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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!
Pose: RBento - Leaning v2 Bento static poses
Hairbase: EGX - Hugo Hairbase @ ManCave
[Skin Arcana] - Gaspard - (HUMAN TONE) @ Midnight Order
Outfit: Finer Threads - FT-JULIAN JACKET @ Equal10
Furniture & Decor: Dirty Rat - Wiretap Station @ Midnight Order
Sponsored:
Computer: Somnicorp Office Equipment by Somnium, available at the New Somnium Mainstore.
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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Hair : [Ginko Hair] #179 Hair. At Midnight Order.
Dress and jacked : S&P Emmeline jacket. At WLRP.
Glasses : Random Matter - Everild Pince Nez Glasses
Phone and pose : Insomnia Angel . Retro phone.
Skin : [utopia] ivy / blush / brows / evo X. At Midnight Order.
Lipstick : Sintiklia - Darkness lipstick(Lelutka Evo X). At Midnight Order.
Decor :
Dirty Rat - Chesterfield Armchair
Dirty Rat - Coat Hanger
Dirty Rat - Detective Board
Dirty Rat - Wiretap Station. At Midnight Order.
Dirty Rat Library
[+Oblivis+] Wooden Showcase Walnut. At Midnight Order.
Decor:
Desk/Equipment: Wiretap Station by Dirty Rat, available at this round of Midnight Order, and afterwards at the Dirty Rat MP Store.
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!"
Featuring: Dirty Rat - Wiretap Station @ Midnight Order
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 ♥
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - Wiretap Station @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - Chesterfield Armchair @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - BreezeMaker @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - Detective Board @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - Coat Hanger @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - Large Telescope @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - Wardrobe Bed @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat - File Cabinet @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |Dirty Rat Art Deco Radio @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ | TC Attic Old Back Drop @ Marketplace
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- ̗̀ʚ |B-Made TalkBox @ Mainstore
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- ̗̀ʚ |﹣ʜɪsᴀ﹣Autumn Leaves @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |﹣ʜɪsᴀ﹣Autumn Shrubs @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |﹣ʜɪsᴀ﹣Beech Trees @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |﹣ʜɪsᴀ﹣Greyside Mansion @ Mainstore
- ̗̀ʚ |﹣ʜɪsᴀ﹣Floral Bouquet - Vines @ Mainstore
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Decor by KL Production
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!"
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
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
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.
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).
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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.
"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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The Mindset List for the Class of 2017
For this generation of entering college students, born in 1995, Dean Martin, Mickey Mantle, and Jerry Garcia have always been dead.
1. Eminem and LL Cool J could show up at parents’ weekend.
2. They are the sharing generation, having shown tendencies to share everything, including possessions, no matter how personal.
3. GM means food that is Genetically Modified.
4. As they started to crawl, so did the news across the bottom of the television screen.
5. “Dude” has never had a negative tone.
6. As their parents held them as infants, they may have wondered whether it was the baby or Windows 95 that had them more excited.
7. As kids they may well have seen Chicken Run but probably never got chicken pox.
8. Having a chat has seldom involved talking.
9. Gaga has never been baby talk.
10. They could always get rid of their outdated toys on eBay.
11. They have known only two presidents.
12. Their TV screens keep getting smaller as their parents’ screens grow ever larger.
13. PayPal has replaced a pen pal as a best friend on line.
14. Rites of passage have more to do with having their own cell phone and Skype accounts than with getting a driver’s license and car.
15. The U.S. has always been trying to figure out which side to back in Middle East conflicts.
16. A tablet is no longer something you take in the morning.
17. Threatening to shut down the government during Federal budget negotiations has always been an anticipated tactic.
18. Growing up with the family dog, one of them has worn an electronic collar, while the other has toted an electronic lifeline.
19. Plasma has never been just a bodily fluid.
20. The Pentagon and Congress have always been shocked, absolutely shocked, by reports of sexual harassment and assault in the military.
