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Page 4 _ Weekend Edition. August 21. 2016. Sapulpa l>ail> Herald
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Opinion
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Flipping the Switch
BY JOHS HHO( A
Sometimes when we ask. the
answer given is ‘1 don’t know ' Still
we likely will ask again
‘I don't know' or cannot find a
written record’ are technically
(Movers-in that certain sent of
way.
With the media busi-
ness newspapers in particular, we
tend to observe and ask questions.
Some requests for information are
made in writing, some asked ver-
bally.
The Sapulpa Daily Hr raid
reports on the wide spectrum ol
actions and behaviors exhibited
by our fellow human beings Good
things and bad things alike
I am fond of telling folks that I
would much rather prominently
place a photograph of a young per
son excelling at sport, academics,
music, than to run a 19 year old s
state-issued orange attired mug
sho! vecause of 'alleged hehav
ioris, of a less positive note
We were always instructed over
the years to take great care in
preparing good news' photos and
stories, especially regarding the
young Hicse news items are a
hallmark in life and would
become Refrigerator Rembrandts
and scrapbook highlights lake
that worldwideweb.
Herald staff routinely attend
such action packed gatherings as
the Sapulpa Metro Area Planning
Commission, (say that three times
while chewing gumt. Library
Board. School Board. County
Commissioners. Area City Council
meetings and more
1 have a schtwk that 1 sometimes
employ at the nght moment/right
time for fun and instruction. I rise
and proclaim the Herald is here,
where is Mr Internet ’
I have yet to hear back a cogent
response.
In the last 120 days this newspa
per has issued more 'written free-
dom ol information act requests of
many government entities, than
likely asked in the five years prior
A FOIA request is not made lightly
Normally the Herald is per-
forming our due diligence, based
on information-often but not
always from a reputable source.
The public service provided by the
newspaper is to keep watch as best
we are able upon city, county, state
and federal governments The old
school' newspapermen always
advised this little gem of know I
edge. "Government will lie. lie.
lie”
Ask the same question three
times over three different ways,
and oftentimes there are three or
more answers or explanations pro-
vided Human nature I suppose
The Herald will continue to full
court press our varied local govern-
ments for written records, if for
nothing else than just to remind the
elected and unelected that can so
affect all of our lives, that someone
is watching and by First
Amendment, we have every light to
do so.
This newspapet has ovei nearly
102 yeais recorded, documented
and made public all facets of the
human experience from ultra posi
live to the mega negative
When I was asked recently by a
public official who unabashedly
expressed the feeling that the
Sapulpa Herald was unfairly'
besmirching personal character in
pnnt.
I answered directly, explaining
the commitment and responsibility
of this newspaper as a public
watchdog. I expressed that m year's
past the Sapulpa Herald had indeed
failed to bnng to full light varied
malfeasances, crimes, mis spend
ing. poor performance and yes the
falsehoods of government
We have the spotlight
It is on.
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Past rough Times
Gean-lp on Aisle 380
Jim Mullen
The V illage Idiot
I was in the
big-box store
looking for tooth
paste in the phar-
macy section,
which is the size
of a small city.
The "Dental
Care’’ section is 3
1/2 aisles of dif-
ferent tooth-
pastes, mouth-
washes. floss,
denture powder,
whiteners. gum
massagers,
attachments for
electric tooth-
brushes and Waterpiks - 10 or
20 different brands of almost
every different item.
The most popular stuff is at
eye level But if you suffer from
an uncommon ailment of the
teeth and gums, you'll have to
crawl along the floor to search
for special products, or reach up
to the highest shelf
Pharmacy City is a great
place to get an idea of what we
suffer from. There are a couple
of aisles dedicated to inserts for
your shoes, things fo massage,
warm, wrap, pamper and soak
your feet There's stuff on the
shelves to solve foot problems
I’ve never even heard of and
pray I will never get And no
wonder our feet hurt
If you walked over to
Grocery Town and then remem-
bered you forgot to buy some-
thing in Pharmacy City, you'd
win a gold medal for cross-
country distance walking I'm in
good health, and after about 15
minutes I want to go see if there
are any of those electric carts
still available
There's an entire wall of
bandages and wraps for ankles,
elbows, backs and feet. Some of
the bandages come in industrial-
size boxes I’m not sure you
should be treating yourself at
home if you need a bandage the
size of a beach towel Something
like that is sure to need a stitch
or two You get to the bandage
section by taking a left at the
sunscreen booth that blocks the
middle of one of the main aisles.
