Ah, so this is where Barenaked Ladies got the idea for their song.
A million dollars in 1925 is about 14 million today. But also for a million in the 1920s, you could buy like over 500 houses
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/20s-homes.html
All I'm saying is that if she appreciates a nice set of cans, and he's always able to get things good and lubricated - well, they can't can't help to be anything but a happy couple.
The 2016 final tally was 62.98 million Trump, 65.85 million Clinton. My overall feel is Trump does gain votes on net, as third party & esp McMuffin voters come home, but is substantially mitigated by the Trump to Biden switch voters, and those that literally stay home (& don't vote by mail or other).
Biden also gets some of the third party vote last time that is picking a side (including McMuffin himself). 1 million more votes might be a reach, but I am banking on the 2008 & 2012 Obama voter that either sat out or was shut out in 2016. And a Dem party election strategy that is not really worried too much about the opportunity cost of running up the score in safe Dem states. (This last might be wishcasting though)
Senate - - 50/50 next year https://www.270towin.com/2020-senate-election/MmZyP5
(Collins finally loses, Dems also flip NC. But Earnst holds on, as does the GOP MT senator. Flipping both AZ and CO, though makes up for the loss of the AL seat)
Ok, here is where I’m at now - https://www.270towin.com/maps/gwN49
My ‘boldest’ predictions are that both AZ & NC break for Biden, while WI stays with Trump (being the lone remaining ‘brick’ in the reconstructed northern mid west so called blue wall
Popular vote - 66.8 to 67.2 million For Biden, 63.0 to 63.5 million for Trump.
50.1% Biden 47.3% Trump
Libertarians will get fewer than 2 million votes. Everyone else will get fewer than 1 million apiece (& fewer than 1.5 million collectively)
Basically, I don’t have the courage of the above prediction because I don’t see Wisconsin stays with Trump while NE-2 switches to Biden. Similarly, I don’t see how Wisconsin stays red while ME-1 would switch. (Which would remove NE-2’s need to switch)
But....Nebraska 2 is filled with both Republicans in more the classic suburban mold, plus a bunch of national security oriented conservatives where their professional lives are spent with their fingers on The Button. So maybe?
(Also, if Wisconsin literally burns between now and November)
The issue surrounding retrocession still pop up from time to time . there have been some legal battles in the late 20th century* over jurisdiction and ownership/easement rights of the Alexandria waterfront. Because the original colonial era border between MD/VA went right up the Virginia shoreline, which then went back to that after retrocession, but both before and after that Alexandria built out its waterfront with landfill. Then complicating things were increasing environmental regulations - but uneven implementation between state & federal regs, plus Congress exercising exclusive jurisdiction to make some specific Potomac rules within its border.
*I think they were also used as a hail mary to (unsuccessfully) stop the CIty of Alexandria from doing a major waterfront redevelopment in the 2010s.
There was also a plan for a while for the Pentagon reservation to formerly revert back to DC. (because of that oolie with the Potomac river making the boundary, the island right next to the Pentagon (but on the near side of the main Potomac river channel) is technically DC.
I remember when they switched it up a couple years ago (I.e removed headscarf, gave her a perm) - and then I looked it up and it was quite a bit more than “a couple of years ago” 1989(!)
Ww7 - jfc this case? Is still churning? Holy guacamole. (I knew it was a bit ago, but I would not have guessed that the inciting incident was in *2005*)
Hm1 - as has been said by others, the most powerful 'defunding' force right now, and the one most likely to achieve results, is the implosion of state and esp local government budgets because of the (rightly, to be perfectly clear) suspended economic activity over the past two plus months. (And that will almost certainly be significantly depressed for the rest of the year, and perhaps even the next).
Simple 'cross the board' cuts won't make anyone happy, but it probably also won't energize as significant oppostion as more targeted efforts would
She was in red sparrow in 2018, which I think was about training young women to be Russian super spies. But I could see how that can lost in the miasma with there also being out there Scar Jo’s Black Widow, who will soon have an origin story movie about young women training to be Russian super spies, and Netflix’s Russian doll, which apparently is *not* about young women training to be Russian super spies, as I thought when I started this comment.
