this page of smartphone funnies input
http://www.boredpanda.com/cartoon-smartphone-cellphone-addiction/http://www.boredpanda.com/cartoon-smartphone-cellphone-addiction/

I just had address this issue, I saw an individual texting while riding a rice rocket !

As ol 'Earl Pitts stated in a Penn lines column a number of years ago and all of this to replace ten cent phone call!

CAN YA HEAR ME NOW????

Stay tuned to this station for more of my banter!
My thoughts on texting next time!

Thanks for visiting my cafe

Dick Bloom
BuckHorn Design

If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention {Heather Heyer's last post/quote}

2017-08-16T21:10:00.001-04:00

If you are not outraged, you are not paying attention {Heather Heyer's last post/quote}

My heartfelt condolences go out to the family of a courageous young woman that died for her belief in trying to do the right thing…Thank you

Howdy Folks

Does this sound like any individual the country may being dealing with???

"If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary for the just and peaceful functioning in society."

-- Eunice Baumann-Nelson, Ph.D, PENOBSCOT

Some health news for veterans!

HEALTH

The VA Can’t Provide Cannabis to Veterans With PTSD, so This Group Gives It Out for Free!!

check out this link to become enlightened

https://www.leafly.com/news/health/santa-cruz-veterans-alliance-cannabis-ptsd?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=B2C%20NEWSLETTER%202017-08-16

It gets worse by the moment in this old country we love to call home! By worse I mean as far as our freedoms!

I try to understand the puzzle of why a so called businessman claims to be the leader of the FREE world.
I have stated for many years that this individual was more of a "biznessman" in giving us the business!

A old statement from the past pops into my ol' beat up brain

Thanks to Alamy stock photo

Just remember when anyone starts out with the phrase,

Believe Me!!!! Run as fast as you can in the other direction!

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide

With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Zig Ziglar

On the Gettysburg Park Monuments

Gettysburg National Military Park preserves, protects, and interprets one of the best marked battlefields in the world. Over 1,325 monuments, markers, and plaques, commemorate and memorialize the men who fought and died during the battle of Gettysburg and continue to reflect how that battle has been remembered by different generations of Americans.

Many of these memorials honor southern states whose men served in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

These memorials, erected predominantly in the early and mid-20th century, are an important part of the cultural landscape. The National Park Service is committed to safe guarding these unique and site-specific memorials in perpetuity, while simultaneously interpreting holistically and objectively the actions, motivations, and causes of the soldiers and states they commemorate.

Katie Lawhon

Senior Advisor

Gettysburg National Military Park

Office: 717-338-4402

Cell: 717-253-5776

Why is Andrew Jackson loved by 45! DAMIFINO

2017-08-15T12:50:00.002-04:00

https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com

I hate to be involved in political oriented issues but sometimes I just can't keep still when misinformation comes into my view and this is just one of those matters!

This concerns some dear friends folks I care for deeply!

Recently some folks are standing up for donald trump and his statements about white nationalists! I stand before my readers as a 68 year old individual who grew up with a deep sense of family. My family has been in Adams county PA for several hundred years. I grew up living in a caring household with my maternal grandparents, my 1st world war uncle, my 2cd world war uncle, a my mother who was mostly in the nursing professional and my dad who was dedicated to hard work as a machinist, I don't believe that any of them ever lost a day of work in their lives on less it was an emergency.

Most importantly my great great grandmother was of Native American heritage!

That is what brings me to take a stand against the racist incident of this past weekend, first off I am not going to say that I am pure in these matters so I won't lie about the fact that when I was a young individual I was not very smart about the ways of hatred and intolerance of others, some would say I knew the ways of a bully, that being stated. I will move on to my problem with the leader who is in office and his inadequate statements of the past 72 hours!

trump first off is certainly not the brightest bulb in the pack in the ways of humankind!

He has never been any more than a bully in his life {check that out for your selves, I am not going to waste my time nor anyone else's on that issue!} My issue with the current state of affairs is that he states as well his minions that he is not a bigot or a racist.

