Notations On Our World (Special Mid-Week Edition): On #Brexit

Brexit (the pending UK exit from the European Union) has been a profound challenge for the UK.   As we went to press, we saw how Brexit will undermine the influence of Britain Worldwide in a variety of ways.     Our team chose this courtesy of John Oliver as he showcased the profound challenge faced by the UK.

We have urged in our daily curation on our Twitter Channel, @ordinaryfaces, for UK leaders to reconsider the decision.    We urge them yet again to go back to the people .

Notations on Our World (Weekly Edition): On a an interesting 24 hours on the US Political Front

As we went to press with this edition of "Notations" 16 US States with a total of 125 Million Americans sued the Trump Administration to rescind the border Wall.   Trevor Noah reflected upon the National Emergency last night--as Senator Bernie Sanders joined the Presidential Race and underscored to John Dickerson this morning on CBS News This Morning that "We Would Win".    This is as @AOC (otherwise known as Congressman Alexandria Ocassio-Cortez) received another "smackdown" from one of the pro-Trump media network, the Washington Examiner earlier today--after there were other attempts including criticizing an apparent hiring of her boyfriend.  .  This is also as former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe began his formal book tour with an appearance on NBC's Today show and received some tough questions--and among his revelations was how the US Congress Gang of 8 ( the most senior leadership in Congress) were briefed as the investigation began.

Challenging times indeed...

On This President's Day 2019 here in the United States......

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
- John Quincy Adams (sixth President of the United States)

We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights,
among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson (third President of the United States)
[Declaration of Independence, and inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States)

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
- George Washington (first President of the United States)

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States)

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
- Theodore Roosevelt (26nd President of the United States)