{"id":33758,"date":"2013-03-07T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=33758"},"modified":"2013-03-07T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:40:22","slug":"what-182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/what-182\/","title":{"rendered":"What do I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"

thinker.jpgVienna, Computer, and Furthermore
\nby Barry Bauer
\nI started reading the Lansing State Journal\u2019s writer, Louise Knott Ahern\u2019s four-part series on the sad death of a St. Johns girl, Vienna Parker. When I got to the part where she describes the condition of the girl\u2019s decomposed body and I quit reading. It\u2019s too much information for me and shows no respect for the deceased.
\nThat information was included for its shock value which will result in what? Attract more readers? Stop this from ever happening again? Nothing\u2019s going to change and these things will keep on happening and will not stop because of \u201cshock journalism.\u201d
\nI came from the system we called the \u201cdo-gooders\u201d and no matter what their intentions were they failed half the time. Somebody other than her mother probably knew what was happening to Vienna and failed to step forward to help her.
\nWill that ever change? Nope.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still having computer problems but as of yet I haven\u2019t taken it into the repair shop. I\u2019m trying to fix it myself. The internet is a great source of fix-it-yourself information.
\nMy computer, seemingly overnight, slowed way down. It took at least ten minutes to get on a site if I got on at all. The first program I purchased online cost just under ten dollars but didn\u2019t do a damned thing for me.
\nThe second one cost thirty-five dollars but it worked. Along with that program came a driver (software to run hardware) updater. It ran and I ended up with no sound, the driver had been corrupted. I had to read David Letterman\u2019s lips. Do you realize how hard that is?
\nWith information off the internet I finally got the sound card to work again by removing its driver and then reinstalling it from the internet. Now I can\u2019t put my computer to sleep. It wakes back up within ten seconds; I\u2019m still working on that.
\nI\u2019m not ruling out taking it in to the repair shop in the end but first I gotta try.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Our elected officials in Washington D. C. need to take a time out. They\u2019ve got this country all riled up over things like \u201cObamacare,\u201d the \u201cFiscal Cliff,\u201d the \u201cDebt Limit Crisis,\u201d the \u201cSequestration,\u201d the \u201cGun Control Issue,\u201d \u201cIllegal Immigration,\u201d and now they\u2019re arguing about drone strikes on civilians in this country. I think we\u2019ve all had enough of \u201cGovernment Excitement,\u201d and we need a break. Give us six months to collect our senses and catch our wind. Somebody needs to tell Obama that the American people are not the enemy and to quit trying to punish us.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And Furthermore:
\nWe\u2019ve gained one-hour and two-minutes of daylight in February and Daylight Savings Time is right around the corner. Who decides that anyway?
\nTom Izzo will not take this basketball team into the Final Four. I\u2019m afraid he doesn\u2019t have the talent.
\nBaby carrots from the store are processed from odd shaped carrots which go through a peeler and rounded at the ends. They are treated with chlorine to keep them from spoiling early because their protective skin is gone. I can\u2019t stand nor do I buy them because of the chlorine after taste.
\nSome of our so-called elected \u201cleaders\u201d are using the Constitution like it\u2019s toilet paper. Somebody ought to rap their knuckles with a ruler because they\u2019re flunking the course.
\nUntil the next time . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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