news from A&M

A & M Math department announces a breakthrough and solves an old math problem for first time in the schools history.

I am back

yep the nattyflatt is alive again. Crashed a PC and lost passwords and intrest for a while.

Will try and get some weekly updates

July 14th 1956

Roy and June Ator were married in a Navy Chapel at Anacostia Naval Station fifty years ago.

No. 404297 CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE
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I hereby certify that on this 14th day of July 1956, at U.S. Naval Receiving Station Chapel, Roy Earl Ator and Margaret June Wade were by me united in marriage, in accordance with the license issued by the Clerk of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Signed: Rev. Barker C. Howland, Commander, U. S. Navy Chaplain Corps

Their sons Richard and Ronald and daughter Robin live in the Lipan community. Their first daughter, Carrie Ann, died as an infant in 1959 and is buried in Evergreen cemetery. They have several grand children.

Roy is a Lipan area native and attended school in Lipan prior to entering the U. S. Navy in 1950 and serving in the Korean War. June was born in West Virginia and grew up in West Springfield, Pennsylvania. She served in the U. S. Army as a driver in the Pentagon Motor Pool during the Korean War transporting families to Arlington National cemetery for the interment of their loved ones returned from the battlefields of Korea. Roy retired as a Navy Lieutenant in 1973 having served 22 years.

Roy and June are active with the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliaries. Roy is currently an elected trustee for the VFW National Home for Children in Eaton Rapids, Michigan representing the VFW departments of Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas. They are active volunteers to the VAMC at Waco.

June has been a cancer patient for more than twenty years. Roy had a quintuple bypass early in 1998.

Roy served on submarines and qualified both as enlisted and as an officer during his last 12 years of Navy service. Following Navy retirement, he attended Tarleton State University graduating in 1977 with a degree in Business Administration. He went back to sea for several years as a marine geophysicist traveling worldwide conducting offshore seismic surveys.

They eventually “retired for good” in 1986 on Tuggle Road west of Lipan. Life is good when we can stay active!

Roy's Home Page royator.org

Wife's new ride

The kids got my wife a new riding mower for Mothers day. Them kids sure make a dad proud.

Flight 93 My thoughts

Without effective means of taking on the terrorists, they were doomed because the terrorists had deadly weapons and the passengers did not. The Nation should be thankful the citizen-militia was lucky to stop the airline cum missle, despite the disadvantage.

Now prehaps we should prepare for the next round.

These thoughts are my own and I am fully prepared to back them.

MSDS

diversity diversity diversity diversity

Explain it to me, diversity. I don't get it. Everyone in the feddle gummint and all the news weasels and the academia nuts and assorted distasteful do-gooders with goiterous self-admiration are always honking and blowing about how we need diversity. Why? What is it good for?

I think we need homogeneity. Probably the greatest desire of humanity other than getting sex is avoiding diversity. Mostly, people can't stand each other. I respect their judgement.

Diversity causes nothing but trouble. Think about it. Do old people want to hang around young people? No. Do young people want to hang around old people? Generally they would rather take poison. Do liberals and conservatives want to get within rifle range of each other? No. Except conservatives, because they have rifles. Southerners and damyanks cordially detest each other, except after a few beers, when they stop being cordial. Urban folk and country folk loathe each other. Management and labor, Marine boneheads and army pukes, dogs and cats, on and on, don't nobody much like nobody.

So why do we spend so much sweat and money trying to force people to do what they don't want to do? It's all bass-ackwards. What if we tried.well.freedom? What if the gummint just left people the heck alone?

Naahhhh.

Especially nobody wants racial togetherness. Shoving races together just makes them mad at each other. If they had any desire to be together, you wouldn't have to shove them, would you?

In any city I've been in, blacks and whites work together because they have to by law, and then they go home and complain about each other. Blacks live in black neighborhoods because they want to, and whites do the same if allowed. As soon as black kids get to college, they want black dorms. The whites already have white dorms, and they think that's just fine. Night clubs in Washington aren't racially opposed to either race, but you find very few of one in the clubs of the other.

