After finishing at the Enterprise Monday I headed over to the Democrat office in Clinton. The building there is old and once housed a bowling alley. Lots of “strange”noises at night. If ghosts really exist, I bet they’d be next door though. For a while this building was connected to the Democrat through a big metal door and was called The Printery. It was owned by my Aunt K.N. and Grandma White. Way back in the 1880’s it served as Clinton’s City Hall. Upstairs the rooms are apartments now, but once served as a Council Chamber where the firemen lived. Downstairs was the Police Department. When I was a kid I remember The Printery’s paper cutters, folders and presses being there along with the jail cells.
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The news is spooky in other places though. Hunter Biden has switched from high paid consultant to painter. The White House says he can earn up to $500,000 without revealing who the buyer is. You can’t deny that he’s creative. Can’t imagine people being upset over someone benefiting from their relationship to the President. This hasn’t happened, well, since the last President. Remember the hysteria when Kellyanne Conway said she liked Ivanka’s clothing line? Bet some of these paintings end up on the walls of a modern art gallery in Kiev.
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It doesn’t look like the decision to shut down construction of the Keystone Pipeline will get reversed and gas prices continue skyward. It’s just what we need at a time like this. In the meantime, we could all try to drill a well in our backyard. Then watch the EPA send Swat Teams in, backed by helicopter gunships and Green Peace members. You can still buy a gallon of gas for a quarter though. It just has to be a real quarter. Any plain old pre-1964 quarter can be taken to a coin dealer and be exchanged for over three dollars. You can check the daily value at coinflation.com Double it for pre-1964 half dollars. These coins are made of silver, not slugs like the ones today where a quarter is really worth five cents.
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Time to pack it up for the day. Hang in there and we’ll see what’s coming around the bend. Take care.
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Til Next Week:
J.M.W.
