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Pablo 128482

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Murderer  thief   Robin Hood   he redistributed wealth at a terrible cost Most who followed his lead give to the poor in the same manner   Narco culture is death wrapped in others tears  The good done is real  but often a diversion that can't be justified by loss of life and terror Pablo was killed by US CIA agents the day after his 44th birthday Hacienda Napoles: Pablo Escobar’s Former Home Turned Theme Park The Tampa Florida counterpart  The Trafficante Crime Family Source   thenewyorker.com   By Jon Lee Anderson  

Who served

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' Yes, most upper middle class males did not serve in the Vietnam War.  I enlisted anyway because I could not, at the time, read on a college level.  Therefore the draft was eminent.  After joining the service I refused to cheat by means of distributed answers to an upcoming electronics test at Kessler Air Force base. I failed the test and was removed from military electronics training.  My assignment then became 'Cook'.  The four year enlistment could never have been anticipated: one year in Biloxi Mississippi, one year in Myrtle Beach South Carolina, and two years forty miles from Seville Spain. The rest is a fairy tale for a young romantic with artistic ambitions.    The preceding clip to this blog entry is not a reality most young men shared because everyone was scared shitless during the Vietnam Era.  My generation had every right to denounce war without cause and death without meaning.  One last note.  Loudspeakers did play the popular songs

Humility and a devotion to justice

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removed Pope Frances from the papacy   source  yournewswire.com   February 11, 2018 Sean Adl-Tabatabai   ABCNews.com Pope Francis and his fall from grace within the Vatican... By Meghan Keneally Sep 23, 2015, 9:44 AM ET  

Is it worth it

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The social animal source  vox.com  By Ezra Klein@ezraklein Feb 19, 2018, 8:30am EST

Fred Hersch And The Art Of Introspection

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Jazz on NPR Click > to resume  Source  Piano Jazz on National Public Radio

How to stop mass shootings

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Stop advertising death as a means of entertainment  guns kill people  people kill people  the idea to kill comes from other places   we pay to watch Photo  Jonathan Drake/Reuters I have watched some gritty shows from the mentioned web site.  While this may be entertaining to some, it may be a source of stimulus for others.  It's hard to distinguish how it will be received.  I also remember the fifties when none of what we see today was possible or even socially acceptable.  Like the Roman populace of historical past we demand more and more blood for our enjoyment.  Well, we are getting it.  Real people kill real people in mass and these violent acts are advertised for further profit and perusal.  Only you can stop it.  Update for 2/22/18 My grand daughter's high school was in half lock down yesterday.  Fueled by a rumor when the Mayor of St. Petersburg gave a talk about the use of social media, ironically it created an unreal, blown out situation surrounding the ar

Your lead my follow

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My war is never ending The suggestion that the war is winding down after seven years of mayhem gained common currency in 2017. Evidence on the ground suggests the opposite holds true. According to despairing UN statements last week, the scale of suffering across the country has reached unprecedented levels, with access to aid blocked in three population centers and more than 13 million people displaced and in need. More than 500,000 people have died since 2011. But the killing continues unabated. Source  theguardian.com   Simon Tisdall   Sat 10 Feb 2018 22.00 GMT   

Black sheep black sheep

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have you any wool Looking on politics dark side   admonishing the past to insure a future   Is this useful   ethical   of good consequence   fair play   hardly Source  http://thehill.com

game builders

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SHANGHAI, CHINA- Virtuos has helped to program many of the industry’s biggest games , including Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, NBA 2K18, Middle-earth: The Shadow of War, and Forza Motorsport 7. Source Photo: Yuyang Liu for The Outline  site  theoutline.com

Black hole

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of imagination Software  Groboto Recently discovered black hole  The cloud stretches some 20 light-years out from the center, and is spinning around the black hole Source  newatlas.com

How to get into politics

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“ Myfather , my hero, Jack McAuliffe was the treasurer of the OnondagaCounty (N.Y.) Democratic Party. By the time I was 8, I was his topdeputy and lived, breathed politics twenty four hours a day, sevendays a week. At 23, I took a leave from Georgetown Law to bePresident Carter’s national finance director for his 1980 campaign.Despite the President’s plea not to do it, I wrestled an 8-footalligator in Florida for a $15,000 campaign donation. The rest ishistory....” Blogger - What my father did, was to keep me out of organized crime.  He told a friend at an establishment very much like the "Soprano's" Bada Bing that I was never going to learn the business.  I didn't.  None of my siblings had that innate criminal instinct for it either, except my sister, who diligently supported billable hours for big industry~    Source   Steve Helber/AP Photo   By   DANIEL LIPPMAN   02/09/2018 05:12 AM EST

hand sized skull

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Not human  what is human     a Image by @sebastiandido ‘The skull of a brown capuchin monkey  2018-02-07 09:22:" source   http://humanorigins.si.edu/

PyeongChang 2018

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Schedule Source  www.pyeongchang2018.com

The T word

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This article reproduced for you by someone who is just fed up! Source  www.thedailybeast.com   Rick Wilson   02.06.18 4:56 AM ET

Family

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is a reflection of a parent or parents   

What's in your wallet

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The complexities of supplying a country's military industrial complex is ironically complex.  It is fraught with any number of economic consequences.  Occasionally something good come out of research and manufacturing of war machines - the economy blogger What distinguishes the “power elite” that constitutes the military-industrial complex from other powerful groups in American society who also seek advancement of their own interests, is that this is not a ruling class based solely on the ownership of property (Mills 1956, cited in Moskos 1974: 499-500). Rather, it is a coalition of civilian agencies that formally shape military policy (such as the Senate and the CIA), military institutions, private firms, research institutions and think tanks – all centered on and linked to the Pentagon (Hossein-zadeh 2006: 13). As a result of power arising from the occupancy in top bureaucratic positions as well as from capital ownership, the interests of the ruling elite go beyond the mer

This is your brain

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The little spaces are potential memory locations.  The big spaces are partitions that separate one category of function from another (important).  Using art to model a complex concept is often all the right person needs to complete the puzzle. Example of what may be found in one of those little square spaces.   Definition is the easiest way to vaporize an intended outcome  So what the hell  This site is theoretical and leans heavily on irony  There now you have it all 

Give it a rest

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Music that I heard when I was younger.  When Johnson and Nixon were president.  Listen to the words from another time.  Not much has changed since then - believe me. source   Photographs & Memories: His Greatest Hits by Jim Croce  Youtube