FOUNDING OF THE COMMONSENSE CLUB AS REPORTED BY THE SCRIBE::JOE TODD

OUR HERO Thomas Paine 

CHARTER MEMBERS::

Professor  Dick K. far left and Bro. Joe D. far right

Bro. Jim H. , Scribe Joe Todd in middle and Bro. Charlie L.

     The Commonsense Club is a group, supposedly, of men mature in years and experience. Some of them are retired from their calling and some are very actively engaged, but all have a vital interest in the community affairs.

     We are not permitted to divulge the proceedings of the meetings of the club, but we may report the sentiments expressed in the address that is always provided for the final item on the program.

     The personnel of the membership ranges all the way from Bro. Joe D. who is a sort of genius, with meager education but a wealth of gumption, sound sense and philosophy, to the pedantic book worm and theorist Professor Dick K.

     Believing these terse talks to the club to be sensible, as a usual thing, and practiced, it is our purpose, from time to time, to present them to the readers of this blog. So we make our bow by setting forth the voluntary remarks of Bro. Joe D.  at the close of the first meeting of the club when its organization was completed:

     “ Brothers of the Commonsense Club—We are now a constituted club. I congratulate you on being charter members.  There are clubs a plenty in these days, but none to many of the right sort.

     Each member is an American, regardless of race or color, a resident of this community, with a live interest in its affairs.  We are all of the common people which comprises the majority.  So we launch this club believing that it will fill a long felt need and we confidently expect to reap a rich fruitage from its activities.  And while our meetings shall be helpful and educational and inspiring, we mean to make them interesting, entertaining and enthusiastic.  Let us be good members, which means good neighbors, good citizens and respectable high class men.  Let this club be the mountain peak, in our thoughts and aspirations, from which to increase our faith and courage that we need to carry on.”

ADJOURNED..

REPORTED BY THE SCRIBE: JOE TODD 4/14/2009

THE GATES OF HELL

I found this poem while going through my Great Grandfather The Rev. Nathan Johnson’s papers.

I found it interesting and might be appropriate today.

Rejected

A stranger stood at the Gates of hell
And the Devil himself answered the bell.
He looked him over from head to toe
And said: My friend, I'd like to know
What you have done in the line of sin
To entitle you to come within?

Then Franklin D, with his usual guile
Stepped forth with his toothy smile and said:

"When I took charge in '33
A nations faith was mine," said he
"I promised them this and I promised them that
And I calmed them down with a fireside chat.
I spent their money in fishing trips
And fished from the decks of their battleships.
I gave them jobs in the WPA
Then raised their taxes and took it away.
I raised their wages and closed their shops
I killed their pigs and buried their crops
I double-crossed both old and young
And still the folks my praises sung.
I brought back beer, and what do you think?
I taxed it so high they couldn't drink.
I furnished 'em money with Government loans
When they missed a payment I took their homes.
When I wanted to punish the folks, you know
I'd put my wife on the radio.
I paid them to let their farms lie still
And imported foodstuffs from Brazil.
I curtailed crops when I felt real mean
And shipped in crops from the Argentine.
When they started to worry, stew and fret
I got them to chant the alphabet
With the AAA and the NLB
The WPA and the CCC.
With these many units I got their goats
And still I crammed it down their throats.
My workers worked with the speed of snails
While the taxpayers chewed their fingernails.
When the organization needed dough
I closed their plants with the CIO.
I ruined jobs, I ruined health
And I put the screws on the rich man's wealth.
And some who couldn't stand the gaff
Would call on me and how I'd laugh.
When they got too strong on certain things
I'd pack and head for "Ole Warm Springs."
I ruined their country, their homes and then
I placed the blame on "Nine Old Men."

Now Franklin talked both long and loud
And the devil stood and his head he bowed.
At last he said: "Lets make it clear
You'll have to move, you can't stay here
For once you mingle with this mob, I'll have to find myself a job."

