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Cliff W. Gilmore

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Apartisan husband, adoptive father of two, grandfather, honorably retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, COO, PhD of organization and management with a leadership specialization, reader, writer, occasional actor, board game collector, dog & cat person.

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I used to commit to finishing any book I started, out of respect for the author’s work.

Then I reached a couple life… milestones… & didn’t suddenly become one of those people who thinks about dying all the time, but did change my perspective on how & to what I allocate my time. :)

I know by p. 20.

04.08.2025 00:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Now, speaking as someone with a bit of a background in org management & leadership, both practically & academically, you are correct regarding a lawless President — & I’ll let my assessment of ICE being exhausted as an institution stand.

03.08.2025 20:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

You just changed the focus of the discussion.

03.08.2025 19:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Remember:

(1) If you put something off until the last minute, it only takes a minute;

(2) Define water, then walk on it; &

(3) When the bar gets too high, switch from the pole vault to the limbo.

03.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it just me, or did it take anyone else a couple blinks to realize that’s a cupholder?

03.08.2025 19:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Remember:

(1) If you put something off until the last minute, it only takes a minute;

(2) Define water, then walk on it; &

(3) When the bar gets too high, switch from the pole vault to the limbo.

03.08.2025 19:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In its current form, it’s exhausted.

What we need is an org funded appropriately to handled the influx of immigrants humanely, consistently, fairly & efficiently, not a gestapo.

03.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My first thought was “Aim for the legs,” but Nuremberg is probably a better option unless/until it proves non-viable.

03.08.2025 19:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s gendermetaphysics.

Some things exist between dimensions & simply cannot be seen by a man until he asks a woman where the thing is. Even then often he must be show the thing directly.

I cook, clean, do laundry, etc. & still subject my wife (& grocery clerks) to, “Where is X? Oh… Right there?”

03.08.2025 19:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bullseye.

03.08.2025 19:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Making time” is a myth.

Time cannot be made. It can only be allocated.

People allocate their time to the things that are important to them. (Often this allocation differs from what they claim is important to them.)

03.08.2025 19:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Life is too short to read Dungeon Crawler Carl.

03.08.2025 14:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Also, this’ll bake a brain: If (A) Idiocracy has morphed from satire to documentary & (B) Stephen Miller exists, it stands to reason that (1) those who believe the lizard people are in charge are not necessarily crazy after all & (2) the mini-series “V” could reasonably be considered documentary.

03.08.2025 11:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If (A) Idiocracy has morphed from satire to documentary; and (B) Stephen Miller exists, it stands to reason that (1) those who believe the lizard people are in charge are not necessarily crazy after all and (2) the mini-series “V” could reasonably be considered documentary.

03.08.2025 11:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Neither does he.

He molts.

03.08.2025 11:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In fairness, he never promised us a rose garden.

Also, he’s objectively based on the public record an ignorant, bigoted, narcissistic, misogynistic, pedophile, white supremacist, totalitarian, dictator wannabe profoundly lacking in ethics, morals, empathy, intellect, & integrity.

Hard days comin’.

03.08.2025 11:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apologies if it’s already posted, but in fairness, he never promised us a rose garden.

Also, he’s an ignorant, bigoted, narcissistic, misogynistic, pedophile, white supremacist, totalitarian, dictator wannabe profoundly lacking in ethics, morals, empathy, intellect, & integrity.

Hard days comin’.

03.08.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In fairness, he never promised us a rose garden.

03.08.2025 11:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Someone who drinks their hyper-hot coffee through a stir-straw and someone else who says the line, “I remember the first time I killed someone with a bat”?

03.08.2025 11:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But it’s “Film at 11” that really seals the mindset.

03.08.2025 10:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Your titles were top discoveries of my year. Whatever you feed your Muse, keep it up! :)

03.08.2025 10:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You’re on fire, tonight.

03.08.2025 03:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So. Much.

03.08.2025 03:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh. I get it. A bakery can refuse to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple but a farmer’s market must sell pirogies to a pedophile.

I can only assume that’s spelled out somewhere in the Book of Revelation.

03.08.2025 03:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great. Now I have the opening song from Firefly stuck in my head.

03.08.2025 02:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At least they’re consistent?

No. Never mind.

“Huh?” was sufficient.

03.08.2025 02:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was better prepared physically & mentally for the end of civilization back in the 80s. I mean, The Day After, V, Red Dawn, Amerika, & Beyond Thunderdome really had me psyched.

Now, even with a Marine Corps career & PhD behind me, just thinking about doing this as a fifty-something is exhausting.

03.08.2025 02:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I hear the restaurant will have pretty good food but the atmosphere will be so-so.

03.08.2025 02:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would the middle be the apex? Asking so I’ll know when to say “Blogoshere.”

Timing will be tricky, but I’ll report back to validate. (With redactions of course.)

03.08.2025 02:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My initial reaction to the preview was an eye-roll, but it may be just the silly shit I need right now.

03.08.2025 02:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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