So, Big Brother is alive and well in Bradford. Big Brother says I have to have a carbon monoxide detector in my home. I’m mandated to buy a detector. Mandated. Where have I heard that before? Obamacare! I have to buy something. Not because I want to. Because Big Brother says it’s good for me!

Don’t tell me what’s good for me! You don’t decide what’s good for me! I decide what’s good for me! Get out of my life! I don’t want you, don’t need you in my life! Go play “Calvera” somewhere else!

Remember “Calvera”? “If God didn’t want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.” And there’s another line from that famous movie: “We deal ….”

You know, if you look real close, you find that some of the sheep have teeth. Herd them too hard, and you’re likely to be bitten! You just might run into a sheep that responds thusly, to paraphrase Col. Nathan Jessup: “You … with the wrong Marine!” And Fox News sends a camera crew and reporter to find out “What the hell just happened in Bradford, Pa.”

Remember Johnny Carson’s “Carnac”? He could foretell the question after hearing the answer. Let’s play! Answer: Mush! (or pick a word). Question: What do some people’s brain turn to after being elected to public office? Three well-known examples: Reid, Pelosi, Schumer. Their sold reason for existing: To make rules, regulations for the sheep to obey. And now we have local examples.

Damn you! Get out of my life! Get out of our lives! Go play “Calvera” in some alternate universe!

P.S. I’ve had a CO detector in my home for what, ten years? Not because I was mandated to have one. But, it’s my detector. And it doesn’t go with the damn house! Don’t you dare tell me what to do!

P.P.S. Just used my toothbrush. You would not believe what I found. Long! Sharp! Growing! As Sgt. Esterhaus spoke weekly, years ago: “ … Be careful out there! You just might find what you’re not looking for, like …. teeth!”

Jack Brunner

Bradford