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The mediocre teacher tells.
Because They're Young - Duane Eddy & The Rebels (#37)
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Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Toni Fisher - The Big Hurt
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BURNING BRIDGES by JACK SCOTT
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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Jackie Wilson - Night
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I like long walks,
jimmy clanton - go jimmy go
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I came to America because of the great, great freedom
Bobby Darin - Beyond the sea
When I earned my MIS PhD, there were probably 12 faculty positions for each new professor. The market changed after 5 years and I couldn't get an offer. Schools were swamped with vitae and got selective, and the hot criteria were for networking researchers and female candidates
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 23, 2025
My favorite economist, Don Boudreaux, here takes out the xenophobes who dropped out of Econ 101 after one day of class, satisfied immigration drives down wages. There is the increase in demand and enablement of the specialization of labor.https://t.co/K1X0DTE51O
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 23, 2025
I think the View is on ABC, not MSNBc
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
I thought Beshear was a lock to succeed McConnell's seat and turn it blue but it seems he has his eye on 2028.https://t.co/dQckG3PJwp
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
I don't have a political solution for the Dems. They have no obvious leader after a disastrous election. I think Biden's slow responses to the migration & the inflation crises made possible Trump's election The Dems have been caught flatfooted in response to Trump's Shock & Awe
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
What I do know is Trump is repeating Hoover type mistakes that took a recession and turned it into a depression and FDR exacerbated the situation. "Beggar thy neighbor" mercantilist Trump policies will backfire badly on the US economy.https://t.co/fsv5xi1icX
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
What a relief! They're talking about some movie. A hell of a trend with Pope Francis hospitalized with pneumonia!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
Conclave
Imagine being a politician, spending your grandchildren's taxes for your own political interests, impose rules & costs that impair market competition, impose your paternalistic cultural values on others. What kind of twisted mind thinks he is serving the common good? https://t.co/OTLithb4Eu
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
I've quite frequently in the private sector been asked to report weekly status, accomplishments, etc. When you are being paid at the expense of taxpayers, you are accountable to them. I do think managers have higher accountability for efficient utilization of resources. https://t.co/JgNd2UPxN2
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
This is Soft Rock America, Sadly, Roberta Flack has passed. Here is one of my favorite duets;https://t.co/hCseqpFID5
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 24, 2025
CM Punk showed up at WWE Raw wearing a Chicago Teachers Union t-shirt. As if there aren't enough reasons to despise Punk already. The bonehead also made a promo mistake, citing the wrong title he is pursuing. Jey Uso is battling for World title holder Gunther's belt.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
Trump has made the US the laughingstock of NATO and the rest of the world. We're not respected anymore under Trump. Trump has become Putin's useful idiot.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
I remember my first experience with civil servants when I was a contractor developer at NASA Clear Lake City. One dude was like Radar O'Reilly of M*A*S*H, a hands-on engineer savant. His junior colleague must have spent 70% of his time at the water cooler and going to the gym.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
This personal vendetta against Smith et al. for doing their jobs is beyond petty and unethical: it's unconstitutional, an abuse of power. https://t.co/F3OXAsSQJi
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
Th are these stupid litle rules, like for a long time I couldn't take a laptop off site to do work while civil servants could. (It changed after COVID.) This was not just inconvenient, because only a civilian could open your workspace suite and someone else had to be there.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
As a past contractor, I have mixed feelings. Maybe a little jealousy because of the job security (?), pension, and generous compensation. But I think the red tape, all the stupid meetings and trainings they have to do would also drive any intelligent employee bonkers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
It's bad enough that Comey gor fired over not being Trump's Deep Orange bitch. Now we hear Trumpkins salivating over investigations of the first corrupt Trump campaign. Let's recall Trump asked Russians for Clinton's emails and Junior met with Russions for dirt on Clinton.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
The Trump Administration is grasping at straws looking for some politically correct reason to fire a black chair of the Joint Chiefs of staff.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 25, 2025
I can't believe Andrew Cuomo is considering a comeback to succeed corrupt Mayor Eric Adams. Who's going to join the battle? Weiner? Spitzer? Santos? Where's a Grover Cleveland when you need him?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
No to any of these corrupt Trump promises the rest of us ending up paying for. $7.8T debt Trump was facing $2T deficits BEFORE extending expiring tax cuts. The DOGE sideshow is another part of Trump's bread and circuses. https://t.co/mimL2bSgxC
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
