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A speech for the ages
Perfection. Everything he says is perfect, every move he proposes is perfect. I can’t add or bitch about one word or comma or space. US Democrats could learn from this. They won’t.
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Easy to see, hard to see
Random thought that seems pretty good at the moment. Our main problem now is not monopolies on selling, it’s monopolies on buying. (Yes, I know it’s called a monopsony, but that’s an Economist Word and I won’t use it.) A monopoly on buying is unfamiliar because most people don’t experience it. It only affects the…
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Localize, localize, localize
An old song has been popping in my mental jukebox lately. I’m convinced it’s a railroad song. You can hear the locomotive chugging and a dopplered whistle, similar to Chattanooga Choochoo. The last two lines seem to be: Riding on the __ __, Riding on the __ __ line. There’s a two-syllable railroad in the…
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Okie like button
This 1950 Chevy truck infomercial includes a familiar word that I haven’t heard since leaving Oklahoma. Mr Wayne Slocum, head of an oilfield service company in OKC, is comparing the new Chevy to his “other brand” trucks. Wayne’s voice and dialect are a perfect specimen of the Eastern Okie sound, often heard in OKC but…
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Nobody ever learns
Business Blunders features a modern swindler who nicely reproduced the original Ponzi’s methods and extravagance. As usual, he was caught only after doing lots of damage. Despite the endless publicity, nobody ever investigates. When Racket Squad did a wonderful dramatization of Ponzi’s life and tricks in 1952, they carefully avoided mentioning the name. They called…
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Useful information
Repooflicans and Democrats have been blaming the police for our problems. They are INTENTIONALLY framing and blaming the wrong group. It’s been clear for a LONG time that the police are trying to do their job while obstructed and fenced by Bloombergian devil politicians and Sorosian devil prosecutors. The devil politicians want to defund the…
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Reprint on Canadian independence
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2017 REPRINT: Tech-tyrants always see governments as the problem and corporations as the solution. Not surprising for the leaders of the movement, who work for the corporations that will “finally solve” us. The followers really ought to be thinking more carefully. This article…
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Opposite options
Carney starts this speech with all options are on the table. He’s using the phrase oppositely from US leaders. When we say all options, we’re preparing to attack an innocent country that tried to be friendly. Trump is continuing the classic US mode with his attack on Canada. Canada hasn’t attacked us since 1812, and…
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Where was the research?
I’m trying to do a tech history piece on Western Union. Not trying very hard at the moment, mainly focusing on courseware. I wondered how big WU’s research department was at the height of telegraph dominance in the 1920s. The answer: Not very impressive. But they used their relatively small staff effectively, covering a wide…
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Best definition
The 1958 Chevy sales film is an excellent social science textbook with realistic and actionable descriptions of human nature and human desires. = = = = = Semiquoting: Deals aren’t closed by talking about Hydraulic Valve Lifters or Body By Fisher. Deals are clinched by how one human being reacts to another human being. Every…
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Who’s realistic?
A typical Spokane News item with comments illustrating a basic difference. Women understand how people work. Men don’t understand. We have romantic ideas or political ideas, not realism. First the news item, then the women, then the men. Facts: Men will take all sorts of shit to get sex. Women will take all sorts of…
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Parliament is ALWAYS better
The Parliamentary system, as used in Canada and other Commonwealth countries, is INFINITELY SUPERIOR to our oligarch-designed dictatorship. In this clip CBC completely misses their own superiority. They’re mocking Canada’s ever-increasing number of seats in Parliament, implying that the US system of constant 435 is better. Canada tries to maintain about 100k people for each…
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Pointless library rant
The fake pro-woke and anti-woke warriors are always battling about school libraries. It’s absurd. School libraries were never meant to be a general reference source, or a place to find enjoyable vacation reading. Public libraries are supposed to carry a broad range of subjects and fiction, serious or non-serious. Bookstores and newsstands carry less serious…
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It’s odd
It strikes me as odd** that the Tech Tyrants ignore their own training. Most of them started as engineers or programmers. In both trades MODULARITY is crucially important. Tech Tyrants practice the exact opposite. Everything they do is aimed at TOTAL ONE-WAY GLOBAL CONTROL of all objects and people and planets and stars and black…
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Looks familiar!
Skimming through some 1966 trade journals recently added at American Radio Library, this GE clock caught my eye: Hey, that looks like the clock in my living room, my main source of time when I’m not facing the computer. Sure enough, on the back it says Model 7223, just like the one in the ad.…
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