.. and the front page of CNN's website tonight has FIVE stories relating to the 6 year old boy from Colorado who was thought to have taken off in a runaway balloon. That's just ill ....
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Turns out that the boy was hiding and did not come out at the instruction of his Dad who told him it was for a "show". I guess he meant CNN, since that network seems to have nothing better to report on now that the election is over.
ReplyDeleteAnd the world watches the deaths mount in Darfur. Is God watching too?
Great post - short and right to the point!!!
ReplyDeleteWithout suffering there'd be no compassion.
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