Well, the first US measles death, an unvaxxed child, in the RFK, Jr./Trump era. A reminder that measles had all but disappeared under decades of vaccines.https://t.co/OC0NTtfrlV
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
For me, this is almost personal, because less than a half hour after my Dad died in a military hospital, this [expletive] was pushing paperwork over my Dad's entitlements with my newly widowed mother. I'm not a violent person, but I wanted to kick his ass.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
The issue I have with DOGE is not with pruning the federal workforce is the process. We don't want a return of the spoils system where Trump simply wants to replace a suspected leftist workforce with a Deep Orange Trumpkin loyalist base. We have reforms intended for due process.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
No to Trumpkin plots to impose unconstitutional national policies over state-run elections, including voter Id and in-person voting.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
No. The bigger issue is that USPS is an independent government agency, and trump cannot do anything without Congressional approval. No, the real response is to strip the unconstitutional monopoly of USPS over first class mail and home delivery and to privatize the business.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
Not even Trump is stupid enough to parrot Putin's insane denazification rationalization for invading Ukraine led by a democratically elected Jew. Nor does he address Putin's earlier invasion of Georgia. But Trump already has Bush Derangement Syndrome.https://t.co/Ra6j8CRzCM
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
Dumbass Trumpkins think they've scored points. The fact is people vote for a president and his/her own spouse. Nobody directly or indirectly voted for Musk. Cabinet offers manage their own departments and are accountable to the Congress and POTUS, both accountable to the people. https://t.co/wL7yBwYVqs
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
Jesus. Anti-vaxxers seem to want to settle a score with a talented young actress done too soon. https://t.co/eIEWddpFrN
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
How stupid is Trump, ditching an oil agreement with Venezuela over his economically illiterate deportation agenda? He is creating more problems than he has solved (zero).
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 26, 2025
Hypocrite Trump threatens Hamas over kidnapped Israelis but doesn't say a gd thing over Ukrainian children kidnapped and transported back into Russia. Trump's idea of a deal is for Ukraine to capitulate to Putin's terms.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 27, 2025
Nobody "framed" RINO Felon-in-Chief Trump. He always been that damn corrupt.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 27, 2025
I'm not sure why these offenses merit dismissal, and whether we are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. It seeks of wokeness in a Trump Administration, and this potentially can affect our security posture depending on the officers involved
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 27, 2025
Trump is insanely incompetent and an indisputable liar. There will be retaliatory tariffs on US good exports. A trade war is a race to the bottom. "Beggar thy neighbor" is bad for the US economy. He's trying to kill efforts for dollars they need to buy our stuff
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 27, 2025
The RFK, Jr./Trump era sucks. Anti-vaxxers did this. They destroyed herd immunity. https://t.co/KbXc2pu8i9
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Probably not if they got the 2 shot regimen and don't have general immunity issues.https://t.co/nijEtO3clo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Children are generally administered the vaccine after the age of one and the vaccine is highly effective.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
No. Most are vaccinated. I myself had measles as a kid before the vaccine was available and have natural immunity (I don't currently live there, but I often travel there). I believe so far the breakout is specific to west Texas
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Authorities seem to have ruled our carbon monoxide or a gas leak, no obvious signs of physical trauma or robbery and there's the also the coincidental death of a Hackman dog found near the body of Mrs. Hackman in the bathroom area. Also, a door was found open.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
When Al Sharpton says boycott, I say buycott. I have actually bought from Amazon, Best Buy and Walmart this month, and I will continue to do so. I have defended Costco for continuing their DEI policies and I respect companies who have decided otherwise. https://t.co/GVvlbgHhn6
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Personally, I don't believe in virtue signaling rubbish, i purchase for intrinsic criteria, like price, quality and convenience. I was raised in an integrated military and worked in diverse IT academia and professional settings, even nerds or geeks like me. #EconomicBoycott
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
I apologize to President Zelensky; there's no excuse for asshole diplomatically illiterate and unhinged hosts like Vance and Trump. i have yet to hear anything from Vance that isn't 100% BS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
A remarkable clip on CNN where Vance and Trump are presumptuous assholes., screaming at Zelensky. I get tired at hearing of repetitious Trump whining about Russiagate yet again. STFU! You asked Russia for Clinton emails in 2016. Junior met with Russians.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Trump and Vance should be impeached for cause over the Zelensky Oval Office visit. Vance started this crap from what I saw by dressing down a foreign head of state. This is unprecedented in my experience. And then Trump joined in the personal attack. No excuses for misconduct!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Trump has stained the Presidency with his unprecedented breach of diplomatic protocol. Trump is unfit to hold office and must be impeached and removed from office. https://t.co/KsMuuvVe4J
