Date: 2006-06-09
From: Jenkins Shelter

To: Jenkins Shelter
Miles today: 19.0
Weather: scattered clouds

I'm not quite yet to the shelter. It's 6:40pm, and it's about another half hour walk. I found a nice quiet spot on a bunch of tumbling rocks and decided I'd write here. It was a gorgeous day today, sunshine, blue skies, and cool breeze. Perfect for hiking. I'm glad I stopped where I did last night, it was a huge climb up to Chestnut Knob Shelter, where I would have been shooting for. As it was, I took a nice lunch at Chestnut, 4400' on a bald. Basked in the sunshine, very nice. I'm going to return to yesterday for a while. We crossed a whole bunch of cow pastures yesterday. I climbed more stiles yesterday that I had up to this point. I stile is a go-around/lower/through fenus. Most of them are crude ladders built from 4x4 risers and 2x6 steps. Part of traipsing through cow pastures involved watching out for cow pies. Cows take huge dumps! I call them 'Karl Roves,' since they president (not my president, not my war!!) aptly nicknamed that fat f*&% Turd Blossom. I prefer my Karl Roves out in the open, where I can avoid stepping in them. Turd Blossom on the other hand, rides in the shadows of Washington, lying, manipulating, wheeling and dealing. Thanks for f-ing up a perfectly good country with your right wing facist agenda. I happened to pick up a newspaper the other day, and see that they're trying to put through a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration, along with banning gay marriage. What's wrong with the Constitution? What's wrong with gay marriage? What's wrong with my Frist Amendment rights guaranteeing free speech? Why are the a-holes trying to force their values on me? My values state that war is wrong, greed over oil profits is wrong, killing innocent people is wrong, destroying other countries is wrong. I don't understand how a world leader who claims to be 'Christian' and talks to his god everyday can sleep at night with this global mess he perpetuated. Must have something to do with money, power, and blind trust funds. Hey Bushie, send the twins to Iraq, I bed they'd look real cute is desert camo driving around in an unarmed Humvee. How many of our soldiers have died? How many families have been torn apart? How many kids are permanently scarred, maimed, and disfigured? What happened to everyone's bright yellow ribbons?Speaking back to flag desecration, anyone know the proper way to retire an American flag? Yet, burn it. Gonna change that rule? So it's ok to display your flag on your car until it's torn and tattered. It's ok to leave it out at night without a spotlight. Got me. Tell you what, if they change the Constitution, I'll be the first guy outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue dousing flags in precious gasoline and burning those f-ers down. Where will it end? What rights will be taken from us in the name of freedom and liberty? The a=holes in Washington are masters of Orwellian Doublespeak. Back to gay marriage, there are plenty of gays who love each other and live in committed relationships. Why don't they have the same rights as breeders when it comes to sharing property and taking care of their loved ones? This was once a proud nation, shining beacon to the world. We've headed backwards. We've lost our educational and technological edge to the rest of the world. Service economy? Innovation and manufacturing made us strong. Remember when Sam Walton was alive? Wal-Mart used to proudly sell products made in America. Now, Wal-Mart has whored itself out for instant profits on goods made in China and third world countries. Sam's probably rolling in his grave. I could go on, bur you get the point by now. Moral of the story, Pacer should continue to avoid TV and newspapers. Yeah, let's not get started on media consolidation. All we are saying, is give PEACE a chance.