{"id":16738,"date":"2010-07-08T20:46:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=16738"},"modified":"2010-07-08T20:46:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:46:29","slug":"what-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-75\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/09jan\/thinker.jpg' alt='thinker.jpg' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left' \/>Quick thoughts, The Plan, and A new book <!--more--><br \/>\nby Barry Bauer<br \/>\nQuick thoughts:<br \/>\nAre we fighting for our freedoms abroad and losing our independence at home?<br \/>\nWill we be responsible for Iraq and Afghanistan until the end of recorded time and if we do pull out, will they go right back to their old ways?<br \/>\nBarack Obama isn\u2019t the 2nd coming of Christ . . . he\u2019s the second coming of Jimmy Carter, we might as well get used to it.<br \/>\nHas the federal government\u2019s bureaucracy become so complicated they can\u2019t protect us from any threat to our country?<br \/>\nDid the Senate hearings to confirm or not to confirm Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court Justice do what it appears they did which is to play straight man to Kagan\u2019s jokes? I thought this stuff was supposed to be serious.<br \/>\n27,000 capped oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico . . . why?<br \/>\nCan we get rid of the arrogance our elected legislators seem to have nowadays? They\u2019re out campaigning for re-election when they should be tending to the business of the people.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve watched my share of Detroit Lions football games on TV and I always watch with interest whenever they make a head coaching change which has been quite often. Seems like every one of them are introduced to us as having something called, &#8220;The Plan.&#8221; It\u2019s something about winning we\u2019re guessing, but we don\u2019t know anymore.<br \/>\nThe plan? Why the hell didn\u2019t the last coach have the plan?<br \/>\nThe new guy moves into the recently vacated head coach\u2019s office. A nice room but he\u2019ll need family pictures on the desk and maybe a big one of the owner on the wall behind the desk. In his office he will go about implementing the plan but he won\u2019t be able to make many changes to the team; after all, he\u2019s stuck with the same lousy football players the last coach had. Most of them never did quite make the jump to pros.<br \/>\nWe had our share of no name, no good coaches. Guys like Rick Forzano and Tommy Hudspeth. Remember those guys? Neither one of them lasted long.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t think the plan\u2019s suitable for the Lions right now so we\u2019ll need something other than the plan. I got it! I got it! We need some good ballplayers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>To the best of my recollection, I\u2019ve never read a book by a woman author. Well . . . I\u2019m reading one now. Male chauvinist? Hell no.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a book Betty found in the den and neither of us remembers where it came from. Maybe it\u2019s something one of our daughters left behind. Anyway, I needed something to read while I waited for a shipment of new books.<br \/>\nThe book is titled, &#8220;The Honk and Holler Opening Soon,&#8221; and written by Billie Letts. The title is what caught my eye. Probably because of my interest in restaurants which came from my Grandmother who used to run one called, &#8220;B and B.&#8221; That\u2019s not Bauer, it\u2019s Bigelow.<br \/>\nThe book starts out well enough so I\u2019ll continue reading it even though my shipment of new books arrived today (Wednesday). Meanwhile, I\u2019m going to check on some good reading ahead of time instead of waiting until I run out. I can\u2019t depend on finding anymore unread books lying around the house.<br \/>\nUntil the next time . . .<br \/>\nNow follow Barry on Facebook.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1140235673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1140235673<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick thoughts, The Plan, and A new book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}