Oaks Hardware in Ol Fair Oaks went out of business this week after 75 years…co-incidentally, this's my 75th year but I ain't planning t'go out of business anytime soon…It ain't in my grand scheme 'n I don't have a Plan B...
You don't hear people talking much about the 'Grand Scheme' these dayz…not sure why that is, p'haps we've become far too secular to believe in Grand Schemes or Karma or Destiny…
Use'ta be, in the 'way back when time in the good old US of A, Americans believed in what they called The Manifest Destiny…That, as I'm sure y'all know, was the idea that the United States was destined by God to run the whole shebang from sea to shining sea… Anyway, that wuz the phrase most often used 'n it meant a lotta different things to a lotta different people…almost right from the get-go…well, maybe not much old G.W. but then he had them false teeth to fret about..
Back then, ever'body pretty much believed (or professed to believe anyway) in God the Almighty…matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that He wuz the one that told the Democrats that it was okay to go to war with Mexico so's we c'd lay claim to Texas…countries did a lot of that stuff back in the good old daze…Heck! We even tried on Canada once't but turned around pretty quick when we found out that we'd stepped into a hornets nest…still, we managed by hook or by crook to snooker Oregon away from those pesky Brits 'n sort'a just eased ourselves into California…
T'day, the ACLU 'ud probably put up a fuss but, what the heck, if they'd had their way back then, the whole middle of the country would be over-run with indigenous peoples vying for space with bison…
When the years start adding up on you it just kind'a makes you wonder what might 'a been, if you'da just done things a little different 'n then you think how hist'ry might'a been altogether different…but the thing is, no matter how you try, you can't really re-write hist'ry…Hist'ry is hist'ry, warts 'n all 'n there ain't a darn thing y'can do about it….
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