If they’re good enough for the Vatican, they ought to be good enough for the damned union thugs.

I remember stopping at the Glass House on our way to Tulsa one year to visit relations. It’s built right over the interstate–an overpass restaurant, for lack of a better term.

It’s a McDonald’s now–which is fine, I suppose. It was a Howard Johnson’s back then. I have no idea what I ordered. Probably French fries and milk, the staples of my youth.

I do remember buying–and losing–one of these postcards. A quarter back then, now available for $12.95 plus shipping. That hurts almost as much as having taken the Star Wars landspeeder out of its original packaging.

New Gallup data show confidence in Congress at all-time low

Hard to believe, considering the House is finally taking interest in important issues like this:

June 21, 2007

SUPPORT NATIONAL ZOO KEEPER WEEK
Become an Original Cosponsor of the National Zoo Keeper Week Resolution

Dear Colleague:

More people visit zoos and aquariums each year than attend all professional sporting events combined. Zoo keepers work every day as front-line educators for millions of children and adult visitors.

Zoo keepers do even more out of the public eye, acting as animal care givers, researchers and conservationists. An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 individuals work in some aspect of captive exotic animal care. Thanks to their efforts, visitors have a greater understanding of the animals they see and an appreciation for the importance of their habitats.

This year, the American Association of Zoo Keepers is sponsoring the first National Zoo Keeper Week from July 15 to July 21. This resolution recognizes National Zoo Keeper Week and its goal of increasing public awareness about endangered animals and habitats and the role that zoo keepers play in their preservation.

Please join me in honoring zoo keepers and their critical work by supporting the National Zoo Keeper Week resolution. The deadline to become an original cosponsor is 5 pm today, Thursday, June 21.

If you have any questions or would like to cosponsor this resolution, please contact Patricia Zavala at 5-2040.

Sincerely,

SUSAN A. DAVIS
Member of Congress

When a coworker asks where McArthur, Ohio, is located and you don’t know and thus have to look it up, “MacArthur Park” starts playing in your head and doesn’t go away.

It ruins your day–almost as much as if someone left your cake out in the rain.

I don’t think that I can take it.

Primary causes problems–Wapakoneta council candidates disqualified

I’m always amazed by 1. the number of elected officials in Ohio who don’t seem to grasp that you declare your party affiliation by voting in a primary, and 2. the number of voters in Ohio who think they should be allowed to help select the nominees of a political party to which they do not belong.

Three would-be Wapakoneta City Council candidates won’t see their names on this November’s ballot.

The three candidates–Deborah A. Zwez, current councilor-at-large, and David A. Kimmey and Jerry L. Hight, who were both running for Wapakoneta’s 1st Ward council seat–declared that they were non-partisian candidates in filing their election petitions, which were due May 7. The following day, all three voted in the city’s Republican primary.

The Auglaize County Elections Board voted unanimously to disqualify the candidates from running and therefore did not certify their petitions.

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“By voting in the primary, they are stating loudly and clearly that they are affiliated with a party,” Auglaize County Prosecutor Ed Pierce told the Auglaize County Election Board during its regular meeting Tuesday afternoon. “This is pretty plain on its face what they did.”

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“I hope the board comes to my defense,” Zwez said. “I don’t think anyone would have cast a vote if they would have known this. It’s an inane requirement that takes away an independent candidate’s right to vote.”

Deb: you ain’t an independent candidate. You voted in the Republican primary. Republican primaries are held so that Republicans can get together and decide who will represent the Republican Party on the November ballot. If independents and Greens and Whigs and Know-Nothings and Free-Soilers get to vote in the Republican primary, what’s to stop me from getting my comrades together to stuff the ballot boxes for Dennis Kucinich in the Democrat primary?

Come to think of it, that’s a fine idea….

I can’t listen to any more of this immigration debate nonsense: Senator Reid says “Grand Compromise” with a reverence that others reserve for “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” “Our Father, Who Art in Heaven,” and “Senator Barack Obama.”