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I'm not totally believing this.....yet.
But, it certainly is plausible.

Barbara Res, a former Trump Company Vice President & structural engineer,
who worked alongside Trump for years, predicts this will be the outcome;
Trump resigning fairly soon, before he can be impeached.

She suggests that he can't handle the pressure, and does things to 'save face'.
He will blame a lot of others first, and finally resign, before impeachment,
especially if given a deal.

It's an interesting interview and should give people insight to what Trump is truly like
from someone who knows him professionally very well.
She states that he has always been a narcissist and appears to be getting worse.
She says she never would have voted for him, due to a variety of reasons including
lack of experience.

Yesterday in Vanity Fair;

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP !!!

HE MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN !!!

Now 58% (up 21% since July) of Americans approve (versus 38% disapprove) of an impeachment inquiry into Trump's behavior.

In addition several key Republicans are now speaking out against Trump's handling of Syria.
This might be a signal, that their previous universal blind tolerance and support of Trump is dissapating.

In this month's Scientific American, these issues get discussed. Sadly, the whole article focuses on classical null hypothesis rejection using p values, or "confidence" intervals. Alternatives are discussed, such as Baysian approaches, or a new gimmick, how things don't seem right by analogy with repeated coin tossing. I wish the writer had had more knowledge of research methodology, including various study approaches, and analytical biases. Current approaches merely attempt to rule out errors based on chance. The real meat of the process comes with discussion of results. This would include: Degrees of strength of findings, dose response trends, analyses of biases and efffect modification, appropriateness of study designs, biological/physical/chemical coherence, funding/publication biases,----and how results fit with existing evidence in building stronger theory of any scientifically answerable questions. But it does touch on how hard it is for humans to think outside of existing theoretical boxes. Yet ignores how all this relates to crafting real policy in the real world.

Some police/fire chiefs in Californicateya, even in tiny municipalities, if on the job long enough, can earn 2-300 large yearly. A life pension then can amount to almost half of that. And when the chiefy dies, wifey continues to collect. With only grammar school math, any Bozo on the bus can see how unsustainable that becomes, given current demographics, which is why such defined overly generous pension plans, once very common, are now rere. That is in the dreaded private sector. If one still pretends to work in the government/public sector, such pensions, once awarded to almost all, when vested, still exist, but are also becoming less common. Now such pretend workers must pay in their share, although this is typically much less than in the dreaded private sector, where workers self fund their own retirement plan, when they exist, with the employer sometimes kicking in a shilling or two yearly. Several US states are either in, or approaching, receivership/bankruptcy, largely due to pensions, but also to typical spend and tax government mentalities. Used to be that these plans were "justified" by claiming that employees in government "service", earned less than those in real productive jobs in private industry. Long no longer at all true. More voters and taxpayers need to know this, and work to have it all become much more fair.

The blogs on CS are programmed so that any member can comment to their blogs at any time and bring them to the top of the page. If you comment to each of ten old blogs, all ten will float to page one. Current discussion in the blogs is about limited exposure to reduce the number of blogs a member can display. As a newbie to CS, I thought it was odd to the amount of self promotion that goes on here. People have the ability to bump their dead blogs and bring them to the top of the page.

That didn't happen on the site I was previously associated with. No matter how many comments you added, each blog would slowly drift away...
It was only when another member commended that would bring your blog to the top.

(side note, this was one of the reasons members created sockpuppets so they can intentionally bump their own blogs)

I asked CS administration if they would consider a format change to stop self promotion and their reply was no.

Their response didn't surprise me as it's expensive to implement website changes. I'm thinking status quo should someone actually contact administration requesting a change.

Everybody Talks About A Lot of Things............................Stuff................ That If Tackled?............. Could Be Taken Care Of.............But....Nobody Talks About ................What We Are Doing To The Wild Life On This Planet ............Who Are Inferior To Humanity....................Well.........At Least I Do........But Im Only One Voice


..........................."Extinction".................................

"I Am The Lion.............................I Was Here So Long Before You"
"No I Never Bothered Humans....I Had Much Better Things To Do"
"You Know? .............................The Only Time I Did?
"Was When................................. You Wouldnt Let Me Be"
"Was It Ever A Fair Game?..."With Your Gun Against Me?"
"Oh No.......Oh No"

"Here I Am The Elephant...No Way Im Just Too Big To Hide"
"When You Shot Our Mothers And Fathers?"
"All Of Us Young Ones........................................ Just Cried"
"And They Died Because Of China"..."A Part Of Their Medicinal Trade"
"But If They Didnt Have Their Weapons?...Theyd Be All Just So Afraid"
"Oh Yeah....Oh Yeah"

"Now Here I Am The Rhino...............Were Being Slaughtered Every Day"
"On Our Horizon? Its Extinction".....Upon The Landscape There We Lay"
"And Us Wildebeest Migrated...North South..................... East And West"
"But Youve Taken Most Of Our Land......And Now? We Have Much Less"
"Oh Yeah....Oh Yeah"

"Im Just One Voice For Earths Wild Life"
"But For The Humans?..Its About Greed"
"Of Yourselves Theres Just One Kind"
"Were...... A Thousand Different Breeds"
"And When You Finally Do...Do Something?"
"Its Always................. Way Too Far Too Late"
"Youre In Control................ Of What We Do"
"And Its You............... Who Decide Our Fate"
"Oh Yeah.....Oh Yeah"

"Id Bet You Wont Be Content..............When All Of Wildlife Is On Your Shelves"
"And That Time? Its Fast Approaching....Then Youll Start To Kill Off Yourselves"
"But You Know If Man Played On Even Odds?"
"And Took Us Animals On..... "One On One?"
"Man Would Never Have Survived Here"
"Unless He Had His Gun"

"Oh Yeah.......Oh Yeah"

For the record, every country has their own style of Country Music.
I was active on Citizens Band (CB) radio in the 1970's and listening to channel 19 that was commonly used as a call channel for truckers, someone asked "What radio station is Country Music on?"
Unlike other places in America, Miami is multi-cultural... so I just had to ask "What country?"


I see there is some confusion including cross reference between the different styles of early music in America. Not all are lumped into "Country Music"

Today, I'm blogging about Mississippi Delta Blues. That's the original folklore story where the young man met Satin at the crossroads and sold his soul for a musical talent he couldn't achieve without 20 years of practice!

That is not to be confused with American style of 'Country Music' with my ex'es from Texas or 'Fiddles from Hell' ala Charlie Daniels Band.

Steel Guitar is associated with Country Music. That instrument is played horizontally where the strings are 1/4" (or more) above the neck and uses a solid bar of polished metal (steel) played on an instrument. Due to the metal bar, all the notes played ring out clear.

Delta Blues is played on a standard guitar... at least 50 years before electric guitars came along and the 'slide' sound comes from a piece of glass. Commonly, it was a broken neck of a whiskey bottle, hence then name 'Bottlebeck Guitar'
The notes on the bottleneck aren't as sustained as a Steel Guitar and that contributes to it's unique sound and style of play.

One of the early legends to this style of music is Muddy Waters. Here is a sample of this music: