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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS
vol. 01 Issue 30 11.13.2014 PUBLISHED BY SPORTS & MORE
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Cover photo: Brownsburg’s Devin Courtney versus Decatur Central.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
In this issue...
Ronnie’s (updated from 11-10-14 Ramblings in bold)
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Six Are You Smarter Than...
Who is the only president of the United States never elected to either office of president or vice-president?
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his week’s iterations of Ronnie’s Ramblings begins a small format change. This feature, RR, and the Say What column have been combined. Over the yeas of publishing Sports & More I noticed on several occasions, my Deliberate Divarication column and the Hmmmmms entries had similar topics or related subject matter. Thus I was pontificating twice on subjects that were akin to each other. Too much of a good thing can be overkill or too much groaning can be painful. Beginning with this issue, Ronnie’s Ramblings and Say What will both fall under the heading of Ronnie’s Ramblings. I watched with much trepidation the mid-term election results coverage last week. I was greatly disappointed, but not surprised by the outcome. How some of those candidates were elected/re-elected is a bit of a conundrum. There were several with abysmal track records, legal troubles and wacko social and economic philosophies. The explanation, I believe, is really quite simple - the voter turn-out was low as it usually is for mid-term elections; especially, for democrats.
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There is also a tendency for the party out of power to do better in the mid-term elections than the party in-power. (The democrats hold the presidency and the Senate, while the republicans control only the House of Representatives. (Yes, I know the current supreme court seems to lean a bit too far to the right, but they are not a publicly elected branch of government.( Discounting many of the recently hurriedly enacted restrictive voting identification obstacles and illogical voting districts boundaries, the number of people actually voting was abysmal. I read estimates from as low as 25% to 40% of eligible voters participated in the election. Any number less than 90%, to me is a disgrace. (I would like to see a 100% turn-out, but even my Pollyanna outlook has its limits.) My advise to all of those who did not vote last week is that you have no foundation on which to complain or criticize the elected officials with whom you do not agree or you feel are not representative of you. To find the reason why I would suggest looking in a mirror.
I am not saying that your one vote would have changed the outcome, but a bunch of one-votes may have made a significant difference and voting gives you the right to legitimately kvetch. I think an old adage applies here - “If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.” That problem being too much apathy and shirking your civic right, responsibility and privilege. Knowing the attention span much of the populace, myself included, I should re-run this diatribe some time well in advance of the 2018 mid-term elections. The news is worse for Indiana. Indiana had the lowest percent-
age of voter turn-out in the entire country. Indiana was 50th, with 28%. That is more than sad, it is embarrassing. The next lowest was Texas with 28.5% Now for some lighter items. I do so love stupid criminals. Next Time, Steal a Milky Way When Stephan Crane broke into the Ravelli Republic (Montana) newsroom, he used the computers to watch porn and check Facebook. Then Crane doused the office with a fire extinguisher, took some candy, and left. It wasn’t difficult to find him, however; the police just followed the trail of stolen M&Ms that led to his sister’s place across the way. Source: missoulian.com Watch Where You’re Going! As two men waited on line at the coffee shop to pay their bill, a third cut in front of them. He threw a drink at the clerk, and demanded all the money from the till. Temporarily surprised, the men quickly recovered and handcuffed the crook. Apparently in his rush the criminal
didn’t notice they were police officers—in full uniform. Source: ctv.ca Hampered by Stupidity In Mesa, Arizona, a home break-in was foiled when the burglar jumped through the bedroom window—and got trapped in a clothes hamper. Cops took it from there. (That definitely wasn’t the kind of clean getaway he had planned.) Source: Phoenixnewtimes.com The Couple That Drinks Together ... Recently, a woman in Fresno, California, was stopped at a DUI checkpoint for being soused. Ever helpful, she offered up this info: “My husband’s right behind me, and he’s even drunker than I am.” Source: The Fresno Bee (California) To: idiot@jail.com A German bank robber sent mocking emails to local police, ridiculing their efforts to arrest him. First he let them know they had his age, build, and accent wrong. Then he corrected their announcement that he’d escaped on foot; no, he had a getaway car! The cops got the last word in, though, when they arrested the guy a few hours later. They used his email to trace him. Source: Reuters She Went Thatta Way, Then Thatta Way, Then Thatta Way, Then ... A woman in Somerset, Massachusetts, was arrested for breaking and entering. But she was quickly caught thanks to her ankle bracelet … the one fitted with a GPS system … that she had gotten from the police … for being on probation from an earlier breaking-and-entering case.
Source: nbcbayarea.com Now for some words to add to your vocabulary or at least have a better appreciation of their origins. “Iffy” Franklin D. Roosevelt coined this term in the 1930s to dismiss questions at various press conferences. Today, we use it to communicate the status of that month-old bread in the refrigerator. “Sugarcoat” Upon sending an urgent message to Congress, Abraham Lincoln said about Southerners: “With rebellion thus sugar-coated they have been drugging the public mind of their section for more than 30 years.” An official government printer found the term to be too casual and asked Lincoln to change it for the record. Lincoln refused. The result: The perfect word-bomb to drop in your next argument. “Snowmageddon” President Obama ripped off of the popular Michael Bay flick when he first used this term to describe the huge snowstorm that hit Washington, D.C., in 2010. The snow may have melted, but the saying has stuck. “Belittle” In 1788, Thomas Jefferson was so inspired while writing about the natural beauty of his home state, Virginia, that he just had to make up a whole new word to describe it. “The Count de Buffon believes that nature belittles her productions on this side of the Atlantic.” Boom: “Belittle” was born. But Jefferson didn’t stop there. The third U.S. President gets credit for more than 100 new words such as: lengthily, monotonously, and (randomly enough) pedicure.
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Basketball Photos by Ronnie Wilson
Brownsburg’s Tyono McKenzie versus Decatur Central.
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Brownsburg’s Hannah Linville versus Decatur Central.
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Brownsburg’s Zhane Roper versus Decatur Central.
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Brownsburg’s Aliyah Walker battles for control of the ball versus Decatur Central
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Brownsburg’s Reilly Olmstead versus Decatur Central.
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Cascade’s Makayla Collier versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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Cascade’s Hannah Rasnake spells defense R-E-J-E-C-T-I-O-N versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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Cascade’s Alexis Gross versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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Cascade’s Casey Bell versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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Cascade’s Katie Smith versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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Cascade’s Emelia Bryant versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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Cascade’s Julia Burke versus Providence Cristo Rey.
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County Results Basketball - Girls
Avon - ** Brownsburg - Defeated Decatur Central, 62 - 38. Aliyah Walker paced the Lady Bulldogs offense with 24 points, 20 rebounds and three blocked shots. Teammate Devin Courtney counted 14 points, on five of five from the field, one trey and a freethrow. and grabbed five rebounds. Cascade - * Danville - ** Plainfield - ** Tri-West - * * No report received. ** First game of season not played prior to this issue.
Basketball - Boys
Season begins November 24. Avon Brownsburg Cascade Danville Plainfield Tri-West -
Swimming/Diving
Boys Swimming/Diving season begins November 24. Avon Brownsburg Cascade Danville Plainfield Tri-West -
Wrestling
Season begins November 17. Avon Brownsburg Cascade Danville Plainfield Tri-West -
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RONNIE’S RAMBLINGS vol. 01 Issue 30 11.13.2014
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