Graduation Day !

Congratulations Lizzie and Rob

...with "Pop" and Mother of the groom, Alice Edwards

Best Thing to Come out of the Fletcher Administration

Special thanks to fellow blogger Andy Hightower of the Kentucky Club for Growth for hosting a lovely wedding shower for Rob and (our) Lizzie at his home last night. Thanks also to the Brandstetters, Fryes, Hudgins and Milligans. Hightower is so great that at the end of the party, he even arranged for somebody to shoot off fireworks at nearby Commonwealth Stadium. That was you, right?

And another shout out for yet another blogger in attendance, head of External Affairs at UK Healthcare, Mark Birdwhistell.

Rob and Lizzie are running on the same slate this November.

Liberal Media Attacks First Dog Barney!

Former Kentucky First Dog Reacts

In the MSNBC video below, Reuters television White House correspondent Jon Decker is seen invading the personal space of President Bush's first dog Barney, who was minding, and doing, his own business during a North Lawn walk this morning. Barney, apparently startled by the intrusion, reacted instinctively.



He "bit my right index finger this morning -- as I reached down to pet him," Decker said. The bite broke skin and the first doctor provided first aide to the wound with antibiotics and bandages. He will get a tetanus shot tomorrow.

Sally McDonough, a spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush said, "I think it was his way of saying he was done with the paparazzi."

But former Kentucky first dog Abby Fletcher was only partially amused. "I can fully emphasize with Barney's desire and natural instinct to chew on a member of the liberal media, however, a truly high-class dog knows how to go out in style," Abby's spokeswoman, Elizabeth Boison quipped.

Arrrrrf.

Jason Linkins at the Huffington Post blamed the 24" dog rather than the 6-foot-tall man for the incident. "Barney, WENT ROGUE and attacked Big Media," Linkins wrote. Then he warned of the possibility of future attacks, "It's all fun and games until Barney, who now has the thirst for journalist blood, strikes again..."

High Noon at the ol' Haunted Mansion

Halloween is a great childhood memory.

That's the time when, as kids, we would dress up and act all spooky; trying to become afraid of goblins we knew weren't there. Lurking in the shadows just down the street, past the imaginary graveyard, were witches and ghosts galore.

Approaching the dimly lit home where "the crazy lady" lived we'd ask, "Didn't she hack up her husband with an axe?" Down the narrow sidewalks, through the rusty gate, up the porch steps past cobwebs and spiders, and into the shadows...

There were shadows yesterday, too.

Unfortunately, the shadows weren't cast by candlelight, but by the bright setting sun. No mystery. No spooks. Just kids in costume running through the front yards of Chevy Chase.

I really liked the new daylight savings time, until last night. It sure ruined the first half of Halloween.

Meanwhile, at that spooky ol' Governor's Mansion in Frankfort, Abby, the head-witch-in-charge greeted Kentucky school children, some 1,600 of whom had selected her costume for the year.

Always on the lookout for anything spooky, the PolWatchers blog took notice.

"Throughout the investigation of state hiring in his administration, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said Attorney General Greg Stumbo was conducting “a political witch hunt.”

Last night “a witch” could be found by anyone checking out the Governor’s Mansion.

During October, children across the Commonwealth were invited to participate in an online contest to choose Abby’s Halloween costume. The contest included pictures of Abby dressed up as a pumpkin, a witch, and an angel. With more than 1,600 total votes, the witch costume won.

No contest.

Reminiscent of Hester Prynne, Abby's Puritan-styled witches hat may have baffled the folks at PolWatchers, but it was "vintage" conservative craft.

Now, it just so happens that KSN&C has special insight into Abby's brain. You may think we're lying- but it's true. And you can be assured, that sunshine or shadows, Abby was very happy with the whole affair.