| I was listening to talk radio this morning. I know it | | | | one for every direction, embedded within its very |
| shouldn't, but I do. Sometimes the host seems | | | | small ten foot a side, triangle! Just you try and |
| sane and sometimes you get a real stinking day, | | | | park or have access to the side of the road to |
| with the stinking-thinking of a Ghost-host, who is | | | | park, stand, picket, or protest!I put that "free |
| apparently havin' a bad day.How else could | | | | speech" right in quotation marks for a reason. It |
| someone talk so darn mean? It seems as if the | | | | seems that there is none today in this country. |
| far right, that's my opinion, takes what they call | | | | You can get arrested for wearing a "Veterans for |
| "the high ground" on a subject, and then they get | | | | Peace" tee shirt at the VA hospitals! Don't laugh. |
| right down in the sewer! Not with their use of | | | | And don't be surprised. I have heard warnings of |
| vulgar language or cussing, but the good ole' | | | | this coming to your area soon!What with |
| acceptable English words can be formed to do | | | | eighty-odd newly announced, roads such as that |
| more than what a sword could do! This is | | | | of the TTC, or superhighway, is soon coming to |
| because it would be a "sword fight", and not a | | | | your area and is not remote prospect anymore. |
| one-sided combat! You see, from my perspective, | | | | Changing roads, such as our new 121 State |
| the "target of the radio host usually does not | | | | Highway (I think) extension into one of the many |
| have the forum anywhere near as formidable as | | | | converted, taxed, paid for, roadways into money |
| the talk show host. So it is like watching, or | | | | machines for Spain. Yep, another toll road! |
| listening in this case, to an unarmed combatant | | | | Handled, managed, maintained, and repaired, by a |
| going up against a man with a sword. You hear | | | | company from Spain. The company is said to be |
| nothing from the "target-victim"! Even if the victim | | | | owned by the King of Spain. I think I saw that |
| is semi-famous, or semi-infamous, he or she, has | | | | coming when I saw signs around here saying, |
| absolutely nothing, virtually, to say as they are | | | | "This section of roadway adopted by....". It figures, |
| "slaughtered"! This kind of combat, unlike a true | | | | don't it.So as you drive down a toll road your |
| debate, you know, a debate between peers, not | | | | Grandpapy paid for with his tax money, paying |
| at all like the ones we have been exposed to | | | | the Spanish Crown as you go, and come to any |
| whenever we are subjected to the horror of | | | | seaport, (they are all transferred now anyway, no |
| Presidential "Debates", but real debate, before an | | | | tip of the hat to public outcry I think, by the |
| audience that contains no "Fan Club", nor much of | | | | Saudi buying the several companies!) to ship your |
| a "Party" to hone our word-battle into a "prime | | | | cargo upon a Chinese Freighter, using the port |
| time made for TV" show.I'm not talking about | | | | owned and operated by the Saudis, you are |
| having a political opinion here folks. I mean, we all | | | | probably driving a truck registered in Mexico. You |
| have an opinion on most national and state issues. | | | | would probably be coming from the new Kansas |
| Some even have opinions about local issues! | | | | Mexican Port , I am not at all kidding you here! |
| Imagine that, if you will. But to get on the radio, in | | | | You see, we don't actually "Do" anything now. |
| this case its KLIF in Dallas, and say something so | | | | Except pay and pay and pay!When that |
| cruel that it curdles me, then it must be one of | | | | super-duper-highway gets to cutting Texas in to |
| the lowest of the lowest "below the belt hits" I | | | | two states, I wonder where the famous will live? |
| ever heard!Cindy Shehan is at, or will soon be, in | | | | I mean, it has to be one or the other? I reckon. |
| Crawford, Texas. She will not be in that little town | | | | So which will have all the political power, and who |
| exactly, but out in the countryside on a County | | | | will be left "sucking hind teat" as my old Grandpa |
| road, or FM road. She is going to picket the | | | | used to say.Well, I went around the long way din't |
| Presidents' ranch again. Now, I have been there. I | | | | I? But that is typical of me. I can get back to the |
| mean, I have visited the location. Only after and | | | | point fast enough. Cindy Shehan is, according to |
| in-between the commotion, I did visit to get my | | | | this radio talk show "Monster", controlled and |
| bearings, sort of get the lay of the geography, | | | | funded by all that is evil and horrible on the far |
| because there was a major controversy about | | | | left. And I guess that is true! And the "hunger |
| roadsides, right-of-ways, etc. That is a mental | | | | strike", if there is one, "isn't"! I guess that too. But |
| throw-back to my days spent in Vietnam.I was in | | | | still, even I know that these several radio talk |
| Vietnam.The setting is a flat black dirt land. A | | | | show stations, and probably more to the point, |
| deep ditch, oh, about twenty feet at a | | | | the talk show host, is funded by big "business" |
| straight-straight down angle in the area to drain | | | | types on the far right, if not actually funded by |
| the land. If you can picture that. And this ditch, as | | | | an arm of the U.S. Government!Now, don't you |
| so many used to do back near where I grew up, | | | | doubt for a minute you are not a victim of |
| goes down and into whiterock. Whiterock is like | | | | propaganda! For you are. You are bombarded with |
| chalk, and just as brittle and white. There is only | | | | it from your early coffee until you turn your lights |
