Trump Again Breaks With Intel Chief Over Russia

"I have President Putin, he just said it's not Russia. I will say this: I don't see any reason why it [would | would not] be."

"The Till case has been re-opened by DOJ based upon the discovery of new information," according to a report issued to Congress on March 26.

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"Because the matter is ongoing, the department can provide no further information about the current investigation," the report continues.

Last year, news broke that Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman whose accusations of Till's alleged flirtation sexual harassment contributed to  incited his murder, had admitted she lied on the witness stand.

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A personal matter ... in a friendly surrounding many years ago, the Pond community reacted to living reality and empathy.

Just a shout out ... my daughter's ugly divorce from a narcissistic partner, well educated and a lawyer, caused much grief and hardship. The Court actions lasted seven years and we managed to keep joined custody of her son. Son-in-law belonged to the Dutch Reformed Church ... ;) Damn!

The costs were an extreme burden for my daughters and we as parents who gave her all support during those years.

The lessons I learned about matters of Dutch Family Law and the Child Care and Protection Board I was able to use in a second case of a young mother with a lovely daughter. A friend of a friend of mine. Besides once again a narcissistic person. this partner had left her in the dark about extreme psychiatric problems. Today after years of Court actions, the Appeals Court upheld the earlier decree. The girl of six years old is safe by the mother. Due to risk for safety of the girl, the biological father does not get visiting rights where he is alone with the girl, his daughter. Only with supervision of a professional in a secure setting will the father meet her. Tough call all around.

PS Spend more time on these court actions during a decade than time spend on blogging :) haha working 24/7 during retirement.

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

It was the Romans who came up with the idea of using lead for plumbing--naming plumbing after their word for lead, "plumbum," or liquid silver--but it was also the Romans who first discovered that there were good reasons not to drink from lead vessels. Observe the pallid color of lead workers and see how the "vigor of their blood" was destroyed by the fumes from casting lead, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio commanded. In his foundational work of classical architecture, De Architectura, the only architecture manual to survive from antiquity--in which he derived architectural aesthetics from a consideration of the human body, leading to one of Leonardo Da Vinci's most famous paintings to be called "The Vitruvian body"--Vitrivius argued that there was a relationship between how to build cities and houses and how to build bodies, and it therefore followed that we should keep lead out of both bodies. "Water should therefore on no account be conducted in leaden pipes," he writes, "if we are desirous that it should be wholesome."

Didn't know this. (from Naked Capitalism)

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