(But back to Lawerence, apparently she was also in the Sophie Turner (from Game of Thrones) x-men movie, but I never saw it. But neither did any one else. IMDb also has some projects of Lawrence’s that were supposed to be released this year, but we know how all that went)
Plot twist! His dad yanked support later that month
https://www.nytimes.com/1924/02/27/archives/otto-h-kahns-son-fails-to-play-jazz-respects-his-fathers-opposition.html?searchResultPosition=1
Looking up “jazz band” in articles in the NewYork Times in 1924 led me to an article about this guy, who, with his super rich investment banker dad backing him, formed and fronted an orchestra at Age 17 for broadway shows.
Subhead to the article is “youthful leader cares nothing for opera, but does love the moaning saxophone”
(His dad, though, was also apparently gifted musically, but was not of the social class to make a living at that as a young man)
On “The Song Writer At Home”
Ah, so this is where Barenaked Ladies got the idea for their song.
A million dollars in 1925 is about 14 million today. But also for a million in the 1920s, you could buy like over 500 houses
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/20s-homes.html
On “Real Locomotive Engineer at Home”
All I'm saying is that if she appreciates a nice set of cans, and he's always able to get things good and lubricated - well, they can't can't help to be anything but a happy couple.
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Every line of dialogue can be taken as a double entendre in this one
On “The Joys Of Opening Time Capsules: 2020 Election Predictions”
The 2016 final tally was 62.98 million Trump, 65.85 million Clinton. My overall feel is Trump does gain votes on net, as third party & esp McMuffin voters come home, but is substantially mitigated by the Trump to Biden switch voters, and those that literally stay home (& don't vote by mail or other).
Biden also gets some of the third party vote last time that is picking a side (including McMuffin himself). 1 million more votes might be a reach, but I am banking on the 2008 & 2012 Obama voter that either sat out or was shut out in 2016. And a Dem party election strategy that is not really worried too much about the opportunity cost of running up the score in safe Dem states. (This last might be wishcasting though)
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(House stays Dem easily)
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Senate - - 50/50 next year https://www.270towin.com/2020-senate-election/MmZyP5
(Collins finally loses, Dems also flip NC. But Earnst holds on, as does the GOP MT senator. Flipping both AZ and CO, though makes up for the loss of the AL seat)
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Ok, here is where I’m at now - https://www.270towin.com/maps/gwN49
My ‘boldest’ predictions are that both AZ & NC break for Biden, while WI stays with Trump (being the lone remaining ‘brick’ in the reconstructed northern mid west so called blue wall
Popular vote - 66.8 to 67.2 million For Biden, 63.0 to 63.5 million for Trump.
50.1% Biden 47.3% Trump
Libertarians will get fewer than 2 million votes. Everyone else will get fewer than 1 million apiece (& fewer than 1.5 million collectively)
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Basically, I don’t have the courage of the above prediction because I don’t see Wisconsin stays with Trump while NE-2 switches to Biden. Similarly, I don’t see how Wisconsin stays red while ME-1 would switch. (Which would remove NE-2’s need to switch)
But....Nebraska 2 is filled with both Republicans in more the classic suburban mold, plus a bunch of national security oriented conservatives where their professional lives are spent with their fingers on The Button. So maybe?
(Also, if Wisconsin literally burns between now and November)
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Not my actual prediction, but imo the most likely ‘sum of all fears’ map.
https://www.270towin.com/maps/KQAVn
(My actual prediction I’m still working on because I think Biden gets back more BlueWall states, but not sure yet which ones)
On “Lil Silly Sally’s Birthday”
I’m still trying to figure out what the unmangled saying is supposed to be for “very o fate ... in Hong Kong”.
(I believe “Ne Plus Ultra” is Latin for “I’m Walking Here!”)
On “Saturday Morning Gaming: Minesweeper, Updated”
Don’t forget that trend in both the 90s and 00’s to make movies out of video games
https://youtu.be/LHY8NKj3RKs
On “DC Statehood: 68.34 Square Miles of Constitutional Conundrum”
Great stuff
The issue surrounding retrocession still pop up from time to time . there have been some legal battles in the late 20th century* over jurisdiction and ownership/easement rights of the Alexandria waterfront. Because the original colonial era border between MD/VA went right up the Virginia shoreline, which then went back to that after retrocession, but both before and after that Alexandria built out its waterfront with landfill. Then complicating things were increasing environmental regulations - but uneven implementation between state & federal regs, plus Congress exercising exclusive jurisdiction to make some specific Potomac rules within its border.
