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The corruption and incompetence of Trump is unprecedented but he didn't suggest Iran takeing out Los Angeles would be a small price to pay. What he not very clearly said was that the higher price of gas is a small price to pay to prevent Iran from taking out Los Angeles. Listen again.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The NWS is finally going to change Lake Ontario's name for a few years. www.weather.gov/media/notifi...

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I spent 5 minutes in my front yard yesterday. In those 5 minutes, 10 Waymo and 1 Ferrari drive by. Nothing else. What a strange place this has become.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

LOZ063>065-012100- Lake Ontario open waters from Hamlin Beach to the Saint Lawrence River- 1002 AM EDT Tue Sep 1 2026 Take that orange man

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does the f-ing moron care how much this stunt will cost taxpayers? For example, this has to change like overnight??? forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz...

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National Weather Service Marine Forecast

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fleetwood Mac back a long long time ago. Back when I could take a tripod and camera into the 4th row and take this shot using indoor slide film. There was a blown out reflection I touched up with a paint brush and photo touch up paint. You can't go back.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I attended high school at Harding High. Oops, at University High. It used to be called Harding High and all the wrought iron had Hs as part of the design. Hopefully the same thing will happen to everything Trump after he leaves office.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trump's very unpopular but so it the Democratic party. It will take more than Trump's unpopularity to save the country. Democrats need to quit supporting so many very unpopular positions. Just become less unpopular and we become the obvious choice.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Which lasted longer? 1) The Strait of Hormuz being open. 2) The Washington monument reflecting pool staying blue. Bonus question: How can one man have so much of what he does turn to shit?

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

It doesn't take a brilliant mind to blow things up. Brilliant minds are for creating. Unfortunately what brilliant minds create over decades can be blown up in a day.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

People are making a big deal about the $300 billion economic assistance like it was cash. I think it is more like the trillion dollars China promised to invest in the US. More like the promise to never build a nuclear weapon that Iran made. I do not think it is pallets of cash.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Oh great. Now Trump is going to screw up the Ebola response. It is nothing like Covid. It has a 50% death rate. Covid was only 1%. Now someone who fails at everything is taking over our response. Just swell.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Taking a metropolitan (primarily black) region that has a congressional seat and breaking it up to eliminate their representation seems to me gerrymandering based on race, which the Supreme Court just ruled as illegal.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

No Pulitzer for Fox news that I could see listed. Maybe that was because I was reading the list from the NY Times and they are fake news. Maybe it is because Fox sucks. Not sure.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Best guess: US has flown 13,000 bombing missions. A plane can carry 20,000 pounds of bombs. That is 130 thousand tons. We dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam... and lost. On the other hand, we lost 13 killed in Iran and 58,000 in Vietnam. Oh well.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I took this photo a very long time ago. Do you know who this is? Can you believe that back then not only could I take a camera into a concert but also a tripod? 400ASA indoor slide film.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Fox news says the No Kings rally was put on by a network of supporters worth $3 billion. That is ridiculous. The No Kings rally is 8 million individuals and using the average US net worth the No Kings rally was supported by an organization worth $5,000 billion. Fox is so wrong.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I believe Iran's goal is to destroy western civilization. Their strategy is to exhaust our supply of defensive weapons and then attack infrastructure critical to our society with a vast supply of cheap drones. We will be out of Patriot missiles in just a few days.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The Democrats might as well just go home. They have no say in anything now. On the other hand, Trump was never going to let them win. It is not in his DNA. He would let everyone starve first. He only cares about himself and he has the power. It was either going to go this way, or end the filibuster.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

When I was a kid, ~70 years ago, I learned a few things that stuck with me. 1) That Europe and America fit together so they must have been one. 2) That if we burned all the oil the earth would become unhabitable. 3) That civilization moved westward from China to Europe to America and to China next.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Trump wants Democrats to just accept his big ugly bill. No compromise, total humiliation. If the D's cave, they might as well just to home. Compromise is the way things get done. If the R's don't know this, nothing gets done. That is the way it has to be.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Hey fellow Democrats. I have two suggestions: 1) Be the party of opportunity, not equality. People are struggling. Offer them hope. Then do something about it. 2) Don't take massively unpopular stands like allowing biological men to compete in girls sports. It is not fair to the other girls.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I told a friend this was a kite. He asked where the string was. I took this last month in the Stanford foothills.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I just got a phone call from my daughter crying, hardly recognizable, saying she had been in an accident. I asked who this was and she said "your daughter". I asked what her name was and she hung up. My daughter was on a business call when I called her to check up on her.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Best of today's shoot with my daughter. I took this today near Candlestick Park.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

