"Chatter and News" From TNT Sunday Evening 3-27-2022
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KaseyKo1: Been reading a lot of recent tweets coming out of Iraq & I just truly don't know what to think about these people. It's sounding like there is some legislation being worked on that if any parliament member misses 3 sessions, they will be booted out of parliament & their immunity removed. Hummmm....wonder how that will work out. Appears that Maliki's camp is really pulling out all the stops to keep the session from happening Wed.
GraceRenewed: I think it is beyond ridiculous that they can’t do one right thing for their country. My heart aches for their people
KaseyKo1: I'm actually hoping that we're just seeing a lot of smoke & mirrors right now. It appears the session on Mon was for a 2nd reading of a draft bill addressing the emergency need of food svcs for the Iraqi people. Possibly for RV coming quickly?
KaseyKo1: I'm optimistic on this front. I'm thinking it makes sense that they would have gotten their parliament into place & sworn in on Sat, if they were looking to pass a law & possibly open the budget, which would reflect the new rate. I know, I know, wishful thinking! But I'm hopeful, nonetheless!
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JC Collins Philosophy of Metrics
A few years following the collapse of the twin towers the world was almost unrecognizable from what it had been at the end of the 20th Century. After grunge, techno, the explosion of websites, Yahoo, Amazon, Supersize Fries, and Bill Clinton, anything seemed possible.
The lackluster years of the late 1990’s ended with the birth of the music sharing platform Napster and an unremarkable Y2K event. The future strangely seemed both mundane and hopeful. Everything changed with the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen’s Aden harbor on October 12, 2000.
At the time, I was in Las Vegas attending the largest mining expo in the world. News of the Cole bombing quickly spread and my first thought was that it was only the beginning. There were those of us who understood on some intuitive level that something bigger was about to happen, but we couldn’t understand the full magnitude of what was to come.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, a mining co-worker, who was meant to be flying up to Canada from Dallas, called to inform me he wasn’t going to make it as all flights were grounded. Planes had crashed into the World Trade Center.