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This Cooper Hawk was tapping out a message when I took its photo. It was unhappy with the background and wanted one of Lenabem-Anna J's textures added.
I obliged.
Texture courtesy of Lenabem- Anna J
The young reporter announces, “We have lift-off!”
Skippy envisioned his universe with the help of the following amazing creations:
Dirty Rat’s Wiretap Station!
Dirty Rat’s Heloise's Timekeeper!
Keep believing in yourself!
Keep blazing trails!
Keep shining bright, my friends!
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Desk/Equipment: Wiretap Station by Dirty Rat, available at the Dirty Rat MP Store. Modified to make room/work around the Somnicorp Office equipment.
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Decor:
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Board: Detective's Board by Dirty Rat, available at the Dirty Rat MP Store.
Coat hanger: Coathanger by Dirty Rat, available at the Dirty Rat MP Store.
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OOC of IC: The quiet night would be interrupted by dense gunshots echoing at the heart of the ruined settlment. Supposedly it was abandoned, and great loot was to be scavenged. The only thing they found was nothing but hordes of Ghouls...
Alexandra kept her cyclopian gaze into her targets, pulling the trigger wildly: "So any response on the S.O.S.?!" She barked with impatience. Charlotte, the less bellicose twin snaps from her sister's impertinence: "Maybe I would be able to listen into any...if you stop SHOOTING FOR ONE @!% MINUTE!"
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EFU squads are again in Swiss, after saved Mr. Sebastian Schmid, a very influential politician, they are looking for an infiltrator probably from the AKU partnership.
In the past, the Aku have already been stopped from their criminal intentions for control some areas in Swiss by EFU troopers and this time are ready to delete all the traces and all the infiltrators.
EFU Trooper: "We didn't find anyone on the top floor!"
EFU Incursor: "It has to be here, we have the wiretaps in hand, we mustn't let him get away!"
EFU Trooper: "Even downstairs there is no one and the black jeep is still parked there"
EFU Incursor: "I have a strange feeling, he must be hiding somewhere, we can't let him get away, keep your eyes open , he's a dangerous guy as far as we know and probably has with him some weapons, this time he will come with us... dead or alive, knows too much and has too much information and he's probably on the AKU partnership payroll"
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Believe it or not, some of the biggest (most notorious) deals of the city of Trenton were conducted inside this now abandoned fine dining establishment, back between about 2008 and 2015. FBI even had this joint under surveillance. If I'm not mistaken, the former mayor, his brother, and a few of their cronies went to prison behind wiretaps and whatnot that all emanated from Jo Jo's Steak House.
If you're into details (and randomness), and I'm a huge fan of both, you will appreciate: the soda machine (Did they not serve soda inside?), the loudspeaker on the front of the sign, their slogan, "No charge for X-tra GREASE", and the gaping holes at the bottom of the building which make for easy access for all manner of creatures.
The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Covering a total of 10 acres (4 ha) just north of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Watergate was built between 1963 and 1971.
The Watergate was considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, popular with members of Congress and political appointees of the executive branch. The complex has been sold several times since the 1980s. During the 1990s, it was subdivided and its component buildings and parts of buildings were sold to various owners.
In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, then located on the sixth floor of the Watergate Office Building, was burglarized; private campaign documents were photographed and telephones were wiretapped. The U.S. Senate investigation into the burglary revealed that high officials in the administration of President Richard Nixon had ordered the break-in and later tried to cover up their involvement. Additional crimes were also uncovered. The Watergate scandal, named after the complex, resulted in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.
The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with and applied by journalists to controversial topics and scandals in the United States and elsewhere, even extending to contexts where English is not a major language.
Source: Wikipedia
Thank you so much again to all my wonderful actors! and especially to Len for her voice & the magnificent attic that my love made for me ♥
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The Watergate complex is a group of six buildings in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. Covering a total of 10 acres (4 ha) just north of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Watergate was built between 1963 and 1971.
The Watergate was considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, popular with members of Congress and political appointees of the executive branch. The complex has been sold several times since the 1980s. During the 1990s, it was subdivided and its component buildings and parts of buildings were sold to various owners.
