According to an OP in the Lounge a few days ago

many children (now DUers) believe in Santa until 10-12 years.
This is a tricky issue, because we all know the children will learn sooner or later, and more often than not, it will be from an older child.

You're correct re Alicia Reece= state Rep. Thanks for the heads up.

Denise Driehaus is good, will be even better as time goes on. However, I would think they would be looking for a candidate that would connect more directly with African-American community.
Otoh, being a female, that would bring certain positives with it. Is she an effective campaigner?

The fifties are good, the sixties are good, the 70's

not so great.
Have a great next ten years.

P.S. - We all feel about 25 in our heads.
Too bad others who see us only see "old person."

PPS - Careful with those sleeping pills!

Can't we have both- Whiskey and the Pope?

I'll drink to that.
In fact, I am drinking to that.

Don't you think Oklahoma is a special case

in that it was "Indian Territory" and then opened on one particular day to settlers who rushed in, presumably mainly from southern states?

I believe, not just in regard to OK but to many states, that people move into a region and, if they are unaffiliated or not strong believers in the religion they were raised in, join the church/religion of the majority already there.

It seems that Irish Catholics who moved to the rural South in the nineteenth century, finding no RC priests or churches, gravitated to the prevailing churches.

I called Pope Francis on Nov. 24 for Time's Person

of the Year.
On the Catholicism & Orthodox Christianity group.
No prize, though, unless they let me put another DUer on Ignore (as necessary)

Rouhani? Only if he's a troublemaker by then

and I'm not hoping for that!

Edward Snowden was the runner-up

Time representatives have said it was a close call.
Both men were largely unknown one year ago and both have had a large impact on the entire world within the last year.

Well, what do you think, kids? Are we prescient or not? nt

I personally think someone other than Mark Mallory, but that's just me.

Alicia Reece is a State Senator from the Cincinnati area and has served on city council. Not sure if she is savvy enough or esteemed enough in her community, though her father, Steve Reece, is a mover and shaker, I believe.

Ted Berry Jr. is a local judge, the son of the first black mayor of Cincinnati, the late Ted Berry, who is/was something of an icon in his community.

Perhaps there are others in Dayton or Columbus, of whom I'm not aware.