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Melba Easterday’s 90th

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Melba Easterday is my Great Aunt.  She is wholly deserving of the prefix to that title.  I was truly sorry that I was unable to attend her 90th birthday celebration last month.  Unfortunately, we had already made travel plans and had purchased plane tickets when we received the invitation to save the date.  I hope that it was well attended and celebrated to the fullest!

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Happy Evacuation Day!

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St. Patrick’s Day isn’t the only holiday being celebrated today.  There are a few people around Boston, MA celebrating the day the British troops evacuated during the Revolutionary War.  Since 1901 March 17th has been an official holiday, Evacuation Day, in Suffolk County.  It is celebrated in several other cities on the east coast on different days based on the day the British army left those areas.

Wonder what color beer they’re drinking…

House Democrats walking out

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I was amused when I saw that the Wisconsin State Senate Democrats were hiding in Illinois.  Their new moniker as the FLEE Party was funny.  Now I am ashamed to see that our Indiana State Representatives, including our local District 17 Representative, Nancy Dembowski, are doing the same.  If you’re as embarrassed by her method of representing us as I am, please take the time to send her a note here:  h17@in.gov

This is poor government, poor sportsmanship and just plain poor leadership.  I received an email from the Indianapolis TEA Party that has a lot of interesting links if you want to follow up with them.  You can see the email here.  They are not only taking on the missing Democrats, but also the Governor and the Republican led Senate, asking for better leadership from our representative government.  I don’t think this is an unreasonable request.

There is a billboard at the corner of S.R. 8 & S.R. 17 that I pass every day on the way to work.  It has Nancy Dembowski’s smiling face telling me she’s my Representative.  If that’s the case, why is she hiding in Illinois?

Adult ADD

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I don’t know if I would have passed this test or not.  I got distracted and didn’t finish it.  <rim shot>  Anyway…  I ran across this test in Bottom Line Personal, February 15, 2011.  I actually scored a four, so  I guess I’m borderline.   Not something that comes as a surprise to me!  If you’re still reading and haven’t clicked on to the next site, you might want to take the test.