In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, then located on the sixth floor of the Watergate Office Building, was burglarized; private campaign documents were photographed and telephones were wiretapped. The U.S. Senate investigation into the burglary revealed that high officials in the administration of President Richard Nixon had ordered the break-in and later tried to cover up their involvement. Additional crimes were also uncovered. The Watergate scandal, named after the complex, resulted in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.
The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with and applied by journalists to controversial topics and scandals in the United States and elsewhere, even extending to contexts where English is not a major language.
Source: Wikipedia
acrylic on canvas, 2014, 70 x 100 cm
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian painter
www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...
www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.eu/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...
www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel...
www.eutrio.be/expo-west-meets-east
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The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung – a term borrowed from chemistry which literally means "corrosion" or "undermining".
By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.
Tactics employed under Zersetzung generally involved the disruption of the victim’s private or family life. This often included psychological attacks such as breaking into homes and messing with the contents – moving furniture, altering the timing of an alarm, removing pictures from walls or replacing one variety of tea with another. Other practices included property damage, sabotage of cars, purposely incorrect medical treatment, smear campaigns including sending falsified compromising photos or documents to the victim's family, denunciation, provocation, psychological warfare, psychological subversion, wiretapping, bugging, mysterious phone calls or unnecessary deliveries, even including sending a vibrator to a target's wife. Usually victims had no idea the Stasi were responsible. Many thought they were losing their minds, and mental breakdowns and suicide could result.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
We defeated the Soviets, meanwhile a Stasi culture engulfs Europe... (Jan Theuninck, August 14, 2009)
Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses
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the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
The club was frequented and used as the headquarters of the Gambino crime family in the late 1970s and 1980s. Around 1990, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was able to infiltrate the Mafia using secret electronic surveillance, because John Gotti used an apartment above the Ravenite Social Club; the FBI subsequently sent agents to install voice recorders and other wiretaps inside the apartment.
acrylic on canvas, 2012, 70 x 100 cm
Today Stasi agents use chemical (binary) weapons and energetical weapons(micro-waves) etc
e.g. nonconformity and freethinking now considered mental illness
anticonformismo e libero pensiero ormai considerati malattie mentali
The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung – a term borrowed from chemistry which literally means "corrosion" or "undermining".
By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.
Tactics employed under Zersetzung generally involved the disruption of the victim’s private or family life. This often included psychological attacks such as breaking into homes and messing with the contents – moving furniture, altering the timing of an alarm, removing pictures from walls or replacing one variety of tea with another. Other practices included property damage, sabotage of cars, purposely incorrect medical treatment, smear campaigns including sending falsified compromising photos or documents to the victim's family, denunciation, provocation, psychological warfare, psychological subversion, wiretapping, bugging, mysterious phone calls or unnecessary deliveries, even including sending a vibrator to a target's wife. Usually victims had no idea the Stasi were responsible. Many thought they were losing their minds, and mental breakdowns and suicide could result.
The progression of recent history clearly shows a dedicated effort to lead the world into unknowingly accepting communitarian solutions.
Communitarianism is the theory that individual rights must be balanced against the rights of the "community." Its many proponents insist that individual rights and liberties pose a real threat to the health and safety of the "community at large." The founders of the Communitarian Network began "shoring up the moral, social and political environment" in the early 1990s. Today the communitarian theory is the basis for hundreds of new global rules and regulations eliminating individual rights.
Wie viel „DDR“ steckt in der heutigen Bundesrepublik?
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Das hätte man im Grunde genommen auch auf einer Kaderschule im Osten lernen können, wie man eine stille Revolution durchzieht.
Viele haben es immer noch nicht gemerkt. Ich glaube, die meisten haben gemerkt, dass hier grundlegende Veränderungen durchgeführt worden sind. Aber es waren Veränderungen, die nicht gestern angefangen haben, sondern die haben einen Vorlauf von sicherlich dreißig Jahren oder zumindest 20 Jahren (Hans-Georg Maaßen)
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Jan Theuninck is a Belgian artist
www.boekgrrls.nl/BgDiversen/Onderwerpen/gedichten_over_sc...
www.forumeerstewereldoorlog.be/wiki/index.php/Yperite-Jan...
www.graphiste-webdesigner.fr/blog/2013/04/la-peinture-bel...
