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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Real . . .

(from The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot)
". . . Shortly after 9:00 PM on March 12, 1956, Jesus de Galindez, a lecturer in Spanish and government at Columbia University, finished leading a graduate seminar at Hamilton Hall and headed home. One of his students offered to drive him to the Columbus Circle subway station so he could take a downtown train to his Greenwich Village apartment. He was never seen again by friends or colleagues. . . Galindez was taken to a torture chamber in the capital city, (of the Dominican Republic) where he was stripped, handcuffed, and hoisted on a pulley. Then he was slowly lowered into a tub of boiling water. What remained of him was thrown to the sharks, a favorite disposal method of the dictator (Rafael Trujillo). . . "

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Monday, July 3, 2017

Studies . . .

(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-study-casts-doubt-on-whether-a-15-minimum-wage-really-helps-workers/?utm_term=.0f77955a9ac4)

". . . When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers. . . some employers have not been able to afford the increased minimums. They've cut their payrolls, putting off new hiring, reducing hours or letting their workers go, the study found. . . The costs to low-wage workers in Seattle outweighed the benefits by a ratio of three to one, according to the study. . .The paper's conclusions contradict years of research on the minimum wage. Many past studies, by contrast, have found that the benefits of increases for low-wage workers exceed the costs in terms of reduced employment -- often by a factor of four or five to one. . . Experts cautioned that the effects of the minimum wage may vary according to the industries dominant in the cities where they are implemented along with overall economic conditions in the country as a whole. . . And critics of the research pointed out what they saw as serious shortcomings. In particular, to avoid confusing establishments that were subject to the minimum with those that were not, the authors did not include large employers with locations both inside and outside of Seattle in their calculations. Skeptics argued that omission could explain the unusual results. . ."

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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Fine . . .

. . . print . . .

(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban-case.html)
". . . The (supreme) court’s opinion sets up a historic legal clash in which the justices will weigh the president’s power to set national security priorities against the need to protect individuals from discrimination based on their religious beliefs or national origin. . . In saying they would take the case, the justices partly endorsed the administration’s view that the president has vast authority to control who crosses the border. They said the president’s powers to limit immigration “are undoubtedly at their peak when there is no tie between the foreign national and the United States.” . . . But the opinion also signaled that some of the justices might believe that Mr. Trump exceeded even that broad authority when he twice sought to impose a blanket ban on entry to the United States from certain predominantly Muslim countries. . ."

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Saturday, July 1, 2017

Plain . . .

. . . and simple . . .

(http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/morning-joe-hosts-say-white-house-used-national-enquirer-article-n778626 JUN 30 2017, 4:10 PM ET)
". . . ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts: White House Leveraged National Enquirer Article to Demand Apology. . ."

I don't care if talk show people disparaged Trump. Talk show people are able to DO THIS in America. We have freedom of speech. I don't care if talk show people did or did not attempt to stay at a Trump hotel or resort. I don't care about National Enquirer articles, talk show people having affiairs or about ANY of the details of this.

But unlike many others who merely say that it's not important, I DO CARE that I (and this country) have to suffer this imbecile as our Commander In Chief.

Plain and simple!

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Friday, June 30, 2017

Happy . . .

. . . to see that our President is firmly focused upon the most pressing issues concerning the citizens of the United States of America . . .

(http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/trump-tweets/)
Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump
...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
Jun. 29, 2017, 8:58 a.m.

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

Poor . . .

. . . baby . . .

(http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-mueller-s-friendship-comey-very-bothersome-n775906)
". . . President Donald Trump said he's concerned over the friendship between former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller, who was selected to replace Comey to investigate the Russian meddling in the 2016 election. . . In an interview that aired Friday on "Fox and Friends," Trump said Mueller is "very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.". . ."

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Wishfull . . .

The black coffee’s aroma hangs thick like a cloud every morning
He sorts through paisleys and patterns and stripes on the door
As he lifts up a vain little finger to stifle the blood
From a close shave in the battle of life
The late night crowd’s returning from an all night bout of drinking
While he’s all-consumed by grand delusions also known as wishful thinking

His star quality seems to escape everyone
Who would be in position to help him
Still he goes off each day in anticipation of all
Of the thrill and the joy that one feels
When he’s making interment arrangements
He’s misunderstood
A book a song a TV sitcom part you’d miss for blinking
Or a winning lotto ticket in his hand is only wishful thinking

Oh its nobody’s fault but his own
So few offers come over the phone
But he still perseveres faces up to his fears
That can cloud the intentions and bring on the tears

Still his spirits get lower each day that this program’s protracted
Moment by moment it takes all he has to go on
But he just grits his teeth charges in slings the arrows back into
The face of outrageous misguided conclusions
And even though he’ll never die a pauper or a rich king
He’s just not content to spend his time on anything but wishful thinking

Oh the groceries and the bills aren’t paid by talking or by drinking
So he just resumes the grind lacklusterly and does his wishful thinking

Wishful Thinking
©1992 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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