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Tolerance, Purity, and Hypocrisy

We're all hypocrites...and bigots. I'm intolerant of intolerance, and bigoted against bigots. It's easy to find fault in others..in part to make our own faults more palatable. You can't expect purity from imperfect creatures. Our biology drives us toward greed in a cycle of hunger and acquisition and reward (so be careful what you hunger for). Purity is a rare condition on our planet. The Earth is all mixed up...air a mixture of gases, oceans a solution of salts and life, rocks a matrix of minerals. There are small rare pure mineral deposits, but most materials must be refined toward purity...and even Ivory soap is only 99.9% pure. The world isn't black or white, but various shades of gray. There are no perfect politicians, movements, policies, nor nations. However there are politicians, movements, policies, and nations working in the right direction. So what is the best approach...to encourage the forward momentum or cast aspersions about the inevitable imperfections?

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(When Louis Gohmert makes you look stupid); Rosenstein Testifies He Doesn’t Need to Read FISA Applications He Signs

I don’t know what to believe about this one. Is this Rosenstein’s way to dodge the question? is he this lazy and complacent? Is he a liar? This makes no sense to me. And if true it screams that Ros is unfit for any position of authority whatsoever.

But I will admit, I did let out a muffled guffaw when I read it.

I Need Some Input

I've been optimizing the site code and architecture the last few days, you should see a noticeable improvement in the time it takes to load the pages.

My question is: this morning I received an email from a member stating that after a recent FireFox automatic update the text on the site is displayed in bold. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Have you seen any other anomalies that have popped up over the last few days?

Have you seen any gold coins laying around anywhere lately, because if you have, they're mine. I swear, I misplaced them and can't figure out where they are.

Thanks.

Fooled again? Ocasio- Cortez on foreign plolicy.

There is understandable interest in Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. In particular people want to know her positions on foreign policy.

It has been said that she is silent on the topic,and that this means she condones US imperialism. The issue was muddled by the disappearance of the "peace economy" plank from her platform,noted by S. Khan and reported here by Wendy Davis.

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