Al Gray

Retired - Vice President, Asset Lifecycle Information Management Sales and Services - Bentley Systems, Inc.

[Al Gray @AlGray]

@Scaramucci https://t.co/p5WLKyI8mI

[@amuse @amuse]

TARIFFS: China is in free fall. Factories closing. CCP official ‘disappearing’. empty cargo ships loitering around ports. Millions out of work. Time is running out.

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@zerovswr @JoeTalkShow 😂

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@rshereme So massive trade unbalances and depending on other nations for critical products is great?

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@RepSwalwell As should anyone who slept with a Chinese spy. Because of you, we are not safe. It’s hard to fathom how you think you have any legitimacy in speaking about security.

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@TheRichFromCali Bet you need Google to name 5.

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@AnnieForTruth Did you say the same when Biden was on the beach?

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@Sandra56145 @iamyesyouareno “It’s likely…”? You’re your guessing. I doubt that will solve anything.

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@SethAbramson You’re qualified to make that assessment how? I find it hard to believe that IQ can be extrapolated from life experiences to any degree of precision…certainly not the one you enumerate.

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@elonmusk @DOGE I’d like to know how millions of dollars are lost via stolen checks without there being inside cooperation.

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@glenn_tunes @JDog83259 @dbesteck89 Your educational system taught you a language that depends on ad hominem attacks with vile profanity? You’ve convinced me that it has little value.

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@TristanSnell Cite a source.

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@atrupar You must have been born post COVID

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@SenSanders

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@DisavowTrump20 @RepMarkAlford Please provide a link to the announcement.

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@Perfect_Timing @jmwooldridge @Matthewtravis08 Links to a single comment. I don’t expect everyone to read all comments. Example…I doubt that you’ve seen that I apologized for the original comment.

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@JoJoFromJerz Do you support investigating both, or neither?

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@SSimpsonrose You’re right. Read my apology for my original comment, if you’d like.

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An apology follows…in reading comments to my comment to you vis a vis flying the flag, I came across one that just said “Stupid”. I thought naw…that writer is stupid because they didn’t bother to get the nuance of my statement. But, this morning, I thought…hmmm…maybe they have a point. And maybe I’d projected something onto you.

As it happens, yesterday I was driven past a home that had a US flag flying at half mast. I was told by the driver that the flag was lowered the day after the election and that this particular flagpole had previously had an election banner, and that the banner was flown above the US flag. I was triggered a bit thinking of my father who served in the Army for 41 years (I’ve served 0) and who was very particular about how the flag was treated. He was a pillar of his community when he passed having served on multiple church boards, county school boards and county boards…the later two being elected positions. He once complained about the county lowering a flag for a reason other than the code I referenced. When he passed, some well-meaning friends and family asked about lowering his prominently displayed (large, lighted) flag to half mast. My brother and I knew he’d not like that.

To say that Dad was patriotic would be an understatement. When I replied to your post I wasn’t trying to create an equivalency between your actions and that of your neighbor, but did project onto you the idea that you were saying that it was somehow a choice that anyone could make about displaying the flag. It would have been far better had I asked if that’s what you were saying.

The above is a “reason”, but does not excuse me. I should have done better. So why write to you? Some have written that I don’t care about Pearl Harbor. While I haven’t served, I’ve been to the memorial over the Arizona twice and wept both times. Especially that last visit as the water was calm enough to see the sheen from the oil that still seeps from the Arizona. Most visitors are impacted the same way, in fact, during the last visit my rough and ready son-in-law approached me with tears in his eyes and said, “I had no idea that his place would impact me like this.” But whatever people might think about how I feel about December 7th, that’s not the reason for the apology.

There are many people that will not fly the flag, though they are somewhat patriotic, out of concern of what others may think. You do. As I was having my first cup of coffee this morning I remembered a day when my Dad looked up at his flag on a more than 20 foot, lighted pole with such clear, misty eyed, patriotic pride, and I thought, if there’s even a chance that you might look at your flag with pride, yet encounter some sense of negativity due to my comment, I must correct the wrong and apologize. Thank you for your patriotism. I apologize for doing the very thing I dislike about social media and acting like a troll.

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@JohnJDodge @Matthewtravis08 https://t.co/YyrI2Y2iS6

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@SueRatcat53546 @Matthewtravis08 My point was not that it wasn’t appropriate to lower the flag on December 7th. My father had 41 years in the Army and was very strict about the rules for flying the flag. My initial reaction was to the author’s post that read to me like it was his morally superior decision.

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@oneself_davinci @Matthewtravis08 https://t.co/YyrI2Y2iS6

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@SueRatcat53546 @Matthewtravis08 My point was not that it wasn’t appropriate to lower the flag on December 7th. My father had 41 years in the Army and was very strict about the rules for flying the flag. My initial reaction was to the author’s post that read to me like it was his morally superior decision.