Marty and His Watch

Oh.my. I sat down and flipped on the TV, an up pops my best buddy from my days in Ellijay GA, 1958-62. Or maybe his doppelgänger? He was showing off a neat chiming pocket watch. Martin Teem, I'll give you a buck-fifty for that timepiece!

 Martin Penland Teem

I am almost as surprised that several of you actually saw it as I was that they picked me to film.

Terrell Shaw

How long has it been since it was shot? 

Martin Penland Teem

May 2013?

Terrell Shaw

Wondered if you had shaved that beard.

Martin Penland Teem

Not yet.

Gleaning Facebook: Let's Make a Deal

 Clinton is right. Without compromise (deal-making) there would have been no Constitution. We are suffering from a sick political environment where moderates are virtually extinct. We need moderates like Michelle Nunn, Kay Hagen, Alison Lundergren Grimes, and Mary Landrieu in the US Senate. 

George Barton:

One of the deals they made was that if you were a black slave, you were 3/5 of a person.

Terrell Shaw:

And as repulsive as the Three-Fifths Compromise was, it was necessary to the creation of the new nation. These guys found ways to reach agreement. 

(Actually the reality was even worse: the slaves' numbers helped to give the very people who were enslaving them 3/5 more representation than they actually deserved.)