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We'll see

May 29, 2019 11:12AM PDT

DJT tweet......

There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent.

Insufficient?....SUBSTANTIAL evidence but not enough?

The ONLY thing that prevented DJT from being charged was the fact that HE is POTUS...

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Thanks,
Jun 11, 2019 5:55PM PDT

for me, the meds are literally a life-saver - pretty sure I'd have been institutionalized or worse without them. Took a while to get used to and dialing in the right dosage, but worth the side-effects. The fluctuating cycling from rapid to longer was driving me nuts - but lately the doctors have recognized it's a spectrum of afflictions, just like Aspergers/Autism with maybe as many variations as there are people. Still stigmatized, but getting better with more knowledge and publicity.

Rick

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Look up Dr Asperger. intetesting.
Jun 11, 2019 10:40PM PDT

A friend, a Jewish pediatrician, said the inclusive "autism spectrum" is replacing the term Asperger's because of his record in Austria after Anschluss. Here's what seems to be a balanced view.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/20/463603652/was-dr-asperger-a-nazi-the-question-still-haunts-autism
Anyway, he did pioneer the field and contributed much.

Related: there was a German physicist whose name I can't recall, who did first-class work as a convinced and unrepentant Nazi. Work and thought ignored after the war.
The celebrated Werner Heisenberg helped the Party in its failed attempt at nuclear weapons, just for the personal glory and satisfaction, it seems. Lionized and remembered.
(His Nobel is unrelated; he got it in 1926.)

The Germans broke the dikes in Holland, causing mass starvation. Noted record keepers, the Nazis set doctors to recording stats on health, mortality and such. Those records still exist, and are of great use to anyone studying nutrition in the extreme. Some institutions use them that way, but more and more are choosing not to use them as 'tainted'.

Nothing is simple.

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Nice pay boost to CWO.
Jun 11, 2019 1:02PM PDT

20 years gets him all the bennies a man needs. Take the retirement and run!

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Learn something every day.
Jun 11, 2019 1:04PM PDT

There are five ***** in ****.

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it was my attempt at
Jun 11, 2019 5:59PM PDT

getting past the filter - think of British word which is close to sect of Muslim faith vs Sunni minus an i. That is, the swear word with an e on the end. If that makes sense... :^)

Rick

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Even if I could figure out all that,
Jun 11, 2019 6:26PM PDT

my church wouldn't let me admit it.
Grin

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And I'm
Jun 12, 2019 6:53PM PDT

still rather amazed more jokes have _not_ been made about a certain Canadian actor's last name. According to his Wikipedia bio, his paternal grandfather Wolf (!) anglicized the family name from Schattner.

Anyway, I'm a fan of creative cussing - Victoria, my sister, was taught French when a young girl in school while we lived in Tripoli. This was around 1960 through 1964 - Dad worked in the desert for an oil exploration company, Ray Geophysical. Anyhow, she taught me a few phrases that are, shall we say, not for polite company. And useful in certain situations. Later (much later) learned a few Spanish expletives from some guys I worked with at the same company my father had been employed by - which had morphed into Geosource from Petty-Ray Geophysical. Strangely enough, I got the job recommendation / intro from a friend, not my Dad, and found myself working for a supervisor who had worked side-by-side with my father almost twenty years previously. (How's that for a 'small world' ?!)

Rick " still miss the Mediterranean " Jones

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OK, let's test the Benevolent Software on
Jun 12, 2019 7:46PM PDT

"the good old Anglo-Saxon", as Kipling called.
Yesterday I ****.

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(NT) Aha! Got me!
Jun 12, 2019 7:47PM PDT
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Over in France, it's considered a felony to
Jun 12, 2019 7:50PM PDT

commit merder.

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(NT) Aha! Got it!
Jun 12, 2019 7:50PM PDT
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Anyway, it's a break from the
Jun 12, 2019 7:52PM PDT

everlasting [rhymes with dog and pony] show.

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Don't know how Arabic handles doubled vowels,
Jun 12, 2019 7:55PM PDT

but I think American typography does it Shi'ite, which should pass.

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Yep.
Jun 12, 2019 7:58PM PDT

The acacia tree/bush is s****im in Hebrew. Written as such in our Bible and others. We read it as such. Lightning hasn't struck yet.
I didn't test the s/w.

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I'm familiar
Jun 14, 2019 3:03PM PDT

with that word - perhaps only because as a woodworker ( carving wood is one of my hobbies) I've seen it mentioned from time to time in magazines and on the 'Net.

One of the most beautiful woods I've ever worked with is Kingwood - also known as violette (I _think_ that's the correct spelling!) which got its common name from the fact that it was once reserved for objects that only the king and his court (in sixteenth and seventeenth century France, as I recall) could own. The violette identifier comes from one of it's main colours, the rest being gradations of darkish yellow to tan and brown, also darkish 'mud' tones sometimes almost jet black. It's a very dense wood, close grained, polishes wonderfully and is surprisingly relatively easy to work considering it's qualities. I purchased a 5" wide, 3/4" thick, 4 foot long board of it way back in the nineties that cost me forty five dollars - well worth the cost! - and still have about three feet of it left (never got around to using the balance!).

Anyway, the most important tree in the Bible that I'm aware of besides acacia is Cedar of Lebanon - which was prized and held in utmost esteem for millenniums. It's against the law to harvest it in it's native stands, I think, last time I checked. Sacred wood - maybe a concept we should embrace for the future, eh? I'd imagine we will rue the centuries we as a species have indiscriminately felled large areas of rain-forest...

Rick

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RE:Trump goes on for another 5-1/2 years.
May 31, 2019 6:17AM PDT
1-1/2 as POTUS AND 4 as 454545?

IF DJT had to choose....I'm guessing HE would rather be impeached than imprisoned.......

Not the first job/contract he's left others holding the bag/cleaning up HIS mess....

HE considers "impeached" to be a "dirty, filthy, disgusting word.”

Perhaps HE could be FIRED...I've heard that term used by him on the boob tube....

After all that's all impeachment is...getting fired...no prison time...he'll get over it....

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Will YOU get over it
May 31, 2019 1:28PM PDT

when NOTHING happens?

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RE: Will YOU get over it when NOTHING happens
May 31, 2019 7:16PM PDT

Whatever happens......I hope I can handle it better than you are because NOTHING happened to Obama.

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(NT) NOT YET........get ready though; it's coming
Jun 1, 2019 5:52AM PDT
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Remember my "prophecy" about that?
May 31, 2019 2:52PM PDT

'Not gonna happen, therefore no substantive change until January 2021 or January 2025.'

Chill, baby. Happy