the good way to die

My children, it is odd that most people never think there is a good way to die, and yet I can think of a few, as both my Grandpa's died in their sleep, and while I was not there, my giant of an Uncle, died on an October morning while goose hunting.

He had been pronounced in a clean bill of health apparently, but my Auntie did not want him going on the trip. All was well that morning at the blind, but when his friend noticed that a flock of geese had flown over unmolested, he walked over and there was my Uncle lying on the ground, with a serene expression and his hands folded over his heart as if he were asleep.

I was reminded of all of that in the following recount of Nash Buckingham, about one of his friends, a real stud duck out of Massachusetts and head game duck down in Missouri on a hunt in what is now oil county North Dakota for pheasants.

Arthur had not felt well on a drive for pheasants as Nash saw him stop and lay down. His lips were blue and Arthur thought he had went at eating too vigorous, so it was decided he would sit in the car for awhile and let the hunting crew film and shoot birds.

Arthur was feeling prime again after a few drives for birds and announced he was going to join in again, as he noted the lay of the land was nothing to be dealt with



"As I paused at the corner, Arthur had just cleared the barrier. "Buck," he called, and smiled at me when I turned around, "this is certainly a pretty place for pheasants."

"It sure is, Art," I replied, and turned to study the exquisitely sun-tinted rim of a distant moraine.

I'll never know what vague premonition drew me to glance sharply around—but I did—and Arthur Clark was not there—just to my left at corn's edge. Perhaps what startled me, for my hearing is not as keen as of old, might have been the clatter of his falling gun.

I leaped past the view and saw him stretched face downward in the clipped wheat stubble. Kneeling swiftly and shouting for Siebens, I lifted Arthur and caught him into my arms. The sharp, stiff stubble-brush had scratched and bloodied his left cheek. But on his face there was only an uncontorted, peaceful half-smile. And when he sighed faintly and relaxed, I knew, somehow, that the end had come with beneficent swiftness and mercy.

- Nash Buckingham


I think about things like that. I consider it no more pleasant thing than in meeting your maker being a moral person. It is just one of those good things to have your last moments in life, joking with your friends, and then calling attention to how pretty the world is and just appreciating life.

I wonder how many people's last words are something mean. How many people's last act is something sinful. How many are taken from this life filled with hate.

It is a hard thing for those in this world to have someone did good, but it is a worse burden to have someone die bad, for all the guilt it causes as you are pleased the SOB is dead.

A blessed end is really one of the greatest gifts from God. It still bothers people in the sorrow of it, but it is something that brings peace in time in appreciating it.

I would much prefer dying well than to living well, although they are not exclusive in God, as both are a gift.

Auntie sure had a bad time of it, and Uncle did come back and ask her if she was ok.  It is interesting the things a person starts thinking about at those times of the years as those dates come around again.


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A Tale of Two

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.


The delusion of the leftist mind is a fascinating thing in seeing the sins in others, but the righteousness of their sins.

America in 1960 had as a voting block a group of bratty draft dodgers who had avoided Harry Truman's Korean War and grown pacifist in the Stockholm Syndrome of the Soviet Nuclear Bloom. President Dwight David Eisenhower had afforded them this snobbish intellectualism, and it personified in the Dan Rather type.

America was facing in Joseph Kennedy the overthrow of the Franklin Roosevelt machine, which had neutered  Mr. Kennedy to the political sidelines, so as not to be a FDR machine contender from 1940 on, but the grasp of the old gaurd had slipped as Joe Kennedy embarked upon the Massachusetts style of bully thug electioneering to seize the 1960 democratic Presidential nomination.
In any fair process, Lyndon Johnson would have walked away with the process, but Americans tired with old, ugly and safe nominees, threw it all away for the criminal theft of the 1960 Presidential election by the Kennedy machine.

I was thinking of the utter bias of sinners and the self righteous in the smearing which Richard Nixon endures and the adulation that John Kennedy is endeared with, when the reality is, Richard Nixon was the moral man and John Kennedy was the immoral delingquent.


Richard Nixon grew up with no money. John Kennedy was a millionaire trust fund baby at birth.
Richard Nixon fell in love with a girl named Pat who would have nothing to do with him, but Richard loving Pat, did have access to a car, and drove her and her date on their dates. With that, Richard Nixon won the heart of the woman he loved and was always faithful to.
John Kennedy, married a young girl of affluence named Jackie who was pretty as a political statement. He cheated on her constantly.

In World War II, Richard Nixon was in the United States military. He served in the Pacific as an officer, and being poor he would not play poker to squander his money. When he found out that in playing poker in only betting on hands which would win, he began playing and actually saved over 1000 dollars in his winnings.

John Kennedy in World War II was given command of PT 109, which was sunk and his crew harmed. There never was a court martial over this, and for this he was propagandized as a hero.

Richard Nixon could not afford to go to college. He had to enter a California junior college in order to prove himself, and was then allowed to enter Georgetown University.
John Kennedy had all doors opened to him, as a party boy and graduated from Harvard.

Richard Nixon took on communism and helped bring it to ruin in America. John Kennedy focused on unions for political gain.

John Kennedy as President unleashed his brother Bobby on Conservatives in order to legally define them as insane.
Richard Nixon as President spoke for the Silent Majority of law abiding Americans.

