Jack.
You give me the best fodder for this blog.
We bought Dave's house in Eden Park when he moved to Columbus. I called on him at a Newark plant and he moved on to Springfield where he and his wife divorced. She, too, was an excellent person. They were attending the Brethren Church in Worthington when we visited and he played softball with them. Flip was devastated when Dave was killed in an auto accident some years ago.
Thanks elder (but not by a whole lot) friend!
Sam, I don't know how well you knew Dave Spriggs, but he, like his
daddy,was
one of the nicest guys you ever knew. This is the story, I
liked as well as
the Middletown football game. A new guy in town(I've
forgotten who it was)
was gonna whip Flip's ass. Dave heard about it
and told the guy why don't you
just start with mine. You're gonna have
to get to it anyway if you whip Flip.
That stopped all the
threats.Dave was a year younger than I was, but all of
us on that
1944 team were close ,good, friends. Dave worked with a number of
us
at the N&W freight station on weekend and summer vacation. By the
way,
Pat James from New Boston worked with us also. He was Bear
Bryants
defensive line coach for years Played for him at UK....You know
about
UK, of course,,,,,,,,,,,,Bouncey ball !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Coming election and the Tea Party ... Thanks Jack H Plymale!
Sam, the character of this guy was knowable and obvious in 2008 and he became president with an 8 million vote plurality. Surely that tells us something about the collective mentality of our electorate. Relax aand try to enjoy the time that is lleft to you. Jack P
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:34 AM, <skegley.kegley@gmail.com> wrote:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
obama budget: A Lie wrapped in a Theory Inside a Stimulus
Labels obama budgetObama Budget: A Lie Wrapped in a Theory Inside a Stimulus
Jack, I remember an old Torjan (Ockie's term) story told by warrior Jack Plymale: He recalled Dave Spriggs yelling across the line of scrimmage at the opposition players and betting them they wouldn't score while there on the Trojans goal line. They didn't and Dave charged into their dressing room after the game and collected from them.
obama has America deep in its own territory to being where the islamascists want us. I am betting on the American voters being much smarter than the current polls are telling us. The Tea Party must rise as they did in 2010.
Tea Partiers want our America back, away from the atheists, ACLU, and all other leftists including our national media. Christians have been too tolerant, although the respect they have shown to religious tolerance is admirable. We just let the anti-religionists have their say for far too long. If Dave and Flip Spriggs, Gib Lakeman, Doc Yeagle, Jim Fout, Lamoin Elliott, John Rapp, and their ilk were active today, I believe they would be Tea Party guys.
We do not want shariah law in America.
Europe is falling so quickly into the islamascists hands.
American voters can not be so stupid as they showed in the 2008 presidential election!
SamKat
Re; Dumb voting in 2008 Thanks Jack H Plymale!
Jack, You are probably right, but I think back to Dave Spriggs yelling across the line to the opposing team when they were on the Trojans near goal line in a close contest. He bet the opponents that they would not score and the Trojans held. Jack Plymale told me that story. They didn't score and Dave charged into their locker room after the game and collected his winnings. Dave, Flip, Fout, Yeagle, Lakeman, Plymale, Elliott, Rapp, had that kind of character. They would neither welcome shariah law in their day nor this day. Our society can go quicker to the ismascists than Europe and all others, but I think we shouldn't go without kicking and screaming, at least with more intelligent voting than was expressed for the Anti- American clown, obama, in 2008. I respect you, my dear elder Portsmouthite, but I doubt that we disagree too much.
Sam, the character of this guy was knowable and obvious in 2008 and he became president with an 8 million vote plurality. Surely that tells us something about the collective mentality of our electorate. Relax aand try to enjoy the time that is lleft to you. Jack P
Sam, the character of this guy was knowable and obvious in 2008 and he became president with an 8 million vote plurality. Surely that tells us something about the collective mentality of our electorate. Relax aand try to enjoy the time that is lleft to you. Jack P
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:34 AM, <skegley.kegley@gmail.com>
wrote:
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2012
obama budget: A Lie wrapped in a Theory Inside a Stimulus
Labels obama budgetObama Budget: A Lie Wrapped in a Theory Inside a Stimulus
obama budget: A Lie wrapped in a Theory Inside a Stimulus
Obama Budget: A Lie Wrapped in a Theory Inside a Stimulus
Now that Obama has officially unveiled this year’s blueprint for Democrat pork, the only mystery is whether Obama will actually get a vote for his new budget. Last year his budget never made it to the House and received not a single vote when presented in the Senate, going down 0-97.
With Obama proposing another $2.2 trillion in deficit spending just for this year and next, plus uber tax increases for people not named Warren Buffett- tax increases, by the by, arealways very popular in an election year - look for Democrats to keep their record intact for governing without a budget.
1001, 1002, 1003, 1004 …just keep counting. But don’t hold your breath.
“The time for austerity is not today,” said the most under-worked guy in DC, Jacob Lew, Obama budget guy-turned-chief-of-staff on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. “If we were to put in austerity measures right now, it would take the economy in the wrong way.”
There are a bunch torch and pitchfork types in Greece who would likely agree with him, if they could stop burning down buildings for a day or two.
Get it? The guy who was responsible for the non-budgets now is running the whole really big shew at the White House. Only Obama could give a promotion to a guy who couldn’t even get budgets passed by his own party, yet alone reach a compromise with the GOP
Look for the budget to go down by more than 97 votes this time.
This is the same Obama who was preaching cutting the deficit back in July, pretending he was a deficit hawk.
I’d like to say that he was either lying to you then or lying to you now. But who are we kidding? He was lying to you then and now. And if you wait a few months he’ll lie on the budget again. The Obama budget is a lie wrapped in a theory inside a stimulus.
And that ladies and gents is why S&P downgraded US sovereign debt. Obama may be fooling someone, but it’s not the credit rating agency. They know the administration is lying about anything, everything. Heck even liberals know it.
From the liberal New Republic:
Treasury officials felt that if S&P moved ahead with this decision [to downgrade the debt], the company would only embarrass itself, not the U.S. government. In this vein, Geithner simply informed the visitors that his country’s economic performance had exceeded S&P’s expectations on almost every measure it claimed to care about. As for the one where it lagged—the deficit—Geithner pointed out that the president had proposed cutting it by $4 trillion that very morning.
John Ransom
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