www.eutrio.be/expo-west-meets-east
www.e-architect.co.uk/architects/le-corbusier
zineshow.blogspot.com/2013/02/jan-theuninck-belgium.html
alexwitter-vrijheid.blogspot.com/2019/02/jan-theuninck.html
We defeated the Soviets, meanwhile a Stasi culture engulfs Europe... (Jan Theuninck, August 14, 2009)
Wir haben die Sowjets besiegt, inzwischen ein Stasi-Kultur verschlingt Europa ... (Zitat von Jan Theuninck, 14 August 2009)
Abbiamo sconfitto i sovietici, nel frattempo l'Europa è inondata da una cultura Stasi(Jan Theuninck, 14 Agosto 2009)
Nous avons vaincu les soviétiques, entre-temps une culture stasi envahit l'Europe (citation de Jan Theuninck, 14 août 2009)
Es ist schlimmer als eine kommunistische Diktatur in dem Sinne, dass die Menschen hinter dem eisernen Vorhang davon wussten
C'est pire qu'une dictature communiste dans le sens où les gens derrière le rideau de fer le savaient
È peggio di una dittatura comunista, nel senso che le persone dietro la cortina di ferro lo sapevano
Itchy finger
Trigger happy
Try to trap me
Bad rap
Wiretap me
Backstab me
Break the faith
Fall from grace
Tell me lies
Time flies
Close your eyes
Come with me
-Puff Daddy
*No, this isn't Godzilla..haha. though these lines were taken from the soundtrack. :p
25 de Abril - 50 Anos - Pelo Fim Da Repressão E Da Tortura
April 25th - 50 Years - For the End of Repression and Torture
by Daniel Arrhakis / Karl Rudhyn (2025)
The Exhibition of 2025 with the Title "Flying Over a Seagull's Nest - April 25th / 50 Years" in Vera Cruz - Portel - Portugal, reflects a set of works in Digital Arts, carried out by the visual artist Daniel Arrhakis during 2024 in which the 50th anniversary of the Revolution of April 25th, 1974 was commemorated.
A Exposição de 2025 com o Título "Voando Sobre Um Ninho De Gaivotas - 25 de Abril / 50 Anos" em Vera Cruz- Portel - Portugal, reflete um conjunto de trabalhos em Artes Digitais, realizado pelo artista visual Daniel Arrhakis durante 2024 em que se comemoraram os 50 anos da Revolução do 25 de Abril de 1974.
Link:
Exposição “Voando Sobre Um Ninho de Gaivotas 25 de Abril - 50 anos” - Viral Agenda www.viralagenda.com/pt/events/1600002/exposicao-voando-so...
25 de Abril - 50 Anos - Pelo Fim Da Repressão E Da Tortura
Recorrer à força para calar opositores, resistentes e conspiradores era prática comum na ditadura de Salazar. Para manter a ordem pública, a polícia perseguia, prendia (muitas vezes sem julgamento), espancava, torturava e em alguns casos matava. Cerca de 30 mil homens e mulheres passaram pela antiga cadeia do Aljube, Lisboa. durante o Estado Novo.
A tortura começava por ser psicológica nestes espaços asfixiantes (gavetas ou curros, como ficaram conhecidos), onde permaneciam dias, semanas ou meses seguidos em total isolamento, sem poder ler, escrever, comunicar com outros presos ou receber visitas. Sujeitos periodicamente a interrogatórios brutais. Outras práticas como a “estátua” (manter o preso em pé, na mesma posição durante horas ou dias seguidos), a privação do sono (estar constantemente a ser acordado), e sobretudo, muita pancada, eram recorrentes nas continuadas sessões de tortura.
Entre 1928 e 1965, ano em que estas celas foram desativadas, o Aljube fez parte do “roteiro de terror” que incluía os fortes de Caxias e Peniche e os campos de concentração das antigas colónias como o Tarrafal.
Ao serviço do regime, a polícia política prendia antifascistas, comunistas, homossexuais, todos de quem suspeitava e os que se opunham a Salazar. A PVDE, mais tarde PIDE, depois DGS, soube montar uma enorme rede de escutas e de informadores, muitos deles voluntários que registavam o
que viam e ouviam e denunciavam.
Entre as medidas imediatas da revolução, conta-se a extinção da polícia política (PIDE/DGS) e no dia seguinte, a 26 de abril de 1974, são libertados presos políticos da Prisão de Caxias e de Peniche.
