Ya Gotta Know This About That: Stupidity....Is It A Crime?

Does Stupidity Qualify As a Crime?

I personally get pretty tired of running into stupidity and stupid people. Not that I would ever classify any reader of this blog as stupid.....that's for sure. But there are a lot of stupid peeps and stupid situations in this world. And, most likely caused because of the pure meanness of a person/persons....in my book, this qualifies this person as a mean stupid person.

I recently had the occasion to know about a very mean person who made a complaint against another person. This person lied about a number of things when making the complaint. None of it was true. And, anyone who knows the person who suffered the complaint against them, knows better. But it happened. Plain meanness in my book. In view of this, I think stupidity had a big part of this and in a case like this, stupidity should be considered a crime. Perhaps the first offense should be labeled as a misdemeanor. Then the second (and thereafter) would definitely be a felony. Punishable by law and confinement as the punishment.......a stint in the clinker would do a person labeled in this stupidity column, a world of good. But, if clinker lock-up is too harsh of a punishment, then maybe this person should lose their job and be confined in a stupid chamber so that they can bash their head on the wall all day long.

Through my life I have run into many people who would qualify for this label and the crime. But I guess it makes the world a more interesting place. At least more complicated. But until the world is ready to eradicate stupidity and lock 'em up, I guess we will all be faced with these mean stupid peeps. Let's hope we can all avoid them. Amen.

Greenview History

For quite some time I had been searching for a reference to the Myers family (the same Myers family as Myers Bros. in Springfield) as running a store in Greenview. I finally found the information. This is what I found. It was not the Myers Bros which ran the department store in Springfield but it was their uncles:

" The first brick store (in Greenview) was erected by Robert McReynolds, from Bee Grove, a building which stood on the site of the present American Legion Home (the CIA building site now). In this building Dr. James Calloway had his office and later the post office.

This building was first occupied by Myers Brothers, who were uncles of the Myers Brothers now the proprietors of Myers Bros. store in Springfield. Mr. Myers said that his uncles came here from Athens. Myers Brothers put in a stock of general merchandise, which they traded to A. P. Blane for farm land on Salt Creek when he bought the store building."

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A good many marriages took place around town from 1857 to 1859. Samuel Rule and Nancy Turner; Alexander Montgomery and Sarah Ludlaw; Elias Bogardus and Arabella Cleaveland; John Blain and Mary TRaylor; James Ginn and Nancy Bradley; James McDougal and Louisa Power; Samuel Rogers and Nancy Trumbo; Isaac Hornback and Martha Hyde; Joseph Sampson and Lethy Montgomery; Thomas Hughes and Elizabeth Knowles; Abel Hornback and Mary Denton; and Thomas Looby and Ellen Fahey.

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Note: Many of these family names are ones which have been associated with the town of Greenview since the beginning. Many of these families are still here or have relatives with the relationship to the earliest settlers.

Thought For The Day

Come forth into the light of things,

let nature be your teacher.

--Williams Wordsworth

I always wondered how the Easter Bunny came to be connected with Easter. Not long ago I read an article and was enlightened. At least I think I was.

The Easter Bunny and Easter eggs both started many hundreds of years ago. And, both related to fertility and ,were used to celebrate the coming of spring.

Rabbits tend to procreate in the spring (prolific procreators too). Thus this made the furry little creatures a natural representation for fertility. Through the years the bunny resulted in the Easter bunny. And in some cultures the bunny laid eggs....wow....an egg laying Easter bunny!

The Easter bunny first arrived in America in the 1700's when the German immigrants settled in Pennsylvania.....and brought their egg laying Easter bunny along to America. They called it "Osterhase".

Since eggs demonstrate new life, it was a natural that eggs would also represent fertility. Eggs being connected to Easter came from "Pagan practices" or so they say.

Easter eggs turned chocolate in the 19th century and were made primarily in France and Germany. Thank goodness the eggs turned to chocolate....and that chocolate wasn't really laid by the Easter bunny. I just couldn't really relish and enjoy chocolate as much as I do if they were laid by a real Easter bunny....knowing where those would have come from.

So eat your chocolate eggs....and the rest of the candy when the much sought after Easter Bunny comes to your house to fill your basket. I know I will.