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Month: July 2024

Total 4 Posts

Deep Dive #1

I’ve come across a few things recently that I felt deserved a closer look.  Here are two: New Amsterdam You may have seen a video that popped up recently.  It showed a scene from the television show “New Amsterdam” where one of the main characters was claiming that a boy’s

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The Farce Side

The actions of the Secret Service in response to the attempted assassination of President Trump is a textbook example of…well…of what not to do.  In fact, I would be surprised if it’s not eventually used in textbooks when training new agents. This is also seemingly a good example of Murphy’s

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July 13th, 2024

On Saturday, there was an assassination attempt on President Trump.  Here are some random thoughts of mine on the topic. Monday Morning Quarterback One time I was watching a news report on a wildfire.  The video was coming from a helicopter and showed some firemen clearing brush as the fire

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Terminal TDS

Sometimes I hate it when I’m right.  Which is a problem because I’m right a lot.  From time to time, I’ve made references to people who get all their news from CNN and MSNBC.  These are people who still believe that the mainstream media is fair, impartial and without bias.

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