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I watched the recent “The Price is Right” military special. Someone missed teaching the husbands manners. When they won, most of them ran and left their wives standing there. I couldn’t believe it.
Lake Michigan is a beautiful place to look at, but to swim and wade you must be very careful. There are a lot of holes and a lot of undertows and everything so please be careful when walking. Just walking along the shore is dangerous because you could drop down in one of those holes so please be careful. Every year we have about three or four deaths out on Lake Michigan.
We’ve got all these different organizations: Department of National Resources, Indiana Dunes State Park, the firemen, this department and that department. It seems like none of it’s working. It’s sad the DNR would even be questioned. That should go higher up the ladder than the DNR. When they make major proposals in the state, it should go to Gov. Mike Pence first and maybe a referendum of what the people want to do with their property. I don’t think it’s fair for the DNR to be so important with a decision on private property or public domain. The DNR can’t even take care of the lakes, rivers, streams and woodland in this country, which is what they’re supposed to do.
Regarding two Quickly comments made about Gary: No. 1 is no one cares in Gary. We do care, but you know what it is? There’s too many that don’t care how the city looks. The second comment is: When they cut the grass in Gary, they don’t cut. They chop the grass and leaves down and just leave it. I don’t know what they’re using. Maybe it’s a dull blade. They take these bags full of cuttings and throw those bags to the side. It’d almost be better if they left those weeds up. Although you can’t see, they could at least take more care in cutting. When they do cut something, if it’s just one thing, cut it right.
It’s sad to say but it looks like we’re becoming a more socialist country than we are a free country. We do have certain freedoms here in this country. That’s for sure. But labor people are under attack, and I think that’s part of the thing. They want everybody to be status quo, at the bottom, and everybody on top is rich and powerful, in control of everything. That’s socialism at its finest where government and business kind of go together well, and they do everything they can to destroy the way of life. Yeah, welcome to the new socialism.
About a hole in the street in Valparaiso on the 300 block of Silhavy Road going north on the east side of the street: It’s the grass, not sidewalk. It starts in the grass-gravel area. My foot went down in a hole in that grass about 8 inches to 10 inches. I fell and hurt my knee. I didn’t even know it was there because of the grass. Someone should go along that area and fix that hole. It’s going north of that credit union on the east side of the street. There’s nothing but grass growing there and a deep hole. Someone really should check that area out and fix that hole. I don’t know what the problem is.
You’ve got to chuckle at the Republican candidates for president who claim to be just great Christians, but when the Koch brothers ring the bell, they all go to the altar, kneel and kiss the feet of the Koch brothers, worshipping them to get their money.
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