A Comment that didn’t get posted

By: Diane Benjamin Posting comments is at my discretion. This is my site and I can do anything I want with it. Sometimes I allow the ridiculous because I know readers will deal with them. Sometimes I just don’t feel like explaining the obvious to people who don’t care. I’m really good at telling who […]

240 years and counting

By:  Diane Benjamin 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence.  Their signatures marked them for death by the British government. It seems like everybody quotes: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty […]

Next 4th STAY HOME

By:  Diane Benjamin Maybe a bunch of Bloomington-Normal residents went to Downs for fireworks. Maybe the people of Downs just turned despicable in one year. I don’t know where the people were from, but I won’t be going back to Downs. If used to be great.  Patriotic, good fireworks, fun family atmosphere.  Not this year. […]

Be Inspired – celebrate America

http://www.starspangledbannerchallenge.com/ Madison Rising Let’s show Press and Tosh – and everyone else – that we still believe in this country and our National Anthem. We reached our initial goal of 1 million views in 2012. We reached our updated goal of 5 million views in 2013. Now we’re upping the ante YET AGAIN – just in time […]