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BORN 1936   RIP 2022n

nRobert “Bob” Dean Hollars, age 85, passed away peacefully in his home with his wife Valarie by his side, in Oroville, California, on Wednesday June 22, 2022, while in hospice care, from complications of advanced Parkinson’s. Bob was born in Long Beach, California, October 4, 1936, to his mother, Dorothy Marie Campbell and his father Donald Dean Hollars.nBob’s parents, Donald and Dorothy, relocated Bob and his beloved sister Donna, who predeceased Bob only a year ago, to Palo Alto when Bob was about eight years old. Bob completed his schooling through high school in Palo Alto, graduating from Palo Alto High School in 1954. Bob would frequently regale family and friends with amusing, heartwarming stories from this period of his life. He was often heard to say this was truly one of the best periods in his entire life. He remained in contact with Palo Alto High School friends and classmates throughout his life and so looked forward to the high school reunions. I don’t think he ever missed one of his high school reunions.nBob served two years in the Navy after graduating from high school. This also was a period in his life he thoroughly enjoyed. He so enjoyed being at sea and visiting foreign ports. Bob so loved being at sea he considered becoming a merchant marine.nAfter his discharge from the Navy Bob married and his two beloved children Curtis and Laura were born. Bob had so many fond memories of time spent with his children, swimming in the backyard pool, BBQs, boating and water skiing in the summers and little league with his son, although little league really was a family event. Bob helped coach and took pride in their little league team going to the little league world series!nShortly after Bob’s discharge from the Navy he went to work at Hewlett-Packard. He would always say they only hired him because they needed a catcher for their baseball team, he was a pretty good ball player. He very much enjoyed his time at Hewlett-Packard. He felt it was such a great place to work back when the co-founders David Packard and Bill Hewlett came out on the floor and spoke to everyone and knew them by name. It was during his time at Hewlett-Packard where one of them spoke to Bob about facilitating Bob going to college to complete his education. Bob did take advantage of their generosity and completed his education at San Jose State graduating with a BA and teaching credential. Teaching had become a dream of Bob’s and soon after graduating he secured a position teaching high school.nBut as the fickle finger of fate would have it, walking home from work one afternoon after a flat tire on his car, a San Jose Police officer stopped to give Bob a ride home. Those were the good old days! A brief conversation ensued, the officer dropped Bob off at his home and said, “We really need officers and I think you would make a really good one.”nIt wasn’t long before Bob was an officer on San Jose Police Department where he served 27 years, retiring as a lieutenant in 1991. Bob found his time working at the department to be very interesting and rewarding. He had a variety of different assignments in various departments all of which he enjoyed immensely. He also enjoyed playing baseball on the police department team! Bob was a person known to be abundantly tolerant, nonjudgmental, levelheaded both professionally and in his personal dealings with others.nBob retired to a golf community (Ridgemark) in Hollister, California with his wife Valarie where they both enjoyed many years of golf and relaxation with family and friends.nBob felt he was extraordinarily fortunate to have had such a wonderfully rich life.nHe loved his family deeply. He took such pride in every one of them. There was nothing he enjoyed more than spending time with his family.nBob is survived by his wife Valarie, son Curtis Hollars, daughter Laura Pease, brother Rod Hollars (Betty), sister Peggy MacDonald, brother-in-law Jerry Hawkins, grandchildren Matt (Amy), Josh, Christopher, Taylor, great grandchildren Evelyn and Calvin, nieces, Kiersten, Deidre (great niece Chloe), Ashli (Ben and soon to be born Baby Boy Shiftan)nArrangements under the direction of Scheer Memorial Chapel, Oroville, CA.n

View the online memorial for Robert “Bob” Dean Hollars HERE

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I don’t know if you post radio podcasts, but as you know my wife Linda and I do a nightly nationally syndicated radio podcast M-F 5:00 pm CA time called “Talking While Married” on AmericaOutLoud.com. We have over 300,000 listeners and discuss a variety of topics of interest. This program is about drugs, cartels and the dangers to America from them. If you like this type of news/opinion programming, I can send you the links and you can also go to AmericaOutLoud.com and pick the topics that you think would most interesting to your readers. View podcast at this link: https://www.americaoutloud.com/the-shocking-statistics-of-deadly-drugs-killing-our-children/

