It Really Happened...More Or Less...

   1941! Yes the events that changed the course of our history folks! We were at war!

First let me say thank you to those brave souls that fought to ensure our freedom, our way of life and our right to comedy!

Howdy Y'all..it has been some time since my last post, and yes we are still here! Good news for most but the conspiracy nuts, doomsdayers and naysayers...not so much huh?

Now I am sure you wonder what the title of this here post means....

Well this is not a tribute to the events of that time exactly. See there is one thing about us Americans that is a universal trait to be sure...

We like to kick back and relax, maybe have a beer or two as we have a laugh. Tonight I want to share a laugh with the readers and a reminder of those past glory days of comedy and a film maybe forgotten or overlooked. It's a classic and now has a P.G. rating. It is a riot and I promise will make you laugh..I sure did...

So take a load off and kick back with a cold drink and some buttered popcorn or whatever your snack of choice is for movie night and prepare for a hilarious blast from 1979..it is great ;) Enjoy!

Steven Spielberg directs this riotous farce depicting the hysteria of a cross section of Los Angeles citizens following the bombing of Pear Harbor. The film is loosely based on a true event in which a Japanese submarine surfaced off the California coast, setting off a brief wave of panic.

STARRING:
Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Ned Beatty, Treat Williams, Robert Stack, Tim Matheson, John Candy, Slim Pickens, Christopher Lee

http://www.crackle.com/c/1941   

They Were...Wrong!!!

Howdy Y'all! Long time no post..yep your right. But this one here is to be a special one. I dedicate to my wittle fry..who first and foremost is the reason I started this here blog. Now for the ones..y'all know who I am speaking of..the conspiracy nuts and the gloom and doomers...

They need a life huh? But now y'all don't be hating them..they are too much amusement for anger...

Well I calll the Mayan calender nuts cooks, idgets..and yes they have way too much time on their hands.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&ved=0CEUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMaya_calendar&ei=MOfTUM-yG4ew0QGBtYCQBg&usg=AFQjCNEjDX-nfX9vwOxxz2PEWaCD9h7dPg&sig2=G6GYNRISb1ixV2NXub158g&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.dmQ

That shoulda worked but now for my little present to all those out there that think this world ends now...

Funny yes?

Hey don't be sad..so you were wrong? Go figure huh... As my wittle fry had said earlier..a civilization that were so in tune they predict the end of the world..but not the end of their own civilization...

Come on Y'all it's a party! Yee Haw! Lol so gather round pop a top and have some fun at their expense....

Out For Blood...(Politicians huh?)

Now we are facing another Election soon Y'all. The gloves are off and the veins in their foreheads are sticking out...

Business as usual right? Well this American by birth..Southerner by the Grace of God!! Has a little rhetoric to lay on the public and my readers if any remain. God Bless You for it too...

You may have heard or saw the political cat fights that are so the standard..all the smear tactics, cut short video clips to only show a portion of what was actually said in order to garner support for the opposing party or anger against the party who had their words skewered in a short advertisement... Ivy League children yes? I turn my head and laugh at such immaturity. One of these pampered rich kids are to decide the fate of our nation? Really? Okay lets all pick a side, sit down and share a jug of Uncle Jesse's finest together then..Cheers!

But in closing before my stomach turns more and this ends another political Democrat versus Republican debate allow me  to leave you a few videos captured and preserved on YouTube for reflection and enjoyment from a country boy's perspective.

I promise you won't leave here after watching these videos questioning my sanity or stance Y'all...

This video is gripping and rather haunting I admit. But it speaks the truth Y'all...won't any of those duded up Washington wannabes stop and think? Truly listen or really care two shakes about the little man..or woman?

Now don't mistake me for standing up for only small Southern areas Y'all...

But I add this last one and I will leave it at that for now..(and I hope these videos bring back memories for you; personal ones that perhaps you lived through or relived through your grandparents)

Think hard and do not pick the one that seems to have the best press..Your best interests take to heart and pray we get lucky y'all.. Take Care!

REMEMBER OUR PAST AND FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE IN THE PRESENT

Return To Post...Bout Time Eh?

Yes it is I, the Mustard Man returns...  For some time now I have abandoned my post. I promised this would not happen. I apologize to my readers and the general public, not to myself for shirking the task I undertook. I wish I could claim I was indisposed on some top secret mission to save the world but alas I was not. I apologize to y'all for my absence...kinda. But really in all honesty..life happens..Past, Present, and Future..prepare.

Identity theft sucked...excuse? Not hardly!

