{"id":18551,"date":"2010-10-07T20:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=18551"},"modified":"2010-10-07T20:45:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T00:45:18","slug":"what-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-86\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

thinker.jpgThings, Superstitions, and One
\nby Barry Bauer
\nBy now you probably know that electronic gadgets and I don’t get along. After recently going through the process it takes to hook up a new vcr\/dvd machine, I found out one more quirky thing, today’s electronic “things” are wimpy!
\nI have a bunch of VHS tapes that have been used over and over again for a few years (exactly how many, I don’t know) and apparently, they’ve built up some tape tension that the newer tape machines can’t handle. My new machine doesn’t have the strength to play them without noise lines nor can it rewind these old tapes all the way back to the beginning. It will operate just fine if I put a new tape in so guess what I’ll be doing? That’s right; I’m going out for a beer because this stuff is driving me nuts!
\nIt’s really fortunate that we can still buy VHS tapes at a reasonable price. They’re just under $10 for five, 2\/6-hour tapes. Back in 1977 our first 2-hour only tape cost $25, so things have gotten better since then.
\nI expect someday in my lifetime, that the VHS tape will be phased out.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

This past Sunday I was listening to a radio show out of St. Louis, Missouri featuring old time radio shows. The show on that morning was from the early 1930s called, “The Origin of Superstition.” The subject was why it was bad luck to walk under a ladder.
\nSupposedly, years ago, ladders were leaned up against a building and used to hang criminals. They lynched some poor guy and left him hanging there. His brother came along a few days later and walked under the ladder only to discover that it was his brother hanging there. He tried to avenge his brother’s death and in the process ended up being killed himself.
\nFrom that they determined that it was bad luck to walk under a ladder. I can’t wait until next Sunday morning to find out why it’s bad luck to open an umbrella in the house.
\nI did that one time and almost caused some elders in the house to have a heart attack!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I think certain groups are premature by a century or two when they talk about a one world government when we can’t agree on many simple things today. Hidden behind all of this rhetoric is the real driving force, a “one world corporation.” If you prefer to call it global economics, that’s okay with me.
\nIf people keep insisting that we go global with a one world government, don’t you think they ought to clear up a few things first?
\nShouldn’t we have one alphabet, one measurement system, one language, and one common currency? When we get that all figured out, maybe we can move on to the more difficult and almost impossible areas.
\nAlready American troop losses in Afghanistan are initially reported as NATO troop losses. Later on they’ll be identified as American casualties. That kind of bothers me. NATO is the forerunner of a one world army. Yes, we’ll always need an army.
\nNot all of the 28 member nations of NATO participate in the Afghan War and the bulk of the fighting, dying, and money comes from the United States.
\nBut of course, NATO has to get credit for it.
\nWe already support the bulk of the cost for the United Nations and we’ll have to give up most of what we have now to support a one world government.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I’ve finished another Andy Rooney book and have moved on to a Nicholas Sparks book called, “Safe Haven.” Some of his books have been made into movies and have appeared on television. He’s established the characters quickly in this book and I like that. Now to find out what they’re up to.
\nSparks’ books get a bit mushy but even us guys need that once in a while.
\nRight?
\nUntil the next time . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things, Superstitions, and One<\/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-18551","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\/18551","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=18551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}