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DAKAR, Senegal — Hundreds of mercenaries from South Africa and other countries are playing a decisive role in Nigeria’s military campaign against Boko Haram, operating attack helicopters and armored personnel carriers and fighting to retake towns and villages captured by the Islamist militant group, according to senior officials in the region.

Its 530Am Here In Massachusetts..The Light Is Just Starting To Win Over The darkness
The birds Are wasting No Time Whatsoever Chattering Away At each other And the crows Are doing their best At Waking up The neighborhood
It seems im The only one awake
I have To pack Everything Ill need Into the vehicle...Leave From here And drive The 16 Miles to Where The truck yard Is In Seekonk Massachusetts
Then Get everything Up In The truck...Put Everything In Its Rightful Place
And When Thats Done...Hook Up To The loaded Trailer That Awaits me Somewhere Else Within The Yard
After That...Log Into The truck Through The Computer
Put In The directions In The Navigator(The navigator is A voice That tells me Which Way To go And When To Turn And All That)Sometimes I dont Do What it Tells me(Like One time On The George Washington bridge)..It Told me To Turn Left While I Was In The middle Of The bridge(Not Going To Happen)
I Have An 8AM Appointment In Milwaukee, Wisconsin For Monday Morning..Just About 1100 Miles from here
So Ill drive About 550 Miles Saturday And Sunday And position Myself On The Wisconsin Border Only About 35 Miles away from The consignee(And drive The rest Early Monday morning To My Destination
Its Another adventure For me Once Again..Who Knows What Lurks When I Start On The Road of The Future?
Only The future Knows for Sure
So Soon...Im Off Once Again...............
Itll be About A Week before I get back(God Willing Of Course)
But All That Is A Part of The Future..And I have to get To That Point Yet
So Until Then
This IS Major Nam(No Im Not going To Pluto)
Im Getting ready To Get.."On The Road Again"..........................................................................

When I Was Around 6 Or 7..My Father Started his Scare tactics With me And My Brother...When it Was Time To Go To bed(7PM)..He Would tell us The Story of The "Boogie Man"
What he Didnt Realize is That we were really Scared That The "Boogie Man" Would get us While We were Sleeping
It Got So Scary For us That The closet door Always Had To be Closed All The Way(We Thought He Might be In There)
ANd We Couldnt look Under The bed(He Might be There too)
And The door To our room Had To Left open A liitle bit So The Light from Where Are Parents Were Would Shine In Our Room
We never Encountered The "Boogie Man"
And Im Proud To Say That

Im Not Afraid of The "Boogie Man" Anymore.....................

"So You Shook Off All The Turn Me Downs"
"Youre Expectations Were What You Thought"
"And You Took Down That Mirror"
"You Didnt Like What You Had Bought"
"Realizing Theres No Need To See"....."What".. "You Already Know"

"And Here Comes Tomorrow"................"Its Gonna Come So Fast"
"But Youd Rather Put It Off"... "You Know You Gotta Make It Last"
"Do You really Want To Do It....Do It........... All Over Again?"

"So There You Are"................. "Still All Alone This Night"
"Talk With Yourself"........................ "Theres No One Else"
"There You Go".............................. "Resigning Yourself"
"That Theres Just You"............................."And Only You"

"Sometimes You Say To Yourself"
"Is It Really Me?"
"But You Never Get An Answer"
"Theres No One To Answer Thee"
"As You Go Ahead... You Think Out Loud
"What Will Be"................ "Will Always Be"

"And We All Can Know Its Such"............. "A Sorry Way To Be"
"When No One Can Hear You"........ "Theres No One There To See"
"The Sadness That Surrounds You"
"And It All"....."It All".......... "Just Makes You Cry"

"There you Are".................. "Youre Outside Again"
"Pretending......................... Youre One Of Them"
"With A Quick Half Glance"........... "Did They Look At Me?"
"You Keep On Walking"............... "You Turn Away"

"So Now Its All About The Night Time"
"Will It Fall So Hard This Night?"
"That You Cant Stand Your Darkness
"No""No"..... You Have To Have Your Light"
"So You Cant See Their Faces" "Around".. "And Around".. "You Go"

Instead Of My usual "Long Distance Voyager"..It Is being Pre- Emented For This Special Blog..........
This Monday..The 14th Of December Will be The 3rd Anniversary Of The "Sandy Hook School" Disaster
Most Of us are getting ready To Have a festive Time For The coming Holiday(Christmas)
But There Are(At The least)26 Families That will Have a hard Time Getting Through The Holiday Season
One "Adam Lanza"..21..Went into His Mothers Bedroom And Shot her To Death In her Sleep...Then he Got Into His Car..Drove To "Sandy Hook" School In "Newtown Connecticut USA" And Rang The bell To be Let Into The school..They Would not Let him In..So.. He Proceeded To Blow Out The Glass On The Door ..Entered..and started a Shooting Spree That Left 6 Adults And 20 Little children dead
May we All Remember The Teachers..The Little Children/ And Their Families As We Enjoy Our "Christmas" This Year....(They Wont)
..........The Priciple and The Teachers........................
Mary Sherlach..56........Victoria Soto....27
Anne Marie Murphy..52....Lauren Rousseau..30
Dawn Hochsprung..47.......Rachel Davino..29
.............The Children...................................
Charlotte Bacon...6 Yrs Old........Daniel Barden......7
Olivia Engel......6........Josephine Gay......7
Ana M Marquez-Greene..6....Dylan Hockley......6
Madaleine F Hsu.....6......Catherine V Hubbard...6
Chase Kowalski.....7.......Jesse Lewis.......6
James Mattioli.....6......Grace McDonnell....7
Emilie Parker.....6.......Jack Pinto.........6
Noah Pozner......6........Caroline Previdi...6
Jessica Rekos....6........Avielle Richman....6
Benjamin Wheeler....6......Allison N Wyatt...6

.........."May Their Innocent Souls Find Peace"...............

