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    Trump: horrid executive? Or hapless victim?

    Blaming Trump for your rained-out picnic doesn't make any more sense than crediting Trump for a beautiful sunny day. President Truman established "The Buck Stops Here" oval office standard, his presidential acknowledgement of "passing the buck". Unmistakably this "for the first time on...
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    News Related To The Ukraine / Russian War

    Two points: a) multi-culturalism is neither 100% beneficial, nor 100% detrimental. b) The 2002 Nord-Ost siege demonstrates some nations render hostage welfare the priority. Russia prioritized punishing the separatists, a difficult challenge for those on a suicide mission.
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    News Related To The Ukraine / Russian War

    R5, It's not that your assertion quoted below it 100% false. It isn't. Neither is it 100% true. It's one side of a coin. And now, the other side of that coin: Facts About Moscow's 2002 Hostage Crisis At The Dubrovka Theater Apr 6, 2022 ... On October 23, 2002, militant Chechen separatists took...
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    Israel's War on Civilization

    The statute of limitations has its own intrinsic limits. We can't extract justice from or impose justice upon the dead. What Netanyahu is doing in Lebanon is an atrocity. Is what Trump has done in Iran much better? U.S. $Tax $Paying voters are party to much the same. “You cannot...
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    The satirical style is predictable. The ridicule component undeniable. "can't speak English" ? Perhaps. My interpretation is not Trump insufficient syntactic competence. Instead, I believe Trump is simply lying, implausibly so as usual. Superlatives are not only Trump's style. They're his...
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    News Related To The Ukraine / Russian War

    That is one dynamic. Does such hatred survive generational change? A travelogue from Vietnam noted the bitter hatred between North Vietnamese and Americans. Yet generations born after the U.S. War there ended seem amenable to Westerners, including Americans. Whether that's genetic, meaning...
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    News Related To The Ukraine / Russian War

    To the liberal Western mind "multi-cultural" might be considered a strength. Potentially it is. It's also a potential source of internal social or political friction, able to lower the standard of living at the location of friction & beyond. That may advantage Poland.
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    News Related To The Ukraine / Russian War

    Seems like expert constructive criticism to me. I'm not yet committed to either side of the mend it or end it debate. But if the former, adequately addressing the examples you cited would require substantial modification / revision. Would you abide by a Crimean plebiscite on choice of...
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    - other -

    This is why they hate US: That's a doughnut, with icing, and bacon. Bacon ! On a doughnut ! "Death to America ! "
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    What to call this thread?

    Bentley Hudgins Is Poised to Become Georgia’s First Trans State Lawmaker In the middle of America’s intensifying backlash against trans rights, voters are set to send Bentley Hudgins to the state Capitol. By Christopher Wiggins / May 26, 2026 Now, after winning a Democratic primary in one of...
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    Just a little humor

    Why Gertrude, have you lost weight?
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    - alright - To be clear, that truncated report is not about the outcome of his medical examination. After a patient is admitted to the hospital, and completes the procedure, the patient checks out of the hospital, reportedly "checking out perfectly" in this case. Nice to know Trump can do...
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    News Related To The Ukraine / Russian War

    No example comes to mind of a human invention that started out horrible, and developed into something beneficial. The U.N. certainly leaves room for improvement. But in concept it seems to me like not such a bad idea. Is there a compelling argument against global coordination of nations...
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    Quotable Quotes

    I have not been a stalwart proponent of the Trump administrations. BUT ! I did consider Pompeo to be a notably less grim element of Trump's operation compared to most of the others, including Trump. "There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra 3 years in the geriatric ward."...
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    The war in Iran (or whose war is it anyways?)

    ooohhhhh ! ! ! Orange makeup! NOW I get it ! 😢
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    Internet, World Wide Web, Cyber- , ... Security? Browsing is Risky ?

    - warning - Though this post #3 was originally posted normally, recent evidence became available that the content may contain malware. To reduce the risk, but still provide the information, the content of the original #3 has been transformed to inert graphic, cyber-links disabled. Please...
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    Just a little humor

    searing temperatures in India Nope. Not me.
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