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Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

  • Much of the bad blood with Russia is caused by the Fake & Corrupt Russia Investigation, headed up by the all Democrat loyalists, or people that worked for Obama. Mueller is most conflicted of all (except Rosenstein who signed FISA & Comey letter). No Collusion, so they go crazy!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2018

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    Apr 11
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    Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog

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    Apr 10
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    Dilbert

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    Apr 10
  • Steely Dan  Gaucho (1980  2000)

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    Apr 10
  • Not since Louis XIV of France uttered “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”) has a leader so conflated his ego with his country.

    How else to interpret President Donald Trump’s comment after the FBI seized materials from his personal lawyer: “It’s an attack on our country, in a true sense. It’s an attack on what we all stand for.”

    Really?

    Anson Laytner, Seattle

    Trump Derangement Syndrome, from Today’s Seattle Times

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    Apr 10
  • Today, it was my great honor to welcome the 2017 NCAA Football National Champion, Alabama Crimson Tide – to the White House. Congratulations! #RollTidehttps://t.co/hF5EZHlSVS pic.twitter.com/JfGue4IIs1

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 10, 2018

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  • Lizzie Susan Stebbing (1885-1943)To be in a questioning frame of mind is to be thinking; reflective thinking essentially consists in attempting to solve a problem and thus in asking questions and seeking answers to these questions so as to solve the problem. We distinguish reflective thinking from idle reverie or day dreaming. In reflective thinking our thoughts are directed towards an end—the solution of the problem that set us thinking. Thinking is a mental process in which we pass from one thought to another. A thought is an element in this process which requires for its full expression a complete sentence. When one thought is more or less consciously connected with another in order to elicit the conclusion towards which our thinking is directed we are reasoning.

    Reasoning is a familiar activity; we all reason more or less, badly or well. We connect various items of information and draw conclusions; we judge that, if certain statements are known to be true, then certain other statements are also true and must be accepted. In saying that the latter must be accepted we are saying that, provided we are thinking logically, we shall accept them; that is to say, we should not be rational beings if we accepted the former statements and rejected the latter.

    (L. Susan Stebbing, A Modern Elementary Logic, 5th ed., rev. by C. W. K. Mundle [London: Methuen, 1952; University Paperbacks, 1961], 2 [italics in original])

    L. Susan Stebbing (1885-1943) on Reasoning

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    Apr 9
  • Close Enough for Rock ‘n’ Roll (1976).

    Nazareth, “Telegram” (1976)

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    Apr 9
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    Ten Years Ago Today in This Blog

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    Apr 9
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    Dilbert

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