Monthly Archives: February 2024

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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We used to go to see the Chicks regularly. For those unaware, the Chicks was a semi-abrieviation for Chickasaws, the Memphis AA league ball team.

We loved it. Sometimes, we put 8 in the car, between friends and us. Most of the time, it was just the 4 of us. Admittedly, the park wasn’t that great, especially as compared to the current stadium.

However, it was accessable. After paying for parking at the current park, we have to each give up a hot dog and soda. Worse, it takes far more time to drive to and locate a place to park.

We no longer have children at home. My wife does really enjoy a pro game, but not that much. We’ll likely stay closer to home this year.

There are many beautiful Little League fields nearby and there is no cost. Let’s us buy more “peanuts & Cracker Jacks.” Also, there are high schools around. I suppose we will be more wecomed there than in downtown Memphis.

If they made it more convenient, we might risk the hazzards of going downtown to see a game now and then, but apparently, those in the Redbird management don’t value our business. It’s a shame. As near as I can tell, the players deserve more than that. Those actually working in the stadium deserve more too.

How-some-ever, that Redbirds stadium is so much nicer. It just is they had to plop that thing down in the worst part of Memphis… and about the most difficult place to park.

I can’t say anyting about how unsafe parking is. I have no recent 1st hand experience. However, I do believe it is a place the wise avoid.

Mark This One For for the Businesses

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From the post a couple days ago, Business or Lives. It would seem they chose the businesses over the lives. It would appear the dollars won again.

I hope everyone realizes I am intentionally being a little extreme. However, I do have some question as to how many lives it would take to actually get such a law passed. I mean, we are talking 2 very high priority subjects, beer and money.

At any rate, the beer drinkers will be happy to know that they will still be able to stop off for a cold one on the way home from work. They will not have to drink their beer warm.

I Wish I Knew

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Actually, maybe it’s good I don’t know. At 76, I do have some suspicions. I have some hopes. However, fact is…in six months I might not be here.

If permitted, one last thought. Maybe the people from Memphis will know how to drive and they will have stopped shooting at each other.

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What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?
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Sponsorship

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I listen to a few radio talk show hosts. I don’t know for sure, but I would suspect that they bend their opinion of certain products for their bottom line. I have tried some the things they advertise, and frankly, I was disappointed. Rush L. used to advertise Ruth’s Cris Steak House and he said they made the best steaks. When I went there, I was very disappointed. The best steak I ever had was in the Staff NCO club in (MCAS) Iwakuni Japan, a bacon wrapped filet that, since then, I can only dream of. Ruth’s Cris didn’t come close to it. Then again, I will admit, my taste is considerably different than most.

Unfortunately, there is no way I will ever be able to return to the club so I’ll have to settle for the likes of Texas Steak House and Outback when I get the hankering to go to a place that expensive.

I really do appreciate what that My Pillow guy did for us conservatives, but I’m still not going to pay that much for a pillow. In the Marines, I slept on one of the cotton filled things and I slept just fine. I’ve found the best way to get a good night’s sleep is to do a good day’s work.

I keep hearing about the pain meds that are being advertised. Even at 76, I don’t have to deal with pain much, other than my ankle, which I broke many years ago. Benadryl’s good for that. Take one and go to sleep. Generally most of the pain is gone when I awake. Not only does it work, but it costs a lot less and I can get it in most any store.

I guess I provided some free advertising for some. Incidentally, from time to time, I do mention it when I find something good. You know I am being honest in my opinion. I don’t get a red cent for it. And, by the way, we do have many good restaurants in the area I have mentioned already.

Main reason for this post is to let you know, when I say something good about something, I’m being honest. When I say something bad about something, I’m usually irritated. If I just plain don’t like something, I usually say nothing at all.

I pay to have WordPress post what I write. Sometimes I wonder if they don’t like it so much. However, so far they haven’t complained and I keep paying them. Moreover, they are quick with helpful hints now and then.

How-some-ever I do find some of their prompts a little irritating. Often I twist them to say things they very probably don’t expect. I figure if they don’t want me to do that, they will tell me. In the meantime, I will make the prompts say what I think. I think I should not be kept from saying my favorite drink is milk instead of a screwdriver. After all, the purpose of the post is to explain my thoughts as best as I can, even though I have no college and even though I have trouble spelling and editing.

Comprehensive, especially in conjuntion with immigration laws

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Every time I hear the word it makes me want to really pull at my hair. They know they will never manage to get a dozen little things by us individully. So they wrap them up into something too long to read and too complex to understand.

Then the dems and rinos stand for a photo op and say, “We are going to fix it all with this wonderful COMPREHESIVE immigration law.”

Naturally, what they don’t say is that it virtually destroys what immigration law there is.

If the bill passes, the dems will be thrilled. The corporate headquarters will be thrilled. The immigrants who come flying in, perhaps litterally, will be extatic.

The rest of us citizenry, not so much.

Every time I hear that word, comprehensive, my antenna go up and I brace myself. Hopefully I will be able to alert others to…a whole lot of others.

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If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
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Milk

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I Don’t drink spirits. I generally avoid those that do.

I prefer a large cold glass of milk. Most restaurants don’t serve milk like that. When I do drink, I generally order 2, sometimes 3. Those that do generally overcharge for it, serve it warm or in very small cups. I’m also diabetic so I have to watch my calorie intake. Therefore, I generally settle for a diet soda.

If I do order milk, the server gives me this strange look and I am that they will chech in the deep far reaches of the celler to see if they have any. You see milk is not a high profit item like alcoholic or soft drinks. So I generally do my milk drinking at home, where no one will see me.

To make matters worse, there are some dumb agencies trying to take diet soft drinks away from me. They tell me it will give me cancer.

Fine! Just try to convice me a martini is great for my health, which is the assumption behind this prompt.

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What is your favorite drink?
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HOW MANY?

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1 death in KC, MO. Several injured. Bad. Horrible.

Now-w-w, let’s see. 397 homicides in Memphis yr 2023, 100 more than yr 2022. Another record like this year.

I feel very bad for the one killed in KC, MO. However, you will pardon me if I’m neither shocked nor surprised. It seems every time there is a large gathering, someone dies. Moreover, it is getting difficult to feel bad for the deaths when they occur at a rate of over one a day.

Maybe, it is a good time to do someting besides talk about it, and I do mean something besides gun control. Believe it or not, people are killed by other things. Murders took place long before guns.

A good thing to remember, murders usually begin inside the mind of the culprit, freqently hours or days in advance.

Choices

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  1. When Germany attacked England, it was their choice. It was a horrible country they were left with, but when one nation chooses to attack a superior foe, they really need to expect it.
  2. When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, they never expected such a retaliation. Many Japanese still have hard feelings over those bombs, yet they would not have hesitated to use them on us. Their designs were to rule over us. At war’s end, we had won the right to rule over them totally. We didn’t.
  3. When the Palistanians made the choice to attack Israelis, They knew they would be the subject of a massive retaliation. Yet, the instant of the counterattact, they took the stature of the victim.

The Palistinians are suffering much. Yet, they have the ability to stop the war almost instantly. If they put down their weapons, the shooting will stop.

To be sure the civilian suffer, as did the Jewish civilians at the attack by the Palistinians. However, the palistines cause the death of civilians by using them as shields.

Yet they continue to fight without hope or cause. For their cause, they will lose all including their land, perhaps even their lives.

As a side note, there were scirmishes as Trump took office. When he left, there were no wars or even scirmishes. The Middle East was a pretty peaceful place, or have you forgotten?