Enquiring minds want to know: Bezos / Washington Post quiet on Khashoggi murder -- apparently Bezos and Saudis have close relationship. Amazon Web Services is opening a region in the Middle East and is looking for a head of public policy for Saudi Arabia.
Slow Starbucks server -- slow internet. Glad I have a book.
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Chinese Checkers Earlier This Evening
Sophia is pretty good setting up chess; she knows all the pieces and pretty much knows where to place them. Instead of calling them her "sisters," she now calls the pawns, her "babies." A lot of mothers probably called their own sons "babies" when they went off to war. Poignant. She now calls her bishops the correct name rather than the names of her own sisters. She has not shown any interest in actually learning how to play.
She is fascinated by Chinese checkers and always wants to set up the board. I did not care what color marbles went on which starting triangle. She immediately corrected me.
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The Physics Page
The God Problem, Howard Bloom, c. 2016
From Albert Einstein:
How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?Another "God problem."
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Music Is Needed -- I Feel Overwhelmed
Khashoggi? I wonder if William Francis Buckley got as much press attention at the time as Khashoggi? Just curious. I don't recall.
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Prediction
At the US-Canadian border, answering in the affirmative to "have you ever smoked marijuana" will deny you entry into the US.
Prediction: by March 31, 2019, the US Congress will pass a bill "solving" this problem. President Trump will sign it. If the US Congress does not pass the bill, President Trump can sign a very, very simple executive order. Something tells me the 9th Circuit Court will not sue President Trump if he issues such n executive order.
Maybe he should preempt Congress and do it now. LOL.
I don't get the Khashoggi affair, none of the players are what I would call righteous including Khashoggi who has a Muslim Brotherhood and Osama Afghan connection when he fought there. But he was critical of most governments and thus a friend of the press, who are blowing this out of portion with no solid evidence. With Erdoğan desire to control the Sunni world and the rivalry between him and the Saudi I don't trust anything he or his press says. The same goes for the Saudis but they are a more reliable partner in curbing Iran at this point.
ReplyDeleteAgree 100%. The American press has gone nuts in their attempts to link Jared and Trump to this. In the big scheme of things, I'm impressed how Trump stays calm, stays the course. It seems no matter how "bad" something seems or gets, it has a very short shelf-life, before something else comes along to attract the media. This story will have legs only until something else comes along.
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