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GoCubsGo wrote:
Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:40 pm
Stan Lee: ‘The Man’ Behind the Comic-Book Superhero Myths

I was more of a DC comics kid, but Marvel movies kick ass.
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Uh oh: New Zealand's Gisborne Herald

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Puts new meaning to the ole saying. “They all look alike.”
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POSPOTUS July 2018, Montana:
“The thousand points of light, what the hell was that by the way? Thousand points of light, what did that mean, does anyone know? I know one thing, Make America Great Again we understand. Putting America first, we understand. Thousand points of light, I never quite got that one. What the hell is that? Has anyone ever figured that one out? And it was put out by a Republican, wasn’t it?
POSPOTUS and Melania December 1, 2018:
Melania and I join with a grieving Nation to mourn the loss of former President George H.W. Bush, who passed away last night.

Through his essential authenticity, disarming wit, and unwavering commitment to faith, family, and country, President Bush inspired generations of his fellow Americans to public service—to be, in his words, “a thousand points of light” illuminating the greatness, hope, and opportunity of America to the world....
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... With sound judgement, common sense, and unflappable leadership, President Bush guided our Nation, and the world ...
Ah, that explains why he detested POSPOTUS.

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EndoTradition


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... s-dead-son


"the couple, had asked staff at the five-star Royalton Resort to surprise them with balloons and cake in their bedroom to mark the day.

The hotel workers instead created an effigy of Alex by stuffing the couple’s clothes with towels and arranging it on the bed. The figure had tears on its face and a can of lager in its hand and was positioned next to petals spelling out: “We miss you Alex.”
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”

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billy.pilgrim wrote:
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EndoTradition


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... s-dead-son


"the couple, had asked staff at the five-star Royalton Resort to surprise them with balloons and cake in their bedroom to mark the day.

The hotel workers instead created an effigy of Alex by stuffing the couple’s clothes with towels and arranging it on the bed. The figure had tears on its face and a can of lager in its hand and was positioned next to petals spelling out: “We miss you Alex.”

Hmmm...something's fishy 🐟.
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billy.pilgrim wrote:
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EndoTradition

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... s-dead-son

"the couple, had asked staff at the five-star Royalton Resort to surprise them with balloons and cake in their bedroom to mark the day.

The hotel workers instead created an effigy of Alex by stuffing the couple’s clothes with towels and arranging it on the bed. The figure had tears on its face and a can of lager in its hand and was positioned next to petals spelling out: “We miss you Alex.”
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Wow, assuming they weren't trying to be cruel, which is what the article implies, that's almost as much of a "misguided tribute" as is possible. The only thing worse would have been to put it on the balcony.
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Vrede too wrote:
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George HW Bush will lie in the Capitol for a day and a half.
Dolt .45 lies in the Whitehouse every day.
Another: President George HW Bush will lie in state in the Capitol for a day and a half.
President Donald Trump has lied in every state he's been in.

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So by age alone, it should be Carter's turn next. But everybody but Obama is in their 70's and subject to fluke events. And clearly, Trump is obese, has a poor diet and has (as well as creates) high stress. I'm guessing there's a pool somewhere for betting on Dead Presidents.

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RIP Penny Marshall

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/penny-mars ... ead-at-75/

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RIP Penny Marshall

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/penny-mars ... ead-at-75/

I'm getting old.
I thought that movies she directed - Big, Awakenings and A League of Their Own - were excellent. Incredible resume:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Marshall
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NASA rover finally bites the dust on Mars after 15 years

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, rolling across the rocky red soil, was pronounced dead Wednesday, 15 years after it landed on the planet.

The six-wheeled vehicle that helped gather critical evidence that ancient Mars might have been hospitable to life was remarkably spry up until eight months ago, when it was finally doomed by a ferocious dust storm.

Flight controllers tried numerous times to make contact, and sent one final series of recovery commands Tuesday night, along with one last wake-up song, Billie Holiday's "I'll Be Seeing You," in a somber exercise that brought tears to team members' eyes. There was no response from space, only silence.

Thomas Zurbuchen, head of NASA's science missions, broke the news at what amounted to a funeral at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, announcing the demise of "our beloved Opportunity."

"This is a hard day," project manager John Callas said at an auditorium packed with hundreds of current and former members of the team that oversaw Opportunity and its long-deceased identical twin, Spirit. "Even though it's a machine and we're saying goodbye, it's still very hard and very poignant, but we had to do that. We came to that point."

