Independence Day Celebration & Let Freedom Ring! Ceremony at Mill Hill

Save the Date! Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 1:30pm
Free Admission - Rain or Shine

Colonial re-enactors join Norwalk residents in Independence Day Celebration & national Let Freedom Ring! Program

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Town House Museum
at Mill Hill Historic Park
2 East Wall Street
Norwalk, CT 06852 846-0525

Independence Day Celebration
12:00 – 1:30 St. Paul’s Church on the Green
12:30 – 1:30 Mill Hill Historic Park

National Let Freedom Ring! Program
1:30pm – National “Let Freedom Ring” program at Mill Hill Historic Park

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No sooner than I decided that Vladmir Putin had stuck some KGB mind control substance while hanging with the Bushes in Kennebunkport, but then I read this headline from the Courant:

Lieberman: Iran Has Declared War

No seriously, did the president of Iran just pick up the cell phone and say, “yo, Joe, Iran here. We declare war.” Click. Is there some senate staffer giggling in a closet over this stellar prank. Sadly, no. From the Courant:

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When Martha Stewart lied to the FBI who were investigating a stock sale, she got convicted and handed a jail sentence and served it. When Scooter Libby lied to the the DOJ he got convicted, and handed a jail sentence the president to commuted his sentence. Must be that old politics magic. For me the they share the same issue, someone is investigating something, and they coughed up excuses instead of telling the truth. Either you uphold the laws, or you set precedent so that we can all pick and choose which part of an investigation we can all ignore. Accountability has taken a big hit today. Once we were a nation of laws, today we are a nation of cronyism.

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Almost forgot that the Human Relations Commission wants another investigation into the racial allegation that no one knows about because the alleged victim won’t release the video tape. Corda is already planning to spend extra educational dollars, without checking in to see what the Common Council is going to do. And anything else you want to talk about.

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This has to be filed under foreshadowing your future. For the longest time Wilton has stood in the way of Super 7, the continuation of the 4 lane highway to Danbury. And now Wilton has been given the alternative, a widening of the existing route 7 which, when done will be about the size of the post road. And we all know how that road has maintained its quaint New England charm. oday’s Advocate reports:

Wilton police are asking the state to lower the speed limit near a Route 7 construction site because a number of officers directing traffic there have been hit by cars, though none was seriously hurt.

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