Friday, March 4, 2016

2,071 Years and We Still Have Not Learned! Glass Ceiling and The Basement. Trump Fixation.


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This from one of my closest friends and fellow memo reader:

"YOU REALLY DO DO GOOD 'WORK'- ALTHOUGH FOR YOU, I HONESTLY DON'T THINK IT'S 'WORK'."

My response: "Thanks, I have lots of helpers in that I mostly post what others write.  Me"

Another old and dear friend and fellow memo reader said the previous posting regarding Marine Col.Ollie North has been debunked. North warned about " Abud Nidal" not Osama bin Laden. 
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Will we ever figure it out???

“The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance."
- Cicero, 55 BC  

So, evidently we've learned NOTHING over the past 2,071 years!

Guess it just takes a long time for discipline to sink into thick skulls!
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Will the FBI do what their Brazilian equivalent is doing regarding corruption? 

Shakespeare was right when he said something was rotten but not only in Denmark. It is throughout the entire world. (See 1,1a and 1b below.)

Thursday night's debate showed, once again, Kasich is the adult but he lacks personality.  He is accomplished and has a record of achievement but he is dull. Were it not for his facial tick and for television he would be electable.  Sad!
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Well women have finally broken through the glass ceiling but many seemed to have ended up in the basement, unmarried and growing in numbers. (See 2 below.)
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Everyone seems fixated on the possible nomination of Trump.  Is it because they are trying to avoid having to defend their love affair with Hillarious?

If one can analogize our situation in medical terms we may soon have to choose between syphilis and gonorrhea so if you want to ease the pain and take you mind off this conundrum just think, we may soon be able to go to war with N Korea and Iran.

Meanwhile why is Israel waiting to fight Hamas? (See 3 below.)
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500 high school choir students sing the U.S. National anthem in a high-rise hotel.  Each night before curfew, they gather on their balconies to sing the Star-Spangled Banner from the balconies of the 18-story atrium at Louisville's downtown Hyatt Regency as part of the Kentucky Music Educators
convention.   
You  get goose bumps when you hear them sing.
  

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/anthofius3
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1) Brazil set to rally further as police detain Lula

Speculation is flying that President Rousseff will resign as early as this weekend after Brazilian police detained former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at his home.

This new phase of the Petrobas (NYSE:PBR) corruption probe is being dubbed "Aletheia" - meaning "real search" - by the police.


1a)

The State of Our Union Is Bleak



While all eyes are (understandably) focused on the GOP’s spectacular presidential meltdown, the Democratic Party’s problems are quietly mounting.

Consider two stories from yesterday’s papersThe first, in the New York Times, on plummeting turnout in the Democratic primaries:
Democratic turnout has fallen drastically since 2008, the last time the party had a contested primary, with roughly three million fewer Democrats voting in the 15 states that have held caucuses or primaries through Tuesday, according to unofficial election results tallied through Wednesday afternoon.

… Some Democrats now worry that Mrs. Clinton will have difficulty matching the surge in new black, Hispanic and young voters who came to the polls for President Obama in 2008 and 2012.
And the second, in the Washington Post on the latest turn in the ongoing investigation into possible misconduct by the presumptive Democratic nominee:
The Justice Department has granted immunity to a former State Department staffer, who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official.
These stories should remind us that the weakness in our key political institutions is bipartisan. The Republicans are suffering from an establishment power vacuum that has allowed a demagogue to very nearly take control of the party; and the Democratic establishment, constantly trailed by an air of scandal and suspicion, is unable to engender much enthusiasm from its base. It’s still not clear which of the two parties will win the demolition derby that the 2016 election has become. But it’s looking more and more that no matter which party ‘wins’ this bizarre election contest, the clear loser is the United States.

Our political system is in deep trouble, and while one can think of some procedural fixes that could help (superdelegates on the Republican side, stronger and more impartial enforcement of government rules on information security and conflict of interest in the case of the Clinton machine) the real problems are more dangerous and harder to treat: A moral and spiritual collapse that has frayed the bonds between the country’s ordinary people and those who seek to lead them, a hollowing out of institutions from Congress and political parties to local churches and civic life, and the disintegration of a shared national intellectual and cultural framework for discussing the issues that confront us. As we approach a critical presidential election at a time of global turmoil and disorder, the state of our union is not strong.  



   






Right Message. Wrong Messenger.

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