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From NBC Local 15 News, Mobile AL (Reported by: Andrea Ramey)

MOBILE, Ala.) - Mobile may be able to boast the world’s tiniest baby! In August, a set of triplets was born at University of South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital. The tiniest in the set broke the record for the world’s smallest surviving baby at nine point one ounces (9.1 oz.!).

Doctors are calling Oliviyanna, Oriyanna, and Tayvanna three tiny miracles. Collectively at birth they weighed less than four pounds!

“I just started praying and asking God to help them through the way,” said the triplets mother, sixteen- year-old Jamesha Harbin.

The tiniest of the three, little Oliviyanna, is not just proving miracles exist, she’s breaking a record for what might be the world’s smallest surviving baby!

When Oliviyanna was born, she weighed less than a soda can. Today, she weighs three point two pounds.

Sixteen, unmarried, and the mother of not one but three special needs babies. (The needs of special babies is something that we know about here in The Pasture. Our youngest sons, fraternal twins, were tiny, and premature. The expenses and the stress was horrendous but were handled by family, faith, and hard work on the part of both the care-givers and the bread-winners.  Not State-funded, (read as: “tax-payer funded”), welfare.) Upon hearing me rant about this story my 15 year old son informed me that there are at least a half a dozen girls in his 8th grade class expecting babies before the term is over. “Who knows“, he said, “this record may not stand very long.”

One more record that the City of Mobile, and the State of Alabama does not need.

Seriously now, I pray for the health and well-being of these three innocents – and for the grandparent who will have to raise them and us tax-paying Citizens who will be paying for it all.

At some point this Country HAS to wake up and do something about the run-away spending we are doing on welfare and the other ills that it brings. Friends, charity starts at home. So does responsibility. All of the assorted kinds of responsibility. You can’t tell it by looking around America today, though. Today, though, we allow our elected morons in Washington to saddle us with socialized heath care that will not just spend us into oblivion but will just encourage more of this welfare state behavior. Not just that, but they are hitching us to this wagon that will tax us today with only a promise of some sort of coverage in a few years. Nothing for anyone now. disgusting no matter how you look at it – or them!

What happened to self-reliance? Self-respect? Personal responsibility? Parental responsibility?

Mayor Sam Jones

Mayor Sam “Moon Pie” Jones (D) of Mobile

I can tell you now, all of the above are rare birds indeed here in Mobile, AL! Our Liberal mayor and City Council are spending money like there is no end to it. Not on police to help with the ever increasing crime problems and not on teachers in our bottom-of-the-pile school system. No, good ol’ Sam Jones & Friends are spending it on outdoor movie projectors for inner city dwellers to enjoy here in one of the rainiest cities in America – and a giant Moon Pie. (If you’ve never been to the deep South you may not even know what a damned Moon Pie is. They are popular little chocolate-covered cakes with a marshmallow filling. They go good with RC cola and are thrown from floats to the crowd during the endless Mardi Gras parades.)

No kidding, folks! Aa $25,000+, 600 pound, electronic Moon Pie to be raised some 200 feet over the Mobile River and light up Mobile’s skyline at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve. That is a Liberal’s idea of fiscal responsibility for you.

Guess The Bull shouldn’t really be surprised at all the 16 year old mothers, should I?

Either this Country wakes up and demands the removal of these tax & spend idiots we have in elected offices Nationwide or we face the end of Freedom, Liberty, and the downward spiral of Humanity back into the horrors of the Dark Ages.

In 1783 Benjamin Franklin said “Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country“. Friend, I’m here to tell you that the United States of America is the last home of anything resembling true Liberty on this rock in space we call home. Seeing as how we have no spare planets to remove our selves to, we either repair our Nation – save our Freedom -or the party is over. Look around. Is this the sort of system you want your children and grandchildren growing up in? For me the answer is a resounding “NO!“.

One last question… How’s all of that “Hope & Change” working for you?

Bull, out.  End of Article

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It is 0345 as I begin writing this… I woke up just a short while ago with someone on my mind. That someone is my son, Jacob Logan.

Fourteen years ago today Jake entered my life and he has been nothing but a pure joy ever since. I have had the opportunity to work with many teenagers over the years. Teens that had taken the high road in Life, and those that had taken the low road. I can say, without any fear of bias, that my son is the finest example of a young man that I have ever had the privilege to know. Yes, that is a hell of a statement to make but I stand by it.