21. Spray paint has never been legally sold in Chicago.
22. Captain Janeway has always taken the USS Voyager where no woman or man has ever gone before.
23. While they've grown up with a World Trade Organization, they have never known an Interstate Commerce Commission.
24. Courts have always been ordering computer network wiretaps.
25. Planes have never landed at Stapleton Airport in Denver.
26. Jurassic Park has always had rides and snack bars, not free-range triceratops and velociraptors.
27. Thanks to Megan's Law and Amber Alerts, parents have always had community support in keeping children safe.
28. With GPS, they have never needed directions to get someplace, just an address.
29. Java has never been just a cup of coffee.
30. Americans and Russians have always cooperated better in orbit than on earth.
31. Olympic fever has always erupted every two years.
32. Their parents have always bemoaned the passing of precocious little Calvin and sarcastic stuffy Hobbes.
33. In their first 18 years, they have watched the rise and fall of Tiger Woods and Alex Rodriquez.
34. Yahoo has always been looking over its shoulder for the rise of "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
35. Congress has always been burdened by the requirement that they comply with the anti-discrimination and safety laws they passed for everybody else to follow.
36. The U.S. has always imposed economic sanctions against Iran.
37. The Celestine Prophecy has always been bringing forth a new age of spiritual insights.
38. Smokers in California have always been searching for their special areas, which have been harder to find each year.
39. They aren’t surprised to learn that the position of Top Spook at the CIA is an equal opportunity post.
40. They have never attended a concert in a smoke-filled arena.
41. As they slept safely in their cribs, the Oklahoma City bomber and the Unabomber were doing their deadly work.
42. There has never been a national maximum speed on U.S. highways.
43. Don Shula has always been a fine steak house.
44. Their favorite feature films have always been largely, if not totally, computer generated.
45. They have never really needed to go to their friend’s house so they could study together.
46. They have never seen the Bruins at Boston Garden, the Trailblazers at Memorial Coliseum, the Supersonics in Key Arena, or the Canucks at the Pacific Coliseum.
47. Dayton, Ohio, has always been critical to international peace accords.
48. Kevin Bacon has always maintained six degrees of separation in the cinematic universe.
49. They may have been introduced to video games with a new Sony PlayStation left in their cribs by their moms.
50. A Wiki has always been a cooperative web application rather than a shuttle bus in Hawaii.
51. The Canadian Football League Stallions have always sung Alouette in Montreal after bidding adieu to Baltimore.
52. They have always been able to plug into USB ports
53. Olestra has always had consumers worried about side effects.
54. Washington, D.C., tour buses have never been able to drive in front of the White House.
55. Being selected by Oprah’s Book Club has always read “success.”
56. There has never been a Barings Bank in England.
57. Their parents’ car CD player is soooooo ancient and embarrassing.
58. New York’s Times Square has always had a splash of the Magic Kingdom in it.
59. Bill Maher has always been politically incorrect.
60. They have always known that there are “five hundred, twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes" in a year.
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Text: Copyright Matthew Christopher from his book: Abandoned America, the Age of Consequences.
The Old Essex County Prison in Newark, NJ, was originally built in 1837 and closed in 1970 when a new jail was completed. As the oldest surviving government building in the county and one of architect John Haviland's finer works (he also designed Harrisburg State Hospital and Eastern State Penitentiary), the jail was added in 1991 to the historic register but by this point demolition by neglect has ruined much of the building.
The prison was constructed for $30,000 when a fire destroyed the county courthouse and the design incorporated garden paths, a greenhouse, and courtyards for well behaved inmates. Another feature of the grounds was the gallows in the yard used for hanging murderers. The main building was a square, two story structure with a cell block wing extending from it, but in 1890, 1895, 1904, and 1909 the prison was expanded. These expansion brought running water and toilets to the 300 cells now in the building.
After the prison was closed in 1970 the Essex County Narcotics Bureau moved in and used the building until a bitter dispute about the bureau's location arose between the sheriff and the county executive. A judge ordered the evacuation of the building due to deteriorating structural conditions, and during the move hundreds of confidential documents were left behind from the DEA's stay, including evidence, wiretapping transcripts, and case files. A Times article on the ensuing controversy reported that at one point the items left in the jail even included confiscated gambling machines, although no trace of them can be found today and several attempts were made by law enforcement officials to reclaim and destroy the records. Shortly after its closure, scenes for the Spike Lee film 'Malcolm X' were filmed there.
