Former Miami federal criminal defense lawyer, Mexicana Airlines cargo station rep and oh yeah, Saudi Arabia.
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2025
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The Fire: Thai-Cambodia Border Skirmish, December, 2025 When I was in Riyadh, Houthi missiles would fall from time to time; now I am in Bangkok where a new …
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German Fanta has 3% fruit juice, real sugar and natural colors. American Fanta has no fruit juice, …
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Adm.Doenitz' order to machine-gun survivors of U-Boat attacks rather than take them as prisoners was …
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Business Dinner Ice Breaker It’s not uncommon to be at a business dinner, a wedding guest table or another venue where you …
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Pachamama None of that mattered. I had to do everything. Only in the mountains could the prayer be heard. I …
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Donald Mark Schoff Tried to Kill Me Karma is a universal force that balances accounts. The need for such balancing crosses all cultures. …
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The Missing Piece I have been thinking a lot about “what if”' scenarios. I also have been thinking about …
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Thanksgiving Terror
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Kenshin vs. Satan
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Wittgenstein’s Odd Classmate Ludwig Wittgenstein, the author of Philosophical Investigations and the Tractatus …
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When Clients Don't Pay Annals of Attorney Billing, Episode #432 Most firms only count collected hours, not mere billed …
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Paying Attorneys Fees with Story Rights D.C. Bar Rule 1.8(c) says, " (c) Prior to the conclusion of representation of a client, a …
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The Joan Anderson Letter: Copyright Conundrum UPDATED—October 31, 2025 An article in The American Scholar recounts the genesis of Jack Kerouac’s …
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Revisiting Half and Half Returning to Bahrain. The street they call the American Alley, near the US Naval Base, a place of …
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Smollet: Yes; Santos: No I just watched a documentary about Jusse Smollet, the gay black actor who claimed to be a victim of …
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How Trump gets a Third Term Bannon says “run anyway”: the Supremes will interpret the 22nd Amendment to add the word …
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How Trump Gets a Third Term
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More Job Hunting Tips Have an actor dress up as a police officer or detective (if male, a fedora is required) and visit …
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Lawyer Superhero
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Job Hunting Tips For eight hundred bucks you can purchase a 21 foot container. Have it delivered to the loading dock …
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English Language Chauvinism I just learned that LinkedIn’s filters only work in the English language. I can’t write, …
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Nganga The recent film Rosario has as one of its themes the Afro-Cuban religion known as palo mayombé, or …
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Another Reason why American Insurance is so Costly Six people in Palm Beach County Florida (Civil …
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AI Legal Hallucinations and Unsolved Erdös Problems We’ve just seen the first example (Maybe …
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A PDF Posting Test Running a test. If you want to read about Schooling for Seniors: …
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The Hotel Arbez (true story, novella length) A planned meeting with an NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence …
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William Scott Stewart
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Forthcoming No Marriage, No Children, No Future Save the Pilots, Save the Load, Save Yourself Just posted: Girl, …
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The Hotel Arbez A planned meeting with a NSA general in Geneva; an intelligence network operating in Syria set up by …
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New Identity Set Up In January 2024, my colleague crowbarred me into a conference call with Oliver Stanford, a potential …
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A Vietnamese-Speaking Lawyer Marguerite Duras published her autobiographical novel The Lover in 1984. Though she was already an …
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A Failed Tonkin Incident The US hasn’t invaded Venezuela but crowed about destroying a fast boat that may or may not have …
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Back to School: It’s Never Too Late to Chase Your Dreams The idea of full-time adult education caught my attention some time ago. Inexpensive student …
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Interesting Times The UFO community is excited by reports of several anomalies attendant to what is probably an …
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Lisa Cook Should Go to Jail James Brooks James Brooks was a carnie, a worker at a traveling carnival that moved from one …
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The Missing Piece I have been thinking a lot about “what if”' scenarios. I also have been thinking about …
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The Missing Piece I have been thinking a lot about “what if”' scenarios. I also have been thinking about …
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Law School and Assassination Law school will not teach you how to survive an assassination attempt. That is a skill you will have …
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Abrego Garcia and Anna Delvey In travel news, Trump wants to send Abrego Garcia to Uganda and federal troops to Chicago. Anna …
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How to Recover Your Windows Password I spent the better part of the day trying to get access to a Windows 11 laptop. I hadn’t used the …
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My Gerry Spence Story Gerry Spence, the famous trial lawyer, died yesterday. Here’s my Gerry Spence story.In 1990, I …
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The Grift What is more American than the grift? George Santos “embellished” his resumé, not worrying about the …
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The Hotel Arbez The Hotel Arbez was selected as a debriefing site. The border between France and Switzerland cuts …
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Shadow Puppets My first exposure to the shadow puppets was their display in the film The Year of Living …
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Puppet Show On the day I was stopped by police for possible involvement in an attempt to assassinate Jacques …
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An Act of Charity A young mother with her malnourished two year old son has staked out a begging post at the entrance …
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Relativity and AI Will AI Eat Relativity? Relativity relies on the availability of poorly-paid new law graduates to …
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Handicapping the Conclave (Guest post by Dr. D. Ball) There is an old saying: He who enters the conclave …
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Copy Machines Copy machines were always busy at the law office. Whatever you wrote, you needed one copy for …
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How to Start and Build a Law Practice by Jay Foonberg You can’t just start representing clients that fall into your lap without reading Jay Foonberg’s How …
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ChatGPT and Lawyers Let’s say that ChatGPT isn’t very good when it comes to the law. Hallucinations are an …
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Foreign Firms in Saudi Arabia A&O Shearman Andersen Global Ashurst Baker Botts Baker McKenzie Bracewell Clifford Chance Clyde …
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E-Mail Design Elements Emails today are like automobiles from say, 1915 to 1920 or so. The design hearkened back to the …
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Our Culture, Today
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Budgeting Litigation Few companies—especially those surprised by litigation—have a litigation budget. They don’t …
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One Thousand Tons of Chicken It is a lot easier to steal chicken if there’s no chicken to steal.