The two slow-moving, golf cart-size rovers landed on opposite sides of the planet in 2004 for a mission meant to last 90 sols, or Mars days, which are 39 minutes longer than Earth days.

In the end, Opportunity outlived its twin by eight years and set endurance and distance records that could stand for decades. Trundling along until communication ceased last June, Opportunity roamed a record 28 miles (45 kilometers) and worked longer than any other lander in the history of space exploration....
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Let us all mourn and always remember lost Opportunity. It's gratifying to know that once in a while the people get more than they bargained for in these experimental and groundbreaking endeavors. Plus it was likely built by the lowest bidder.

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The Utterly Bizarre Life of Lyndon LaRouche
American politics produces no small number of eccentrics. Lyndon LaRouche, who died yesterday, towered above them all.


... Originating on the far left, in the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party, LaRouche would eventually forge what is easily the strangest path from left to right in twentieth-century America. His cult, forged in street fights with the Communist Party in the late 1960s, now spends most of its time propagandizing on behalf of both Donald Trump and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In between, LaRouche was, at various points, a drug warrior, a Reaganite “Star Wars” backer, a dedicated foe of figures from Queen Elizabeth (“a genocidal drug runner”) to Walter Mondale, a federal prisoner, an advocate for Glass-Steagall, and, of course, a psychoanalyst. Only in America! ...
The entire article is disturbingly interesting, but this name stood out for me:
Things were looking good for LaRouche until 1986, when the federal government launched a series of cases against his organization that eventually resulted in prison time for the cult leader and several of his associates. The case, which was led by none other than a federal prosecutor named Robert Mueller, revolved around various sorts of fraud, from unlicensed credit card transactions to soliciting loans from his followers. LaRouche, of course, saw the mark of conspiracy on his prosecution, alleging that everyone from the KGB to Oliver North was behind his incarceration. While in prison, he shared a cell with disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker, who later wrote of LaRouche that “To say that Lyndon was slightly paranoid would be like saying the Titanic had a bit of a leak.” (Bakker was, however, impressed by his cellmate’s knowledge of the Bible)....
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This all changed in the Bush years. 9/11 gave a fillip to LaRouche-style conspiracy theories. Larouche himself put his own unique mark on these theories by blaming not the US government, but rather a “Saudi-British conspiracy.” He also formed the LaRouche Youth Movement, which organized against the war on Iraq and established a not insubstantial presence on college campuses. The LYM distinguished itself from the broader antiwar movement with its odd demand to “Impeach Cheney First!”
Never with LYMers, but I might have chanted that a time or two.
When Obama came to power, and the paranoiacs of the far right shifted into high gear, LaRouche saw that the market niche had changed, and adapted himself accordingly. Now, Obama was the new Hitler....
Of course.
For the last three years, LaRouche himself has been scarce, as his dementia and cognitive decline became too obvious to hide even from abused supplicants....
It took a lot longer than with most folks to be able to tell.

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I remember watching their tv show when I was eleven or twelve years old. I liked their doodeed up GTO.......Mickey Dolenz was my favorite of them......actually ran into Davy Jones in a Tokyo hotel about 76 or 77; he's really short. Anyway, RIP Peter.

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neoplacebo wrote:
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I remember watching their tv show when I was eleven or twelve years old. I liked their doodeed up GTO.......Mickey Dolenz was my favorite of them......actually ran into Davy Jones in a Tokyo hotel about 76 or 77; he's really short. Anyway, RIP Peter.
Saw them in concert in 86, loads if fun but no Mike. Davy Jones passed away about five years ago, I'm getting old.
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Tork was my favorite. :(

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That I even watched at all is not something that I would have admitted to my peers back then.
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Tork was my favorite. :(

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That I even watched at all is not something that I would have admitted to my peers back then.
I had their first two albums and a 45 of Last Train to Clarksville. 🎶📀🎵
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Tork was my favorite. :(

That I even watched at all is not something that I would have admitted to my peers back then.
I think I only watched it with my little sister......may as well confess to having a man crush on Mark Lindsey of Paul Revere and the Raiders; I wished I looked like him and that my parents would let me grow my hair like his was; he had a little ponytail.....this was around the same time as the Monkees :oops:

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