Has it been almost a week? Wow! Well, the door’s been unlocked and the shutters thrown open. Come on in. I’m a little tardy with it, but here’s the continuation of the “Sondra” strips I promised. Preparing this double-comic post, it occurred to me—not for the first time—that sometimes several consecutive days of Arlo and Janis involve an extended conversation or situation which, strung together, resembles something like a comic book.
209 responses to “Girlz II Women II”
Morphy:
I was not talking about Ghost. He did not say that he would do that. He was describing what other fathers have done (unless Ghost was joking).
If any real father has actually done that, he deserves to go to jail.
I stand by my original response.
In all honesty the family values in this community are so low that the child welfare department just turns their head at the kind of real human trafficking and child abuse and neglect that goes on around here.
Terrie and Ray that are working for us seem to run an unofficial rescue shelter for kids like that, the way I take in cats. Someone has to do it.
Let’s just say I have heard and seen things here in Oklahoma on a regular basis in my 20 plus years here that were totally outside my experiences or fund of knowledge. Things that appalled my moral fiber and curled my toes.
This is not a state nor a population for the easily shocked. It may be the Bible Belt but not the chasity belt nor is it the moral majority. They may subscribe to the right of every child to be born but their concerns on that child’s welfare and care seems to end there.
Thus endeth today’s sermon. It is Sunday. Last night I suggested Ghost and I attend church. He said we’d be fashionably late.
These days it seems the two things a teenage girl needs are the keys to the car and long-term birth control. Best thing a parent could do is to take the birth control out of the hands of the kid and use a method the kid can’t sabotage or conveniently “forget” to take.
Here’s something interesting about the Gulf of Mexico: http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/06/underwater_forest_discovered_alabama.html#incart_river_home
“The past is not just another time, it’s another world.”
This is no longer my parents’ world. Hell, it’s not even my world anymore.
Mark: Thanks for that submerged forest item. I’ve bucked the URL
http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2017/06/underwater_forest_discovered_alabama.html#incart_river_home
to 3 blind-copy groups: 1. evolutionary biologists, 2. highly [but variously] literate, and 3. theologs, w/ my usual apologies for duplication, because of extensive overlap.
Peace,
Mark/TT: Thanks for that interesting item on the submerged forest south of Alabama.
FWIW, I am not upset by the choices young women make in choosing their clothing. I’m just disappointed that they appear to think so little of themselves that they are willing to dress like prostitutes. My wife taught our girls to show respect for themselves.
The same goes double for any males that choose to dress like pimps or gangsters.
Which makes me think of this moment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMwhl4IrPNc
AKA “Pants on the Ground.”
Rick, if I’ve caused you distress I apologize. What I intended to make more clear with my made up story was that Farmer Bob had not been available to inform our good man Ghost of his intentions. They could be conniving, they could be a good use of resources available to pull income to a struggling home, they could just be oblivious to the thoughts of others. What Ghost offered was a joke as old as staged comedies. It is that old because despite ourselves we still recognize the humorous observation contained in it.
I think we’ve reached the point of you over defending yourself. And I again remind you of whose voice is telling you this. The Irony is deep here.
You did not reach the father with your threat of jail, so I thought it was out of place to put in front of Ghost, as if he should defend a fictional criminal; instead of just having told a joke you found less than tasteful.
On the submerged forests: At Vantage, WA, where the Columbia is again backed up by a smaller dam and forms a slow-flow reservoir at the foot of Ryegrass Ridge, there is a two fold story.
The first happened in geological time, where a Ginko Forest similar to those of Asian origin was preserved under the weight of glaciers, sediment, then vast inland freshwater sea before the mountains gave way. Resulting in an out of the way example of petrified wood.
The second is more recent, when the original town was abandoned for the continuing effort to tame the Columbia River. The existing road into town still serves as an excellent boat ramp. It has been decades since I looked, but at one time you could still see the not very tall steeple of a frontier town’s church approaching the waterline from below. I’ve been told freshwater preserves more than saltwater.
Went to go find an item seen recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Lake
This is in a different part of the Pacific Northwest, note the preservation of more than 100 yrs with very little change. The parent article on the lake, and it’s volcanic origins is good reading too. Various links can lead many ways. Hope someone finds enjoyment here.
