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There Goes Another Freedom

July 2008

     Religious freedom is at risk in the state of Kentucky-- again. Down in Middlesboro, the pastor of a church, along with ten of his parishioners, were arrested by Kentucky Fish and Wildlife people, just because they had 100 snakes, many of them deadly. The pastor and members had been using these snakes in their worship services. They handle these reptiles as a way of proving their faith in God. The pastor was also selling some of these snakes over the Internet. Of course having or selling these snakes is illegal in Kentucky. First the snakes, next it will be illegal to sell hymnbooks.

 

Useful Things to Know 

May 2011

     While living in Kentucky I served as a voting precinct judge. In each precinct, we had two judges, a “sheriff”, and a clerk. Our job was to see that the voting process was all legal and aboveboard.

     One such day while waiting for voters to show up at the polls I learned something. In Kentucky, and probably the rest of the South, you can say anything about another person and if you follow it up with a “God Bless’em” it makes it okay. It doesn’t negate anything you said, but takes the sting out of the comment. Such as, “He’s a dirty rotten scoundrel, God bless’em.” 

And Then There’s the Accent

September 2009

     Today in church a gentleman was telling the children’s story. It was about a donkey that fell down a well. This guy sounded like he was Kentucky born and bred, and has an accent like some relatives I could mention. He explained that the kind of well he was talking about was the hole in the ground and not some big thing swimming around in the ocean, “even though they both sound the same”, he explained.  

A Kentucky State Trooper pulled over a pickup and sayed to the driver, “Got any I.D?” and the driver replied, “Bout wut?”