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Wonderin:  Have you taken a good look in your underwear and sock drawer? Wives are good at saying that.  They love saying things like that.  They know you haven’t and they don’t like it when you answer, “Well, I don’t know as I have taken a good look; there’s not much in there to see other than underwear and socks.  I take things out and I put things in. They’re always there except when I run out.  In the meantime I don’t think they can go anywhere.”   Don’t go there---wives deem that to be sarcastic.  They’re liable to burn your toast or put lace on your eggs for that.
  Have you ever wondered why, with the great transportation system we have in this country –semi-trucks running night and day—cargo planes hauling cargo; mule trains clippy-clapping o’er hill and dale; with a plug of chaw-tobaccy for a minor in Corona; a geetar for a cowboy way out in Arizona; a bunch rheumatism pills for the settlers in the hills…why on earth would it take 6 to 12 days to get a small package shipped from Nashville to Morgantown?  Beats me.  That’s what they told me when I ordered a new mask for my sleeping rig. (C-PAP).
  I’m glad to see this weather moderatin’ some.  I may not have to wait much longer for my spring bath.
 
You heard the latest poll?  Ninety percent of the people in this country don’t trust the people in the White House or Congress.  That just about takes them all in, don’t it?
While we’re on stats and polls, educational bureaucrats have watered-down school courses of study to the extent that according to Gallup, we have 18 year olds who can’t find the state of Ohio on the map.  In response to a question on World War Two, a female college student said, “near the end of the ware, Hitler hid under streets of Berlin and shot himself in the bonkers.
It’s been said the best predictions of future behavior is past behavior.  I thought of this when I saw Prime Minister Putin of Russia standing up there all sour and unsmiling during the recent Winter Olympics.  Despite the fact his country did well in Olympic competition, he couldn’t seem to enjoy the goins-on.  That’s easy to understand, he’s still a communist.
As former head of the Russian KGB(same as the Nazi Gestapo in WWII) he is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people whose only crimes were to seek human dignity and independence.  Putin has no love for the Russian people.  Just as Joseph Stalin didn’t-just as any despot or dictator doesn’t.  They are only interested in keeping the people enslaved and emasculated, so to speak.  They can’t allow their citizen any thoughts or actions that keep up human dignity and independence.
If you talk to the people in Russia today, many will tell you they are afraid they’re headed back toward the old Soviet Union days under this man Putin(spelled backward Nitup).  I think if it were me, I’d have my name changed to Mister Nitup.  Maybe that would improve his outlook on life.  Nah, just kiddin’!
Seriously, if anyone thinks if Putin is ready to sing, “Come-by-ya”, or ‘I’d like to teach world to sing in perfect harmony,” he has his head in the proverbial sand.  I’d as soon trust a one-eyed knife-thrower in a side show.
Meanwhile I hope this weather stays warm.  I’m beginning to think about takn’ my spring bath.
 
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