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Prayers for the Holy Father who has suffered a health setback, being attached to a breathing machine.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Every single European ally is siding with Zelensky over Trump over Trump's breach of diplomacy in the White House. America has never been so disrespected or isolated as it is now with Trump in the Oval Office
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Trump explicitly gave Russian journalists access to his Trumper tantrum at Zelensky at the Oval Office while excluding access to AP and Reuters over his BS renaming of the internationally recognized Gulf of Mexico. I think Trump and Vance staged their insane misconduct.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
Will someone tell Dumbass Trump wearing a gd MAGA cao with a business suit does not make the dress code of any company i've ever worked for?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) February 28, 2025
My final February essay focuses on Trump's morally repulsive war on immigration.https://t.co/ievTeb2Xml
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
Trumpkin moron! No. RINO Felon-in-Chief Trump is a sh*tstain in American history. Don't forget: most Americans voted against the asshole in 3 straight elections. He beat somone less than 4 months a candidate by only 1.5 points and he got his ass kicked in their only debate.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
Trump is such an imbecile. Arguing that Ukrainian resistence to Russian war crimes is triggering WWIII is ludicrous. There are 144M Russians and 38M Ukrainians. Even meathead Trumpkins realize Ukraine was no threat to Russia.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
An example of how government obstructs private charities, in this case homeless shelter operations: https://t.co/Uo7NgE8bRm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
"During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Russia has forcibly transferred almost 20 thousand Ukrainian children to areas under its control" Trump's double standard is unconscionnable. If I were Zelensky, I would have walked out after Trump's misconduct.https://t.co/iAKntSzpBv
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
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STFU. You're even worse on foreign policy than you are in running Twitter as a business, which I thought wasn't possible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
i'll have to see if this is just another Trumpkin lie. Trump has no constitutional authority to withhold aid passed into law. If Ukraine falls, Trump will never be trusted by any ally and will have blood on his hands. https://t.co/GW7mdBa1vZ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
I've heard of playing "good cop"/"bad cop". Based on Trump's unhinged misconduct against President Zelensky, it was more like Vance "bad cop" and Trump "evil cop".
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
I think hell just froze over: Olbermann finally said something I agree with. https://t.co/q8sPm7hfVe
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
Zelensky has a better approval rating than Trump whose approval rating is second lowest in recent American history. Whose was lower? Trump, first term?https://t.co/22YTn5tPYm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
Asov Brigade was depoliticized years back when it become a popular freedom fighting force against Russian war criminals.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
"The regiment's size was estimated to be around 2,500 combatants in 2017, and around 900 in 2022."
This Trumpkin OP is just parroting Putin's lies.
What the hell did Dumbass Trump think he was doing with his staged indignation/Trumper tantrum? Trying to make an example of Zelensky to other global leaders of how they'll also be treated if they don't kiss his gd ring/ass? Who ended the meeting without achieving his goals?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
If Vance had been my subordinate and provoked an incident at a business meeting in my office, I would have have cut Vance off immediately, ordered him to leave the room, and apologized to my visitor. After the meeting, I would have fired Vance for cause. Trump mismanaged this.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
In fact, the new Trumpkin FBI director returned the boxes of seized documents, actually evidence in a criminal trial, back to the White House, and there's a CNN report Trump is bringing them back to MAL, where we already know there are no secure storage containers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
It was a special prosecutor, not a US Attorney, who pursued prosecutions of Trump's well-documented criminal behavior. Trump did in fact attempt to meddle, never mind extort state authorities, over 2020 election results. Trump had no right to classified materials out of office.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
No. I think Trump is envious of Obama's premature, unearned Nobel Prize for not being George W. Bush. Trump thinks, "Dude, I've also run against Jeb Bush and his big brother." Seriously, trying to extort Ukraine's capitulation to Putin's terms is not worthy of respect. https://t.co/ey1S5VrdQd
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
Zelensky may have thought it was Casual Friday. LMAO
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
In a recent Reason interview, Nick Gillepsie asked John McWhorter about Trump's idiotic idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico. McWhorter compared Trump to an 11-year-old. I'm close. I often call him a fifth-grader. LMAO.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 1, 2025
The National Anthem is getting booed at the WWE Elimination Chamber PLE in Toronto. Thank Tariff Man Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
No, it's not. You suck at reading the most unpopular GOP senator and who gives a damn. You haven't done due diligence. Trump is Putin's useful idiot and is basically ignored outside this country.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
