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Citizen urges against ending airport commission
Folks in Greenland are up there at the Arctic Circle minding their own business. They’re enjoying seal soup — the national dish — and trying to stay warm on an island three times bigger than Texas with 75 percent of it covered by ice. Greenland is part of the North American continent, along with Canada and the United States, but it’s an autonomous part of Denmark.
It was an astonishing year, 2024. In the public arena there were some wins and some losses, the number and weight of each category dependent on one’s politics, or values — perhaps both, to the extent that one may be independent of the other.
Like an eternal carousel we’ve started a new trip around the sun, the 2,025th trip as we currently track time. Obviously not all of us have made each of those trips, although I’ve encountered a few folks who look as though they were on the original ride.
Please, someone stick a fork in 2024 because it’s done. Just a couple of days until it becomes the year that was, and it will be out of our misery. Nothing guarantees that 2025 will be better, but we can hope for the best. Like maybe an asteroid striking Earth.
We spent a couple of days in Fayetteville last week, taking care of business and taking in some of the sights. Their downtown Christmas light display is awesome. Fayetteville drivers, however, could stand a lesson or two in driving friendly.
“You hear it often: America has the world’s best health care system. That is demonstrably, provably false. We have the best health care in the world, not the best health care system.” — Bill Clinton
Americans love their rogues, outlaws, outcasts, and anti-heroes. They adore their audaciousness when they stick it to “the man,” striking back at the establishment. We admire how brazen they can be and make them folk heroes even though they’re criminals breaking the law.
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes — Mark Twain
Johnny Cash goes from black to bronze
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