Again… stuff from the 60s…
How many of us had a color TV back then???
And how many of us had to help lick these damned things?
And managed to talk your parents into one of these for your bedroom?
Or got to stay up late enough to see this?
And last, but not least, the original Sam Walton store in Bentonville, AR.
p.s. if you remember all of these, you too are a dinosaur… 🙂
For the weekend!
COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good Subject. Terrible Times. It’s 5.6%.
COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that’s 23%.
COSTELLO: You just said 5.6%.
ABBOTT: 5.6% unemployed.
COSTELLO: Right, 5.6% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 23%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it’s 23% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that’s 5.6%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE! Is it 5.6% or 23%?
ABBOTT: 5.6% are unemployed. 23% are out of work.
COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, Biden said you can’t count the “Out of Work” as the unemployed. You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO: What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn’t look for work can’t be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn’t be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work. Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you’re off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don’t look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That’s how it gets to 5.6%. Otherwise it would be 23%.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo!
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like a Democrat!
COSTELLO: I don’t even know what the hell I just said!
ABBOTT: Now you’re thinking like Biden!
This is… gah…
As the federal government nears final approval for a 10-knot maritime speed limit along the East Coast, the Southeastern legal Foundation is warning that such a move would adversely impact the economies of coastal communities.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 10-knot speed limit for much of the Atlantic coast in a bid to protect the whale population. Violators could face up to $20,000 in fines and one year in prison. The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) on Monday announced that approval for the speed limit had entered the final phase. 10-knots is equivalent to 11.5 miles per hour on land.
Full article, HERE. h/t Stretch
This will destroy not only the sport fishing industry on the east coast, but also will have a major impact on the cruise lines and commercial shipping industry. Those ships normally run 15-20 kts until they are just a few miles off shore. And the Navy ships are capable of more than that. Also, carriers run 25+ kts for launch and recovery of aircraft. If they have to move some unknown number of miles further out to sea, that will have a major impact on carrier qualifications for the squadrons and extend the ship’s days at sea.
Personally, I think this is just one more example of .gov overreach and kowtowing to the econazis… dammit…
I’m tired of the crap in the news, how about some more quotes…
Liberals claim not to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. [William F. Buckley]
A Saxon can die without a murmur. A French man can die laughing. But only a Norseman can laugh as he kills. [George S. Patton Jr]
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [John F. Kennedy]
George Orwell’s 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not and instruction manual. [Unknown]
If you spend time to teach kids right and wrong when they’re little, it’s much easier for them to grow up. And it shows you love ’em. [Roy Rogers]
The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. [T.S. Elliot]
You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired. [Robert Brault]
Lady Astor said ‘Winston, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee.’ Churchill replied, ‘Nancy, if I were your husband I would drink it.’ [Famous quotes]
In war, opportunity waits for no man. [Pericles, c 495-429 BC]
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. [Ogden Nash]
You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons’ of the First Amendment. They’re ugly, a lot of people don’t like them, but they’re protected by the First Amendment – just as ‘assault weapons’ are protected by the Second Amendment. [Charlton Heston]
The only problem with capitalism is that it works so well that people think they don’t need it.” – Dan Held
An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague – one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character. [Marcus Aurelius]
When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile. [GB]
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental. [John Steinbeck]
If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience or social acceptability, they are not your principles. They are your costume. [Nitya Prakash]
The reliability of any system is inversely proportional to the square of its complexity. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]
You’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it. [Nancy Pelosi]
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. [Voltaire]
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. [D.H. Lawrence]
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. [General Norman Schwarzkopf]
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun-control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims. [Thomas Sowell]
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. [Nelson Mandela. Fighter, Prisoner, President, Revolutionary]
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. [Mark Twain]
Eleven teens die each day because of texting while driving. Maybe it’s time to raise the age of Smart Phone ownership to 21. [unknown]
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the establishment authorities are wrong. Voltaire]
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But the I repeat myself. [Mark Twain]
Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are right now, and we will never be here again. [Homer, The Iliad]