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WALTER BRENNAN (star of TV’s “The Real McCoys”), rides in a parade in downtown San Jose. (1961)n

nFlight Attendant Demonstrates Safety Procedures in Hilarious Way

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nBrittney Griner pleads guilty to Russian drug chargesn

nWNBA player Brittney Griner pleaded guilty today in a Russian court to drug charges that could carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, according to media reports.n“I’d like to plead guilty, Your Honor. But there was no intent. I didn’t want to break the law,” Griner said in court, per Reuters.nThe WNBA star was detained at a Moscow-area airport in February after Russian authorities allegedly found vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage. In early May, the U.S. government classified Griner as “wrongfully detained.”nBiden and Harris spoke with Griner’s wife, Cherelle Griner, yesterday to reassure her that the U.S. was working to secure the basketball player’s release.n

KnowThisnForeign policy experts have suggested that Griner needed to plead guilty to clear the way for a potential prisoner swap with Russia. It’s rumored that the eventual swap would free the WNBA player in exchange for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer serving a 25-year sentence in the United States.n

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Genius Life Hacks That Work Extremely Well!n

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Mar 16, 2017 Twenty five years ago, physicist Robert Lang worked at NASA, where he researched lasers. He has also garnered 46 patents on optoelectronics and even wrote a Ph.D. thesis called “Semiconductor Lasers: New Geometries and Spectral Properties.” But in 2001, Lang left his job in order to pursue a passion he’s had since childhood: origami. In the origami world, Lang is now a legend, and it’s not just his eye-catching, intricate designs that have taken the craft by storm. Some of his work has helped pioneer new ways of applying origami principles to complex real-world engineering problems.n

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no idea who put this together, but it is fantastic !

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Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot,

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nnBefore the days of Dylan , or the dawn of Camelot.nThere lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me,nn

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nnFor Ike was in the White House in that land where we were born,nWhere navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn.nnnnWe longed for love and romance, and waited for our Prince,nEddie Fisher married Liz, and no one’s seen him since.nn

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nnWe danced to ‘Little Darlin,’ and sang to ‘Stagger Lee’nAnd cried for Buddy Holly in the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnOnly girls wore earrings then, and 3 was one too many,nAnd only boys wore flat-top cuts, except for Jean McKinney.nnnnAnd only in our wildest dreams did we expect to seenA boy named George with Lipstick, in the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnWe fell for Frankie Avalon, Annette was oh, so nice,nAnd when they made a movie, they never made it twice..nn

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nnWe didn’t have a Star Trek Five, or Psycho Two and Three,nOr Rocky-Rambo Twenty in the Land That Made Me, Me.nn

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nnMiss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp,nAnd Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp.nnWe had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T,nAnd Oprah couldn’t talk yet, in the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnWe had our share of heroes, we never thought they’d go,nAt least not Bobby Darin, or Marilyn Monroe.nFor youth was still eternal, and life was yet to be,nAnd Elvis was forever in the Land That Made Me, Me.nn

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nnWe’d never seen the rock band that was Grateful to be Dead,nAnd Airplanes weren’t named Jefferson , and Zeppelins were not Led.nn

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nnAnd Beatles lived in gardens then, and Monkees lived in trees,nMadonna was Mary in the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnWe’d never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars,nAnd babies might be bottle-fed, but they were not grown in jars.nn

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nnAnd pumping iron got wrinkles out, and ‘gay’ meant fancy-free,nAnd dorms were never co-Ed in the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnWe hadn’t seen enough of jets to talk about the lag,nAnd microchips were what was left at the bottom of the bag.nn

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nnAnd hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea,nAnd rocket ships were fiction in the Land That Made Me, Me.nn

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nnT-Birds came with portholes, and side shows came with freaks,nAnd bathing suits came big enough to cover both your cheeks.nn

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nnAnd Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee,nAnd Castro came to power near the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnWe had no Crest with Fluoride, we had no Hill Street Blues,nWe had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal teanOr prime-time ads for those dysfunctions in the Land That Made Me, Me.nn

