tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464795191935322822024-02-01T23:48:10.406-06:00MAJOR CHANGESNew blog title for a new me and new life!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-40080217783338894902013-11-27T22:27:00.001-06:002013-11-27T22:27:14.512-06:00THANKFULWhen counting my blessing I have to be thankful for a 10 plus year relationship(?) I don't know what else to call it but in reality, a relationship takes both parties being invested, and this was clearly not the case. I was in such denial I could not and would not allow myself to see that I was being used, and abused mentally and <br />
Emotionally abused. Played with then thrown away like so much trash. Then repeat.<br />
FINALLY, I woke up and decided that talk was cheap and the words from that particular person didn't mean squat! Someone that really and truly loves you will NOT<br />
Willingly abuse and hurt you.<br />
I hate the years of my life I wasted and all the time I invested on someone so unworthy. I am thankful for the experience because now I know the difference. I know<br />
What it is to be loved,wanted,needed and cherished by a real man. I thank God for unanswered prayers and for one special man whose love and devotion has healed my heart and made my life wonderful!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-65961724835813935212013-11-08T16:08:00.000-06:002013-11-08T16:08:07.416-06:00COVERING UP THE STUPID AND UGLYHappy....Happy.....Happy....! So excited and over the moon about my new tatt! Took a long time to design and choose something to cover up a huge mistake !<br />
The new one is honest and real and reflects my new life that is honest and real.<br />
It covers something born out of a naive woman kept constantly off balance and ill at ease, waiting for the shoe to drop. The new tatt covers that STUPID AND UGLY mistake. Covers it totally! It is a reminder that I AM worthy of love and that I have nothing to prove to any f'ing man! A man that is worthy of my heart will not breakand abuse it! I can't stop looking at it! Love it! Love u, P!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-30192148413784078552013-08-20T19:06:00.000-05:002013-08-20T19:06:22.989-05:00HOMEGROWN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBCf57-oNMFqYghDMUpEIGb4oo3Snu7DyhxJcM7lVSXK6L-NcADoije6Vo4Fqp4JZSfgvjIRN7iX8iAx-2oV3fmmtsljypB-yLmKg_xRlVw0BdwD1o0OZSoM1pfVzqLZ4DgxMU3T3lg/s1600/IMG_20130816_174941.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnBCf57-oNMFqYghDMUpEIGb4oo3Snu7DyhxJcM7lVSXK6L-NcADoije6Vo4Fqp4JZSfgvjIRN7iX8iAx-2oV3fmmtsljypB-yLmKg_xRlVw0BdwD1o0OZSoM1pfVzqLZ4DgxMU3T3lg/s320/IMG_20130816_174941.jpg" /></a></div>Been busy this summer canning,freezing fresh veggies from the garden. My latest project was homemade canned salsa. Didn't use a <br />
Recipe just threw together ingredients that I like. The fresh squeezed lime juice made all the differerence.Phillip said it is the very best salsa ever!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-83386639695448114442013-08-06T18:20:00.001-05:002013-08-06T19:17:38.490-05:00 Loving Me,Loving My Life Haven't posted here in a while. What can I tell you all....hummmm..Oh yeah...at the top of the list is that on Ma of this<br />
y 22 of this year I celebrated ONE YEAR SMOKE FREE! I am now 14 months smoke<br />
Free and counting! Can I get a high 5! Can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke now. <br />
I feel better....breathe better and smell better! <br />
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I am walking and lifting weights. Getting in shape! Will be heading into the studio soon<br />
To record some of my original songs and I am super excited about that!<br />
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A trip to the beach for my birthday has me excited.....make that VERY.....!<br />
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Last year I conquered several dishes that I had always wanted to try but was afraid to<br />
Attempt.....HOT n SOUR SOUP, EGG ROLLS and TAMALES....all made here with my very own hands!<br />
You can check out my cooking/food blog.for the pics and recipes.<br />
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Loving myself and loving my life!<br />
BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-5016869529044478092011-12-06T00:38:00.003-06:002011-12-06T01:04:08.381-06:00COVERING THE ROSE or TATTOO REGRETOver 6 years ago I did something totally foolish. Something that had I stopped to consider the past and the very real possibility of it repeting itself, I would have never done.<br /><br />This foolish thing was not done in haste or spur of the moment. I had put many hours of thought and soul searching into it before going ahead. I was first of all doing it for me, as a symbol of my dedication,love and belief in another person and what we shared, and also for those same reasons, doing it for them also. It was my gift and promise.<br /><br />This foolish thing of which I write was a tattoo. Not a random tattoo from out of a book or off the wall but one I designed of initials. The other persons contribution to the design was a single rose bud. (The insane reality of this would come back and slap me in the face)<br /><br />Once I became accustomed to the tattoo over my heart, it became a part of me. I loved looking at it. Many times at night while watching TV or trying to sleep, I would place my hand over it and remember all the times it was another persons hand there,gently tracing the design.<br /><br />Those warm, fuzzy feeling about it persisted for about 2 1/2 years, then little by little, day by day, the joy,pride and love I felt about it dissolved. This gift that had meant so much to me, that had been more than just ink on my body was shit on,crumbled up and throw back in my face.<br /><br />My small little tattoo, a gift I was so proud to give had no double meaning and was not interchangable with anyone else, was never presented as being to and for anyone else.<br /><br />I couldn't and still can't stand to look at it and try to avoid doing so. Earlier in the year while being prepped for surgery, the attending nurse commmented on how unique and beautiful it was, going on to ask:<br /><br />"Does it have a special meaning?"<br /><br />Without pausing, I replied:<br /><br />"No."<br /><br />I have debated with myself about just leaving it alone to stand as a reminder for the future or to cover it, and if so, with what...?<br /><br />I finally decided it did indeed need to be covered and with something that had meaning to me. That thing will be my favorite flower, the pansy.<br /><br />Despite the name, the pansy is a strong and hardy flower. It grows, blooms and thrives when all other flowers are dead. If the weather gets really,really cold and severe, they always come back to live, grow and bloom again.<br /><br />Roses come and roses go, but the pansy takes a licking and keeps on ticking.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-54538648116086880462011-10-28T06:02:00.000-05:002011-10-28T06:02:00.676-05:00ALABAMA'S IMMIGRATION LAWI am SICK and TIRED about the big hoop de doo about the state of Alabama's tough new immigration law.<br /><br />Sicker still of The Anniston Stars bleeding heart liberal H Brandt Ayers and his STUPID diatribes about this "hateful and mean spirited" law. SHUT UP YOU DAMN FOOL!<br /><br /><br />As a child my parents taught me about CHOICES and that CHOICES have CONSEQUENCES. Very simply that means, unless someone was kidnapped and dragged at gunpoint into this country AGAINST their will, they CHOSE to enter this country ILLEGALLY. They knew they were BREAKING the law and decided to do it anyway.<br /><br />You are here illegally then you are breaking the law so there is no sense in protesting,marching and crying on TV about the awful state of Alabama and how they want to punish you. How about accepting some responsibility for your own ACTIONS and CHOICES!