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I am weaseling my way out of Bible study tomorrow.

So I've got a Bible study, and I love going.

It's great.

I go, it's more of an accountability group.

There are four of us, and three of us were supposed to be tomorrow.

One's in Europe.

But suddenly it's in Atlanta.

And I'm looking at the hurricane forecast.

I'm like, I don't think I can, I need to be home tomorrow.

We're expecting like in middle Georgia, three to four inches of rain in a matter of hours.

And I don't want to be on the road trying to get home after that's over,

let alone if something happens and need to be at home with my wife and kids.

We're not expected in Middle Georgia to be terrible,

but we are expecting three to five inches of rain and worse in South Georgia. And then, of course, Florida is going to have the brunt of it as the storm continues to intensify. And a lot of the modeling is showing it wobbling a little more to the west. And if it goes just a few more degrees to the west in the path of the arc, it's going to come more where I am. And I don't want that, but I need to not be on the road when there's a hurricane coming.

So fun times.

Now we must, we must get into what the Russians are doing because not everything is going

badly for the Russians. And Walterter russel mead at the wall

street journal has a story and he points out something that i have been commenting on and it kind

of makes me feel good when someone that smart points out something that i've been saying and he's got this piece

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