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Hunter Biden Laptop Story Sponsors Stripped of their Clearances 21 January 2025 Trump just issued an executive order stripping the security clearances of the 50 or …
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Let There Be Strife Lawyers: today and every day, say the non-denominational lawyer’s prayer: “Raise up …
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The Nicaraguan Route I worked for the Panama Canal Commission from 1981 through 1985. The first two years constituted the …
2024
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Not that Safe Three-pronged British electric plugs are touted as safer than US flat plugs. Brit plugs contain a …
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How to Find Bank of America E-mail Addresses Red State or Blue State, if you need to contact Bank of America customer service by email, the sole …
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Don’t Forget the Chicken Yesterday, I suggested a careful response to a Dutch blackmailer whose victim is a Saudi woman. …
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Beware of Spies Following the publication of Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp in the Navy Times, …
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Test A test.
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110 v. 220 Voltage in Saudi Arabia Lately, I have had little success with cooking in Riyadh. My appliances, an …
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Austin Tice As of a year ago, Austin Tice was held in the basement of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, the …
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USA My fellow obese citizens: Americans overseas are afraid to express nationalism. Own your …
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Revisiting Half and Half Returning to Bahrain. The street they call the American Alley, near the US Naval Base, a place of …
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Revisiting Half and Half Returning to Bahrain. The street they call the American Alley, near the US …
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Paying Attorneys Fees with Story Rights D.C. Bar Rule 1.8(c) says, " (c) Prior to the conclusion of representation of a client, a …
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SIBOR “SIBOR” or sometimes “SAIBOR” means the Saudi Arabian Interbank Offered …
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Don’t Back Down When you’ve submitted the work as per contract and you’re asked for an additional discount, don’t …
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A Curious Case A Colombian woman was indicted in 1995 or so on a historical cocaine conspiracy case. While several …
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It practically writes itself.
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Truman Capote, Jane Bowles Truman Capote on Jane Bowles. Yes, thatJane Bowles. trumancapoteonjanebowles.pdf
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More Austin Tice When information concerning Austin Tice’s whereabouts were offered to the USG in June, …
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Austin Tice As of one year ago, Austin Tice, American law student, journalist and former Marine officer, was …
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Autorenewing Subscriptions I just got off the phone with my bank. They put a hold on my credit card because, at 0800 EST, there …
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PetroSaudi Series Picked Up by Netflix Netflix picks up Jho Low, PetroSaudi, 1MDB story: deadline.com/2023/11/n… #PetroSaudi #JhoLow …
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Lawyer’s Lament
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Assange and US “Assurances” US assurances don’t mean much. See, Sholam Weiss: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shol… …
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Form Book vs. AI The ABA doesn’t require law schools to teach a class in “drafting legal …
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Relativity Software Fix Sometimes software problems are so complex that the only solution is spiritual help. In this case, …
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White & Case and 1MDB Looks like White & Case has some liability… The principal White & Case lawyer …
2023
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Chicago Alderman Edward Burke Convicted I remember Burke’s run for the office of Cook County State’s attorney in 1980. His ads featured a …
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Promises, Promises \#PetroSaudi
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PetroSaudi Series Picked Up by Netflix Netflix picks up Jho Low, PetroSaudi, 1MDB story: deadline.com/2023/11/n… PetroSaudi #jholow …
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Lawyer’s Lament
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Tarek Obaid, CEO of PetroSaudi Because of the personal injury bar and public defenders, people believe that lawyers work for free. …
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Form Book vs. AI The ABA doesn’t require law schools to teach a class in “drafting legal …
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Falling Down The economic system is a secret game of musical chairs. One day the music stops and you’re …
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Story of an Unsuccessful Kidnapping My client, Tamid, had a joint venture with the notorious ⁜ of Indonesia. His partner was Prince …
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Run Like a Demon Q. We need our special teams receiver to run like the wind after catching 4th down punts. Can we …
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Thoughts On The Grift Given the interest in the subject, it is strange that there is not a more fully-developed literature …
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On the Representation of Criminal Defendants I remember when I saw WWH’s “lending bank” at a strip mall in Provo or some godforsaken place. I …
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Can Happen Here The best way to deal with Trump is to ignore him. But we can’t–the media won’t let …
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Double Standard If you’re not protesting about Prighozin, you don’t get to complain about Khashoggi.
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Double Standard MbS is ostracized for Khashoggi while everyone stands around looking at their toes in the wake of …
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You read it here first.
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My Mother the Juror My mother served on a petit jury when she was 75 and had the time of her life. It was an excuse to …
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App Test Let’s see if it works.