What happens when a gang of Chinese come to America? They go live in Chinatown because they want to be among their own. They don't hate everybody else and everybody else doesn't hate them. They just aren't comfortable mixing. The second generation moves out, but that's because they aren't really Chinese but Chinese-shaped Americans, eat Big Macs and listen to wretched music. By the third generation they'll be counting on their fingers like whites, maybe.

Fact is, men and women don't want to be together more than some. Men think that women are slightly nuts and they're certainly explosive and you always have to be careful not to set them off and they get ornery if you talk dirty around them, although they do it with each other. God knows what women think about men. Probably that we're crude and watch football and aren't in touch with our inner slug and don't care about feelings. It's all true.

When I was a kid in the South, at dinner parties everybody would eat together. Then the women went into the living room to talk, and the men stood in the kitchen and drank bourbon and told off-color jokes. It seemed to work. It was nice being around the women because they were more civilized than we were, or at least acted it. But there's such a thing as too much civilization.

Now, if you look around the world, nearly all the trouble we have is because of diversity getting stuck together with other kinds of diversity. It just isn't a good idea. In Gay Pair-Eee, (which in fact is probably less than half gay) the North Africans burn everything the French own. The French Canadians hate the rest of the country. The Hutsis and Tutus in Burundi or wherever butcher each other with abandon and machetes. Moslems and Hindus go at it in Kashmir. It isn't even a good idea to let Redskins fans and Cowboys fans get too close together if ethylated.

What do you think would happen in the United States if all the stuff'em-together
laws were dropped? I'll tell you. In about ten minutes the races would resegregate like whiskey and diesel oil. I'll bet offices and companies would get to be mostly women or mostly men before long because most of each flavor don't know how to get along with the other real well. It's more of an effort than with just one or the other.

In at least three ways, what diversity does besides irritate everybody is to Sovietize the country. One way is that the gummint has to make hundreds, nay thousands of stupid laws to intrude where it's got no business because if it doesn't, people will find a way not to mix. You got to watch them like a hawk. If you say they've got to hire twenty percent minorities, they'll hire the minorities best at whatever their business is. The others won't get hired. So the gummint has to make detailed laws and make everybody fill out brainless forms and be watched by bureaucrats, probably affirmative-action hires themselves, who bungle everything because that's what government does.

The second way compulsory mixing Russifies things is that it makes everybody worry about being informed on. Since different groups don't much like each other, at least lots of the time, the gummint, or management, has to make saying so a crime punishable by firing. Otherwise folks would get mad and say what they thought of each other. You'd have the equivalent of bar-room brawls every whichawhere. So people are very careful who they talk to at the water cooler. The OGPU is listening.

Finally, mandatory diversity gelds the press. When by law or policy a newspaper has to hire homosexuals, women, blacks, browns and what have you, it loses the ability to offend any of them. In effect this is censorship. It doesn't have to be imposed. Practically speaking, you can't point out very pointedly that eighty-five percent of some sordid behavior is committed by people like your boss. Or even the next reporter over. You have to live with them. So you write correct pabulum.

Sez me, we'd be better off if we had newspapers peopled exclusively by everything from loon commies singing the Internationale to bomb-everybody conservatives to race-based papers edited by Al Sharpton and David Duke. They could all fight with each other and keep each other straight. Fact is, with a diverse staff you don't get diverse published opinion. Homogeneous staffs would give you diverse newspapers. Then maybe readers wouldn't jump to the internet, the only diverse press we have.

Please excuse the grammer and spelling errors in m late night rant.

ace03

In my dreams

Barrett M82A1
Features and Accessories - One ten round magazine - Carrying handle - Iron sights - Optical sight mount - Detachable bipod with adjustable legs - Air/Watertight carrying case - Cleaning equipment - Scope and Rings Priced Separately - Retail Price $7,775.00
And a rig to haul it in.

my pride and joy

Can't do a blog without a current picture of my
PRIDE and JOY

Wally World wines about one of our locals.