I want to restore this blog to you and restore whatever trust or faith I mustered in you my readers. It may take awhile and I expect that. This blog, the spirit it embodies? Is to remember the past.

I leave you now with an I remember...

I remember a few months ago...
I had perfectly big hands, big knuckles...cowboys develop those lol...

Break a fifth metacarpal..try fastening your jeans, or put on your cowboy boots... some could I bet...

Ain't Easy!

But If You Are Willing To Bare With Me....

I am RETURNING

Take Care Y'all

Don't Take Candy From Strangers

Howdy Y'all I decided to take a look back on my life. My dream job, the hopes I once had and determination helped me realize those dreams. Now don't mistake this as a cheap way to brag on myself at the expense of boring the readers of this here blog. I mentioned once I was a Private Investigator and I wasn't half bad...

I want to look farther back and tell you I had the dream of being a P.I. when I was 5 years old. When I was 7, a student at Elk Garden Elementary in the little community of Elk Garden, Va..at the time I resided in a small place known as Belfast, or Belfast Mills, VA.. I located a convict camping out within strained eyesight of the school room where I had 3rd period. They of course disbelieved the skinny little dreamer..till three days later when shots rang out and bullets bounced off our playground/parking lot..
 I moved a lot in my life but now  I live maybe 2 miles from the little trailer I grew up in at the time. It brings back memories, most good. Now I explain part of this post. I fell asleep one night and had a dream. A dream of this little girl from way up north that I hoped one day to meet and marry her. Silly kid stuff right? Not so...that is a longer story that I will treat y'all with in the future. But at the same time ( five years old almost 6) My dream was to become a Private Investigator. I wanted to help people, save the world and all that young idealism. Most grow out of that stage and settle on whatever occupation they have now...

I didn't change mine...
So I had my adventures, not Hollywood fodder but times that may remind folk of movies or books..trust me the stories are much more entertaining and our respective "heroes" always win...
Life ain't always like the movies!

Yep I did stakeouts, caught felons, drug dealers..hell I went undercover often. It is in a way acting but if you screw up? No yelling "CUT!" or second takes...Now many my remember in 2007 the massacre at Virginia Tech? A tragedy and God I wish I could have been there and tried to prevent it! But that day was the day that changed my life forever..that day I became a quadraplegic for a spell. No I was not there I was not a victim. I was in Pittsylvania county, Va working a self initiated case concerning the rash of break ins at local veterinary clinics. The thieves pulled a smash and grab and only stold one drug used in vet medicine. It is called Ketamine, or Ketamine Hydrochloride to be exact...

What was so special about this drug that led to me getting my brakes fixed and resulted in the accident? And I blame myself for being a little careless, but I am fine and fully functional and mobile, have been for years.

Ketamine Hydrochloride

Ketamine hydrochloride, or "Special K," is a powerful hallucinogen widely used as an animal tranquilizer by veterinarians. Users sometimes call the high caused by Special K, "K hole," and describe profound hallucinations that include visual distortions and a lost sense of time, sense, and identity. The high can last from a half-hour to 2 hours. The Drug Enforcement Administration reports that overt effects can last an hour but the drug can still affect the body for up to 24 hours.
Use of Special K can result in profound physical and mental problems including delirium, amnesia, impaired motor function and potentially fatal respiratory problems.
Special K is a powder. The drug is usually snorted, but is sometimes sprinkled on tobacco or marijuana and smoked. Special K is frequently used in combination with other drugs, such as ecstasy, heroin or cocaine.
Liquid Ketamine was developed in the early 1960s as an anesthetic for surgeries, and was used on the battlefields of Vietnam as an anesthetic. Powdered Ketamine emerged as a recreational drug in the 1970s, and was known as "Vitamin K" in the 1980s. It resurfaced in the 1990s rave scene as "Special K."

A Date Rape Drug!  And why do I bring this up? It's simple y'all..it's making a comeback! So I want to bring attention to this so hopefully the readers of this post can be forearmed and alerted to this vicious drug and protect yourselves, your children, your friends, and any that may be at risk...

And I have more to add to the about me but this takes precedence I think and think you all would agree

Be safe out there and remember what you're mother told you as kids..Don't Take Candy From Strangers! Drinks either....

McCord's cashiering: his hat is pulled off, his epaulets are torn from his uniform, his buttons are pulled off, and his saber is broken, while a drum plays ...

