Orchids to …
• Sherry Edwards for getting the paper on our front porch now.
• Gov. Eric Holcomb’s mask mandate and the Bartholomew Health Department for enforcing it to help stop the spread.
• Laura and Gene Hack for the best honey in Indiana, thanks for your generosity.
• NBA players who stood for the national anthem.
• the lady in the green T-shirt who picked up our tab at Greek Pizzeria, thank you!
Onions to …
• the school board and administration for an absolute lack of transparency and communication about school starting.
• former federal elected official who hijacked a former colleague’s funeral eulogy to spout his own propaganda.
• angry individuals who think the former federal elected official turned the funeral into something political, John Lewis would have done the same thing to protect Black Americans civil rights!
• people who haven’t figured out you can take any item and twist it around to be “racist,” even Black Friday will have to be renamed.
• our city for allowing a 200+ team softball tournament as Covid-19 cases increase and we are trying to re-open our schools.
• restaurant for not bringing back trained staff, instead hiring all new staff who don’t know what they are doing.
• officials who push schools to open while the virus rate is over 5% and growing, as more children are infected and then spread it in the community.
• the federal official who lies constantly, spews hate and misinformation, and trashes medical experts.
• local officials for yet again not thinking about the unintended consequences when picking COVID testing locations.
• the absolute lack of logic having one church service requiring masks and a later service doesn’t.
• the company worried about profit losses, when they need to get out of communist China.
• school system not communicating with parents or teachers and announcing a plan at the last minute putting the entire community at risk.
• to not asking the real question, why is Columbus forgettable to most citizens regardless of race?
• those who don’t realize those who are evicted might not have a voting address match which could be a problem.
• the federal elected official, for a job incompetently done.
• pushing the school year back four days when the virus won’t change in four days.
• the federal elected official for the helter-skelter approach to fighting the virus, showing absolutely no leadership nor any concern for the deaths.
• people not understanding Columbus is quite forgettable for all races.
• school officials for caring more about looking successful by opening than student and staff safety.
• schools for not providing teachers with enough personal protection equipment — one rag, washed once a week, will not keep students safe.
• family members who are too messed up to remember a verbal agreement.
• federal elected official for his verbal support of an apparent witch doctor, along with her crazy health statements, and her lies about masks and COVID-19.
• the Black Lives Matter logo on professional basketball courts — keep politics out of sports.
• saying choke holds are banned unless we need to use them — there is the problem.
• schools not providing testing prior to starting school.
• school administration caring more about the optics of reopening in person than the obvious risks.
• people who won’t go back to their jobs because they’re making more on the unemployment stimulus which is adding to our national debt; there must be an end.
• the media that distorts the truth and needs to be held accountable.
• those who trash medical experts, scientists and epidemiologists who are trying to save our lives by telling us to wear a mask and keep 6 feet apart.
• the federal elected official who tried to hide his ineptness at handling crises like the pandemic by deflecting to Confederate statues, and ignoring the bounties on American soldiers.
• schools for using two days of fall break to make up for the school delay instead of using the built-in days that are already a part of the established school calendar.
• the person who threw large amounts of plastic shelving and other plastic away instead of recycling it.
• whoever thinks the funeral eulogy for the lifelong civil rights activist was anything other than perfect for him.
• the former federal elected official for thinking that the American people cannot tell when someone is trying to sell a pack of lies.
• the people who are responsible for not pumping fresh water from the pump system in the cement pond at Mill Race Park.
• all the basketball players who took a knee.
• condo community with HOAs slacking off on getting work done but wanting to raise the fees.
• the blatant sabotage of the U.S. post office.
• the traffic jam last Friday.
• nursing homes telling nurses that they’re getting COVID-19 patients but not telling laundry people and housekeeping.
• those responsible for holding a men’s city golf tournament without offering one for the women.
Happy Birthday to …
• Michelle Miller, from Danny, Kelli, Rylee, Lexie and Kloey Anderson.
• Robbyn Hehe.
• Brian Hagerty on No. 40, from Mom and your family.
• Evelyn Pince on No. 81, from your cousin.
Happy Birthday to …
• Hilda Miller, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
