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Greene County, Indiana ~ Monday, May 12, 2008
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Whoa, What Are We doing Here?
Posted Friday, May 9, at 12:27 AM
I went to dinner tonight and participated in some terribly interesting conversation. I'm not the kind of person who initiates this kind of verbal confrontation, but if it gets started, I will occasionally respond with a few pieces of my mind. When people talk about our elections, they really need to understand what is going on in other parts of the world, not just in the good old US of A.

The Indiana Presidential primary became a hot subject tonight very quickly and I can tell you this from my personal opinion, I'm not impressed with any of our remaining hopefuls.

Choose who you want, you will anyway, regardless of anything that I could do or say.

Just keep in mind, your military is what keeps you safe from harm. How do you and I best protect a military establishment, designed to keep us from harm, from becoming severely depleted while trying to win a non-winnable* civil war? We tried something like this back in the 1960's and 70's, for those of us who are old enough to remember, but someone stumbled on the neat idea back then, that after 58,000+ US servicemen's deaths, that it was enough, and we should get out of there and call it quits.

*Maybe non-winnable is an incorrect term, should I elaborate or do you understand? I could offer some explanations of "jihad", if you need this for additional information.



T. Boone, Jett and Ol' Simmons
Posted Wednesday, May 7, at 7:00 PM

After having enough of the exploration side of the oil and gas industry, I embarked on a new chapter in my life as an oil baron. My story about the production business began in Seminole, Texas, which is about 30 miles east of Hobbs, New Mexico. Seminole was a nice small town that had probably no more than two trees and I'm not quite sure if either of those were real or not. ...



This Sure Doesn't Look Like Southfork, JR.
Posted Friday, May 2, at 6:24 AM

At the time that I decided to get out of the Army, my oldest kids were 4 and 1 years young. I was looking at my next assignment in Germany and I thought that it was time to do something different. So I decided to become an oil baron. Just like that, I decided to pull a Jed Clampett and find some of that bubbling crude...



Can't You Hear the Captain Callin' ?
Posted Wednesday, April 23, at 7:42 PM

I was so blown away with the responses on the first extra gang article, I couldn't help but write another. Anyway, it is time to get back on track. The primary work of the extra gang, which I detailed earlier, consisted of replacing worn out ties. To support this process, there was the tie gang, the bolt machine operators and the back gang. ...



All the Live Long Day
Posted Tuesday, April 22, at 3:49 AM

I was really fortunate as a young high school student to have a job. Cliff Smith hired me to work in his gas station when I was about 15 or 16 and it allowed me to continue to participate in athletics and still make some money. During the week, I was allowed to come to work after practices (either baseball, basketball, track or cross country) and I could also work on weekends. ...



Parakeets and Cardinals
Posted Tuesday, April 15, at 6:14 PM

A lot of you younger folks out there may find this hard to believe, but when I was young (and I was a long, long time ago) not everyone had a television. My great grandparents, Henry and Bessie Harrington, lived in a small two bedroom house in Bicknell and they never had a television. ...



FORE
Posted Sunday, April 6, at 7:15 AM

DAY 1 First round complete at Bardmoor CC. Beautiful place to play, temps in the 80's and very windy. Steve beat me by 2 strokes on the front nine and I beat him by one on the back, so he leads after the first day by 1 stroke. I feel good to be that close, considering the way I putted today. Amazingly, I hit the first three greens in regulation and walked away with a par on all three. Unfortunately, I couldn't keep it up...



Excuse Me Mr. Lincoln, Did You Say That You Have A Gettysburg Address
Posted Wednesday, April 2, at 9:40 PM

1457 Third Avenue, an address that has stuck with me for years. I lived there only until I was in the 2nd grade, but it has stayed with me all these years. Other addresses seem to come to me too and I'm not sure why. I can't remember people's names, I don't remember what I shot during a round of golf from week to week, like some people, and I'm terrible with birthdates, but for some reason, I remember addresses...



"Let's Play Two"
Posted Sunday, March 30, at 7:29 PM

With Opening Day upon us, I thought I should write something about my favorite sport. When I was 7 years old and starting Little League, I was given a baseball glove autographed by Lew Burdette. That was a great glove; however it was ironic for an avid Yankee fan to sport a Lew Burdette model. Lew shut the Yankees down by pitching complete game victories in games 2, 5 and 7 of the 1957 World Series...



The Vengeance in Venice
Posted Wednesday, March 26, at 4:01 PM

This new article has to do with the relationship between two brothers. I was told to let Chris know that golf is only incidental to the true storyline and this is basically a human interest story, not a sports story. My name is Rio Hermoso Del Boca Nueva de la Naranja and I am an old friend of this family. By the way, my friends just call me Rio. Ol Simmons, for obvious reasons, has asked me to convey to you this heartwarming story...



Constructive and Imaginary Ambiguity
Keith Sims
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