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Harmless Balloons Distract From Exploding Trains
Trains are better than trucks and cars, but attention to priorities in regard to pollution and people is best of all
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
U. F. OH ! NO!
The aliens in the mystery aerial craft are likely scouting for a clean world. But we have popped their balloons — and possibly foiled their plot by destroying this planet.
It’s the same domestic violence issue we pay law enforcement to ignore time and again.
The rabid, jealous man raises his gun at his wife.
“If I can’t have you, NO ONE can!!”
…and then he shoots his wife, (or grandmother in the face) and kids, and proceeds to the nearest classroom.
Often, he shoots the neighbor’s dog, too. Border collie Bennie was a good boy, not a proud boy. Because that dog was on to him.
The neighbors say: “We told officers he was volatile, gun-crazy, supremacist, and weird, but they ignored us.”