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Cincydawg

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3738 on: June 21, 2020, 08:26:26 AM »
Searching for Bobbie Fisher was a really good buried movie IMHO.

(They never found him.)

Simple Twist of Fate

The Black Stallion  (Copolla directed)

Field of Shoes

We're watching "The Silk Road" on Amazon' with our Turkish neighbor who just last year took a trip on the Silk Road from western China.  I pause it a lot and ask him questions.  He's the retired physics professor.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3739 on: June 21, 2020, 12:05:02 PM »
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3740 on: June 21, 2020, 12:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on June 20, 2020, 11:31:23 PM
He's a former President of this country. He was the general who defeated the Confederate and ended the civil war. He's on the 50 dollar bill.

SF is a part of this country, no? Maybe they just had a statue up honoring the memory of a former American President? I don't see anything unusual about that at all.
That's all very nice. 

But usually, statues are put up for reasons. And I was wondering what that was. And if the reason was, "Ehh, Grant was a war hero and 11 years after he died someone felt like putting up his face in Golden Gate Park," that's fine. But I was curious. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3741 on: June 21, 2020, 12:51:03 PM »
We were headed to our usual place for brunch to discover it is closed for a "deep cleaning", so we bopped around the corner, I suggested a tapas place we like  En route, we saw Silverlake Ramen that opened Friday, so we had lunch there, really good.  They are out of LA, we chatted a bit with their operations manager  It is fun watching the cooks go at it.

I hear in LA, their outlets tend to have long lines.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3742 on: June 21, 2020, 12:59:04 PM »
I have mused before about how few food choices we had when I was a kid.  My fist pizza I was 16, my first "Mexican" I was 18.  The first Thai restaurant in all of Atlanta opened in 1977 (it's near us).  There were some French restaurants around town, maybe 4, circa 1970.  I think there were pizza places, I just never had been.  My Dad did not like "foreign food", at all.

I can remember a little when the first McDonalds opened up in Augusta, GA in 1961.  You could get a burger for a 1961 penny for a few days.  They just had burgers, fries, shakes, and Cokes.  No "fancy" burgers.  We had a What-A-Burger in Augusta which I really liked.  Eating at the Varsity here was a treat, and Chick-Fil-A was a HUGE treat.  Mostly we ate at home of course, a few times Dad would bring home a bucket.  There were some all you could eat fried catfish places we would go on occasion, I really liked catfish,  or really fried anything.

The old cafeteria in the town we lived in here is still in operation, still crowded.  I took the wife.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3743 on: June 21, 2020, 01:22:11 PM »
Quote from: bayareabadger on June 21, 2020, 12:42:19 PM
That's all very nice.

But usually, statues are put up for reasons. And I was wondering what that was. And if the reason was, "Ehh, Grant was a war hero and 11 years after he died someone felt like putting up his face in Golden Gate Park," that's fine. But I was curious.
After the Mexican-American War, Grant was stationed on the West Coast.  He arrived at San Francisco and was later stationed at Fort Humboldt near Eureka.

The Font of All Wisdom and Knowledge has a good summary in its intro:

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Raised in Ohio, young Grant possessed an exceptional ability with horses, which served him well through his military career. He was admitted to West Point and graduated from the U.S. military academy in 1843. Grant served with distinction in the Mexican–American War. In 1848, he married Julia Dent, and together they had four children. Grant abruptly resigned his army commission in 1854 and returned to his family, but lived in poverty for seven years. During the Civil War, he joined the Union Army in 1861, and led the Vicksburg campaign, which gained control of the Mississippi River in 1863. After Grant's victory at Chattanooga, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to Lieutenant General. For thirteen months, Grant fought Robert E. Lee during the high casualty Overland Campaign and at Petersburg. On April 9, 1865, Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox. A week later, Lincoln was assassinated, and was succeeded by President Andrew Johnson, who promoted Grant to General of the Army in 1866. Later Grant openly broke with Johnson over Reconstruction policies; Grant used the Reconstruction Acts, which had been passed over Johnson's veto, to enforce civil rights for African freedmen.

A war hero but a reluctant politician, Grant was unanimously nominated by the Republican Party and was elected president in 1868. As president, Grant stabilized the post-war national economy, created the Department of Justice, and prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan. He appointed African-Americans and Jewish-Americans to prominent federal offices. In 1871, he created the first Civil Service Commission.
What's there that demands that his statue be torn down?

The answer, of course, is that nothing does.  Nothing but some anarchistic/nihilistic urge to destroy the fabric of American society.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3744 on: June 21, 2020, 01:36:46 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on June 21, 2020, 01:22:11 PM
What's there that demands that his statue be torn down?

The answer, of course, is that nothing does.  Nothing but some anarchistic/nihilistic urge to destroy the fabric of American society.
This is real. Pretty scary too.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3745 on: June 21, 2020, 01:55:08 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on June 21, 2020, 01:36:46 PM
This is real. Pretty scary too.
And it gives credence to the argument, "Give 'em an inch, and they'll take a mile."  It empowers the racists and--not to conflate the two--empowers the POTUS' re-election campaign.  Surely the people who tore down that statue don't want that, do they?  Or do they?

It's hard to discuss issues about removing Confederate statues and renaming Army posts in good faith with people who are also going to destroy the statues of George Washington and U.S. Grant the next time they get the chance.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3746 on: June 21, 2020, 02:05:42 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on June 21, 2020, 01:22:11 PM
What's there that demands that his statue be torn down?

The answer, of course, is that nothing does.  Nothing but some anarchistic/nihilistic urge to destroy the fabric of American society.
I wonder if it's a simple as sometimes mobs are dumb and do dumb things.

I understand there was a statue of a prominent abolitionist in Philly that was vandalized.

And apparently descendents of indigenous folks are taking down statues of Junipero Serra here in California, because he was a Spanish Missionary and thus a conqueror of the indigenous peoples? Which seems more opportunistic than anything else to happen now.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3747 on: June 21, 2020, 02:13:45 PM »
Yep.  And it sometimes doesn't take much to turn a crowd into a mob.  Pure democracy taken to the extreme.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3748 on: June 21, 2020, 02:38:55 PM »
So, this CHOP thing. WTF is going on in this world? And they build a wall? I didn't know building a wall at a "border" was a good thing.

Violence last night, in the summer of love.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3749 on: June 21, 2020, 02:45:18 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on June 21, 2020, 02:38:55 PM
So, this CHOP thing. WTF is going on in this world? And they build a wall? I didn't know building a wall at a "border" was a good thing.

Violence last night, in the summer of love.
piarently there was a fatal shooting.  Someone called the police.  They went in with 8-10 and tried to find the victim.   They were greeted with an angry mob, things thrown at them, etc. 
they were surrounded- and proceeded a hasty retreat. 

if anyone wants to debate that/ don’t bother. There is body cam footage available - I have seen it
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #3750 on: June 21, 2020, 02:48:58 PM »
What is the currency in this autonomous zone, and how does it stack up against the US dollar? 

What are the names of the utility companies providing services to this area? CHOP Power and Light? CHOP Water Reclamation District? CHOP Water Supply?
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« Reply #3751 on: June 21, 2020, 04:46:01 PM »
I love the 'garden' they threw together.
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