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Jamie44
5 years ago

If you don’t regularly visit Google.com, today might be one of those days when you should.

Google Doodle celebrates 50 years of LGBTQ pride  

Nice article about the images.

Pogo
5 years ago

I, the News Matrix, (Reportedly Britain’s most trusted digital news source) reports  that up to 250k protesters expected at ant-Trump rally in London. Hahahaha. Welcome to London. 

Katherine Graham Cracker
5 years ago

The Brits are on it.   I think we should do more too.   I like the idea of surrounding the whitehouse with as many people as possible  all yelling resign now!

Flatus
5 years ago

He needs an excuse to leave, something like his foot acting-up.

xrepublican
5 years ago

Larry knows a rat* when he sees one.
 
*I guess I owe an apology to Europe’s rats.

xrepublican
5 years ago

manafort is in the Rikers Island facility. Dersh thinks it’s horrid. 
ripuplikkklans suddenly favor mollycoddling prisoners. I wonder why.
 
snicker

xrepublican
5 years ago

The way I remember it, prisoners are transferred for one of several reasons :
1. the prisoner makes enemies of other prisoners;
2. the prisoner makes friends of other prisoners;
3. the prisoner makes enemies among staff;
4. change in health;
5. to be more convenient for family visits.

Katherine Graham Cracker
5 years ago

or closer to people he is squealing too
I guess the pardon didn’t come fast enough

Sturgeone
5 years ago

Rikers!   The very name strikes fear and loathing into the hearts of otherwise stalwart men.

Sturgeone
5 years ago

I’m currently researching the western movies and tv shows of the 40’s 50’s and early 60’s. Surprisingly few John wayne’s, relatively speaking……we got Rock Hudson up against Oceola down in Florida when they tried to make the Seminoles take part in the trail of tears….that was notable. Lots of Audie Murphy, sprinkling of Richard Boone, Newman, Eastwood, McQueen, bunches of stock bad guys, back shootin’, gamblin’, Dance Hall girls, piano playin’, whiskey guzzling, Ex-Union, ex-Confederates, hearts of gold, damsels in distress, and lots and lots of Indians, and even a few ex-slaves. 
Laramie, Wyatt Earp. I’ve got to listen again but I’m I think the Earp show didn’t have musicians, just a bunch of guys singing acapulco, and once picked up a dude doing mouth trumpet.  That was weird. 

Sturgeone
5 years ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tF6AT5ZSA
 
Railroad building, wagon trains, buffler, Mexicans, the ubiquitous Saloon, and I’ve seen three different movies where the protagonist is walking along horseless and carrying his saddle out in the middle of nowhere, comes across a wild herd of mustangs, picks up his trusty lariat, picks one horse out from amongst em, ropes him, saddles him, climbs aboard and gets bucked around till old cayoose gets tired, and then off they go into the sunrise.

Flatus
5 years ago

I remember the first of your movies. The eviction ended when the bad-guys looked down and saw all the rattle snakes. John Wayne wasn’t that old and served during the War; he deserved his rest. My favorite was Charles Laughton.

Flatus
5 years ago

We drove through the Everglades in ’47. The poverty was all-encompassing and palpable. The trails that paralleled the swamp were covered with rattlers warming themselves in the sun; moccasins were swirling along the surface of the swamp water in their search for food. My recollection of the shelters constructed by the Seminole inhabitants still haunts me; I don’t believe the inhabitants could/would be protected from a wind-driven rain. I saw no signs of commerce. I did see my first meadow-lark in the outskirts of the ‘glades.

xrepublican
5 years ago

Don’t know why Ringling Bros had their winter camp in Sarasota, what with the serpents swallowing all their elephants, and trains and such. 
Those were great days to be a snake.
I spent a couple million years in the Miami Airport one night around 1960.  They mostly kept the gators and rattlers outa the terminal, so guess I shouldn’t complain.

xrepublican
5 years ago

Even the ice cubes were hot. Y’shoulda seen’m sweat. 

xrepublican
5 years ago

They never showed that or the poverty in those ’40s and ’50s movies. It took Sergio Leone to bring realism to the Westerns, and his experience of the West was Monte Carlo. 

Jamie44
5 years ago

Jefferson Davis birthday

“Where Was the Lord?” 

“Course they cry; you think they not cry when they was sold like cattle? I could tell you about it all day, but even then you couldn’t guess the awfulness of it.”

Jamie44
5 years ago

Sturgeone

It always interests me that Wyatt Earp lived long enough to appear in movies and after his death, his wife maintained friendly relations with several of their studio friends.  One of my minor claims to fame is that I kissed Hugh O’Brian when he was playing Wyatt. 

Kissing History 

And then I wrote another one about his wife Josie Marcus

 

 

Pogo
5 years ago

Amsterdam-I’d go back. Very civilized city. Canals, open MJ use (legally sold in Coffee Houses) and bicycles, bicycles, bicycles  – and it’s what 90% of the non-walking public gets around on. If you cross a street without looking you’ve gat a 3% chance of being hit by a car, a 10% chance of being hit by a trolley & a 97% chance of being hit by a bicycle. Yep, I could spend some time there. 

Blue Bronc
5 years ago

Here is a thriller.  My truck, 2004 F-240 4X4, had the front brake lines, those are the steel tubes, rupture when I had an emergency stop.  It used to be the steel brake lines in a car or truck lasted forever.  Strong, reliable and used more than once.  Sometimes you would need a new line if you broke one in an accident or trying to twist it off a frozen brake caliper or cylinder and you went to the junk yard to get a replacement.  Which lasted longer than your car or truck. 
Now the steel things are expected to break or rupture.  The question is how many people have died because the steel brake lines failed and they were in an accident.