Since Republicans prefer group-think, rather than self-starters, the promotion of incompetents for public office is a gross insult to the electorate. Disrespect. Where does it come from?
Need to remember this: loud mouth drunk on his own magnificence
Ah, that hits the spot!
From FB today. “loudmouth drunk on his own magnificence”
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Oh, that subconscious!
GWB makes a gaffe.
I am reminded that even when a congratulated a high school graduation class, he needed notes. And, of course, on 9/11/2001 someone prepared comments while he sat in that reading lesson, so he could sound sensible talking about the attack. Then he forgot the notes, but remembered to go back.
A scam, a sham and a shame
A letter to a consulant who presumes to divine the sentiments of the community in two visits from Denver.
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Mariupol
What’s Russia going to do with a pile of rubble? About as much as the puppy does with the slipper he chewed. Increasingly, Putin’s Tantrum is looking like one big distraction from Russia’s administrative failures. Showmanship, the typical response of failed leadership? Is showmanship a substitute for the deluge or the antecedent? Is that what is meant by “going down in a blaze of glory”?
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Death is in the news, of course
Two big stories: one that causes much consternation and the other that gets mainly ignore. Ten deaths in Buffalo merit a visit from the President. 43,000 highway fatalities last year are par for the course. Why?
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Materialism
Material objects are tangible physical manifestations of the memory function. The problem with currency is that it is twice removed from the material and imperceptible to individuals who have no awareness of their memories as such. Observers can identify short and long-term memory function, but the individual may not be aware of remembering.
In an alzheimer’s patient, why are autonomic functions lost? Does the destructive agent travel like a virus from the temporal lobes to the amygdala?
Care and Crime
‘Tis a strange culture where one has to experience or commit crime to get care. The good not only die young; they get ignored.
Invasive Species
I learned the other day that invasive species is a category invented by argriculture departments to designate plants that have no economic “benefit” attached. Although the invasives are supposed to be differentiated from native plants, plants growing wild are not to be collected. Rather, they are to be purchased from growers who are issued permits to collect and propagate them.
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Feeding the Media Maw
It is probably past time to consider whether the cloak of immunity is well placed in covering the press, especially now that it has morphed into a much more pervasive media presence.
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