In #1 Occasional Reader said: Brother, can you spare a dime?
I thought that was re-worked into "Brother, can you paradigm?"
Let's remember that the Great Depression is so named because as the US plummeted into deep recession in the early '30s, "recession" was the Big Scareword---and so the government, to avoid using That Word, said, "It's not a recession---heavens, no---it's just a little depression." As that "little depression" deepened and lengthened and worsened, it became "the Great Depression," and "depression" replaced "recession" as the Big Scareword. Arguing over which we are sliding into is a arguing over a distinction without a difference.
vxbush
9/29/2022 7:19:51 AM
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In #2 buzzsawmonkey said: Arguing over which we are sliding into is a arguing over a distinction without a difference.
What we call it is a shell game of sorts, but what does matter is the size of the event, and many indications are that it is going to be extremely bad.
Occasional Reader
9/29/2022 8:09:56 AM
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Good news, I heard from my friends in Sarasota, they are safe. They don't yet know what condition their house is in, though (they sheltered with friends further inland).
vxbush
9/29/2022 8:20:30 AM
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In #4 Occasional Reader said: Good news, I heard from my friends in Sarasota, they are safe. They don't yet know what condition their house is in, though (they sheltered with friends further inland).
That is very good news. Glad to hear it.
Occasional Reader
9/29/2022 8:31:40 AM
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And while there are aspects to life in Florida that appeal to me, this idea that from August through October, every single year, you face the possibility that your home might be wiped out by a hurricane, is not one of them.
buzzsawmonkey
9/29/2022 8:46:57 AM
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Reply to Occasional Reader in 4:
Glad to hear it. My old college roommate, who has a place in Florida, was not there for the hurricane, but by all accounts his place came through unscathed.
I'm very glad that I did not have the hurricane experience during my three years in Florida. Law school was bad enough.
Reply to JCM in 9:Reply to lucius septimius in 10:
At least she got the peninsula right.
vxbush
9/29/2022 12:25:52 PM
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Reply to lucius septimius in 10:
Reply to Occasional Reader in 11:
Did either of you see the movie Dave, where Kevin Kline plays someone who is the double of the president and ends up actually playing the part of president after he has a stroke? He got more training to be president than either Biden or Harris, and it shows.
buzzsawmonkey
9/29/2022 12:47:08 PM
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In #12 vxbush said: Did either of you see the movie Dave, where Kevin Kline plays someone who is the double of the president and ends up actually playing the part of president after he has a stroke? He got more training to be president than either Biden or Harris, and it shows.
It's a film not dissimilar to "Gabriel Over the White House," a film starring Walter Huston as the president and Franchot Tone as his secretary. Huston portrays a real asshole president, who goes into a coma after a car crash where he's driving recklessly, and the Angel Gabriel takes over his comatose body. The "angelic" president does a number of things that Huston as president opposed---including forcing an international disarmament agreement, which was a big thing in the pre-Hitler '30s---and then collapses after signing the accord.
Interesting film.
buzzsawmonkey
9/29/2022 1:18:26 PM
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As long as I'm doing filmography, "Moon Over Parador" is another film in which a body-double substitutes for the actual head of state. It's been years since I've seen it, but I think it was Richard Dreyfus in the substitution role. Don't remember much about the film beyond that.
buzzsawmonkey
9/29/2022 1:27:16 PM
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I should, perhaps, mention that the whole idea of having someone substitute for the actual head of state goes back to the legend of an angel taking possession of King Robert of Sicily, and ruling in his stead. This possession/substitution, called "koepenicking," is referenced in the Saki short story "Ministers of Grace," which can doubtless be accessed online insofar as it is long in the public domain.
Occasional Reader
9/29/2022 2:27:28 PM
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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: but I think it was Richard Dreyfus
Yes it was.
He also starred in... MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS!!!!!
/old Swamp reference
Occasional Reader
9/29/2022 2:35:21 PM
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In #14 buzzsawmonkey said: "Moon Over Parador"
I like how Hollywood has long felt perfectly free to just make up Latin American countries for purposes of filmmaking (and/or authors of novels doing the same, which are made into movies).. The movie version of The House of The Spirits also comes to mind, which is declared at the beginning of the movie as taking place in "Las Pradas, South America", if memory serves; why didn't they just set it in Chile, which is the obvious basis for the story? Ditto Proof of Life, which takes place in not-Colombia.
With few exceptions (The Duchy of Grand Fenwick comes to mind), they don't do this with Europe, they don't just make up new countries.
In fact, national lines in Latin America have been very stable for the better part of two centuries. The only notable exception I can think of is the separation of Panama from Colombia, early in the 20th century.
buzzsawmonkey
9/29/2022 5:52:57 PM
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Just by the way...Joe Biden is compost mentis.
JCM
9/29/2022 5:53:42 PM
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Some of the managers on our project.
I have to say, I'm glad I jumped in early. I was project wise about the 135th employee. Most of the people in the video I worked with early on getting things set up. It is a great group.
Kosh's Shadow
9/29/2022 6:27:25 PM
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Been home for over 3 hours and finally slowing down.
Wife clicked on a link from an expert she uses, and it was a scam. Fortunately, it was just a password stealer for microsoft, and she doesn't know her password! (Her computers use a PIN)
She was upset at the trouble but it would have been much worse if she found her files encrypted,
Multiple scans of her computer found nothing (McAfee and Malwarebytes)
And have to be up no later than 6 AM tomorrow as she has to be in court.
JCM
9/24/2022 11:32:49 AM
Kosh's Shadow
9/29/2022 6:27:25 PM