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Paul Schrum
Ph D, Forestry and Environmental Resources
Into Computational Geometry & Computer Modeling.
Researcher at NC State in the Computer Science Department.
#CSharp then #Python. Also #Godot for non-game applications.
Heroes: Euler, Gödel, Bonhoeffer
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If he can just make it to South Dakota, the perp should be able to get a pardon.
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Alt Alt headline: Peaceful Protests Work, Even Against Elderly Despots
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Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever seen Hegseth NOT smile.
Hmm.
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Those tanks may end up riding rails from DC to Sunny Point Army Terminal by Monday though.
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That was the showroom model.
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Deceptive messaging is to be expected at the beginning of a conflict. It's just, our guy is very polished at doing convincingly.
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We, as in the United States?
I know Israel is at war, and we are on the brink. But saying we are now at war (3:30 EST, 13 June), isn't that fast-forwarding a bit?
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If I may ...
When you worship the wrong power.
That's why "though the people couldn't see / what Messiah ought to be."
(Quote ref El Shaddai by Michael Card.0
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It seems the stress was more than he could bear.
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Reminds me of RW's interview on BBC today.
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Cute
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I can agree with every word you said and still stand by mine.
If he really is in an important office in Washington, then avoiding bluster is even more important now.
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Take a breath, Ang. Bluster tone serves no purpose.
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High off their decap of Hezbollah and the mortar/pestling of Gaza?
Leaders who strike while drunk sometimes get clapped back.
Not a prediction. More a characterization of priors.
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He got the nomination precisely because it was too big for him.
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That sounds right, and makes the garden party part of the cover story.
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♪ Those days are gone. ♪
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All the major players do.
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Good questions. All foreign governments have profiles on Trump and know how to manipulate him or take advantage of him. Someone with that ego is easily duped. They may have just waited for an internal crisis to do what they wanted to do.
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Someone must have wished we would live to see interesting times.
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We can't see these yet, right?
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Adding chronological notions ...
Forming planets (pre-stable)
Post-Nova planets (star went Nova, planet surface type disrupted)
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Thank you. I will add it to my list.
But as to our original point of differing views ...
I don't think I need to revisit it. (I started typing more lecture for you, but deleted it.) I think you and I agree on the essentials.
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Let me clarify. I was never in a "group" dedicated to racism or terror at any time.
But when I was in high school people would say things while I was around that were hateful and hurtful. It hurts me now just to think about them. Those "groups" were people forced together by being in public school.
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stand your last sentence. Can you articulate it a little more?
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You and I are in total agreement (so far). And I don't know what it is like to be on the receiving end of this terror. I know more of what it is like to hear white people snicker when they gloat over those things (when I was in high school mostly; I'm not in those groups anymore.)
But I don't un-
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Your point is well-taken.
But there is now one country where Davis (and those with him) wanted there to be two.
There is no legal slavery in any state.
They stopped shooting at us in ranks and files.
A through line is not the same thing as a country. The Confederacy was beaten. And will be again
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No.
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Losing an election is not a sign of being divided. It's a sign of having an election.
It's not having elections that will be the problem. And that is our trajectory. But the majority of Americans are united on the truth that we must continue to have fair elections.
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Nixon resigning under threat of impeachment is beating the cancer.
Have the last word as you like.
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Sorry I missed this when I crafted my first response to you.
Adding to that, we had scandals all along. Iran-Contra was in the same category as Teapot Dome. We beat the Confederacy. We got a good start on civil rights and affirmative action.
By 1982, the trajectory was arcing upward.
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If we don't distinguish between a totalitarian government and a government whose totalitarian wannabes are being pushed back, we won't know where to go next if we can vanquish our current cancer.
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Not disagreeing with you, but we had turned back Nixon, we had turned back Wallace. We had pulled out of a wrong-headed war.
Watergate was a cancer, but we beat it. A healthy body doesn't have absence of cancer. It has a healthy immune system that constantly cleans out cancer.
That was us then.
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What question was he trying to ask of Noem?
Whatever it was, we need to amplify it until she has no choice but to answer it.
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What question was he asking? We need to start repeating that question until she is forced to answer it.
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You were doing good up until you said we are not united.
We are. And it is our unity that will overcome the totalitarian. Don't accept the Kremlin's gaslighting message that the US is disunified. It is their agent (Krasnos) that is inflicting this unpleasantness on us. We are unified and united.
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Indeed.
Sad, isn't it.
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When I was in high school in the '70's and 80's, I wondered how totalitarianism could take hold in a country as great as the United States.
I don't wonder that anymore. But I do grieve.
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Dr. Laffer says it's going to be fine.
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Save a copy of this too
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There are reasons he never won New York or New Jersey.
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Uh-oh. Call out the National Guard.
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It's baked into their worldviews that they will misunderstand it.
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Los padres fundadores de esta nación no vivieron ni murieron para presenciar este momento. Es hora de que todos nos levantemos pacíficamente.