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On 8/24/2020 at 5:03 PM, Golden Goat said:
Ann Wilson of Heart?
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Don't know his name, but he looks like the starting point of a reverse evolution from human to ape.
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RIP Tim Smith
He was the mastermind behind the Cardiacs. In my favorite record store back in Germany in the mid-1980s, they had 10 pairs of headphones hanging from the ceiling above the album racks, with sneak peaks of some new items. One day I had grabbed a pair of headphones with something, well, different - the Cardiacs. The following is arguable their most famous song (the video is from summer of 1990, not 2015 as stated in the title). Enjoy!
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1 hour ago, Mickey said:
Captain of a sailboat in a world cup race.
I also thought of a skipper in an America's Cup race. These things "fly" at speeds up to 50 mph, and you have to coordinate 11 guys to keep it on course.
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42 minutes ago, Niagara said:
No idea what DC Tom saw, but it is suspicious the only video of the Pentagon incoming was a blur. If wings are 500 ft, and hole is 100 feet, where are the wings? They should be outside the building.
With 500 ft wings, this must have been an alien spaceship. A Boeing 757 (which is the model that crashed into the Pentagon) has a total wingspan of less than 130 ft.
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2 hours ago, Niagara said:
No one will cancel MLK because...
...[MLK] challenged capitalism.
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“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”
– Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952. - ....
Did you collect all thee quotes by yourself? That would have been impressive. However, I could swear I have seen this list before. It would be good if you could give credit to the person(s) who actually did the work.
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“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”
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In another thread a while ago, we touched on the topic of violinists in rock. Here is another one, Don 'Sugercane" Harris, with his short-lived band "Pure Food and Drug Act". They just had one album, "Choice Cuts", with an interesting cover of "Eleanor Rigby" (sorry, no video).
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11 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:
The "msm" does not seem to be covering this
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Fugitive Chinese researcher arrested overnight, being held in Sacramento County Jail
The Chinese researcher who fled her post as a visiting researcher at UC Davis after being questioned by the FBI has emerged from the Chinese consulate in San Francisco and is in custody at the Sacramento County Main Jail, online jail records show.
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Is that "msm" enough for you?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/politics/us-china-consulate-accuse-espionage-network/index.html
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4 hours ago, Cinga said:
That's not true.... The world including the Obama Administration were silent during genocide in Darfur and Rwanda. The world including the Clinton Administration was silent during the Bosnian genocide.
Rwanda was in 1994. Darfur started in 2003, and the UN sent peacekeeping troops in 2007.
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8 minutes ago, B-Man said:
Hans Bader, writing on Liberty Unyielding, brings together the evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is systematically oppressing three million people, using torture and concentration camps.
Yet when was the last time the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC or CBS did any investigative reporting on this horrendous abuse of human rights?
Here you go: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
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34 minutes ago, B-Man said:
'You will blame Israel but...': Nikki Haley questions UN silence over Uighur genocide by Communist China
Actually, it is not silence, it is worse - many countries openly support China's position. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps:
On 8 July 2019, 22 countries signed a statement to the UN's High Commissioner of Human Rights in which they called for an end to mass detentions in China and expressed concerns over widespread surveillance and repression: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In October 2019, in a second letter, these countries were joined by the US.
In July 2019, 50 countries signed a joint letter to the UNHRC commending China's "remarkable achievements in the field of human rights", claiming "Now safety and security has returned to Xinjiang and the fundamental human rights of people of all ethnic groups there are safeguarded." The signees: Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Laos, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkmenistan, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe[
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12 hours ago, Greg S said:
Phil Collins' younger brother...
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28 minutes ago, bbb said:
Andre Agassi and Steffi Grafs kid? I know he’s a D1 baseball player.
Well, yes, we have a winner. It is Jaden Gil Agassi, now committed to play baseball at USC.
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2 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:
It’s Andre the Giant and Mary Lou Retton’s kid, right? Forget his name.
Actually, his parents are pretty well matched. He is 5-11, she is 5-9.
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Up to the end of April most of my "accomplishments" were work-related. As the instructor of an undergrad biochemistry lab, after going online I had to simulate data that the students had to evaluate. To speed up things, I remembered the BASIC course I took as a student (Thank you, Professor Krauss) and was actually able to write a decent program with multiple nested loops to simulate the required data.
Since then, the long hours I usually watch sports were available for other purposes. First, I re-watched all 2019 Bills games on NFL GamePass. Then I watched the last season of Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle". Despite some criticism regarding the resolution of the story, overall I very much enjoyed it. And they made pretty sure that there would be no follow-ups - Obergruppenfuhrer/Reichsmarschall Smith (a brilliant Rufus Sewell) was the person who held all plots together.
Currently, I am on my way through the 1967 British series "The Prisoner". So far, it is very captivating.
And I read some biographies. One of Groucho Marx (the dynamics between the brothers are especially interesting) , another one of Robert Wyatt (drummer of the Brit jazz/rock Soft Machine, who became a paraplegic after falling out of a window, but continued to make very beautiful, personal music - his "Rock Bottom" would be on my "Top Ten" list).
The most impressive biography was "A Life Too Short" about Robert Enke, a German soccer goalkeeper. In November 2009, Enke was on his way to become the number one goalkeeper for the German national team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. On 11/10/2009, the depression that had haunted him on and off for quite some time became too strong and he ended his life.
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9 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:
Bart Connor and Nadia Comanechi’s kid?
Nope. It is his mother who has the blue eyes.
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3 hours ago, T&C said:
Google founder?
Nope.
Both of his parents were athletes (not baseball).
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Not Busey, not Evans.
The famous persons are actually his parents.
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This might be pretty difficult. I will give additional clues as we go along.
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On 7/10/2020 at 2:13 PM, Big Blitz said:
Germany! They did soooooo much better than us!
Well, actually, they do. According to the https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries web site, in the last three days we had an average of 65,000 new cases per day in the US versus less than 500 in Germany. The US death count is 500-1000 per day; in Germany, the average is below 10.
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4 hours ago, T&C said:
Bowie?
Correct. David Bowie.
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If I remember correctly, DC Tom has a degree in physics. Does this guy look like a physicist?
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Here is a new one...
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12 hours ago, Buffalo Timmy said:
He is the head of surgery at Lenox Hill- to state he is a Fox News talking head is like saying Obama is some basketball fan- it is either done to be humorous, as ESPN did it, or astoundingly stupid. I do disagree that Trump has done everything right since he clearly should have stopped Cuomo from putting the sick back in with the most likely to die.
You may want to update your information. Samadi is now at St. Francis on Long Island.
https://nypost.com/2019/11/23/embattled-surgeon-dr-david-samadi-has-a-new-gig-on-long-island/
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Isn't it ironic...