It's St. Patrick’s Day. I always look forward to this celebration to refresh my memory about the wonderful patron saint of Ireland. By the time you read this, St. Patrick’s Day will have come and gone as well as our green apparel, talk of shamrocks and the occasional green beer. But to prepare you for next year, I would like to tell you 5 interesting facts about St. Patrick’s Day and/or its namesake.
           1. St. Patrick was born in Britain around the year AD 390 to Roman parents but Irish raiders attacked his family’s estate and took Patrick prisoner, transported him to Ireland and sold him to a Celtic priest as a slave.
           2. Patrick later escaped back to Britain but decided to return to Ireland as a missionary.
           3. Later Patrick used the shamrock to preach about the Holy Trinity. He explained how just like the 3 leaves of the shamrock, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could be separate entities, yet they are one in the same.
           4. Your odds of finding a 4 leaf clover are about 1 in 10,000.
           5. St. Patrick did not drive the snakes out of Ireland because they probably never inhabited the the Emerald Isle in the first place. There never was any fossil record of snakes in Ireland and it was too cold to host reptiles during the Ice Age. That being said,

BEWARE! THERE ARE SNAKES IN WASHINGTON D.C. AND IN AUSTIN!!!
 
And they are destroying our dream for a free and prosperous nation! The primaries have come and gone, notwithstanding a few runoffs, but we have our work cut out for us. Let us now put on our walking shoes and take off our winter gloves so we may start using our dialing fingers to call people and inform them of the true conservative choices that we need to get elected. We at Preston West will do our best to inform you of opportunities to get the word out. In the meantime, call your precinct chair and ask what you can do to help him or her publicize our wonderful Republican candidates. Block walking or calling may not be your thing. There are other things that are needed and we will be calling on you to help where you are led. Thank you in advance for your willingness to rid our great country of the governance by those that do not share our vision or have our country’s best interests at heart.