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />They say they are afraid someone will ask to see their papers or ID....Well guess the hell what.....that happens to Americans all the time, so if you don't want to show ID you better go somewhere else.<br /><br />During my most recent surgery, I had to show my ID and prove who I was about 12 different times to 12 different people.<br /><br />Rent a car.....hotel room....buy a car....register a car....get married...get divorced....apply for insurance....All those things and more you have to show ID....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This isn't something that has been cooked up by the powers that be to hurt your feelings!<br /><br />I tell you what hurts my feelings.....people that come here ILLEGALLY, breaking the law and then making demands.<br /><br />I don't have a thing in this world against people from other countries wanting to come here to the United States to make and have a better life for themselves and their children. This is a great country. My ancestors came here from Ireland,England,Scotland and France. Came here LEGALLY. So why should there be an exception for you....?<br /><br /><br />I wish all the people who SUPPORT this law would have their own marches and show support. There are more people for this than there are against it!<br /><br /><br />What I find "hateful and mean spirited" are the illegals here not paying taxes, working under the table all the while sucking up benefits that should go to those that came here respecting the laws of this country and doing things the right way.<br /><br /><br />In closing:<br /><br />PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH. PRESS 2 TO DISCONNECT THIS CALL UNTIL YOU LEARN ENGLISH.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-21418047570376969042011-09-08T20:23:00.004-05:002011-09-08T21:09:56.790-05:00WHAT IT IS and WHAT IT AIN'TI don't see the world in black and white. I try to see all the colors of the rainbow but the truth is for most of my life I've looked at the world through rose colored,hopeless romantic,real love can conquer and overcome anything eyes that dream dreams and look beyond what is into what could be.<br /><br />So, as Dr Phil would say, "How is that workin' for ya?"<br /><br />Not so good.<br /><br />Having dreams and working to make them become reality is good. Living inside those dreams as if they are or will one day be reality isn't good or healthy. I've walked a tightrope between dreams and reality for more years than I care to count and I have rope burn along with the bumps and scars from all those years of free falling from those dreams down into the abyss of my reality.<br /><br />There are things I wish someone would have told me long ago. Not that I would have listened. I might have heard the words but they always missed their mark. Some things a person just has to see and learn on their own.<br /><br />I've wasted years.....YEARS of my life that I will never get back loving someone who didn't love me. Trying to make a place and insert myself into a life and heart where there was no room for me.<br /><br />I overlooked things I shouldn't have.<br />Forgave more than I should.<br />Believed so deeply in something that wasn't real.<br />Gave second,third,fourth,one hundred ten, second chances.<br />Told myself it was alright "for now" to be the spare tire in the trunk of someones life, because, "one day".....<br /><br />Well, ya know what....? "One day", might never get here and this day, this minute and this second are the only ones that count.<br /><br />Always on the edge of "one day" and on the verge of almost being loved.<br /><br />I couldn't face, acknowledge or accept the truth, even when it was right in front of me.<br /><br />Walking that tightrope between words and actions.<br /><br />I can write about these things now without anger or beating myself up for being such a damn fool.<br /><br />All those questions I asked myself for all those years when all the frickin' time it was so very simple. I could have spared myself so much pain, hurt and anguish. But, I couldn't allow myself to see those things because I didn't want to lose him or what I imagined we had.<br /><br />The truth unfolded and revealed itself slowly.<br /><br />I didn't have him, I only had the illusion of him. As soon as I was out of sight, I was out of his life and mind. And the moments and things I held so dear that we had shared vanished before I was in his rear view mirror.<br /><br />Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, I held my breath, always wondering and waiting for the other shoe to drop. To be forgotten, tossed aside and thrown away. Again. Trying to live in the moment yet at the same time trying not to get too caught up in it, always mindful it could disappear without warning.<br /><br />When you consider and accept that people take and make time for those things and people that are important and mean something to them, then the fact that weeks, months and years could pass without so much as a word or explaination, then you can finally see and accept your place of importance in the life of another.<br /><br />Anyone who ignores or disrespects you is showing how they feel.<br /><br />I threw away my rose colored glasses and burned all those dreams. I finally realized that I don't want to be loved, wanted or needed every now and then or when there is nothing else going on or nobody else available and that I can't give my heart,mind,body and soul to someone who treats me like a spare tire, so this chick is out of the trunk.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-78592790566088352622011-08-09T00:08:00.003-05:002011-08-09T00:34:45.065-05:00CHASING DREAMSSome years back, I made a U-turn in my life that lead to exactly nowhere. There I remained stuck inside some kind of twisted day dream or fantasy left over from childhood fairy tales.
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<br />I've since learned that life isn't a fairy tale and, "...they lived happily ever after", isn't the rule but the exception.
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<br />I refused to see things as they really were and instead chose to see them through my rose colored glasses and painted everything with unicorns and rainbows. I couldn't admit the truth to myself, nor could I acknowledge it because to do so would require taking off my rose colored glasses and seeing reality. I wasn't ready for reality. Not then. I am now.
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<br />It took a long time. A very,very long time and the glasses didn't come off all at once but painfully slow over time allowing me to see tiny bits of truth until at last the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth was revealed live and in color right before my eyes.
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<br />The first step was seeing the truth.
<br />Second step acknowledging the truth.
<br />Third step accepting the truth.
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<br />If I could only go back and recapture all the time I spent chasing something that wasn't real and only existed to me.
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<br />I wrote the story line I wanted and edited the actions of others to fit what I felt and wanted. A never ending battle was going on in my mind pushing the truth from my mind.
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<br />It took watching another person chasing their dream and trying to hold onto it reguardless of the cost to their life,happiness, peace of mind,pride and self esteem that was my wake up call. As if someone held up a mirror, watching it from the side lines, I could not ignore the truth of my own life.
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<br />I guess the greatest lesson I've learned since I left the safety of my Daddy's home is this: Don't believe the words, believe the actions. Ideally, words and actions will line up and agree with one another but when they don't, remember that mouths will lie but actions never do.
