RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 12/10/18> Not a bad start to the season … and more.
Well, the American flag and how it is flown matters to me. I don't like the changes to the flag code, but nobody asked me. There are more flags flown per capita in Yuma AZ than anyplace in the US due to the number of military retirees and general copy cats.
Not one in a hundred gets half staff (or mast in my cast) right. Most now just put 'em up and leave them. They may or may not have a light as currently called for. Rain or shine, day or night, they are just hanging there.
I do have one neighbor that is rigorous with up at sunrise and down at sunset.
The thing that REALLY bothers me is a tattered flag. Any blemish on a flag calls for burning with ceremony. The local VFW will handle the chore, you just have to give it to them.
The insurance companies don't get it right for motorcycles. A second bike is a full second charge. I have argued, unsuccessfully, that I should just have to pay for the most expensive one and they get a bargain when I'm riding the other.
Ah well, such is life. Nice start to the SPL. With all four of you committed to the league you will gain some placing just by out lasting the others.
Yes, the flag gets hoisted and forgot about in a lot of cases with no light to illuminate it as called for by the code. I also have a pet peeve with the tattered flags, especially when they are at some expensive subdivision entrance and look ragged as hell.
Insurance is a racket and since it is required by law it is no wonder insurance companies do so well, they lobby the state elected officials who set the caps on the rates and it is money well spent by the insurance companies.
We get bent over and screwed, the elected officials get junkets and campaign donations and the insurance companies get to rob us with the governments blessing. Every one wins but us, same with health care.
Most of the players in the league are committed so just showing up isn't going to cut it when it comes to this poker league. it just so happened that last season I was on a team that had one player who wasn't committed and that really cost us in the points. We should be just fine as we have good players, all we need is just a little poker luck every now and then and we will be good.