Random Thoughts or Whatever

[init4fun]

Where can you find Mr.Ed reruns?

https://tubitv.com/movies/536576/mi...ister Ed: The Lost,1964) - Free Movies | Tubi

 

[Lou F Quincy]

Happy Birthday to Townes Van Zandt. ( March 7th )

 

[Mystic]

"I'd always thought that "democracy" meant The Power Of The People. But, after meeting President Roosevelt, I realized that the definition of "democracy" is The Power Of The American People."

-- Iosif Stalin

 

[Mystic]

 

[Mystic]

When Steely Dan hired Wayne Shorter for 30 minutes of work that transformed Aja into something more than it had any right to be…

 

[Mystic]

Judith Miller wrote much better stories with vivid metaphors like not wanting “the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” She had sources with cool codenames like Curveball. If we’re going to have the CIA “planting stories in the press”, let's have better stories with more action and suspense.

 

[Mystic]

A University of Massachusetts cop who resigned from the force after sexually assaulting a student was later hired by a neighboring town’s police department to be their…sex crimes investigator.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/0...uth-david-laudon-blackstone-misconduct-report

 

[Mystic]

Across the United States, the number of teachers quitting their positions has continued to spike. Between 2021 and 2022, Maryland lost 11.2% of its teachers, Louisiana 13.9%, North Carolina 15.6% and Washington state 12%.

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2023/3/6/...r-leaving-the-profession-quitting-higher-rate

 

[Mystic]

Of things coronavirus, vaccine & war: Since 2020, the life expectancy of Russian males aged 15 has fallen by almost five years, to the same level as in Haiti.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2023/03/04/russias-population-nightmare-is-going-to-get-even-worse

 

[Mystic]

Say Wha...?

A consultant who had a contract with the New York Times to advise the paper’s editors and writers on gender and diversity issues told the Daily Beast: “I believe they’re using trans people as a political pawn to maintain a centrist reputation to keep from being seen as too liberal of a paper.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-new-york-times-trans-coverage-debacle-was-years-in-the-making

 

[Mystic]

Since Brexit, business investment in the US has increased by 24%. Meanwhile, the UK has lost £29 billion in business investment over the same period.

 

[Mystic]

Spending on pet health care in the US is increasing as fast, and in some places even faster, than spending on human health care.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w22669/w22669.pdf

 

[Mystic]

The 22 million citizens of Mali each uses less electric power in an entire year than the average European uses to boil just one kettle of tea.

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-carbon-notes-1-repowering

 

[Mystic]

There are two billion parking spots in the US, nearly seven for every car. In some American cities, as much as 14% of land area is paved over for places to park cars.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/business/fewer-parking-spots.html

 

[Mystic]

Boston and New York City are 215 miles apart, yet the cities are served by served by 100 more flights than trains.

(Give the people what they want?)

 

[Mystic]

“One of the scary things is the effects a really heavy or demanding role will have on your personal life. During filming of The Women, I’m afraid I was as much of a bitch offscreen as I was on. I always
wondered how Charlton Heston acted offscreen while he was playing Moses.”

-- Joan Crawford

 

[Pio1980]

"I'd always thought that "democracy" meant The Power Of The People. But, after meeting President Roosevelt, I realized that the definition of "democracy" is The Power Of The American People."

-- Iosif Stalin

Astute and understandable, TR was the first real exponent of the projection of US power on a world stage, W. R. Hurst notwithstanding tho his motivation was strictly business, his business. In itself, a tradition from European history filtered thru good old American laizzes faire capitalism.
Randlism before Rand, "I've got mine, screw you".

 

[Mystic]

Astute and understandable, TR was the first real exponent of the projection of US power on a world stage, W. R. Hurst notwithstanding tho his motivation was strictly business, his business. In itself, a tradition from European history filtered thru good old American laizzes faire capitalism.
Randlism before Rand, "I've got mine, screw you".

True re: TR, but Stalin was of course referring to FDR.

 

[Pio1980]

True re: TR, but Stalin was of course referring to FDR.

In his "present" yes, if one disregards the instigation of his ex-pal der Fuhrer.
I doubt FDR was as intrinsically pugnaciously adventurous as TR without that motivation.
In that JS got it wrong.

 

[Quadman2]

Hey!

They say, that each snowflake is different.

I've looked!

They all look alike!


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