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Here's what I see ...
President Trump Job Approval
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 7/16 - 8/14
Approve: 45.5
Disapprove: 51.5
Spread: -6.0
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In specific areas ...
President Trump Approval - Economy
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 7/6 - 8/13
Approve: 42.8
Disapprove: 54.4
Spread: -11.6
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President Trump Job Approval - Foreign Policy
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 7/6 - 8/3
Approve: 43.6
Disapprove: 53.9
Spread: -9.3
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President Trump Job Approval - Immigration
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 7/6 - 8/11
Approve: 46.2
Disapprove: 51.2
Spread: -5.0
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President Trump Job Approval - Inflation
www.realclearpolling.com
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RCP Average 5/30 - 8/11
Approve: 38.6
Disapprove: 59.1
Spread: -20.5
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I've entered an 80's playlist this evening, so nothing too mellow ...
But the last song from the 70's playlist I was listening to was...
Barclay James Harvest - Child Of The Universe (1974)
www.youtube.com
Kind of mellow, but with a message.
Lyrics excerpt ...
...
I'm a child of South Africa
I'm a child of Vietnam
I'm a child of Northern Ireland
I'm a small boy with blood on his hands
Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every night
Always there to join in someone else's fight
I didn't ask to be born, and I don't ask to die
I'm an endless scream, a gene machine
That cannot reason why
Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every day
I'm the child next door three thousand miles away
...
Quite the tune back in the day ...
@#3
While I may not necessarily agree with your comment, I still have a question about the contents of the classified files that Pres Trump took back to Mar-A-Lago when he won back the Oval Office.
Trump returns seized classified documents to Mar-a-Lago aboard Air Force One (March 2025)
www.upi.com
... President Donald Trump on Friday took back to Florida boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
About 15 boxes were put onto Air Force One and sent to Palm Beach where the president is spending the weekend at his estate. ...
Why might he have done that?
... West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 Guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio says it will send 150 in the coming days. ...
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
en.wikipedia.org
... The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC), more commonly known locally as the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), and, colloquially, DC Police, is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia, in the United States.
With approximately 3,200 officers and 600 civilian staff, it is the sixth-largest municipal police department in the United States. ...
Related gross topic?
Worm invades man's eyeball, leading doctors to suck out his eye jelly
arstechnica.com
... For eight months, a 35-year-old man in India was bothered by his left eye. It was red and blurry. When he finally visited an ophthalmology clinic, it didn't take long for doctors to unearth the cause.
In a case report in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors report that they first noted that the eye was bloodshot and inflamed, and the pupil was dilated and fixed. The man's vision in the eye was 20/80. A quick look inside his eye revealed it was all due to a small worm, which they watched "moving sluggishly" in the back of his eyeball.
To gouge out the parasitic pillager, the doctors performed a pars plana vitrectomy"a procedure that involves sucking out some of the jelly-like vitreous inside the eye. This procedure can be used in the treatment of a variety of eye conditions, but using it to hoover up worms is rare. In order to get in, the doctors make tiny incisions in the white parts of the eye (the sclera) and use a hollow needle-like device with suction. They replace extracted eye jelly with things like saline.
In this case, the device was able to suck in part of the worm's tail and drag it out"still squirming. Under the microscope, they quickly identified the peeper creeper. With a bulbous head, well-formed intestines, and a thick outer layer, it perfectly fit the description of Gnathostoma spinigerum, a known bodily marauder that can sometimes wiggle its way into eyeballs. ...
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