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skipper wrote a new post, About the Police 3 years, 9 months ago
It’s a shame that the police slowly have changed from keepers of peace to keepers of discipline. Like many cultural shifts, the role of police slowly has changed due to similar subtle changes around them in e […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A Stipend for a Day Lived 3 years, 9 months ago
Mariner has read Andrew Yang’s book, The ‘War on Normal People’. The reader may recall he was the democratic candidate who espoused a monthly $1,000 stipend be paid to citizens of working age which had no relat […]
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skipper commented on the post, Don’t talk to my hand, talk to my soul. 3 years, 9 months ago
Thanks for your insights, Robert. They are affirming of my own experiences. The battle between subconscious and conscious opinions lies at the heart of so many confrontations in our society today. It’s nice to reflect on positive ones for a change.
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skipper wrote a new post, Don’t talk to my hand, talk to my soul. 3 years, 9 months ago
A couple of weeks ago, Mariner watched an episode of CBS Sunday Morning. It was a discussion about whether we should dismiss good art because the creator was an asshole. This was a follow up discussion to the […]
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Thanks for your insights, Robert. They are affirming of my own experiences. The battle between subconscious and conscious opinions lies at the heart of so many confrontations in our society today. It’s nice to reflect on positive ones for a change.
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skipper wrote a new post, Count your blessings even if there’s only one tiny one 3 years, 9 months ago
The Global Trends Report, which is compiled every four years, is an example of strategic foresight. Some clips:
“Driving the news: Many, if not most, of those trends identified in the new report from the U.S. g […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Movement 3 years, 9 months ago
Wow, just four days ago Justice Clarence wrote that there should be tighter regulations on social media – This from Axios:
New rules from tech companies are making it harder for users who commit crimes in the r […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Tactics 3 years, 9 months ago
Tarun Chhabra, now a senior director on Biden’s National Security Council, wrote in Foreign Affairs in 2020 an article titled “The Left Should Play the China Card: Foreign Rivalry Inspires Progress at Home,” Chhab […]
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skipper wrote a new post, From unexpected quarters 3 years, 9 months ago
On April 5 the Supreme Court reversed a previous lower court decision per a suit filed by the Biden Administration. The decision had to do with the use of social media and freedom of speech on Twitter. The […]
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skipper commented on the post, The New Global Economy 3 years, 9 months ago
Only you, Robert, would rummage through your coal furnace ashes looking for rare minerals. You are right, of course, that there are other sources and that science is working on alternative technologies. The two biggies that already affect industry are Lithium and Cobalt. Cobalt is found most abundantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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skipper wrote a new post, The New Global Economy 3 years, 9 months ago
In a number of posts mariner has suggested that stand-alone national economies have peaked and are not the solution to the economic future. Virtually every economist feels that the economic health of the globe is […]
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Only you, Robert, would rummage through your coal furnace ashes looking for rare minerals. You are right, of course, that there are other sources and that science is working on alternative technologies. The two biggies that already affect industry are Lithium and Cobalt. Cobalt is found most abundantly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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skipper wrote a new post, On Character 3 years, 9 months ago
When mariner and his wife moved to Maryland, he had thoughts of entering politics. He and his wife even campaigned actively for Bobbie Kennedy. He quickly became disillusioned. Unlike religion which requires […]
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skipper wrote a new post, IF 3 years, 9 months ago
IF the reader was born before the Vietnam War (1954), their core understanding of reality and related social values is outdated – functional but outdated. Life values accumulate via growth experiences until a […]
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skipper wrote a new post, These are trying times 3 years, 9 months ago
Trying times is an understatement.
The migration of tens of millions of people, exacerbated by a changing climate, will be one of the mega-trends of the 21st century, Bryan Walsh writes in Axios […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Let’s check in on the real news 3 years, 10 months ago
In 4.5 billion years the Sun will fry the Earth destroying all living matter.
The Moon is drifting away from the Earth at the rate of 1.5 inches per year. Today the Moon circles the Earth about every 27 days; […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Freedom of Speech 3 years, 10 months ago
A brief quote from Leon Wieseltier in White Rose Magazine:
“After everything that liberalism endured and survived, after the unimaginably savage assaults of fascism and communism, we must steadfastly fight f […]
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skipper commented on the post, Yes, that finger 3 years, 10 months ago
Neat term – Magat.
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skipper wrote a new post, Yes, that finger 3 years, 10 months ago
Look for a moment at the middle finger of your dominant hand. It’s the longest one that’s used to express irritable dissatisfaction. Yesterday mariner accidentally cut the tip of this finger with a kitchen kni […]
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We have quite the divide in our union, the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters and Sprinklerfitters. Many of the rank and file, and I mean many, supported the Orange Baboon in the last election, despite the UA leadership endorsing Biden. What the Magats didn’t know is that the leadership personally interviewed all the candidates prior to their endorsement. My son, Jeremy, sits on the Interview Committee. They were blown away by the commitment by the Biden/Harris team to help rebuild union membership across the entire workforce. Naturally, they endorsed the winner.
One of the first things Biden did through executive order was stop the Keystone Pipeline, which put 3,500 members of our union to work. Our leadership knew this going into the election, but decided that the interests of the 370,000 members were more important than the 3,500. Still, the Magats protested over the loss of 3,500 jobs as a way of uplifting the Chosen One. It was a ballsy thing to support Biden because the leadership is up for re-election in August and I’m sure there will still be a lot of sore feelings, but I’m glad they did the right thing.-
Neat term – Magat.
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skipper wrote a new post, In the news 3 years, 10 months ago
֎ An interesting poll from GALLUP. What’s interesting is that in one year China jumped significantly over Russia as the greatest enemy of the United States:
Americans’ Perceptions of the U.S.’s Greatest En […] -
skipper wrote a new post, Nation Tectonics 3 years, 10 months ago
Recently mariner wrote a post describing the new international strategy of nations integrating responsibility for economics and other international issues rather than using traditional treaties and trade […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Trends 3 years, 10 months ago
֎ From NEWSY:
“A White nationalist movement that fueled a new rise for Europe’s far-right continues to gain momentum around the world and is helping to lure in and radicalize new recruits, according to te […]
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“Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all – the policeman isn’t there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.” – Richard J. Daley, 1968
You have a knack for picking sources!