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A Short Goodbye
Posted Thursday, July 5, at 3:23 PM Goodbye my faithful readers. I have enjoyed writing my thoughts and opinions to you each week for the past year. Yes, it has been a year, already. Time certainly does pass when I'm having fun and it was great fun. I will miss your comments, when you chose to write, especially Stormfield, and JR. I hope there will be other bloggers who will continue on the Citizen Website...
Spreme Beings as the Powers that Be. Some of you may remember when your Civics teacher spoke of the three arms of our government. She/He identified them as the Administrative, the Legislative and the Judicial. Our teacher told us that the nine members of the Supreme Court were the final court of appeal. These judges were to be completely fair with no partisan politics playing any role in their decisions...
An Apple a Day Keeps the Junk Food Away Do you have an overweight child? Is he or she lying around the house eating junk food and watching TV or playing video games instead of going outside and burning off calories? It's understandable kids don't want to run around when they are too heavy for their height...
Robber Barons Need to Pay the Piper. If you're an Arkansas registered voter, then you need to understand an initiative that many of us want to see appear on the November ballot. It is called "the Natural Gas Severance Tax Act of 2012". So, if approached with a petition to get this act on the ballot, please sign it and then vote for it in November and here's why...
Because It Isn't Their Life. Insurance companiesdon't want to lower the cost of health insurance. They never have and why would they? They are in the business to make money. What they seem to be very good at is punishing those people who were not born healthy or contracted a disease while they were children that would affect their entire life. These people are considered poor risks...
It IS Our Bee's Wax. The American honey bee is now dying of another illness which may be the culprit causing Bee Colony Collapse. There is a major investigation being launched by several national bee keeper organizations into the agriculture corporations such as Monsanto, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland charging them with coating seeds that are planted by farmers with a chemical that is affecting the bee population in a hazardous manner...
In the Name of Progress. Our country is known for its progressiveness. We have birthed some of the greatest inventors in the world's history. This is a wonderful and amazing accomplishment. Our country is just over two hundred years old and yet we stand at the top of the list in so many fields...
The Postman May Never Ring, Again. We need to watch our Post Office (PO) and its viability. It's certainly obvious that the government is carefully watching. Many small towns around us are losing their POs, so we must make sure we don't lose ours. How do we do that? It's easy. USE the building on upper Spring Street. Buy stamps, send packages and letters. Mail checks to pay bills and consider it another social club besides Hart's...
The Mole Knows I honestly believe in the adage "What we give attention...grows." Whether it is a small personal irritation, or an international political snafu, it increases in importance the more attention it is given. I have found that "keeping the mental pot boiling" over a real or imagined wrong is a sure way to lose sleep, experience a stomach ache and become very touchy. Besides what good does it do anyway? Other than give the irritation or snafu power over you, it doesn't solve a thing...
The Tooth Fairy is Not a Fan When I was little, there was no such thing as cities putting fluoride in the public drinking water. All my friends and I lost baby teeth with mercury fillings in them. The tooth fairy (TF) wasn't fussy. That sweet little night visitor took all my wounded teeth, regardless of condition, and flew away with them...
Such Good Times Vacations are the best. Especially when you visit loved ones who are so far away. We traveled out to see our California Girl and our two CA grandkids during the last three weeks and had such a good time. We landed in San Francisco on the first leg of our tour and spent three wonderful days in that great city on the bay. ...
Grab the Brass Ring As the old song goes, "Love is a Many Splendored Thing". My husband and I have been married for forty seven years and it's been pretty splendid. Young folks ask us how we have made it this long. Our advice to them is we never go to sleep angry. If we have had an argument, we settle our differences before we go to bed. We kiss and makeup, fall asleep and see what the next day brings. It has worked well...
Hunger Games vs. Perscription Games The latest block buster at the movies is titled "Hunger Games". It takes place in a post apocalyptic society where the world is divided into twelve districts governed by a very wealthy 1% of the population. The rest of the world is inhabited by starving underdogs. ...
The Shoe's on the Other Foot I like the latest "tit for tat" idea from an Ohio State Senator. Nina Turner has suggested a law to control men's health and reproductive issues. Turner's law requires men to get a signed note from their spouse or significant other and visit a sex therapist in order to be prescribed Viagra, Cialis or any other "double tub" medicine. I bet the men in this country would say, "But, that's so demeaning."...
Sticks and Stones Could be a Career Changer Rush Limbaugh has finally gotten his "comeuppance". His sponsors (over 140 at last count) are leaving his radio program like the proverbial rats leaving a sinking ship and it's about time. Limbaugh's apology was about as sincere as any other flannel mouthed, stuff shirt we have heard in the past that ate way too much shoe leather for lunch...
Slings and Arrows We've got a problem right here in Eureka Springs and it's called "setting up a teacher for dismissal". Mila Floro seems to be the latest target in a string of accusations emanating from the high school hierarchy. Floro was put on suspension and then arrested for alleged stealing of funds amounting to $2,210. ...
Suffer the Children February 27, 2012, Thomas (TJ) Lane rode to Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio carrying a handgun taken from his uncle. Lane doesn't attend Chardon High. He was dropped off there to meet another bus that would take him to an alternative school for special students...
The Righteously Misinformed Rick Santorium has made a pronouncement that the President's faith is a "phony theology". Santorium has also said, "President Obama "says" he's a Christian, so I guess I believe him." Notice the sarcasm. It's hard to miss. Santorium, the Tea Party's (TP) latest "fav", is a Roman Catholic. What in the world would he know about anyone else's religion? I submit that most people know next to nothing about other religions other than their own and even that's debatable...
Revisiting Unfinished Buisness The Eureka Springs Council needs to revisit much old business and actually work, not pospone again, or schedule a work shop where noting is done. Awhile back there was a "Demolition by Neglect" law passed in Eureka. There are several structures that qualify but nothing has been done. I reiterate: 11 Magnetic, the stucco house behind Ice Cream Delights and the artist, Doc's, old house on North Main Street. Do something about these dangerous buildings or take the law off the books...
At a Boy, Newt! At a Boy, Newt! It seems Newt Gingrich has long admired modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. He has often written articles concerning Ataturk and revered him as a model statesman. Gingrich has heaped such honors on Ataturk that the "Ataturk Society of America" gave Gingrich an award in 2006 for his contributions to publicizing Ataturk's legacy...
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I'm Enid. No, not the town in Oklahoma, but a transplant to Eureka Springs from Minneapolis fourteen years ago. I'm a writer, journalist and sometime artist. My real love is expressing my opinions on almost any subject, as you have seen in my many letters to the Editor of The Lovely County Citizen over the years. Now, I'm happy to say that I will be writing a blog titled In a Twist for your amusement, amazement or commiseration. Thanks for giving me a read.
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