Political and World thoughts

So, here I am, finally opening up a public blog. There are things that happen, things that we all think about, connections to be drawn, and things to be realized. I hope that here, my personal perspective will help some one out there --- and perhaps yours mine as well. :)

Let's see where this goes.

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