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Stars Shinning Bright Above You.....

February 21, 2016

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I encourage you to sing along. It will
clear your mind and all that.

Saturday night late in the frat house. Before Saturday Night Live. WFTM in Chicago 'cause we had an antenna on the roof. The Midnight Special. Momma Cass. Sigh.

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Annie Edson Taylor, Bay City, Michigan and Niagara Falls

In 1901, Annie Taylor rode over Niagara Falls in a barrel. All you need to know is in the photo. She was 63 and lived most of her life in my town of Bay City, Michigan.
She described her stunt as follows: "If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat... I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall".

Bay City's schools, in fact all schools in Bay County had a class in 7th grade called "Bay County History" and, remarkably, there was a text book. It was as dull as gravel and pretty much the same agony that Annie stated above. She didn't make the book but our teacher, Mr. Hopkins had an aunt or something who knew Annie and he had some photos to show. That Ms. Taylor didn't make a book that featured every male lumber baron for miles was really no surprise. Others of us with a more jaundiced view of our little
town thought her to be the…

There is a limit to good taste and obviously no limit to bad.

Oh for the days of West Wing.....watch it to the end....it is only 3 minutes.

Blazzing Saddles

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Grab your chance to be in on the ground floor of decision making. This is Mara Largo calling and for a measly $250,000, 1 slim quarter of a million, you can be there when I decide the great huge humongous decisions that I alone can decide.

You just never know when we will hold an impromptu national security meeting....watch and join in!

........if of course you have the ka-ching in your pocket.

We are quite the dashing couple.....you'll have an opportunity to gaze upon us now and then.

Stars Shinning Bright Above You.....

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