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5 hours agoYou can see it if you take the 6 train and stay on at the last downtown stop.
The train loops through the station and then goes uptown.
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Trying to get someone to use Poe’s Law?
Here’s what happened in a nutshell.
Lyndon Johnson wanted to win the Vietnam War quickly. He decided that he could knock the North out with one massive blow. That turned into a prolonged fight. To pay for the War LBJ kept printing money. In 1968, ‘peace’ candidate Nixon wins and doubles down on LBJ’s plan; he prints money and buys many more bombs. This heats up the economy and creates inflation. It’s noticeable, but not terrible. Then the Oil Boycott hits. Panic.
Jimmy Carter comes in and hires Paul Volker. Volker’s plan works, but only after Carter is out.
Reagan comes in and he keeps Volker, but Reagan cuts taxes for the upper classes and keeps spending money. Worse, he deregulates the banks and lets them make all kinds of crazy loans. That house of cards falls in 1987.
Bush Sr. gets elected and keeps Reaganomics going. Back before he became Vice President, Bush called Reagan’s plan ‘voodoo economics.’
Things got a little better under Clinton, but then 9/11/2001 gave Bush Jr. the excuse to keep taxes low and spend trillions on the failed ‘War On Terror.’
Palin was a lousy candidate, and Kamala was going for the top job after Biden looked weak.
I can’t predict the future, but I doubt we’ve seen the last of MTG
Sarah Palin has entered the chat.
Also,. look at Kamala Harris. She didn’t do well the the primaries, and ended up Veep.
Almost as if Unions matter.
Back in the day, stevedore wasn’t considered a great job. It was a job that paid well for hard work, but it wasn’t a glam, big money job.
I think she’s going to be around for a while.
She jumped ship at the perfect time. She’ll be hired as a pundit and write a book, and be rested and ready for 2028.
When Ronald Reagan took office, ‘middle class’ was still defined as one job to support a family of four. In those days, $1 million was a vast fortune. By the time George HW Bush left office, ‘middle class’ was two jobs and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
If you really want to make yourself crazy, look up Hunter Thompson’s nonfiction book, “Hell’s Angels.”
There’s a passage about the economics of being a biker/artist/hippie circa 1970.
An Angel could get a job as a Union stevedore for six months and earn enough to hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could make enough to support herself and her boyfriend.
Sturgeon’s Law.
Science fiction writer Ted Sturgeon was once asked why 90% of science fiction was crap.
His reply was that 90% of everything is crap.
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Funny thing. I loved both shows, and really dislike the original writer.
I find him overly snarky; his style is like a bad Douglas Adams pastiche.
His plots aren’t worth the slog; thank goodness for TV adaptations.
Al Bundy had a house and a car.
By Gen Z standards he was a billionaire.
One year, I got fifty gold colored US dollar coins and put them in a drawstring bag [the kind Robin Hood would carry] I gave it to my buddy for his birthday.
It was great watching him play with the money like he was a pirate, or a Roman emperor, or Conan the Barbarian.
Back in 1995, the FDNY did a hostile takeover of EMS.
EMS had originally been under the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, a city agency that oversees the public hospitals. In 1993, HHC funded an independent study to see what the best way to move forward was. The consultants looked at all the options, including moving EMS to police or fire supervision, ro making it an independent service. They decided that the best course was to keep EMS under HHC, but give it $3 million to upgrade.
At about that time, FD decided they wanted to study taking over EMS. The City Council voted them $5 million to do a test where FDNY responded to EMS calls in one borough. Even though the New York State agency in charge of licensing paramedics said FD had failed, the City decided the test was a great success. FD got control of EMS.
Pretty much the day FD took over, old time EMS people started leaving. Some retired, and others went to other civil service jobs.
Only one Fire Chief bothered to take an ride-alongs with EMS. Most never stuck their nose into an EMS station.
16·3 days agoAs I recall, the bones were identified as gaming pieces. there’s a similar game played in the area, and the winner gets to keep the losers playing pieces.
There was a similar story about a tool no one could figure out. They showed it to a leather worker and the worker pulled out a similar tool.
Merry Christmas.
If you’ve never seen it, watch Marilyn Monroe in “How To Marry A Millionaire.”
Two lines I always remember. The three gals walk into a Park Avenue duplex apartment and one gasps “This place must rent for $1,000.00 a month!”
They go to a nightclub with a live orchestra and a twenty girl chorus line. “My God, the cheapest thing on the menu is $5.00!”
There’s a hidden station near Delancey and Essex. They use it for training and rent it out for movies and TV shows.
And if you’ve never seen it, watch the original version of ‘The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3’ my all time favorite New York movie.