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<br />Don't waste your time chasing rainbows. Make your own!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-9187927984381806332011-06-18T13:58:00.002-05:002011-06-18T14:26:58.875-05:00THE FACEBOOK POLICELiving where I live, my parents doing what they did for a living and being who they were, I've pretty much lived in a bubble and under a microscope all of my life. There was nothing I could do and no where I could go within a 6 county radius of my home where there wasn't someone who could report back to Daddy where I was, what I was doing....etc. Not that I was doing anything bad, just normal teenage stuff, still you begin to feel that nothing you do is private...even down to a Father's Day gift I bought one year!<br /><br />I thought that once I was married and had children of my own, the need for people to tattle and inform would disappear. It didn't and only added more people to tattle to. Again, not that I was doing anythng bad. For instance, one year I bumped into an old friend in town. I was having a terrible day. Never able to pull anything over on him and before I knew it was spilling my guts about a miserable marriage that was sucking the life out of me. He put his arms around me to comfort me. Geez...even here I feel the need to defend myself and point out, we had grown up and attended the same church together, he was like a brother to me, had never been anything even close to romantic about our relationship.<br /><br />Well low and behold the next day the news made it to my oldest child and when the news gets back to me.....I am having an affair.<br /><br />Seems like in this small southern state a male and female can't be friends.<br /><br />It only got worse when I began working. In no time I had gone from cashier to assistant manager to store manager. When your district manager comes to your store for an all day visit and wants to go to lunch.....YOU GO TO LUNCH. Oh...that went over like a turd in a punchbowl!<br /><br />Beyond all of that with children grown now we have Facebook and along with Facebook comes the Facebook Police. <br /><br />These are the people on your friends list that prowl and snoop though your Facebook page. They look at everything you post and comment. They look at your friends. They judge each and every thing you do.<br /><br />I have a lot of friends on Facebook. People I am related to, people I went to school with, used to work with, went to church with and people I met on another blog site that have became friends.<br /><br />I have been told by one of the Facebook Police that a few of my friends look like "perverts" and "stoners". I even received a message last week from an old school friend who wanted to question my judgement about having gay and lesbian friends!<br /><br />I don't mind telling you, that burnt my cookies to a crisp! How the hell dare you!!!!<br /><br />Why is it mine or any other persons business who another person loves or sleeps with.....????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />I told her straight up that as far back as high school I had gay and lesbian friends. You know what....I've never had any problems with my gay and lesbian friends. They accept me just as I accept them.<br /><br />I deleted her and blocked her ass!<br /><br />Why can't people just LIVE AND LET LIVE!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-89791332380964475362011-05-16T17:15:00.002-05:002011-05-16T17:29:29.771-05:00HAIRY TOES or THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO....YUCK...!It continues to amaze me the way people dress to go out in public.<br /><br />A grown woman and I'm talking if not 50 then knocking on the door of it, in Hello Kitty pj's and houseshoes shopping away in Wal-Mart. Come on now. How in thunder do you stand in front of the mirror dressed like that and tell yourself, "Oh yeah, I'm ready to go!"<br /><br />Believe it or not, that isn't the worst.<br /><br />While enjoying a nice dinner at one of my favorite Mexican places, seated at the table to my left, even though it was quite chilly here on Sunday, a man with the ugliest feet this side of glory.<br /><br />The toenails were big,thick and yellow. At least they matched the thick callouses on his heels.<br /><br />The big toe was so flippin' big it looked like it was trying to escape from his foot. The thing looked like a corndog as it dangled off the end of his sandals. Not one single hair on his head, and please understand I don't have a problem with bald men (THE ROCK to name but one) but the hair on his toes more than made up for the lack of hair on his head.<br /><br />Not just a few sprigs of hair here and there, I'm talking dark, black hair all over his toes.<br /><br />I understand people want to be comfortable, but geezzzz!<br /><br />If you have more hair on your toes than on your head, do us all a favor and cover up them piggies.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-51511471636756251582011-01-11T23:46:00.003-06:002011-01-12T00:10:13.042-06:00PERFECT STORMLast year all the elements in my upside down life lined up to create the perfect mental and emotional storm. A storm that blew the blinders off my eyes and sucked my head out of the sand.<br /><br />Painful, very painful at first to acknowledge that I had only been lying to myself and giving someone else one free pass after another to lie to me also.<br /><br />Very hard and painful giving up a dream that you have held so close to your heart, have fought so hard to protect and nurture.<br /><br />You know what else is painful....?<br /><br /> Giving love but never receiving it in return. Or if you do it is rationed out in small bits as if there is none to spare.<br /><br />Giving time and energy. Working to keep the lines of communication up and open, even if it means doing all the communicating yourself....<br /><br />Never too busy to talk or write....and never having that returned.<br /><br /><br />Busy....forgot....didn't have time....etc...Once in a while....okay. I can roll with that. But ALL the time.....? Houston we have a problem.<br /><br />So, I worked, wrote and cried myself, alone through the perfect mental and emotional storm.<br /><br />And then.....<br /><br />When I stopped communicating.....There was little to no communication.<br /><br />LIGHT BULB MOMENT....!!!!<br /><br />And then....I discovered......<br /><br />How wonderful it is to love yourself and say, "Hell no. I'm not taking any more shit"<br /><br />How wonderful it is to allow yourself to be and receive love.<br /><br />How wonderful it is to throw down those defenses and allow someone to be strong for and there for me.<br /><br />How wonderful....truly wonderful it is to matter to someone.....to have that freedom to pick up the phone at any time, without restrictions and know you will hear a voice that is glad you called.<br /><br />How wonderful to NEVER hear how busy someone has been which translates into, "You weren't important enough to make the time or effort".<br /><br />Sorry guys, but, "busy" doesn't cut the mustard. Perhaps it did before cell phones, email,text messages and Instant messages, but these days....nope....that dog won't hunt. <br /><br />My new motto is, If I don't see it for myself....it don't mean diddly squat. You can tell someone all day long how much you love and miss them, but unless you show it....it doesn't mean one gosh darn thing. Just more empty words that have no meaning.<br /><br />In closing....<br /><br />When people show you who they REALLY are.....BELIEVE THEM.