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I didn't post on this part of GID for almost six months and it had nothing to do with Mueller. I still am not likely to post much here given that it's looking like little has changed in approach. My current posts aren't really tied to Mueller either. If you somehow feel that my posts on a football website are tied to Mueller and that my absence was somehow tied to Mueller, then you really aren't tracking me well and overlooking a lot ... likely so since you didn't notice that it was half year and not just a month. You have a firm belief that Russia didn't interfere in the 2016 election. You continually post about 17 agencies while overlooking the fact that the number of agencies doesn't matter ... Trump's own folks said it happened although they now want you to believe that they didn't in a very Withers/Ogilvy approach. It's a "baby with the bath water approach ... if you don't believe that Russia interfered, then you don't have to even have to consider anything that Mueller looked into. It's just like this Assange thing ... you are spending so much time trying to pretend that Assange and his lawyers didn't say what they said and spending time going after The Daily Beast, despite the fact that the statements were made in court and not to The Daily Beast among others, as opposed to the realization in seeing the Assange is playing a game ... and may well have been all along. Also, what's missing in the presentation is that YOU claim everything is fake and then put up a source that you claim is 100% accurate which isn't. As for "the establishment" in case you haven't noticed, said "establishment" has just shifted in whose running it. If you really believe that Trump is "anti-establishment" then you're missing the long-con. Trump is in it for Trump ... he's just as much a part of "the establishment" as anyone else he rails against. Claiming Trump is anti-establishment is like claiming BYU under Detmer's passing time isn't football because, unlike Oklahoma under Switzer run-only regime, BYU threw the ball all the time instead of running it all the time. Two sides of the same coin. Just like claiming that the Cowboys are America's Team and that the Raiders played "assassin ball" back in the days of Lester Hayes. Again, two teams doing the same thing, just taking different routes to get there ... each with their own skeletons and dirty tricks playing out.

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/02/sunday-scaries-anxiety-workweek/606289/?utm_source=pocket-newtab\ Of interest is the coverage of the four-day work week. I recall when I used to have a T/Th teaching schedule, most of my week was crammed into three days and I probably did about 40 hours worth of work TWTh with some bits and pieces on Mondays and Fridays. For the most part, it left my Sat/Sun open to really be "time off" from work. I also found, interesting that I didn't have the "Monday Scaries" which might be assumed if it were just a question the last day before starting the work week. Now, with a MWF teaching schedule ... especially when I teach 7:30 or 8:30 am classes, my weekends seem to be barely recognizable as weekends; especially with so many kid events tossed in for consideration. It's much harder to "bundle" the work like I used to do with a TTh schedule and the work seems to be much more spread out over the five days plus weekend than jam-packed in three. I'm seriously debating trying to get back in to the TTh teaching schedule again to see what that might do to my "Sunday Scaries."

AFP was the link right below it, so if you don't care for the Daily Beast it was reported by other outlets too ... including FoxNews https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/uk/assange-trump-pardon-rohrabacher-us-gbr-intl/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/19/white-house-denies-julian-assanges-pardon-claim-heres-what-we-know-about-it/ https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-20/why-would-trump-offer-a-pardon-to-julian-assange - Note that this opinion takes a skeptical point that Assange and his lawyer are telling the truth in the latest news ... which is exactly what I pointed out when I questioned you 100% claim of accuracy. If he's lying now, then the claim of 100% accuracy goes out the window. If he was lying back then, then again the 100% accuracy claim goes out the window. Furthermore, Rohrbacher claims that an offer of pardon or "witness cooperation" came in the form of Assange had to PROVE his statements about Russia not being involved by producing hard drives or other material ... which Assange never did. So even Rohrbacher wasn't going to take Assange at his word. FTO: For now, it looks like Assange’s British legal team is going with the theory that its client’s prosecution is the result of a spurned offer for a pardon. If that’s true, however, it also means that Assange didn’t believe what he was telling the world for most of 2016. Is that an argument his lawyers really want to make? https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-assange-pardon-russia-dnc-email-leak https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51566470 - This one claims that Rohrbacher says Trump didn't know about his dealings with Assange. Again, the point being made is that you 100% accuracy claim on Wikileaks and also posted Assange in his own words. Rohrbacher says Assange and his lawyer are lying. Again, he's either lying now, which makes the 100% claim questionable or he was lying then ... which again makes the 100% accuracy claim questionable. So here are some articles that are in line with your skepticism. I'll give that I'm skeptical about what Assange is saying right now as well. The quickest way to fight extradition is to claim political influence or potential political retribution. What better way to make that question come up than to claim the President or his surrogates offered a pardon and now he didn't get one. If the President doesn't give him one, it looks suspicious and, even as a last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition, provides doubt. On the other hand, if Trump pardons him, then extradition doesn't matter at that point. this ties directly into my statement about con men conning each other. At the same time, again, if Assange is lying now, then the 100% accuracy claim loses weight ... if he's not lying now, then the statements before are lies which again make a 100% accuracy claim take a hit. BTW, I think what folks will find pretty quickly at this point is that Assange really isn't worried at this point about himself or Wikileaks being taken as 100% accurate or even credible. What he's interested in is protecting his own behind ... which you can't really fault him for, but you also can't ascribe selflessness to him when the current actions have more of a selfish approach. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/former-congressman-confirms-he-offered-to-broker-pardon-for-assange/ https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/483833-rohrabacher-tells-yahoo-he-discussed-pardon-with-assange-for-proof https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/federal-appeals-court-revives-seth-rich-family-lawsuit-against-fox-news

So Assange hired a "libtard?" Now whose suffering from a syndrome?

