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The map is not the territory. <\/p>\n
Alfred Korzybski <\/p>\n
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightfully consider it an act of war. <\/p>\n
Glenn T. Seaborg, National Commission on Education, 1983 <\/p>\n
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This will be brief. <\/p>\n
My long term infection was pneumonia. I suspected it when I just stayed in bed and began to feel better. Previously I would try to rally and the result was a relapse. I went to the doctors and they found nothing. By Tuesday I had had enough and had Mr. Galloway take me out to Kaiser for the day, where I found a young beginning resident who listened, examined me, sent me to x-ray \u2013 where the technician could see something going on in the lower left side of my lungs. After that it was shots to start the antibiotics, pharmacy to get a ten day course of antibiotics, and the rest of the day in bed. <\/p>\n
The treatment is what you\u2019d expect, sanitation, bed rest, and the anti-biotics. It\u2019s working well enough that I have confidence it will work, but I am not starting a full work schedule until I know more. After a day of bed rest I\u2019d feel enough better to act as if I were recovering, which would trigger the relapses. Not this time. If I\u2019m not in bed I\u2019m sitting quietly, warm, reading old Nero Wolfe novels. I owe you this report, and thanks to those who made inquiries. But I don\u2019t know how long to recovery. I\u2019ll let you know when I do. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s definitely pneumonia. <\/p>\n
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The news remains absurd. Today I heard on Fox News a Democrat official say that Mr. Trump clearly deserves impeachment. Asked for what crime \u2013 the Constitution is specific that there must be \u201chigh crime\u201d \u2013 she said the President shared confidential information with the Russians. Since, so far as I know, that is an act of governance within the powers of the Presidency, and is certainly not prohibited in any statute, it is extraordinary that anyone claiming familiarity \u2013 much less expertise \u2013 would say such a thing in public, but it is apparently the new standard of journalism. <\/p>\n
I haven\u2019t much been following the news, but so far as I can see the President told Mr. Comey he hoped he\u2019d be finished with the Russian investigation soon. This was apparently gleaned from leaks of Mr. Comey\u2019s notes. If there is anyone on this planet, including Mr. Comey, who was unaware that President Trump wished the Russian investigation, started as a distraction from the flood of leaks coming from the State Department, would soon be over, I would be astonished; and even in Mr. Comey\u2019s notes, conveniently leaked, I saw no hint of a direct order or a command. If that is a high crime we have come to a sorry state. <\/p>\n
There is much more like this, If we need a special prosecutor, what of the one crime that seems to have come from all this investigating: the unmasking of American citizen names as a result of FISA surveillance? Those names were bandied about the White House during the last year of the previous administration, and were even leaked to the Press; a black letter felony. There is no grand jury investigating this known crime. <\/p>\n
This is very tiring. I am going to bed. <\/p>\n
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