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Uhuru describes today's world pretty closely. I have them all and also have my years of Field and Stream from the fifties. I should cut out the "Old Man and the Boy" columns and sell the magazines. I guess "The Lower Forty" is worth saving too. The best Lower Forty column was in 1958, titled "Seat of Justice".
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I read the Old Man and Boy to both of my sons as bedtime stories. I consider those two books to be as much about building character as being hunting and fishing tales. What was taught by the Old Man were timeless lesson on being a good person.
Another favorite of mine is a book called "The Pond" by Robert Murphy. A story of young man growing up through his trips to go hunting and fishing at his family's place in tidewater Virginia.
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His book "Something of Value" is banned in Kenya because it is interpreted as portraying the 1950's Mau Mau rebels against the Brits as brutal terrorists rather than noble freedom fighters.
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If Kenya banned "Something of Value", I wonder how they felt about Bob Jones's epic father/son bonding tale in "Blood Sport"?...Geo
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Did they ban UHURU(?) also? They were portrayed as brutal terrorists only because they were brutal terrorists. They murdered many many Kamba as well as Brits. Their "oathings" killed many children of their own as well.
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The Mau Mau absolutely were brutal terrorists. They tortured and killed many thousand of their own Kikuyu tribe for refusing to take the oaths, or failing to turn on their white employers when ordered. The rebellion was put down by 1956 but upon Independence in 1963, it's leader, Jomo Kenyatta, became president. That was when the terrorists became freedom fighters, and Kenyatta bestowed upon them countless appropriated British settler farms and government positions. This process was still going on when I lived there in the early 1970's - a farmer would wake up one morning to find police lorries offloading scores of ex-freedom fighters, who then forced out the owners. Productive farms became wastelands overnight, and the entire country descended into corruption that has became steadily worse over the last 50 years.
I don't know if Uhuru was banned, or if the ban on Something of Value was ever lifted.
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uh guys, this thread is not about kenyer...
anybody else here read the grenadine sagas or "women"
Last edited by ed good; 11/08/18 10:35 AM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Righto Ed, this thread is about Robert Ruark, who believed in using enough gun. Do you think he would have approved of your own attitudes about using enough gun? less firepower would result in less deaths from too much firepower in the hands of too many people...
it aint about bannin guns and it certainly aint bout bannin cars...
uh, its about firepower...
an ah will ax duh question once again:
"have we the people exceeded our carrying capacity for firepower?" recognize that there are too many guns in too many hands...reduce those numbers and gun related violence will also be reduced...it is as simple as that...too much of anything is not good. no, guns do not kill people...people kill people.
cept, too many guns in the hands of too many people do kill too many people...have we the people exceeded our carrying capacity for firepower?
A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.
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keith, my guess is that ruark would be willing to think about and discuss most any topic...
and he might even agree that we as a society might even have too much gun, so to speak...
Last edited by ed good; 11/08/18 10:39 AM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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