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Initial Thoughts about Trump Indictment It’s hard not to be dramatic in response to this. First, the indictment proves my point that …
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With You and I Mind your Pronouns I heard a native speaker say, “They can come with you and I.” This is incorrect. …
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Patti Smith Patti is a poet; friend of Robert Mapplethorpe (she wrote about him in Just Kids.) She was part of …
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Before the Pandemic I had just returned to Saudi Arabia. This is the view from my office on the Dammam Highway.
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Roast Beef v. Thailand “Why do you like Thailand so much?” they asked. Lunch in Chicago: six chicken wings, french fries …
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Roast Beef v. Thailand “Why do you like Thailand so much?” they asked. Six chicken wings, french fries and a roast beef …
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Six Hour Delay: BA Held My Passport Hostage in Dubai My friend left his passport in the aircraft seatback at 0800 March 30 2023. Flt. 105 LHR-DXB. An …
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The Mandalay Bay Massacre and Saudi Arabia Some have suggested that the death of 58 concert-goers in the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas in …
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Underground Bahrain Is there a Bahrain underground? This book answers that question and tells the story of its denizens.
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Underground Bahrain This book claims that there is an underground in Bahrain and tells the story of its denizens.
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Interesting Book This book claims that there is an underground in Bahrain and tells the story of its denizens.
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Instead He Wrote Howl
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Follow the Science The LGBTQ Community Causes Earthquakes, Concludes Rabbi
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Bremerton FAQ The U.S. Supreme Court has approved private, voluntary prayer at high school football games. The …
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The US Supreme Court The Court lost all intellectual integrity with Dobbs. It is now a political body whose decisions are …
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Film Firearm Rules Alex Baldwin has some ‘splainin to do. Rules on Set No clowning around! Anyone pointing firearms at …
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Mail in the Middle East Mail in the Middle East is routinely not delivered. Is this a cultural issue (mail in Riyadh was …
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Ten Tips for Going In-House Identify your Enemy This is probably the most important. Even if you join the large in-house legal …
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The Dark Forest Hypothesis
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So What If He Never Said It?
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Manufactured Crime Wastes Law Enforcement Resources They did it again. In the Liberty City 7 case, an FBI freelance troublemaker tried to convince a …
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A Den of Thieves Pennsylvania’s senator Fetterman just spent nine days in the hospital. “Sheriff” …
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Race/Ethnicity Imposters Anna Paulina Luna George Santos Rachel Dolezal Sherry Stanley Jimenez William Montgomery McGovern …
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Race/Ethnicity Imposters Anna Paulina Luna George Santos Rachel Dolezal Sherry Stanley Jimenez William Montgomery McGovern …
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Plastic Money After four days of using polypropylene currency: I don’t like it. It doesn’t fold. It …
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Horizontal Space in Ulysses If you need blank horizontal space in Ulysses, try using a UTF-8 space character. Ulysses does not …
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New Treasurer for George Santos Santos' best bet now is to appoint a Portuguese-speaking treasurer living in a small town in Brazil. …
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Killer Cops If the Memphis killer cops had been white, the country would be in flames.
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A Perfect Day for an Exorcism In order to expel evil from her home after the attempt on her husband’s life, House Speaker Nancy …
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The Nature of the Law
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Monterey Park Motive A bitter, lonely old man with access to an assault weapon decided to share the pain of loneliness …
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The $750,000 Santos Mystery Solved Drumroll please: the mystery of the Santos $750,000 campaign contribution solved.
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The $750,000 Santos Mystery Solved Drumroll please: the mystery of the Santos $750,000 campaign contribution solved. santos …
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Lawyers: How to Differentiate Lawyers fail to monetize their networks. This often has value. Instead, lawyers pretend that it …
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Lawyers: How to Differentiate Lawyers fail to monetize their networks. This often has value. Instead, lawyers pretend that it …
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Give Santos a Break OK, he lied. He’s not Jewish, his grandparents had nothing to do with the Holocaust, he didn’t work …
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George Santos: American Really, what is more American than the grift? George Santos “embellished” his resumé, not worrying …
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Give Santos a Break OK, he lied. He’s not Jewish, his grandparents had nothing to do with the Holocaust, he didn’t work …
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Cali’s New Evidentiary Rule No longer can rap lyrics be held against their author in a criminal trial, a new California law …
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Horizontal Space in Ulysses If you need blank horizontal space in Ulysses, try using a UTF-8 space character. Ulysses does not …
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Dobbs Leak Investigation Update
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Militarized Police If anyone doubts how militarized US law enforcement has become, look at these badged, armed idiots …
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Dark Forces Apparently, this is still needed since the conspiracy theorists have suggested that dark forces have …
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Schooling for Seniors While previously I focused on Southern Illinois University’s “Returning Scholar Program” and its …
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Stackexchange Editor Problem
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How to Find a Lawyer Overseas Need a lawyer overseas? How do you find one? It really depends on the country and the type of case. …
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The Santos Protocol A New Way to Find a Job Today’s job hunt should start with careful invention following the example …
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The Santos Protocol A New Way to Find a Job Today’s job hunt should start with careful invention following the example …
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How an Apostrophe Almost Landed Me in Jail John Delorean I feel for those whose surnames include a ‘de, di, la’, an ‘al-’, …
2022
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You asked, We quacked
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But Britney’s a Special Case Britney Griner was benefited in more ways than one by the extraordinary prisoner exchange with …
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Horizontal Space in Ulysses If you need blank horizontal space in Ulysses, try using a UTF-8 space character. Ulysses does not …
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Eastern Brown Snake I had a conversation about these critters last week. They are found, fortunately enough, in …
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The Duke of Sodom and a Time Travel Mystery Solved I came across a reference, in a new biography of Colette, to the “Duke of Sodom,” a French dandy, …
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Paul Pelosi Update While the arresting officers’ body cams have not been released, at least one journalist has seen the …
