Hearings, Shots Fired, and Sideswiped Again!
by Barry Bauer
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Another Watergate type hearing may be coming our way and very soon. I spent the early part of summer in 1973 recovering from surgery and I had plenty of time to watch the Watergate hearings. One thing I learned is only one person knows a secret. Once two people know it’s no longer a secret. It’s not human nature to keep quiet about anything I guess.
Everybody giving testimony will be covering their hind-ends when the questions start flying and it’ll get more interesting as time goes by. Now all we have to do is wait for the “smoking gun.” It’s back to that old, “What did he know and when did he know it?”
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Shots were fired at Ford Field Thanksgiving Day! First head coach, Jim Schwartz, shot himself in the foot by throwing the challenge flag on a play that was going to be reviewed anyway. He drawed a penalty for doing that. He’s well schooled in the rules and should have known better.
And then the NFL shot all the fans in the foot with their rule that allowed a non-touchdown to count for the Houston Texans in addition to the fifteen yard penalty. That should have never ever happen. The refs should have been able to review the play and they would have seen that the runner was down by contact and then penalized Detroit fifteen yards from that spot. As it ended up that non-touchdown was the difference in the game. We pour our hearts into watching the Lions and something always comes along to sour the game.
The Lions fans know the team is snake-bit but they root for them every week anyway. Detroit is the only NFL team to have a player die on the field. That happened in 1971 when receiver Chuck Hughes went down during a game against the Chicago Bears and never got up again.
I was watching the game when New Orleans Saints field goal kicker, Tom Dempsey, set the record with a sixty-three yard field goal that won the game. Yes, it was against the Lions. The record has been tied once but never broken.
The old Bobby Layne curse still has its hold on the Lions and I was a fan way back when Layne was still playing for the Lions which was a very long time ago.
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We pick up our grandkids at school from time to time and the parking situation is not what you’d call the best. A lot of parents or grandparents get in line to drive around to the door to pick up the kids while some do like we do and just simply park and walk up. I usually go but this time I had to take pictures at the Courthouse so Betty went to pick them up. She parked in a spot with open spaces on both sides.
When Betty got back to the car with the kids others had park next to her on both sides and one vehicle in particular parked real close to her on the passenger side. She squeezed in the tight spot to get Bella in the back seat when the older gentleman next to her came walking through and knocked the side-view mirror off the door. He looked back and told her the mirror was broke but he didn’t hit it. Betty told him it wasn’t like that when she pulled in. Then he said he might have hit it. He told her she could take it to a auto parts store and they would put new screws in it and probably wouldn’t charge her anything.
The problem with that is he broke the housing of the mirror and there was no fix to it. The mirror had to be replaced at a cost to us of $116.30.
So we’ve had two side-view mirrors broken off, once by a deer and once by a human. What’ll take out a side view mirror next, falling space debris?
I keep looking up.
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And Furthermore:
Why do doctors keep records? Every time I go to an appointment I have to tell them what prescriptions I’m on and fill out their questionnaires that ask the same questions as the last questionnaire.
There’s a generation of Americans coming who will curse this generation for leaving them in a financial mess.
First they say lightning strikes the Earth, then they say lightning goes from the ground up. Then they come along and say it’s both . . . which is it? Anyway, can we harness that energy?
Life’s a bitch . . . be a man or a woman and deal with it.
I don’t care if we go over the fiscal cliff. It’s about time we learned. It’s time to touch the hot stove again.
I want a wind turbine on the lawn of the White House. If it’s good for us it’s good for him. They’ve already experimented with solar panels on the roof during Carter’s term in office but they were removed during Reagan’s term.
Until the next time . . .