{"id":33171,"date":"2013-01-31T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=33171"},"modified":"2013-01-31T21:51:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T01:51:07","slug":"what-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-178\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

thinker.jpgThe Speedboat, Gun Rights, and Furthermore
\nby Barry Bauer
\nIn the mid 1960s I bought a speedboat from a co-worker at Federal-Mogul. It was a 12 ft. fiberglass boat with a 35 horsepower outboard motor. The fact that they called it outboard motor and not an outboard engine always confused me. In my way of thinking a motor is electrical and an engine is gas. Even today I still lose that argument.
\nMy friends, Joe and Karen Cartwright, lived next door to Lee and Sue Pederson who owned a cottage at Crystal Lake. They invited us to bring the boat up and try it out. I knew it started but how well it performed I didn\u2019t know. Joe, Lee, and I launched the boat and I started the motor. At full throttle the bow of the boat was still pointing to the sky and you couldn\u2019t see over it. I didn\u2019t know where I was going! The wind through my hair and the water spray in my face was missing.
\nLee popped the motor cover off and pulled a screwdriver out of his back pocket. He started adjusting the carburetor. The motor revved up and the nose of the boat came down and we were finally speeding along on the water at a pretty good clip.
\nI did learn how to water ski but not without ricocheting off the water a lot of times until I learned how to \u201cplay\u201d the tow rope.
\nThe last memory I have of that boat was when we went skiing on a lake down by Jackson, MI. There were five us in the boat and we took turns on the skis. The women started noticing water in the bottom of the boat but we kind of ignore it thinking it came from us when we got back into the boat. Then we couldn\u2019t ignore it anymore, the women wouldn\u2019t let us and yes, we were taking on water!
\nApparently the drain plug had come out. It\u2019s one of those stoppers they used on the old Thermos bottles. You just insert it in the hole and flip the lever to expand the plug and seal the hole. For some dumb reason I put it in on the outside instead of the inside of the boat. So much for that theory.
\nJoe was driving and I said to him, \u201cGet this damned thing to shore.\u201d As we gained speed the water was sucked out of the boat through the drain hole. We went to a marina and bought a new plug which I put in the proper way.
\nThat was the end of my boat memories.<\/p>\n

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With all the shootings by wackos taking place the last few years there\u2019s a lot of rhetoric from the federal government implying they\u2019re going to ignore the Second Amendment and create new gun laws. Of course they\u2019ve got the law abiding gun owners all upset over it. That includes me.
\nChicago has tough gun laws and yet they experienced over five hundred murders committed with a gun last year. What, if any new laws can they enact to stop the killing. The real answer is none but they won\u2019t tell you that because it\u2019s the truth. That\u2019s a word loosely used by government.
\nThat\u2019s like saying because we\u2019ve outlawed drugs they\u2019ve gone away and that\u2019s just not true. In fact drugs and gun violence go hand in hand. Both of them illegal and both unstoppable and one usually brings on the other.
\nTightly closing our southwest border would help a lot with the drug infiltration but the politicians won\u2019t do that because those are future voters illegally crossing the border. Doesn\u2019t matter to them whether they\u2019re carrying drugs or not. That\u2019s why we have a problem and that\u2019s why they blame the legal gun owners. It\u2019s a distraction by a government that fails to do their job.
\nUsually the Federal government sends out feelers to see how the people react to certain things and to prepare them for what government thinks they\u2019ll really tolerate. So when they lower their ban to a few guns we say \u201cphew\u201d and accept it. The next time they\u2019ll take away a little bit more until the day will come when they have complete control over guns and then the people.<\/p>\n

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And Furthermore:
\nRoger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, is threatening to end the Pro Bowl because of the way it\u2019s played. He doesn\u2019t think the players are playing hard enough. Well why doesn\u2019t he end the special rules governing how the Pro Bowl is played. They are pansy rules supposedly to prevent injuries. They can\u2019t blitz, rush any kick, go into motion, etc. They should play the Pro Bowl as if it\u2019s any other football game. Should they have special rules for the Super Bowl so nobody gets hurt?
\nJanuary and February are my least favorite months. We\u2019re a month and a half from St. Patrick\u2019s Day and I always look forward to.
\nI know I\u2019m almost three months away from the NFL draft but I\u2019m just hoping that the Lions open their eyes and look at the draftee as a whole and not just part of him. Some of these college kids have some issues and we\u2019ve got to take a look at that.
\nFor the Super Bowl we\u2019re fixing Buffalo Wings and having cheese, crackers, and cracker spread snacks.
\nUntil the next time . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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