Under Ghost’s scrutiny and supervision parts of my house may become habitable. We are ready to set up breezeway mudroom entry of house after 22 years of in completion.
Yesterday we got the privacy patio room off kitchen revamped, just picked up a replacement patio umbrella as we can’t find one that was out there last summer nor the weights to hold them steady.
Both Ghost and I agree we detest all the tattoos on women and young girls. Neither of us find it attractive at any age. In fact it detracts.
Skimpy clothes with big black blobs sticking out?
And don’t get me started on fat older women covered in them!
Mark, I really like the “Who’s a good boy?” strip!
Debbe, Ian will be in my thoughts on Monday, and that’s great news about the kitties, too!
Started my version of Jackie’s Chinese laundry in the apartment laundry room. Went back to change out to the dryer, and guess what? The power had gone off with no way to turn it back on. So I now have two loads of wet laundry sitting in the bathtub. I will have to start from scratch tomorrow as I don’t know whether it had even gone through the rinse cycles or not.
Ghost helped me clean out and cultivate another of my raised garden beds. To our surprise it was full of garlic cloves and really large potatoes, despite there being no evidence of any plants.
We ended up with about five pounds of lovely fresh golden white potatoes.
Ghost is making fresh potato salad with some of them tomorrow. The garlic is bare cloves, no skins, strange? We are going to put in olive oil.
Morphy:
Don’t worry.
I understand that you just don’t get my point because of your filters.
Jackquline:
I can’t say anything at all about Oklahoma, but I can speak authoritatively about this section of Ohio.
I taught high school children for thirty years, and what I learned about many of their home lives changed me forever. Incest, rape, beatings, mental abuse, neglect, deliberate starvation, child prostitution, flat-out torture – all here.
In addition to child abuse and exploitation, we also had two recent cases of human trafficking (or, as I prefer to call it, slavery) in this small town, both involving females who were forced into prostitution.
I also think about the sheer Hell that many women face every day in some workplaces and homes.
It’s sickening.
Ooooh, My…! [hat-tip George Takei (childhood assimilation name, born Takei Hosato)]
My filters? The ones that let me recognize a joke. The ones that allow me to see I am not the only one who has experienced horrible things in life. The ones that allow me to not demand people have liberty stripped without due process.
THOSE filters?
Rick, I like you. But that is too much.
Obviously me above. Rushed a response. Apologies for inconvenience to any who did not recognize my words.
Jackie: ‘Both Ghost & I agree we detest all the tattoos on women & young girls.’ What about piercings? Diamonds or faux gems on most of them. Fortunately, they don’t seem as common on ‘fat older women’. Peace,
And, by the way, while human trafficking of individuals is a continuing modern horror show; it is not helped by the false equivalency of the slavery label applied to the subjugation of entire populations based only on some distinguishing feature.
Your righteousness, is rising. Of these stories you became familiar with, how many went by without intercession on your part? Is that the grief you are dealing with?
yep, gonna post this anyway.
Ghost, took a few minutes to go look at something else, and found my note on your reference to https://www.jakemosher.com/
I have never thought the display on my laptop was something special. I now wish I could see everything as well as Jake captures and presents what he sees. Quite astonishing, thanks for sharing.
yep, me, darn it.
Ghost and I seem to agree on piercings although Ghost has known more women with them than I. He knew one who had four body piercings not counting her ears. He mistakenly hired one with a pierced tongue that he thought was a speech impediment and he got a lot of grief from human resources but he never thought to ask her to stick out her tongue. He said he’d have been up on sexual harassment charges.
I for one found it appalling that two of the young girls who worked for me briefly had diamond studs through their cheeks, yet could not afford to feed or clothe the children they had out of wedlock. I don’t care who anyone sleeps with but I find those who give birth to multiple children, one right after another with no employment or child support, depending on child welfare , we’ll I think they can forgo jewels in navels, jewels in cheeks, tongues, nipples and other personal parts Ghost tells me about.
If you can support yourself and buy your own jewels go ahead I guess but I can’t say I like ten earrings in one ear or things in your nose, eyebrows or upper lip. And don’t start me on pierced men!