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    Deco Deliveries

    I imagine the baseball clubs wanted better places to practice their business when their market changed. Baseball is for well-off people these days and there is no hometown loyalty.
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    Deco Deliveries

    It is a little sad but, that's progress, partner! Or is it? Look at the neighborhood beyond the almost empty lot. How'd you like to grow up in a place like that? Some cities still have neighborhoods like that but some have been razed in the name of urban renewal, replaced by really nice places...
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    Deco Deliveries

    If they're still standing. Some have fallen into ruin, which I may have mentioned already. I'm sure buildings look better when they are still in active use. Some buildings may look better in B&W--or maybe it's because that's the way we're conditioned to see them, especially in old movies (that...
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    Deco Deliveries

    Well, maybe the new buildings aren't exciting! I think that sports stadiums, mostly, look very impressive from the outside. Inside, of course, the focus is on the playing field itself. They are by their nature very large and usually surrounded by few large buildings to restrict the view and so...
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    Democracy

    I don't know that belief systems are all that important because that isn't the way most people think--unless they're told to. Belief systems are the stuff of intellectuals, although it is worth pointing out that revolutions are usually the product of the thinking of intellectuals: Marx, Lenin...
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    Democracy

    I understand what you're saying but that's no way to look at it. It's like saying "What's the point of it all?" Or as the song went, "Is that all there is?" But one answer leads to another question. We are here to help others. Then what are the others here for? There is no answer to everything...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    The War Department had a whole host of different rations available in WWII, some of which were developed for very specific purposes. There were rations for air crews, lifeboat rations and so on. Packaged rations for the military have requirements not necessary for most civilian purposes, unless...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Inside every social reformer beats the heart of a tyrant.
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    Democracy

    Miss Lizzie used the term first draft. A thousand years from now what will they call it? One has to have a long view to consider history, although living memory skews the perception. By that, I mean someone who is 70 will have a different perception of history, recent history in particular...
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    Deco Deliveries

    I've noticed that many buildings in towns and cities, large buildings and small, have names. Few are as grand as those, but some are, to be sure. Many of the really grand public buildings, if you can call a railroad station grand, are no longer used. I don't think many new ones are being build...
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    Deco Deliveries

    What bvilding is that?
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    Democracy

    The Constitution is the second draft, as it were, the first one having been the Articles of Confederation. Even though it wasn't called THE Constitution, that's what it was, the operating document for the federal government. Neither one established the United States. Although the thought of...
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    Democracy

    Well, that's happened here. But you left out the corporation, the singular modern institution that might even have more influence than nationalism, itself not that ancient. Will Rogers said, supposedly, that in Russia, the government tells the corporations what to do. In the United States...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was in the army, C-rations were still being used up. A C-ration is a small packaged meal with most of the components being in cans. They came in a thick cardboard case holding, oh, maybe a dozen rations. Some soldiers would go through a case if they had a chance and take what they liked...
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    Democracy

    One of the points of the new republic was that those who governed did not govern by right of succession. That is, the son did not inherit his father's position. But such a thing happened almost right away, with the Adams. Of course, he didn't exactly inherit it, no more than George Bush did. But...
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    S.S. Port Nicholson, sunk by U-boat in 1942, found w/ $3 billion in platinum

    It sure cost a lot of lives to be richer, then.
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    Introducing "Bwana"

    Double-brimmed Gurkha hats are available, if that's close enough, direct from Nepal. I'm considering ordering one myself but I'm afraid of getting the wrong size.
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    Democracy

    It doesn't require 51% for them to declare the other 49% to be slaves, apparently, since a few states in 1860 had a majority slave population. The real indignity is in assuming that only black people could be slaves. But that's all in the past now. I think people misread the object of the...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    My standards when travelling by myself aren't that high.
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    Places like that are actually few and far between these days, most of them having fallen in disrepair or torn down when something newer came along. Yet there are still old-fashioned motels here and there, mostly in places where there is too little traffic to support a Holiday Inn or a Ramada...

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