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Saturday, May 26, 2018

Why . . .

. . . does this President:
a) know so little?
b) intentionally lie?

(https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-fact-check-trump-wrong-military-pay-ships-195757263.html)
TRUMP: (to U.S. Naval Academy Graduates) "Going to have new equipment and well-deserved pay raises. We just got you a big pay raise. First time in 10 years. We got you a big pay increase. First time in over 10 years. I fought for you. That was the hardest one to get, but you never had a chance of losing."
THE FACTS: That's not right. U.S. military members have gotten a pay raise every year for the past 10 years and several have been larger than this year's 2.6 percent increase. Pay increases in 2008, 2009 and 2010, for example, were all 3.4 percent or more.
TRUMP: "We have now the lowest number of ships that we've had since World War I, and very soon you're going to get to 355 beautiful ships. 355. That's almost a couple of hundred more ships."
THE FACTS: No it isn't. The Navy now has 283 ships.
And a 355-vessel battle fleet is not going to be achieved "very soon." The Navy plans to reach 355 in the 2050s while saying that could happen in the 2030s if it gets more money and extends the normal life of ships in the fleet.

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Friday, May 25, 2018

Yours . . .

. . . alone . . .

The time that's spent
Is yours alone
The choice of how
Or where it's spent
Must be undertaken
With all the seriousness it merits
Like music, good or bad,
Once it's heard
It's gone in the air
Never again to be retrieved

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Image . . .

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/saudi-arabian-women-s-rights-activists-arrested-just-weeks-driving-n875771)

". . . Saudi authorities have detained at least six activists, including three of the country's most prominent women's rights campaigners, just weeks before the kingdom is set to lift a ban on women driving, people familiar with the arrests said Friday. . . As activists remain under pressure to keep silent, credit for reforms, such as lifting the ban on women driving, has largely gone to the king's 32-year-old son and heir, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He has relaxed some of the country's ultraconservative rules by allowing women into stadiums to watch sports and bringing back musical concerts and movie theaters. . . Such measures, however, are more about boosting the economy and improving the country's image abroad, and less about promoting personal freedoms. The kingdom remains an absolute monarchy where protests are illegal and where the king and his son oversee all major decision-making. . ."

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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Punch . . .

. . . diplomacy . . .

(https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iranians-to-punch-US-Secretary-of-state-in-mouth-says-Iranian-official-558028)
". . . (U.S. Secretary of State Mike)Pompeo said on Monday Washington would impose new penalties if Tehran did not make sweeping changes, including dropping its nuclear program and pulling out of the Syrian civil war. . . The people of Iran should stand united in the face of this and they will deliver a strong punch to the mouth of the American Secretary of State and anyone who backs them," Ismail Kowsari, the deputy commander of the Sarollah Revolutionary Guards base in Tehran said, according to the Iranian Labour News Agency.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Selfishness . . .

Selfishness sometimes seems
My strongest character trait
Service to the 'master'
Leaves all other duties in the dust

Up To Here
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Monday, May 21, 2018

Bittersweet . . .

Bad with the good
That's the way that we should
Take what comes in this life

It isn't the easiest thing that we do
Resigning oneself
Like there's nothing in lieu

But the race must continue
And alternatives few
Or just not quite desirable

Bittersweet
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

Hard . . .

. . . work . . .

Work hard now
For all the things
You want
Suffer now
For better later
And rest assured
Your efforts are not wasted

Good comes well
To those who wait
And make the right investment
Dreaming idly never
Makes a contribution
Towards a future
For which you yearn

Long Term Short
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