Howard Beale

what is this power you speak of and the need for things to change? I always thought that everything was fine

I wonder what the summary would be, after feeding 300,000 pages into chatGPT

unfortunately they must be included in the political equation.
the only question is what percentage do we need to effectively neutralize the remainder.

mine stayed the same but my co-pays and coinsurance and some services covered changed.
like squeezing a balloon. and your 400% increase? is like a balloon payment

It's a covenant, unspoken and elemental."

They want their disputes settled, they want their treaties negotiated, their jobs dispensed, their mutinies punished, and they want their loyalties rewarded. To those who lead them to all they want, they give power.

He did it because he understood something basic about all people. They want to be led.

These were tribes, and they hated each other. They fought, maimed, killed, rioted against each other. Cermak weaved a thread through the lot of them, and pulled them in, forming the first truly dominant political force this country had ever seen.

North Side, Lincoln Square: the Germans. Northwest, Division and Ashland: the Polonia triangle, as well as the Czechs and the Jews. The West Side: Chinatown. South Side: the Blacks. All the rest and in between: the Irish.

there was a short lived TV series called boss. starring Kelsey grammar. season 1 episode 1 he has a speech on top of city hall with an underling, and it's always stuck by me. great writing.

but we can't deal with them as a monolithic block. that's 64% +/- x. can we know a little more detail on them?

governor pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov said today that if we can find a way to get a new white sox stadium built he would have the pope throw out the ceremonial first pitch. oh, and he brought beer, to the Pope. beer.
and an autographed roster of the world series White Sox team

unbeknownst to me,I've apparently signed up to be a humancentipad

now if I could just find a room for rent at a hospital my rates would be near zero

What's one of your favorite Blood, Sweat & Tears songs? 🎶
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just send out the whole document unredacted. let the chips fall where they may. what's that I hear? chips falling?

he's gone, it couldn't be helped

Interactive Maps — Folded Map Project

The folded maps project is an excellent source

the low ri-der don't use no gas now
the low ri-der don't drive too fast

not again

my old man had a worm farm
Sir Henry Winkler was in a movie about a Vietnam vet wanting to be a worm farmer
and of course there is Ralph chomski's epic tome, Six Feet Under

• Ivanka fashion tips!
• Melania's go-to holiday gifts at Needless Markups!
• Barrons call of duty game cheats!
has the New York Times become a high-gloss edition of the National Enquirer?

Bush at a doctrine, both one and two, Obama had a doctrine, what's Trump's doctrine?

Vite Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho for president

YouTube video by Pink Floyd - Topic San Tropez

what do they say? imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
anyway, here's Roger and the boys being every bit of Ray Davies

I know that in my lifetime, I will be controlled at some point, by a robot. Dr Epps AI Lab at DePaul in the '80s seems sooooo far away

I think that is old new
I believe I saw that first on a PBS series (maybe it was Frontline?)

three men in red robes are standing next to each other with the caption our three weapons Alt: three men in red robes are standing next to each other with the caption our three main weapons

Rulers in the early middle ages relied on fear and intimidation through public punishments and would have felt right at home in America

weave the facts into some stories senator, please
you just spoke with
in whose district
and here is their story
you spoke with
in your state
and here's their story

this is the guy with his snarky smile that I would like to smack upside the head

ol' boy Chuck had a thing to say

"Yet in one way or another all of us - readers and writers alike - are ultimately prisoners of the documents. And the chains are hard to see"
- C Tilly