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The author of this New Deal verse is unknown, but clearly he was a great American

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Every once in awhile I have to throw something like this in… I would rather be hiking, golfing,or doing a little fishing… Thanks, Joe Todd

A “PHOTO HIKE” SPRING 2009::GRAPE VINES,FUNGI,MAY APPLES, AND MORE LANCASTER,OHIO FAIRFIELD COUNTY

May apple, Devil's Apple, Hog-apple, Indian Apple, American Mandrake, American May Apple, Racoonberry, Wild Lemon and witches umbrella…

Puffball, so-called because of its circular shape and ability to have its spores "puffed" out of a hole dissolved in the top.

LEARN ABOUT

THE INHALED PUFFBALL INCIDENT.

NOW FOR YOU FAIRFIELD

COUNTY OHIO RESIDENTS:

WHERE SPECIFICALLY IS THIS CEMENT ROCK CORNER POST?  IT IS IN A PUBLIC AREA OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY…

A LITTLE PHARMACOGNOSY:

1. MAYAPPLE::Podophyllin is a resinous powder obtained by precipitating an alcoholic tincture of the rhizome of American May apple (Podophyllum peltatum)AND is used to remove genital warts very carefully.

2.PUFFBALLS::Puffballs were  used in Tibet for making ink. Also,The Lakota tribe of Native Americans used this clean dry material in their medicine. They are called puffballs because a cloud of brown dust-like spores is emitted when the mature fruiting body bursts.

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DONUTS FOR DAD AT WILLIAM’S SCHOOL GRANDPA GOT TO FILL IN FOR DAD

 

     Picking up my GRANDSON  William today in Toledo Ohio. He will be visiting for a couple days so I may be busy……to say the least….

EVERYONE  ENJOY THE DAY…………….Joe Todd

 

HIKING--CAMPING—FLOWERS AND MORE

FINAL FAREWELL TO WINTER:::

A SHORT HIKE TO THE TOP OF MT. PLEASANT LANCASTER, OHIO WINTER OF 2009.

CLEAR CREEK METRO PARK “HOCKING HILLS AREA OHIO WINTER 2009. LETS GO HIKING..

LOOKS PRETTY COLD TO ME::::

LET US SAY HELLO TO SPRING, SUMMER, BOATING, HIKING,AND CAMPING.. “LAKE PENAGE” NEAR SUDBURY,ONTARIO

I CAN HEAR THE LOONS CAN YOU??

 FINALLY A HIKE THRU FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY COLUMBUS, OHIO.

BETTER NOT GO FISHING HERE:::

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY

 

HIKE TO TOP OF BIG ROUNDTOP GETTYSBURG BATTLEFIELD

Thickly wooded Big Round Top

I AM REAL GLAD I WAS HIKING AND NOT FIGHTING……………………………..

TALK ABOUT BEING STEEP AND WOODED……………………………………….

THIS CONFEDERATE TEDDY BEAR WASN’T AT THE BATTLE

ALWAYS DANGEROUS FOR ME “SELF GUIDED ANYTHING”

  PICTURE OF MY WIFE LINDA “NOT A UNION OFFICER”

  FINALLY MADE IT TO THE TOP…

LOOKING BACK AT THE BATTLEFIELD FROM THE TOP OF BIG ROUNDTOP…. SOME REALLY BRAVE MEN, UNON AND CONFEDERATE FOUGHT ON THIS GROUND…OVER THE YEARS I HAVE READ A LOT ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR AND THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG IN PARTICULAR. FOR ME: IT WAS SPECIAL TO ACTUALLY BE THERE.

I HAD THE CAMERA SO LINDA HAD TO KNEEL BEHIND THE ROCKS..I DID HELP HER GET BACK UP “WHAT A GUY”

ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF MARKERS AT THIS BATTLEFIELD.

National Park Service
Gettysburg National Military Park
1195 Baltimore Pike, Suite 100
Gettysburg, PA 17325

 

CONTEST QUESTION:::

WHAT BATTLEFIELD IS THIS PICTURE FROM??

 AND WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC NAME FOR THIS AREA???

HINT: IT ISN’T GETTYSBURG..

THATS ALL FOLKS   JOE TODD

PICTURES TAKEN::MARCH 2009