<br /><br />and.....<br /><br />When they show you how little you mean to them.....You better believe that too and run like hell and like the song by Carrie Underwood....."UNDO IT"BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-76875721181535754302010-03-29T15:21:00.008-05:002010-03-29T15:58:40.064-05:00THE SHAME OF OXFORD ALABAMA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinr0pJ2GIGUH5BVnbyeHA60EQgCqeMOzZiC8H__m2J-rxqcvewPkNFMGPeU9s3qbq5DUD0GpaSN2i5-hbiM3bxeUsxKNAEyvZ2MW6ciQ1o8K34nlhInccWM6yjvSDgg1FLWYHk6Mq37Q/s1600/mound.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 118px; height: 82px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinr0pJ2GIGUH5BVnbyeHA60EQgCqeMOzZiC8H__m2J-rxqcvewPkNFMGPeU9s3qbq5DUD0GpaSN2i5-hbiM3bxeUsxKNAEyvZ2MW6ciQ1o8K34nlhInccWM6yjvSDgg1FLWYHk6Mq37Q/s320/mound.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454154226321806962" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The mouth of the south has a name and it is Leon Smith. If we were children on a playground, taunts of, “Liar,liar, pants on fire” would be aimed directly at him.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDuZr1QardHGB2O8hZ4S1jLif_4DC6KEUiy8QrwxlFowye4n2lkX2LmtldPmMprh-EBBLDh1p4FslddRXEgaPgGjNiymxOUkpJbnv392sgKxAf_3wyxGuclvN9PPR9F_fPIAHhv3bCw/s1600/leon+smith.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 104px; height: 75px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibDuZr1QardHGB2O8hZ4S1jLif_4DC6KEUiy8QrwxlFowye4n2lkX2LmtldPmMprh-EBBLDh1p4FslddRXEgaPgGjNiymxOUkpJbnv392sgKxAf_3wyxGuclvN9PPR9F_fPIAHhv3bCw/s320/leon+smith.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454154566892020082" /></a><br /><br />In question and still in the news is an ancient Native American Indian mound. Evidence abounds that this area was once a rich, proud and thriving Indian village.<br /><br />Despite what Leon (Tweedle Dee) told the Anniston Star last year that the mound would be left alone and not used for commercial development. He contradicted himself in an article that appeared on the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/us/14oxford.html">New York Times </a>web site on March 12,2010. Reckon he thinks us hillbillies in Bammy don’t read and would be too dumb to notice a Sizzler where an ancient Indian mound once stood.<br /><br />He stated his plans to demolish the stone pile and to erect a hotel, restaurant or maybe a health clinic.<br /><br />“It’s going to be real pretty”, he was quoted as saying.<br /><br />This all began when the city of Oxford and the merry band of morons who run it, decided to use the dirt under the mound as fill dirt for a Sam’s Club that was to be built at the nearby Oxford Exchange.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdQQNWADUFlTprXj0qcPUGZqqS1XVR6mYCliqD_CwnNX5Amu0vIac4TxFBmHIVF9_Iaald_FFX6iDnqzkBrx2-s5zwpY1qVbdRwODbHXLeT0N3FtBNL_yyEtautM1h4RAhBqO9wYAaQ/s1600/mound+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHdQQNWADUFlTprXj0qcPUGZqqS1XVR6mYCliqD_CwnNX5Amu0vIac4TxFBmHIVF9_Iaald_FFX6iDnqzkBrx2-s5zwpY1qVbdRwODbHXLeT0N3FtBNL_yyEtautM1h4RAhBqO9wYAaQ/s320/mound+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5454154348903660498" /></a><br /><br /><br />The city commissioned a study of the mound in question that was conducted by Robert Clouse, an archaeologist at the University of Alabama.<br /><br />In the first report he concluded the mound was man made. The second report by Clouse after the you know what began hitting the old fan states in his opinion it was the result of “natural forces” and isn’t culturally significant. An opinion that experts around Alabama and the Alabama Historical Commission disagree with. <br /><br />Earlier this year, Harry Holstein a professor of archaeology at Jacksonville State University reported that an earthen mound located across the street from the mound was gone. A face that Smith passed off by saying it was not gone and was still there if you knew where to look. Okay, take me there and SHOW ME.<br /><br />In the days following these reports, another little tid bit came to light. On January 8,2010 ancient human remains were discovered at the multi million dollar sports complex site. It was NOT reported to the proper authorities.<br /><br />Meanwhile, as of now, construction has been halted by the Corps of Engineers. They stopped the project in late February because it was not notified about the discovery.<br /><br />Now, with every day that passes as construction equipment remains idle, the city is losing $12,000 dollars a day. (Boo frickin hoo)<br /><br />The Anniston Star reported that to date the city has spent more than 5.9 million dollars on the project and purchase of land.<br /><br />According also to a report in the Anniston Star, Holstein said:<br /><br />“We told them there were 24 archaeological sites on that parcel of land, including a temple mound and village areas. The Historical Commission signed off on it.”<br /><br />This is an issue that should concern not just residents of Oxford or Alabama, or just Native Americans. This should concern and anger decent people everywhere. The total and complete lack of respect shown to the remains of a human being, a proud people and culture are being spit on by Leon Smith and his merry band of thugs.<br /><br />I even had a exchange in a chat room with someone in Oxford on the issue who stated she was tired of hearing about it, wanted it all to go away and they should, “…tear down the whole thing and build whatever they want….”<br /><br />Her reasoning was, “This land doesn’t belong to them Indians. It is ours and we can do with it what we please and if they don’t like it, then go home.”<br /><br />That mad me so mad! Guess what lady (?)…THEY ARE HOME.<br /><br />Just as this issue was coming to light last year, PBS had a wonderful 5 part series I think it was on the American Indians and the first Europeans to arrive here. It was chilling and eye opening.<br /><br />The history books I studied while in school made it all seem so nice and polite. The Indians lived here, we arrived, they helped us, we helped them, we traded, we bought their land, they moved. Oh sure there were a few fights and wars, but……<br /><br />The history books didn’t talk about the treaties that were broken or the way they were treated in their own county.<br /><br />Leon Smith has been the mayor of Oxford for over 20 years. No doubt in that time he has done much for the city, moved it forward and put it on the map as the place to be, live and go in Calhoun County. They call him, “King Leon”. Seems like now he is starting to believe it.<br /><br />There are several videos on Youtube dedicated to this topic.<br /><br /><br />CITY OF OXFORD:<br /><br />145 HAMRIC DRIVE EAST<br />PO BOX 3382<br />OXFORD,ALABAMA 36203<br /><br />VISIT THE <a href="http://www.oxfordalabama.org/Default.asp?ID=74 - ">CITY OF OXFORD </a>PAGE ON THE WEB. THERE IS FORM ON THE CONTACT PAGE WHERE YOU CAN SEND AN EMAIL.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-9109799343218712622010-02-23T06:43:00.002-06:002010-02-23T07:14:59.817-06:00THE POWER OF PINE SOLLast year life mentally,emotionally and physically,kicked my ass. Six deaths in the family, 3 happening all within the same month,medical problems,family problems,relationship problems...seemed like I was living under a black cloud. Reminded me of a lyric in an old Eagles tune:<br /><br />"Every morning, I wake up and wonder, what's gonna happen today"<br /><br />Life was slipping away from me and I finally reached the point where I didn't care. Let it slip right away, I thought to myself.