The opening title credits scene of the each episode of the series was a depiction of McCord's cashiering: his hat is pulled off, his epaulets are torn from his uniform, his buttons are pulled off, and his saber is broken, while a drum plays over Dominic Frontiere and Alan Alch's theme song: "Branded, scorned as the one who ran. What do you do when you're branded, and you know you're a man? / He was innocent . . . not a charge was true . . . but the world will never know. / Branded, marked by a coward's shame. What do you do when you're branded, will you fight for your name? Wherever you go for the rest of your life you must prove ... you're a man." He is then sent out of the fort where this occurred, and the gates are closed behind him.

 Branded is a Western series which aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966, sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time period, and starred Chuck Connors as Jason McCord, a United States Army Cavalry captain who had been drummed out of the service following an unjust accusation of cowardice.

It was a great, but short lived series. The changeover in Hollywood spelled the demise of one of the greatest 60's Westerns. I ask how would any of us be able to live down something like the character had to endure while knowing all along it was a lie, unjust and having to prove that he wasn't the coward he was branded?
 In the pilot episode entitled "The Vindicator" McCord is confronted by a newspaper reporter (Claude Akins) who wanted a follow up story on the "Bitter Creek" massacre. General James Reed, McCord's mentor, was on a peace mission and was to meet with representatives of the Apache nation at Bitter Creek when his unit of 15 men were outnumbered and attacked by a group of renegade Indians known as "Dog Soldiers" As the attack was underway McCord realized that the old general had lost leave of his senses and relieved him of command, but it was too late. McCord himself was wounded in the battle and left for dead. He remained in a coma for ten days after the attack.
 McCord was later brought up on charges and cashiered out of the Army after being found guilty of deserting his men in battle.


The newspaper reporter meanwhile tracked down a widow of the "Bitter Creek" massacre whose husband was third in command. She possessed a series of letters her husband had written questioning the mental instability of General Reed. Those letters would have been enough to grant McCord a new trial and possibly exonerate him. But it was McCord who convinced the widow (played by June Lockhart) to burn the letters in order to save the reputation of General Reed. McCord feared that if Reed's reputation was damaged certain people in Washington DC would try to start a new war with the Apaches. Therefore McCord never spoke out about what really happened at Bitter Creek.
In the series, McCord traveled throughout the Old West, continually confronted by people who refused to believe his notorious reputation for cowardice was undeserved, requiring him to prove them wrong.
John M. Pickard, formerly of the related series, Boots and Saddles, appeared in six episodes as General Phil Sheridan. Notable guest stars included Chris Alcaide, Russ Conway, Burt Reynolds, Don Collier, Burgess Meredith, John Carradine, Pat Conway, Janet De Gore, Chad Everett, I. Stanford Jolley, June Lockhart, Gregg Palmer, Dolores del Río, and Lee Van Cleef.

The show lasted only 2 seasons. The first shot in black and white, the second in color...

This short lived series was Chuck Conners next adventure after The Rifleman had run it's course and ended. The Rifleman is a well known and beloved series that needs no introduction and I think if it had not been for the changing of the guard in Hollywood the NBC would have had another smash hit series on their roster. The opening is one that lives in my memory and the drum roll and the haunting theme will forever be Branded in my memory...

On that note I want to let all y'all know I have not abandoned my Blog Post it is merely at a standstill for now and I won't take the time to go into details of why, only that I assure you I intend to pick back up and regularly have an interesting, often tinged with humor story for you from days gone by...

That's Just The Cowboy Way...

Howdy Y'all I have a new one for you tonight. Yep it's been a few days I know. But this trip bag will be from another of my favorite movies...The Cowboy Way!

The Cowboy Way follows two championship rodeo stars and lifelong best friends, Pepper Lewis (Woody Harrelson) and Sonny Gilstrap (Kiefer Sutherland) as they travel from New Mexico to New York in search of their missing friend, Nacho Salazar, who came to the city to pay for his daughter's trip to the U.S. from Cuba. When they discover that he's been murdered, the pair set out to find the killer.

Got to like that trailer right? Lets see what else good ol YouTube may have to show us now...

Now that part is hilarious....

And yes that is the cowboy way..we look out for each other, dole out our own form of justice, and have a great time in doing so!

The song I had to include. Now I admit it may not be in order Y'all but I bet it grabbed your attention. So if your looking for a great movie and a helluva ride? Do try to find this one and I promise you won't regret it. We had a lot of good times, some good beer and still get a kick out of re
inacting some parts and lines from this great flick. I leave you to it and ride of into the darkness ready to  find me a spot in the park to toss my bedroll down and grab some shut eye...it's the Cowboy Way.

Before I vamoose though I want to say Happy Fry Day to a special wittle Fry and she knows what I mean ;)

Night Y'all