Yet just look and his stance on the authoritarian regimes he seems to endear so much.
Another issue for your own research!

This topic concerns an issue much closer to home. That is his infatuation with another President of these United States. Commonly known by Native Americans a man nicknamed “Indian killer” and “Sharp Knife” an avowed racist named Andrew Jackson!

Yes that is correct! In the oval office which the American folks allow each and every president to use hangs a portrait of the most racist president of all time, at least to this point, we will have to allow history to continue to judge and monitor the out come!

I will give a quick outline but judge for yourself by visiting the indiancountry link!

A.wealthy slave owner

B. infamous Indian killer {named "sharp knife"}

C. waged a brutal military campaign in which he proposed that his raiders methodically murder both native women and their children to ensure total annihilation.

D. Indigenous genocidal maniac

E. racist against African peoples

F. A scofflaw who “violated nearly every standard of justice,” according to historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown

G. initiated first Seminole War by invading Spanish Florida chasing fugitive slaves

Just would love to understand why 45 loves 7!

2017-08-14T15:09:00.001-04:00

Howdy Compatriots

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace can not advance over a road littered with cannon!

David Lloyd George

I just had to say something concerning this atrocity that we as a country sustained this past weekend.

I can not begin to conceive what type of hatred is in any individuals brain pan to ram a 5000 lb. death weapon into a crowd of pedestrians.

I have in the past stated that I did not perceive the confederate flag as a symbol of hatred but one of being a rebel { erroneously separating the word rebel from rebellious} Having grown up in the heart of Civil War history country, I lived in a world of flags, both Yankee and Rebel flags, never really separating the two except as north and south never as good and evil, but both as a horrible heritage of bravery to be distributed
equally between the young men who no doubt were scared to death on both sides of the fray!

Every time I pass down the Emmittsburg Road I wonder what those poor confederate boys who charged the union forces at the copse of trees had in their minds or what the union boys thought as they mowed down wave upon wave of other humans in the fierce melee, was it hatred of blacks or was it because they were forced in to a war of brothers that they were told would only last a few months. {this included my great grandfather, I have his first discharge} What would those men have to say about the controversy of this past weekend in Charlottesville!

Here are some 1938 {75th} Gettysburg Battle reunion images to ponder!

It is now another 79 years and this is the image of the day!

Please pay attention to who said this!

A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.

Please note who stated this!

Robert E. Lee

Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives.In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy,for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

I will add more to this thought process at a later date!

2017-07-23T17:47:00.001-04:00

The Native American quotes come from www.whitebison.org daily quotes!

My thanks to their wonderful knowledge!

Please join them at wwwwhitebison.org

2017-07-23T16:52:00.001-04:00

My thought of the day is. lets hear from the citizenry of this GREAT AMERICA we share or at least that is what we hope for..

Please feel free to let it all out from your inner self. Whether it be healthcare,Veterans affairs, opiods abuse, or just whatever is irritating your state of mind!

2017-07-23T16:39:00.001-04:00

Howdy to all my compatriots!

Sorry once more for my absence from the homestead there has been much on my mind, so I have been fighting with myself to just publish and update various and sundry topics or to just say what is truly in my thoughts of the day…

"We forget so we consider ourselves superior. But we are, after all, a mere part of the creation and we must consider to understand where we are and we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant.
Somewhere and only there is a part and parcel of the creation."
-- Chief Oren Lyons, ONONDAGA

Good morning to all!

My thoughts on where we all stand in the eyes of the Universe is the fact that to believe in a Supreme entity

All one needs to do is just walk outside breathe in the life giving oxygen, bath yourself in the abundant life giving sunlight, feel the grass between your toes and reach down and feel the life sustaining mother earth and give Thanks to whatever the name is that one has chosen to follow and believe in!

Just be sure to give full attention to that prayer, meditation, invocation, or whatever you may name it.