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An Act of Charity A young mother with her malnutritioned two year old son has staked out a begging post at the …
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Moving Tips Two ideas: throw stuff out. 10% won’t survive the move anyway. Put stuff in storage. If you …
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The Gerontocracy The American president is eighty years old. Eighty. Years. Old. We are ruled by a gerontocracy. …
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Brooks Sentenced to 762 Years in Prison Darrell Brooks, the Waukesha hit and run murderer, was sentenced this week to six consecutive life …
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Twitter’s 8 Bucks Plan If Twitter: –starts charging $8 for verification to meet KYC (Know Your Customer) anti-money …
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Saudis Help Achieve Ukrainian Prisoner Exchange Perhaps the US would be wise to stop insulting the Saudi petroleum minister and attacking the Saudis …
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More on the Mail; a Trystero in Panama and a Lonely Parrot The predilection for writing letters did not begin in Bahrain. In another lifetime, I worked for the …
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The Stateless Suckling An infant lay in a baby carriage in front of the photo studio. I was there to get visa pictures as …
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Drug War News One undiscussed aspect of the pardon is whether those who are incarcerated on other offenses, but …
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Laptop Landlords Property owners who delegate rental management to local companies an who may never even have visited …
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US v. UK In the US, it’s .” In the UK, it’s ”. When writing Markdown, it’s *. or .* Because it doesn’t matter …
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Typewriters Typing envelopes is a practical use for a typewriter. By the time you: open a WP program find …
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A Unanimous Decision In 1975, the US Senate unanimously agreed to posthumously restore citizenship to Robert E. Lee and …
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No Intellectual Integrity It is now silly to pretend that there is any intellectual integrity to Supreme Court decisions. For …
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Saudi Biden Fist-Bump News This is the kind of nonsense I’d expect from grifters, con artists and others of that ilk. In …
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Cosplaying Coward Cops While the killer murders children, cosplaying coward cops make sure their hands are sanitized. The …
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Quemoy and Matsu 60 years after arguing about Quemoy and Matsu we’re still arguing about Quemoy and Matsu.
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Bahrain Stats Good news Bahrain: The number of Active Covid-19 cases is dropping. 12,747 as of 4 July. There is …
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Soul-Eating Monster Q. “We are playing the conference champions next week and our team has had a dismal record. …
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Football Prayer Rug American Muslims: now that the US Supreme Court in Bremerton has approved midfield prayer during …
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June Stats June stats: the number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has started to level off, with daily …
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Bremerton FAQ The U.S. Supreme Court has approved private, voluntary prayer at high school football games. The …
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“Historic” Legislation The proposed “historic” American gun legislation is anything but: no restrictions on …
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Protecting Democracy What’s strange– and really more dangerous than anything else –is that both sides …
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No More English Efforts to “de-gender” the English language by using neologisms (e.g. “latinx”) have …
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British Ooze Under Your Shoes Anyone who makes it from Calais, whether legally or not, should be given refugee status because of …
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Assange Plea Here are the outlines for a face-saving plea for the USG in the Assange case: Guilty plea to a …
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Not Refugees Chilean-resident Haitians who have lived in Chile for five years are not refugees. Chile #haiti …
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Evergreening the Vig Evergreening: “To roll over unpaid amounts on loans, adding to the total amount …
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Save Money on Business Consulting No need to waste millions on McKinsey’s business consulting advice; the t-shirt says it all.
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LIV PGA Hypocrisy There is so little to write about when covering golf that the slightest variation from the game’s …
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Kids Need Guns and They Need Them Now “Imagine some would-be mass shooter bursting into a classroom only to be faced almost instantly by …
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Not Looking Good The number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain continues to rise.
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On the Submission of Appellate Briefs One great way to have a brief pompously returned is to you with directions to “correct and …
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Kosovo and Ukraine Kosovo voted for independence and the will of the people was respected. Crimea voted for union with …
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Not Looking Good Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain for the month of June, 2022. The numbers are going up, not down.
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Lawyers Futzing Do clients know they are paying seasoned lawyers to futz with document formatting? This is a direct …
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Infected Thought Reuters asks: “should a female elephant have some of the same legal rights as humans? In a push to …
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How Many Banks? According to the NY Times, at least 20 banks are putting up 1/3rd of the money Elon needs to buy …
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Roe v. Wade Leak First drafts don’t get typeset in 12 pt Century. This is a “draft” only in the …
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Twitter’s Largest Foreign Shareholder I have pointed out that KSA is the largest foreign shareholder of Twitter. I was corrected here and …
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Kyle Rittenhouse back in the News Kyle Rittenhouse criticized Biden (for criticizing him). Kyle, here’s some advice: some day you …
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A Second Act (Congressman Alcee Hastings died this week). Alcee Hastings, a civil rights leader in the 1970’s, …
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Don’t Turn off the Projector Only one type of speech is properly prohibited and that is speech which seeks to censor others. A …
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Da’esh and the Dakotas The report of Jeffrey Stahl Ferris’ suicide after a federal jury found him guilty of terror-related …
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Bad Luck for Me I spent a good deal of February researching and writing a brief volume titled, Saudi Arabia Privacy …
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Houthis Hit Refinery in Jeddah The Houthis have substantially improved the accuracy of their targeting and hit an Aramco refinery …
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The Interview with the Prime Minister Context: a few weeks ago, an influencer announced that he had obtained an exclusive interview with …
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Total Loss The Ukrainians have pledged to rebuild the An-225 six-engined superplanc transporter, the only one …
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HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR CV (AND GET IT READ) Facebook gets 15,000 applications for every announcement of a new job opening, You would need an …
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Not Likely They’ll Work Now It’s the best we can do.
