"Life in a Small Town"

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Ace Reporter : Scoop Biggers

"Life Today in a Small Town"

I used to live in the city, in fact I lived in the city for nearly fifty years.  It was great!  Lots of good restaurants, with new ones opening up all the time.  Big League Sports, it seemed like there was a big game to go to all of the time.  Theater, Concerts, Museums, there was always a choice for things to do.  And then it happened, the city got bigger and bigger, and it took longer to go places, and cost more and more money.  Around this time my wife and I retired. and we decided to move to a smaller town.

So what's it like living in a small town?  The town we now live in is seventy five miles from the city, and the population is only about ten thousand, heck, there are only about twenty five thousand people in the whole county!  We do have a lot of growth, since there is a new Holiday Inn Express coming to town, and a Longhorn Steakhouse is going to open up near the Home Depot.

Below are a few things I have noticed since moving here five years ago.

1. My property taxes are about one third what they were in the city.

2. The water bill is about 20% of the one from the city.

3. A traffic jam means more than ten cars have backed up at the light on the US Highway.

4. I run into people from my church almost every time I go to the supermarket or the drugstore.

5. I live in a subdivision with about sixty houses, and just about everyone waves when they pass my house.

6. I know the county sheriff by his first name (he goes to my church)

7. I have found that I enjoy listening to the local high school's basketball games on my radio. (last year they won the state championship in their division}

8. The big league baseball team looks the same on the TV here, as it did in the city.

9. It took me five minutes to get my driver's license renewed at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles

10. A quick trip across town is about eight minutes.

And, in case you did not know, We got the best Catfish Restaurant within 200 miles of the city! 

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REPARATIONS

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Tommy_Town, Georgia

Editor in Chief: Colonel Bascomb Biggers

Ace Reporter : Scoop Biggers 

bascombbiggers@bellsouth.net 

 

"REPARATIONS"

 

I have been hearing a lot about Reparations, and I have decided that I am definitely for it.  After all, my name is Biggers, and we know that everyone with the names Biggers, Bigger, Biggars, or Biggar originally came from the town of Biggar in Scotland, which up until 1649, was inhabited by Serfs (Slaves) belonging to the King of England.  My ancestors first left there in 1513, during the rein of King Henry VII, and we all know what a "Pip" he was!  So there is just no telling how great and wealthy my family might have become, if they had not started out as slaves to those pesky English.  So I am requesting that Queen Liz make fair Reparations available to me and all of the rest of us former Serfs.  

Since the first Biggers arrived in America in the 1600's, then anybody who ever worked for them as a slave should be able to get some money too, as soon as we get ours from Liz.

"Now that's the way I see it, and you can tell'em I said so!"

Bascomb Biggers

 

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"DC Today"

 The Nankipooh Enquirer

The Tommy-Town Times

"Covers the South like Sorghum Syrup"

P. O. Box 48

Nankipooh, Georgia

Tommy_Town, Georgia

Editor in Chief: Colonel Bascomb Biggers

Ace Reporter : Scoop Biggers 

bascombbiggers@bellsouth.net  

"My Fellow Americans in the Good Old USA"

 

I think that almost all of us can say that what we saw in DC today is not what America is all about, nor should this ever be the face we show to the rest of the world.  That being said it is easy to see what may have motivated many Good American Citizens to involve themselves with rabble, and indulge in behavior best suited for lessor developed countries than our own.  We have a great divide in our country which is hurting all of us.  We have seen major changes in the makeup of our country over the past several decades which challenge our traditions, our values, and our faith, as well as our ideals when it comes to what the country of the United States represents.

It is possible that a full half of our citizens embrace these changes without realizing how much some of these things tear at the fabric of our nation.  On the other side, there are those who cannot except even the beneficial aspect of the changes in our country.  These people are hurt, scared, and angry because they feel that the America which they and their forefathers loved so dear, is disappearing.  Many of these are among the folks in DC today doing things that they themselves don't really approve of.

The truth is that change is unavoidable, and is neither all good or all bad.  The same is true for tradition.  To be able to combine the best of both change and tradition has been a large part of what has made America great over the last few hundred years.  There is one other important factor to be considered, and that is wealth and power.  We must all decide what we as a country are all about.  Is it change?  Is it Tradition?  Or is it the struggle for wealth and power, and who will steer the ship of state.

It is my observation that many of our politicians and journalists are simply part of the problem in their pursuit of both of these entities, and are not nearly focused as much on what is really best for us the American people.

I hope that as American citizens, we can see the value in all the citizens of our great country.  If we fail in this, then the face of what took place in DC today, will end up being the face of America, because when we hate our fellow countrymen, we actually hate both our country and ourselves.

"Now that's the way I see it, and you can tell'em I said so!"

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