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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Numbers . . .

. . . worth noting . . .

(from https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/right-wing-extremism-linked-to-every-2018-extremist-murder-in-the-us-adl-finds)
". . . Right-wing extremists killed more people in 2018 than in any year since 1995, the year of Timothy McVeigh’s bomb attack on the Oklahoma City federal building. . . ADL’s Center on Extremism, which has aggregated data going back to 1970, shows that over the last decade, a total of 73.3 percent of all extremist-related fatalities can be linked to domestic right-wing extremists, while 23.4 percent can be attributed to Islamic extremists. The remaining 3.2 percent were carried out by extremists who did not fall into either category. . ."

(also note it does say 'right-wing extremists' and NOT Republicans)

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Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Competition . . .

(from https://goskybound.com/unhealthy-and-healthy-competition/)
". . . Unhealthy competition puts a disproportional amount of emphasis on the outcome, rather than valuing the process or the journey involved in getting there. And when the outcome becomes the sole focus, it can promote the idea that a person or team has to do “whatever it takes” in order to succeed. This mentality can then lead to all sorts of bad decisions and unethical practices. . ."

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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Ideal . . .

. . . world? . . .

In an ideal world
We would offer what we do best
To whomever needed or wanted it
Without recompense
And in turn would
Receive what we needed (or wanted) most
Without cost from those that could provide it

No one would covet
What they did not need
No one would desire
More than they actually needed
All would readily offer help
To those in need
Not because of a mythological eternal reward
But simply because it is the correct thing to do

Perfect World
©1997 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Monday, March 18, 2019

I'll . . .

. . . take it . . .

MOTHER CHI by Ray Jozwiak - YouLicense.com
Rated Oct 08 • 1 review • jazz • youlicense.com
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"This is wonderful! I am not swayed a bit by the fact that the song bares my name or that it makes me feel like I'm running carefree through the woods on my toes with fairies and snoopy and woodstock! Bravo my dear man for your vision."

Mother Chi
©2008 Raymond M. Jozwiak
From For The Ride

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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Another . . .

. . . day at the beach
I'm just not sure which
Is it Sunday or Saturday?
Or maybe Monday?
It really doesn't matter at all
And not because I do not care!
It's because regardless of what
The calendar says
This day is brand new
And beautiful
And brings with it the promise
Of many and new opportunities
To live, love, create, enjoy, ruminate
Or, conversely, do nothing
Absolutely nothing
In any case, it's beginning now
As you can see
And I intend to make the very best of it
As I will do again tomorrow

Una Momento
Improvisation by Ray Jozwiak

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Saturday, March 16, 2019

Moment . . .

Hey you down there on the ground
Don’t you think that it’s time
You should fly
And do you consider the cost
Of the pride that you wear
Like a smile

Take this moment
You’ve got here
You may not
Get another try
Sometimes only
One chance comes around
At a time

It’s two that’s the number required
For the dance that we do
To get by
A few drag you into the mire
But they’re strong
Many wiles they devise

Doomed if you don’t learn
Farce is what you earn from the tragedy
What have we to gain
By being stubborn?

Moment
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak
rough demo of new OHO tune in progress

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Friday, March 15, 2019

Light . . .

. . . sentence?

(from https://www.courant.com/opinion/op-ed/hc-op-heffernan-manafort-blameless-0313-20190313-inx5veg56nfo5k35cp6qyzf2c4-story.html)

". . . Who knows how someone like Ellis (Judge T.S. Ellis III, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia) decides someone like Manafort deserves such magnificent leniency? To start, there’s this: The two men have class, race, gender and, evidently, party in common. . . Ellis, who turns 80 in May, was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. In the same decade, Reagan also appointed Manafort, who had campaigned for him, to be associate director of the personnel office at the White House. . . It should go without saying that federal sentencing guidelines are no one’s partisan whim. They were established in the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which passed with majority support in both houses. (The ‘80s were evidently a weird time when both parties cared about equality and justice.). . . Compare Ellis’ gratuitous hymn to Manafort’s angelic nature with the sentencing memo filed last month by Mueller’s team, which laid out how Manafort “repeatedly and brazenly violated the law” over the course of a decade. Even Manafort’s daughter described her father’s fortune as “blood money” and said he had no “moral or legal compass.” And even when Thomas J. Barrack Jr., Trump’s real estate crony, warmly recommended Manafort as campaign chair, he cited not the operator’s pure heart but his cold blood. He’s “lethal,” Barrack wrote. . .Evidently Manafort is lethal — to the moral reasoning of anyone who, like Ellis, might be blinded by gaudy-white-man social status. For five decades, Manafort has gotten a double-wide pass for his ego, his financial crimes and his whitewashing of regimes accused of human rights abuses. . ."

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