When veteran Dick Bries was asked to attend the grand opening of the Quad-City Veteran Outreach Center on Saturday in Davenport, he said he had no clue what to expect.
Nearly 20,000 veterans live in Rock Island and Scott Counties and thousands more reside in the surrounding areas. That’s why UnityPoint Health is sponsoring a two-day event that will give veterans easy access to Veterans Affairs and community services. The Quad Cities Veterans Experience Action Center (QCVEAC) happens on Friday, September 29 and Saturday, September […]
“Seduction is a sibling of deception. He who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived (Machiavelli). But everything that has a beginning has an end. Deception is like a drug; its effectiveness ends at its expiry date. With the palliative books reading billions for politicians and other specialists |
Our president has charm. “Charm is seduction without sex,” says Robert Greene, author of 'The Art of Seduction' (2001). The president is a poet; metaphor is his refuge. Before the election, Bola Tinubu made a vulture of himself with a declaration that he had been eating sacrifices before his enemies were born and he would continue to eat the dreaded. When he met the 1999-2007 set of governors last week, Bola Tinubu was in his poetic best: “We went into the pond and wrestled with a pig. We got dirty, and cleaned up.
Tinubu, president of subtlety, had other things to say; and he said them: “I understand that our people are suffering, (but) there can be no childbirth without pain.” His animated voice rang round the hall. Great metaphors are Tinubu's balm of Gilead for hungry, hopeless folks, victims of a government that woke the sleeping dog |