Around Town – July 26

Orchids to …

• Robert Mueller for testifying Wednesday and telling the American people the president lied under oath in his written answers to Mueller’s questions.

• Shelby Thomas, who wrote the wonderful, accurate account of the growth of the sport of pickleball in Columbus, and the dilemma more than 200 pickleball players have been facing.

• our great country where everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

• Robert Mueller testifying Wednesday that the president can be indicted when he leaves office.

• President Trump for our awesome economy.

• the very nice lady at the JC that bought me a dozen eggs, showing that there are still a few good people around.

• Robert Mueller testifying Wednesday that the president had been working to build a hotel in Moscow prior to running for president.

• Robert Mueller laying out facts that are enough to justify any impeachment inquiry.

• the student lunch program for Hauser High School and Hope Elementary School that will pay off lunch tickets for students who need to pay off lunch debts and who have no money in their accounts.

• Robert Mueller for testifying Wednesday that receiving foreign assistance in an election campaign is unethical and wrong, if not a crime.

Onions to …

• those for an agriculture display downtown and trying to get people to believe it’s “art.”

• city officials for buying more contaminated property, especially from a relative of a city official.

• people that have never taken the time to study the rate of inflation along with the rise in minimum wage because they would see there is no correlation.

• the parks board for buying a contaminated property under the “expectation” that the remediation will be bankrolled by the Brownfields Program

• folks who don’t understand that the reason prices don’t skyrocket when the minimum wage increases is due to market share, i.e. competitors that keep their prices where they are gain a large foothold on the market.

• those who believe raising the minimum wage will wreck the economy when the CEOs are making millions and even billions of dollars.

• people getting grant money for art installations and throwing some seeds in the ground and calling it art.

• anyone who believes that $2.13 an hour plus tips is a starting point for anyone, because this rate hasn’t changed in over 20 years.

• everybody attacking the U.S. president.

• Americans putting politics over country.

• the United States Congress for its despicable display of interviewing a tired and often confused old man about his report that Congress requested.

• the Senate majority leader killing two bills protecting election security right after Mueller testified saying that Russians are meddling in our elections.

• the attorney general for engaging in an extraordinary act of ruthless raw power when he held onto and then propagandized about what was in the Mueller report.

• the city for approving another church in the Tipton Lakes area.

• the contractor who is making so much noise at the crack dawn building a house.

• Republicans who are unpatriotic and do not love their country.

• the special counselor saying that his report did not conclude that the president obstructed justice.

Happy Birthday to …

• KC Carmen, from your family and Donna.

• Liz Wooten, from your family and Donna.

• Nicole Hamilton, from your family and Donna.

• Jackie Barnett, from your family and Donna.

• David J. Clouse, from friends at the Moravian Church.

• Jacqueline Crowder.

• Joyce Piercefield, from Ellen, David, Aeriel and Caleb.

• Liz Wooten.

• Joe Moody, from Gram.

• Joyce Moody, from Vivan Adams.

• Brenda Freeman from your cousin, Linda.

Happy Anniversary to …

• Larry and Brenda Lucas, from your family and Donna.

ANOTHER beautiful morning