Peace to all

Civil War Church Service Battle of Gettysburg Reenactment

Image by BuckHorn Design/Dick Bloom

My View: Cannabis access mitigates opioid abuse — the science says so/ By Paul Armentano Jun 26, 2017

2017-06-30T12:05:00.002-04:00

Opium A Problem Forever or So It Seems

The discussion that is taking place in America today concerning the corrupt practices of the opium wealth in the foreign countries in which our young warriors are dying is an age-old problem.

Would you believe that the Chinese were more or less enslaved by the English powers that existed at the time to continue to raise and process opium for export to the greedy drug hungry folks of Europe?

The East India Company, which was formed by a charter from the powerful British hierarchy as far back as 1600 by Elizabeth I.

The EIC shipped a variety of trade goods including indigo dye, silks, teas, and Opium.

The trading company was a powerful entity and came to be the source of control of large portions of India. A man with a name many of you will recognize was associated with the British East India Company for some twenty years his name was Elihu Yale.

A large portion of Yale’s capital came from being involved in the Opium trade within the BEIC.

Yes, he is associated with the forming of Yale University. It is his name from whence the University is named. {Please keep this fact in mind as we continue along the Opium Road} By the 1830s, the addiction of opium was at a crucial level in Britain with some 22,000 pounds of the drug imported into the country from India and Turkey. The drug gripped the Chinese for many years and then in 1839 the commissioner who was charged with the elimination of Opium in China at the time LinTse-Hsu issues an edict that all the foreign shippers of opium cede their supplies to the Chinese government.

This was the straw that broke the camels back so to speak to the Brits and hence was the beginning of the Opium War I which lasted for about two years with the Chinese being defeated in 1841 costing the Chinese Hong Kong in the cessation of hostilities.

This of course did not stop the use of Opium and years later in 1852, the British moved into Burma {Myanmar} and began the trade of massive amounts of the drug through government Opium brokers.

The opium that was making many shipping entrepreneurs rich eventually found its way unto the battlefields in the form of morphine during the American Civil War!

According to historical records from the early part of the 19th century when opium use and addiction was widespread in Europe and the Far East, there were a very small number of addicts in America.

By 1900 in America, roughly 200,000 individuals were addicted to some type of opiate-based product.{estimated 2.1 million people in the United States suffering from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012 and an estimated 467,000 addicted to heroin.}

With a huge increase in addicts coming after the American Civil War it is thought by many historians that the massive use of morphine as a painkiller for the horrendous surgeries {amputations} by so called civil war surgeons was the reason that there were thought to have eventually created some 500,000 morphine addicts.

Wounded Civil War veterans from both armies that were dealing with unbearable pain from their amputations etc. became addicted to morphine!

The addiction came to be known as the “soldier disease” or the “army disease,”" in the 19 th century in the aftermath of the War of the Brothers!

Drug addiction in the English-speaking world was rare at the beginning of the 19th century but common at the end of it, at least in the United States.

Some historians think the war's influence has been exaggerated and that "the army disease" is a fable concocted after the fact to justify repressive drugs laws.

(See for example http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/soldis.htm.)

A major factor in the rise of drug use no doubt was the simple fact that more stuff became available as scientists explored the wonders of drug chemistry.

Morphine, for example, was first synthesized in 1803, cocaine in 1859.

Still, even allowing for exaggeration by drug alarmists, you have to think the Civil War had some impact.

Narcotics were handed out like candy by army surgeons, who were surrounded by suffering and had few remedies to offer other than painkillers.

Nearly ten million opium pills were issued to Union soldiers, along with 2.8 million ounces of other opium preparations; no doubt opium use was fairly common on the Confederate side, too.

One doctor reported keeping a wad of "blue mass" (a powdered mercury compound) in one pocket and a ball of opium in the other. He'd ask soldiers, "How are your bowels?" If the answer was "open" (due to diarrhea), the soldier got opium, if "closed" (presumably because of constipation), mercury. Opiates were used to treat not just wounds but chronic campaign diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, and malaria.