<br /><br />Now, with my medical issues seemingly somewhat under control, not living in almost constant pain, I am beginning to see some of the things that I let slip away from me.<br /><br />Among them, my house.<br /><br />I know it may sound crazy, but cleaning was something I had always enjoyed. I took great pride in my surroundings. It gave me a great sense of accomplishment at the end of the day to look around and see the neat, tidy and sparkling clean fruits of my labor.<br /><br />Growing up, cleaning the house didn't just fall to my Mother, it was a family event. Especially on Saturday's. I can still hear music from the stereo playing through the entire house with the scent of Pine Sol and Pledge filling the air. Those are pleasant memories.<br /><br />Over the years I had refined my house cleaning routine down to a perfect system. Chores were broken down into daily, weekly and monthly tasks. Even while I was raising children and living in a marriage made in hell, the house at least was something I could control. Predictable things are easy to control. You know the furniture will need to be polished, so you polish it.<br /><br />With a rare Monday with the house all to myself, I focused on some of the small things I had ignored over the years. Things that other people wouldn't and don't notice. I mean, how many people step up on a chair to look on top of your fridge to see if it is clean or not? Not many, but just knowing they could, gives me some warped kind of joy.<br /><br />After 2 weeks of being in a deep cycle of insomnia, I was able to crawl into bed last night and sleep for over 7 hours without waking up once.<br /><br />Maybe it was the scent of Pine Sol that still lingered in the kitchen and master bath that came and reminded me of sweeter days when I felt safe and loved.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-41871026871506145662010-02-03T21:31:00.006-06:002010-02-03T21:46:05.073-06:00BOB RILEY-ALABAMA'S OWN DUDLEY DO-RIGHT<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCV5RZSc1-cDW_Y840l4ebycKnHmebDNRLlmzZQ1YqOCvjUfof-Sks7B6RTebl8IcTcxMZfZsNP8lunUVvYHYKw11sBVDUyvLM330LBZ-KSR72Tr8bC2Q22QDPO_t7e7YMyNCne_SvA/s1600-h/bob+riley.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghCV5RZSc1-cDW_Y840l4ebycKnHmebDNRLlmzZQ1YqOCvjUfof-Sks7B6RTebl8IcTcxMZfZsNP8lunUVvYHYKw11sBVDUyvLM330LBZ-KSR72Tr8bC2Q22QDPO_t7e7YMyNCne_SvA/s320/bob+riley.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434226689056622274" /></a><br /><br />Gov.Bob Riley is on my last nerve and I'm counting down the days until he is out of office.<br /><br />Riley has vowed to protect and defend the "standard of living" in Alabama by waging war on gambling in the state of Alabama. The gambling in question is bingo played via slot machines.<br /><br />Each year Alabama watches millions upon millions of dollars say bye-bye to us and travel to other states to gamble and play the lottery.<br /><br />Meanwhile on the home front, he has a problem with "gambling" as it is now. His problem is that electronic bingo in the places popping up around Montgomery, Birmingham and south Alabama don't require enough inter-action. It seems the difference between gambling and not gambling is the number of buttons you have to push.<br /><br />He is and has spent millions of tax payer dollars riding on his white horse to save us all while cutting education and laying off much needed teachers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieiZi5TQap3xHGbBhNZR1m_MFDeRECCkWdkyCLzRzon9UK5L77sidwiMS_mfohItdNC6x6JfNuT_h_YMmQMTuFhyQzH_F8ZuRXOfUOH1Wg4DjKmiWM9lBljRKM5XhJGNYdk7TThxtivg/s1600-h/dudley.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 196px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieiZi5TQap3xHGbBhNZR1m_MFDeRECCkWdkyCLzRzon9UK5L77sidwiMS_mfohItdNC6x6JfNuT_h_YMmQMTuFhyQzH_F8ZuRXOfUOH1Wg4DjKmiWM9lBljRKM5XhJGNYdk7TThxtivg/s320/dudley.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5434228533561463090" /></a><br /><br />My question to Dudley....err....Bob Riley is this....Why stop at gambling...? Why not save us from the evils of tobacco and alcohol...? After all they have killed and harmed more people in the state than gambling ever has.....so what not take aim at them....? <br /><br />You can't pick and choose which "sins" to be against based on the almighty dollar....can you...?<br /><br />Maybe Bob isn' so squeaky clean after all.<br /><br />Your time is almost up Bingo Bob. Time for you to go back to Ashland and stay there!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-33312289606180690842009-12-21T18:55:00.005-06:002009-12-21T19:03:56.544-06:00JOHN SCHNEIDER-GREATEST HITS<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzmV4S8dkFU2Qb4cQ2KdxgZx6aH-zIStKT4SOGz9dRYdpfNo-9eXLMnvnQh8pu4T4vQm1GXgxZVs0NBGGc2Krlm3cDPu01mBaqcC_8iKMkNGLKUeM7BZUWleBz3MTZuRaA_GeK6XTYEQ/s1600-h/images+js.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 110px; height: 110px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzmV4S8dkFU2Qb4cQ2KdxgZx6aH-zIStKT4SOGz9dRYdpfNo-9eXLMnvnQh8pu4T4vQm1GXgxZVs0NBGGc2Krlm3cDPu01mBaqcC_8iKMkNGLKUeM7BZUWleBz3MTZuRaA_GeK6XTYEQ/s320/images+js.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417858471240597474" /></a><br /><br />JOHN SCHNEIDER'S GREATEST HITS<br /> <br />Out of the blue last week, listening to a mixed tape a friend made me years ago, a John Schneider song caught me by surprise. It got me to thinking about the string of hit songs he had. <br /><br /><br /> <br />I jumped on line and ordered his Greatest Hits CD.<br /> <br />His voice is so smooth, the songs are all great and speak to me in different ways, speaking to me on very personal levels.They do so even more now.<br /> <br />I'VE BEEN AROUND ENOUGH TO KNOW<br /> <br />You don't need to try and fool me. You don't need to lead me on. You don't need to say you love me. I've been around enough to know.<br /> <br />COUNTRY GIRLS<br /> <br />Country girls are sweeter than Tupelo honey. Country girls are warmer than the Georgia sun. They know how to touch you, know how to love you, take you right out of this world, I'm so glad that God made country girls.<br /> <br />IT'S A SHORT WALK FROM HEAVEN TO HELL<br /> <br />You gave me all kinds of reasons to stay...but like the fool that I am, I still walked away......and it's a short walk from heaven to hell....A few steps from an angel that loved me so well.......When I left I shook hands, with the devil himself and it's a short walk, from heaven to hell.<br /><br />(**One line in the song I really like: "What I took for love, she took for fun"...I'm sure many out there identify with that lyric.")<br /><br /><br /> <br />I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU TOMORROW<br /> <br />We sleep separately together, never touching,and you won't talk about it, anymore,I guess you've just grown so used to having me around you, that I'm just, so old habit that you ignore.<br /> <br />WHAT'S A MEMORY LIKE YOU YOU (DOING IN A LOVE LIKE THIS)<br /> <br />What's a memory like you, doing in a love like this, she thinks we're all through, but that's not the way it is, when I hold her in my arms, it's your lips I still kiss, what's a memory like you, doing in a love like this....