Stretching all the way from my neck of the woods to Maryland, there's a huge ice storm making its way to the East. Oklahoma was in a deep freeze and millions of people lost power, which wasn't that far from here where it dumped ice sheets on everything. We're kinda at the tip of it, being the next state over from Oklahoma, we got hit first with it.

At the moment this article seems to tell it best and has the shortest url:
https://www.courier-journal.com/artic...WS01/901280439

Seemingly it's not big enough of a news item to get into national papers but somewhere between an Oklahoma-Texas border town of about 30,000 an online predator was caught and had been running quite a scam for some time. The 34 year old man had been collecting young boys' info and through detailed profiles on Yahoo, MySpace, FaceBook, Deviantart, and Livejournal had amassed quite a following and had all his victims believing he was a woman in his mid to late 20s who just happened to be into all the...

Everything seemed to have gotten back to normal at the highly charged political debate forums, the rainbow-water-supply crazy had been ousted, the guy making threats against another guy was given a time out and the conversations went on in their usual drone. Then comes some very interesting things to look over and consider. Theo was very well spoken and stated facts. Another couple of people backed him up. The page: https://www.rense.com/general69/econm.htm was informative. He wasn't out to discredit...

Gee, I'm glad it's raining
There's always something to be thankful for
I'm awfully glad it's raining
Cause no one sees your teardrops when it pours

And no one knows the thunder
Is your heartbreak in disguise
They think, the rainy night's
What put that sad look in your eyes

It seems I walk alone
In the bleakest of the night
How can I explain it
The years I've had to fight

I once saw the parted...