“Honest to Pete!”

Don’t hear this statement anymore…at least, not very often and never from young people who, if you say this or anything like this in their vicinity, are apt to look at you with a  trace of bafflement mixed with wonderment at how you managed to get out of the asylum…

When I wuz a boy ‘way back in the last century, sayin’ Honest to Pete’ wuz much like swearing on The Bible ’n as you may remember, swearing on The Bible put a body on their honor to speak the truth ’n nuthin’ but the truth…well, in the fantasy world of black ’n white movies ’n awe-struck children…

A little bit later in life, you were more apt to hear it from an exasperated parent as in ‘Honest to Pete, you surely never did that again…’ 
What it wuz, wuz a euphemism for Honest to God becuz back in that far off age, a body had to be cautious how he (or she) used the word God…hard to believe t’day, I know, when expletives once upon a time banned are now commonly used in grade schools...

Good old-fashioned euphimisms have more or less been replaced by the ubiquitous OMG or WTF, both of which seems t’be in common usage from children to young parents who, by appearance anyway, are much too young to have ‘real’ children to parade in public the way they showed off their dolls a few weeks ago or before they had their periods ’n decided they wanted to be a real mommy in outright defiance of Planned Parenthood ’n the abortion lobby...

I’ve managed to learn a few basic things over the years ’n one of them is the fact that you can’t get far riding a dead horse ’n if you want to have a discussion about abortion, you’d best not bring it up with any of the new age liberals that you might be acquainted with who seem to march in lock-step with each other…I’ll tell’ya, they’d make my old Drillmaster Black proud…I mean, they don’t miss a beat, nary a mis-step among ‘em…

Anyway, just so’s no one gets nervous hereabouts, I ain’t gonna talk about abortion, I ain’t even gonna talk about new age liberalism…I already been chastised for calling ‘em moronic,delusional, self-absorbed idiots too many times…which hearkens back to my talking about riding a dead horse…

I’m just not sure how to approach a conversation with someone that actually believes in the liberal mindset!  It’s as tho’ they have called ID ’n they just block everything ’n everyone that might disagree with what they already know is true…

At least, when you have a conversation with a conservative person, you can express a viewpoint with which they differ ’n they’ll listen before offering a rebuttal…Durn liberals won’t listen to anything, especially facts…Obama ’n Clinton ’n all the rest of them for that matter can contradict themselves on video over ’n over and it makes no difference to the committed liberal…and I’m at a loss to understand that. I have asked liberals of my acquaintance to explain that to me but it’s a lot like talking to my little dog, Willy…he just looks up at me, stares me down ’n waits for me to give him a treat…he is truly as focused as any liberal I know...