What I learned today!

[_Markk]

What do you do about all the bugs?

I once went under a house with a skunk...fastest I ever moved.

Bugs don't bother me as much as nails sticking down from above.

[_Res Ipsa]

Cool find, Markk! I learned about Clara Luper of Oklahoma City led the first lunch counter sit in at Katz Drugs. She and a number of children sat down at the lunch counter, which was whites only, and ordered food and drinks. The children sat quietly, putting their heads down on the counter when white folks began healing abuse on them. They stayed until closing and returned the next day, The sit in succeeded — the whites only policy was abandoned.

Clara kept on organizing sit ins at lunch counters and eating places with whites only policies. It took six years, but no eating establishments in Oklahoma City had whites only policies anymore.

From Boom Town by Sam Anderson. (If you like history and basketball, you’ll enjoy it)

[_Markk]

I will check it out, I love BB

On the same line of Clara, I was listening to Aerial America in my shop while I was working, you have to watch it if you haven't, but I heard bits of pieces how there was a prom who just recently integrated in like 2007 or so, and Morgan Freeman had a running offer to pay for it (his home town) if they did, and he did pay for it when they finally had a Black and White prom.

I'll look for a link.

Are you from OKC?

Here is a sample of Aerial America if you haven't seen it, it covers many states and special places.

https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/vide ... lley/27131

[_Res Ipsa]

Morgan Freeman sounds like a good dude.

I’m from Seattle. I heard a podcast where the author was a guest. He told the story about OKC being the test site for sonic booms. I liked his storytelling, so I read the book. The main storyline of the book is a single season of the Thunder. He uses that as a launching pad for the history of OKC. I enjoyed it.

[_Gunnar]

I learned today that the dragon heads on the bows of the Viking long ships were removable and attached only when they were approaching shore or port. They were stowed away while at sea to minimize damage to them from storms and waves. Also, these ships were not equipped with benches for the rowers to sit on. The rowers had to sit on storage chests where they kept their belongings, weapons and loot. They actually rowed only when they needed extra speed while going into attack mode, maneuvering in narrow, shallow rivers or when there was insufficient wind for their sails.

[_Markk]

I learned today that the dragon heads on the bows of the Viking long ships were removable and attached only when they were approaching shore or port. They were stowed away while at sea to minimize damage to them from storms and waves. Also, these ships were not equipped with benches for the rowers to sit on. The rowers had to sit on storage chests where they kept their belongings, weapons and loot. They actually rowed only when they needed extra speed while going into attack mode, maneuvering in narrow, shallow rivers or when there was insufficient wind for their sails.

I was watching an episode of the Andy Griffith Show, and Barney mentioned he served in the Army during WW2, and "took care of the Hun."

I looked up Don Knots on Wiki and found he served in real life mainly as troop entertainer during the war. He was a ventriloquist, and being tired of playing a straight man to a dummy, threw his dummy off a ship in the south pacific, and according to wiki..." He swore that he could hear the dummy calling for help as the ship sailed on, leaving him bobbing helplessly in the waves." :)

What is kind of cool also is that we all know Barney as a bumbling mess when it comes to fire arms, but while in the Army he received his marksman badge with a M-1.

He was also on the soap, "search for Tomorrow"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20J7INWUA4Y

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

TIL'd that Libertarians actually support seizing money from *this guy* and giving it to *that guy*, whether or not *that guy* actually wants to work.

But, I'm also learning that in some Libertarians' worldview this

Libertarians believe that that code should be applied consistently, even to the actions of governments, which should be restricted to protecting people from violations of their rights. Governments should not use their powers to censor speech, conscript the young, prohibit voluntary exchanges, steal or “redistribute” property, or interfere in the lives of individuals who are otherwise minding their own business.

can be mentally twisted into 'Libertarian ideals support taking money from you and giving it to that guy' even if you don't want it to happen, and don't get a product or service because somehow it'll create an economic utopia.

Jesus Christ.

- Doc

[_subgenius]

He was also on the soap, "search for Tomorrow"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20J7INWUA4Y

And due to a contract dispute he became the new swingin' landlord on Three's Company.

[_Dr. Shades]

TIL'd that Libertarians actually support seizing money from *this guy* and giving it to *that guy*, whether or not *that guy* actually wants to work.

Actually, they don't support that. Quite the opposite, actually, as your quote shows.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

TIL'd that Libertarians actually support seizing money from *this guy* and giving it to *that guy*, whether or not *that guy* actually wants to work.

Actually, they don't support that. Quite the opposite, actually, as your quote shows.

Oh, boy. You ought to set Xeno and EA straight then. With statements like:

UBI (universal basic income) has broad, but not universal support among those libertarians because libertarianism is not opposed to wealth redistribution by the government in principle.

EA turns libertarianism into socialism because something something historical wrongs and something about government protecting our inalienable rights to be compensated fairly and something about the CATO Institute suggests redistributing money makes economic sense so it's a "wing" of libertarianism to do that.

I dunno. Socialists, generally speaking, absolutely damned hate being identified as such for some reason.

- Doc