All You Do Is Kill Each Other....And In The Name Of God..Allah...Buddha..Jesus...And A Host Of Others
Humans Are The Lowest Class Of Living Beings On Planet Earth
For They Are The Destroyers Of Life..Killing Animals For Their Amusement And Sport
Once A Year..Your Race Gets All Mushy And Preaches
Peace On Earth..Goodwill Towards Man
What A Sorry People You Really Are
You All Go On With Your Lives While Men..Women..Children..And Babies ARE Being Slaughtered each Day On The Same Planet You Reside On
You Pass The Homeless On The Streets And Go Home
Youll Spend Money On Amusement Items You Dont Need When That Money could Help Someone In Need
As The Human Race..You Have Failed Miserably
Planet Earth Should Be Wiped Clean Of Humanity
And Leave It To The Wildlife..........

As I Was Driving along A Single Lane Road..Going Both Ways(In Indiana)...In The Distance I Could See A Woman Coming In The Opposite Direction..Walking Her Dog
She Was maybe 400 Feet away..and What Did I See?
She Was Wacking This Dog With her Hand..Not Once...But Multiple Times..As I Got Closer..She Kicked This Dog(Who... At This Time Was Cowering And Scared)
Well..That Was Enough For Me...I Finally Got to Stop On The Side Of This Single Lane Road Going Both Ways...I Called The Cops
She Wasnt Far At All From Where I Stopped(Maybe 100 Feet)
The State Cop Arrived
I Told The Cop What I Just Saw
He Went And Talked With Her As I Stayed With The Truck
While I Was Watching Them Talking..She Was Petting This Dog
(Putting On A Very Good Act)
The Cop Came Back And Said This To Me
"By The Way That There Dog Was Acting..I Have No Doubt As To What Youve Told Me"..."But Its Your Word Against Hers..And Theres not Much I Can Do"..And The Cop Left
I Couldnt Help But Feel Bad For That Poor Dog..And The Worst Part Is Knowing What That Dog Has Been Through... And What He Will Be Going Through For The Rest Of His Life
I Think Im Going To Get One Of Those Video Cameras..That Mount Inside The Cab..And Record Whats In Front Of Me As I Go Along
If I Had One Then..That Dog Wouldve Been Saved From A Life of Being Beaten
I Will Always Think About That Dog
And All The Other Things That Happen To Animals We Will Never Know About

So Long A Time Ago...When Bridges Were Very Few...And You Wanted To Get To The Other Side Of The River..You Had 3 Choices

1)You Could Stay Where You Were

2)You Could Swim To The Other Side

3)Or...You Could Pay The "Ferry Man"...(And Hed Take You Across)
It Could Either Be A Couple Of "Ferry Men"...With Long Staffs..As They Would Push The "Raft Looking Contraption" Across By Hitting The Bottom Of The River(From The Front Of The "Raft"..And Walking To The Back
Or
Some "Ferry Men"...Had a Long Rope Or Cable Attached To Both Sides Of The River(And They Would Pull On The Rope)And Little By Little...They Would Get You To Other Side
Of Course...Using Good Business Ethics
They Had To Be Paid In Advance
And These Were The Toll Prices For Some Areas In The Early 1800s

1 Person...(On Foot?)......................6 Cents
1 Person And 1Horse?.......................12 Cents
1 Cart And 1 Horse And 1Person?..........31 Cents
A 2 Horse WagonAnd1Person?.................43 Cents
A 4 Horse Wagon And1Person?.....1 Dollar And 6 Cents
A 4 Horse Carriage And1Person?..............81 Cents
1 Oxen And 1 Person?.......................16 Cents

And... Unfortunately
If The River Went Higher Than 6 Feet?...............(The Rates Were Doubled)
For It Was More Work Struggling Against The Rivers Flow
Oh Yeah...One More Thing About The Prices

If You Could Prove You Were Going to Church
The Price Was.............Free!!

Today... They Are Going To Pull A Ground Hog Out Of His Burrow In Punxsutawney Pennslyvania
All Will Dress Up In Clothes That Worn Long Ago
Just To See If The Ground Hog Sees His Shadow Or Not
We Humans Are A Wonder At Some Of The Traditions We Savor

Why They Decided on February 2nd As "Ground Hog Day"
I Couldnt Tell You

We All Live In Our Dwellings Here On CS....Our Blog...Is Our House
And In Our Houses Or For That Matter...On Our Land...We Can Do Anything That We Want
In Reality...Theres Not Much One Can Do...If One Doesnt Approve Of What The Owner Of The Property Says Or Does
Yet..Daily...A Lot Of People Are At Some Peoples Houses..Protesting
You People Have Been Protesting Now For Months
And As You Can See.....Nothing Has Changed...And It Wont Either
Its Not Like The Owner Forces You To Go To Their House At Gun Point
Yet Every Time The Owner Makes An Appearance Outside
The Same People Are Out There Protesting
Some Dont Come To My House..Ever
Why?.......Thats easy....They Just Dont Like Me
But In This Case...I Wonder...Do You Like This Person?
And If You Say you Do.....Then Something Doesnt Jive

Id Say You Just Might Want To Put That Person Where You Think They Should Be
To Me
Its All A Bunch Of........."Jive Talkin"