rest of your message, I 100 percent agree with you]

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cannot understand how anyone today doesn’t know what’s happening in America today! For almost 300 years, Communism has been trying to destroy this world and everything!

Every since the 1950s it has been attempting to destroy us through the educational system from kindergarten to the highest college levels.

Man has turned his back to God and brought all this on himself, by ignoring Jesus Christ the Word of God, John 1:8, who was in the bosom of The Father. The word of God is our instructor to guide us in all our needs. I credit him for all I am today and for all of my life. [Editor’s Note: While I get what you’re saying, as a former history teacher, I do have to point out a few things: While the idea of a communal society and government dates back to ancient Greece, Communism (with a capital c) has only existed for around since 1848, so around 175 years, and has only actually been a form of government since 1917, so a tad over a hundred years. And even after that, we were allies with the most powerful Communist nation, the Soviet Union, until the end of World War II. But yes, from 1945 to 1989, we were in a cold war with the U.S.S.R. Communism kind of made its way into American society, but it was never the threat some made it out to be. In fact, there are a few Communist parties still active in the U.S., but they are so insignificant you’ve never heard of them. If you mean socialism, I think the term is used to scare people into thinking the government (or in your case schools) is trying to control our lives.

When, in fact, socialism is necessary on some level to keep the nation going.

To see it in action, look no further than your Social Security card. As for the

Is there any real truth in the comment “Speech is free, but you have to pay for your lies,” by attorney Kyle Farrar from the trial of Alex Jones who denied the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was real? We know that some have had to pay for telling the truth and in Jamal Khashoggi’s case it was at the cost of his life but what of telling lies? If you lie in court the cost might be your freedom but how often does that happen? If you lie as a politician people are so used to it that it is often ignored.

If you lie in business, you might be sued but the costs of doing so probably preclude it from happening often. “The big lie”, actually the truth, led to the Capital Hill riots and deaths. What happened to the days before conspiracy theories became widespread and accepted by so many? Sorry, but Elvis is dead. There was a time when a person’s handshake and word were all that was needed and that was because people told the truth. We need to all tell the actual truth not alternative facts and we need to be proud of telling the truth and maybe then the world will start to heal. [Editor’s Note: The same people who believe anything Alex Jones or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Mike Lindell or those types say are the same people who believe those old “Weekly World News” tabloids you used to see at the store with headlines like “JFK alive and living in secret Moon Base” or “Bigfoot actually a secret Soviet Spy” or “Queen Elizabeth II actually a robot”… silly stuff so outrageous but unprovable, so maybe it’s actually true! It’s the same stuff, it’s just on the internet now instead of in print. I am pretty sure I saw Elvis pumping gas in Byhalia, Mississippi once in 1988 though …] Small, local businesses have struggled for more than a year as COVID has changed the economy. The holidays are a great time to drive home the idea that shopping local is important to your community. Our Shop Local for the Holidays sections has ideas for ways consumers can spend their money locally this year, from patronizing retailers to restaurants to local artists.

[Editor’s Note: Not gonna lie… I was not expecting a “Shop local for the holidays”- themed message in early August. Never too soon to start shopping, I

I think Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did the right thing by removing Andrew Warren from prosecutor because if he’s not going to prosecute all crimes, he don’t need to be in the job, he needs to be home. That’s part of the problem today … all over this country, prosecutors are refusing to prosecute certain crimes and also going real easy on crimes that shouldn’t be easy! [Editor’s Note: DeSantis is going full-on nuclear in his attempts to get the hard-right’s support for a 2024 presidential bid by “out-trumping” Trump.

I guess that’s one path to pursue. I had a friend point out to me recently that the two leading Republican candidates for the 2024 election are named Ronald and Donald, which is pretty appropriate for the clown show American politics has become]