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Donald Trump's second impeachment: The trial of the century

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After a string of controversies including inciting the storming of the Capitol, the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump is about to begin.

 

 

There have been others down this road many failed those that succeeded remain in the main unknown

I am now entering my fifth year as a regular heroin user,” writes Carl Hart in his revelatory new book, Drug Use for Grown-Ups. Fifty-four-year-old Hart is the Ziff professor of psychology at Columbia University. Regular heroin use and high academic achievement are not two pursuits that we expect to see in the same life story. At least not openly. Heroin is by popular consensus the worst of drugs, the one that leaves users hopelessly strung-out and slavishly addicted. How can you be a regular user and hold down a prestigious Ivy League professorship? And why would you admit to it? As Hart continues: “I do not have a drug-use problem. Never have. Each day, I meet my parental, personal and professional responsibilities. I pay my taxes, serve as a volunteer in my community on a regular basis and contribute to the global community as an informed and engaged citizen. I am better for my drug use.”

Meet Carl Hart: parent, Columbia professor – and heroin user | Drugs | The Guardian

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PECKING ORDER

 Nature notes. At our bird-feeding stand, lorikeets rule. Then come the rest. The pecking order is strict - and unusual.

 Pecking Order has nothing to do with nature. It is the colloquial term for the hierarchical system of social organization.

So Andrew Bolt is wrong or he ha used the term euphemistically equating social and biological order as equivalent. What he fails to explain is the mechanisms of Change in both and in factchange seems something he resists.

We need to be grateful that we don't equate Biological Order with Social Order yet some keep insisting there is a dominating equivalence. I wonder which side of the fence places himself? Is he a Lorikeet or just one of the unidentified battlers he calls the "rest"?

Clue

"Tell us the news here.  And if you see this bloke and his stall at a Victorian market, grab some of his croquettes and  oliebollen, and one of his Gouda cheese "souffles". Tried them yesterday. Best I've had outside Holland - and better than most I've had in Holland, too."Andrew Bolt

Andrew Bolt identifies as Dutch not Australian he's admitted that. He's claimed he had an epiphany in his 30s when he got married and only then began to feel Aussie. Yet he points to Bruce Pascoe saying he talks crap identifying as indigenous. Bolt wasn't born in Holland he was born here but he claims immigrant status and he flaunts it, eg above.

Bolt's hypocrisy is his largest attribute Melbourne one of the world's most livable cities Bolt says it suffers left-wing  covid restictions, is overcrowded, is multicultural, and has an over abundance of misfit culturally inappropriate immigrants.According to Bolt our institutions are dominated by the left. Bolt's dream is to retire to Amsterdam. A city currently suffering a covid nightmare, with a population twice the size of Melbourne far more multicultural and far far more left wing. While we still call Bolt Australian he ardently wishes he wasn't. Truth be told we actually wish he went the way of Lou Dobbs has at Fox News, got a retirement package and went to live on that barge in Amsterdam and experience the realities of Climate Change and the Dutch acknowledgement of it and a city in which Greta is welcomed.