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Colonel Sanders, International Man of Mystery Colonel Sanders, International Man of Mystery You may only know him as a Kentucky lawyer who came up …
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Maglev Trains Usually at this point I would rant about McKinsey’s advice to US companies to offshore and outsource …
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A Cautionary Fairy Tale A certain Big 4 accounting firm had a client who wanted a cat-catcher license in the Canal Zone, a …
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Blue Diamond Affair: KSA and Thailand Restore Ties The Thai Prime Minister, Prayut Chan o Cha, visited Riyadh on Tuesday, January 25th. Following his …
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Here We Go
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Freedom from Responsibility Freedom from responsibility. America’s freedoms have been boiled down to one issue: “do they make …
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More on Ivermectin The MSM has pushed Ivermectin as a horse dewormer, and anyone who attempts to contradict this dogma …
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Escaped Macaques Following a crash involving a dump truck, three macaques escaped from their cages while being …
2021
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Ivermectin and Balance CNN, at least in this instance, has stopped calling Ivermectin a veterinary medicine and more …
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I Over the Pole The last time I flew on an A-380 was in business class returning to Dubai from Munich. Today I am …
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Treatments Two years ago, there was no treatment for the Sickness; in that context I predicted that the …
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South Sudan The separatist war that birthed South Sudan was particularly brutal. The northern part of the …
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I Don’t Care What You Say, There is No Such Thing as a Mainstream Media ‘Narrative’
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I Couldn’t Resist This Those who say that acquittal was a foregone conclusion? Nope. Not when the jury is out for four …
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Indeed (from the NY Post) “𝙽𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚍 𝚏𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚎: 𝙷𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚍𝚗’𝚝 𝚋𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚞𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜; 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 …
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How to Fire an Employee It is important to recognize that no employee ever gets fired because of financial reasons. …
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Москва (The foul-mouthed, softball-playing, draft-dodging eighth graders from St. Priscilla’s are at it …
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School for Seniors Do you remember my scheme for spending my retirement in a college town? Many of you thought that I …
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Waiting for the Announcement How will we know the pandemic is over? Just as there was no formal announcement of the pandemic’s …
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Test Test after crash.
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Truth and Evidence It’s interesting (at least to me) how different systems or professions address the issue of truth. …
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Vietnam In a very real sense, I grew up with Vietnam. The war the Vietnamese call the “American War” was on …
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How an Apostrophe Almost Landed Me in Jail John Delorean I feel for those whose surnames include a ‘de, di, la’, an ‘al-’, …
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Equus “Is Ivermectin safe? When used for the current indications, at the currently approved doses, …
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Schooling for Seniors Update As it turns out, university tuition is tax-deductible for seniors who return to school to obtain …
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Federal Mask Mandate The US Department of Transportation has extended the federal mask mandate to January, 2022, …
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R.Kelly Trial: Where’s the Jury? The trial of R. Kelly on federal racketeering charges is being held on a semi-virtual basis: the …
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Mask or No Mask I’ll go out on a limb and say that much of the civil strife in the United States is between …
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Library Blues
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There really was a Pierre Menard. But he did not write the Quijote, contrary to Mr. Borges' …
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Selling your Condo? Selling a condo isn’t easy these days. Real estate agents have to do due …
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Murder in West Cork If depicted accurately in the documentary Murder in West Cork, the evidence: changed stories …
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Explosive Flatulency as a Risk Factor for Covid-19 While often a matter of juvenile humor, it has become increasingly obvious to the peer-reviewed …
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Escalante Gave Up Gloria Escalante, a condo board member unit owner in the collapsed Champlain Towers South building, …
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Another Accurate Prediction Potential buyers (erroneously referred to by real estate agents as “clients”1) are now asking for …
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Bolivian Admiral Arrested A Bolivian admiral was arrested for his role in the military coup that overthrew Evo Morales. …
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When There’s Nothing to Report “In a small moment of hope, a cat was seen wandering a lower floor of the remaining flank of the …
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Lockdown Suspended The number of cases in Bahrain during the last month has dropped from a high of 28,798 active cases …
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2021 Scorecard Storming of the US Capitol Trump Impeachment B737 Crash in Indonesia Outbreak of UK, So.African and …
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Schooling for Seniors I was sitting around with my roommates a few years ago and the subject of retirement came up, as did …
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Biden's Photo Op in Miami Beach Biden has nothing to do with the Champlain Towers South building collapse. Nothing. The feds have no …
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Hanging Spalls Florida’s vocabulary gifts: chad, as in “hanging chad” spall (v.) Any others? …
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Champlain Towers Analysis There’s a lot being written about the Champlain Towers collapse, but perhaps, as a former owner of a …
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Trapped? Trapped in debris? Earthquake? Avalanche? Collapsed building? Or just visiting an Associated Press …
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Criminal Justice System is Arbitrary and Capricious The US criminal justice system is arbitrary and capricious. Sammy got 5 years for 19 murders. How …
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Schooling for Seniors I was sitting around with my roommates a few years ago and the subject of retirement came up, as did …
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Why Don’t Jurors Get Ballots? It occurs to me that jurors are left to their own devices when it comes to voting ballots on an …
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Bahrain on UK’s Redlist With all the discussion about the removal of Portugal from the UK travel bubble, few saw that …
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Assange If the NY Times and the rest of the Western MSM got behind Assange, that would be the end of it. …
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The Worth Avenue Gang Jennifer’s downfall was her fine taste in clothes. Not satisfied with shopping at Target or …
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Vaccination Passport *Fauda* My vaccination is linked to my Bahraini resident’s permit number (CPR). Unfortunately, that permit …
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US Shows Belarus the Way Interesting how Western governments and the Media™ have attacked Belarus for diverting and grounding …
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Truth Behind the Icon The iconic photo of Che Guevara was cropped. #photography #Original #PhotographyRedefined
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Book Sales The average U.S. book is now selling less than 200 copies per year and less than 1,000 copies over …
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Zoom Issues Has anyone been on a Teams/Zoom call (not w/in CONUS) where at least someone had a technical issue?