Wow, I had suspected Naomi as WWE Cargill's assailant but a definite swerve because Liv Morgan seemed unnerved by Cargill's appearance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
When Trump enables war criminals like Putin and Netanyahu, he is himself a war criminal.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
Holy crap! I never expected for Cena to turn heel! at WWE Elimination Chamber. I did expect Cody to reject selling out to the Final Boss Rock--I just expected Reigns or others from the Bloodline to do the dirty work. Cena always refused to turn heel before.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
And you ideally want to have a heel battle a face champion. So, Cody initially seemed he was going to give the Final Boss his soul; the point is there were hints Cody was going to turn heel. When Cena stayed in the ring and Cody told Rock FU, it became more obvious.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
This is blame the victim BS. Stop this xenophobic rubbish.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
If Trump betrays Ukraine, he's abdicating Western leadership. Others will assert leadership versus Trumpist rubbish.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
Nope. You Trumpkins are stupid to believe Trump has any principles than his own power and glory. Felon-in-Chief Trump would blame Murkowski on provoking Putin
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
You need to stop kissing Trump's ass in the fear Trump will try to primary you. You are knowingly lying about Vance and Trump's unconscionable breach of diplomatic protocol. Vance had no business instigating a diplomatic incident. Trump and Vance have been lying about facts.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
The real question is whether you take a stand against imperialist Russia now or later if and when Putin, emboldened by Trump's lack of principle, actually triggers NATO's Article 5. We don't need another Chamberlain in Britain.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
You don't know what you're talking about. You haven't heard what Zelensky said in that briefing. He's negotiated with Putin and Putin has reneged on their agreements. Trump isn't interested in anything beyond imposing Putin's demands on Ukraine.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
When Trump enables war criminals like Putin and Netanyahu, he is himself a war criminal.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
I was trying to figure out why the hell Jeff Sessions all of a sudden was trending. It appears all these Trumpkin copycat puppets are upset with Blondie Bondi and comparing her to Sessions, who rightly recused himself from the RussiaGate case, which Trump wanted him to quash.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
The great Michael Ramirez. Not sure where the graveyard is, but I'm guessing Chicago. pic.twitter.com/U1aqkpJD29
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
Nope. You may have heard Zelensky talk but you don't understand what you heard. Trump and Vance are like Chamberlain: you hope by appeasing Putin with all Ukrainian only concessions, Putin will start keeping his word. let's remember Putin invaded Georgia before he invaded Ukraine
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
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Drink nothing without seeing it;Jimmy Jones - Good Timin'
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\Well, I fell a blog post short of my target of 40. l did publish a post on immigration I had been working working on that for over a week. There were more things I wanted to do with the essay (like compare my Franco-American culture and Latino-American culture, more detailed discussion on Trump's nativism, the history of nativism, etc.) But I also had to put the post out there because Trump is deporting people and not just violent criminals. As I write, he's still sending more troops to the border. I can address these or other talking points in a follow-up post. But Friday's Trumper tantrum in the Oval Office with Zelensky is an obvious post. I still want to do one on tariffs, and I've been planning to do one or more on Trump's inaugural address. On Twitter/X, my followers seem to change almost daily but I haven't broken 80 followers yet I had my first 8k+ impression in a while, merely quoting a doctor saying Trump's executive order cutting aid for school with COVID vaccine mandates didn't do anything because there weren't any such schools.
I filed my first FBI incident over a spammer texting me threatening to pull my driver's license if I didn't pay an alleged EZPASS toll. I haven't driven through a toll road in 8 months and I know I have an existing balance that gets replenished when the balance falls below like $25 dollars. So I had to wait in a phone queue of close to an hour to find out they know about the scammers, they don't operate that way, and my account is in good standing.
Well, the renewed WD disk I bought from Amazon malfunctioned within 30 days or so. It's a shame. Amazon didn't give me a hassle returning and refunding the purchase. I've purchased a new external 2 TB SSD. Although more expensive , these can be tiny little things perfect for my new laptop. I have several layers of redundancy. I'm going to think again whether to trust a reconditioned drive.
WWE held its last pre-Wrestlemania PLE, Elimination Chamber. By far the most noteworthy item is John Cena turned heel for the first time ever in this, his final year of competition, landing the right to challenge Cody Rhodes, also a babyface/good guy, for his unified WWE heavyweight championship. The story of Cena's final season was to earn a record-breaking title count. Cena does a lot of charity work and it was thought playing a heel/bad guy wouldn't work with that. The other big development was 2 big returns; Orton and Cargill. Jade Cargill had been taken out in a story injury. Naomi replaced her as Bianca Belair's women's tag team partner. So Jade showed up and took out Naomi, suggesting Naomi had been the one taking her out before.
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The Everly Brothers, "Let It Be Me"