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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Principles . . .

Courtesy of The Principles of Adaptive Design | Brad Frost

(from http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/orioles-vp-doesnt-want-president-trump-to-throw-out-the-first-pitch-at-camden-yards/)
". . . Earlier this week Angelos, son of team owner Peter Angelos, appeared on the B-more Opinionated podcast, during which he said Trump would have to apologize for some things before being allowed to throw out the first pitch at Camden Yards. CBS Baltimore has a transcript:
“I know the administration has taken on some criticism for its controversial positions concerning things that are considered to be problematic from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability community ... people in those communities have been spoken about very negatively by a candidate, now the President. . . “My personal opinion, I think it’s incumbent upon any individual who leads a country to step away from those type of statements, to apologize for those statements and turn the page and then to move forward in embracing their community. Until that happens, it wouldn’t be my preference to have the President come throw a pitch.”. . . “Everybody wants to see whoever is in the office the President do extremely well. The first step to doing extremely well, is for this person who is in the office, to retract all these outrageous things that have been said and simply apologize. You don’t say those things about women, you don’t say those things about different ethnic groups ... and if you do say them, you need to be big enough to apologize.”. . . "

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Monday, March 6, 2017

Mysterious? . . .

. . . ordinary. . .

On very special occasions
When celebrating felt right
This place we'd go
With ambience and wine
On a Saturday night
Caricatures hung on the walls
Eavesdropping on our most intimate moments
"I love you"

It was essential to go there
To mark the passage of time
Between the dates
We used to signify
The bond we shared and to dine
Always served Angus A-one prime
To patrons of each and every persuasion
"I loved you"

But now that place is all gone
Where did our love go
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty's piano

While you eat
You're serenaded
By some local musician
Playing bad renditions of the popular songs
You sing along

And so it ended
Our passion
Somehow just faded away
And likewise too
That place we held divine
Became a dance club today
The memories come charging in
Sweet dreams and all the romancing related
It's gone now

But now that place is all gone
Where did our love go
Where is the ambience and
McCafferty's piano

McCafferty's Piano
©2010 Raymond M. Jozwiak
from Ambience & Wine

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Sunday, March 5, 2017

Doughnuts. . .

. . . to you . . .

(http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-tweets-old-photo-schumer-putin-calls-probe-n728791)
". . . President Donald Trump mocked the Democrats pushing the ongoing probe of his campaign's ties to Russia by posting a photo of Vladimir Putin having a doughnut and a coffee with New York Senator Chuck Schumer. . . Calling the Democrat "a total hypocrite," Trump tweeted there should be "an immediate investigation" into Schumer and "his ties to Russia and Putin."
(selected tweets accompanying the story . . . )

If Sen. Schumer had gone under oath at the Judiciary Committee and said they didn't eat donuts, I could see this being a problem. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837722869106880517. . ."

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Saturday, March 4, 2017

Not Good . . .

. . . Not Smart . . .

(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer)
". . . The White House barred several news organizations from an off-camera press briefing . . . handpicking a select group of reporters that included a number of conservative outlets friendly toward Donald Trump. . . The “gaggle” with Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, took place in lieu of his daily briefing and was originally scheduled as an on-camera event. . . Donald Trump tells CPAC: 'We are Americans and the future belongs to us . . . But the White House press office announced later in the day that the Q&A session would take place off camera before only an . . . “expanded pool” of journalists, and in Spicer’s West Wing office as opposed to the James S Brady press briefing room where it is typically held. . . . Outlets seeking to gain entry whose requests were denied included the Guardian, the New York Times, Politico, CNN, BuzzFeed, the BBC, the Daily Mail and others. Conservative publications such as Breitbart News, the One America News Network and the Washington Times were allowed into the meeting, as well as TV networks CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC. The Associated Press and Time were invited but boycotted the briefing. . . . The decision to limit access to Spicer, hours after Trump once again declared that much of the media was “the enemy of the American people” while speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, marked a dramatic shift. . . ."

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Congratulations . . .

Congratulation! Your album, or an album that you were affiliated with, Words Do Not Reach (the Instrumentals), has been nominated in this year's Just Plain Folks Music Awards! If you missed it, you can find your name in Albums and/or Songs (check both) at this link:

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Please feel free to ask me or JPF any questions you have on FB at @justplainfolks or to our Founder Brian Whitney directly. I'm a fellow JPF Awards nominee volunteering to track down folks like yourself.
2017 Song Nominees - Just Plain Folks

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Always . . .

. . . you

You've always been ahead of me
One fact that I
In my infinite wisdom
Could not always see
But in the end you always convinced me
Things aren't always
What they appear
The things I've always looked for

Once long ago before we met
I thought I could
Singlehandedly make the
Spinning world go away
Just like some king
from back in those bygone days
But I was wrong
I don't belong
Inside this category

Seemed to be
At the time to me
To my advantage
Missing why
Not knowing
When to try
To start believing
In my very own
Self determination

Sometimes at night
When I'm alone
The solitude
And the quiet can bring out
All the worst in my head
But now it seems that isn't so big or bad
I've learned a thing

Or maybe two
And just ahead
There's
Always
You

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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

So-Called . . .

. . . government . . .

The "so-called" President [Clinton 65,844,954 (48.2%)/Trump 62,979,879 (46.1%)], formerly a "so-called" successful businessman [Trump Airlines, Beverages, The Game, casinos, magazine, mortgage, steaks, travel site, comms company, Trump Tower Tampa, vodka] has 'stocked his cabinet' with "so-called" experts in multiple fields. Some are Betsy DeVos, "so-called" education reformer [no professional experience in public schools, never attended public schools or sent her own children to public schools, has never held public office], Top "so-called" strategist Steve Bannon [promised to go after big banks, worked for one of the biggest-Goldman Sachs], "so-called" housing expert Ben Carson [remarked that "Obamacare is really I think the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery"] and "so-called" justice expert Jeff Sessions [The Justice Department announced this month it's no longer fighting an injunction blocking Obama-era guidance that protects transgender students under Title IX].

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