May 2022

“IF ANTS ARE SUCH BUSY WORKERS, HOW COME THEY FIND TIME TO GO TO ALL THE PICNICS? Marie Dressler I hear the Kansas Legislature worked so hard last month that they are almost in a dither. There was so much important stuff to work on they couldn’t get everything done.

As a child, I remember driving far to the east of what is now Highway 281 in order not to pass through the military base a few miles north of Pratt. However, by 1962 the former B-29 training base had become Pratt’s Municipal Airport, and the special edition Pride Magazine proudly declared “While its airport is not as fancy as some in larger cities, Pratt is proud to claim one of the best- equipped small-town airports in the Midwest... [with] two long runways, both hard surfaces, plenty of hangar space (even for overnight transient aircraft) and complete facilities for major engine and airframe overhaul.” The article added, “In addition there is a lighted runway, beacon, courtesy car and a certified radio repair station.”

Seems like it has been windy almost every day in Kansas this spring. Not that this is a notable thing, because this is Kansas and wind is expected, but since we had a sizable task of getting seven large treeand-brush piles burned in our backyard, it has been a bit discouraging. I admit, I worried about it way too much.

I recently read Roger Ringer article titled, What is free speech all about anyway? If you can remember several months back, anytime someone wrote on social media about their disagreement against covid 19 or the vaccine, they were censored. The fact checkers were in power of ‘free speech’.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—A Center for Security Policy (centerforsecuritypolicy.org,Center) organized panel of experts, all of whom have extensive experience in the Pacific and with the U.S. Pacific command, believe the U.S. can deter China from attacking Taiwan.