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Taboma said:
There is certainly a struggle of ideology occurring in not only this country, but the world.
Technology in all aspects of our lives is exciting for some and scary intimidating for others.
Some are anxious to leap into tomorrow, others of us are grappling and grasping to remain with what's familiar and gives the impression of being secure.
Some want slow and careful measured progression, others want to race into tomorrow with abandonment.
Some want to live in a compound impenetrable from the outside, some want all the doors and windows wide open.
Some feel we're doomed with we don't do something, some feel we're doomed if we do, do something.

Who's right ? Who's wrong ? Meanwhile the moderate middle is being drowned out by the extremist of both sides desperately vying for support.

One undeniable fact is, if there's a need and an opportunity for profit, technology will be stimulated to create it.
Politicians are using that and creating the need, by mandating policies that support their own agendas and ideology. In turn they get continued financial support from those striving to cash in later.

My first real introduction to the division between political ideologies was when I was 17 and our garage rock band decided to jump in my rhythm guitar player's VW bus and drive from our homes in Tustin CA to San Francisco and see what this Haight Ashbury Hippie BS was all about first hand.
Went from camp fire to some honey's tents in Big Sur, then onward north we trekked.
After getting seriously fucked up and spending the night crashed in a heap with a bunch of musky smelling hippies, the next day we continued north across the bridge to clear away the mental fog bank.
Enjoyed the serene beauty of the Muir Woods, then finally pulled up at some foggy unknown beach and crashed for the night.
Next morning I awoke early, on an amazingly beautiful morning, feeling aware and awake, and wandered down this beautiful beach to take it all in.
There sitting on a rock outcropping was a very pretty young lady of similar age. After making proper introductions, we sat together for over an hour just talking, nothing personal, more about the area and it's beauty.
We were hitting it off as if we were kindred souls having finally found each other, I really really liked this girl and was inclined to believe she had felt likewise.
Finally in conversation she inquired where I was from. I had no reservations in revealing that I was from Tustin, she looked puzzled, so I added that it was in Orange County.
It was like I'd ignited a very short fuse, igniting a bomb that exploded her up onto her feet.
"OH, she proclaimed, from Orange County, California ?" to which I replied affirmative.
"OH, you're one of THEM, you're a --- ARRGGGHH :eek::mad:---- ORANGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN" and before I could utter another sound, she'd spun, leaped off the rock and was gone, headed up the beach to wherever she'd come from.
Imagine learning that about one's self, that I wasn't who I thought I was, but one of THEM 👽🤯.
Of course my immediate shattered heart only wanted to rush home and blame my parents, this was all their fault, how dare they !!!!! 🤬

This was in 1966 and my introduction to ideological bigotry.
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I don't know with who or when the divide started, but probably long before recorded time. People, like your mystery hippy, paint with a broad brush. It helps no one. I don't believe any one side, but I have my own beliefs. I don't wish to change people's opinions, I just wish they'd form their own, and not blindly adopt another's.
 
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Taboma said:
There is certainly a struggle of ideology occurring in not only this country, but the world.
Technology in all aspects of our lives is exciting for some and scary intimidating for others.
Some are anxious to leap into tomorrow, others of us are grappling and grasping to remain with what's familiar and gives the impression of being secure.
Some want slow and careful measured progression, others want to race into tomorrow with abandonment.
Some want to live in a compound impenetrable from the outside, some want all the doors and windows wide open.
Some feel we're doomed with we don't do something, some feel we're doomed if we do, do something.

Who's right ? Who's wrong ? Meanwhile the moderate middle is being drowned out by the extremist of both sides desperately vying for support.

One undeniable fact is, if there's a need and an opportunity for profit, technology will be stimulated to create it.
Politicians are using that and creating the need, by mandating policies that support their own agendas and ideology. In turn they get continued financial support from those striving to cash in later.

My first real introduction to the division between political ideologies was when I was 17 and our garage rock band decided to jump in my rhythm guitar player's VW bus and drive from our homes in Tustin CA to San Francisco and see what this Haight Ashbury Hippie BS was all about first hand.
Went from camp fire to some honey's tents in Big Sur, then onward north we trekked.
After getting seriously fucked up and spending the night crashed in a heap with a bunch of musky smelling hippies, the next day we continued north across the bridge to clear away the mental fog bank.
Enjoyed the serene beauty of the Muir Woods, then finally pulled up at some foggy unknown beach and crashed for the night.
Next morning I awoke early, on an amazingly beautiful morning, feeling aware and awake, and wandered down this beautiful beach to take it all in.
There sitting on a rock outcropping was a very pretty young lady of similar age. After making proper introductions, we sat together for over an hour just talking, nothing personal, more about the area and it's beauty.
We were hitting it off as if we were kindred souls having finally found each other, I really really liked this girl and was inclined to believe she had felt likewise.
Finally in conversation she inquired where I was from. I had no reservations in revealing that I was from Tustin, she looked puzzled, so I added that it was in Orange County.
It was like I'd ignited a very short fuse, igniting a bomb that exploded her up onto her feet.
"OH, she proclaimed, from Orange County, California ?" to which I replied affirmative.
"OH, you're one of THEM, you're a --- ARRGGGHH :eek::mad:---- ORANGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN" and before I could utter another sound, she'd spun, leaped off the rock and was gone, headed up the beach to wherever she'd come from.
Imagine learning that about one's self, that I wasn't who I thought I was, but one of THEM 👽🤯.
Of course my immediate shattered heart only wanted to rush home and blame my parents, this was all their fault, how dare they !!!!! 🤬

This was in 1966 and my introduction to ideological bigotry.
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With the Hippy girl's crazy showing T, right outa the gate, in 1966?? I'd say you said just enough to make a clean getaway. Still in California, that crazy girl could've made your life a living hell. That's what they do. Oh yeah, It's an E ticket ride, with a very steep price.
 
