I can’t remember who sent the following anecdote to The Advance so many years ago, or if it’s even true, but I came across it while rummaging through old word.doc files the other day on my trusty iMac (2013 model), and I thought, given today’s human climate (anxious, angry, worried, stressed), it might be a good time to re-publish it, given the fact that so many people, especially kids, are on edge.
Nine employees at a Bastrop County facility that cares for young victims of sex trafficking have been accused of trafficking those same girls, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
He’s baaack. Televangelist Pat Robertson, that is, scaring the bejeesus out of me with his recent talk of Armageddon. He’s now saying (as of March 1) that “Vlad the Bad” Putin was “compelled by God” to invade Ukraine. Meaning, presumably based on Robertson’s knowledge of the mind of God — the End Times are near.
Last week, I listened to several speeches by President Zelenskyy. The most significant thing he said was that if Ukraine falls, Putin will go after Latvia and Estonia next, followed by Georgia, Poland, and Berlin. He was saying, in other words, that Putin’s goal was to recreate the Soviet Empire, and he would work to that end unless he was stopped now.
National Alcohol Awareness Month begins April 1. Cheers.
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