Around Town – April 20

Orchids to …

• Bobbi Rice.

• The Rev. and Mrs. Luke Maggard of Columbus Free Methodist Church on the birth of triplets.

• Larry Jackson for his letter.

• all the great participants in the Unified Track Meet and their helpers.

• whoever left the beautiful silver lights by my porch.

• the one half of all Americans that have been vaccinated so that we can get back to having some sort of a normal world again.

• the nice young man at Goodwill who gave me all those games and toys for my day care, I’m sure the kids will appreciate it. Thank you!

• Pastor Mike Gordon for staying true to scripture and not giving into the pressures of the modern world in his 25 years at Open Bible Baptist Church.

• Overhead Door for the terrific and fast service to fix my broken garage door.

• the man that bought our lunch last Friday at Chili’s restaurant, much appreciated.

Onions to …

• letters to the editor full of fear and misrepresentations appealing to a narrow fringe.

• thoughts and prayers politicians who never do anything about mass shootings because they fear the NRA and Second Amendment voters.

• the country financially supporting the NRA and Republican politicians to oppose any gun law so that gun violence is rampant and we self-destruct from within.

• whoever was responsible for not getting umpires for Saturday’s high school baseball game.

• the former federal elected official who has no heart.

• kids that don’t understand a video game isn’t an instruction manual for real life.

• those who want to defund law enforcement, “Who ya gonna call, ghost busters?”

• people ignoring their their dogs barking day and night, please, control your pets.

• anyone who doesn’t think the government needs to declare a national health emergency and immediately ban the sale of all guns and ammunition.

• folks that voted for the school tax referendum, just got my property tax bills.

• the coach who has so much depth, yet grasps at straws to find players all in the same week.

• the letter writer who is a hypocrite as most of what we buy comes from China these days.

• not having mandatory firearms registration.

• people who think the Second Amendment gives them the right to military weaponry and those who value their toys more than human life.

• the poor decision to change our federal administration.

• not understanding that in most police shootings, the police were in the right.

• the administration that wants to count illegals in the census, allow them to drive, give them vaccines, grant amnesty, and support them with American taxpayer dollars.

• the administration for allowing taxpayers to pay for housing illegals at the border.

• bumper-numpers who think that it’ll make me go faster, forget it, I’ll slow down.

• giving Covid-19 vaccines without wearing gloves.

• the worst federal elected officials in my lifetime.

• the political party that is obsessed with letting anyone and everyone have guns without regulation and permits — not what the Second Amendments says.

• the former federal elected official who verbally attacked his own political party.

• the downtown facility still being closed which is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

• people with multiple dogs that don’t clean up after them.

• increasing my taxes about $300.

• the church leader who continues to bully parishioners in the bulletin to get vaccinated, this is still America, everyone can make their own decision.

• the big box store where you have to wait a half hour for a refund.

ANOTHER beautiful morning