It's the column before the Kentucky primary and all that's on my mind are bad ideas. Isn't it wonderful to be so inspired by the election process? I'm tempted to start the list with political parties but that's a book and this isn't.
I'll begin where we are with bad idea number one and I'm proud to say it was mine. After years as a registered independent, I got the idea to change my registration so I could get at least one chance to vote for Bernie Sanders, the only Roosevelt Democrat running for president in the last 30 years.
Unfortunately, I made the change on January 2--two days late. So now I'm stuck with a D without that primary voting payoff. That is the kind of thing the Democratic party of Kentucky would do and why I have never wanted to join their little club. Closed primaries is one of many good reason this state is last in almost every category that counts.
But I'm not bitter.
At least not as bitter as the taste from that Belgian beer known as Budweiser changing it's name to 'America' for the summer. Talk about a bad idea. You might have been too drunk to notice, but a Belgian conglomerate called IMBEV has owned Budweiser for years.
Nothing says America like selling out to a foreign company, but I double dog dare ANY real American to purchase a can of spoiled water called 'America'. It tastes like words that I can't use in a family newspaper. Why don't you try a beer brewed by an American company, instead?
Almost third on the list of bad ideas is putting candy in prescription bottles to pass out to kids at Hillbilly Days. That isn't exactly the prescription our young people need to be looking toward.
But really third on the list of really bad ideas is exhibited by the Bernie supporters who swear they won't vote if Bernie isn't the Democratic nominee for president. If you really think the Donald is preferable to Hillary you really should turn off the computer and go for a long walk in the woods and remember there's a thing called the Supreme Court and it has a missing piece.
Finally, closer to home, it probably wasn't a very good idea to go behind the Girl Scouts and pull up the trees planted on the river bank. At least they were replanted elsewhere, but the KY Division of Forestry and other organizations behind the tree planting were fairly insulted. Maybe that was the idea.
A much worse idea, that hasn't happened as of yet, would be to ignore a signed document with the US Army Corp of Engineers to mitigate riverbank erosion where those trees were. Like the Mafia, you don't break a contract with the corp. The U.S. Army has a long memory and no sense of humor whatsoever.
You never know when you might need a permit for something that really matters, like a new sewage treatment facility.