Narcotics became even more popular after the war as crippled veterans sought relief from constant pain.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1335/did-the-u-s-civil-war-create-500-000-morphine-addicts

Here is a view point to tie in with the Guardian article {https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/19/opioid-addiction-west-virginia-petersberg-breanne-mculty}on West Virginia article on the doctor who was abusing opiods and the 19 year old biggest dealer in town;

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/my-view-cannabis-access-mitigates-opioid-abuse-the-science-says/article_4e18af62-50e6-589d-afeb-be96080a8b3e.html

2017-06-28T09:30:00.001-04:00

Good Morning to all my fine friends that have given me a renewed sense of writing on the ol' homestead!

Thank you.I will try to beat out something to at least make this backwater shack have something to say.

As we all know the country is neck deep in the quicksand known as the opiate crisis, here is an interesting article on the subject from the Guardian!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/19/opioid-addiction-west-virginia-petersberg-breanne-mculty

2017-06-27T20:16:00.000-04:00

"Battle for the Fairfield Road"

All Images copyrighted to BuckHorn Design/ Dick Bloom

All Images by Dick Bloom

"Battle for the Fairfield Road"

As told by Josiah Kepner

Even’n Folks

I’m Josiah Kepner I grow'd up not a fer piece from here in the mountains near Fairfield when the battle of Gettysburg was happen'n! It was a scary time with all the shoot'n and the talk we heard about the loot'n and all that was happen'n.

There was soldiers a rid'n around everywhere…. both Johnny rebs and Billy yanks a com'n and goin' in all directions, all the folks was try'n to find places up in the mountains to hide the cows, pigs and chickens sos the soldiers wouldn't take 'em an slaughter 'em for food.

My cousin David Stoops and me was a doing just that taken their ol' milk cow Bessie up in the woods on Mary's Hill to hide her when we heard what we thought was a thundergust off in the distance but it was louder an any we heard afore it seemed to be going on for a long time .....{It was as we heard later the thundergust noise was all the cannons shoot'n at what they called Pickett's Charge!!} which took place at the same time as the fight we saw}

Just about the same time me an David heard some gunshots an they was a bunch closer than the other thunder'n noise, we wanted to know what was happe'n so we hid ol' Bessie in a thicket …….tied her up and snuck toward the edge of Mary's Hill and there it was……. we was a see'n the elephant right before our eyes….. there was a bunch o' Johnny Rebs with wagons com'n up the sunken road that headed to Cashtown and then there was a what looked like a dust storm foller'n em' it was really a coupla hundred Yanks…..the Reb wagons had a whole bunch of mounted troops rid'n with em'….. next thing we knew the Yanks had kinda caught up close to the wagons, they got off their horses and were spread'n out along a little ridge an a orchard….them Rebs rode hard in an attack toward 'em but the Rebs fell back..... just then, we saw the Rebs had brought up some horse drawn cannons and were set'n up and fire'n on the Yanks…… when that was happen'n the horse mounted Rebs attacked again.......and sent the Yanks scatter'n.... this ended up with an all out horse mounted battle ..........it was so loud me and David could here the "Thundering Sabers.................. a clash'n an gnarlin' as the Yanks were battlin' on their horses while retreat'n across the fields toward the Fairfield Gap....... men was a fallin'...... everywhere and the rest was ridin' hard in the direction of David's farm where he lived nearer to Fairfield.

Me and David took off a runnin' but stayed just inside the heavy woods that opened up on to the hellish area we was watch'n. My heart was throbbin' as I had never known afore……. It was for sure a sight to behold for me and David. Them Rebs run the Yanks for good ways till we could'nt see nuthin' but dust probably a coupla miles right past the Stoops farm and through Fairfield but the Rebs give up after a while and the Yanks got away from em' so we heard later.

A hainted tale that has been told over the years was that after that battle the McKeeson house was used to care for some o' the Yanks that had been shot.

