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    Old gas stations

    It's surprising they were allowed to be built, given that they might have been thought of as "out of place."
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    Democracy

    Access to transportation has always enabled people to move more easily if they wanted to. Better communication only adds to it. This is in addition to general trends in populations, which is this country, is mostly all about moving west. Even then, people, especially men, were moving around in...
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    Old gas stations

    The photo of the two men in white at the Standard Stations remind us that cars did in fact come in colors other than black.
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    Do Men Hate Women's Hats?

    Here's my idea of a beautiful woman in a hat: She's a German entertainer but she looks so Southern to me in her appearance, in spite of her dirndl. She's Bavarian, which at least is Southern German. The man's hat looks pretty good, too. I always have to explain that I grew up listening to...
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    Democracy

    Seems to me that it's more about society than government and politics. Didn't start out that way, though. These things most recently discussed, like companies moving around, happens without any government involvement. At least in theory. It is true that local and state governments sometimes do...
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    Democracy

    There are serious questions about exactly how much risk some of those entrepreneurs are actually taking. Not the little guys, but the big, big guys. There are government loans and bailouts. It gets complicated, of course, because there are so many people involved. There is another point I'd...
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    Tiki Culture

    Skip the painting on velvet. There is, or was, a restaurant chain called the Rain Forest Café. It wasn't exactly a Tiki theme, if memory serves (the one around here closed years ago) but it had sound effects like thunder and lightning and rainfall, tropical fish in tanks, elephant trumpeting...
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    Democracy

    Yeah, that's pretty much been my own experience, too, no matter how chummy they try to be.
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    Democracy

    I believe there needs to be better cooperation between the government (any and all government), unions and potential employers. But we've never had anything like that before, so it isn't likely we'll have it anytime soon. Perhaps part of the problem is that it's a big country and employers are...
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    Democracy

    That's part of what I had in mind but I also agree with the idea that part of the licensing concept is to protect those in a particular field. Mind you, this isn't new. It goes back to medieval craftsmen's guilds. It isn't evil. Likewise, unions aren't evil either. They exist for a purpose...
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    Democracy

    I expect that some of your comments about occupational licenses, unfair though they may be, originated the way you say they did. Others, however, are a little different. I'm referring here to the growing professionalization of many jobs or job titles. Once upon a time you didn't need a college...
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    Democracy

    Don't you think it might make sense for the government to have policies that favor people over machines? Or are we actually thinking in terms of a "surplus population?" Or worse, describing some as people whose lives are not worth living? Or people who should not be allowed to reproduce, like...
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    Democracy

    There was an interesting article published in the local paper the other day written by a novelist. The point of the article was that, essentially, nobody really understands much of anything about any of the lower, working classes. The working class people are mostly invisible, although to some...
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    Deco Deliveries

    Were things like this produced in any real numbers or were they more of a one-off sort of thing? Outside of special vehicles made for movies, like the Batmobile, the only think I can think of that is the least bit similar is the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile, not counting custom hotrods.
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    Tiki Culture

    My imagination runs wild sometimes. Anyway, I didn't say anything about kidnapping anyone. You watch too many movies. Or maybe just not the ones I watch.
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    Tiki Culture

    A Polynesian lady to add authenticity. Any Asian lady will do in a pinch, however. I have numerous images floating around in my head of a room with woven palm leaf wall covering, a ceiling fan in the fancier places (but I don't care for ceiling fans because I'm tall), shady customers wearing...
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    Democracy

    As it happens, my (almost) former boss, who semi-retired a couple of months ago, is married to someone from Wyoming, who still owns a ranch there. He, however, grew up in what was Northern Rhodesia. I think they met in Vienna.
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    Democracy

    That's democracy? Well, I don't know. They used to call something like that a "laff riot." Maybe even "zany."
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    Democracy

    I would say you have a mistaken impression. Ironically, the Western states were historically more liberal in some ways and the first state to give women the right to vote was Wyoming, in 1890. All of the states that gave women the right to vote before WWI were western states.
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    The Man Purse Aka. THE MURSE YES or NO ?

    Someone, upon viewing a film or photo of a New York street sometime before WWI, with no apparent rules about traffic, foot, motor or horse, noticed that no one was carrying a backpack, bag, or anything of the sort. "What do they do with all their stuff?" the person asked. Seems like a good...

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