Bushy eyebrows, Overthinking again, and The Flag
by Barry Bauer
I finished the book, “Sweet and Sour,” and I’m currently reading, “Common Nonsense,” both were written by Andy Rooney. No, my eyebrows aren’t getting bushy.
Andy comes off like an ornery old fart who writes humorously, but he makes a lot of sense, at least to me. I thoroughly enjoy getting some laughs in print when everything else I read in the newspaper isn’t funny.
He predicted there would be a black President and he thought Colin Powell would do a good job. So did I and still do. Powell was in the public eye and we knew something about him. I guess you could say there was some transparency there. I think most people, white and black, admire him.
Obama just dropped out of the sky with a questionable history. I’ll never understand how he got elected. I think I know where he’s going and I don’t want to go with him.
I hope he isn’t a “Manchurian Candidate.”
I haven’t read anything written by Rooney that recently so I don’t know how he feels about Obama. My guess is he doesn’t like him. That may not mean much because it’s also my guess that he wouldn’t like me either.
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I wrote before that I wasn’t an overthinker, even when I wrote that Andy Rooney was. I think I lied to you. Andy thinks about everything under the Sun. I do the same thing. I think about where God came from, or if the Earth is still tilting on its axis. I think about what happens to animals when they die, or if there’s such a thing as an honest person in Washington D. C.
I also think about what’s for dinner.
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We used to fly/display the American flag on occasions such as the 4th of July and Veterans Day. It’s not so occasional anymore, it’s most of the time. Some might have a problem with the way we fly it but that doesn’t matter. It may be out in the rain sometimes but I imagine it did that many times over the history of this country. Certain organizations are allowed to do that provided the flag is made out of an all-weather material (ours is). Ours may fly at night without lights but there’s no doubt this has happened many times during the years we’ve been at, and continue to be at war.
We want to do things as individuals and not what some rules committee thinks we should do. We don’t stand outside staring at it. It’s just the feeling we get knowing it’s there.
I know what the colors are suppose to mean but in these times I see that meaning changing.
Red represents anger because there’s a lot of Americans that are angry with what’s going on in this country.
White represents surrender, which is what this country is doing now. Our President has thrown up his hands over the breaching of our border with Mexico. Get over it he tells us, in so many words. You’ll get use to the burden . . . after awhile.
He wonders if the Illegals will show their gratitude by voting for the Democratic Party. He can secure the Democratic Party for years with the decisions he’s making.
Shouldn’t he worry about the rest of us too?
He’s thrown his hands up on the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that threatens our coastline and says, Oh well, in so many words. His actual statement, “Plug that damn well,” didn’t really do us any good.
By the way, the oil hasn’t disappeared like they’re suggesting, it’s still there.
And finally, blue represents sadness, which is what we’ll feel a lot of in less than ten years.
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The person I admire the most right now is the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer. She makes a lot of sense in the sea of dumb ideas. The rest of those Border States could take a lesson from her instead of harassing the state of Arizona. We’re not in separate boats fellas; we’re in one big boat together.
Go get ‘em, Jan!
Until the next time . . .