Just a few bits and pieces that I thought I might share with you today.
Number 1 in the Nation
Mississippi Christians have erected a 14th giant cross. The latest cross — 120 feet high and 64 feet wide — towers over the town of Aberdeen, and cost $240,000 in private donations. Mike Rozier, whose company is putting up the massive crosses, says it’s money well spent, despite Mississippi’s very high poverty rate. “People say Mississippi ranks 49th or 50th of 50 states in various categoies,” Rozier says, but “we’re proud to say we’re number 1 in the number of crosses.”
The Check is in the Mail
Only 70 percent of mail intended to be delivered by the U.S. Postal Service within three to five days arrived on time last year, an 11 percent drop from 2022. A $40 billion overhaul of the system ordered by the Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has caused widespread disruptions, and state and federal officials are voicing concerns about the possible impact on mail-in ballots in the 2024 presidential election.
A Lot of Work to Do
Atmospheric concentrations of the three most potent greenhouse gases rose to new record levels in 2023, highlighting the failure by world leaders and industry to curb carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emis-sions.
While the increases in each did not quite match the record jumps of recent years, the burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, and livestock farming have brought the world’s CO2 levels 50% higher than they were before the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
“As these numbers show, we still have a lot of work to do to make meaningful progress in reducing the amount of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere,” said Vanda Grubisi, director of NOAA’s global monitoring laboratory.
This, That, and the Other 
That is not a lot of good news. Well, back to work. We have a lot to do.
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I heard that the Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has told his workers to throw away all the mail in ballots, because more Democrats vote that way.
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That wouldn’t surprise me.
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Well that’s depressing. The giant cross thing especially. I think fundamentalist Christians are turning me off religion altogether.
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They could feed a lot of people with those crosses.
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Very true!
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DeJoy needs to go. Preferable to Russia, where (or perhaps I should say “to whom”) he belongs.
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Hear! Hear!
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Seems a dumb thing but at least it was private money. Good luck to ’em.
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I lived in a small town in Missouri that had a giant sign as you entered that read “Welcome to Greenville. HAVE YOU BEEN SAVED?” So the giant cross doesn’t surprise me at all.
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Who cares. You got big crosses, that’ll fix everything
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Maybe Mississippi, being number 1 In crosses, will be saved when the End Times come around.
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Would that be a weird place if Mississippi *sings song as types was the last place on earth. Has that state any redeeming features to make it a desirable place to be?
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Not from my perspective.
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*crosses crosses off list
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