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CM K A8 | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27,2018 I Baldwin Bulletin » www.bbnews.today Recognizing those who have made 2018 a year to remember Well, we can pretty much stick a fork in the Year of our Lord 2018. By the time you are through roasting chestnuts on an open fire or eating the last of the leftover turkey, 2019 will come knocking on the door. This has been a very good year in one respect: I did not read my obituary and I am guessing that you didn’t read yours, either. I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. For one thing, that is about as original as a broom handle. Nobody means them. Nobody keeps them. It is a waste of paper. My editors don’t like me wasting paper. Editors can resolve to be very cranky about this kind of stuff no matter what the time of year. Dick Yarbrough Columnist Instead, it is my policy to give out year-end awards and to recognize those individuals and organizations who have made this column a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Bless their hearts. Our first award is the Running and Gunning Award which goes to our Gov.-elect Brian Kemp who won a very close race after running TV ads holding a shotgun and threatening a little dweeb proposing to date his daughter, which thrilled all the gun-toters and must have dismayed his daughters. I just wish the little dweeb had told Kemp that he had a Magnum .357 pointed somewhere between daddy’s belt buckle and his knees and one more threat and the dweeb would make him a soprano. The Son of a Gun Award goes to all the gun-toters who are giddy thinking our new governor is going to make guns his top legislative priority. They are going to be surprised when they find out that public education and rural development are likely to be his top priorities — as they should be. The winner of the Nod-Nod, Wink-Wink Award goes to outgoing Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who should have done just that instead of blab bing out loud to a former Republican gubernatorial rival, ClayTippins (or at least to Tippins’ hidden cellphone) about backing an education bill he called bad “a thousand different ways” so another candi date, former state Sen. Hunter Hill, wouldn’t get a few million dollars from Alice the Walmart Lady and her deep-pock eted, out-of-state special interest friends. (Turns out that Alice didn’t give the dough to either.) The Howdy Doody Notable Quotable Award is presented to state Rep. Earl Ehrhart, R-Cobb, is retiring after 30 years in the General Assembly. Mr. Ehrhart is to notable quotes what Michelangelo is to art. In fact, Earl Ehrhart’s quotes are a work of art. He once referred to Casey Cagle as “Eddie Haskell,” the smarmy character on “Leave it to Beaver” which stunned the two dozen people who still remembered that show. 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