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April 25th - 50 Years - For the End of Repression and Torture
Using force to silence opponents, resistance fighters and conspirators was common practice during Salazar's dictatorship. To maintain public order, the police persecuted, arrested (often without trial), beat, tortured and in some cases killed. Around 30 thousand men and women passed through the old Aljube prison, Lisbon. during the Estado Novo.
The torture began as psychological torture in these suffocating spaces (gavetas ou curros, as they became known), where they spent days, weeks or months in total isolation, unable to read, write, communicate with other prisoners or receive visits. Periodically subjected to brutal interrogations. Other practices such as the “statue” (keeping the prisoner standing in the same position for hours or days on end), sleep deprivation (being constantly woken up), and above all, a lot of beatings, were recurrent in the ongoing torture sessions.
Between 1928 and 1965, the year in which these cells were deactivated, Aljube was part of the “terror route” that included the forts of Caxias and Peniche and the concentration camps of the former colonies such as Tarrafal.
In the service of the regime, the political police arrested anti-fascists, communists, homosexuals, anyone they suspected and those who opposed Salazar. The PVDE, then PIDE, then DGS, knew how to set up an enormous network of wiretaps and informants, many of them volunteers who recorded what they saw and heard and reported it.
Among the immediate measures of the revolution was the extinction of the political police (PIDE/DGS) and the following day, on April 26 of 1974, political prisoners were released from Caxias and Peniche Prisons.
Notas / Notes :
PVDE (Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado) 1933 - 1945
PIDE (Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado) 1945 - 1969
DGS (Direção-Geral de Segurança) 1969 - 1974
Can't remember whether this was shot with a Canon EOS 1n or an EOS 3. Definitely shot with the trusty Tamron 19-35mm f/3.5-4.5. No idea what film is in the camera.
In addition to loving that plastic sign, this hole in the wall dump (and I write that VERY lovingly), was, for a time around 2008 to 2014ish the epicenter of many a nefarious city government deal. The mayor, the mayor's brother, the owner of this fine establishment, and another person or two went to some (country club) prison behind FBI wiretaps and/or surveillance of this very place.
Enough about that, if you zoom in, you will see that, peeking out from the sign on the building, this was one of the few places in America, if not the world, where you could get a cheesesteak AND get your taxes done.
A rally I participated in today supporting the ACA (Obamacare). I was so embarrassed as I watched news reports of Trump meeting with the German Chancellor. That's not to mention the nonsense he has spouted about the British and wiretapping. I hope our European friends won't give up on us as we correct this error.
Jessie sez:
"Oh, aren't the Poleeces just wonderful! I wonder where we'd be without them. All this Defund The Poleeces is just nonsense! I FINKS I must be a Nationalist-Populist Cat or sumpfin'?
The Commissioner of Poleeces, one Dr Sirius Black von Wurzbachtal (a British Shorthair breed of cat) has just got back to me. He's found mi' BYOOTIFUL Rolls Royce! Isn't he just WONDERFUL?
Here's what happened. One of his loyal Poleeces Ossifer-Cats was just doing his normal patrol stuffs, when he noticed a VERY important-looking Rolls Royce coming towards him. Thinking that it was H.M. The Queen, he saluted it of course! (People often get confused and think it's me when they see her driving past!) It then occurred to him, that there didn't appear to be anyone behind the wheel driving it, so he decided to investigate further.
On looking underneath the vehicle, he then understood what was going on. There they all were - all 2584 members of the Fibonacci Meeces Family carrying that heavy vehicle slowly along the road obviously hoping that no-one would notice!
He then strongly suspected that a re-allocation and re-location transfer update (a.k.a barefaced theft) - was in progress! After making a quick call for reinforcements, a huge Poleeces van turned up, into which all of the little culprits were bundled and put under arrest, with two big Poleecemens each lifting up a squeeking little mousie by its little pink left and right paws respectively and thus dragging him/her into the van screaming "Democracy is Dead! and Fascist Pigs!"
They were all then immediately whisked off to the nearest cop-shop and charged with Wiretap Fraud and Grand Larceny! What a terrific source of income for the Poleeces!
Watch this space for further updates on this EGREGIOUS scam!"