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nnThere were no golden arches, no Perrier to chill,nAnd fish were not called Wanda, and cats were not called Billnn

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nnAnd middle-aged was 35 and old was forty-three,nAnd ancient were our parents in the Land That Made Me, Me.nnnnBut all things have a season, or so we’ve heard them say,nAnd now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A.nThey send us invitations to join AARP,nWe’ve come a long way, baby, from the Land That Made Me, Me.nn

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nnSo now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans,nAnd wonder why they’re using smaller print in magazines.nAnd we tell our children’s children of the way it used to be,nLong ago and far away in the Land That Made Me, Me.nn

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If you didn’t grow up in the fifties,nYou missed the greatest time in history,nHope you enjoyed this read as much as I did.nIf So, PLEASE FORWARD this note tonsomeone who will appreciate these memories…

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nParaprosdokians are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence is unexpected;nnWinston Churchill loved them: n  n1.    Where there’s a will, I want to be in it.n n2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.n n3.  If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.n n4.  War does not determine who is right – only who is left.n n5.  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.n n6. They begin the evening news with ‘Good Evening,’ then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.n n7.  To steal ideas from someone is plagiarism.  To steal from many is called research.nn8.  In filling in an application, where it says, ‘In case of emergency’, notify:  I put ‘DOCTOR.’n n9.  I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.n n10.  Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they look sexy.nn11.  Behind every successful man is his woman.  Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.nn12.  A clear conscience is the sign of a bad memory.n n13.   I used to be indecisive.  Now I’m not so sure.n n14.  Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.  Nor is there any future in it.n n15.  Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.n n16.  Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.n n17.  I’m supposed to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder for me to find one now. nn18. I am not arguing with you, I am explaining why you are wrong.nnn

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THE NEW BREED!

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nHOPE YOU LIKE WHERE THIS IS HEADED, IF NOT WHO IS RESONSIBLE ?nn                                                GET OUT AND VOTE.n

So … Leave the Gate Openn

nnnIf you leave the gate open, the cow will wander off. So if you intentionally leave the gate open, you want the cow to wander off. You can’t blame stupidity or laziness. It was intentional. If you cut police budgets, you will get more crime on the streets. So if you intentionally cut police budgets, you wanted more crime on the streets. If you cut back the supply of oil, gas prices will go up. So if you intentionally cut back the supply of oil, you wanted gas prices to go up. If you print trillions of dollars without increasing the supply of goods, inflation will hit hard. So if you intentionally print trillions of dollars without more goods you wanted inflation to hit hard. If you leave the southern border wide open, you get more drug trafficking and human trafficking.  So if you intentionally leave the border wide open, you wanted more drug trafficking and human trafficking. If you shut down 40% of the supply of baby formula in February, you’ll get a huge shortage. When you KNOW a huge baby formula shortage is coming because of the FDA’s actions, and you purposefully do nothing to prevent it, month after month, until the crisis finally hits hard, you INTENDED this crisis. It is time to recognize the evil people behind that old man. They want crisis. They want chaos. They want riots. They want conflicts in your town. Their stated purpose years ago with Obama was to “take the US down a few notches on the world stage.” You can feel the quality of your life going down with the country. These are not foolish or misguided people. They are headed somewhere you don’t want to go… n

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nSister Mary Ann, who worked for a home health agency, was out making her rounds visiting homebound patients when she ran out of gas.nnAs luck would have it, a Texaco Gasoline station was just a block away.nnShe walked to the station to borrow a gas can and buy some gas. The attendant told her that the only gas can he owned had beennloaned out, but she could wait until it was returned. Since Sister Mary Ann was on the way to see a patient, she decided not to waitnand walked back to her car.nShe looked for something in her car that she could fill with gas and spotted the bedpan she was taking to the patient.nAlways resourceful, Sister Mary Ann carried the bedpan to the station, filled it with gasoline, and carried the full bedpan back to her car.nnAs she was pouring the gas into her tank, two Baptists watched from across the street.. One of them turned to the other and said,n

‘If it starts, I’m turning Catholic.’!!

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nnI’m not sure where this office location is, but it kind of looks like an unemployment office or Social Security center.n

Check out the reaction time of the security guard.

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