Bumming around town with Bill Bumerton

Bumerton is a retired Navy fighter pilot who had been missing in action for several years while he traversed the globe looking for greener grass. He discovered the grass is only greener here (it’s blue in Kentucky), so he returned to again take charge of his 1954 green Hudson Hornet that had been in storage, refilled his pipe, and is continuing his smokin’ ways. Here is what he recently told us at the Sports Paper.

 

 

Hey Big Dawg, I told you so. The man you voted for President twice can’t pull the trigger on what needs to be done and now the credibility of our country is going down the toilet. You draw a red line in the sand and then keep moving the line every time your bluff is called. That is what the President has done. So now he’s gone political. He’s asking others to put their credibility on the line and vote on what to do. Man, it’s a good thing he was not President in the early 1940s when Pearl Harbor was struck. You have to be decisive, right or wrong. When somebody does something so horrible that the universe gets nauseated you don’t need to take weeks while you decide what to do, if anything, and then finally pass the buck to others. Do something.  By the time he acts everybody will have forgotten what it was that nauseated them. … The high school football season is just about upon us and I see now the Kitsap Sun has asked you to be a regular member of the weekly Guest Guesser. Man, that is a mistake. You don’t know what end is up, how do they expect you to add anything? You don’t even have a coin to flip to make your picks. You are in trouble big time Big Dawg. … Former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison died at the age of 44. Such a tragedy. That guy could really punch hard. He beat George Foreman when big George was making his first comeback after being a pastor to kids in Houston. I still think, though, George could have won that fight. Every time he had Morrison hurt he, like our President, couldn’t pull the trigger to end it. But then again, George was about 100 years old by then. Morrison wasted what could have been a great boxing career with his nightlife. Sad. It’s never good when we lose somebody so young, no matter why. … You know who Johnny Manziel reminds me of? Broadway Joe. Although I think Manziel is a little more edgy than Joe Namath was. Namath was just a good time Charlie. Manziel seems to speak and do things without any forethought. I can’t imagine Manziel not being in trouble. … I see you wrote something about the celebration of life held Saturday for Myrt Kressin. She was something, a great athlete and great human being. Too bad the good ones die and the bad ones, me and you, still hang around. We can’t afford to lose too many more like her that is for sure. … Let’s go for a ride in the Green Hornet and forget all of this. It’s Labor Day and you and I need to find someplace where we don’t have to labor. Of course, you pay for the gas.