WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Strange Daze: On Fridays It’s Fishsticks and Drag Queens from Vogue
byVanderleunonOctober 7, 2022
Now I’ve said my A.B.C’s. tell me what you think of me.
New York New York It’s a Wonderful Town!
It's funny that turning NYC into a panopticon of omnipresent video surveillance has had zero deterrent effect, so now we just have footage of all the skyrocketing assaults and homicides. https://t.co/nGlmaBevV6
“She parked her gum and then she said, ‘I’m gonna dance with the guy what brung me.”
Bubblegum In 1928, Walter E. Diemer, an accountant for the Fleer Chewing Gum Company in Philadelphia, was experimenting with new gum recipes. One recipe was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum and stretched more easily. This gum became highly successful and was eventually named by the president of Fleer as Dubble Bubble.
The original bubble gum was pink because that was the only dye Diemer had on hand at the time and it was his favorite color. To test his recipe, Diemer took samples of the new gum to a local store where it sold out in a single day. To help sell the new Dubble Bubble gum, Diemer taught salespeople how to blow bubbles so that they could teach potential customers.
The need to nuke Google from orbit persists. RNC Says Google Spiked Over 22 MILLION of Its Emails in September Alone Monday, Fox News reported that “the Republican National Committee [RNC] says Google is suppressing get-out-the-vote [GOTV] and fundraising emails by sending millions of GOP election emails to users’ Gmail spam folders, with party leadership threatening to explore legal options to ‘”put an end’ to what they call a clear pattern of bias.'”Google, biased against conservatives? Why the only people who could possibly be shocked by this are working for Mitt Romney and Adam Kinzinger.
When guns are outlawed only government drones will have guns.
the day after DJT beat Clinton Google held a workforce-wide video conference where the opener was “what did we do wrong?”…
Dartainian Winslow IIIOctober 7, 2022, 7:32 PM
Fleer was based in Philadelphia and never put gum with their sports cards because of Topps.
Escape From NY needs a redux and the scene from the original with the sarcastic NYC song and Ernest Borgnine as cabbie at the bootleg opera is classic.
Casey KlahnOctober 8, 2022, 7:44 AM
iirc, the blast radius of that SFO map with nuke would be much larger, by an order of perhaps 3 times. The Russian nukes yield up to 10 megatons, vs. ours at about 1-2 MT. The reason: we can aim and they cannot. However, the blast cynosure does not go 10 times farther, but it is 10 times more powerful, you can be sure. If I read the map correctly, they show a US nuke bomb effect; the US won’t be bombing SFO anytime soon. Perhaps after Trump gets reelected, but not before. /sarc
OneGuyOctober 9, 2022, 1:25 PM
It is also worth noting that after the first few nukes go off all forms of navigation may become ineffective. That means a Nuke headed to San Francisco may land dead center on a safe BO location in the mountains. Another way to put it is after the start of nuclear war everything will be broken and nothing will ever be the same again.
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Gerard Van der Leun
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Who Am I? by Carl Sandburg
My head knocks against the stars.
My feet are on the hilltops.
My finger-tips are in the valleys and shores of universal life.
Down in the sounding foam of primal things I reach my hands and play with pebbles of destiny.
I have been to hell and back many times.
I know all about heaven, for I have talked with God.
I dabble in the blood and guts of the terrible.
I know the passionate seizure of beauty
And the marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.”
My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive in the universe.
Duty, Beauty, Liberty, Country, Honor, Family, Faith — Plus a few simple easy to follow rules for guys
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea
They thought great thoughts about liberty
Poets wrote down words that did fit
Writers wrote books
Thinkers thought about it
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
Many’s the road I have walked upon
Many’s the hour between dusk and dawn
Many’s the time
Many’s the mile
I see it all now
Through the eyes of a child
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
Lost dreams and found dreams
In America
In America
In America
And close your eyes
Leave it all for a while
Leave the world
And your worries behind
You will build on whatever is real
And wake up each day
To a new waking dream
Take it where you find it
Can’t leave it alone
You will find a purpose
To carry it on
Mainly when you find it
Your heart will be strong
About it
[Chorus]
Change, change come over
Change come over
Talkin’ about a change
Change, change
Change come over, now
Change, change, change come over
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I’m gonna walk down the street
Until I see
My shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
I see my light
See my light
See my shining light
Now I’ve said my A.B.C’s. tell me what you think of me.
“She parked her gum and then she said, ‘I’m gonna dance with the guy what brung me.”
The original bubble gum was pink because that was the only dye Diemer had on hand at the time and it was his favorite color. To test his recipe, Diemer took samples of the new gum to a local store where it sold out in a single day. To help sell the new Dubble Bubble gum, Diemer taught salespeople how to blow bubbles so that they could teach potential customers. 
The need to nuke Google from orbit persists.
When guns are outlawed only government drones will have guns.
Gerard Van der Leun
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the day after DJT beat Clinton Google held a workforce-wide video conference where the opener was “what did we do wrong?”…
Fleer was based in Philadelphia and never put gum with their sports cards because of Topps.
Escape From NY needs a redux and the scene from the original with the sarcastic NYC song and Ernest Borgnine as cabbie at the bootleg opera is classic.
iirc, the blast radius of that SFO map with nuke would be much larger, by an order of perhaps 3 times. The Russian nukes yield up to 10 megatons, vs. ours at about 1-2 MT. The reason: we can aim and they cannot. However, the blast cynosure does not go 10 times farther, but it is 10 times more powerful, you can be sure. If I read the map correctly, they show a US nuke bomb effect; the US won’t be bombing SFO anytime soon. Perhaps after Trump gets reelected, but not before. /sarc
It is also worth noting that after the first few nukes go off all forms of navigation may become ineffective. That means a Nuke headed to San Francisco may land dead center on a safe BO location in the mountains. Another way to put it is after the start of nuclear war everything will be broken and nothing will ever be the same again.