Something just doesn't seem right....or fair.

2016 has one more day and as I sit down to summarize a very complex year, all I think about is how unfair the following statement is.

WE LOST MUHAMMAD ALI 
AND 
WE 
GAINED 
DONALD TRUMP

I understand that life can be unfair and there are really no valid explanations on why certain things happen to certain people at uncertain times but putting those two men in a comparison mode just highlights the tragedy of the recent current events.

Obviously Donald J. Trump being elected the 45th President of the United States is the biggest surprise of the year and thus the most important event mainly because of political, social and environmental ramifications that could result from America having a HUGE brain fart.

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There was one film I saw in 2016 that should be required viewing in every High School and College.
And it might be a good idea to show this film to every Police Academy graduating class in America.

13th

It's a documentary by Ava DuVernay.

Stunning 
and contains statistics that will boggle your mind.

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I read the most interesting book (which means it has to be non-fiction) by a physicists named
 Lisa Randall.

DARK MATTER and the DINOSAURS

It will open your eyes and your mind if you have any interest in science and how the Universe operates.

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The Chicago Cubs won the World Series and that would have been the main sports story of 2016 (and probably still is in Chicago)
if
Vin Scully hadn't retired.

The retirement of Vin will be felt in ways that are hard to calculate....keeping in mind that MOST people don't follow baseball and couldn't care less that the greatest broadcaster in history is now listening to someone one else.......just like us. With replays and recordings a little dose of Vinny is available anytime.


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Music got hammered in 2016 with Prince and David Bowie leading the departure train.  Since their music is captured forever, immortality is guaranteed as long as Earth orbits the Sun.


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ISIS, Syria, Aleppo, Destroyed Ancient Artifacts and Trucks running over people at celebrations were major international stories......
Police shootings of Black and homeless citizens in the United States is a major internal story......
BUT
The Russians hacking the DNC and then passing information to Wiki Leaks will turn out to be the
BIGGEST
STORY
because it's tied to our 2016 Presidential Election in ways that will be slow to unfold.
Think back to Nixon
Think now about Trump
both extremely paranoid 
and both with followers that will do anything to make their bosses happy.

THIS STORY WILL ONLY GROW AND GROW
and our relationship with Russia will end up being the main story for 2017.

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I could continue to flap on about 2016 but honestly the Donald Trump story just makes me so depressed that I literally have run out of words

Happy New Year?????????????????

Michael Timothy McAlevey