| the one paved road that winds down and around | | | | out at night. All financed by the U.S. Government, |
| so curvy that you begin to doubt that it goes | | | | or the cronies of whoever is in office. We are the |
| anywhere except back to town.In the old days of | | | | same as every other country! We have "suicided" |
| road construction I think the county just followed | | | | non-essential persons, we have "arms cut off", |
| the old dirt roads "donated" right of way, winding | | | | we have "propaganda", we have "corruption", we |
| back and forth from the front yard of one home | | | | have "murder in the name of the state", we have |
| to the front yard of the next. And that is why | | | | it all. And "payola, to control'a" is not beyond the |
| we have such curvy FM highways. Well, they | | | | pale! Not with so much at stake. That is, the |
| have straightened them out a bit, a show of | | | | stake is being driven into the very heart of this |
| cut-off "old roadbed" is here and there.Past this | | | | country to "meld" it to the world Government. To |
| main point of our focus, the road hits a junction. | | | | kill it, and if you don't believe that, you are kinda |
| It is nothing more than the meeting of two | | | | simple, ain't ya?There is one small detail that |
| roadbeds, and it is just the same type of old | | | | stands in the way of all this. And that is the |
| roadway, that is, the same type construction. The | | | | "middle of the kingdom". Not "The Kingdom", that |
| pavement from this new roadway meets ours, | | | | comes later, that one is only spiritual now, for |
| but divides, going off at an angle in both | | | | some. But the middle of America. It is still alive. |
| directions, constructing a small "Y:" looking spot in | | | | Still has a heartbeat. As a matter of fact, it has a |
| the middle containing a small bit of land, much as | | | | heart! Which is saying more than the "Monsters" |
| you would see anywhere, but why here? I have | | | | of talk radio have! To prove that to me again this |
| no idea. But it is all paved, except this landed, | | | | morning, one national talk show host said |
| grassed center of the "Y", showing it is a bus | | | | something horrid! It was in order to "put down" |
| route. In this country they put down a whiterock | | | | Cindy Shehan and her efforts, whether good or |
| based road over all the dirt roads used at the | | | | bad, that is beside the point, "she hasn't (even) |
| very least, and then soon as they can, | | | | put a tombstone on her sons' grave yet!"Now by |
| budget-wise, the county paves each of those | | | | God, that is uncalled for! That is not only hurtful it |
| roads. I can remember when the county roads | | | | is a disgrace. Even an old battle-horse, half-blind |
| were dirt, those are roads that actually outline | | | | and half-dumb old salt like me, has a heart, and |
| each county, as if it were a border crossing or | | | | that was hurt by those words! Can you imagine |
| something. As a matter of fact, it was, to a point, | | | | that being said of or about your family? That ain't |
| and still is!Anyway, these County unpaved roads | | | | hitting below the belt. That is, instead, right out of |
| had fences along the sides if you were lucky. And | | | | the pit of Hell! Typically talk radio is a hard line, but |
| at times and at such places around, there was | | | | this is talk show radio, at its best! Come on man, |
| and is, more than a handful of cattleguards in the | | | | have at least some dignity!Dan BunchCopyright |
| roadway, where the county right of way and the | | | | 2006 by Dan Bunch All Rights ReservedDan |
| property owner kind of have dual possession. | | | | BunchDan Bunch is of Native American Melungeon |
| There is the assumption that you are entering | | | | heritage. His mother a naturalized citizen, his |
| into the land owners property, including the | | | | father, a United States Army veteran of WWII, |
| roadway, as in Texas the property line is often in | | | | born in Texas a Cherokee-Melungeon.Dan Bunch, |
| the center of the road, even in towns. Why this | | | | totally ignorant of his African and Melungeon |
| concentration here with the lay of the land and | | | | heritage, spent his formative years in Whitewright, |
| road junctions? Because it became as much a | | | | Texas, where he was exposed to the typical |
| part of the controversy and story as the | | | | "White" American youth experience of; school; |
| picketing and protesting in front of the "ranch" did! | | | | football, baseball, and boxing, and farm work. He |
| "Ranch" is in quotes here because it is not at all a | | | | enlisted in the United States Navy Reserve at the |
| ranch. Believe me, there is not much to see, not | | | | age of seventeen while still a junior in high school. |
| worth making the trip! Its more like the plowed | | | | He has had a multitude of experience in business. |
| ground between Israel and Palestine held high | | | | He attributes his interest in many subjects to his |
| ground than it is a ranch!This is the battleground | | | | early career as a newspaper boy in his hometown |
| for Cindy Shehan. There is now signs posted | | | | of Whitewright, Texas.He married his high school |
| every ten foot, almost, that deny anyone the | | | | sweetheart Gayle in 1965, a brilliant woman with a |
| right to park along the roadbed. So to avoid a | | | | professional carreer in finance. They have two |
| ticket, and perhaps incarceration, you have to be | | | | children and five grandchildren. Dan Bunch is a |
| very circumspect as far as parking and distance if | | | | graduate of Grayson Co. Jr. College, which he |
| you want to exercise your right of "free speech". | | | | attended upon his return from active military |
| Even the "Y" spoken of here has its many signs, | | | | service in Vietnam. He was aboard U.S. |