Guilty as charged...In a recent Courier Times article, my honorable Republican opponent for this fall's District 54 race, Tom Saunders, They just can't help it....Addiction can be a terrible thing. When were first married, my wife worked at Reid Hospital as a Respiratory Therapist. She tells of a man who was given a tracheotomy, and continued to smoke cigarettes by holding a lit one next to the plastic tube coming out of his throat. Vote Jeff Ellison for County CouncilDon't forget to cast your ballot tomorrow and remember I am on the ticket running for County Council !! B Jeff Ellison A vote for me is a vote for you !! Ever take a Candidate Quiz? Here are some Quizzes' for who matches up to the important issues we care about
Wouldn't you like to have a little help in finding out who is matching up on the issues we all may care about and want to lessen the time and energy it takes to see where they declared they stand or have published policy papers on? Web Presence, on You Tube, Muncie Free Press, on the World Wide Web, and even Ball State University!Hello once again, and welcome to another of my blogs on Making and Keeping, our Web Presence front and center, on the Local Multimedia and World Wide Web. In hard economic times, and with a Federal, State, and City/townships trying their level or darned best to drag us all into the 21st Century, we must be very mindful, of how we create and maintain our Web Presence. Technology Is suppose to be our Friend. That at least is what I am told. And after looking at the Video Kpaul shot of our New Mayor and promoting the Muncie Free Press and Citizen News Publishing an Are you ready?... Being grandparents lets you relive a lot of the experiences you had when you were raising your own children. Some pleasant, some not so pleasant. My wife and I are now embarking on our second round of “potty training”. While I have never been overly enthusiastic about changing diapers, especially with the rinsing and pinning required with the cloth diapers of my early parenthood, I did find that I tolerated that chore better than the dreaded cry of, “Daddy, come wipe me!”
Does anybody really know what time it is?...Does any body really care? Apparently. At a time when a lot of people are struggling to keep their taxes and bills paid, Wayne County officials want to spend $20,000.00 to synchronize their watches. From the Palladium-Item website: "Fred Griffin, emergency management director, told commissioners Wednesday morning about plans to purchase a more than $20,000 system that would keep the clocks used by all the emergency services consistent, including police and fire, in Wayne County and Richmond." Press Conference in Muncie 4/24!Come join the local Moveon.org Members in Muncie, as we unshroud latest Indiana polling that suggests a frustration and disenchantment with the way The Iraq War has been mis-handled. The undeniable effects on Muncie, with issues like Public Elementary School Closings (Washington Carver), high fuel prices and low-wages will be vehemently drilled at the Press Conference. The meeting is at The Carnegie Library doorstep at 12:00 p.m: Do we Need our Agriculture competing with our Energy Fuel Use?Why all the hoopla over Veggies to Ethanol when we could be using a real "Proven" technology to "Supplement" the Oil to Gas we already use and could Immediately Reduce our National Use to Domestic Production Levels? Armed Forces Day Parade and Getting our Flags Repaired or Replaced for Memorial Day and the 4th of July coming up!We are coming up on Memorial day 31 May 2008. But before that, we will be having an Armed Forces Day Parade here in Muncie, May 17 2008 put on by the United Veterans Council of Delaware County, AKA. UVCDC. | Thank You for your VotesI would like to thank all the people who got out and voted on Tuesday. It was a beautiful day for democracy. A very special thank you to all those who gave me their confidence and voted for me. I didn’t get to do much campaigning. I was in the hospital for most of April, having pancreatic surgery. What was only suppose to be one day in the hospital, turned out to be 10. I cannot complain , once again the doctors at the IU medical Center have amazed me with their abilities. This is twice now for me to go through what is considered experimental surgery. And Now For Something Completely Different: An Act of Real SportsmanshipHere’s something you don’t see often these days. An act of real sportsmanship!!! Can I get an Amen?!?!Third party candidates usually face an uphill battle. For one thing, incumbents get re-elected about 95% of the time, and third party candidates are rarely the incumbent. For another thing, districts are often designed as safe havens for one of the major parties through a process called gerrymandering. Guns vs. BooksAs an avid and voracious reader, I am deeply saddened by the reality that Muncie might be losing one of its public libraries, due to underfunding, budget-reduction and property tax caps. I cannot undervalue the immense impact, which the Muncie public library structure has had on my intellectual life.
The Baghdad Boogie: Time to Play Another Tune We have heard that the reduction in violence in How much is it going to cost, and who is going to pay for it?I try to be careful about criticizing the major party presidential candidates. It's not that they don't need it, but all to often criticizing a Democrat is assumed to be an endorsement for the Republican, and vice versa. This morning at coffee, when I was talking about how much money Barak Obama's proposed programs were going to cost, another coffee drinker at the table asked, "Well, would you rather stay in Iraq for 100 years?" I asked him if there was a way to control spending and bring the troops home. He said that wasn't an option. That's a shame. American Legion, Amvets, VFW and Retiring your Flag(s)! Ask the Chaplain
What Barak Really Meant: Gotcha Politics AgainA standard ploy in politics today is to search your opponents words, excerpt just the ones that make the speaker look stupid, indecisive, prejudiced or just silly, then repeat those words over and over until they seem to be exactly what the person intended to say. The strategy even has a name, according to Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein. They call it "Contextomy." It means taking a person comments out of context and thereby giving them a new (often opposite or derogatory to the speaker) meaning. In the 2004 presidential campaign, John Ke |
Voting Day is coming up Tuesday 6 AM. to 6 P.M. and I hope all of us know where we are registered to vote at. I and my Wife are actually Working the Polls, as Election Sheriff and Clerk at Precinct 11, and I hope even though IN-5 is not endorsing; we are all at least Voting.
VFW Post Chaplain Randall Jacobsen, AKA Chappy Jacobsen