<br /> <br />YOU'RE THE LAST THING I NEEDED TONIGHT<br /> <br />'Cause I've got all that I need to be happy, 'cause your love makes everything right, you're the first thing that I'll need tomorrow and your the last thing I needed tonight.....your the last thing I needed, you always are, I can't wait for the day to end, your the last thing I needed, to hold in my arms, if I, should never wake up again.....Now always find you somewhere in my dreams and I know when I close my eyes, you'll be the first thing that I'll need tomorrow, and the last thing I needed tonight.<br /> <br />AT THE SOUND OF THE TONE<br /> <br />I called her up to say I'm sorry, I just can't have lunch today, 'cause the boss just called and he's flying in from LA. And as the phone rang, I remembered a time, how simple things used to be, then her voice came on the line and I heard the answer machine, she said, I'm sorry I can't take your call, but I'm packing up to go away, and, John, if that's you, your just canceling lunch anyway, oh you used to find the time, but now you don't even try, so at the sound of the tone, your own your own.....good-bye.<br /> <br />TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME<br /> <br />Since she left me, I've got a choice, I can take the long way home.<br /> <br />LOVE, YOU AIN'T SEEN THE LAST OF ME<br /> <br />I been losing my mind, one love at a time, gettin' up just to be knocked down...but with all that pain I come back again..and I always go one more round....BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-70039209837784795572009-12-10T02:08:00.002-06:002009-12-10T02:12:14.789-06:00AOL is AO-HELLI am FED up with AOL.<br /><br />Once upon a time when a new version of AOL was released, an installation CD was sent via the mail.<br /><br />An AOL 9.0 Optimized CD came with my computer back in 2004.<br /><br />Sometime later an AOL 9.0 Security Edition was sent in the mail.<br /><br />Since then, the AOL 9.0 Security Edition CD became scratched and not usable, so, I'm stuck with 9.0 Optimized.<br /><br />Worth noting is that AOL crashes at least twice a month requiring that I reinstall it.<br /><br />I have scanned the AOL Help section (which is, NO help at all)<br /><br />I am guessing that installation CD's are a thing of the past.<br /><br />Here is a newsflash.....<br /><br />Some of us don't live in urban areas. We live out in the sticks where the ONLY choice is dial up.<br /><br />As I write this, I have been downloading (LOL) AOL 9.5 online. Been at it for over an hour now and it isn't even up to 10% downloaded. By my calculations, it will take over 10 hours to download. Are you freaking kidding me....!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />Try to find something....anything about a CD installation on AOL Help and you come up with ZIPPO. In fact, trying to find anything that could be considered mildly helpful is like trying to find a needle in a stack of needles.<br /><br />You would think for $25.90 per month, they could afford to produce a freaking CD.<br /><br />In short, AOL is AO HELL and I'm about to kiss them goodbye.<br /><br />For anyone that doesn't live in BumbleBucket USA and has a connection that isn't dial up, here is a business idea for you....Go to AOL the AOL site where it gives instructions on how to make your own AOL 9.5 CD, make one and then sell it to the dial up suckers.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-90364024434853872622009-12-06T08:01:00.002-06:002009-12-06T08:34:10.648-06:00WHO'S YOUR DADDY or THE TIDE ROLLS OVER FLORIDA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pC81-RHZzIl4uUxD_eZ2_mkyi-pTwVI-oeGjWLiAxBUKhfIg5RUWR2tB2EY3khIsARDVOzZhgujVXlwA36k12IQacasdwFK1viqXgLkjH2VQcOk2y3H0akrlBB4qIYEJSEk22ZO55A/s1600-h/CRIMSON+TIDE.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 111px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4pC81-RHZzIl4uUxD_eZ2_mkyi-pTwVI-oeGjWLiAxBUKhfIg5RUWR2tB2EY3khIsARDVOzZhgujVXlwA36k12IQacasdwFK1viqXgLkjH2VQcOk2y3H0akrlBB4qIYEJSEk22ZO55A/s320/CRIMSON+TIDE.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412123677576406530" /></a><br /><br /><br />I had myself a quiet day planned Saturday. With a rare day alone and the house all to myself I would play my music as loud as I wanted and attack the growing mess in the office.<br /><br />A last minute change of plans had me sitting inside the Georgia Dome for the SEC CHAMPIONSHIP game between my beloved Crimson Tide of Alabama and the Florida Gators. Of course, everyone and their dog knew Alabama was the underdog but so what. Not like we haven't been the underdog before, but as someone who grew up on Alabama football, I know that you NEVER count out the team from Tuscaloosa,Alabama.<br /><br />The fans in our section were mostly wearing CRIMSON with a healthy sprinkling of Florida fans thrown in for good measure. Seated to my left, 4 Florida fans who commenced to bragging and counting a victory before the first snap. Each time he would say something to me, I just smiled. After being poked for the fifth time and asked:<br /><br />"What ya think 'bout that Bama gal?"<br /><br />I replied:<br /><br />"We do our talking on the field."<br /><br />The atmosphere was electric. Florida faithful were remembering the previous years win over the Tide in the SEC Championship game and fully expecting a repeat. Meanwhile, the Bama Nation was hell bent on revenge. That became clear when the Crimson Tide exited the tunnel, running onto the field. Meanwhile, the Gators, strolled.<br /><br />Mid way through the fourth quarter, most of the Gator fans in our section were long gone. Their hopes of a trip to California to play for the National Championship were rolled away by an Alabama team that came ready to play. In the final seconds of the game, Tebow was in tears and Florida was Alabama's bitch!<br /><br />"Oh the weather outside if frightful, but the Dome is so delightful. Tebow has no place to go.....Let it ROLL,let it ROLL, let it ROLL."<br /><br />Rammer Jammer rocked the Dome. Saban and the players saluted the crowd as "Sweet Home Alabama.....ROLL TIDE ROLL", filled the air.<br /><br /> Tebow's performance, along with Colt McCoy's less than impressive game,should give Mark Ingram a very good chance at winning the Heisman. A first for Alabama.<br /><br />All I want for Christmas is a 13th National Championship.<br /><br />I love Saturday when you are looking for a win and Sunday when you found one.<br /><br />ROLL TIDE ROLL!BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-80958494625655421782009-09-14T08:47:00.004-05:002009-09-14T09:25:51.768-05:00KANYE SHOWS HIS ASS,BEYONCE SHOWS HER CLASSKanye West showed not only his ignorance but his ass at the VMA's.<br /><br />As 17 year old "country" singing sensation Taylor Swift began her acceptance speech for winning Best Female Video award for "You Belong With Me" over Beyonce's "Single Ladies",Kanye rushed up on stage, grabbed the mic from the stunned teen.<br /><br />"Taylor, I'm really happy for you, and I'm gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!"<br /><br /><br />Taylor's big moment seemed gone. Taken from her by the thunder stealing,ass showing West.<br /><br />Later as Beyonce accepted a win for Video Of The Year, in a move that was totally unselfish and classy, she called Taylor back to the stage after telling of her first win with Destiny's Child at the age of 17, thus, giving Taylor her moment.<br /><br />I wonder if West would have stormed the stage if another black singer had won...? Doubtful.<br /><br />Despite his money and fame, he must live a miserable and angry life.<br /><br /><br />Boo's and hisses to West. There is a sayin' where I come from that sums up my feelings about Kanye: "Someone needs to take him out behind the wood shed and whoop his ass."