Elena's Graduation Day

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This is fabulous family news. I have been marvelously notified... This Fathers Day, my first gorgeous grandbaby will graduate from the University of California in Santa Barbara with high honors. A gift is on its way without delay. I am proud of you, Elena.
UCSB is ranked 30 in the nation, with a 33 percent acceptance rate.

Happy Birthday Tocayo

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Happy birthday to fellow journalist and my Tocayo. Bob Schieffer, who celebrates 82 wonderful birthdays today. Robert Lloyd Schieffer is a broadcast newsman known for his moderation of presidential debates, among the following accomplishments.

Schieffer is one of the few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments: the White House, the Pentagon, US State Department, and the United States Congress.

Mexican Immigrants

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Mexican directors have won 5 of the last 6 Oscars for Best Director. According to US government figures, Mexican immigrants, along with their Mexican American descendants, occupy a unique place in the story of U.S. immigration. They are known by many different names, come from divergent origins, and took widely different paths to becoming part of the United States.

Yesterday’s Newspaper

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Your relevance is like yesterday’s news
Nobody wants to read about it
Sensational at first
At noon you are old news
By evening it is totally irrelevant

Once the lead that reached the front page
Your words were once quoted
Now, nobody wants to read it
The comment that was born in the early morning fades
Your words are the news from yesterday

Nobody else tries to read them
Sensational when it came out at dawn
At noon and confirmed news
And in the afternoon forgotten matter
Your relevance is a newspaper from yesterday

Buckle Up

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Oh... What a ride it’s been. As we prepare to celebrate our anniversary, we want to say Thanks, gracias, xiexie...etc.

Whether you have been with us for the past eight years, or recently joined us, thank you for coming along for the ups and downs.

With good folks like you by our side, we’re ready for all that the future might bring and we'll take it in stride together!

Pause just a moment to imagine the surprises that await us this year and what that could mean for all of us in terms of blood, sweat, and tears.

Will History Repeat?

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They say that history repeats itself... The origin of the phrase is traced to various personages, including George Santayana. Renowned Novelist Mark Twain proposed a modification to the proverb. He said, ‘history doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes’.

GOP Election Fraud

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In North Carolina and at the end, after everything was said and done, wasn’t the Republicans who were left holding the smoking gun?

The GOP has claimed that our democracy is menaced by election fraud. It has been their excuse for voter suppression tactics, their rationalization for election defeats, and a central element of a Big Conspiracy Theory alleging that Democrats want open borders so they can drown good white taxpaying citizens in a sea of illegal voting by immigrants and other minorities seeking to give themselves welfare benefits.

Real Climate Change

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Winter storms come and go, but whenever we report snow in Arizona and in Southern California is difficult to reject the notion of climate change.

The effects of a record-setting snowfall are expected to extend well into this weekend throughout the arid state of Arizona, including the city of Phoenix.

Officials say the storm closed long stretches of highways throughout Arizona where heavy snow had fallen. Many residents of Phoenix battled rain and cold temperatures, while Flagstaff had broken a 104-year-old record for snowfall in one day.

Digital Age Communication

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The smoke signal is one of the oldest forms of long-distance communication. It is a form of visual messaging used to transmit news, signal danger, or gather people to a common area.

However, reaching out using smoke signals, carrier pigeons, the town crier, via an operator or a switchboard is ancient history. Today, the best way to communicate appears to be via Text.

Cuban Missile Crisis II

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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the then Soviet Union initiated by American ballistic missile deployment in Italy and Turkey with consequent Russian ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.

It has been said that history tends to repeats itself, especially when individuals fail to learn the first time around. This could certainly be the case, but then again it could be another fear mongering smokescreen. This could be a distraction to take news off trump #TrumpRussiaProbe and Donald-Vladimir’s alliance, so don’t be fooled