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Carlos De Oliveira is the property manager at Mar-a-Lago. He's being charged in the documents probe and was indicted last month. It took this long for him to find an attorney and he appeared in court today, pleading not guilty.
Sadly Carlos is in a no-win situation having aided Trump. By doing so, he was charged with four criminal counts, including making false statements, conspiring to obstruct justice, and altering, destroying, mutilating or concealing an object from an official proceeding.

All this for obeying his boss and carrying out his orders.

What choice did he have and did the thought cross his mind what his future would be for doing what he did? Doubtful. I believe he had no clue what this would lead to.

My thoughts... if he goes through the process, it would certainly mean several years of prison time. I haven't checked, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's 5 to 10 years.
Do I think Trump (like the Mafia) would silently support Oliveria's family in exchange for Carlos' silence? Without question. I would go as far as to wager mysteriously a friend-of-a-friend already has that arranged.

There is always the 'What if factor' and what if he's offered a significantly lower sentence, possibly a few months in jail and parole for 10 years for turning on Trump.
My opinion is special counsel Jack Smith already has what he needs... we can only follow the news to see what happens next.

Flip or not... what are the chances, when the dust settles, will he still be working as property manager at Mar-a-Lago?

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my assss!!

I was wondering about this a long time,If you had the mind that you have now,and you were born again,what would be your goal in your new life?
As for me? I would make my 2nd life's goal to be a Long Distance Runner

In a village, a poor old farmer had a lame son. Everyone in the village called that boy unlucky.
One day, king's army came to the village, and took all the strong young boys to be soldiers for the emperor. Only the old farmer's lame son was spared, because he could not fight with a broken leg. Everyone said, “What a good luck!” The old farmer replied, “Good luck?, bad luck?, who knows?”
So, don't pride on your good-luck and don't grieve over your bad-luck.

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After many years of struggling and being down more days then not I have realized the secret which has turned my life around and this might be worth you giving a try as well, in the past everything seemed to go wrong for me in so many ways. I was not a happy child living in abuse, then after a 20 year abusive marriage I suddenly found myself abandoned by my high school sweetheart, my ex decided she wanted to be single again she did not even have the decency to discuss this with me or tell me to my face she was moving on without me. One day I came home to a empty home, I mean empty she was gone and most of what we owned so I was all alone and starting over out of no choice of my own.

It has taken me more years then I wish to share to finally find the secret to happiness and being content with my life, finally one day after years of being depressed and negative I decided I am going to take control of my life instead of the negative things taking control of me. I started by researching self-improvement resources, what turned my life around was not so difficult to figure out but much harder to do. I started catching my negative thoughts and actions, stopped and focused on the positive side of every situation. After many months this started to become more natural for me, now many years later I see the positive things in my life much more then the negative things without even having to think about it. Oh I still am hit with many obstacles in my life even today, actually probably more now then ever but I can overcome them much quicker by just being more positive and dwelling less on them.

I truly urge you to give this system a try, it will not be easy at first for you by any means. As people most of us just seem to more naturally dwell on the negative things life throws at us, but once you program yourself to be more positive you will be amazed at how much happier and content you will be with your own life.

Have Faith In Yourself And Amazing Things Will Happen In Your Life In The Near Future.

Strangely....or maybe not? I don't even have an Amazon account...well, none that I know of anyway. But just a couple of days ago I open a package from them. It is a gift, a book, Marcus Aurelius Meditations.

About a third of the way through it, I have found myself immersed in it.

I have not had much time to digest all of what I have read but enough to get me thinking a bit...something I would like to share here anyway.

It is about fortune and misfortune.

One person's fortune may turn out to be another's misfortune...and later be the initial person's misfortune in the end.

Likewise, one person's misfortune may be another's fortune...and later be the initial person's fortune in the end.


If that is the case, does fortune and misfortune really exist?

The book says, to my understanding anyway, to be truly happy, we need to discover an inner tranquility within ourselves. The external things are always changing....and warns against protecting your perceived self-worth with things such as: pleasure, pain, passion, wealth, fame, etc....

As a side note:

I found it interesting how the book mentions how everything today is the seed for tomorrow and how everything before was the seed for today.

and...

How it says life is an opinion.

Thank you Amazon for the book. :)

One night I had a dream that I saw myself sitting in small house having only two windows. Within the house were many people. Half were looking out one window on one side of the house and the other half were looking out the other window. None within the the house knew how they got there only that they kept looking out the windows seeming to be looking for a sign of profound vision. One group was claiming with such clarity they could see the truth of everything and the other group claimed they thought they saw a glimpse of the truth but, their window was a bit hazy and cloudy so they just were not sure.
One truth they all knew they were stuck in this house and though they were aching to get out and explore beyond the confines of the house they could not find a door nor a key or any manner to escape the confines of the house.

Some just resigned and embraced the confines while others still kept hoping for a release, an escape, a way out of the house. Yet, all the while they were concerned about getting out of the house they did not realize each were holding a key and the windows were never really there nor the walls of the house. As a matter of fact the house was not even real but their own imagination of a false sense of imprisonment.
The windows were just invisible barriers to what they placed within the walls of doubt, fear, pessimism, anger, and regrets of the past.
Such is the case with online dating in some cases.
Yet, perhaps this is more for the blogger to understand.

One night I had a dream I was walking upon a valley and off in the distance there was a garden.
As I came near to it I saw its bounty of many varieties of fruit and vegetables ripe for the picking.

Next to the veggie garden was a thicket of weeds and thistles and briars and next to that a patch of flowers of all kinds of beauty.

As I pondered why were they divided by weeds and thistles I could not understand why anyone would grow such an array.

Then a voice from the clouds said unto me "oh foolish man what do you not understand? Is it not clear what you see?"
I cried out to the voice "No I honestly do not know why anyone would let weeds grow between such a lovely garden."

The voice in the cloud said, " Son of man open your mind and eyes. You see the bounty of veggies and they look ripe for the picking for they are the food of thought and dreams of many in the garden of life but, as full and ripe they may seem, there is barrier of weeds and thistles that must be cleaned out to bridge the gap to reach the flowers of beauty.
Yet, there is no one willing to tend to the weeding
As the hope of reaching to the flowers of beauty and the veggies which feed those who hunger for knowledge and understanding there is much work to be done to clear out all the negativity in the hearts of the laborers.
As I the lord above the clouds can provide all the light and water to nourish the ground, I give life to everyone who seeks it.
Hence, all I ask is to clear out that which is blocking the veggies and flowers so they can bridge one another and share the bounty of love and life they so desperately need.
In time with proper nurturing, you will reap the bounty and benefits of the garden of life before you.
Seek it's truth and do not be discouraged for the garden will feed you what you need.