{"id":24780,"date":"2011-09-15T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T00:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=24780"},"modified":"2011-09-15T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T00:41:23","slug":"what-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-119\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

thinker.jpgMe and My Lions, Newspapers, and Eerie Pennsylvania
\nby Barry Bauer
\nThe Detroit Lions won Sunday and Matthew Stafford was still standing at the end of the game with the exception of suffering from leg cramps. No big deal, he won’t need surgery for that. You would think that the medical staff for the Lions would have better prepared them for dehydration when the weather is hot such as it was in Florida. Maybe it’s the players fault for not partaking of all that Gatorade on the sidelines. Maybe the staff should have poured a bottle of Scotch or Gin in it as a taste enhancer. Hey, ballplayers are human too! I suppose they were saving it to pour on head coach Swartz’s head in case they won which they did and made me proud.
\nI posted on my son-in-law, Scott’s, Facebook page, “That’s one!” We have another bet this year and Renee’s raising another turkey for my victory dinner after the season. She already knows it’s a given because “Dad’s always right!”
\nThat’ll be two in a row!<\/p>\n

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Our daily paper’s staff has come to its senses and has reinstated the sports page to where it should be. I no longer have to read that section from back to front. There’s been many changes over the last few years with the newspapers we get. The daily has been downsized and I swear the print is getting smaller which means I have to wear glasses to read it. I spent too much money on the last pair I got which was about ten years ago. I’ll have to get a new pair of glasses if they keep downsizing. The weekly paper has also downsized its paper and staff. As hard as they try they can’t cover the news like they use to. When we talk about the “Glory days” in this country we’re looking backwards and not forwards.
\nIt’s a shame we are doing that.
\nOur weekly used to be a paid subscription paper and now it’s delivered free. I don’t know how that’s working out except to say it must be alright because I’m getting two copies of it a week again. Yes, again. We get one with our daily paper on Saturdays and one hand delivered somewhere on our property. The weekly advertiser is always placed on our porch but it’s a businessmen’s paper with very little news and the other advertiser from out of town comes in our mailbox.
\nDo I have any right to complain? Naw, we don’t pay for anything except our daily paper.
\nThere is one more paper I get and it’s the “Houghton Lake Resorter.” I used to get an up to date copy online free but now they make me wait four weeks to see the four-week old edition. I don’t mind. I like to keep up with friends from that area and if the news is past tense, it doesn’t matter anymore.<\/p>\n

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I know you’re wondering what I think of Obama’s “jobs bill” package. Well, that was tried during the Great Depression and it failed. Remember the WPA and the CCC?
\nThe only thing that pulled us out of the Depression was World War II. So you say, “But we’re in a war, in fact three wars, why isn’t that working?” And I say, maybe it’s too small of a war because there’s no scrap metal drives, no war bonds sales, and no mention of the USO, and where the hell is Bob Hope and who kidnapped Rosie the Riveter?
\nMaybe we should attack Russia or Red China with the promise that neither side use nuclear weapons. That way we can manufacture military vehicles, clothing, guns, planes, ships, bullets, bombs, bayonets, K-Rations, and all of those things that really did pull us out of the Great Depression.
\nThe only way government creates real jobs is by hiring more people and putting an even greater burden on the already overtaxed and overregulated populate.<\/p>\n

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It doesn’t matter what you or I believe, it’s what happens that influences how we think. Betty had a dream about our oldest daughter, Renee, with Angels who were dressed in white except for Renee who was dressed in red. It had something to do with Betty’s near-death experience and Renee having gone through the same thing a few years back. All I can think is that Renee rescued her Mom in the dream. Maybe she was her Mom’s “inside gal,” an advocate for her Mom’s life if you will, and Renee, having already been there herself, prayed a lot for her Mom and had a lot of pull with the Almighty.
\nIt was eerie, as many of these things are, and we don’t know how close we come to getting some answers to life and death.
\nIt makes ol’ bauer wonder.
\nUntil the next time . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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