what time is it?

In addition to signing all those hats, Trump also managed to piss off the Iraqis so that they are now calling for us to take our troops out.  When I read that I remembered that they had asked us to get our troops out some years earlier.  I think the issue was that we wanted any of our guys who broke their laws to be prosecuted by our courts and not theirs and they took issue with us on that.  Then they let us put some more back in to fight ISIS (I notice lately that they are calling it IS.  Was its refrain taken away because it lost all its territory?), but disliking the short shrift that the red-hatted one gave them they are now for us taking our troops out.

And maybe we are better off without troops there, but shouldn't this be a reasoned response debated by experts rather than because our prez pisses people off because he gets off on being rude to people?

I think there is a lot of hokum in those DNA tests, especially the part where they tell you you are 32 percent  Nordic and 20 percent Irish and 10 percent eastern European and so on.  I mean what does that even mean?  I think they just take some average of genes for each country and then measure that up with your genes, but I don't see how that tells much.  If a Frenchman emigrates to Ireland, does that make the Irish genome just a little more French?

I remember in grade school when we discovered we had our own nationalities other than Americans.  I would come home for lunch and I would ask my mother what is Fred Strocchio and she, flipping the fried bologna in the pan, would reply over her shoulder, Italian.  Dang how did she know that?  This being Gage Park everybody was some kind of European, and nobody thought that like the Italians were not as good as the Germans.  It was like a rainbow coalition, if you like your rainbows all white. The main thing I am interested in is finding people from the Bohemian side of the family, though if I think about it awhile, I am not sure what it will mean for me to find out that there are Janovskys or Blazeks living in Saginaw Michigan.

Technically I guess you could tell what a person looks like if you knew their DNA.

So where do computers and phones go to get their correct time?  Where does internet time come from?  Is there some cesium clock somewhere attached to a cable attached to a server?  How do they account for the time taken between Q and A?  How about relativity?  A short search did not come up with any easy answers and now if the little clock in the lower right corner of my computer is accurate it is two after six and time to get on with my day.