What do I think?

Sunday funnies, something stinks, and dumb stuff

by Barry Bauer

Is anybody out there keeping track of how many times Dagwood Bumstead ran into his mailman, Mr. Beasley, while running out of the house because he was late for work?

Sunday’s funnies showed Dagwood blind-siding Mr. Beasley twice and the last frame of the cartoon showed him running back to the house again for something else he forgot. That only meant one thing, another collision was about to happen.

Just wondering.

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Something stinks in Washington again. The one program coming out of the government’s Stimulus package that would help the environment and the auto industry is running out of money. The “Cash for Clunkers” program is about to go through the same thing the coupons for digital TV converter box program went through. Both programs were under funded. Apparently nobody in Washington has a finger on the needs of the nation.

Don’t look for that to change.

And these guys want to tackle health care insurance coverage for everyone. No doubt they’re underestimating the cost of this. We’re going to need help in this country when they get done with us.

The stimulus program is also giving money to universities to study whatever it is that they know nothing about and if they did, it wouldn’t benefit anybody anyway.

They apparently over funded their buddies in the banking business. Now they’re talking about Citibank giving out millions of bonus dollars for a job that was obviously poorly done.

Can we all say pork barrel together?

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Talk about dumb, I wouldn’t be surprise if Congress convened a House or Senate committee to investigate the death of Michael Jackson. Not that it means anything to a nation that’s going through tough times. If they did, it’s probably because they’re interested in hearing about those juicy little tidbits about Jackson’s life. As usual, Congress has their priorities all screwed up and this would fit right in.

Quite frankly, none of Jackson’s life interests me.

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There are two things in the news that bothers me. First was the “Beer Summit.” The incident that resulted in the Beer Summit was reminiscent of the Duke Lacrosse team and three players who were accused of rape. People ran with their idea of what happened in Cambridge. Even when the public doesn’t really know what took place.

The Beer Summit was good for publicity and made it look like the President made it all better.

I’m betting that when the facts come out, both sides in the Cambridge incident were equally at fault.

Then we had the 7-year old Utah boy who drove off with the family car because he didn’t want to go to church. Most kids would just fake being sick.

So what part really bothered me? The Today Show had the boy on and made him look like some kind of Huckleberry Finn. The truth is somebody could have been injured or killed by the boy’s actions. Thankfully nobody was.

It shouldn’t have been glorified.

Until the next time . . .