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Dale Carnegie:

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

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Pictures from my brother in Virginia’s Northern Neck.

Bluebird on branch

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Shaun Mullen reports on Manifest Manafort Destiny while mincing no words. A snippet:

For openers, Manafort’s entire career has been one exercise in evil after another.

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The distance between circumstantial and provable can be substantial. But if the Russia scandal has taught us nothing else beyond the fact that virtually every key Trump player is a bad actor, it is that if something looks like a coincidence, it almost certainly is not.

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“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0

Be polite in public discourse.

Authorities say a man found a handgun on the floor at a town hall forum hosted by U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer at Olympic College.

The Kitsap Sun reports no one was injured during the Thursday event.

The story goes on the report that the fumble-fingers who dropped his portable penis “sheepishly” returned to retrieve it.

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Prayerful man at podium saying piously,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Via Raw Story, which has commentary.

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Man looks at computer screen and says,

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Robert van Gulik:

Most tricks look easy when they are done well.

van Gulik, Robert, The Haunted Monastery (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 167

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Sunset over water

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Via All Things Amazing, an image site (some images NSFW).

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Whiplash 0

Oh, my.

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Twits on Twitter 0

Wall-eyed twits:

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Title:  Parkland Potshots.  Frame One:  Host says,

Via Job’s Anger.

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Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0

A Trumpled nurse:

On Thursday morning, a nurse in Houston, Texas was driving home early in the morning after an overnight shift when a man stopped her car, began screaming anti-Muslim slurs at her and stabbed her.

Houston’s KTRK reported Friday that the Muslim nurse, who was wearing hijab, believes the attack was religiously-motivated based on slurs the attacker yelled at her, calling her a “raghead” and a “sand n**ger.”

Face it: Bigots see Donald Trump’s electoral success as permission to be themselves.

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Politeness is a family value.

She died at Miami Valley Hospital. However, an emergency Caesarean section saved the life of her unborn child.

Marsh’s boyfriend, 25-year-old Travis Hypes, claimed to police they had been in an argument that evolved into a shoving match. He said he pulled out a pistol at one point in the altercation and it fired by accident when Marsh shoved him again.

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Title:  Policy Quality Index.  Image:  Series of ratings:

Via Juanita Jean.

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Katherine Hepburn:

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

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Title:  What Is This Famous Farm Couple Thinking?  Image:  Representation of the

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Balloon Juice.

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