Dear Mrs. Fenton,Over the past six months, your husband, Mr. Bill Fenton has been causing quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this type of behavior and have considered banning the entire family from shopping in any of our stores.We have documented all incidents on our video surveillance equipment. Three of our clerks are attending counseling from the trouble your husband has caused. All complaints against Mr. Fenton have been compiled and are listed below.Mr. Wally Underpants Director of Wally World Complaint Department


MEMO

Re: Mr. Bill Fenton - Complaints - 15 Things Mr. Bill Fenton has done while his spouse/partner is shopping:
1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in people's carts when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minuteintervals.
3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the restrooms.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official tone, 'Code 3' in housewares..... and watched what happened.
5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and asked to put a bag of M&M's on lay away.
6. September 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted area.
7. September 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told other shoppers he'd invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the bedding department.
8. September 23: When a clerk asks if they can help him, he begins to cry and asks Why can't you people just leave me alone?'
9. October 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a mirror,and picked his nose.
10. November 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, asked the clerk if he knows where the antidepressants are.
11. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously loudly humming the "Mission Impossible" theme.
12. December 6: In the auto department, practiced his "Madonna look" using different size funnels.
13. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browse through, yelled "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"
14. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumes the fetal position and screams "NO! NO! It's those voices again!!!!"
(And; last, but not least!)
15. December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door and waited a while; then, yelled, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!"

Overheard at Nattyflatt International Airport

A minister was seated next to a cowboy on a flight from Texas. After the plane took off, the cowboy asked for a whiskey and water, which were brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asked the minister if he would like a drink. Appalled, the minister replied, "I'd rather be tied up and taken advantage of by women of ill-repute than let liquor touch my lips. "The cowboy then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, "Me, too. I didn't know we had a choice."

Nattyflatt VFD acquires water rescue equipment

Local firechief is very happy to report that funds raised in last months armadillo eating contest were put to use in buying much needed water rescue equipment. Their newest firefighter was chosen to test out the new boat and reported no problems at all.

Local contractor buys new equipment

Local contractor buys new equipment and gets major contract to replace lamps at the local mall downtown Nattyflatt USA. Just another case of investing in the future jobs for the local area.

Cut the waste to fix our schools

The problem in Texas isn’t lack of money for education. The problem is that the education bureaucracy has become too expensive. The bureaucracy sucks up school funds before they ever make it to classrooms, and then it asks for more. There are nearly as many non-educators (read: bureaucrats) in the system as there are teachers. Moreover, Texas schools are unable to meet easy spending goals such as spending 65 percent of all education funds in classrooms. The education bureaucracy has become a black hole, consuming any and all funds that are thrown at it.

Legislators need to stand up to education bureaucrats and lobbyists. Their wasteful ways are the primary problem facing Texas schools and Texas taxpayers. Once this waste is eliminated, improved education and lower property tax rates will soon follow.

