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With the mess this country is in under a Republican president and the mess our ex-Republican governor left the state in, why would we want to turn the country over to more Republicans? President Bush led us into a war in Iraq, which has bled this country dry. Would we be in as bad of shape with the Wall Street meltdown if we had not spent all our money on an un-winnable war? In the last eight years I have watched my retirement fund melt down to less than half what it was when Bush took office. I know the rest of you are hurting also. Had Bush, Sen. Mitch McConnell and Sen.

Recently my close friend from New York City discovered he had a serious medical problem and needed extensive surgery. The hospital had two specialists on staff who would be able to perform said surgery. One of the surgeons had about 8 years of medical surgical experience and the other about 35 years of experience and knowledge. My friend, realizing the seriousness of the medical problem and the threat to his life and his future, took his time to evaluate both doctors.

Shelby Artists on Main will celebrate its fifth anniversary with a fund-raising event Thursday night to help troubled children.

From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. the gallery, located at 617 Main St. in Shelbyville, will donate a portion of all art sales to the Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA), which aids abused or neglected children in Shelby and Spencer counties.

CASA volunteers help children who have been ordered to get help by a family court judge, actively participating in the children’s lives.

Box poem:

Bird house, a home

A little wooden bird house, smells

of fresh cut wood, sitting on a

pole, just made yesterday

no one come to look.

That new morning a blue bird

like a sapphire in the sky singing

comes by to look, the bird house

hopes for a friend,

the bird tells the bird house,

I'll be back soon

The bird flies away,

the bird house is lonely,

the bird comes back with another

by its side,

the bird makes a nest,