{"id":27202,"date":"2012-02-02T21:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=27202"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:41:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T01:41:30","slug":"what-134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-134\/","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' \/>Take That NFL, Spring, and Short Thoughts<!--more--><br \/>\nby Barry Bauer<br \/>\nMatthew Stafford, quarterback for the Detroit Lions, had what is called a \u201cPro Bowl\u201d season.  He\u2019s one of only four quarterbacks in the history of the NFL to throw for over 5,000 yards in a season.  He was snubbed in the Pro Bowl.  Had he been from any other team he would have been selected.<br \/>\nBecause they snubbed Stafford, I snubbed their Pro Bowl game.  They won\u2019t know it, they won\u2019t feel it, but it happened and in my mind that\u2019s good enough.<br \/>\nTake that NFL!<br \/>\nThe game turned out to be a travesty anyway.  59-41, what did they do, pull the defenses in the first quarter?  How can they keep selling this game to the networks?<br \/>\nDumb network people I suppose.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m waiting for spring realizing that I have to walk a thousand more steps in the snow and icy pathways and will still have those days when I\u2019ll proclaim that it\u2019ll take a warm day in Hell before I warm up again because it\u2019s so damned cold outside and that\u2019s been the reality most of the time.<br \/>\nSpring is coming soon and that\u2019s when things renew themselves.  The trees will leaf out, the grass will grow again, the flowers will bloom, our garden will sprout, my arthritis will take a vacation and I\u2019ll get a temporary reprieve to do the things I like to do again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>I know Mitt Romney is a Mormon but I question his religion.  He uses as many dirty tricks as the next candidate.  If he\u2019s the chosen one I\u2019d rather he attack Barack Oblama rather than Newt Gingrich.  I know he has to win the Republican nomination first but I think he can do that with new ideas we all want to hear and not by trashing his fellow Republicans.<br \/>\nOn the other side the news media doesn\u2019t report Oblama attending church regularly on Sunday because he doesn\u2019t which is why I think he\u2019s a closet Muslim.  We all know he\u2019s their guy so they don\u2019t want to put a spotlight on him when it comes to certain things that turn out to be negative.<br \/>\nSo that\u2019s why I don\u2019t think religion means much in the scheme of things.  I think it\u2019s used more as a tool.  We can probably throw religion out of the election equation because it means nothing to those in pursuit of power.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>Short thoughts:<br \/>\nYou can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make it take a bath.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re walking on ice do yourself a favor, don\u2019t put your hands in your pockets.  You may need them in a hurry.<br \/>\nThe more government tries to protect us from ourselves, the more ridiculous we become as a nation.<br \/>\nIf you think you know something, check again.  You may be wrong.<br \/>\nUntil the next time . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take That NFL, Spring, and Short Thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27202","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\/27202","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=27202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}