1st rifle A Gold Letter Day

There were a few years there when we were separated due to a bitter divorce however those days are now gone forever. Since June 2007, Jake lives where he belongs – here in ‘The Pasture’ with his father, The Bull. Since his arrival in Mobile, Jake has taken on the rolls of eldest son to Lady Beth and as big brother to our younger children, Sarah and the twins, Jack & Anthony. He has shown his abilities as a superior student with a knack for making friends everywhere he goes. Jake is also the rarest of kids in that he has never once complained about any chore assigned to him. His abilities at the shooting range and his attention to safety led me to present him with his first rifle, (a Ruger 10/22 carbine), on his last birthday as seen in the photo above. (I only pray that he doesn’t expect the same on every birthday! :shock: )

I could write until dawn of my admiration for my son, but you get the picture.

Here’s to you, Jake. HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY!

Dad, out!  End of Article

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Since hearing that the Carnival was coming back I was determined to write something new for publication in it. But what?

Something about the War? Good, but didn’t feel right.

Something about Politics? Oh my Gods, NO! There is going to be plenty of that in the very near future on my blog.

‘Bout Mobile, AL? After all, we have a lot of great things happening around here – and our share of scandal to boot. Hmmm…. Later.

Humor? Scumbag criminals? Silly animal stories? No. No. No.

Family.

That will work! I can write about that at any time! It’s my favorite topic. It is a topic terribly important to our survival as a species. The subject is full of dangers, heartache, anger, humor, shame, and pride. Why, by just looking around your house you can write non-stop!

I’ll start by looking back to my memories of Family… My immediate Family growing up exploded when I was nine years old. Divorce. Sucks for kids and doesn’t do adults much good either. After that, it was the extended family that was the focus of my life. Especially my grandparents. Two full sets and polar opposites in nearly every respect. One set were rather wealthy and pillars of the community and one of the founding families of our town. The other set were simple mountain folk. Tilling soil, trapping, cutting dogwood, and running a little ’shine here-and-there to get by. I guess you could say I had a broad spectrum of role models. These tow Families could not have been more different!

One thing was driven home by all involved though – Duty to Family. Loyalty. Be proud of your Family! Sure, fighting in the Family is going to happen. Get it out and solve the issue. It only will make the Family stronger in the end. outside of that, you stick together. Everything – both good and bad – should be open for discussion and debate. Sweep nothing under the rug because later that lump will trip someone and a lot more pain will result. Rules to live by. And so I have.

Then there is the more recent end of Family experience… A beautiful wife and six – yes, six(6) – fine children. Here, take a look…

Christmas Eve 2007

Life just does not get better that when we are all together. Whether it is around the table at mealtimes or spread all over the living room watching a movie or the latest set of re-runs. Now, how many of you, Dear Readers, just asked yourselves if The Bull has lost his mind? Surely there are better things in life than that! Not if you’re doing it right, folks. Not if you’re doing it right! What could possibly be wrong with a Family getting together at a table for a meal? Nothing. What could be RIGHT with it? Conversation. Seeing each other closely. Remembering those that can not be there. The teaching of manners, (something rapidly disappearing in this Country). Passing on the concepts of sharing and helpfulness. And more. The same goes for our evenings. More often that not we can be found scattered about our living room. Some reading, some watching a show, some playing or dozing off while snuggled next to a Great Dane. Yet we are together. A great comfort comes from such simple closeness. Loyalty grows from it. So does Love.

Yes, The Bull finds Family to be important. Enough so that when I Googled this blog for the word “family” I found that I have mentioned it over 1,620 times in my 897 postings, (not counting this one). A damned high count even if I do say so myself. While I find it important, I will certainly not claim to be an expert or to have all the answers. Every extended family has within it itself certain levels and periods of discord. One such period in my extended Family has, blessedly, just ended. It went on for far too long, yet only because I had failed to confront it. Once I did, the problem was solved. As it turns out, even I need reminders from time-to-time…

The point to all of this, (outside of the fact of The Bull being fallible), it that when all is said and done you really have nothing in this life – except Family. They are your past, and your future. I can only hope that someone out there in the blogosphere gets the point of all of this.

Perhaps we all should take more time to be with, and understand, our Families.

Even me.

Bull, out.  End of Article

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Yes, Merry Christmas to my Dear Readers!

You bet that it is ‘politically incorrect’ to say those words these days. Then again, when was the last time that you found The Bull in a ‘politically correct’ mood, anyway? This is a time of year when Faith and Family should be at the top of one’s list. Regardless of what particular Faith you adhere to personally. My particular Faith’s Winter Solstice holiday was a few days ago and we celebrated it quietly here at The Pasture with all of The Bull’s children in attendance for the first time ever. The entire Herd was here, and it was wonderful!

So, on this day that symbolizes Peace to so many of my fellow Countrymen and friends the World over, and despite the many pressing stories that need to be told, and regardless of the fools needing to be taught lessons, The Bull will remain silent for the remainder of this day in Honor of the birth of the Christ-child and in deference to his followers.

From Our Herd to yours,

Xmas07

Merry Christmas!
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