Hello. This blog is not the best looking and it needs a new style sheet, but that is not important to me. Just about everything is unfinished and that is fine too. It is really just a (public) notebook for thoughts, issues,
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Obstructing justice
On the morning of Jan. 6, before Trump’s rally, Hutchinson said she saw Cipollone near the White House. “Mr. Cipollone said something to the effect of, ‘Please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy, keep in touch with me.
Continue readingThe Dark Triad
exploitative social strategies that promote personal goals https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00779/full It is not woke. It is judgemental and opinionated. Can it be that it is that simple and universally categorized? Narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism personality traits are what make up the Dark Triad. A
Continue readingAgatha Christie
She is worth learning about. She is the most-books-sold author ever. “And Then There Was One” is the biggest-selling mystery. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is excellent. This is even better.
Continue reading“In a word, corruption”
Sean Bell with Sky News is one of my favorite commentators. Generals Keane and Patraeus are excellent also. Then there is the former ambassador from Bozeman (McFaul). The absolute best, right down to his wardrobe and wristwatch, is William Burns. These people
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It sounds callous, but I am going to write about the personalities. Jens Stoltenberg is in the center. President Biden, Johnson, Erdogen. Macron is kind of a hanger-on. Trudeau on the left, Fiala, Czech Republic. Orban, Hungary, is in the orange tie
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http://mgoblogging.blogspot.com/2022/02/ukraine.html The first week was kind of cool–all this all this teaming-up of the mostly Western allies, the huge payments, the generous humanitarian efforts, and even the protests. This is what I still check as a measure of the defense. The news
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There may be a verdict in my mailbox, but… It has been four months since I have shopped at Walmart and I have no break-up or withdrawal pains. Amazon has replaced the main online shopping experience, Safeway takes care of groceries and
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If you want to be good at it you have to want to do it. It is not the same as enjoying doing something. It could be work. It must be worthwhile. And it is always something that just needs to be
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Scott is the rush hour until closing manager at the local Safeway. He is now probably around fifty but he has been at it for at least twenty years. Outwardly, from what I see in the store, he is the definition of
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