Telefon und Abhörtechnik
Now I know what you spoke last night on your phone...! :-)
Jetzt weiss ich was ihr gestern so geplaudert habt am Telefon...! :-)
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A rally I participated in today supporting the ACA (Obamacare). I was so embarrassed as I watched news reports of Trump meeting with the German Chancellor. That's not to mention the nonsense he has spouted about the British and wiretapping. I hope our European friends won't give up on us as we correct this error.
I should add that this photo was taken at my request by a fellow photographer who was in attendance. My thanks to that photographer who's name I did not catch.
A rally I participated in today supporting the ACA (Obamacare). I was so embarrassed as I watched news reports of Trump meeting with the German Chancellor. That's not to mention the nonsense he has spouted about the British and wiretapping. I hope our European friends won't give up on us as we correct this error.
2007-DEC-12; "I had to laugh at Ellis' letter [in the last] paper. If any party is tainted, it is the Republicans, who are supporting torture and wiretapping and, in my great state, have thrown away pollution controls and taken medical care away from needy children. Like everyone else who is disgusted at how much damage the Republicans have brought to our nation and Texas, I'm voting for Democratic Party candidates like Dan Barrett who will bring "the people" back to our government." - Mark Bauer, Colleyville, TX
1966 First Day of Issue 175th Anniversary of Bill of Rights Miami Beach, FL (Art Craft)
"Art Craft" was a company that produced US first day covers, a type of philatelic cover, featuring hand-drawn artwork called cachets. The covers were created for philatelists (stamp collectors) and often featured specific stamps, such as those from the 1960s and 1970s.
U.S. (#1312) - 5¢ Bill of Rights
Issue Date: July 1, 1966
City: Miami Beach, FL
Quantity: 114,160,000
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Giori press
Perforations: 11
Color: Carmine, dark blue, light blue
Commemorates the 175th anniversary of the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments to the constitution) that established freedom of religion and speech, freedom of the press, the right to a jury trial and other safeguards to human rights.
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1976 US Stamp First Day of Issue (#1700) 13c Adolph S Ochs publisher - New York, NY.
U.S. (#1700) - 1976 13¢ Adolph S. Ochs
Issue Date: September 18, 1976
City: New York, NY
Quantity: 158,332,800
Printed By: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Giori press
Perforations: 11
Color: Black and gray
Birth Of Adolph Ochs
Newspaper publisher Adolph Simon Ochs was born on March 12, 1858, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ochs was born into a Jewish family that had immigrated to America from Germany in 1846. His father taught in schools in the South during the Civil War, though he supported the Union. After the Civil War, Ochs' family moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where he attended school and delivered newspapers. He began working at the Knoxville Chronicle as an office boy when he was 11. His boss there, William Rule, would become a significant influence and mentor. In the coming years Ochs attended night school, worked as a grocery clerk and druggist's apprentice. He then returned to the newspaper to work as a printer's devil, performing various duties. When he was 19, Ochs borrowed $250 from his family to buy the failing Chattanooga Times. He made a profit in his first year as a publisher. The following year Ochs created The Tradesman commercial newspaper and later helped found the Southern Associated press. Then in 1896, Ochs learned that The New York Times was suffering and could be bought for a very low price. So he borrowed money to purchase it, established the New York Times Company and became the paper's majority stockholder. With the Times, Ochs set out to conduct a high standard newspaper, clean, dignified and trustworthy. Subscribers appreciated knowing the latest news without the sensationalism of other papers. Ochs also lowered the price from 3¢ an issue to 1¢. These efforts helped to save the paper that was nearly shut down. Readership increased tremendously from 9,000 when he bought it to 780,000 in the 1920s. Ochs also coined the motto, All the News That's Fit to Print, which remains on the paper today. Ochs eventually moved the paper to the Times Square and was noted for his frequent opposition to William Jennings Bryan's presidential campaign. Under Ochs' leadership the New York Times became one of the most respected and influential papers in the United States. Ochs also introduced different weekly and monthly supplements including The New York Times Book Review and Magazine, The Annalist (financial review), The Times Mid-Week Pictorial, Current History Magazine, and The New York Times Index. Ochs died while visiting Chattanooga on April 8, 1935.
