Cuban Missle Crisis begins - 1962

WHAT!!!!!

They took my Welcome to Columbus Sign down?? The whole thing?

THE HORROR! THE HUMANITY, WHEN WILL IT STOP

Yet another great idea put forward by the City Council goes bad. Who knew that a gas filled balloon should not be tethered up to the new Hard Heads outdoor smoking area! So much for a smoke free Columbus - back inside everybody!!
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Getting some comments on a photo I posted yesterday. Odd how sometimes something that I consider a "filler" is what get's the comments.

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I see our favorite House of Rep Jeffrey Wood was arrested AGAIN. Three times this year and 5 times total for drunk driving?? They tried to expel him after his 2nd arrest but the Democrats were pushing for a lighter sentence, like he was a victum or something. Yea!

I guess he fell over when taking a sobriety test which is never a good thing.

Speaking of dumb people, did you see the winner of Big Brother 9 was arrested for selling 2000 Oxycontin to an under cover dude? Seems he took his $500,000 winnings and was trying to get rich by starting an illegal drug cartel selling Oxycontin. BRILLIANT!! NOW THAT is the American dream right there. I would have taken my $500,000 winnings and gone to Ho-Chunk and played craps trying to double it!
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A photo from the Civic Center from that glass boat looking thing in State Street.

And while I was looking for this photo on my hard drive I found this - not sure why it was on my computer but how can I NOT post this!

As I was looking on youtube I found Bob Ross putting a tattoo on some woman's butt. I'm now having to rethink my thoughts on this guy and am wondering maybe he smoked a little dooby on the side before each show???

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Anybody that went to JT Whitneys and thought there beer was starting to taste a little skanky, now we know why.

The new people that purchased this brew pub and are fixing it up found that the cooling coils that cool the wort down had 10 leaks and was leaking skanky water into the brew!!

YUMMO!!!

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So I was looking at what happened this day in history and one of the big things was "President Benjamin Harrison extends borders of Nebraska". OK - first of all, who was Benjamin Harrison? and WHY did he want MORE Nebraska?

Note - My views on Nebraska can be found on our trip across America Blog (which I see I have to fix)- here is en eggs-zerp! "If I was a settler in the old west I would have put a bullet through my head half way across Nebraska." Pretty much says it all.

Yesterday in 1934 Pretty Boy Floyd was gunned down and in 1962 JFK announces a blockade of Cuba (remember fall out shelters)?

This is the actual speech which put the country at DEFCON 2 (never mind - I deleted it, move on). Normal DEFCON is 5, we're at DEFCON 4 right now. We went to DEFCON 3 after 911. If anyone wants to watch a real good movie about the next 13 days in 1962 check out the movie THIRTEEN DAYS - you will not believe how close we were to all out nuclear war.





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Have a nice weekend!!

Rod