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Monday, September 26, 2016
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PONDERABLE
"Better pray for yourself, than curse another."
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Inspiration
"...[I}t holds me accountable to achieve my commitment and forces me to confront the reality of falling short, rather than at the end of each day bluffing or fooling myself about what had in fact transpired that day."
Reality Check
Private meeting lasted 90-minutes
Declassified
Fissures between the military and the White House, which have been growing since Obama's first term, are coming out in the open in his presidency's final months
Coupling
Yes, some are counterintuitive and others defy conventional wisdom. That only means you haven't heard them before!
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
It's a smart substitution, and it's absolutely nuts
Life's Act 2
The closer you get to retirement, the less room for error you have
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
• Sean Delonas BONUS!
• Chip Bok
• Gary Varvel BONUS!
Mark Davis: Americans have had it with sideline protests fueled by activist racial revenge
Marilyn Penn: The Pretentious Badge of Poverty
[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ] • 1777, British troops occupy Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolution
• 1789, Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State, John Jay is appointed the first Chief Justice of the United States, Samuel Osgood is appointed the first United States Postmaster General, and Edmund Randolph is appointed the first United States Attorney General
• 1914, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act
• 1918, during World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins
• 1955, following word that President Dwight D. Eisenhower had suffered a heart attack, the New York Stock Exchange saw its worst price decline since 1929
• 1959, Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless
• 1960, in Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy
• 1973, Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time
• 1981, Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter
• 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a likely worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike
• 1984, the United Kingdom agrees to the handover of Hong Kong
• 1991, four men and four women began a two-year stay inside a sealed-off structure in Oracle, Ariz., called Biosphere 2. (They emerged from Biosphere on this date in 1993.)
• 2001, in truce talks held at the urging of the United States, Israel and the "Palestinians" agreed on a series of confidence-building measures aimed at ending a year of fighting
• 2009, filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested by Swiss authorities on an international warrant stemming from a 1977 U.S. case in which he was charged with drugging and assaulting a 13-year-old girl
• 2011, the U.S. Army announced a plan to reduce its number of soldiers by nearly 50,000 during a five-year span. Lt. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick, the service personnel chief, said the reductions would bring the total to 520,400 active-duty soldiers by Sept. 30, 2016
Kathleen Parker: The real question this debate (SMART)
Argus Hamilton's News in Zingers
News of the Weird by Chuck Shepherd: What Goes Around, Comes Around
• They wanted to rob the pizza guy. They did not expect a 250-pound, ex-NFL linebacker to deliver it Gina Barreca: Fake Facebook Gina Can't Spell, Isn't Funny
Leonid Bershidsky: Russia proves vote fraud can happen anywhere
Bruce Bialosky: Secret Report Released: Clinton Foundation to Become Cabinet Department
Charles Hurt: Hillary 'The Machine' is programmed to take down The Donald
David Weigel: Ted Cruz explains why he endorsed Trump --- despite everything
Kelly Riddell: The media is failing, apoplectic libs argue, because it can't convince the public that Trump is Lucifer
Chris Cillizza: What can we expect from Clinton and Trump in the debate?
The Fact Checker: The Truth Behind the Rhetoric: Trump vs. Clinton: A debate fact-check cheat sheet
Dick Morris: Clinton Ally Reveals How Bill Clinton Helped Rehab the Saudis After 9/11
George Will: A Republican Worth Voting For
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