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1. Neil Simon - Marvin Neil Simon (July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006. Simon grew up in New York City during the Great Depression. His parents' financial difficulties affected their marriage, giving him a mostly unhappy and unstable childhood. He often took refuge in movie theaters, where he enjoyed watching early comedians like Charlie Chaplin. After graduating from high school and serving a few years in the Army Air Force Reserve, he began writing comedy scripts for radio programs and popular early television shows. Among the latter were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows (where in 1950 he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart and Selma Diamond), and The Phil Silvers Show, which ran from 1955 to 1959. His first produced play was Come Blow Your Horn (1961). It took him three years to complete and ran for 678 performances on Broadway. It was followed by two more successes, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and The Odd Couple (1965). He won a Tony Award for the latter. It made him a national celebrity and "the hottest new playwright on Broadway". From the 1960s to the 1980s, he wrote for stage and screen; some of his screenplays were based on his own works for the stage. His style ranged from farce to romantic comedy to more serious dramatic comedy. Overall, he garnered 17 Tony nominations and won three awards. In 1966, he had four successful productions running on Broadway at the same time and, in 1983, he became the only living playwright to have a New York theatre, the Neil Simon Theatre, named in his honor. LINK to his photo - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Simon#/media/File:Neil_Simon_-...
2. Victor Lasky - Victor Lasky (7 January 1918 – 22 February 1990) was a conservative columnist in the United States who wrote several best-selling books. He was syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance. On January 7, 1918, Victor Lasky was born in Liberty, New York. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940. Career - In 1942, Lasky joined the U.S. Army and served during World War II; during that time, he did correspondence work for the army's newspaper Stars and Stripes. After World War Two, Lasky joined the staff of the New York World-Telegram; while there, he assisted Frederick Woltman in writing a series of articles on Communist Party infiltration within the US, for which Woltman won a Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1947. Lasky first came to prominence with his 1950 book Seeds of Treason, co-authored with Ralph de Toledano, in which the authors argued against Alger Hiss and in favor of Whittaker Chambers, with regard to Chambers' accusations both he and Hiss had been spies for the Soviet Union. He was one of the first journalists to write a critical view of President John F. Kennedy. He expanded on this in his 1963 book JFK: The Man And The Myth, questioning Kennedy's wartime heroics on PT-109 and claimed he had a lackluster record as a congressman and senator. Lasky also wrote a similar negative book about Robert F. Kennedy. Lasky's most controversial book was It Didn't Start With Watergate published in 1977. The author argued that the scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office was little more than a media event. He believed that the press disliked Nixon and subjected him to unfair scrutiny no other president had ever experienced. Lasky also claimed that Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson had used wiretaps on political opponents. Lasky professed the greatest political "crime of the century" was not the Watergate scandal, but what he describes as the "theft" of the 1960 Presidential election. In 1979, Lasky wrote another controversial work called Jimmy Carter: The Man And The Myth, asserting that Carter was one of the most inept presidents of all time. Lasky's last work was Never Complain, Never Explain (1981), a biography of Henry Ford II.
3. Art Buchwald - Arthur Buchwald (October 20, 1925 – January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his column in The Washington Post. At the height of his popularity, it was published nationwide as a syndicated column in more than 500 newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. Buchwald had first started writing as a paid journalist in Paris after World War II, where he wrote a column on restaurants and nightclubs, "Paris After Dark", for the Paris Herald Tribune, which later became the International Herald Tribune. He was part of a large American expatriate community in those years. After his return to the United States in 1962, he continued to publish his columns and books for the rest of his life. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for Outstanding Commentary, and in 1991 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, in addition to other awards. LINK to his photo - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Buchwald#/media/File:Art_Buchwa...
4. Arthur Herzog III (April 6, 1927 – May 26, 2010) was an American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist, well known for his works of science fiction and true crime books. He was the son of songwriter Arthur Herzog Jr. He was married to Leslie Mandel and they did not have any children. He wrote the 1977 novel Orca, which was adapted into the 1977 film of the same title, and his 1974 novel The Swarm was also adapted into a film in 1978. Herzog was also the author of non-fiction books: The Church Trap is a critique of Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish church organization and institutions particularly in the US; 17 Days: The Katie Beers Story is about the kidnapping and child sexual abuse of Katie Beers.
