Nice 88 degree, kind of humid Summer day, with lots and lots of sun. I bought two more tomato plants.. cherry type, with a bonus.. they already have red tomatoes. My daughter, Diane says she has gotten carrots and green beans already, but she is mad that her tomatoes are not yet red.
Diane's husband won $3,000, as I might have mentioned.. so today he called and said that since I had bought him the winning ticket, he will be my number one advocate for the Joe Vaughan Fan Club.
Today I asked that the Lost and Find file for the local Giant Food Store be examined to see if someone found the pen that I lost there recently. I told the clerk that it was a valuable heirloom.. actually, it was a Joe Vaughan Fan Club pen... and of course, it is very valuable to me.
01. German Towns
Well, what do you know.. the mayor of Herzogenaurach, Germany is named German Hacker and a person writing to #2600 Hacker Magazine likes that. I do too, and also because Herzogenaurach was where I was stationed for 18 months of my stay in Germany.. many many many years ago.
Herzogenaurach housed a famous Luftwaffe (German Air Force) Base during World War II, and when I was there, it was a U.S. Army Base, home of Radio Free Europe. Lots of entertainers on the base, some of whom would burst into song and dance uninvited at a moment's notice.
The Army let us Air Force guys use part of their billets.. real nice quarters too. I had a separate room with a nice bed and a recliner.. and for a while.. a hand carved Schrank. A Schrank is a closet outside of a closet.. like a cabinet.. in which you hung your clothes. I really liked mine.. it had carved deer and trees and other wild life and was made of beautiful wood. A work of art.
And then... one day a directive came down saying that we had to empty our Schranks and lay them out in the parade ground in a pile... we did so, and just as we suspected, they were set on fire and destroyed. Meanwhile, trucks rolled up with replacements.. tin-like battleship gray tiny containers that we had to put together with screwdrivers. I could not understand why we had to destroy beauty and replace it with ugliness. But, I guess it was because some General's brother needed to make a bunch of money in Army procurements.
At the beginning of each day, us Air Force guys would hop into the back of a 4x4 truck and travel 20 miles to a small village with an appropriate name: Mausdorf (yes: Mouse Village). There we had a secret base known only to a few hundred thousand East and West Germans. But.. that is another story for another time.
02. Losers May Try Again
The Carroll County Times reports that some of the losers in the recent primary elections may try write-in campaigns for the main election in November. Barbara Biller lost to Richard Rothschild in Mt. Airy 2,206 to 1,559. She might have a good chance with a write-in vote. There are a lot of Democrats who would like to see someone else in the Commissioner's seat.
Jerry Barnes was defeated for State's Attorney. He isn't talking about a write-in campaign. I think he is still smarting over his unexpected defeat. (It happened to Eric Cantor too, Jerry.)
Robin Frazier may or may not...She mentioned that she had not intended to seek public office until she received a call from God to run for County Commissioner in 1998. (Did he call on land line or cell phone, Robin?)
03. Me or I?
Bill Kennedy wrote about grammar and syntax in his monthly column and he mentioned an easy way to know when to use "I" or "me". He says that you must break the sentence apart, as in the following example: John and (me or I) went to the show.
Broken, half of the sentence would be either Me went to the show. or I went to the show. So, which one is right... I example.. so the correct sentence would be John and I went to the show.
04. More on Wheaton College
Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post writes: "The majority of the justices ruled that Wheaton College... does not have to comply with the OBama Administration requirement that it fill out a form to register religious objections to providing some types of contraceptive coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act."
"... Some colleges and religious organizations say that signing the form authorizes third parties to provide contraceptive coverage, which, they say, still makes them compliant in actions that offend their religious beliefs"
Once again, a lawyer's convoluted dream case, in my humble opinion.
05. Civil War Wisdom
Catherine Switzer says: "The couple that re-enacts together, stays together.:
06. Campaign Signs Again
Richard Rothschild, as well as 3 other candidates, were asked by Mt. Airy to remove outsized political signs that violated the town's regulations. As would be expected, Mr. Rothschild argued that the sign size regulation was unconstitutional because it put a restriction on political speech.
07. Dog Killed
A State Trooper shot and killed a pit bull that was attacking its owner. Will this get the publicity that earlier dog killings did? (Time will tell.)
08. Eye catching Ad
Big letters: BIRDS STOPPED CHIRPING?
Maybe its time to get your hearing checked. (Connect Hearing Company Ad)
09. Ohio President
President Warren Gamiel Harding wrote around 900 letters to his mistress over the years. They are being made available after a 50 year court-ordered sealing.
You remember President Harding don't you? He founded the "money pit" form of government. He had a big pit dug in the yard of a DC row house, and lobbyists and other seekers of favors would casually stroll by and drop money into that hole where Harding's henchmen would recover it for him.
Warren Harding was considered to be the most handsome and the most corrupt President... (wait a minute! What about Richard Nixon, who ran a Mafia type organization out of his oval office?)
10. Andy Harris vs. the District of Columbia
Republican Representative Andy Harris, whose ridiculously Gerrymandered district stretches across Maryland from Ocean City, wants to usurp DC's right to make its own regulations. DC wants to legalize pot; Dr. Andy doesn't want them to and has attached an amendment to a 2015 spending bill preventing DC from decriminalizing marijuana.
A Baltimore Sun article says " In Annapolis, Dr. Harris was mostly a preening pest who made sanctimonious speeches on the Senate floor that annoyed even his GOP colleagues. In Washington, he's among enough like-minded right-wing zealots to cause real trouble."
11. Genealogy Tips
At this month's Genealogy Gang meeting at Carroll Lutheran Village, Bill Amos, ace genealogist, laid out 5 tips to help both budding genealogists and those that are experienced.
a. Brainstorm (consider lots of ideas; etc.)
b. Sidestep (look through corollary lines, neighbor information, etc)
c. Use Sources (also contact all family members; etc.)
d. Know what is available (Find A Grave; Family Search; Snippet Tool, etc.)
e. Dive into times and places (historical dates; local history; local maps; plats, etc.)
12. Squirt Wins it Big
A speedy little turtle named Squirt, won the July 4th Turtle Race in Bel Air, Maryland's Shamrock Park. Squirt's owner, being an animal-friendly young man, let the turtle return to its natural habitat after the race.
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