Welcome to Ray Flatt's Weekly BubbaGram!

Listening to the radio this morning and I heard some interesting statistics. According to recent scientific research, men apologize or say they are sorry an average of 3.6 times a day. While women apologize an average of 5.2 times a day. It got my mind to thinking this opposes the common held belief that "Men are sorrier than Women!" 

Well that's kind of the point of this week's BubbaGram...opinion and perspective. When it comes to someone that doesn't quite behave or think like we do we are quick to think they are crazy. Such was the case with my cousin Buddy Boy. The family thought he was a little bit peculiar or as we say in the country "a little bit touched", and the doctors thought he was downright mentally unstable. Thus they put him in the county nut house, or as the doctors called it the mental treatment facility to protect him from others as well as to protect him form himself.

Even though Buddy Boy was heavily medicated, he was still quite an observer of the world around him. They let him sit out on the front pouch of the mental treatment facility and watch the traffic pass by. 

On this one particular day he was sitting there when a farmer with a tractor pulling a loaded wagon had a flat tire right in front of the hospital. Buddy Boy was watching the farmer change the tire when he stuck up a conversation. 

Buddy Boy asked, "What's loaded in your wagon?"

The farmer replied, "Cow Manure."

Buddy Boy's curiosity rose and he quickly asked, "What on earth are you going to do with a whole wagon load of cow manure?"

The farmer answered, "I'm going to put them on my strawberries to make em' better."

Buddy Boy pondered this for a few seconds and replied, "No wonder they think I'm crazy. I normally put sugar on mine to make em' better."

See it was just a matter of perspective. 

I've been listening to this Global Warming discussion. They tell me the polar caps are going to melt and flood the planet. Don't know much about science, but I certainly have drank my share of ice water and ice tea. When I make me a glass full of ice and liquid, and I let the ice melt before I drink it, the glass doesn't overflow. As matter of fact it has a tendency to sweat and evaporate, but not overflow. What I can't figure out is how them icebergs are any different. 

Yep, they have some ice mountains, but the bulk of the ice is underwater. Isn't some of the water going to evaporate, make clouds and pour rain on land? And just like when I eat snow cone, there plenty of holes/air to take up the melt, there should be places on this earth to take up the excess.  And if I just slice up the ice mountains and spread them over the face of the planet I personally just can't believe it would have the kind of effect I hear predicted. But I'm not one of them scientist fellows.

Yes we all have a responsibility to treat this planet and the environment better, but I wish some people would quite spreading the Cow Manure of Fear. Instead they need to spread the Sweet Sugar of Faith that the good Lord didn't make no junk when he created this planet. 

But then again, most people think I'm a little bit touched, or even downright crazy.

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Bubba-ism for the week  - "Some minds are like concrete thoroughly mixed up and permanently set."

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