A Primer on Damage Control, With Joe Paterno As Example


Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was in the news when it was announced he had a "treatable form of cancer." Treatable is the key word here.

The news tip came from a family member, the news report stated.

Fired from Penn State in the wake of a sordid scandal involving the football program, the 84-year-old was the subject of controversy anyway due to his advancing age in holding such a high-level coaching position.

Damage control enters in here.

I say there was no chance concerning the information about his "treatable" cancer becoming public news if the scandal had not unfolded. All efforts from family to make it appear the coach was healthy and in good shape would have been made to support his staying on as head coach.

But, considering the dent made on his legacy with the firing, why not deflect and distract from that and create a little sympathy for Paterno?

Why not, indeed.

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Be Aware Of Pit Bulls

Pit bull awareness program?

It's a program designed to inform the public that pit bull dogs are loving, carefree little bundles of joy. That's what we should be aware of.

I'm aware that it is not collies, German shepards, boxers and so on tearing up the faces and mauling children in urban neighborhoods.

Sure, the owner has a responsibility, too. That is the problem. Pit bulls seem to be a breed attracting the lowest common denominators. Couple that with the fact pit bulls are what they are. Safe breeds? Sure, if, like lions and tigers, they are kept in secure cages I imagine they are harmless.

Don't count on owners doing what is right with their pit bulls. Be aware of that.
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Reba McEntire A Discredit To The Okie Nation

Homosexuals are almost exclusively democrats in the polling booth. The most liberal of democrats.

That's because they feel more protected in the "anything goes" philosophy of the democrats. Democrats are on the wrong side of everything.

Enter socialist pinko, fag liberal, Hollywood actor, Ed Asner, along with singer Reba McEntire. With McEntire you would think she would be an exact opposite of Asner.

As a country person myself, I have always been embarrassed to hear McEntire sing. Even in song, her horribly raw, uneducated, hick accent comes out.

I held some sympathy for her and tried not to judge her or think badly of her for how she talks or sounds. Now, I have no regard for her whatsoever. She has swayed so far from her conservative roots in choosing Asner to appear in her song video, "Somebody's Chelsea," she deserves no sympathy.

With McEntire apparently having a brain the size of an acorn, ignorance really is bliss.

It just shows again that money and fame cannot buy brains.

Wrong-headedness is an asset only at wrong-headedness conventions.

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When Undercoating With Aluminum Paint Was The Thing
By Bryce Martin

Vehicles in the 1950s were highly susceptible to rust and corrosion because of the change from a separate chassis frame made from thick steel to a uni-body construction with shaped panels. The less thick steel and a different composition, together with ice-melting chemicals, mainly salt, led to rapid corrosion problems.

Orbie Martin jumped at the opportunity to solve the problem for car owners.

Undercoating, using aluminum paint. It was the new thing, the business to get into.

He bought a compressor, barrels of aluminum paint, hoses and sprayers, a paint hood, and went into business, operating at his residence and as a mobile unit.

I stopped by one day on a neighborhood walk and he was at work in front of his outbuilding. The large four-wheeled, towable compressor ran on either gasoline or diesel, I'm not sure which, and was noisy. A silvery mist spewed from underneath a car he was spraying. I watched for a spell from the edge of the road. Orbie rose from his stoop, quit spraying and stood up. He looked like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.

The silvery paint stood out so well I could see a glimpse of the chassis. It was an area I would not have noticed otherwise. The paint might have helped with slowing or preventing of rust but it failed in overall eye appeal.

In a few weeks, Orbie's paint spraying equipment disappeared and he was involved with a hot, new profession inside his outbuilding: repairing televisions.

"He might be on to somethin'," my Grandfather said. "They make 'em to break so you'll have to buy their parts to fix 'em."
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Interview With Myself

Greatest achievement: "Knowing not a penny of mine has ever went to any of the Kardashians."

Favorite breakfast: Eggs over medium, homemade corned beef hash, buttered toast, and OJ.

Favorite sandwich: Grilled kielbasa with Swiss cheese and mustard on rye bread.

A "Last Meal" request: Ham and noodles, chocolate covered graham crackers and peppermint ice cream.

(I start going downhill about here)

Favorite book: "It's been so long since I actually read a book I couldn't say."

Favorite singer: "I've heard so many recordings nobody stands out any longer."

Favorite color: "I probably had one at one time, or thought I did, but now I like them all."

Favorite author: "Shakespeare, but it has been so long since I read him I couldn't tell you why, except he was the best."

Thanks.

You're welcome.

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