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It's a double typo, the original typo that I meant to correct was:  I hope Old Dog puts his cyber problems behind me, so that we can begin discussing movies and other stuff.     and I meant to amend it to: I hope Old Dog puts his cyber problems behind him, so that we can begin discussing movies and other stuff. but I neglected to make the change and just repeated it as it was.  My crime, my time.

When I visited my mother at her retirement home before heading on to the Ten Cat they had a little park in the center of the complex and inside the park was a pond, and inside the pond was a little island, and a mother duck chose that area to make her nest and raise her ducklings.  It worked out pretty well, she had a strapping brood, and the residents were delighted.  And then one day they were gone and nobody seemed to know why.

I am glad that I don't have rabbits because they would be nibbling on my tomatoes.  The stories I have heard from folks who grow at ground level is that they take a bite out of a tomato and discover that they don't like it and then take a bite out of another tomato that looks exactly like the one they didn't like. and so on until the crop is destroyed.  


So those GI's in Germany just said boo, no explanations?  Well I guess we will never know then.  Was retraining the guys from Vietnam a matter of getting them to pay more attention to rules and regs.  Along with the danger of being on the front lines is that they cut you a little slack on the spit and polish aspect of the military, and you resent having to polish your brass so often when you get back to headquarters.  

That quote from Monahan might have been interesting if I knew who Monahan was, sounds like one of those police union guys.  That's what I didn't like about the article.  Too many opinions, too little facts.  

I'm not a defund the police guy, but one can't help but feel that if these guys don't want to do their job, maybe they can find something else to do.  There is always a long line to get into the police academy.  If you get down to the nut of this whole thing it was that cop who killed George Floyd who started it.  You would think all cops would at least say this particular thing was wrong, not only because it was wrong, but because it was only going to make their jobs harder, but outside of a few guys you heard precious little of that from the thin blue line.  

Covid spreads like wildfire in the prisons because they are so crowded, and the calculation was made that by letting some lesser offenders go that would help to diminish the pandemic.  It might be a dubious calculation, but these times are full of dubious calculations.  Witness Arizona, Texas, and Florida.