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A rally I participated in today supporting the ACA (Obamacare). I was so embarrassed as I watched news reports of Trump meeting with the German Chancellor. That's not to mention the nonsense he has spouted about the British and wiretapping. I hope our European friends won't give up on us as we correct this error.
I paesi di Castelvecchio Calvisio e Carapelle Calvisio colpiti dal sisma del 6 Aprile 2009 visti dalle rovine della Rocca di Calascio.
Un altro sisma ci colpira' a breve: Wikipedia italiana (e non solo) rischiera' di non poter piu' essere in grado di fornire il proprio servizio di enciclopedia libera e aperta a tutti a causa del comma 29 del DDL Intercettazioni.
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The villages of Castelvecchio Calvisio and Carapelle Calvisio hit by the L'Aquila earthquake as seen from the ruins of the Rocca Calascio village.
A new earthquale may strike the Italian version of wikipedia ( here is the english translation of the wikipedia protest announcement ) and all internet websites (including newspaper websites) in Italy because of a paragraph in the Bill regarding the rules on wiretapping (strongly wanted by Berlusconi).
"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."
Question: How do you well respond, when your friend calls and says, "I will kill my wife's boyfriend, if I find out who he is"?
Problem: How do you explain to another that such death will lead to his sure loss of his wife and most likely his own imprisonment, where he will not enjoy his children's growing up years.
Answer: Do you counsel him to
be forgiving?
take anger management classes?
get a divorce?
seek marriage counseling?
buy a gun (join into his conspiracy do you want to--NOT ME on that one)?
wiretap his wife (probably illegal in U.S.A--REALLY bad advice on that one.)?
woo back his only wife to be his own lover?
think, calm down, be patient, pray, and seek advice from and discern with GOD?
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Follow upon this a.m. sicko query, after studying received suggestions for which all are grateful.
A criminal law defense attorney told me to suggest notify local police who often have a cyberspace law enforcement unit protecting our children by trolling for perverts with illegal intentions.
An experienced Flickrite emailed me to say: “I keep warning people to mark pictures of their kids and grandkids so that they are seen by family and friends only. I see so many 'public' images of kids. People can do really silly things at times. Having said this, the chances are low that the pervert wants anything more than pictures.”
My inexperienced thoughts follow: After much thought, it seems that the entire account should go PRIVATE for at least 30 days with access to no one. All “mapped” fotos (Flickr permits under tags to add more information, includding "place this foto on a map") need to be deleted and re-uploaded later with the mapping included. Each of the sicko’s favorites needs to be deleted and uploaded later. The concerned MOM needs for sure both a new icon and “name” we see in here account and profile so sicko cannot find her in the future, when MOM reopens all her pictures to the public. MOM has to make a choice to keep her stream identifiable only by a “region” of the country or a large metropolitan area (City of Houston, Texas with its two million residents) or by geographic area like South Texas which covers over 2 millions people spread over a square with each side being about 200 miles long. Specific home town for MOM in a small City need not be know to any one on www except family and very close friends. MY TWO CENTS. Lets all pray for this MOM and those like her, that the stress recede and SICKO’s be found and prosecuted by law enforcement from any crimes committed or possessing child porno which is incarcerating teachers, lawyers, other professionals, as well as blue collared individuals.. BIG BROTHER is trying to protect to a degree.
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below from www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/alexander_pope.html
are a few quotes from Alexander Pope, English Poet
Date of Birth: May 21, 1688
Date of Death: May 30, 1744
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
The most positive men are the most credulous.
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Woman's at best a contradiction still.
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Built between 1963 and 1971, the Watergate was considered one of Washington's most desirable living spaces, popular with members of Congress and political appointees of the executive branch. The complex has been sold several times since the 1980s. During the 1990s, it was subdivided and its component buildings and parts of buildings were sold to various owners.
In 1972, the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, then located on the sixth floor of the Watergate Office Building, was burglarized; private campaign documents were photographed and telephones were wiretapped. The U.S. Senate investigation into the burglary revealed that high officials in the administration of President Richard Nixon had ordered the break-in and later tried to cover up their involvement. Additional crimes were also uncovered. The Watergate scandal, named after the complex, resulted in Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.\
The name "Watergate" and the suffix "-gate" have since become synonymous with and applied by journalists to controversial topics and scandals in the United States and elsewhere, even extending to contexts where English is not a major language.