368. Here and There

Next Wednesday, August 13th, is the Metro Democratic Club's August meeting. The club will be featuring a showing of Mollie Bingham's Iraq War film titled Meeting Resistance. This is a free screening which will begin sometime around 6:00 pm, with a Q&A session with Ms. Bingham and others at the meeting. It will be held at the American Legion Highland Post on Bardstown Road a few blocks north of the Watterson Expressway in Louisville. Please attend and view this very important film.

The next night, August 14th, is a fundraiser for David Watson, our Democratic candidate for State Representative in Jefferson County's 48th House District, which is to say the north and eastern precincts of the county, generally (but not specifically) east of the Watterson and north of Westport Road. The fundraiser will be held at the 21C Hotel downtown at 7th and Main starting at 6:30 pm. Congressman John Yarmuth is one of the co-sponsors of the event.

I know there is a fundraiser scheduled for Metro Council District candidate Brent Ackerson, the Democrat running in the 26th, scheduled for the 26th of August. I will get more details.

As we get closer and closer to the election, there will be more and more opportunities for one to be parted with their money in the name of electing Democrats. I suggested to a friend today that one of the best uses for the Bush Economic Stimulus checks we've all received would be to invest some or all of it in a Democratic candidate's election this fall. Unless you have already used it to pay your LG&E bill for the winter. I understand.

A friend of mine mentioned he might want to do a "southern tour" of the Commonwealth sometime soon, taking the trip across the bottom of the state along the KY 80 route mentioned in a previous post. There is the Shaker community at South Union, the cities of Russellville and Elkton, and the obelisk, shown at right, marking the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America, who like Abraham Lincoln, was born 200 years ago here in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Davis' 200th has passed, it was June 3 - Lincoln's will follow on February 12 of next year. Incidentally, the obelisk is the tallest one of concrete anywhere in the Republic.

Finally we talked about doing some camping. I've got an idea that if the trip can be postponed until the first weekend in September, I could be convinced to do some camping somewhere along Kentucky or Barkley Lake, an area I visited last weekend, but left a few sites unvisited. A friend of mine is planning to take some horses down to the equine area in the Land Between the Lakes and I might go over and spend some time with her while in the area. And the big Saint John's picnic and the Lone Oak Ham Dinner will be held that same weekend in nearby McCracken County.

Just some thoughts.