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Today's headlines

 poor georgie’s almanack. 

Because many of you on this email list do not follow social media I am being overly presumptuous and sharing a version of my posts after reading the very first headline.

Immediately, I looked for some humor, but could not find any and wrote.

Unfortunately, this is only the beginning of a very bad joke ... 

“A Gates, A Manafort and a lawyer walk into the bar.”

Then the seriousness of the situation sunk deeper …

What have you and I done? 

We listened to false prophets and allowed the Ds and Rs to present us with two very flawed candidates. Today, the winner must be totally consumed with saving his reputation and his family from jail just as he is about to embark on an Asian trip in which his distractedness could determine, as I have said before, whether our children will be fried (rare, medium or well) or starved. You and I may think we are not part of the problem. We are the problem.

And finally for the day …

We made an error of biblical proportions. We believed and posted and toasted far and wide the stories of the false D & R & Putin infused gods who told us WHAT, not HOW, to think. 

Alas, Dear Pogo, you were right.

first 2020 predictions

poor georgie’s almanack;
As of today it looks like four major parties in the 2020 presidential race. Traditional GOP and DEM, plus Progressives and an updated version of the popular 1855 Know Nothing Party (seriously, look it up). Also, as of today my candidate for President is Neil deGrasse Tyson. Don’t laugh. He’s much smarter than any of us and, because he is America’s most popular scientist, he really can figure out how to drain the swamp.

Query ... the letter P

poor georgie’s almanack:

What are the duties of the president/prime minister, congress/parliament, states/provinces?

And why do so many start with P?

panhandlers in a cashless society

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Do panhandlers who take Visa have a $10 minimum?

General Kelly

poor georgie's almanack:

 

The reincarnation of a 5 Star General ... a suggested new title for a work by M Pugliese 

 

 

poor georgie’s almanack:

I fell for fake news.

Maybe you sent it.

Why should I believe you or you me?

I no longer can believe what I know.

Prayers for War

poor georgie’s almanack: 

Sir Isaac has been proven right in scientific and non-scientific terms ... every action has an equal and opposite reaction. 

So, please ask those passionately praying for a preemptive attack on N Korea if they prefer their kids rare, medium or well done?

Passwords

poor georgie’s almanack: 

Each day, Humans spend over 1,300 years typing passwords, a Microsoft researcher claims.  

No word yet on time spent looking for them.

Curses, foiled again.

poor george’s almanack

Last week, on return from Chicago to Washington,
we opened our suitcase and inside was a Billy Goat. 

You gotta hand it to them

poor georgie's almanack: This applies to most countries.

"Our politics seems deeply divided between those who think the country is going to hell in a handcart and those who believe the country is going to hell in a handbasket.” 

That's my nomination for today's best quote.

It comes from a man named Michael Gerson in The Washington Post.

chicago

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Went to Chicago for the first time in decades.

Somebody shrank The Wrigley Building.

North Korea and Radioactive Fallout

North Korea and Radioactive Fallout

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Jet Stream & fallout from bombing N Korea:

Remember the U.S. panic after Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor’s meltdown in 1986? 

Korea is much closer.

picture from the scooper