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Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017
Historybook: Black Thursday US stock market crash, exchange falls 11% in one day (1929); Jackie Robinson dies (1972); Rapper Drake born (1986); Rosa Parks dies (2005); Bloody Friday worldwide stock market crash with most indexes dropping 10% in single day (2008).
"Memories of our lives, of our works, and our deeds will continue in others."
- Rosa Parks
ON this date in 1948 - The term "cold war" was used for the first time.
It was in a speech by Bernard Baruch before the Senate War Investigating Committee.
Actually, Mr. Baruch had overheard a conversation between Bun Man and Mr. Purple where Bun was describing his recent marital discord w/ his 4th wife.
Bun uttered..."It's chilling sometimes, but then we have great make-up sex; it's like a cold war."
Mr. Baruch just took a little editorial privilege.
ON this date in 1901 - Daredevil Anna Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. She was 63 years old.
Little known at the time, Anna was actually pining over her rebuke from Bun Man. Bun had told Mr. Purple and I that "Anna, she's a cutie, but she's bound to fall hard..."
How prophetic he was; Anna would go on to become one in a series of Bun's Exes who gained more notoriety after him than while w/ him.
Apparently, this happens to a lot of dudes...
ON this date in 2014, I was picking up this baby from a dealership in Elizabethtown PA...
Out w/ the old (white Vision in the rear) and in w/ the new...Roadmaster, baby...
CEO Kelly Ortberg told investors in his first public call yesterday he plans to prioritize a culture shift to reboot the company's image.
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He's just going to order up a CULTURE SHIFT (This will be cute)
Boeing Stalemate Continues
Boeing's 33,000 production workers voted to continue their weekslong strike yesterday, rejecting a 35% pay raise over four years and $7K bonuses, among other benefits.
The vote came as Boeing reported a $6B third quarter loss, raising its full-year losses to $8B amid quality concerns over its 737 Max aircraft.
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And has a military personnel population which has only known combat tours and minimal rest before the next tour, do you think we’ll get a Peace of Westphalia?”
Bun Man looked at me and said “I got this…”
Bun continued “Little Buddy, in 1648, nations didn’t know war could be profitable; in 2016, American business knows war is profitable, peace is not, don’t look for peace anytime soon.”
And so it goes…
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ON this date in 1648 - The Holy Roman Empire was effectively destroyed by the Peace of Westphalia that brought an end to the Thirty Years War.
Reading this, Mr. Purple asked a fair question, “Given the US has been at war now for 20 straight years, is now involved in more wars than even strategic planners thought possible at any given time,
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CIVILITY AND DECENCY...Words to Live By
"Civility is the sum of the many sacrifices we are called to make for the sake of living together.”
Stephen L. Carter
2019 from Robert B Reich...
RT @RBReich
Let me break it down for you:
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Zuckerberg makes $28,538 per minute
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Today's testimony was 6 hours, so 360 minutes
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$28,538 x 360 = $10.3 million — which is 221 times the median salary of a U.S. worker ($46,696)
Still think it's radical to tax the rich?
AND IT'S ONLY GETTING WORSE.
Mikster has me watch that pilot episode of Kathy Bate's new TV show, Matlock.
Looks like we're offering up revenge in a matronly manner.
Looks good
Morning Peeps,
I gotta have a convo with the COSO males this AM...
Just so you know, they keep winning and now they're getting us in their dreams too.
Sometimes a cartoon perfectly illustrates your life.
EASY-PEASY
Father-son trivia
In the Los Angeles Lakers season opener last night, LeBron James and his son Bronny made NBA history as the first father-son duo to share the court as teammates.
In attendance were the first father and son to play together in Major League Baseball, back in 1990.
Who are they?
Each of the accused faces 15 counts of interstate prostitution connected to 15 alleged victims, who were all young men at the time, and one count of sex trafficking.
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Gives a different meaning to Gay AF
Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO arrested for sex trafficking. Mike Jeffries was arrested yesterday in West Palm Beach, Florida, as part of a federal investigation. Jeffries, his partner, and a third man are accused of building and running an international sex trafficking ring and prostitution business between 2008 and 2015 that relied heavily on their vast financial resources and Jeffries’s clout as the CEO of A&F.
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Articles I'd Like to See...
A GOP policy analyst explaining why Republicans hate Freedom.
Historybook: First National Women’s Rights Convention begins (1850); Comedian and "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson born (1925); Soccer legend Pelé born (1940); Suicide bombings at US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, kill 241 US military personnel (1983); 130 die in Moscow theater hostage crisis (2002).
"The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning."
- Pelé
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Internal Utah GOP issue but this just might put Brian King, the dem candidate for Governor, in a very enviable position.
TROUBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE
Retired educator / military officer(Army Colonel) - Current Ops Div Chief (G333), HQDA / married / political progressive / ED.D. and Army War College Grad. 3277
Joined Nov 2017