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Shapes of interest

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Images posted are not chosen for their universal appeal. This one was created from nothing like us all.  

A long way to go

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from boy to bronze https://translate.google.com/

Sand

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A boat is stranded on the Poyang Lake in east China, site of one of the world’s biggest sand mines. Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images  Sand mining article from theguardian.com

something to say about nothing

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China takes American drone Source theguardian.com

whose survival

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gun magazine

A narrow view

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is what you think when you don't see all

He said He said He said

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Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times  All the world is a stage when politics are playing  

Our Moon

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As seen from planet earth Photo filtered

Pose

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Friend model  sketch early 80's By now anyone viewing this blog will realize I post what interest me

Borg

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 Accumulation  Desolation  Death of a planet The way we where                                                                     Borg  from Star Trek series The blogger whose link is above writes  My point is that the Borg appear from nowhere looking like a massive corporation bent on assimilating all cultural difference, using wired and wireless communication technologies that allow them instantaneous communication with each other in accomplishing the “prime directive” of overcoming resistance and literally in-corporating cultures, economies, peoples, and spaces. Any resemblance to reality is coincidental

Guilt

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Repost from this blog   Photos and poetry not credited are the work of this blogger

Shakira

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Loca Loca Loca From  Vevo   Youtube

Tampa Florida

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Skyline February 2017

Mr. President

No one knows     Do we walk the streets without clothing or not tell lies to make the daily fare more palatable? We all know the answer to these questions. What if, for some chance we spoke the truth, or what if others saw us as more than the threads we carry? Would we then be able to walk the streets again? Sure we would. Walking is easy. To bare ourselves is something else. Fortunately the mirror of expectation we and others hold reflect nothing like the final outcome. No one knows what the images mean, especially how they fit together. On we go and puppet portions of our lives away to duty and desire, and no matter how badly or valiantly we succeed the outcome is usually the same.  It works.    Blogger comment 11/99

Artic pipeline

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northern oil pipeline in Russia source   http://transneft.tass.ru

Parade

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Justice system allows police to confiscate convicted drug dealers cars  above

Shots

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TV character  Backyard bird feeder

Donald

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This is what the Kremlin looks like Московский Кремль

Free Softwaare

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Berlin sends a message for "I love Free Software" day   The Free Software Foundation

literal meaning of the law

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  What Jesus Can Teach Today’s Muslims Credits   New York Times Op ed  Mustafa Akyol, a contributing opinion writer, is a visiting fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College and the author, most recently, of “ The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims .”

I love you

Pet parrot climbs steps   says  I love you

In the begining

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There was black and white

Fake News is killing people's minds

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Is this a revival of the Body Snatchers   Maybe Tim Cook is worried that ingenuous facts will suck the profits out of ingenious products Photograph  Matt Dunham/AP  

See you in court

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  Another day, another Trump tweet. On Thursday, judges in the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld a temporary restraining order on Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban on arrivals from seven Muslim-majority countries. In response, almost immediately after the ruling was announced, the president tweeted (with caps lock engaged): sources   pic.twitter.com/YoHQ9tCAGl theguardian.com

Voice of Women

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After being silenced, Warren took to Facebook Live to read the letter instead; at last check it’s been watched more than 6m times. The censure by Republicans only served to shine a spotlight on Warren, and Scott King’s, message. It was a reminder that no matter what Trump does, no matter what measures Republicans may take – women will persist. Source theguardian.com   picture  series  Dav Vinci s  Demons  

Friends in low places

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Book or be booked source  Valentine Ogirenko  Reuters  

Good bye Cuba

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To Have and Have Not

Distortion

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before after The nose knows its not a nose   p hoto edit  of random pattern

Decisions

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Agree   Disagree Photos of the Week  The Atlantic 1/28  2/3  

Managed living

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where appliances also grow with dignity

Vangoph

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Self portrait photo taken at museum of art and history Chicago Illinois 

Le Chapeau

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French Impressionist

The Taming of the Shrew

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A Farce Finally, there is another alternative that, harrowing though it is, must be considered. Perhaps Trump is not a rational actor. Maybe this is not the art of the deal. It could be that what we see is what we’ve got—mendacity and braggadocio, aggression and raw, ungoverned ego. He may not care whether he leads the Republican Party, and the United States, into crises. Like the song says, he’ll do it his way. Source   A lesson for the opposition, from Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Richard Nixon   By John A Farrell

Criticism

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Former President Barack Obama has criticized President Trump's immigration and travel ban issued on Friday, saying through a spokesman that he is "heartened by the level of engagement" over the weekend in opposition to the action. "In his final official speech as President, he spoke about the important role of citizen[s] and how all Americans have a responsibility to be the guardians of our democracy — not just during an election but every day," Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis said in a statement . "Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake." source NPR   Jessica Taylor Twitter    Getty images

Cathedrals of Commerce

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Chicago Illinois