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Hey look everybody, I've momentarily(?) become a self-indulgent prima donna that chooses to waste everyone's time by posting vapid, self-referential crap on this as yet unused little corner of the web called "acid andy's Journal"!

It was just looking a bit empty so I thought I'd experiment by writing something here. Doubtless it'll annoy a few people, but I'm somewhat used to that, even if it makes me a little uncomfortable on some deeper, more subconscious level.

Isn't writing about yourself in a journal a bit sorta social networkish? I mean, where do you draw the line between a journal and a fucking "blog"? Is this web 2.0? It better not be! I seem to have some religious aversion to that term. It reminds me of disgusting things like F***book and Beta.

If anyone likes or hates hearing my ramblings, I'll probably try this again sometime. I might even come up with a topic. Something technical maybe, or broadly philosophical, or an angry rant about how few people make allowances for nerdy, eccentric, self-indulgent weirdos. Did I manage self-deprecation there? Seems doubtful.

OK, enough! acid andy out. *BOOM!*

P. S. This drivel was fuelled by nothing more than a very unusually excessive amount of exercise and more coffee than usual.
P. P. S. Did I bore you to tears yet?

The HIGHLY anticipated meeting between Kim Jong Un and myself will take place in Singapore on June 12th. We will both try to make it a VERY SPECIAL moment for World Peace! #TrumpNobel

President Trump on Wednesday hailed the release of three U.S. detainees in North Korea, but in negotiating with Kim Jong Un, the Trump administration may have played into Pyongyang's history of "hostage diplomacy," harshly criticized by National Security Adviser John Bolton when Barack Obama was president.

Bolton admonished Obama in 2009 for engaging in “political ransom” with North Korea after Obama dispatched another former president, Bill Clinton, to negotiate the release of two American journalists. Bolton argued it put humanitarian aid workers, academics and other Americans at risk. It also gave the north "political legitimacy" and emboldened Iran and other autocracies to take similar steps to gain leverage on the United States.

"Despite decades of bipartisan U.S. rhetoric about not negotiating with terrorists for the release of hostages, it seems that the Obama administration not only chose to negotiate, but to send a former president to do so," Bolton, who worked as ambassador to the United Nations for President George W. Bush, wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post that year.

"The reporters' arrest, show trial and subsequent imprisonment (twelve years hard labor) was hostage taking, essentially an act of state terrorism," Bolton added. "So the Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea, whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama.”

Trump adviser Bolton criticized Obama's 'hostage' talks; now welcomes them with North Korea

Folks, we lost one of our greatest politicians yesterday. George Deukmejian of California, very very tough on crime. He was in the Legislature, he brought back the death penalty even when Governor Moonbeam said "no." Then he became Governor. Believe me, we're going to have more and more Republicans in power in California. Because we're BUILDING THE WALL!!! foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/08/george-deukmejian-ex-governor-california-dies1.html

Boy Scouts are dropping the word 'Boy' from flagship program; Girl Scouts shrug

Mormon church to cut ties with Boy Scouts and start its own gospel-driven youth program

Mormon church to sever its 105-year-old ties to the Boy Scouts at end of 2019

Who's afraid of girls in the Boy Scouts? | Perspective

...worked out so well last time!

Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq

I will be announcing my decision on the Iran Deal from the Washington White House at 2:00pm today. Don't miss it! #TrumpTV whitehouse.gov/live

How white women use strategic tears to avoid accountability

What We Know (And Don't Know) About 'Missing White Women Syndrome' (i.e. you don't even need to see the tears to weaponize them)

To the great people of West Virginia we have, together, a really great chance to keep making a big difference. Problem is, Don Blankenship, currently running for Senate, can’t win the General Election in your State...No way! He says he's one of the Friends of Coal. Believe me, he's no friend. He's a crook. REMEMBER ALABAMA -- no more crooked politicians! Vote Rep. Jenkins or A.G. Morrisey!

Happy #CincoDeMayo! Big Hispanic holiday. The biggest. I love Hispanic!