Orchids to …
• Mark, Cindy, Bryan and the rest of the Brown family for the beautiful birthday arrangement, it brightened my day.
• Josh at Columbus Towing for being so helpful and polite with me at the All Saints Apartments, from Patricia Walkos.
• a lady and son who assisted an elderly man whose van broke down, staying with him until the tow truck arrived, from a grateful wife.
• military personnel who are now paying attention to the news of what is really going on in this administration.
• the federal elected official telling the truth to reporters in interviews.
• leaders in other countries not misleading the public regarding coronavirus dangers.
• Musillaimi’s for another great season.
Onions to …
• the federal elected official for false promises about protecting pre-existing conditions, a protection in the Affordable Care Act he is trying to eliminate in court.
• the federal elected official for a toothless executive order to cover pre-existing conditions while tearing down the ACA and its laws that already cover all Americans.
• those that don’t realize the exaggerated lies about the actual number of virus deaths is actually an underestimate.
• voting for a candidate who is the object of two investigations and who will support a socialist agenda.
• law enforcement officers who “plan” for riots but are unable to serve a search warrant without killing an unarmed Black woman.
• those who think the United States of America is a democracy; the United States of America is a Constitutional Republic.
• all the complainers who can’t think guardrails may be the very last item to install on a road that needs to be open as quickly as possible for the traffic.
• politicians who have dawdled for months on a second stimulus bill, causing needless suffering for the American people, but are able to leap into action within hours of Justice Ginsburg’s death.
• the city paying $12 million in taxpayer money to take responsibility for police killing a Black woman, but failing to hold the police accountable for her death.
• the federal leader whose long expressed doubts about vaccinations will mean his supporters will be less likely to get a coronavirus vaccination.
• school for showing poor leadership in sending children out into the community door to door, during a global pandemic, to ask for donations.
• the school corporation asking parents to commit to sacrifice either their kids’ education or their health.
• the federal elected official who was disinterested in any problems and instead of worrying or reading his homework, takes off and spends the day on the golf course.
• anyone who thinks the candidate is a far left extreme socialist because he is anything but that — he is a practicing Catholic.
• those not following the statewide mandate to wear masks and social distance.
• the administration’s failure of leadership costing lives and livelihoods.
• politicians wanting to raise taxes and to stop Obamacare.
• people who steal from the elderly.
• the neighbor lady who always has to complain about her husband.
• the people building new hotels and conference centers that can’t give their employees a raise at all this year.
• those who ask a candidate to commit to the outcome of any election before any debates are held.
Happy Birthday to …
• Talan Rogers from your family and Donna.
• Linda Haptonstall from your family, Janet and Donna.
• Roger D. Johnson on No. 75.
• Luke Robert Swegman, from Nana and Granddad.
• Sarah Chapman, from Mom, Dad, Paige, Ronnie, Matt, Lisa, Katie, Ethin, Mamaw Burris, and Mamaw Lee.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
