Orchids to …
• Kelly Oliphant for getting her driver’s license, I’m so proud of you, from Harold.
• Flintwood Wesleyan Church for hosting the senior adult luncheon on Thursday.
• President Trump for protecting us and keeping the economy strong.
• columnist Kelly Hawes for pointing out Mitch McConnell’s long standing and continuing refusal to cooperate and thus preventing our government from functioning as the founding fathers intended it to function.
• the judge in the courts for the sentencing of Jermaine Ford.
• Larry Jackson’s letter, a ray of hope for our adult children and families on how to live positively in our messed-up world.
• Logan at Centra Credit Union for the help and the stop payment, she was very kind and one in a million.
Onions to …
• the elementary basketball coach for running up the score, only playing starters and humiliating the opposing team of fifth and sixth graders.
• groups who think they are entitled to private, free banquet spaces at restaurants, when they’re not even close to filling up the room and tables that are needed for others.
• the elected county official who repeatedly puts his foot in his mouth, mismanages personnel and spends more time taking selfies than actually doing the job.
• Republicans for what they’ve become since 2010.
• the article about Boomers.
• the weak people who support Iran over the U.S., just move there and enjoy Sharia law.
• the lack of social outrage when Obama orchestrated the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
• the political candidate who can’t get over the fact that they lost.
• the self-serving elected county official for the constant Facebook posts promoting himself and feeding his ego.
• our president for destroying Iran’s economy which causes Iran to struggle to survive and threatens to cause another needless war.
• all the Democrats who are saying the president has started a war.
• people who leave sappy long-winded obituaries for criminals.
• school officials for continuing to gamble with the lives of our kids by failing to implement guidelines recommended by the Indiana School Board Association for the use of metal detectors or implementing one of their own.
• Democrats because of who they are and what they represent.
• the Dems from Jacksonville, Florida that don’t realize how stupid they sound.
• the Dems from Florida who wish bad things happen to the United States so they can bash Trump.
• law enforcement for letting a guy get shot and not doing anything with him before he got shot.
• those who get all their news from liberal outlets and then repeat that misinformation in this column.
• the president spending 31% of 2019 at one of his resorts, an average of one out of every three days; therefore taxpayers are paying for him to ride around on his golf cart one of of three days.
• Republican lawmakers telling the American people, their constituents, that they do not want us to hear the truth.
• owner of the salon spa who will be causing hair stylists and therapists to be losing customers.
• selfish people who use the post office parking lot for their personal parking place, to eat downtown or do other personal business, leaving post office customers with no place to park.
Happy Birthday to …
• Dana Vogt from your family and Donna.
• Sheila Ison from your family and Donna.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning