Gary Ragsdale:  

Well, I'm not dead yet..., Went to FCC, CSUF, Reedley College, Truckee Meadows C.C. Western Nevada C.C., Spokane Falls C.C. and the on-going school of hard-knocks and general nonsense... Retired for years now. Out in the boonies of N.E. WA. Flew airplanes, built airplanes, maintained airplanes etc; a bad habit I suppose... Spent years with Second Harvest Food Bank and Habitat for Humanity doing good deeds.... boy, they broke me of that habit! Have traveled all over hell and gone; glad I got of the CA nut-house 40 years ago. The 1976 graduation valedictory address; Rick Dodd encouraged all of us to vote for Jimmy Carter. Well, that worked out well.... Obama bin Brandon has been even more entertaining. How would Miss Beadle explain "drag time story hour" to Ma' and Pa' Ingalls? How do we explain "transitioning" to John Wayne? "From the river to the sea" to Ann Frank? Hope and change. Fundamental transformation. How lovely. As the witch said about that bucket of water..... "oh what a world, what a world!" ...Expand for more