If I could travel back in time to any generation, a la Marty McFly in “Back to the Future,” I would most likely mimic part three of the film series and travel to the old west. I would grab a sarsaparilla at the local saloon, strike up a conversation with town rabble-rousers and attempt to join a gang of horse-riding bank robbers up to no good. Or perhaps I’d live a modest life as a blacksmith, making horseshoes for the townsfolk, but secretly working on swords and other weapons in my free time. I’d wait for that fateful day when a rapscallion would walk into my shop, asking for trouble, and I would show him the business end of one of my recently crafted weapons of moderate destruction. Alas, dear readers, time travel is not yet possible, so here I am, writhing in anguish until the day I can travel back to a simpler time.
Where would you travel? While you think on that, here’s what you missed in the news this past weekend.
Who Wants To Be a Trump Staffer?
In all honesty, this is the question everyone wants to be answered. President Trump’s cabinet has seen more turnovers than a JV football team, and some political analysts have the creeping suspicion that it might not be the fault of the candidates for their departure. In recent news, Trump has been working on a hit list for his search for a new chief of staff, given that John Kelly, the administration’s current chief of staff has struggled to get along with first lady Melania Trump.
The President has been looking into Nick Ayers, vice president Mike Pence’s current chief of staff, as a substantial replacement for John Kelly, according to CNN, Ayers announced on Sunday that has no interest in the job.
“Thank you, President Trump, and Mike Pence, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at the White House. I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause.”
–Nick Ayers on Twitter
It’s Hard Out There For A Witness
I would never go as far as to say being a Jehovah’s Witness is a difficult job, considering that I am both Jewish and have never been, nor plan on being, a Jehovah’s Witness. But I do feel strongly that, so long as your religious expression doesn’t harm others in any way, everyone has the right to follow in whatever religious path they see fit. According to the Washington Post, there have been a series of arson attacks on several worship centers in Washington state over the course of the past several weeks.
Over the weekend, Thurston County authorities responded to a fire Lacey, Washington, at a Jehovah’s Witness center, but by the time firefighters arrived, the building had been burned to the ground.
“It’s devastating for the whole congregation. It does make you said, but it’s just a building. No matter who we are, no matter what our religious persuasion is, we have to cope with the problems we face.
–Dan Woollett
