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A national embarrassment

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“You’re the worst President America has ever had,” Biden said at one point. Later, he added, “Under this President, we’ve become weaker, sicker, poorer, more divided, and more violent.”   Over-talking was the undistinguished norm for this war of words   The debate was a counter productive argument that failed to enlighten and may discourage people from voting at all   I f president Trump is representative of a privileged minority how does that mirror the people who support him    Is he right, the far right, or just wrong   Future debates should confirm that there is no presidential hopeful   All hope is lost if this type of behavior is allowed to persist   Deciding the leader of the land by apathy (no voters) or dependence on party line to maintain a disproportionate status quo will continue chaos, unhappy and unhealthy populations       blogger source  quote  newyorker.com

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

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    This where I have lived for thirty-five years   raised kids  and see everything from afar  

Bill Withers - I Can't Write Left Handed

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If you're about my age and never saw the Vietnam War these pictures and the song will put you there     Bill Withers billwithers.com William Harrison Withers Jr. was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine", "Grandma's Hands", "Use Me", "Lean on Me", "Lovely Day", and "Just the Two of Us". Withers won three Grammy Awards and was nominated for six more. Wikipedia Birth name: William Harrison Withers Jr. Born: July 4, 1938, Slab Fork, West Virginia, U.S. Died: March 30, 2020, Los Angeles, California, U.S.   source    wiki    youtube  

First right of refusal

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Can the president deny the will of the electorate    I in no way agree with Bill Maher's religious views   Fortunately most of his other opinions are spot on for me and funny    source   thedailybeast.com  The Bill Maher Show  

Cautiously optimistic

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"In 2000, the supreme court decided a disputed Florida result and put a Republican, George W Bush, in the White House instead of the Democrat Al Gore. Though of course the justices could not know it, they had put America on the road to war in Iraq, economic crisis, the rise of the evangelical right and a deepening political divide." The link in this quote is outdated and is only a reference   theguardian.com Elections are private affairs drawn on the needs of the people and the persuasion of the person who wishes to lead regardless of his motivation and the conse quences that inevitably follow    In God We Trust  opinion  blogger  Photo    BBC Future    Quote    getpocket.com

The 4th dimension explained

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                                         From the epic Cosmos by Carl Sagan

Do you feel like this

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  Do you know others who feel like this Provided by the newyorker.com

Don't Forget

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  In person where possible

UFO sighting

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  This is a moving object   beams of light-photons   Is there a sold mass to represent this picture   Yes   Come back to this frame and it will appear slightly different each time it is viewed   There are two images here  One is barely visible  Are UFOs real    Definitely    That does not mean they represent intelligent life forms from other places   I am skeptical   One thing is verifiable   There are more UFO sightings following a nuclear explosion than at any other time   Did it take alien life a few years to reach Roswell New Mexico      Source  The History Channel  

Whose spreads what and why

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"So while younger generations are being blamed, in some quarters, for the pandemic’s spread , they are bearing the greatest burden of poverty and the brunt of the transmission risk that comes with keeping the economy going, all with little help in sight" I have a child who is a single mother working double shits to support her family   I am more than  concerned    source    www.nationalgeographic.com/science    By Rebecca Renner   Photograph by Christopher Lee, The New York Times via Redux

We are pretty in our youth and live longer when properly cared for

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This is a saltwater tank   The fish is a young grouper   It will loose it's spots when mature and look like less attractive  Keeping these fish is fun and expensive   An appreciation for water chemistry isn't an option  -  the occupants of any home reef will live longer when the host knows what their environment requires   The same goes for people and their habitat Source   blogger  

Systemic Racism

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   A four year Harvard study show that blacks and Latinos are the victims of racism Source   https://www.theroot.com   Michael Harriot Thursday 5:00PM Filed to: Harvard      

Domestic discontent

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"No one can do to us as much damage as our own domestic discontent."    See MSNBC 9/12/2020 breaking news for details or read Edward Snowden's book "Permanent Record"    Description "A riveting account... Reads like a literary thriller... Snowden pushes the reader to reflect more seriously on what every American should be asking already." --The New York Times "Gripping... Snowden demonstrates a knack for explaining in lucid and compelling language the inner workings of [CIA and NSA] systems and the menace he came to believe they posed." --The Washington Post "Snowden eventually decided his loyalties lay not with the agencies he was working for, but the public they were set up to protect. He felt ordinary citizens were being betrayed, and he had a duty to explain how....  

A love story

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 An incredibly difficult topic to express   All in animation   A work of art and love Source   psyche.co/film

China's tech race with the US

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  To the victor goes the spoils   Or to whoever is the victor no matter what  Jobs determine a country's economic health   Keeping healthy is likely to be an ongoing battle   Decoupling of technology creates independent strategies to perform redundant services   We are starting the 1980's personal computer war all over again with smart phone manufacturing  Global trade was supposed to unite economies   The consumer is the only winner with everyone else racing for a cookie jar that has only one logical answer   A zero is a zero and a one is a one   This is how it's done  https://www.techdim.com/how-to-convert-binary-to-text/ For the real world not to technical explanation of the problem please read this article from The Wall Street Journal   https://www.wsj.com/video/tech-decoupling-china-race-to-end-its-reliance-on-the-us/0BFA6A39-D394-4E83-8835-A8F6BDE62370.html    

This is an advertisement?

