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Reverse The Demand For Resignation
Posted Tuesday, February 7, at 3:20 PM We often hear about President Obama or other American political figures demanding the resignation of the person in charge in another country, most resently Syria. And sometimes other nations don't agree. Is this reasonable action or the type of thinking that leads to America being involved in so many wars?...
First Lady Consideration When you vote in presidential elections do you ever consider who the first lady will be if a given candidate is elected? Should that be a consideration since she will be representing America many times while her husband holds office? Just a thought. When America elects a woman president how would we refer to her husband? First gentleman?...
Team Nicknames Can you recall the nicknames of the Pleasant Grove, Wheel and Flat Creek basketball teams prior to those three schools closing to form Liberty School? All three of those schools produced some fine athletes. And what was the nickname of the Normandy teams? Normandy produced some really fine athletes...
Dolittle, Doolittle, Do-Little or Whatever? I'm probably going to spell most or all of this wrong. Hopefully, someone from the Unionville area can straighten me and others out on this matter. Several years ago the Unionville area was often referred to as Dolittle, Doolittle, Do-Little or however it was spelled...
Strange Thefts What is the strangest thing you have ever had stolen from you or heard of being stolen from someone else? I recall one night, and A snowy night at that, Shelbyville and Bedford County had an entire rail fence taken apart and removed from in front of a home, an airplane stolen by a thief who also left one he had taken from some other airfield, in Illinois as I recall, and to finish off the night someone stole the commode from the women's rest room at a Madison Street service station...
Bowl Games and Championships I've been on record for many years as saying college football bowl games too often show only which teams can play best after a layoff of one month or longer. We saw a lot of that in our latest round of bowl games including the one for the national championship...
Primary Elections What, if anything, have you learned from being bombarded with news from all of the Republican primary elections in Iowa, New Hampshire and soon South Carolina? I'm already dreading the Democatic and Republican national primaries this year. Perhaps I'm too bitter but I always get disgusted with seeing all of the delegates sent there to do serious business dressed up like they were going to a bad Halloween party and doing their best to get on national tv...
New Year's Resolutions Did you make any new year's resolutions a year ago?
And, did you keep them for all of 2011?
I'm making one that shouldn't be hard at all for 2012. It is to say something nice to someone each day and hopefully give them a little boost for that day.
Some LSU Football History I'm going to bore a lot of people with something many are likely too young to recall about LSU football...and playing an opponent in a bowl game they had beaten in a regular sason SEC game. The year was 1959...and many players played both ways, offense and defense back then. ...
Themselves Or Media We're seeing many poltical candidates complain they are victims of the news media. Should they be blaming themselves, the media or both? Although a member of the media for many years when the public considered only newspapers, television and radio as the media, I think the media today is composed of many other non-mainstream outlets...
Thanksgiving Dinner For Congress If you could order a Thanksgiving dinner all members of U.S. Congress had to eat, what foods would you send them? I'd likely order roadkill and sauerkraut mixed together with the hottest pepper imaginable heavily sprinkled over the top. Dessert would be baked hedgeapples stuffed with a triple dosage of some laxative...
Handicap Parking My heart goes out to those who need...and deserve ... handicap parking. And, my feelings are exactly the opposite for those who aren't handicapped and regularly use those clearly marked parking spaces. I see one person who regularly uses a handicapped space and practically sprints into the store...
Traffic Signals Which traffic signals in Shelbyville do you find the most confusing? Why? Let's not be too quick to blame the city. Too often some young so-called expert comes down from Nashville who has never driven the streets in question at various times of the day and accomplishes nothing...
Do You Believe in Ghosts? I've seen too much in my life to really believe in ghosts and gobblins, but I'm sure others feel otherwise on this subject.
I have seen strange happenings that I couldn't explain.
What have you seen?
True Results? Do you think the public is being given the true results on such TV shows as Dancing with the Stars, the new X Factor and American Idol?
I'm not totally convinced on Dancing With The Stars.
Do you have any thoughts on this matter?
Washington Reasoning Are you as tired as I am of seeing the same old political hacks saying the same old things? Are they looking for answers for the people such as drastically curbing federal spending or just seeking re-election to save their own jobs...which they aren't doing very well?...
Night Driving What section of road or street do you dislike driving the most at night in Bedford County? Why?
Football In The Snow I played a high school football game in the snow in October of 1951 and recall it was our homecoming game and couldn't see the goal posts at the opposite end of the field when we kicked off to start the game. Five minutes into the game everyone on both teams were wearing solid white uniforms...
Two Sides Of The Border I'm tired of numerous groups supporting Latino, Hispanic or whatever groups going to Nashville television stations and making outragous accusations against Shelbyville and Bedford County law enforcement officials. I have never seen one instance of targeting these groups...
Deer And Motor Vehicles What do you consider the most dangerous road in Bedford County, and this includes Shelbyville, for deer running onto the roadway in front of motor vehicles.
I wonder how many deer will be challenging vehicles for use the roadway on the new bypass.
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Bo Melson is a retired sports and police beat editor of the Times-Gazette.
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