Prescience from the past century -

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Thursday October 08, 2020 · 9:18 PM PDT

2020/10/08 · 21:18

Octavia E. Butler wrote “Parable of the Talents” in 1998 and included the following;

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Whose March was worse, Napoleon’s or Trump’s?

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Thursday March 12, 2020 · 1:26 PM PDT

2020/03/12 · 13:26

Napoleon’s march; He marched from Poland to Moscow and then back to Poland. He left Poland with 422,000 troops He got to Moscow and then turned around and marched back to Poland defeated, arriving with 10,000 troops.

Trump’s March 2020 … well we are pretty familiar with Trump’s March.

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State of the Union?

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Friday January 18, 2019 · 12:45 PM PST

2019/01/18 · 12:45

State of the Union submitted in written form? Heck no, he needs to submit it on Twitter!

Respecting Election results

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Thursday October 20, 2016 · 2:06 PM PDT

2016/10/20 · 14:06

Donald, I will respect the results of the election when you lose. I will also rejoice in the reduced costs of only having to deport one (you can take your family if they choose to go with you.) instead of 11,000,000.

Oh, and Donald, you are fat and ugly.

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Overheard in the Perry While House

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Saturday June 20, 2015 · 5:48 PM PDT

2015/06/20 · 17:48

Aide; "Mr. President, you just told them to 'Press's the Red Button!' The city of Kosicgrad is a pile of ashes."

P.O.T.U.S; "did I? I though I said 'Press the red bunting.' You know, for the BBQ on. Sunday. And send my regrets to all those unfortunate people... all those outside of a fifty mile radius. No let's send 'em some BBQ instead, do these glasses make me look ineffectual?"

Aide; "You mean intellectual."

P.O.T.U.S; "Yeah, that too."

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Wednesday May 01, 2013 · 12:22 PM PDT

2013/05/01 · 12:22

Just a quicky-I find these "new" pop-ups recruiting signatures for petitions annoying and unhelpful. I view DK on a tablet often and they are difficult to dismiss. They also pop-up whether or not I have already signed the petition or not. I have checked my status and found that I have indeed signed some more than once. I have now simply stopped signing.

An added distraction is the growing number of e-mail solicitations for "small" donations so that we can reach $xxx.xx by a certain time. I believe I receive an average of four of these a day: "just send $3.00."

That adds up to $4,000 per year which is a third of my Social Security (as of today!)

I am sure that I got on these lists by either signing a petition here or by donating a "small" amount here. I don't do that through any other site. I no longer donate.

This all is a site mutation that I find annoying. JMHO

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