F1 YouTube video click bait promises the answer to why McLaren is winning so many races. Watched the video and found out. Their car is faster. That is why they are winning. That is the secret to their success.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

My personal recession indicator is flashing red. My sailing based website historically gets more traffic when the economy is bad and more people go sailing. Page views up 32% this month. Revenue goes down when co's dont spend. Revenue -10% this month. Weekly data is even worse revenue -49% w/w.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Another shot from Sunday's photo shoot.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I took this photo of my daughter on our Sunday photo shoot. It is a pleasure to see how wonderful her pictures are. This is my favorite from the day. I will post another in a bit.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Dear Democrats, You don't win by playing by the way you think the rules should be. You win by playing by the rules that exist and work toward reforming the rules. But until they are reformed, you need to play by the rules that exist. Or you could just decide to be a party of losers.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

My favorite shot from today's walk. Don Edwards Preserve, Alviso, CA.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The SCOTUS just said that a district court judge cannot overrule the POTUS beyond the case before them. They left open that a class action suit, which could represent all the people in the country, could overrule POTUS. How exactly is this going to work?

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Why does a $5 chicken at Costco always end up costing me $141? And why is it always at the very back of the store?

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

eigh·ty-six /ˌādēˈsiks/ verbinformal•North American verb: 86 1. eject or bar (someone) from a restaurant, bar, etc. "they were accused of cheating, and eighty-sixed from their favorite casino" 2. reject, discard, or cancel.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I am more than fine with Trump using the white elephant 747 gift for his personal use. I think him flying around in a plane with anti-missile defence capability and the ability to re-fuel in flight to keep him out of harms way is completely unnecessary. A real Air Force-1 is so overrated. /s

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Why don't the news reports mention that Air Force 1 has missile defense and secure communications capability and the bribe plane would have to be completely rebuilt. Then rebuilt again to remove that when given to "the library".

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It has been said that if you had your pick between a corrupt but competent politician and a morally upright incompetent one you would be better with the corrupt one. Nobody ever talks about a corrupt incompetent one as a choice but here we are. And we picked this over a moral competent one.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

You fought to keep transgender girls in women's sports and now, as a direct result I would argue, all transgender GIs, who have served honorable and without incidents, will be given dishonorable discharges. Happy? Keep supporting positions that 70% of people are against and this is what you get.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I get emails from B&H Photo. I see price cuts on stuff that is going to go up because of Tariffs. Did they stock up pre tariff and want to unload it before the Trump recession. Just wondering. I did not expect to see so much stuff at reduced price. I expected the opposite. What do you think?

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Now the GOP is saying that they are NOT cutting Medicare, they are just not going to reimburse the states for the cost any more. So it would actually be the states that are cutting Medicare.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I just read that DOGE has saved $5 billion. That is a lot until you read that it cost $135 billion this year to get those savings. Net, we destroyed a lot of government benefit and it cost us $130 billion to do it.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The tariffs are designed to cause companies and countries to bribe Trump for exceptions that will be cast as the greatest deal for America ever. The panic buying that is going on now will bring good economic numbers short term and make him look like a genius. The biggest con the world has ever seen.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

There is a buying panic right now. The economy might do really well in the short term and by them Trump will have negotiated the "best deals ever" from companies and nations who have bent the knee and paid the bribes he demands to remove the tariffs on them. It is a scam, a con game.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you post some really important news and don't give a link, it didn't happen. I am tired of all this exaggeration - click bait "news". You don't want this platform to become Facebook or the left version of X. Keep it real and back it up. The truth matters.

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Allen @paallen.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The Republican party has high unfavorable numbers because they are disassembling our country. The Democratic party has even worse unfavorable numbers because they are not doing more to save the country from the Republicans. Plus, a lot of Republicans are just not paying attention.

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