The smear is Richard Nixon had dirty tricks, but it has been show that democrats provided the dirty tricks on Richard Nixon and Watergate was a Kennedy linked coup to bring down Richard Nixon in operations under E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy which Nixon had no knowledge of.
John Kennedy was nothing but dirty tricks in the guise of his operatives hiring old women to come up to Nixon after the debates to tell Nixon he had lost. John Kennedy stole the 1960 Presidential election from Richard Nixon, and for the good of the country, Richard Nixon did not legally challenge it.

John Kennedy almost brough the world to nuclear obliteration at the Cuban Missile Crisis. Richard Nixon through detente brought the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
John Kennedy started Vietnam. Richard Nixon ended Vietnam.

John Kennedy was assassinated for cartel reasons. Richard Nixon had a coup staged against him by communist cartel sympathizers.

Those are the absolute historical facts. Richard Nixon was not perfect as no person is, but Richard Nixon was a faithful and moral man, who worked for the prosperity and security of these United States.
John Kennedy was an adulterer and immoral man, who worked for the prosperity and security of the United States.

Yes in this, Richard Nixon is held up constantly by the agents of communism as the worst person ever, and John Kennedy is enshrined by deluded liberals as the most wonderful person ever.

John Kennedy's administration was one of dope use and using the CIA to assassinate other leaders. Richard Nixon played the piano and used the diplomatic corp to find detente in a world on the nuclear edge.

It is ludicrous and criminal what has been done to Richard Nixon in knowing the facts, as much as how John Kennedy has been protected when his failures and nature were known.

Was it a good thing that John Kennedy issued Treasury notes? Yes it was. Was it a good thing that Richard Nixon issued price controls? No it was not.

It is the matter of it all coming down to a moral man in Richard Nixon being castigated when John Kennedy did far worse politically and was nothing of the morality of Richard Nixon by actions.

Richard Nixon was one of the greatest Presidents America ever had or will have. His policies should be a study in foreign and domestic issues to learn from, and to build upon.
John Kennedy was mediocre. The contest to the moon and issueing Treasury Bills were his two legitimate actions. The rest were absolute failures of the worst kind to harm America.

If the Marxists and deluded Liberals would leave Richard Nixon in peace, I would not bother with John Kennedy, but hold their debaucherous criminal up as an example to recognize Richard Nixon as a man of character, who had a coup waged against him, smear campaigns and through it all was at the close of his life, called upon by President Bill Clinton to council Mr. Clinton in how to deal with world politics.

Those are the realities and why this blog defends the underdog of Richard Nixon, as he truly was among the great Presidents

nuff said


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A Little Mutton and Wine

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.


I am curious in all forms as to the bias and prejudices of a successful married life, in the physical health of it. As of late I have been moved to study George and Martha Washington, who are the epitome of vitality in wholesome living.

I have featured the Washington pumpkin custard in recipe here and I have tasted it by my own hand with delight. I add to this though a most interesting principle of George Washington's simple life.

It touched me deeply in understanding when Billy Dixon in his memoirs of the Great Plains, that as his life closed, he recorded that nothing was more satisfying to him, than if he could once again have his French camp cook, broil him a buffalo steak over an open fire, eat fresh sour dough bread and drink from his quart tin cup.

Mr. Dixon was feasting upon not food alone, but the liberty of being an American roaming free over the land.

President and Mrs. Washington, kept up a steady diet of visitors, as he noted that he had not dined alone in 20 years. It is in that, that the President wrote this:


"My manner of living is plain, I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those who expect more will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it."


It was said that after the President retired, Mount Vernon butchered and ate a hog a day, for all the family, visitors and slaves there.
George Washington noted that he had 100 cows in his herd, but that he still had to buy butter for the mouths he was feeding.

The expense of this, was great, as a pig sold is a big earned, but a pig into bacon is only keep for the welfare of another at your own poverty.

I find it interesting in the common meal at the Washington table was sheep with a glass of wine. Mutton is a highly lubricated meat as most do not appreciate the lanolin if not grilled off, but it is most healthful in resembling venison of a high grade. Coupled with a glass of wine, and the company of conversation, this is what the souls of the Washington's dined upon.

It is not to say that their table was not varried by ham, beef, chicken or wild game, but it is of interest to me in "we'll kill the old red rooster when she comes", that America was without refrigeration except the ice house in northern states, and preservation was salt and smoke cure of meat, that the reason common people kept and ate chickens was their ready fresh meat, and the Washington's in their prefered meat was sheep, which was their chicken as they had an extended number of mouths to feed.
Meat could be kept in winter for longer periods safely, but in the other three Virginia seasons, it would have to be "done something with" in cooking so it would not spoil.
Sheep fit the George and Martha Washington menu and it was a very good choice as it was healthy, and a beef would spoil, as the fatted calf was a thing of feasts.

George and Martha Washington were eating healthy before it was known. They were both in good health for that era and it is interesting to this exploration, that as America became beef oriented, that the Abraham and Sarah Biblical roots of dining have been passed over.

Providing the hunters and trappers kept the wolves, coyotes, bears, bobcats and panthers killed, a small flock of sheep was the best thing for self provision, along with a flock of chickens for the American family in being Yankee thrifty.
Add wild game as in Davy Crockett bears and the menu was complete.

It is my intention to reinact this Mount Vernon menu. I just need to find some ugly stupid sheep, which there are numbers of to complete the menu. I make plain in ugly stupid, as I just saw for sale some very pretty lambs that my heart went out to, but the Holy Ghost whispered, "You know you turn animals into pets when you like them, so maybe you should look for something ugly."
Problem is I even think ugly is pretty after I am around it long enough.

Be easier if I had some colored to do it I suppose.


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