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Da’esh and the Dakotas The report of Jeffrey Stahl Ferris’ suicide after a federal jury found him guilty of terror-related …
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Maybe It's not Within the President's Power to Fix
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Who Needs Vaccines?
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Land of the Free--with Censorship
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Deplatforming is Censorship
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Don’t Pull the Plug The risk that someone will yell “Fire!” is no reason to pull the plug on the projector.
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Girl, Taken Arlington Heights is a tranquil place. World events seldom disturb the peace of the Northwest …
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Invitation to a Book-burning In today’s topsy-turvy world the liberals are in favor of censorship and the conservatives are …
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Two Houthi Drones They’ve been throwing these at Riyadh lately.
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Don’t Pull the Plug The risk that someone will yell “Fire!” is no reason to pull the plug on the projector.
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10 x 1/2 Saudi Arabia has roughly half the number of Active Covid-19 cases as Bahrain, but it has at least …
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Lined Up Karen National Union. Shan State Army. Now Kachin Independence Army. all lined up against the rebel …
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No Press, Please Perhaps they want to hide the efficient way the Suez Canal Authority is managing the crisis.
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Civil War in Myanmar The Shan State Army, along with the Karen National Union, lines up against the rebel Tatmadaw.
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The Dangers of Word for Word Translation
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The Satisfaction of Typing a Letter
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Trump on Trump
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Push Harder
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Coward Cops Back on the Beat
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Get Your CV Read
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Biden's Promises (From the Chicago Reader)
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Did you Cash your $2000 Check Yet?
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Censorship
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Biden Says
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Twitter’s Algos/AI Twitter has banned discussions of committing the ultimate harm to oneself, so the usual words for …
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Ivermectin Joins Hydroxy Ivermectin joins Hydroxychloroquine as a once highly-touted drug for the treatment of the Sickness …
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Cost Cutting Can Kill Colby Chandler, Kodak’s former CEO from 1983-1990 was proud of his cost cutting. He once took …
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Caveat from ODNI Assessment Here’s a caveat to a recent US ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) assessment: …
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Spanked by Twitter My account was suspended by Twitter for suggesting that, in view of the evidence of the Astra Zeneca …
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LLavero A young woman takes over her father’s drug business. By the time she points a gun at you, it’s too …
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President Biden's New Grandchild Hunter Biden is guaranteed to provide political comic relief for the next four years. Hunter …
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There are now three (four?) recognized dangerous Covid-19 variants: B.1.1.7 (United Kingdom) P1 …
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2021 Scorecard 2021 Scorecard: Storming of the US Capitol Trump Impeachment B737 Crash in Indonesia Outbreak of …
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The Coup in Myanmar Imagine if the generals of the Tatmadaw were advising Trump. After arresting Myanmar legislators and …
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No More Conspiracy Theories No More Conspiracy Theories I’m sick and tired of QAnon, Pizzagate and other conspiracy theories. …
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Government Depository Libraries Government Depository Libraries Every major university’s library, public and private, is a …
2020
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Vaccinations and Centenarians A vaccine is an immune system booster. It is not a cure or a treatment for disease. You have to have …
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Aaron Swartz: Blame MIT and USAO I wrote this four years ago, pointing out that the Swartz prosecution was political in nature. MIT …
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What do you call a Post-K Arbitration? An adjutorious arbitration; an archaic word but then again, in the law nothing is archaic. There has …
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Another Extrajudicial Killing You cannot applaud the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran while condemning the …
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Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan left the White House when he was 77 years old after serving two terms. Joe Biden today …
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Sumerian Wind Demons “There’s no freedom of religion unless you are free to worship Sumerian wind demons”
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Francis Scott Key and John Marshall Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star Spangled Banner, was an attorney in Maryland. And a …
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Trump's Post-Presidency It looks like Biden is the victor, assuming no court intervention. Whatever happens between now and …
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The Post-Presidency
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British Judicial Understatement In describing an incident where feces were found in the marital bed that Amber Heard shared with …
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Who Will Win? We won’t know on election night and there’s the rub. The courts may give the election to …
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How I Got My Twitter Account Back Whose Fault? When I woke up one morning in June, there was a message from Twitter on my phone, …
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Character Evidence Evidence of good character is relevant in many types of legal proceedings. How long before the …
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Facebook Obituaries How long before an obituary records the number of Facebook “likes” a person received …
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Jerry Jeff Walker RIP When you’re down on your luck And you ain’t got a buck In London, you’re a goner They say you remain …
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Hovering Around 3100 For the past six days, the number of active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has hovered around 3100.