I never realized how danger
ous it was to leave the house.
Martha Washington
ever get through
those steamy Virginia
summers without
sunblock and bug
spray? Oh. yeah
they didn't leave the
house wearing tank
tops and bikinis
They had a word for
sunblock back then
It was called
“clothes.”
There are several
major and growing
subdivisions at
Pharmacy City - Eye
Care Corner.
Incontinence Village.
Supplement Junction and the
Just for Men Comer And this is
the thing about Pharmacy City:
You'll always run into someone
you know It’s like running into
someone in the cheap whiskey
section of the liquor store
The first thing you think is
how embarrassing now they'll
think I'm incontinent when actu-
ally I’m just looking for
Rogaine The good news is that
they're probably embarrassed,
too When you meet someone in
the Incontinence Village, the
first thing you say is. "Where do
they hide the shampoo? I swear
it’s never in the same place
twice."
It’s easy to get lost in
Incontinence Village: it's huge
and the boxes are so big Two or
three boxes and you've filled up
an entire cart I'm probably not
alone in wishing that the outside
of every box said something
like, "These are not for me I'm
shopping for someone else." in
big letters.
There's something about
being in the checkout line with a
bunch of personal stuff that
always makes me uncomfort-
able. I'll bet there are men and
women who drive to faraway
towns to buy certain products. I
wonder how much hair dye for
men is sold over the internet.
Me. I'm not embarrassed about
dyeing my hair gray; I’ve been
doing it for years. It makes me
look distinguished
"Who told you that’” asks
Sue "It makes you look like
Captain Kangamo. But older
A lot ol people nowadays are teal
Iv concerned about the condition of
our country and our future, given the
choices in this election cycle It
might help to remember that in times
past things have been much worse
and where our ancestors look*-*' for
strength to get through it
"These are the times that try
men's souls. The summer soldier and
the sunshine patriot will, in this cri
sis. shrink from the service ol then
country: but he that stands by it now.
deserves the love and thanks of man
and woman Tyranny, like hell, is not
easily conquered; yet we have this
consolation with us. that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the tri
umph What we obtain too cheap, we
esteem too lightly
“I have as little superstition in me
as any man living, but my secret
opinion has evet been, and still is.
that God Almighty will not give up a
people to military destruction, or
leave them unsupportedly to perish
Thomas Paine "The Crisis
December 23. 1776
Today the loss of children in com-
bat has become a political football
But. years ago:
“I have been shown in the files of
the War Department a statement to
the Adjutant General of
Massachusetts that you are the moth
er of five sons who have died glori-
ously on the field of battle I feel
how weak and fruitless must be any
words of mine which should attempt
to beguile you from the grief of a loss
so overwhelming. But I cannot
refrain from tendering you the conso-
lation that may be lound in the thanks
of the Republic they died to save. I
pray that our heavenly Father may
assuage the anguish of your bereave-
ment. and leave you only the cher-
ished memory of the loved and the
lost, and the solemn pride that must
be yours to have laid so costly a sac-
rifice upon the alter of freedom
Abraham Lincoln. Letter to Mrs
Lydia Bixhey. November 21. 1X64
“We have met on a great hattle-
John Mark Young
Some Things Never Change
field of that war We have come to
dedicate a portion of .!iat battlefield
as a final resting place f or those who
here gave their lives that that nation
might live It is altogether fitting and
proper that we should do this But in
a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we
cannot hallow this ground The brave
men. living and dead, who struggled
here have consecrated it far above
our poor power to add or detract I he
world will little note, nor long
remember, what we say here, but it
cannot forget what they did here"
Abraham Lincoln. Gettysburg
Address. November 19. 1X6 3
At the beginning of the Korean
War in August of 1950. North Korean
forces in a surprise attack pushed
American and South Korean defend-
ers south to a small area called the
"Pusan Penmetei where they knew
they would either defend or die:
"There are no lines behind which
we can retreat This is not going to
be a Dunkirk or Bataan A retreat to
Pusan would result in one of the
greatest butcheries m history. We
must fight to the end We must fight
as a team If some of us die. we w ill
die fighting together General
Walton II Walker. Order of the Day.