In a somewhat sardonic twist, after it was abandoned the Essex County Prison became a haven for homeless drug addicts, many of whom currently still live in the filthy cells. Garbage and drug paraphernalia litter the cell blocks, and at least two corpses of overdosed drug users have been recovered from the building. Massive floor collapses, caved in skylights and ceilings, and three story window frames that have fallen onto the cell blocks are evidence that despite the sturdy architecture, the building is in dire shape. A fire in 2001 also contributed to the ruinous state of the site. While plans to demolish the prison to build a 50 acre science and technology park were vetoed in 2010 because of the prison's historic status, there is no real effort being made to protect the building from the elements, looters, vandals, people illegally dumping trash, or any of the other ravages that are clearly taking such a severe toll on it. There has been some talk of gutting the interior and turning it into a small power generating station, but currently the old Essex County Prison continues its decay unabated, populated by heroin and crack addicts sleeping in the rusty cells.
There’s a refrain that’s become common when watching this trainwreck of a Presidency unravel before our eyes: “This is just a distraction, we should be paying attention to this OTHER thing.” Now sure, there can be manipulations, intentional and otherwise. But I believe that ALL of it is important. The “distractions” aren’t distractions if they still reveal something. If 45 sends a delusional and paranoid tweet at 3am, It’s not a distraction; it’s paranoid and delusional. So one person may find a new muslim ban as a distraction from his deteriorating mental state, while another will view rage-filled early-morning tweets as a distraction away from the muslim ban. Both antics are valid, and I think equally so.
So for your own health, physical mental and emotional, I would recommend this: Just focus on the bits you need to. Let the rest of it go. If something is a distraction for YOU, wave it off. But let someone else focus on it if they want to. Let someone have Jeff Sessions lying under oath, let someone else have no-evidence accusations that a previous President illegally ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower. Let others have the 3 million fraudulent votes that lost Trump the popular vote, and still others have the Russian connections, the hookers and watersports in Moscow hotel rooms, the deportation of DREAMers with no criminal records back to countries they were taken from as children, the revoking of Visas from men and women who risked their lives helping our military in warzones, the casual racism, the casual sexism, the hiring of billionaires to run agencies they’ve spent their lives trying to destroy, the disturbing business ties to foreign governments, the tax returns, the hundreds of instances of conflicts of interest, the ineptness of his staff, the in-fighting and leaks within his administration, the cold body language between Donald and Melania, the warm body language between Donald and Ivanka, the gutting of influence and authority of the State Department, and placing it into the hands of Trump’s son-in-law, the shadow foreign affairs “task-force” inside the West Wing run by arch-racist nationalists Bannon Miller and Gorka, the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act and the attempt to get it passed before the Budget Office can reveal that it will take healthcare away from millions of people and diminish the quality of care for many millions more, killing the Clean Water Act, Trump Hotel business deals with wildly corrupt foreign government officials, including bribes and money laundering, removing obstacles for the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines, the distractions, planning a “religious liberty” order that will give any government employee the right to refuse service for anything if it goes against their religion (ie you can’t get married because it make me feel icky), the 4th grade reading level of POTUS, the temper, the ten second attention span, the dozens of claims of sexual assault still out there, the filtering of all intelligence reports through Steve Bannon before Trump sees them, the requirement that Trump needs his intelligence briefings to be only one page, bullet pointed, with lots of graphs and pictures, the undermining of a free press, elevating fringe elements like Breitbart and InfoWars with direct access to the President, the utter inability to tell the truth, about anything, even if it’s about something easily fact-checked, the diminishing of the importance of facts, obsessing about the crowd size at his inauguration (see “inability to tell the truth” above), the gutting of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department and ending all investigations into police misconduct, using nonexistent voter “fraud”, offered with no evidence, as a way to push restrictive voter ID laws that disenfranchise poor, young and minority voters (ie Democrats), and of course, the growing crowd of Trump campaign staffers and supporters who were directly communicating with Russian operatives during the campaign.
And that is all literally just the stuff off the top of my head. It’s a lot. It’s an enormous amount. Trying to focus on all of it will age a person well before their time. So just work on your piece of the puzzle, and let others work on theirs. It’s not a distraction. It’s the 45th Presidency. Pace yourselves.