<br /><br />Kudos to the lovely Beyonce for showing such class and grace.<br /><br /><br /><br />THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:<br /><br /><br />"Isn't it ironic? We ignore who adores us, Adore who ignores us, Love who hurts us, and hurt who loves us."BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-66842915771754721312009-08-20T12:41:00.003-05:002009-08-20T12:52:37.525-05:00PROTEST PLANNED AT ANCIENT INDIAN STONE MOUND IN OXFORD ALABAMA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPT6Kh-gNg0kSoFiBrEMwm4P9i9BLUKVlTWfBGsLX-4rtEY2GJj5vvpLD4PllO08VBf1sZeCWF0nQ1YuSlcHrPMh2e71t0pyIlW0aQFBuK7YjU4Zl6QZekFtvVua0bNWAUvinqmBmLzw/s1600-h/mound+1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 367px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 245px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364282547824035666" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPT6Kh-gNg0kSoFiBrEMwm4P9i9BLUKVlTWfBGsLX-4rtEY2GJj5vvpLD4PllO08VBf1sZeCWF0nQ1YuSlcHrPMh2e71t0pyIlW0aQFBuK7YjU4Zl6QZekFtvVua0bNWAUvinqmBmLzw/s400/mound+1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Another protest is planned at the Oxford Exchange over the destruction of an ancient stone Indian mound for "fill dirt".<br /><br />WHEN: August 30<br />TIME: 2 PM- 5 PM<br />WHERE: Oxford Exchange (Exit 188)<br /><br />****THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM THE FACEBOOK GROUP:STOP SACRED BURIAL MOUNDS FROM BECOMING A SAM'S CLUB.<br /><br />Mark Davis and local Native Americans have scheduled a Reconsecration Ceremony and protest on August 30th to protest the destruction of multiple Native American sites near the Oxford Exchange area, including the stone mound behind the Oxford Exchange as well as the Davis farm site. <br /><br />Mr. Davis is holding this under the Native American Indian Freedom of Religion Act. He has asked for support from all those who are able to come. He is aiming for 300 people to show up but it would be even better if over 1000 showed up. If you are concerned with the preservation of our cultural resources and sacred sites, please show up to lend your support to our Native American community. Mr. Davis has asked that this be a peaceful protest and that those who show up refrain from any sort of rude behavior. <br /><br />Please show up to lend your support! <br /><br />For information regarding the threatened sites please see the following links:<br /><br />AP article on destruction of the Native American stone mound:<br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jcfbRkam1inMm08nVhPoaFzFOgyQD99IOMJ00<br /><br />JSU article on the archeological signifigance of the Davis Farm property which is now being threatened:<br />http://www.jsu.edu/news/jan_june2006/davis-farm.html<br /><br />Facebook group with related information:<br />http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118679542703<br /><br /><br /><br />Thanks for all your support, even if you can't make it to the protest please help spread the word. <br /><br />The main Facebook group for this event makes today's front page of the Anniston Star, the major newspaper for Oxford, Alabama, where the threatened sites are located. <br />http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Mound+controversy+spans+the+Web-+American+Indian+site+in+Oxford+now+on+Facebook-+Twitter%20&id=3182487-Mound+controversy+spans+the+Web-+American+Indian+site+in+Oxford+now+on+Facebook-+Twitter&instance=home_right_bottom<br /><br />Apparently, the city council members don't take us seriously! Let's prove them wrong. If you can't show up for the protest, please write a letter to the Anniston Star Newspaper and let them know you will be there in spirit and are watching what is going on in this town. <br /><br />You can fill out this online"letters to the editor" speakout form for the Anniston Star at:<br />http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/opinion_speakout<br /><br />To contact the Oxford City Council the email form is:<br />http://www.oxfordalabama.org/Default.asp?ID=672<br />Thank you for all your support!<br /><br /><br /> Geography - States <br />Description: A 1,500 year old Native American stone mound is being continually bulldozed near Oxford, Alabama, and the earth used as fill dirt for a Sam's Club, the BIG BOX discount franchise owned by Walmart. A wider area of 320 acres even richer in artifacts, Creek Indian villages and remains is slotted to go next. This land is rich in ancestral graves and artifacts, and it would be a huge loss of collective cultural and spiritual patrimony. It is believed that De Soto had contact with the natives here and that there are Spanish remains here as well. It was a thriving village in the 17th century and one of the richest sites of it's kind.* <br /><br />WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?<br />The Mayor Leon Smith, and the Town Council of Oxford are responsible for this. They paid 60,000 for a fake archeological report to be carried out by the University of Alabma in order to go forward with their shallow, greedy and ignorant plans to destroy this site, level the mounds, build a mamoth Sports Complex, Hotel as well as leasing property to Wal-Mart while using the desecrating sacred soil for fill-dirt for the parking lot.<br /><br />If this sickens you and violates your sense of justice as it does ours, Join hands with us around the mound, via facebook or in person and send a loud and clear message to the people responsible for this that:<br />WE WILL NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!<br /><br />Members will receive instructions on how to become Social Activist via Facebook, Fax, snail mail and also by joining us in person. Links and pictures below with additional information. <br /><br />*Renowned Archeologist Dr. Harry Holstein has spent a lifetime surveying and documenting this area. Links below to some of his published reports. <br /><br />Email: <br />Website: http://www.reznetnews.org/article/goodby <br /><br /><br />******In the past, only a handful of people have shown up to protest. You can help by attending. If you can't attend you can help by sending emails and helping spread the word.<br /><br />I have written about this several times on my blog. In published reports, Mayor Leon (MEAT HEAD)Smith first said the mound was only used to send "smoke signals". A couple of weeks ago, he recanted that statement to say that it was NOT a man made mound but something created by nature.....!!! OH MY GOODNESS!<br /><br />We must be the voice for this majestic mound and the people that built it.<br /><br />Please help in any way you can.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-32835778723509027122009-07-30T10:52:00.006-05:002009-07-30T11:29:53.786-05:00OXFORD ALABAMA STONE MOUND UPDATE or MAYOR LEON SMITH REMOVES ALL DOUBT<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPT6Kh-gNg0kSoFiBrEMwm4P9i9BLUKVlTWfBGsLX-4rtEY2GJj5vvpLD4PllO08VBf1sZeCWF0nQ1YuSlcHrPMh2e71t0pyIlW0aQFBuK7YjU4Zl6QZekFtvVua0bNWAUvinqmBmLzw/s1600-h/mound+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 367px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPT6Kh-gNg0kSoFiBrEMwm4P9i9BLUKVlTWfBGsLX-4rtEY2GJj5vvpLD4PllO08VBf1sZeCWF0nQ1YuSlcHrPMh2e71t0pyIlW0aQFBuK7YjU4Zl6QZekFtvVua0bNWAUvinqmBmLzw/s400/mound+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364282547824035666" /></a><br /><br />I grabbed Wednesday's ANNISTON STAR this morning and settled down with a cup of coffee. The headline on the front page shouted at me:<br /><br />MAYOR CONTRADICTS STONE MOUND STUDY<br /><br />In smaller letters underneath the headline:<br /><br />Smith Says controversial mound was put at top of hill by natural forces.