July 29. 1950
At the height of the Cold War
when there were thousands of
nuclear warheads ready to launch at a
moment s notice upon the mere woul
of two men-the President of the
United Slates and the leadct ol the
Soviet Umon-oui President declared
strongly what we stood tor
"We shall pay any price, beat any
burden, meet any hardship, support
anv friend, oppose any foe to assure
the survival and the success of libet
ty" John I Kennedy. Inaugural
Address. January 21. 1961
Later, in the midst of the Vietnam
War the Piesident addressed tlu
nation
"And so ionite, to you. the great
silent majority ol my fellow
Americans-I ask for your support
Let us be united for peace Let us be
united against defeat Because let us
understand North Vietnam cannot
defeat or humiliate the L ulled Slates
Only Americans can do that
Richard Nixon. Television
Broadcast. November 3. I960
But four long years latei alter the
tail of Saigon
“These events, tragic as they are.
portend neither the end of the world
nor of America's leadership in the
world Gerald Ford. Speech in New
Orleans. April 23. 1975
And a decade latei
"Vietnam is still with us It has
created doubts about American judg
nienl. about American credibility
about American power-nol only at
home, but thioughout the world It
has poisoned out domestic debate
So we paid an exorbitant price for the
decisions that were made in good
faith and for good purpose Henry
Kissinger in Stanley Karnow.
Vietnam: A History. 19X3
Abraham Lincoln at the end of ho
Gettysburg Address pretty well sum-
up then and now what we must still
strive to do:
"|t|hat this nation, under God
shall have a new birth of freedom,
and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth "
Bear Facts versus Horse Sense
Flow did people like George and And not so smart'
It happened in the checkout lane down at the Soup
R' Market last week We discussed it thoroughly, of
course, and no one knows yet what to make of it
As sometimes happens, when we are glancing at
the tabloids to see who fathered Bigfoot's new baby.
we get into discussions of trivia. _
Annette was sliding broccoli and corn
flakes over the glass-window dinger
machine, and we were just chatting
about ... I think it was bears this time
You know...
"I read." said Annette, "that a bear
can run 45 miles an hour faster than a
race horse."
To which I added. "Did you know a
polar bear's skin is black, and a black
bear's skin is white’"
"Really?" Annette said, weighing
the plastic bag of apples "And did you
know." she said, "that horses can't
vomit'.’"
Horses just hadn’t heard me sing
yet. that's all
So it was then that the next guy in
line, a young fellow dressed in camouflage, smiled and
joined in.
"You know the song, The Duke of Earl’?" he
Slim Randles
Home Country
asked.
Well, of course we did We used to slide around the
dance tlooi to that when 1 Iv is was still a pup Wasn't
as good lot snuggling as a Johnny Mathis tune, but
what is? Halt the marriages in this town began while
dancing to " The Twelfth of Never."
"Well, here's something to think
about," our young friend said "If you
are driving down the highway, and you
tap your foot on the accelerator each
time the car goes by one of those broken
yellow lines, and if you do it in time to
"The Duke of Earl.’ you're doing exact-
ly 55 miles an hour."
“You're kidding!"
“Nope I'm a trucker, and I can tell
you it s a fact Heard it on the radio and
gave it a tty f ifty-five miles an hour."
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