The house which was lived in by the Cunningham family for five generations.... Helen the youngest child of the family was told the tale that Major Sam Starr who was cared for in the home place after that fight lost his leg and his life in the house and the leg was buried in the flower bed out back, so the story goes and the Major come back every night look'n for his leg......The McKesson house still stands and could it be that ol Major Starr still is seek'n out the lost limb....... or maybe he found the bloody limb and is now rest'n peaceful in the ol' boneyard...............…"

A foot note on Starr".....It was rumored that some years later after Helen was grown. .....One of Starr's relatives stopped by for a visit at the home place to see where Starr died.............. after bein' scared for so long as a youngster.....after show'n the place to him and talk'n with the man..... Helen was to have asked the relative if Major Starr and his leg arrived in fine condition for bury'n and the relative said, "Ohhhh it wasn't his leg it was his arm and was right their in the in his bury'n box with him when he got home.

An update: on the Starr story was that it was jest a ghost tale told to little Helen, the fact was that Paddy Starr did not die from his lost arm at the battle of Fairfield and lived until 1891!

Story by Dick Bloom

More on David Stoops {an actual relative of mine, I have his original Company G muster list} went on to enlist in Wert's Company G of the 209th Pennsylvania Volunteers, The unit served in the Army of the James and the Army of the Potomac and saw action during the Siege of Petersburg, helping to repulse the attack on Fort Stedman.

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{Modern Religion}
{DreamState}
Abstract by BuckHorn Design/Dick Bloom

Old Superstitions Regarding Dreams and What They Mean

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The world of dreaming is all about the unconscious mind trying to sort out a person’s deep thoughts while the body rests. According to research, folks spend about one third of their lives in the dream state and just because you don’t always recall dreams does not mean that the mind is not drifting into dream worlds.

Many times when dreams are recalled they are mysterious and somewhat disoriented and that is where superstitions have crept into cultures.

The American Indians believe that when dreaming one can solve conflicts in one’s mind and various wishes when dreamed about can be fulfilled.

The Japanese believe that ancestors visit dream space to help resolve individual’s inner conflicts.

Most cultures in some way or another believe that dreams are in some way connected with God.

Some of the thoughts of what various objects in dreams mean are rather odd. In Newfoundland dreaming of white things means snow in summer, dreaming of black things is lucky, dreaming about eggs means you will get a beating.

Folks who live on Prince Edward Island believe that if you dream of catching fish that is a sign of good luck.

In Alabama, a dream is about lice it is a sign of coming wealth, but if you live in Topsail, Newfoundland and dream about lice, it is a sign of enemies.

While if, you happen to be in Brunswick, New York and dream of pigs that is a sign of good luck.

Poet John Newton in his poem {On Dreaming} stated; “One thing, at least, and 'tis enough, We learn from this surprising fact; Our dreams afford sufficient proof The soul, without the flesh, can act.”

This is original work and is copyrighted to BuckHorn Design/Dick Bloom

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American bread line! could it happen again?Image by Margaret Bourke-White

During the Great Ohio River Flood of men and women in Louisville, Kentucky, line up seeking food and clothing from a relief station, in front of a billboard proclaiming, 'World's Highest Standard of Living.'"

(Photo by Margret Bourke-White for Life) 1937

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Anyone know where this is and what it was?

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Does any one know this mountain man?

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As stated these posts are old and any stat numbers that appear are outdated so don't take them as Fact!

I am going to post some items from my civil war blog which no longer exists, also from some of my various blog posts I have penned in years past.

So stay tuned!

I will post images etc. here as opposed to cluttering 1967 with irrelevant images and chatter from me.

Please join in the conversation!

Let me know what your thoughts and wonderings are.

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Howdy Folks

I just wanted let everyone from the class of 1967 reunion page that this is the one of my blogs that hasn't been posted to in quite a while!

I hope to rectify that situation, this has been my site to jabber about God knows what as you will find when you browse the blog.

This image is from the first ever Gettysburg Bike Week/ Emmittsburg Road Parade of Chrome