<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">They aren't all. Hey, Biden's appointees look good to me!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>George Duncan</div><div>Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University<br><a href="http://georgeduncanart.com/" target="_blank">georgeduncanart.com</a></div><div>See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram</div>
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<div> <br>My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos.<br></div><div><br></div><div><h1 style="letter-spacing:-0.02em;margin:0px"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:normal">"Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion."</font></h1><div><span style="font-size:small;letter-spacing:-0.02em;line-height:1.125em"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. </font></span></div><table width="85%" style="color:rgb(93,86,81);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;margin:auto;border-collapse:collapse!important"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align:center"><p style="margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:12px"><font size="2">"It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy.</font></p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:27px;color:rgb(146,146,146);text-align:center"><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:18 PM Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Oh, how I wish Americans weren't so stupid.<div><br clear="all"><div><img width="0" height="0" alt="" style="display: flex; border: 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/mail/4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799?uid=226430"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>============================================<br>Tom Johnson - <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799?uid=226430&url=mailto%3Atom%40jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a><br>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA<br>505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h)<br><a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799?uid=226430&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnmfog.org" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0b5394">NM Foundation for Open Government</font></b></a><br><b><font color="#0000ff">Check out <a href="https://www.cloudhq-mkt9.net/mail_track/link/4410a7540f47d2fc72_1607383068799?uid=226430&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpages%2FIts-The-Peoples-Data%2F1599854626919671" target="_blank">It's The People's Data</a></font></b> </div><div>============================================</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Dorothy Bracey</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:dhbracey@comcast.net" target="_blank">dhbracey@comcast.net</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 3:15 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass<br>To: Tom Johnson <<a href="mailto:tom@jtjohnson.com" target="_blank">tom@jtjohnson.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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Read the comments too. It’s all pretty chilling. One of them that really got to me is:
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<span style="color:rgb(44,44,44);font-family:"Guardian Text Sans Web",sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like to be Canadian and have the US as a neighbor.” </span>
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<br>Arriving in the US from Australia during Covid was like walking through the looking glass
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