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Wedgy said:
With the Hippy girl's crazy showing T, right outa the gate, in 1966?? I'd say you said just enough to make a clean getaway. Still in California, that crazy girl could've made your life a living hell. That's what they do. Oh yeah, It's an E ticket ride, with a very steep price.
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This wasn't just any hippie, not like the tribe we'd encountered at Haight or Big Sur. This young lady might have burned incense and toked a J, but she her fragrance wasn't musk, it was lilac and jasmine. She was a high rent district, beach front "Muir Woods" hippie.
My bet, both her parents were Profs at some institution of Liberal Learning.
No we were as incompatible as oil and water, except for that one hour we shared, where we were nothing more than two people enjoying a serene and beautiful morning.
To bad really, that humans are so consumed with fear, so afraid of pain and death that we waste our entire lives building walls, bolstering our defenses and scratching "Ours and Theirs" lines in the sand, we can't just relax with ourselves and each other and just be.
 
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Well said T. I think you called it. Kumbaya and the Utopia of normalcy sure would be nice. "People are People, so why,,,"
Whew anyway. She sounded like trouble to me. 😂
 
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Wedgy said:
Well said T. I think you called it. Kumbaya and the Utopia of normalcy sure would be nice. "People are People, so why,,,"
Whew anyway. She sounded like trouble to me. 😂
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I found trouble TWICE before I discovered # 3 and marital bliss --- so yeah, it wasn't until I hit 30 that I started thinking more with my big head. 🤣
 
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I found trouble TWICE before I discovered # 3 and marital bliss --- so yeah, it wasn't until I hit 30 that I started thinking more with my big head. 🤣
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Glad you found a keeper.
I had a good run, 34 years. Then 8.

Couple 3 GF here. You have 9 years of wisdom on me. I know now looking back I realize how badly damaged people can get from prior relationships in the past, which adversly affects the future. Men and women are different, that's for sure.

Men. On, off. Women. Cockpit of a 747.

Continuing Success to You and all Yours, Kind Sir.
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Just a bit of FYI --- that fan is actually a 1892 Edison 6 Blade Fan, I was unique from other Edison fans because it had 6 blades and if you bought one ----- " It was originally supplied with a set of Type S Edison-Lalande cells, consisting of four very heavy porcelain cells in a large wooden box .

Like this one ----- You're Welcome 😁 ;)

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Taboma said:
Just a bit of FYI --- that fan is actually a 1892 Edison 6 Blade Fan, I was unique from other Edison fans because it had 6 blades and if you bought one ----- " It was originally supplied with a set of Type S Edison-Lalande cells, consisting of four very heavy porcelain cells in a large wooden box .

Like this one ----- You're Welcome 😁 ;)

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I like the ignition coils on the Model T. Housed in a similar wooden box. So were telephones, super cool old stuff.
Like the old Harrahs' auto museum in Reno, acres of quiet warehouses with cars from the early years, forward.
Amazing technology of the time. Battery, Internal combustion, Steam. Gas street lamps. Electrification of America.
Long may She live.
 
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Wedgy said:
I like the ignition coils on the Model T. Housed in a similar wooden box. So were telephones, super cool old stuff.
Like the old Harrahs' auto museum in Reno, acres of quiet warehouses with cars from the early years, forward.
Amazing technology of the time. Battery, Internal combustion, Steam. Gas street lamps. Electrification of America.
Long may She live.
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In my buddy's shop, he has an old porcelain sign for Eveready Batteries. It shows a farmhouse, lit up in the night. Some of the "off grid" people were way ahead of their time. Cool stuff, like single cylinder Maytag engines...gas powered washing machines!
 
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HNL2LHC said:
Yeah, that is the wall that they were allowed to build. Yet the rest of the neighbors have not been able to build since they have owned properties for generations.

The classic “Rules for the not for me!!!!”
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It's ironic how they were able to make "Improvements" to the property, but others can't get the approval. 👎
 
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monkeyswrench said:
Someone needs to tag that wall,"Big Mike's Place".
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Our son did say that the wall was tagged last year when they we out at his friend’s house. Sadly I don’t think that it was anything about ”Big Mike”
 
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What school was this?
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I don't want to give out the school name... to protect the individual... its their 1st year...
my son Graduated Cal Poly Pomona 15 yr ago... told us years later their liberal agenda was in full effect..
 
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typical California College Psych. test

Friends Daughter test last week...

we are F.ED

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Although I seriously doubt you're truly interested in this subject, all the info regarding the background of this feminist study is only a few key clicks away.
This idea for the study, actually originated at the 1970 at the convention of the National Organization of Women. It was titled "The Attitudes towards feminist Issue's Scale", later it was presented as a paper published in 1975.
This study to determine "What kind of a feminist are you" was then re-studied in the mid and later 90's, to examine and reflect changes and to better identify just "Which" type of feminist you were. The real test, not this highly abbreviated version consisted of 60 questions, and just for fun, I'm going to print it out and see if my wife of 40 years is interested ---- I'm already 99% of the response I'll get. 😬 🤣


Liberal feminist
Women of Color
Cultural feminist
Socialist feminist
Radical feminist
Conservative


So really, the F*cking you think you're feeling today, began closer to 50 years ago. 🤣
 
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