Interesting take on Rush's Time Stand Still ... music reaches us all. Make each impression A little bit stronger Freeze this motion A little bit longer The innocence slips away… Summer’s going fast– Nights growing colder Children growing up — old friends growing older Experience slips away…

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-decoy-effect-how-you-are-influenced-to-choose-without-really-knowing-it?utm_source=pocket-newtab So next time you're out there doing that comparison shopping ...

I can agree with that. Especially given that we are talking about high school kids. Gives a chance to do both ... all-in while having some weight on the regular season progress. In essence, it just makes a 10-week "regular season" and the "real" post season starts in second game of sectionals while also getting rid of some of those #1/#2 meetings that sometimes may pop up in the first-round of sectionals.

Just curious how these geniuses keep hiring all of the "libtards?" I mean Trump's hired a bunch of them like Kelly, Mattis, Bolton, Sessions, McMaster, Tillerson, Bannon, Priebus, Scaramuchi, Flynn ... and that's just some of the ones that were hired then fired ... doesn't include the ones that "fell on their swords" like Spicer, Price, Manigault-Newman, Cohn, Cobb, Pruitt, Zinke, Nielsen, Sanders ... you know "all the best people." Guess Assange got too close and has his "libtard radar" blinded as well.

Looks like we'll get to see what happens when con men con each other since these statements were made today. Of course, Assange and his lawyers could well be lying today, but then that would make the claim about 100% accuracy questionable ... of course, if the statements today aren't lies, then that makes the previous ones lies. Either way, something's got to give.

I'm just "believing" the outlet that you pointed out ... or more precisely, its founder. After all, you stated that it has 100% accuracy rate and hasn't been proven wrong.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-offered-assange-pardon-covered-171516819.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-offered-pardon-assange-denied-russia-leak-court-185559180.html

The newer technologies that are out there in other areas too, such as optics and refined motor movement, are also making this kind of thing transferable into other areas. Where you used to see the big bandsaw in the mills to cut large rough boards, you are now seeing the cutting done at the near micro-level and with much more refinement in areas like gear production and even medicine. That's an interesting observation on China too. There's been a long misunderstanding that China was only a competitor more on cheap and plentiful labor. I often discuss in my classes that the use of automation and technology need not necessarily lead to workforce reductions, but instead in an increase in added-value services. If you can "redirect" the workforce into a value-add service as opposed to the sheer manufacturing labor component, you can potentially find ways to "feed the monster."

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Any idea off the top of your head, or from reading or experience, what's the payback period on a machine like that?

Must have me confused with someone else. I'm the guy who's not a big fan of high school debate shtick tactics. Speaking of reactionary ...

And therein lies the rub ... in your second line you stated that the SCHOOLS DECIDED that football is not part of their athletic menu. DECIDE!!!! You've been pitching out policies about what should mandate or force schools to contract or shutter their programs. It's their decision and should be theirs alone. And now it's the growing power of women in the household having a detrimental impact on Indiana football? Seriously? What's next? An attempt to "contract" the 19th Amendment?

OK, I gotta admit ... that was humorous.

https://www.businessinsider.com/dershowitz-cites-obama-soros-conspiracy-to-justify-trump-doj-meddling-2020-2

https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-bioweapon-tom-cotton-conspiracy-theory-china-warfare-leak-2020-2

That's an interesting near coincidence ... not counting, potentially, today and tomorrow, it's been almost 250 days of golfing for Trump ... who famously claimed that there wouldn't be time for such as he attacked the former president. https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-golf-mar-a-lago-taxpayers-001531310.html FTA: As he began his own run for the White House, candidate Trump repeatedly promised that golf would never make it onto a President Trump’s schedule. “I love golf, but if I were in the White House, I don’t think I’d ever see Turnberry again. I don’t think I’d ever see Doral again,” he told a rally audience in February 2016, referring to his courses in Scotland and Miami. “I don’t ever think I’d see anything. I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.” Yet after three years in office, Trump has spent two-and-a-half times as many days on a golf course as Obama had done at the same point in his first term. If Trump plays golf both Saturday and Sunday, he will have played 248 times. Obama by his 1,123rd day in office had played 92 times. And because Trump insists on playing at courses he owns, the cost to taxpayers has been nearly four times as high as it was for Obama. More than two-thirds of Trump’s golf outings involve seven-figure trips aboard Air Force One, mainly to Florida and New Jersey, but also to Los Angeles, Ireland and Scotland. Obama, in contrast, played most of his golf on courses at military bases within a short drive of the White House. What’s more, Trump’s insistence on playing at courses he owns and profits from has put at least a few million taxpayer dollars into Trump’s cash registers in the form of hotel room and restaurant charges for the White House staff and Secret Service agents who accompany him.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/895458/republican-officials-are-playing-hardball-against-gop-rep-doug-collins-georgia-senate-race

Came across my reading feeds this morning ... not sure why. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-curious-case-of-the-bog-bodies?utm_source=pocket-newtab Always end up with suggested reading items that are off the norm of my regular reading trends. Helps me stay well-rounded and also occasionally provides some really interesting reading that sparks additional interest or reading ... also provides a nice "distraction" for the day too.

Already been eating "borrowed bread" for a long time. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a30852534/trump-deficit-national-debt-monica-crowley-fox-business/

Similar sentiment may well apply with the President, his taxes, business dealings, and history with women.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pelosi-clashes-facebook-twitter-over-163011039.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/politics/trump-russia-intelligence-agencies-cia-fbi-nsa.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/10/21/17-intelligence-agencies-russia-behind-hacking/92514592/ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/intelligence-director-says-agencies-agree-russian-meddling-n785481 https://time.com/5340060/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-russia-meddling/