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Debs and Gompers would be proud
Franny the Nanny delivers a classic stemwinding labor speech. She knows how to sell. She doesn’t sidetrack into cultural crap or fine details. Pure labor vs capital, workers vs Wall Street. Gompers approved of women leading labor unions 100 years ago, so he wouldn’t be shocked at all. = = = = = The folks…
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MAGNIFICENT
MAGNIFICENT writing by Rushfield at the Ankler. Anything I try to add would spoil it. READ IT.
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Recognize the tanh point.
Outrage! The Miss Universe pageant goes all the way on Woke. First, this is NOT NEW. The big beauty pageants stopped competing for real beauty and other human qualities a LONG TIME ago. Second, the same thing has happened in other forms of competition from athletics to spelling bees to casinos to business. Third, why…
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Reprint on confidence and immunity
Following on previous item, here’s a reprint from July 2020. This was before RFK took over ACU and guided it into the OPPOSITE form of panic. Were we being prepared for this fake emergency? The ACU’s own Youtube channel doesn’t have many of the press conferences, but it does have some useful interviews on the…
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Broader Fairness Doctrine needed
FDR gave us the official Fairness Doctrine for R vs D partisanship, which also applied to other denominational teams like churches. Broadcasters had to take both sides, which meant in practice that they took NO SIDE. The result was much less national division along party lines. Lately I’ve been feeling generally non-confident and fearful, which…
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Find the engineer
Seen on Reddit: What happens when an engineer likes to make coffee? Engineering students not so humble setup byu/FarmerNo6196 inespresso See also. And also.
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The first oil boom was NOT here.
The latest FOIA from John Greenewald at BlackVault is a brief account of a UFO sighting by Sen Richard Russell on a 1955 trip through the Soviet Union. Near Baku, Russell saw a greenish bright orb rising from the ground. He told the other people in the group, who hadn’t seen the orb. A second…
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Boom in quantity = bust in quality
Denyse asks if there’s a rise in dishonesty and cheating in academia. I doubt it. Primarily there has been a huge rise in PUBLISHED UNITS since tenure and grants dominated academia in 1970. Grad students and new profs are required to churn out huge QUANTITIES of papers, and the only way to get there is…
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Nature’s ledger
Thinking again about the peculiar self-liquidating scrip. A city issued the scrip with a series of boxes or punch locations. Each time the scrip changed hands, a new hole was punched and a small tax was paid to the issuer. When all the holes were punched, the scrip was simply discarded. It had served its…
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Same date
Sailer questions the usual narrative about Hitler’s concentration camps. The standard narrative says that Hitler was killing faster and faster until we defeated him. Sailer looks at the trains shipping Jews into Poland, and finds that the trains peaked in mid’42 and stopped at the end of ’42. This date matches an observation on Quora…
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Tracking the trace
Trying to explore the concept of value in ledgers, consulted an 1873 book on accounting which has a fresh view of the subject. The book also has an unexpected phrase: With regard to stocks, the titles of account, by which value in them is kept trace of, will be suggested from their descriptive names. If…
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Sucker filter, tax edition
I got tired of the Repooflican hatred for IRS a long time ago. The main purpose of ZERO TAX is to build support for monsters like Bezos who never pay taxes anyway. It’s a branch of meritocracy. When you believe taxes are a crime, you’re fantasizing that you belong to the same elite as Bezos.…
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Police Polodge
American Radio Library is adding a huge variety of different RCA internal publications. This one includes three interesting items. A 1952 article on Canadian public service radio has a Plodge, probably ’48 by the smaller tires: A 1952 article on Civil Defense has a weird Chevy COE van that I’ve never seen pictured before: And…
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Why only v’
Listening to the Strange as it seems episode on the origin of the Star-spangled Banner. The characters are singing the song as it first appeared in a Baltimore paper, and their father tells them it’s not new at all. He then sings Anacreon in Heav’n and orders his daughters to stop singing an old bawdy…
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Hey Bobby!
RFK is playing the old old old game of government “investigations”. Every government “investigation” is a coverup, designed to permanently hide the real culprits and blame lower-level officials or innocent bystanders. He’s pushing to prosecute Fauci, thus conveniently hiding the real culprits. Fauci was a late recruit to the monstrosity. In Feb 2020 he was…
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