<br /><br /><br />WHAT....?!<br /><br />As I read the story by DAN WHISENHUNT (dwhisenhunt@annistonstar.com), I could only shake my head and laugh at the sheer STUPIDITY of the comments by Oxford Alabama Mayor Leon Smith.<br /><br />Mayor Smith, having found himself in the midst public outrage, now asserts that the stone mound, THE LARGEST IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA,was NOT man made but put there by natural forces.<br /><br /><br />DO WHUT....?<br /><br />In more back tracking news, City Project Manager, Fred Denney, who has been quoted and has confirmed in previous interviews that the mound would be destroyed and used as "fill dirt" for a (proposed) Sam's Club being built at the Oxford exchange, now says that it ISN'T being used and that he NEVER said it was.<br /><br />Leon Smith and Fred Denney...What a pair these two are!!!! Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumber Than Dirt!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6CFpCwdNn8G5Ku0nyaAXmxZ5QcN9S_28Kqp8tQV3AZILYFqx6IUP_8XSdzk0Vb-U3uhkbkKZZWaj0ZU6rqsC82-6aNJb8cv60VZBX3V01bdR8PQ6yGayqkssenGQyav2DsA_AGRfIA/s1600-h/d+and+d.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 140px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr6CFpCwdNn8G5Ku0nyaAXmxZ5QcN9S_28Kqp8tQV3AZILYFqx6IUP_8XSdzk0Vb-U3uhkbkKZZWaj0ZU6rqsC82-6aNJb8cv60VZBX3V01bdR8PQ6yGayqkssenGQyav2DsA_AGRfIA/s400/d+and+d.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364290933210603970" /></a><br /><br /><br />At one point Mayor Smith was quoted as saying the mound was used to send "smoke signals".<br /><br />The only smoke signals I know about are the ones Smith and Denney are trying to blow up our backends.<br /><br />The more these 2 talk, the more foolish and just plain ol' dumb they appear.<br /><br />Still, at the heart of the matter is, a beautiful, IMPORTANT, structure is being destroyed with Tweedle Dee Smith and Tweedle Dumber Than Dirt Denney at the helms. So intent is Smith, that despite public outrage,opinion and national attention, it continues. Makes me wonder what else is going on....what kind of under the table deals are being made....?<br /><br />A CLOSED MOUTH GATHERS NO FEET.<br /><br />It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt . -- George Eliot ...<br /><br /><br />***I appreciate all comments I have received on this matter from people all around the United States. If this is your first time here,I have several other posts dealing with this matter.<br /><br />For those of you who wish to express your displeasure the number to city hall is 256 831 7510 , the snail address is PO Box 3383 Oxford , Al 36203 and the email addy is cityhall@oxfordalabama.org<br /><br />The contactors are Taylor Corporation. http://taylorcorporation.com/ You can email them though their website.BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246479519193532282.post-70836601520489270562009-07-07T05:41:00.007-05:002009-07-07T06:10:46.653-05:00CITY OF OXFORD ALABAMA DESTROYS ANCIENT INDIAN MOUND FOR "FILL DIRT"<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_t5AEgeaHOqs/SlMmsQ6WB_I/AAAAAAAA<br />(AyM/sOEOObVZ1Qk/s1600-h/mound+1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 367px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDN_RZkz3J_aqFhQ1rPtBRxjXZftkQTpgJ0QroRCOMs6fGT7wC8t0et959drZkq4dlMD-P_oyVk5RAO0SziHrupG_pGGEOQcHXiJ16Wr8Wg9BiF62zgcoStTPB4PPizP3ZyasK_KcuvQ/s400/mound+1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355666923769432050" /></a><br /><br />(I took these photographs myself yesterday evening. What you can't see on the other side are the bulldozers,etc that have already taken a sizeable chunk out of the back side)<br /><br />Look at the picture above.....What do you see...?<br /><br />If you see just a mound of dirt,then join Oxford,Alabama mayor Leon Smith and his city council.<br /><br />Look again <br /><br />If you see (what is left) of the LARGEST, ancient stone mound (over 1500 years old)in the state of Alabama,a sacred site to the Indians that lived and OWNED the land, a structure that PREDATES the arrival of the Europeans, then you would be correct.<br /><br />If you see a big ol' honking and worthless structure that only merits being used as "fill dirt" for a new Sam's Club being built at the Oxford Exchange just off I-20 exit 188 in Oxford,Alabama....once again, consider yourself amongst the ranks of the fine and upstanding mayor of Oxford,Alabama.<br /><br />The destruction of this site should ENRAGE, not just Native American's, residents of Calhoun County and Alabama, but everyone.<br /><br />While most cities honor and preserve their historic sites, the city of Oxford is erasing theirs in record time.<br /><br />You best believe if even 1 tiny,itty bitty battle that didn't amount to a hill of beans had occured on this site during the Civil War it would be a national treasure.<br /><br />In all fairness, people and what they value differs. Some like the thugs and hoods on the Oxford City Council value the almighty dollar and worship at the feet of Wal-Mart. I have lived here in Alabama all my life and as far as I know there isn't a shortage of dirt. There is a shortage of 1500 year old structures!<br /><br />What a bunch of WATER HEADED FOOLS!<br /><br />Mayor Smith in all his learned "wisdom" about the mound has said over and over it was only used to send "smoke signals". What an ASS!<br /><br />Shame on Wal-Mart and Sam's Club for allowing this to happen.<br /><br />Shame on the citizens of Alabama for not taking a stand!<br /><br />"Fill dirt" !!! That is what I can't get over....."Fill dirt"....!!!!!!!!<br /><br />I wonder how Mayor Smith and his merry band of goons,loons and meatheaded ass wipes would like places that are sacred to their families and history to be used as "fill dirt".<br /><br />The destruction is well under way and it is not only sad but shameful!<br /><br />It may and probably is too late to prevent further destruction, but if you are concerned, here is what you can do:<br /><br />For those of you who wish to express your displeasure the number to city hall is 256 831 7510 , the snail address is PO Box 3383 Oxford , Al 36203 and the email addy is cityhall@oxfordalabama.org<br /><br />The contactors are Taylor Corporation. http://taylorcorporation.com/ You can email them though their website.<br /><br />For further infomation, several articles have been written in The Anniston Star.<br /><br />Also here is a link to a story on the web:<br /><br />http://stillwandering.multiply.com/reviews/item/466<br /><br />Governor of the state of Alabama is Bob Riley.<br /><br /><br />Take another look at this huge, once majestic structure that will be DESTROYED and used for "fill dirt"<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7eOWZkmVkhGrPjocGeomfX0VAbTxGOXVb41Xhx4Ehsd9fmsEXQ47-SHK0NkrxRREhfIiF7LQvFk9cejj7IA9pX1G9n6QPrXfVY0iRrG0sDvMUVTSMgy7SM68LEb7uA0CLaCvyyQwejg/s1600-h/mound+2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7eOWZkmVkhGrPjocGeomfX0VAbTxGOXVb41Xhx4Ehsd9fmsEXQ47-SHK0NkrxRREhfIiF7LQvFk9cejj7IA9pX1G9n6QPrXfVY0iRrG0sDvMUVTSMgy7SM68LEb7uA0CLaCvyyQwejg/s400/mound+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355671952277429458" /></a>BELLEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05788094154312749429noreply@blogger.com7