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Sick Travelers Game the System Sick travelers game the system, putting everyone at risk, to be able to travel to Pakistan. This is …
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Embassies to the Middle East American cultural embassies to the Middle East: KFC McDonald’s Dunkin Donuts Krispy Creme …
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Travel Dreams Travel dreams.
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Bug the Fire Extinguishers When the CIA bugged the Ecuadorian embassy in London (howdey doodad?) they placed the bugs on the …
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What is Close Contact Close contact may not be close contact, and occasional contact may now be close contact. I guess.
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Howda hell diddy get dat? Howda hell diddy get dat?
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Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object Irresistible Force: Blaming the Russians, Cubans, Chinese Immovable Object: Having to pay your …
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Bulgarian Chihuaha Smugglers Bulgarian chihuahua smugglers operating in Norway may mean the death of this innocent animal.
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Lining Up In An Orderly Fashion This is what the US has been fighting for in Afghanistan.
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Foreign Policy by Indictment
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Childhood My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon. (From Austin Powers)
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Americans Can't Extend French Visas, But Chechen Murderers Get Ten Year Residency Americans can’t extend French Schengen visas, but Chechen murderers get ten year French …
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Sea-Launched Drones Bad news for the US Fifth Fleet: Iran now has sea-launched drones. The Fifth Fleet is headquartered …
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Proposed Scrivener Pleading Wizard One way to make Scrivener easier would be to add Wizards for common tasks, like compile. Back in the …
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Masked Confrontations Now Commonplace The masked and the maskless both have strong opinions. That is why fistfights break out over …
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Machine Gun Kelly Machine Gun Kelly was Italian, not Irish, as his name would otherwise suggest.
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Causeway Questions Clear Up The Causeway/border mystery has been resolved. The Causeway is open. But the reason why there has …
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How the Indian Education System Teaches Students to Game the System A devastating analysis of Jugaad, the Indian education system and gaming the system as a way of …
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Second Wave: Ireland Ireland’s Covid-19 task force is now recommending a full, Stage 5 lock-down as cases increase to …
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Second Wave: French Bars to Close The French will be forced to drink at home as the number of cases of the Sickness increases.
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Saudi Arabia and Vitamin D Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to susceptibility to the Sickness. Fully 83% of Saudi citizens …
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Juliette Binoche and E-Books
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Dealmaking in the Middle East It is common in the Middle East for a party to enter into a transaction only to find strangers …
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Looking Back at the Roger Stone Arrest I still believe that the (televised) Roger Stone arrest was the result of a deliberate leak by the …
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There is no "Kavanaugh Rule"
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Lawrence Ferling Lawrence Ferling is the birth name of the poet you may know as Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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Trump-Biden Debate Analysis Congratulations, America; you got your spectacle. The problem is media coverage: treat the …
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Jesus was Illiterate Jesus was illiterate.
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Against All Odds
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Unrestrained Greed Lil Tay was a nine year-old Internet sensation who used foul language while flexing (that is, …
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Here's a Preview of the 2020 Vote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
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Taiwan is Now Arrakis Taiwan is now Arrakis.
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One Step Forward, One Step Back
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A Grim Number
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The Grammar of Money The secret laws of money. Ignore them at your peril.
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Better than an Appeal I guess this is one way to show your disapproval of an 11th Circuit opinion requiring felons in …
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Kosher Salt in Bahrain Diplomatic relations with Israel were only established last week and look what’s already on …
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DiBlasio and Netanyahu DiBlasio and Netanyahu bob have the same problem when it comes to getting the haredim to obey social …
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About Latinx There are serious people on both sides of this argument. Grammatical gender is a feature of many …
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The Difference between Canada and the USA Which is why the US has more cases than any country in the world.
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Nothing Wrong I told you, there’s nothing wrong with my passport.
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Journalists Beware The US DoJ has argued in the Assange extradition case that US journalists can be convicted under the …
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Aztec Plague Advice (from David Bowles) The Aztecs treated their kings harshly for failing to follow plague protocols.
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Where's Walid? Prince Walid bin Talal, famous Saudi billionaire, the most well-known of all those incarcerated in …
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The Ultraviolet Solution Ultraviolet light kills Covid-19. Read more.
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Russian Vaccine Sputnik V, the name of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, seems to be effective. Vaccinations have been …
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Opening Postponed Based on the more than doubling of new Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks, Bahrain announced today …
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The Long Game Would a Trump victory insure the nomination of a progressive by the Democrats in 2024? With another …
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Underground Bahrain Someone sent me this…
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Fake News It was 61° F in New York today; not 31°. The source was an Arab television station.
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38/32 It’s 38° C in Bahrain; 32° F in NYC.
