Something New? Yes some history for today. Who among us know the real meaning of the word REDNECK? I moved down South many years ago
with my family from New York City. I do miss a lot of the big city but living among the folks down here I have found stupid is not
limited to race or creed. They come in all shapes and colors
I can tell you I have met a lot of extremely nice People Here. I have made friends that I would not have not made in the big City of NY. I have been living down here for over 35 years of my life. Getting back to the meaning of Redneck...
Read a little History of the RedNeck
The earliest printed uses of the word red-neck in a coal-mining context date from the 1912-1913 Paint and Cabin Creeks strike in southern West Virginia and from the 1913-1914 Trinidad District strike in southern Colorado. It is not known where the term originated. UMW national organizers quite possibly transported "redneck" from one section of the country to the other. Then again, its popularizers may have been agents of the Baldwin-Feltz Detective Agency, an industrial espionage and mine security company headquartered in Bluefield, West Virginia, who worked as company guards and spies in both the West Virginia and the Colorado strikes. What is relatively certain, however, is that it originated as a negative epithet. Apparently, coal operators, company guards, non-union miner, and strikebreakers were among the first to use the redneck in a labor context when they derided union miners with the slur. According to industrial folklorist George Korson, non-union miners derisively called strikers "rednecks" in the Appalachian coalfields, while slurring them as "sweaters" in Oklahoma and the southwestern coalfields. It is possible that redneck emerged in strike-ridden coalfields to mean "union miner" independently of its in the deep south. Clearly, the best explanation of redneck to mean "union man" is that the word refers to the red handkerchiefs that striking union coal miners in both southern West Virginia and southern Colorado often wore around their necks or arms as a part of their informal uniform.
I thought I would honor all those "RedNeck" serving their country
From Tennessee, Kentucky North and South Carolina Etc.
and all who serve where ever they are.
It easily forgotten when some General or Senator siting on some committee some where in Washington that Lives are at risk!
With all that is going on in the world today I am calling on
everyone to pray for peace. We only hope that there are no more
crazy desasters like the ones that hit Japan.
I have a feeling that the testing of nuclear weapons is to blame
for the extreme storms and earthquakes we have seen for the last
2-4 years.
Just pray that some sense will come to the leaders of these countries
Including ours!
Happy Saint Pattys Day
YOUR FRIEND ALWAYS
BIG DEAN
and it keeps moving along. So While we must say good-by to the old; We can look forward making new ones. Out there in the world wide web there are many other sites who are welcoming us to join in. Maybe Even fighting for our Writers and Readers. Who knows all of us together what a powerful voice we have 
Well Take this Quiz and see how really old you are.
Confused So am I now you have joined me we are both in trouble! 
