Blandford Historical Society meeting minutes

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Tonight at 8:00 the Blandford Historical Society met, I should specify that it was its Board of Directors that met and I am on the Board, I’m the curator. Tonight I took the minutes because our secretary was unavailable and after I tell you guys all about it, I’ll forward her a copy of the minutes that I took while panicking because my pen was failing on me and I have the worst handwriting in the world so hopefully I’ll be able to not only decipher my chicken scratch but also read the faint scratching on the page, I did press really hard.
We started the meeting with our new Vice President of Programs telling us about the first three programs slated for our new year. The first one is coming up quickly, the 22nd of March. I volunteered to make cookies. Our President made a cookie request, oatmeal raisin and another Director asked for chocolate chip, so I’ll be making both.
Next up, we discussed our fundraising for the two historical buggies that we had purchased, we almost repaid our General Fund with those donations, we expressed excitement and happiness with our fundraising capabilities. We then motioned, seconded and voted to pay, not to exceed the sum of 400 dollars, to restore 3 wagon wheels.
We next discussed setting up a sub-committee for Technology which was motioned, seconded and unanimously voted and approved on. The sub-committee is made up of three members.
We also discussed our Genealogy Services and how it generates income for the society from time to time.

After that and more, I can’t divulge all of our secrets, we adjourned and now I have to compose an e-mail for our secretary to give a fully detailed accounting of the actual minutes. I am not the best minutes taker but I tried.

Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran Supreme Leader, Hails Obama Comments As ‘Window Of Opportunity’

Cooler heads prevail, I wish that more attention was paid to the words and actions of moderates and pragmatists rather than the loose cannons such As Ahmadinijhad and Santorum, Gingrich, Romney and Netanyahu. It would make for a less stressful world political stage. One would think that negotiations that are happening between Europe and Iran alongside visits to Iran’s nuclear facility would be head-line news instead of Santorum, Romney and Netanyahu’s provocative rhetoric. One can only keep one’s fingers crossed for logic and measured diplomacy to win the day.
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Scott Brown’s Mitt Romney Problem

I think that Scott Brown will not being serving a second term, he may have won on the coat-tails of tea party excitement but in the state of Massachusetts, that euphoria was an aberration. Romney wasn’t a great governor, he was “eh” as a governor, and he denigrates the only thing that he did for Massachusetts so Scott Brown’s association with Romney taints his re-election prospects. Moreover, add Elizabeth Warren to the equation and his days are numbered.
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Drug Tests For Jobless Advance In Arizona, First State To Move After Congress’ Green Light

Private companies choose to invest their own money in these mandatory drug tests pre-hiring and that is fine. Applicants don’t mind because theoretically there is a job at the end of the process. Legislating mandatory drug testing in order to receive unemployment benefits is basically the same as kicking a person in the shin when they are already down and demoralized. Moreover the GOP who incessantly cries poverty in terms of state spending and federal spending are willing to spend precious dollars to further penalize people who are unemployed through no fault of their own. The GOP easily forgets that our economic melt down happened through adoption of all the economic measures they are espousing, deregulation and tax cuts. How about the novel idea of taking those monies for drug testing and instead applying it to job training, just a thought about being pro-active in helping those who need help.
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Republican Factionalism’s Future

Either way you cut it, every scenario forces some self-examination within the republican party and that leads us to the next question; are they capable of self-examination? Are they so far gone and entrenched in their desire to dictate social policy through legislation that self-examination isn’t even a blip on their radar? If that is the case then I would argue that the republican party as we knew it, has already become obsolete because their persistent clinging to an America of a previous century appeals to such a tiny fraction of the populace that it will lose whatever legitimacy it once had and the American people will soon forget about it aside from casual references to the Grand Ole Party made by t.v show pundits.
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Champion of what?

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I Win!

Rubik’s Cube

I was going to answer with that old cliche, the game of life, but I can’t because I am not a champion of that. I am a champion of solving the Rubik’s cube. One of my few talents and it tickles me that I haven’t lost my touch with my Rubik’s cube even with my memory fading, it gives me solace to still put it back together when someone has mixed it all up.

Laughter, the best medicine

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March 7, 2012 by Laurieanichols

When I Need a Laugh

2005 NYTVF Opening Night Party

My hubby is my guaranteed laughter go to and if he needs some laughter, he will find American Funniest Home video’s, get me into the room and wait for my hyena cackle to start and that gets him laughing as well.