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    Uvalde - the followup

    A few decades ago that might have been impossible, because we'd need enough mental healthcare workers to satisfy demand. There aren't enough. BUT ! It's a new millennium. Among Eliza vintage software (1980's) there was software named "Doctor". Reportedly it was good enough that having a 3...
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    Cops behaving badly ...

    "Black Lives Matter", but not to NYPD. They fired over 40 rounds, over half of them missed. BUT ! They got him enough times to kill him anyway.
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    Just a little humor

    https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Odyssey It's A Wonderful bumper-sticker
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    Cops behaving badly ...

    Neither does a wallet.
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    :cry: note: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Hanlon's Razor "Never"? - Withdrawing from JCPOA - Demolishing the white house East wing - Reflecting pool Are stupidity and malice mutually exclusive?
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    The war in Iran (or whose war is it anyways?)

    How views on Trump’s handling of Iran have shifted, according to a new AP-NORC poll LINLEY SANDERS and MIKE CATALINI / Updated Thu, July 30, 2026 at 4:06 AM GMT-5 WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting, and President Donald Trump's approval rating on...
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    - trivia -

    Holy Father: In literal-minded simplicity you are correct. But the fact remains, "woke" is used precisely as an insult. "Woke" is an expression of dismissive contempt used as an insult by those whose sociopolitical positions are antithetical to reasoned conclusions. Why? Because the...
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    Quotable Quotes

    Trump ‘exasperated’ on Iran as top officials can’t agree on strategy, sources say Exclusive: The president erupted at some of his top national security officials during a recent meeting, according to two sources. NBC NEWS / nightly-newsU.S. military intentionally allowing some Iranian...
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    The war in Iran (or whose war is it anyways?)

    Trump ‘exasperated’ on Iran as top officials can’t agree on strategy, sources say Exclusive: The president erupted at some of his top national security officials during a recent meeting, according to two sources. NBC NEWS / nightly-newsU.S. military intentionally allowing some Iranian...
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    The war in Iran (or whose war is it anyways?)

    It was outright wholesale fraud. "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." V.P. Cheney" 8/26/02" C-SPAN2 "Intelligence gathered by this and other...
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    Wiki lists Governor Beshear's party affiliation as Democrat. My initial reaction is it's more divisive partisan politics. But with sadness I also recognize, Republicans prioritize their own partisan loyalty ahead of their own patriotism. They're Americans. They're Republicans. But apparently...
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    What to call this thread?

    We don't have a lower lip curled down emoti.
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    The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America

    This term bears the standard characteristics of exaggeration. Apparently, it is not the quotation which is extreme. It is a characterization of the Trump administration. - anti science ? Anti-vax to be sure. - death cult? cult noun ˈkəlt 1: a group (such as an organization or religious...
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    What to call this thread?

    I'd have preferred marking the closed file "Patient Attendance Autonomously Suspended".
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    Israel's War on Civilization

    I own / live on a few hundred acres in ~central NY State. No mortgage, no lien, BUT ! I investigated bequeathing it back to the aboriginals whose ancestors occupied it. BUT ! It appears I can bequeath ownership but NOT sovereignty. If I did hand it over to a "tribe", they (the new owners) would...
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    Israel's War on Civilization

    I haven't paid enough attention over the generations to have known that, but if you say so ... The comment worth addressing: "how fraudulent Israel is?" Critics of Balfour may extend their attitude to present day Israel. I'm not so sure. The United States of America occupies the lower 48...
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    ... topic drift overflow ...

    Guys our age can relate first-hand to the "shade tree mechanic". Cars were so shockingly simple in the '50's & '60's improvising was part of the culture. Don't have a feeler gauge to gap the points on a "points / plugs / condenser" tune-up? (remember that?) No feeler gauge? Use a matchbook cover...
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    - trivia -

    Nylon was the first commercially successful synthetic thermoplastic polymer ... first synthesized on February 28, 1935 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon
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