After a 25-cent breakfast of canned bacon and powdered eggs in a tar-paper shack on the field at Dahar, . . . [Omar Bradley, Feb 1943]
In my youth I was often called lazy. In rather successful adulthood I was called efficient. Same behavior, different times. [Bob Fiegel]
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. [Joseph Sobran]
I’m not afraid of the media. Why should anyone listen to the media? Who are these people? What makes them experts? What have they accomplished? [Dana White]
There’s one thing worse than change and that’s the status quo. [John Le Carre]
The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens… Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. [Leo Tolstoy]
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. [Mark Twain]
To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth. [Teddy Roosevelt]
You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably come to nothing. Consider building things instead, or at least going for a walk. [Conor Barnes]
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. [Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 B.C. – A.D. 65]
If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, USA. [unknown]
If enough data is collected, a Board of Inquiry can prove anything. [Unknown]
All middle-class citizens of education have a common belief that the tendencies towards centralization and paternalism must be halted and reversed. [Dwight Eisenhower July 1949]
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. [Franklin Delano Rosevelt]
Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. [Ronald Reagan 1986]
It’s amazing how prescient some of these are, considering what is going on today… sigh
Coming soon in California, maybe…
Boyden Gray PLLC law firm partner Michael Buschbacher, who worked in the Justice Department’s Environment Division in 2020-21 and specializes in environmental law at his current firm, said in an appearance on FOX Business Network’s “The Big Money Show” that California’s effort to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035 could result in dirtier air than intended. The California proposal is under review by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
California’s regulatory plan to ban new gas-powered vehicles more than a decade from now is aimed at protecting public health by reducing the amount of particulate matter — like dust, dirt and soot — that’s in the air. Although gas-powered vehicles in the past have emitted more particulate matter, technological updates to engines have made it so there is little particulate matter produced from gas cars, Buschbacher said.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
Interestingly, the tire wear issue is NOT a new one. In the early 2000s, when the first hybrid cars were getting sold, one of the issues found by VADOT in the HOV lanes coming up to DC was the ‘extra’ wear on the lanes…
When they started measuring the weight ‘footprint’ of the hybrids, they found that they were actually wearing the concrete faster than SUVs due to their hard, narrow tires (to reduce rolling resistance and keep mileage high).
Of course that was immediately poo pooed by the left as being an ‘attack’ on the new ‘clean’ cars…
And now, we’re right back in that same situation, this time due to weight (and hard tires again).
Funny how there aren’t any calls to limit the EVs due to weight in accidents like they did with SUVs a 10 or so years ago. Remember that? SUVs had to go to ‘protect’ the folks in Hondas, Nissans, and Toyotas from being in wrecks with SUVs… sigh…
Personally, I think if California pushes the issue, there won’t BE very many new vehicles sold in California because the manufacturers won’t be building enough to make a dent in the cars needed, regardless of what California wants, but that’s just me…
Ridiculous!!!
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling on Monday overturning Colorado’s attempt to remove Donald Trump off the state ballot, Democrats are not giving up. With polls showing that Joe Biden is behind Trump in both national match-ups and battleground state surveys, they simply have no stomach for allowing democracy to take its course.
Soon after the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling dropped, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) rushed over to the friendly audience at CNN and announced to Democrats nationwide that the fight to bar Trump from the ballot is by no means over.
Full article, HERE.
Soooo, their plan is to do EXACTLY what they accused Trump of supposedly doing on Jan 6th…
The powers that be need to remember that ‘we’ the voters are the actual people that make the choices, NOT the elites (regardless of how they try to steal the elections).
If your primary is tomorrow, go vote. I don’t care WHO you vote for, but go and exercise your rights while you still have them!
Raconteur Press has another anthology out- Space Marines III
As always, click on the cover for the Amazon link.
The blurb-
Space Marines combine the confident, tough spirit of the warrior with the fearless, intrepid pursuit of the unknown. We love skilled men and women making war to keep their homes and their fellow citizens safe from tyranny, oppression, or being eaten by aliens. The marriage of the strong soldier with the beauty and wonder of space is a combination that can’t be beat.
Blotter Report by Spearman Burke
How to Decline Lodgers With Extreme Prejudice by Lori Janeski
Full Moon Men by Charles Hackney
Call to Quarters by Wally Waltner
Incident at Spurgle Station by Tom Rogneby
Just One by JJ Lynn Daniels
Semper Fi by Bruce Erling Strange
The Assassin’s Blade by Daniel G. Zeidler
Walking in the Black by Michael Morton
Remember the Avalon by J. Kenton Pierce
And I would like to thank those of you who left reviews for my novella, Ice!
Over 50 reviews, and a 4.6 average!!! Thank you very much! And more thanks to those who went and picked up books in the Rimworld series, which are linked on the sidebar. New readers are always appreciated and I hope you like what I write.
I know I cannot please every reader, but please, honest reviews are appreciated! Reviews are an indie writer’s meat and potatoes (and literally can put food on the table).