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Assange Extradition Unfortunately, you can’t trust the United States government when it comes to extradition. Just ask …
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Exorcism or Prosecution? The Nimitz Loses a Sailor USS Nimitz Loses Sailor, Time for an Exorcism A sailor assigned to the USS Nimitz, an American …
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The Gates Foundation and Journalism Subsidized news without or with little disclosure.
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What's the Difference between Indie Publishing and Vanity Publishing? The difference is sales to strangers. Vanity publishing means printing and ordering books. After …
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The Drug War and Napoleon No one anticipated that a wealthy Saudi who took up our invitation to throw the Russians out of …
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M. Duras Spoke Vietnamese Marguerite Duras, author, film director, Resistance fighter grew up speaking Vietnamese. Though she …
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Never Grill a Rubber Chicken Always sound advice.
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You Should be Using It For typesetting.
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Sturgis v. Peru in the CoronaBowl (From David Stockman) “Finally, there’s this. When over 460,000 motorcyclists descended upon …
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Low Level Persistent Spread Low-Level but Persistent Spread Like Cuba, Bahrain is an island. Like Cuba, Bahrain has closed off …
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The First Electrocution But the blood was continuing to ooze from Kemmler’s small finger wound. His heart still had to be …
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End of Story Translation End of story = Capítulo cerrado. Spanish, obviously.
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New Orleans A beignet is just a small ojaldra. Discuss.
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On an Island I’m on an island. The only land border was closed on March 6. The airport closed then as well. …
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Steve Bannon Arrest The arrest was made by US Postal Inspectors, one of the most professional of all federal law …
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Death in Laos The Laotian hazmat squad shows up to take away the coffin carrying the infected body.
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Average Age of Covid-19 Deaths Average age of Covid-19 death is 82 years.
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tessst kielbasa rump short ribs buffalo. Ribeye t-bone chuck chicken burgdoggen tail prosciutto pastrami …
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Pressure on Saudi Arabia? The WSJ claims that the establishment of diplomatic relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia puts …
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Test of Logging Version Marsedit Bacon ipsum dolor amet filet mignon boudin swine porchetta rump turkey, t-bone beef ribs. Pork loin …
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Who's Responsible for the Beirut Port Fire? When the M/V Rhosus sailed into Lebanese waters in 2013 to pick up new cargo, the owners already had …
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I Don’t Care I don’t care if the vaccine has alien DNA in it or if it’s …
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test Marsedit pwd test
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Biden's Election Means Trouble for Saudi Arabia More here.
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Anything is Possible at Zombo.com The unattainable is unknown at zombo.com. Worth a visit.
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Saudi Arabia's Secret Payment to Spanish King A curious payment: a contractor seeking a public works contract might be tempted to pay a bribe. …
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Game at 50, by W. Nanner Flint Dating for the over 50’s:Game at 50.
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De-Platforming is Censorship De-Platforming is censorship.
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Leveling the Playing Field Would Be Nice Federal criminal defense attorneys must pay for PACER access out of their own pockets (in theory, …
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Huawei, China, Canada But not smooth enough to get out of a diplomatic crisis with China. #mengwanzhou #fourdeathsentences …
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The ceviche was a success. This time I used a Panamanian recipe. I soaked the fish in brine for …
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This is the Problem
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My Extensive July Travels A whole two kilometers.
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Mid-Year Recap 2020 Mid-Year Recap It’s been a helluva year. To briefly recap: Impeachment and trial of American …
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How to File a Grievance or Respond to an HR Complaint How to Write an Employee Complaint Upon getting that dreaded letter from HR (remember: HR is not …
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Saudi Arabia Employee Handbook Thinking of a job in Saudi Arabia?
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It Could be Worse Looks like the pandemic will be with us for a while yet longer.
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Dementia is a Terrible Disease How can the Democrats put forward a 78 year-old with dementia?
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Nine Life Hacks You Won't Find Anywhere Else ###Use Pennies to Identify Recurring Monthly Payments Let’s say you owe a creditor $50 per …
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Pepys on Pubs in the Pandemic Sage advice.
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It's Monday But the post office in Adliya was closed. Strange.
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Document Post Test Here’s a document. Here is a link to the document: mu7ami.micro.blog/uploads/2…
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This is What "Defund the Police" Means This is basically the idea.
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MarsEdit 3 Chicken bacon corned beef beef ribs venison. Pig chislic pork belly corned beef pastrami, shankle …
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Marsedit Image Test Chicken bacon corned beef beef ribs venison. Pig chislic pork belly corned beef pastrami, shankle …
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Test of Marsedit This is a test of Marsedit. Bacon ipsum dolor amet chislic short ribs tongue, pork bresaola pork …
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Was It A Training Exercise? The killing of Floyd George has drawn an avalanche of commentary due to the subsequent and …
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JT Leroy, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, T Kira Madden Maybe it was because it was a different time I am trying to understand the outrage behind the JT …
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Game at 50 by W. Nanner Flint. The dating manual for the over-50’s.
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## Death of a Lawyer: Perry Mason 2020, S01 Ep 4 Death of a Lawyer: Perry Mason 2020, S01 Ep 4 Earle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer, novelist …
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Bahrain Active Cases Down to Mid-May Levels Bahrain’s doing pretty well. 5374 active cases at …
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Because People Won’t Follow Rules The authorities in Milan were brutal. Go back to …
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The Only Safe Place
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Hydroxychloroquine remains a subject of controversy. So far, we have been failed by the …
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The Alley American Alley, Juffair, Bahrain