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Monday, November 28, 2016

Scorecard Update . . .

5. With No Evidence, Trump Claims 'Millions' Voted Illegally

(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/27/trumps-bogus-claim-that-millions-of-people-voted-illegally-for-hillary-clinton/)
". . . This is a bogus claim with no documented proof. . . Snopes.com and PundiFact have already examined this claim, back when it was hot in the right-wing blogosphere, not a statement made by a future U.S. president. The whole thing started with a few tweets by Gregg Phillips, a self-described conservative voter fraud specialist. . . These claims were then picked up by such purveyors of false facts as Infowars.com, a conspiracy-minded website that, among other things, claims that no one actually died in a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. One article described Phillips as being affiliated with VoterFraud.org but in reality he says he is the founder of VoteStand.com, supposedly an app that detects vote fraud. Phillips also has claimed that Obamacare is the “biggest voter registration fraud scheme in the history of the world” because it provided opportunities for voter registration. . ."

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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Standard . . .

(from https://www.timeanddate.com/time/standard-time.html)
Standard time is also known as winter time. The standard time of a region is the local time used outside of the Daylight Saving Time (DST) period. More than 60% of the countries in the world use standard time all year. The remaining countries use DST during the summer months, generally setting clocks forward one hour from standard time.

Fall Standard
(in-progress) by Ray Jozwiak

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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Scorecard . . .

To date (please let me know if I've missed anything . . .

1. appointment of Stephen Bannon (alt-right media executive) as chief strategist and senior counselor

2. instead of liquidating his assets and placing them in a Qualified Diversified Trust, as President Bush did, or investing in index funds and government bonds, as President Obama did, Trump has done nothing

3. named three of his adult children — Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr. — to his transition team

4. Tweeted 'The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!'

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Suspense? . . .

". . . This email is to let you know that your song, "Third Hand Intelligence" performed by Oho which was entered into the Performance category, has officially been reviewed by the listening committee of the International Songwriting Competition. Please be aware that if you have entered multiple songs or the same song into multiple categories, then you will receive a separate notification for each one. These may also come at different times as the competition progesses, so don't be alarmed if you don't receive all of your confirmations at once. . . We ask that you please do not request any feedback on your entry as we are extremely busy going through the evaluation process. The purpose of this email is to stay in contact with our entrants and to keep you updated on the process of the competition. . . ISC 2016 Semi-Finalists will be announced in February 2017, Finalists in March 2017 and the Winners in April 2017. All entrants will receive emails regarding the results and they will also be posted on the ISC website - www.songwritingcompetition.com ! . . .Thank you for your participation and we wish you the best of luck!. . ."

. . . not really. A good song is a good song. . .

Third-Hand Intelligence
from the forthcoming, tentatively titled album "Gazebo" by OHO (Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak)

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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Struck . . .

(http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-david-horsey-message-to-red-state-trump-voters-i-want-my-country-back-20161114-story.html)
". . . Yes, congratulations. At the same moment you elected a billionaire who claimed he would drain the special interest "swamp" in Washington, D.C., you kept in power insiders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one of the biggest snakes in the swamp, plus all the other Republicans in Congress who have fought to keep the mighty flow of corporate dollars streaming in. . . You think you have struck a blow against the "elites" on the coasts who look down on "real Americans" in the heartland. . ."

. . . . Well, YOU DIDN'T!!

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

All ? . . .

. . . or just the ones YOU know?

It always amazes me when someone uses the word "all" in reference to a group of people, such as gender, religious, professional, age, race, national origin or anything else. The reason this began to trouble me many years ago was a conversation, of which I was a party, where someone made reference to men, a group to which I belong, and "how they are." In fact, the attribute, characteristic, nature or other aspect of men to which this person referred was clearly not one that I shared and I was, quite honestly, anxious to inform the person of this. All of which, after some additional consideration, led me to the realization that although it comes quickly and frequently to the mind (and to the lips), the word "ALL" should be employed only with the utmost discretion, unless of course you are referring to a smaller, more manageable group than 'men', such as 'the three stooges', 'two of my friends' or maybe even 'a dozen eggs.' Another recent conversation involved me where another man was considering that portion of the population to which I will refer to here as women, in a somewhat dismissive and disparaging way. More specifically, and also unfortunately, he cited as his evidence female members of his own immediate family. My efforts to diplomatically bring to his attention that female members of my family were in fact not so easily categorized, a fact that in utilizing logic, negated his entire premise. At this point, it appeared that he had finally gotten my proverbial 'drift.' But then before parting he smirked and said, 'But you know they're ALL cut from the same cloth.'

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Tuesday, November 22, 2016

What More . . .

. . . is there to say?

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