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Which one of these will prevent you from over priced electric bills 1.  The American Flag 2.  A solar panel 3.  Big boobs My Internet Service Provider is obviously misguided and over paid   They provided me with this enticing bit of cheesecake thinking it would have me clamoring for solar power services   Are we the sum of our desires  Is money  sex and patriotism (sorry Donald~)  what drives us   This topic gets attention only  in parody   Look up   November is not far off  Changing presidents won't change people's values   Or maybe it will    It's all up to you   Пусть свобода звенит The Russian language translation is "Let Freedom Ring"   

Have a ball

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                                                               Or ride one  

Tired of political lambasting

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Diana Damrau sings Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria "... NASA took a stab at selecting audio tracks for extraterrestrials. NASA’s goal was to help outer-space beings understand what life is like on Earth and to explain who we are."   "NASA created a varied selection of tracks for aliens to listen to. It was not all classical music. In the very first track, Kurt Waldheim, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, sent a message of friendship. Next came greetings from earthlings from around the world, speaking 55 different languages. After that, the two NASA disks presented a mixture of nature sounds (whales singing, crickets chirping), ethnic music (a Navaho song, a wedding song from Huancavelica and more), a great rock n’ roll selection (“Johnny B. Goode” by Chuck Berry), and a blues song (“Dark Was the Night” by Blind Willie Johnson). For a complete track list of what NASA included on the disks, visit the Wikipedia entry about them....

The pandemic precipice

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This blog is not intended for everyone   Those who wake their sensibilities will find some room here   Neither is this an exercise in ethics  the brother of morality  only a patient curiosity   What else can we wait for while a safe consensus emerges from pandemonium  The Pan Demon...ium  of our making      

Lineage

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  Grandmas on the beach Sixty years have passed They are gone but we're still here Water's edge new feet a foot Look to the future, turn the page Tis all the same, a book

"The only thing we have to fear...

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  is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt - Inaugural "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself" Speech   Vote!      

What popular streaming services show

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    Sex - super heroes - death   Isn't there more to life than the choices we pay for   Posing software   blogger  

Rain - the adventure

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A lone plane seeds the skies amid competition for moisture   A Dust animated movie  

Opinion - Who Leads Us

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  Is anyone qualified to run a country that demands equality for all while keeping their own personal interest first. No such party or person exist.  No political party is worth supporting when they are unable to understand the  compromises that challenge their beliefs.  The person who satisfies power over humane principles places us all at jeopardy with a discriminant economy and diminishing global integrity. Someone who can unite differences without sacrificing personal ideals is not a real person.  We demand leadership without working towards solutions ourselves.  Success in solving a social problem begins with the people who own the problem.  Many are already doing this and need the support of a leader who recognizes the importance of their vision and effort. While technology appears fast, change remains slow.  Who will take responsibility for allowing the puzzle that is life to fit together so the bigger picture becomes clear? Therefore we wo...

Physics - what's it all about?

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An artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole. Photo from NASA / ESA / Getty Images .   " ... the practice of theoretical physics is often an exercise in fabulism: you propose something new and strange that appears to fit with established theory and observations and then — this is the hard part — follow the ever-branching consequences of your new idea to see if there are any contradictions that might arise." If you have never heard of the name Steven Hawking you are  probably not going to continue reading this post.  My understanding of the universe began as a child when I attempted to know my surroundings, my precognitive theory of who and what I was.  To my surprise I obtained knowledge and lost much of that early awareness which is the true stuff of life. Those who hang on to it, attach theory to the source of being, space and time may be called physicist .  Personally the phenomena of concurrent experiences (coincidence) is so pervasive to ...

Robinhood lives on Wallstreet

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   "Robinhood's entire business is built on selling its customers’ orders to trading titans like Citadel Securities.  The secret sauce of Robinhood’s success is something its founders are loath to publicize: From the beginning, Robinhood staked its profitability on something known as “payment for order flow,” or PFOF." An economic model for self destruction.  Robinhood takes from the poor to make the  founders of this trading software billionaires. A few manipulate the legal enticingly eventual get rich scheme to their favor:  Read this Forbes article for a not so elementary education in trading which is aimed at the careless or inexperienced trader.  Most everybody looses except a few who keep their wits and a growing percentage of chance.  Writers:   Jeff Kauflin Forbes Staff Fintech  I cover fintech, cryptocurrencies, blockchain and investing. Antoine Gara Forbes Staff Banking & Insurance

Elect this man out of our misery

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    Looking tired as he leaves the presidential helicopter, we too are equally worn out by his constant attention seeking, with his ceaseless unreal statements and ludicrous actions that assault the very word Democracy.  Who is this man?  Why should we suffer for his vanity? Read the news analysis from the New York Times:  " Trump as Candidate: Racist Attacks, Conspiracy Theories, War on the Post Office " By Peter Baker Aug. 17, 2020  

Hope

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  Duomo di Milano where Bocelli sings     On Easter Sunday (April 12, 2020), by invitation of the City and of the Duomo cathedral of Milan, Italian global music icon Andrea Bocelli gave a solo performance representing a message of love, healing and hope to Italy and the world.    Provider   Youtube

Aeronab

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 While this new discovery is not a cure it may act as a prevention against Covi-19 infection. Derived from Camels and Llamas the virus can't attach to to the site protein.  " Aeronab 6 rose to the top because it bound to the spike protein in a really strong and unique manner and because it was so stable. Walter, Manglik, and Schoof hold a patent on the compound."

North Korean solder defects to South Korea

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  The will to escape in North Korea is so strong people often chance death for freedom

Frank Sinatra for president

  Time doesn't change only the faces as long we remember to laugh

What people do with drones

  Aerial photo taken in Greece    Sorry guy (photographer)   I lost your name Scroll down through  photo contest rules to see many pictures of contestant entries This following link is a DJI commercial for professional film makers   It is worth a look to realize to what extent the movie industry uses drones