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Civics test
Do you think some company that needs a physicist gives a hoot if this person knows who JFK was?
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All the more reason not to make promises for others to keep.
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Misuse of govt power? That sounds VERY Socialist of you.
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when they got the news that Fat Man had indeed blown up Hiroshima, only rwo of them 'had the decency to go into a corner and throw up.'
He quoted one of his colleagues, "Now we're all sons of b*****s."
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before Hitler finalized his ability to have one or more in his possession, millions more lives were saved than lost....even Japan has admitted to that.
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laureate Werner Heisenberg.* He was underfunded and understaffed, working in a country that was being conventionally bombed to bits around him.
June 6, 1944 was the beginning of the end for Nazism.
August 6, 1945 was the beginning of the end for emperor worship.
The concern in Washington was the Last Stand certain to be made by the Japanese. It would have cost hundreds of thousands of Allied lives, thanks to the sense of absolute duty owed to the emperor. It was he who needed a second bomb to change his mind.
There was a side issue about convincing the Russians to be more cooperative in the last months; not of concern here.
The concern was about Japan, not Germany.
In any case, two world wars in one century doesn't say much about the ability of highly-evolved humans to direct their own affairs.
And the second one has kept the world safe for ... arms manufacurers and dealers, down to this day.
Democracy? Not so much.
What's the key to ending war completely?
* I'm certain about Heisenberg, on principle.
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Seems Trump played a round the other day. Carded a 68.
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Got it? 68? OK.
Late night picked it up. Best response was, 'Tiger Woods carded a 70, last day of the Masters, and he won it!'
In the pros, tournaments have been lost because someone who should have known better didn't do exactly the right thing with a partner's card at rhe end of the day.
Of course, friendly golf is another thing. What does golf culture say about signing off on a card?
Just asking, in ignorance. I like my walks unspoiled. 
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Perpetual liar it's the way he runs his business/Washington/life.
You can write any number you want on a score card.
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a ranking at your home club.
Unless you own the club.
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If it makes the liar feel better he can write any number he wants on that score card.
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