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I’m purposefully avoiding commenting about the substantive issues
of the RNC and DNC in this forum. I watched
both with great curiosity and anxiousness and sometimes anger. I saw some stuff in both conventions that
made me sad. I got really frustrated
listening to politicians and their staffs answering different questions than
they were being asked.
Worse, I’ve been observing how little a lot of people (including
the typically noisy/opinionated ones) seem to care about what went on during
these past two weeks. So maybe I worry
too much. But my conclusion is that we
truly deserve what we get.
I bet that a lot of people think that RNC/DNC was a rap group in
the 80s.
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People who say “fustrated” instead of “frustrated” seem to use their
version of the word A LOT. They spend
their lives mispronouncing the word while the rest of us flinch silently out of
a sense of politeness.
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Blind
wounded warrior hero and Paralympian Navy Lt. Brad Snyder won a gold medal today in swimming. The contest he won marked the one year
anniversary of the day he stepped on the bomb that took his eyesight in
Afghanistan. Besides being grateful and
indebted to Lt. Snyder for his service and sacrifice, I’m beyond impressed and
amazed. How does he know where he’s
going in the pool? He swims 400 Meters,
and really really fast! When I get soap
in my eyes in the shower, I panic.
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Canada closed its embassy in Iran this week. Canada knows all the same stuff we know about
Iran. Canada knows that Iran is a real
and vocal and imminent threat to the free world, and that it has Israel in its
crosshairs. Something convinced Canada
to break diplomatic ties with Iran. It’s
probably something really obvious.
“Diplomacy
means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all
your enemies.”
-Kofi
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