*I think they were also used as a hail mary to (unsuccessfully) stop the CIty of Alexandria from doing a major waterfront redevelopment in the 2010s.
There was also a plan for a while for the Pentagon reservation to formerly revert back to DC. (because of that oolie with the Potomac river making the boundary, the island right next to the Pentagon (but on the near side of the main Potomac river channel) is technically DC.
On “The Days of the Swimmin’ Hole”
I deliberately avoided making a “uh phrasing” (or ‘TWSS’) comment on this one regarding having “a whole lotta climaxes”
https://ordinary-times.com/2020/06/19/collections/
On “Aunt Jemima: 1889-2020”
Also in 1989, Colgate execs decided that one of their toothpaste packaging ideas was hella bad.
https://newsone.com/2853883/darkie-darlie-toothpaste-colgate/
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I remember when they switched it up a couple years ago (I.e removed headscarf, gave her a perm) - and then I looked it up and it was quite a bit more than “a couple of years ago” 1989(!)
On “Danny Dreamer Goes Horse Riding”
Serves him right for being rude to one of the esteemed employees of the United States Post Office Department.
On “The Ethics of the Coronavirus”
Game respects game?
On “Wednesday Writs: Mailing It In Edition”
Ww7 - jfc this case? Is still churning? Holy guacamole. (I knew it was a bit ago, but I would not have guessed that the inciting incident was in *2005*)
On “Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Mission Creep and Opposite the Editors Edition”
Hm1 - as has been said by others, the most powerful 'defunding' force right now, and the one most likely to achieve results, is the implosion of state and esp local government budgets because of the (rightly, to be perfectly clear) suspended economic activity over the past two plus months. (And that will almost certainly be significantly depressed for the rest of the year, and perhaps even the next).
Simple 'cross the board' cuts won't make anyone happy, but it probably also won't energize as significant oppostion as more targeted efforts would
On “100 Favorite Films To Recommend Part 10: The 2010s”
She was in red sparrow in 2018, which I think was about training young women to be Russian super spies. But I could see how that can lost in the miasma with there also being out there Scar Jo’s Black Widow, who will soon have an origin story movie about young women training to be Russian super spies, and Netflix’s Russian doll, which apparently is *not* about young women training to be Russian super spies, as I thought when I started this comment.
(But back to Lawerence, apparently she was also in the Sophie Turner (from Game of Thrones) x-men movie, but I never saw it. But neither did any one else. IMDb also has some projects of Lawrence’s that were supposed to be released this year, but we know how all that went)
On “Danny Dreamer Goes Fishing”
It’s Danny Dreameresque that this post was in the related post roulette
https://ordinary-times.com/2016/06/09/can-we-please-not-spend-the-next-five-months-pretending-this-is-going-to-be-a-close-election/
(Did it happen as above? Well, no!)
On “Twas Ever Thus”
Also, it’s always illuminating when people say ‘during the war’ without having to name the exact war.
ETA - Egyptology was hugely fashionable in this era, iirc. The actual house that Downton Abby is filmed in is filled with Egyptian artifacts.
Eta2 - I think it started with Napoleon.
On “No Jazz Band”
Plot twist! His dad yanked support later that month
https://www.nytimes.com/1924/02/27/archives/otto-h-kahns-son-fails-to-play-jazz-respects-his-fathers-opposition.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Looking up “jazz band” in articles in the NewYork Times in 1924 led me to an article about this guy, who, with his super rich investment banker dad backing him, formed and fronted an orchestra at Age 17 for broadway shows.
Subhead to the article is “youthful leader cares nothing for opera, but does love the moaning saxophone”
(His dad, though, was also apparently gifted musically, but was not of the social class to make a living at that as a young man)
https://www.nytimes.com/1924/02/08/archives/otto-h-kahns-son-to-head-jazz-band-not-yet-17-he-organizes-an.html?searchResultPosition=2
On “Danny Dreamer’s Nature Study”
Murder hornets *and* anti-cop riots!
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