In an odd place, all things considered…
An Arizona federal judge is upholding a state law that requires voters to provide verification of their U.S. citizenship before their votes can be counted.
Following a lawsuit that led to Arizona legislators facing accusations of discrimination for requiring voters to verify their U.S. citizenship, Judge Susan Bolton ruled on Thursday that such requirements were not discriminatory.
Full article, HERE.
I’m sure this one will be appealed as soon as possible, but to have AZ do this after 2022, is amazing!!!
And I wish more states would do this!
And yes, I early voted this week.
NY AG James is on a…roll???
New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing JBS USA, the world’s largest producer of beef, over the company’s emissions and for “greenwashing” by allegedly misleading the public about its environmental impact.
In an announcement, James noted that beef production has the largest greenhouse gas footprint of any major food commodity and that animal agriculture accounts for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. According to James, JBS USA’s various net-zero pledges for 2030 and 2040 are therefore misleading and “not feasible” given the scope of its worldwide beef production operations.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
So now this suit is over something that hasn’t happened yet, but she’s going after them anyway…
Cue the moving vans to New York as the big boys scramble to get out of Dodge before she sues them. Remington is probably thankful they’re already out, and I can’t help but wonder ‘which’ Wall Street firm will be the first to leave.
Everybody laughs at Berkshire Hathaway being located in Omaha, NB, with no offices in NY, but they may have the last laugh…
The other issue here is that JBS is the largest beef producer in the world! If they go under, what does that do to beef prices, not just here, but world wide?
Somebody(s) did a survey of the ‘top’ cultural moments in the 60s…
10. Woodstock Music Festival: In 1969, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair brought together half a million people for a three-day celebration of peace, love, and music. Iconic performances by artists like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin solidified Woodstock’s place in history as a symbol of the counterculture movement.
Sigh… didn’t make that one…
9. The Beatles’ Invasion: The British Invasion reached its peak in the 1960s with The Beatles leading the charge. Their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964 marked a cultural watershed, sparking a Beatlemania craze and forever changing the landscape of popular music.
Ironic that this one is on the list twice- Lots of great Brit bands back in the 60s. The Who, the Animals, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks were pretty good too!
8. The Twist Phenomenon: Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” dance craze took over the 1960s, influencing dance floors across the globe. The simple yet infectious dance moves became a symbol of youthful rebellion and freedom.
And got us in a LOT of trouble…
7. James Bond’s Debut: Sean Connery introduced the world to the suave and sophisticated British spy, James Bond, in the 1962 film “Dr. No.” The Bond franchise became a cinematic phenomenon, shaping the spy genre and pop culture for decades to come.
And that series is STILL going strong 60 years later!
6. The Summer of Love: In 1967, the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco became the epicenter of the counterculture movement during the “Summer of Love.” A wave of psychedelic music, vibrant fashion, and experimental lifestyles swept through the youth, leaving an indelible mark on the decade.
Not all it was cracked (literally) up to be. Bathing was not a ‘thing’ with them… Patchouli and marijuana are the two ‘scents’ I remember in addition to body odor…
5. The Civil Rights Movement: The 1960s witnessed a significant push for civil rights and racial equality. Events like Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the March on Washington in 1963 became pivotal moments in the fight against racial discrimination.
We never thought about it, and had plenty of friends of all ethnicities!
4. The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show: The Beatles’ appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 drew a record-breaking 73 million viewers. It marked the beginning of the “British Invasion” and solidified The Beatles as cultural icons.
This one I do remember seeing on TV!
3. Pop Art Emergence: The 1960s saw the rise of Pop Art, with artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein challenging traditional art conventions. Their use of everyday objects and mass media imagery had a profound impact on the art world and popular culture.
And Robert Crumb, Keep on Truckin! And Ed Roth’s Rat Fink and hot cars toons!
2. The Kennedy Assassination: The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 shocked the world and left an enduring impact on American society. The tragic event marked the end of an era and led to increased scrutiny of political and social issues throughout the decade.
In junior high, math class. Teacher brought a transistor radio in and was crying as we listened to the news reports from Dallas.
1. The Moon Landing: In 1969, the Apollo 11 mission achieved a historic milestone by successfully landing the first humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong’s iconic words, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind,” echoed worldwide and marked a pivotal moment in space exploration.
Watched it in a bar in Rome in the middle of the night! I also remember talking to both my grandmothers and grandfather who’d been born in the late 1800s and literally remembered Kitty Hawk and then watching man land on the moon!
How many of them do you remember? And remember where you were?