Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619
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If you want something to remain private, why text or email it? You've createted a permanent written record....
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I'm on my second Toyota Sienna AWD minivan. Both have been the best ice and snow cars I've ever had. And I'm in the mountains Nordic skiing etc.
Great traction to drive and stop in the worst conditions: thin water on pure ice. Drives like it was bare asphalt.
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We have long-time friendly relationship with the two next-door neighbors about mail, newspapers, etc. Particularly with one, we bring in their mail and papers and vice-versa on trips. We'd do the same with packages though it hasn't come up, I think.
Most of our kids live in the neighborhood and they handle it, too.
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Philipines are in Asia. Named after the Spanish king of the time by the Spaniards. They ruled the place for a few centuries.
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I'd add Warren Zevon to the list, except I like the singing of Waits, Dylan, and Nelson. And Zevon.
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I'll weigh in....
Leaving Jeff Bridges aside (who was great, but that's a matter of taste I figure), True Grit is the story of Mattie Ross, who narrates the entire book. Kim Darby was totally, utterly miscast as Mattie, Hailie Steinfeld was perfect. John Wayne's Rooster was iconic; the rest was much less so. I believe that he definitely deserved the Oscar for his performance though.
One could go on, but the ending of the John Wayne version was a total departure from the book, which, after all, was written only a couple of years before. Mattie just has a bandage on her arm, all is well and happy; she'll be fine, and no doubt she and Rooster will have happy reunions!
The Charles Portis novel is great. Read the opening, and then the last lines at the end. Powerful, and captured by the 2010 version perfectly.
I've wondered why the first movie ended as it did. After all, the book was brand new, and was a big bestseller. I think movie audiences back then wanted unambiguously happy endings. More than that, I specuclate that John Wayne didn't want the actual more sobering ending for whatever reason. But that's just my guess, as I try to figure out why they did it that way back then.
I never had read the book until I had watched the 2010 movie. It is a great work. The later movie reflected it much better.
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At the same time Richard Boone was known as the heroic Paladin, he played two great Western villains: Frank Usher in the Tall T (with Randolph Scott and Margaret O'Sullivan), and Cicero Grimes in Hombre. The former in 1957, the latter in 1967, with Paul Newman and a great ensemble cast. Grimes in particular is a really great bad man.
Both movies based on Elmore Leonard stories. Are there other examples of the same guy playing classic heroes and classic villains in Westerns?
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9 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
"A Christmas Carol" is one that seems to have endleass remakes, some really good, some real stinkers.
This brings up the question of what is a remake. I think of it as a movie based mostly upon an older, usually successful well-made movie. Movies based on the same story, especially a classic story like A Christmas Carol, aren't really "remakes", because they're not remakes of an earlier film as such.
The best example among Westerns' is True Grit. Both are based directly upon the short Portis novel, which is practically a screenplay in itself. The Jeff Bridges movie is closer to the book than the John Wayne version, especially as to the ending, which is an important part of the original story. So I don't think of it as a remake, though it's sometimes called one.
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The conservation of angular momentum is a very interesting law.
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Of some interest on the subject, President Trump appointed 14 federal judges in the post-2020 election period, all of which were confirmed by the Republican Senate. Needless to say, the Dems cried foul, for the reasons some have given here. Indeed, only one post-election-defeat appointment of a federal judge had been made and confirmed for generations before that.
So it cuts both ways. The President is the President until Jan. 20.
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I was 15, in 10th grade.
It was a bad day, and the harbinger of many to come in the ensuing few years.
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2 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Why did it take a "furriner" to come up with this question? I sure never thought of it, but then I'm still trying to figure out daylight savings time.
It didn't. The difference between the executive transition in a parliamentary system and the US system is usually first pointed out, with the historical background, in high school civics classes. At least it was in mine, a long time ago.
There are downsides to the parliamentary system, at least the English one. The executive is not directly elected. The party in power decides when elections will be held, and can time them at favorable points. Elections can be suspended during 'national emergencies'--- such as WWII, where British elections were suspended for the duration. Contrast with the US Civil War and WWII here-- elections took place on schedule notwithstanding the 'emergency'.
Our system seems to have worked. And, of course, this particular issue cuts both ways.
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It's the difference between our system and parliamentarly systems, where leadership and cabinet heads (as the 'shadow cabinet') are already in place by the time elections are called.
And ultimately, as has been pointed out, it's the Constitution that is the reason.
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They don't latch anymore, and haven't for a long time.
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The 'renaming' of Armistice Day had no relation to the 'renaming' aberrant spirit of our contemporary scene.
The term 'Armistice' was specific to the end of the First World War. By 1957, there were many millions of WWII and Korea veterans.
WWII did not end with an armistice, it ended with outright surrenders.
The replacement in 1957 with "Veterans' Day" made perfect sense.
My grandad was a Royal Air Force veteran of the First War. He died in 1977 at 82. He was fine with Veterans' Day.
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5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Why would they want one?
Can't imagine why. It's a mystery!
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
see what you're saying, I think. But I believe that's a dumb reason.
And that's not the reason.
What is a reason not to get a passport if you want one? Can't quite figure that out....
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Wife figures it out. Twelve grandkids, from 12 to 31. Three of them married. Now six great grandkids. Then there's the five kids and three spouses.
She likes to buy for all. I flee as far as I can.
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I remember my grandparents well, having been well into adulthood when they died.
I have a few 'snapshot' memories of three great-grandparents, who died in the 1950s.
I've read that, barring fame, we are remembered for at most about 3 generations; 75 years or maybe a bit more. Then no living memory at all.
A friend recently told me of a young relative in his family, 14 years old, who was then dying of cancer. Though the boy had become calm about approaching death, his biggest anxiety was that he would be forgotten.
I think the desire to be remembered, logical or not, is pretty universal.
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I can't think of a single solitary reason not to get a passport if you want one.
We always renew ours.
Maybe some circumstances might make it useful, but even if not, I'd get it.
And think how many uncountable millions in the world would like to have one!
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I watched that episode myself a few weeks back and enjoyed it too.
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We don't have to go back that far. In 1967-1970, as an undergraduate with two children, I supported the family and paid tuition with a swing shift job that paid about $3,500 per year. A solid working man's salary then.
In law school in Salem Or 1970-1973, our rent was $100 a month for a [very] small 2-bedroom house, gas was 25 cents per gallon, milk 25 cents per gallon, bread (on sale) sometimes 10 cents per loaf. We qualified for Abundant Foods, the Dept of Agriculture program, before food stamps, that provided staples: flour, cheese, canned chicken, sugar, butter, and such.
Even though we lived it, it's still hard to believe. My first salary as a lawyer was $12,500 per year. My wife and I danced in the streets that the six years of toil had been worth it....
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I had a couple revolvers put in evidence over the years and I never saw that. They were just marked with an evidence tag like anything else. (These were civil cases.)
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2 hours ago, Alpo said:
Yep. December of 02. She was walking her dog - a long-haired dachshund - and a eucalyptus tree fell down on her.
I well remember stories of her when I joined here in '04.
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Also a lot of Armenians there....