Wrapping up Black History Month...

(Just a friendly note to all my friends.  If you decide to read this rambling drivel, you might want to pack a lunch.  I didn't realize until I got finished writing this all down how ridiculous, and long it is.  Consider yourself warned.)

Hey y'all! Hugs, kisses, yada yada yada...

Well, after a miserable Friday here in NW Louisiana, our weekend has turned off just gorgeous!  And, I'm so happy to have lovely weather to end up Black History Month!  The Mrs. and I did what we normally do on The End of Black History Month Eve (sometimes it's the 27th, and sometimes the 28th if it's a leap year, which it's not this year, so yesterday was it).  We raked up every leaf from my once beautiful Live Oak tree in the front yard.  You might remember how it got to be not so beautiful anymore.  Regardless, there's a lot less leaves to rake now.

#4 son toted about 40 wheelbarrow loads of leaves to the garden, and The Mrs. burned 'em all up to enrich the garden, which we'll be tilling up pretty soon.  Maybe...if it ever gets to be springtime.

And, as is also our family tradition, we spent the Eve of the big day watching "The Postman" for about the 97th time.  The Mrs. loves that movie, and I think it's okay...I especially like it when Tom Petty looks at Kevin Costner and says, "Hey, I heard of you, man.  YOU'RE FAMOUS!"  There's a pretty good YouTube video right here of Tom Petty in that film.  I think he's my favorite character in it.  He's not black, but he's not a racist, and Ford Lincoln Mercury is black.  Those are my two favorite characters in the film, so I'm pretty sure I've got it all balanced out to not be a racist.  I don't want to spoil it for y'all, but The Postman lives long and prospers after overthrowing the evil General Bethlehem.

It is also a tradition here at Andy's Place that we always show y'all our gorgeous, traffic-stopping Japanese Magnolia sometime during Black History Month.

By Black History Month Groundhog Day, or at the latest by Black History Month Valentines Day, it is in full bloom.  Well, I guess because January was the warmest on record, and all of this global warming we've had this year, it hasn't bloomed yet.  It's just now trying to, but it still looks like crap.

I am going to link to an old post from over two years ago.  Take a look at that beautiful thing, and note the date on the post.  Global warming, my rosy red hiney!

I don't know about y'all, but I noticed that Black History Month just wasn't as well observed this year.  Maybe it's just me, but it seemed like the whole thing kinda petered out after Black History Month Valentines Day.  I haven't heard too much about it since then.  I'm hoping that maybe they won't have it next year.  And, as we noted there are a lot of black folks that resent being singled out, too.  But they probably will...because trust me, my friends, racism still exists here in 2010, and we need folks to know about Black History so that they won't be racists.

I'm gonna give y'all some examples of the many hundreds of racists that land here at Andy's Place on a monthly basis.  This is just a tiny sample of what I have to put up with.  As always, you'll have to click on the little bitty picture deals to get the whole thrust of just how racism still exists and all.

In this first one, you will see that folks just continue to use the "n" word (and I don't mean "negro").  I mean, they just throw it around like nobody's listening.  But The Gooble is.  It knows.

Actually, in this case it was The Bing that knows, but it don't know as much as The Gooble.  But, it knows.

Shame on him, throwing around the "n" word like that.  And that fellow visited here on Black History Month Valentines Day, too!  Shame on him!  And shame on The Bing for thinking that I would have a picture like that, or that I would want a racist hanging around here.

But, the beat goes on.  Here you will see a The Gooble Image Search® done by a racist, who also throws around the "n" word.  However, this one is obviously retarded, because he does not know how to spell "butt."  What kind of moron doesn't know how to spell "butt?"  I mean, everybody knows how to spell "butt," unless they are one!  Oh...I answered my own question there, huh?

Now, you gotta admit she is mud-fence ugly, but that's just crude.

Go ahead, admit it.  She's ugly.  I mean, that would stop an atomic clock.

Now, this particular searcher is also a racist, who also throws that "n" word around (don't they all?).  But, this search has more of a local flavor, and will be of interest to residents of NW Louisiana.

Heh!  Note that we came in second only to The Wikidpedia, and ahead of the good Mayor's own computer page.  Nyuk.  But #4 down there should be ashamed of himself, too.  I'm glad we beat him out, even though I don't like being on the same results page with him.

Now, this character is not only a racist.  He/she/it is also a pervert, and insulted me personally.

Now, I do not have sex with dogs, nor would I discriminate on the basis of color if I did!  Pervert.  Racist Pervert!  Get out of here, and don't come back!

It's a dang shame ain't it?  The world continues to be just full of racist folks...even after we've got a Black History Month, and everything.  Sigh...

And, as is our tradition here at Andy's Place, we will wrap up Black History Month with our final Psoriasis Update.  This year it's not going so good.  The reason is that Mean Ol' Mr. Psoriasis decided to attack me right square on a knuckle.  You can see for yourself.  I've got knuckle trouble.

Yep, that's the problem. It swelled up, and burst through the skin right there on a flexible joint (one which I must use in my work, and recreation, and raking leaves, and typing, and everything else).  All of the treatments for Psoriasis involve in some way softening the skin, so that the medicine/herb/whatever can do it's thing on the outbreak.  All of those treatments also soften, and remove scabs...which means that the open wound will never heal if I continue to treat it.  So, I'm having to let a scar develop first before I can go back to treating the outbreak.

However, I think it's running it's course, as the outbreaks on my other fingers seem to be subsiding on their own...thank you Jesus!

Well, I think we have got all our traditions handled in our Black History Month roundup.  Y'all have blessed day.  It's Sunday, so go do something nice for a neighbor, and don't cuss nobody out or nothing...and for heaven's sake, even if you think it...don't call nobody a "nigger."  That's crude.