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Getting the book to read!

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Really glad this post has led you to do that.

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When I was a teen by parents were in a fraternal organization with many that also had the numbers left on their arms. At the time I was afraid to ask so as not to hurt them but how I wish I had taken the time to get to know them better.

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There's an awful lot we figure out too late.

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Great perspective.. thanks for mentioning Jonathan Turley. Brilliant and measured, I will track down his blog.

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He's a very fair, reasonable, sensible guy.

He testified during the first Trump impeachment hearings, warning the Democrats that they hadn't made a case and that while impeachable charges might be found somewhere, they had not been found yet. He was reviled for that opinion and of course he'd been proven correct.

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Interesting -- the calm at the eye of the storm.

Reminds me of watching a video on white-water canoeing, how the technique of navigating consisted of repeatedly choosing the least tumultuous path from one area of relative calm to the next one.

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Really appreciate you restacking my post.

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De nada; share the wealth, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition ... 🙂

But thanks also for Liking both my comment and the Note -- something that Substack should be doing automatically. It's a decent platform but still very rough around the edges -- rather buggy in fact.

One thing in particular that chaps my hide is that they removed the Collapse function -- long comment threads are virtually unreadable without it. I've already complained several times -- no joy yet, but, should you be talking to Support there, you might raise the issue yourself -- squeaky wheel and all that. 🙂

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I find the Notes feed baffling. No idea how my Home feed is populated. Plenty of people I don't subscribe to are on it. I don't mind reading them but wonder how they got there.

And yes--trying to follow threads is crazy-making. And I don't really understand how they've engineered the Notes feed anyway. My replies never show up in my Notes feed on my profile page.

I suppose we should be glad it works at all.

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"Low expectations is the key to happiness in life" ... 😉🙂

https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/low-expectations-quotes

Though it seems we all pay good money to subscribe to various Substacks so I think we have a reasonable right to some improvements.

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