Orchids to …
• the Bartholomew County health inspectors for doing detailed restaurant inspections, from Mike Posey.
• J.D. Muir for lunch at Cracker Barrel on Sunday from April, Arnold, and Betty.
Onions to …
• those who say “there’s gotta be another way” and then offer none.
• leaders concerned about the environment while using jets to fly to Asia when there are online resources such as Skype available to conduct such meetings.
• the administrator who insulted his volunteers through a text.
• those who do not realize that payroll tax cut is a fake tax cut because it only decreases the amount of refunds at tax time, or you may even have to pay.
• an administrator who who called his volunteers losers in a text.
• a president who wants the U.S. to stop trading with a local company’s big source of revenue.
• the school board that approved $120,000 for a sign when the money could have been used for reduced lunches and book rentals.
• the local radio station that has started preempting regular programming and streaming again for football.
• those who think Hollywood inverted the yield curve.
• local farmers who support Trump and then ask for federal welfare.
• the school corporation that doesn’t respect contract hours.
• “men” that wear suits with no socks.
• anyone who doesn’t think tax cut points to a wage increase.
• the company that allows one person to play on their phone all day while others are expected to work.
• those who took a great downtown bar and turned it into a themed restaurant.
• the city for ugly looking and large things on lawns.
• town board members who think its alright to do things dishonestly.
• the person or persons who deposit dead vegetation at the end of Northeast Monument Drive in Columbus.
• the elected official for actions that cost the city over $100,000.
• the dump site by the interstate that makes our city look like a community that doesn’t take care of itself.
• the elected official who believes he is above the law and uses our money to pursue his self interests.
• the elected city official who campaigned on the importance of annual trips to Asia but isn’t joining the governor and the local economic development board’s trip to Japan.
• elected city officials who allowed the parks department to stop the end-of-summer doggie swim at Donner Pool.
• those that don’t realize that it took many years to get agriculture business with China, and once the “easy to win” trade war ends it will take even more years just to get back to where we were.
• the farmers who accept government payouts due to the effects of tariffs but say they are against socialism.
• the former elected official that is still bitter.
Happy Birthday to …
• Anna Poland, from friends at Bethel Baptist Church
• Angela Rogers, from your family and Donna
• Ms. Felicia Dawn Conrad (Auntie), from James Stephen, Clarissa Mae, Ayssa Lynn and Christopher James, with much love.
• Isabel White on No. 17, from Papaw and Nanna
• Belated birthday wishes to
• Lillie Perkinson, from all your family.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
