Net Neutrality
Dear Editor,
Net Neutrality is NECESSARY!
I urge that Internet Service Providers (ISP) continue to be regulated as Telecommunication services. The potential impact of treating them as Information services rather than Telecommunication services include stifling competition in the marketplace and stifling freedom of speech.
Many businesses are dependent on the internet as a way to transmit information between locations in a secure and affordable way.
Packaging
Editor:
I think we should create a new recycle bin for "good as new" boxes of food products. The boxes, with little or no real damage could be sent back to the manufacturers for their use in packaging. I have spoken with a representative of Nabisco who has passed this idea along to the Marketing department.
I hope everyone had a deliciously wonderful Thanksgiving! Christmas is around the corner, and we have holiday DVDs and books in a special section so they’ll be easier to find. We also have a Christmas program next Monday, December 4, at 6:30 P.M. in the Stribling Room. Fletcher Clark will be here to sing holiday songs, and we can sing along if we want.
Second-hand vegan
Last week, with Thanksgiving looming over the nation, I submitted a column about a guy who was missing in Papua New Guinea. The guy, Benedict Allen, had gone into the jungle three weeks before, alone, with no phone or GPS or even a rabbit’s foot, to see if he couldn’t scare up a batch of headhunters.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Okay, let's go with Broke Tuesday! The retailers really didn’t give old Tom the Turkey a full day! Hope you had enough turkey! The Great Thanksgiving Pig Out was over loaded with food. If anyone left hungry, it was their fault. Thank goodness for the ham, some of us just don’t do turkey.
Ups and Downs of 2017…
Let us consider bits and pieces of the year to date, sadly remembering that at its beginning, much of the country’s tapestry was intact.
Then, humankind got a hold of it. Much is now in shreds.
Struck by implosions and explosions around the globe, it’s a wonder our planet isn’t woe-stricken by a worrisome wobble.
The holiday season is moving fast. We had a great Thanksgiving at our house. We ended the week with a great football game in Pflugerville against Shiner. We enjoyed the company of nephew, Mitch Jordan, and niece, Mychel Jordan.
Class meetings resume this week on Wednesday at 6 at the parsonage.
The first Sunday of Advent is Sunday, December 3rd.
The square is the hub of Mason.
The third major spoke runs northwest.
With lots and lots to discover on both sides of the road.
Travel northwest out Highway 87 (and Highway 29).
KHLB Radio.
Lone Star Laundry.
Valero Nu-Way.
Studio 310 B&B.
Mason Thrift Store.
Mason Re-Sale Barn.
Country Collectibles.
Cherokee Rose.
Capital Farm Credit.
WT Appraisal.
Ryan Jordan Real Estate.
Harold Zesch & Co.
Hill Country Inn.
Whew, and we haven’t even gone half a mile.
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Thank You!
Every Thanksgiving we recite the litany of gratitude for all that has happened in the prior year. We give thanks for health, for prosperity, for family and for friends. After a year of ignoring all the good in our lives, or a year of failing to notice, we try to remedy our attitude of gratefulness by rolling all the thanks into one heaving day.
I've attended Thanksgiving functions where everyone was expected to voice their thanks as we went about the table.
Mind Power
Dear Gerry and Readers,
We all have a mind. That we can agree on. However, I doubt that everyone realizes how thoroughly the powers of the mind have been investigated.
Everyone has heard of near death experiences and out-of-body experiences. Books are filled with investigated, confirmed cases. Many of you know people who’ve experienced such phenomena.
