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Well, I must congratulate Donald J Trump for becoming the worst president in US history ahead of Bush the lesser. When discuss trumps failures I always felt the fact that he hadn’t started a foreign war was his only redeeming feature.

Well, the toddler in chief finally got around to screwing over my home town and in addition took 26 million from the town next to us.

Guess where I am now, On a very lovely but exhausting tour. Catching a flight to Jordan this afternoon

Probably worth a read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry gets a lot of undue credit for "opening" Japan, as if the Tokugawa Shogunate and the domains had no agency. But Perry wasn't even the first American to try and visit Japan. That was Captain John Kendrick in 1797 aboard the Lady Washington.

Hard to believe it’s only a been a year. I can’t say it’s been fun but has been educational and interesting. I have may have to rewatch Game of Thrones to give me some ideas on how to handle my colleagues or possibly read some Machiavelli