Just another thought on illegal immigration

My research indicates the following:
Over sixty-six (66) percent of the cocaine and methamphetamines are smuggled across the Mexican border. The impact that these drugs have on our children can be devastating and is especially costly in the poorest neighborhoods where drug related violence is not uncommon. As someone who has experienced loved ones and friends struggle with these drugs, it is personally embarrassing and frustrating that our government refuses to address this issue at the border. I just don’t understand the effectiveness of our government issuing "arrest warrants" for 50 Columbian drug lords (who are not only hard to locate, but easily replaceable).The drug issue is the main one that I am concerned about and the fact that the government has continued to ignore the quantities of drugs that come across the Mexican border makes me wonder if there is a different agenda (e.g., big business). In my neck of the woods, there are so many illegal drugs, and they are so readily available, that most parents have no clue that their children are frequent users of “speed” or other relatively inexpensive designer drugs.
Fortunately, our bodies are very resilient and can generally bounce back from minor drug abuse. However, drugs such as “speed” contain so many chemicals, and have track records of materially impacting brain activity, that the consequences of using such “cheap” designer drug alternatives can be devastating and last for one’s life. Moreover, children that are not supervised by a parent all day (which is probably most children these days) are uniquely susceptible to these cheap designer drugs; especially given the fact that their own decision-making abilities are still developing and are very susceptible to peer pressures or just idol curiosity. AGAIN, I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY OUR GOVERNMENT HAS NOT MADE A SIGNIFICANT EFFORT TO REDUCE THE IMPORTATION OF SUCH DRUGS AT THE MEXICAN BORDER. I KNOW IT WON’T TOTALLY REMOVE SUCH DRUGS, BUT IT WILL ELIMINATE A PORTION OF THEM WHILE DRIVING UP THE PRICES; AND THEREFORE, MAKING SUCH MUCH LESS ACCESSIBLE TO OUR CHILDREN.

Fire Department News

Nattyflatt VFD upgrades to a 2 HP fire truck.
This should have an effect on the surrounding insurance rates.

Typoglycemia

Believe it or not you can read it.

Typoglycemia:

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas thought slpeling was ipmorantt.

Nattyflatt USA home of LASS

LIPAN ASTRONOMY & SPACE SOCIETY

The Lipan Astronomy & Space Society (LASS) is a integral part of theNatty Flatt scene. LASS was established as a formal amateur astronomyclub in the fall of 2000 and has been gaining membership and recognitionever since. We became a part of the Night Sky Network, which is aorganization sponsored by NASA and the Astronomical Society of America,in March 2004. One of the primary goals of LASS is to engage any and everyone inLipan and the surrounding communities in the hobby of stargazing. Ourmembership has representatives from Granbury, Mineral Wells,Stephenville, Hamilton and of course, Lipan. There are no membershipdues and actually no requirements to become a members except yourinterest in star gazing. The LASS club house and observing site islocated at 1180 Addison Rd, Lipan. We maintain a official web page at www.lipan.net/~rradd Check outthis page for the monthly newsletter, scheduled observing dates andother information about the club.

Paino News Flash

The scores are in. Rebecca makes a 98.375 on her State Music Theory test. We are very proud of her.


Way to go Becca.............

New flash Local PD starts new patrol program

The local PD has started a new bicycle patrol help in the fight of the rampant litter problem that has plagued the area over the last few months.

Nattyflatt VFD

Nattyflatt VFD

gathers for their annual group photo

We are so blessed to have these

volunteers in our fine community

Nice home for rent

Nice cabin in the woods for rent.

You can find this and many more

nice rental properties in the greater

Nattyflatt area.

Lipan basketball has a blog, check it out.

http://lipanbasketball.blogspot.com/

Catch and release

In 2003 The US Navy initiates it's new
"Terrorist Catch and Release Program"

My Dad who has been retired from the Navy for 32 years had nothing at all to do with this program. But I bet he wish he did.

Wise words

W.O.W. Band

About 100 years ago Lipan had a very active Woodmen of the World Band, can anyone place a name on any of these fine men from Lipan's history? click to inlarge

Movie review

Broke Back Mountian was banned from the local theater here in Nattyflatt. I did hear a nice quote at the local coffee shop.

" Real Cowboys don't poke sheep"

I guess that tells me more about the movie then I really wanted to know.

They were here

Seismic work has started here in Nattyflatt

Click on picture for a better view

becca

Rebecca Ann

Many kids from the Nattyflatt area are multi talented

Rebecca's showing off her hunting talent and giving her 8th grade valedictorian speech at Lipan JH.

Smart kid and a good shot. Kinda takes after both her parents.

One tuff cat