Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Nationalize the Oil Fields
"Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association was truly the pioneer for all oil and gas associations.
It’s the oldest association and was formed to ensure that the government did not try to nationalize the oil fields. "
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"Mid-Continent Oil and Gas
Coincidental to Tulsa’s emergence as Oil Capitol of the World
was the growth and development of various independent organizations devoted to supporting the progress and development of the oil industry.
As the oil industry grew in vitality and importance so did the number of these organizations.
Although some relocated their headquarters in later years, their presence in Tulsa speaks to Tulsa’s premier position as the Oil Capitol decades ago.
(Last month the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the American Petroleum Institute were profiled, and this month the emphasis shifts to the Mid-Continernt Oil and Gas Association)
In October 1917, following the United States entry into World War I a group of independent oil men, many of whom became legendary in the history of Oklahoma and the petroleum industry, met in Tulsa, Oklahoma to organize the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association.
In 1919 they formed the Oklahoma-Kansas Division. It is the oldest petroleum association in the United States.
A principal purpose of the Association’s formation was to provide essential supplies of petroleum and petroleum product to the allied forces. Mid-Continent’s contribution to that success helped establish it as an association in which
individuals working cooperatively could resolve mutual problems and achieve great results.
The ambitious oilmen who founded Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association included
Frank Phillips, one of the founders of Phillips Petroleum Co.;
E. W. Marland, whose company became Conoco, Inc., and who later became Governor of Oklahoma;
Alf M. Landon, later to be governor of Kansas and Republican presidential nominee in 1936.
There was W. G. Skelly, founder of Skelly Oil Company and
H. H. Champlin, founder of Champlin Oil Co.
Also there was famous philanthropist Lew Wentz of Ponca City and prominent Oklahoma City resident Charles F. Colcord.
Robert S. Kerr, co-founder of Kerr-McGee Oil Co., later to be governor of Oklahoma and United States Senator, was president of the Oklahoma-Kansas Division from 1935 through 1941.
These men and others were among those who set goals and formed policies for development of the Association and the petroleum industry.
The Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association of Oklahoma’s mission is the advancement and improvement of the oil and gas industry within the State of Oklahoma and throughout the United States.
According to Michael H. Bernard, president, Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, “Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association was truly the pioneer for all oil and gas associations.
It’s the oldest association and was formed to ensure that the government did not try to nationalize the oil fields.
We’ve expanded to other producing states including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.”
Continuing, he says, “We do much the same work as we did in the early years.
We monitor political
and regulatory issues
that affect the ability of the industry as a whole.”
Bernard emphasizes the importance of trade organizations to the industry,
“The role we play is very important. We’re the industry watchdogs.
Without the trade organizations you wouldn’t have the oversight
of what is done at various legislative bodies, both state and federal.
We make it a point to help
state agencies solve regulatory problems without affecting the ability to produce oil and gas.”
When asked about the most important issue facing the industry today, Bernard says, “The most important issue facing the nation is the limits on exploration for new sources of oil and gas.
Exploration of federal lands and coastal regions is restricted.
Current policy doesn’t work.
We’re criticized for not providing cheap energy, but on the other hand, the government won’t allow companies to explore to find additional sources.
The current energy policy works against itself. It seriously affects our development. You can’t have development without energy, and oil and gas are the most efficient forms of energy.”
Today, the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association of Oklahoma, headquartered in Oklahoma City, is a non-profit association. It’s membership is comprised of oil and gas producers, operators, purchasers, pipelines, transporters, processors and service companies which represent a substantial sector of the oil and gas industry within the State of Oklahoma.
IPAA–Independent Petroleum Association of America
As the 1920’s came to a close another organization emerged that was soon headquartered in Tulsa, the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA).
Independent producers were in bad shape in 1929 and facing even more troubled times ahead. The government was encouraging oil imports.
American oil reserves were plentiful, yet suspicion prevailed among federal policy makers that the United States was soon to run out of petroleum.
Discussing the origins of IPAA, Jeff Eshelman, vice president of public affairs, AIPP, says, “In June, 1929, Wirt Franklin of Ardmore, Oklahoma gave a fiery address at President Herbert Hoover’s historic Oil Conservation Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He told attendees that independents were fearful that
in the name of conservation,
a compact may be initiated vesting absolute authority in a commission
which could restrict domestic production to any extent it might desire, and allow domestic demand to be filled by the importation of foreign oil.”
According the Eshelman, Wirt went on to say, “If this condition should be brought about, it would mean
the annihilation and destruction
of the small producer of crude oil.”
It was at this conference at the Broadmoor Hotel that the IPAA was formally established. Russell B. Brown became the first executive manager in 1930. In 1930 the headquarters originally located in Ardmore, Oklahoma moved to Tulsa where it set up offices in the Thompson Building located at 20 East 5th.
The IPAA’s original staff included Brown, counsel and executive manager, Elinor Huss, and later Elinor Bond who retired as office manager in 1967 after 37 years of service. Charles E. Bowles, retained as a statistician and publicrelations specialist in Tulsa, was the third person to join the staff.
Following the organization’s second annual meeting in Tulsa during April 1931, Brown became general counsel and was authorized to move to Washington, DC to set up an office. The association operated out of two offices, one in Tulsa and the second one in DC. In 1971 the offices were consolidated in Washington. When asked why the IPAA established another office in DC and eventually relocated its headquarters there, Eshelman explains, “During the first two years the IPAA clarified its focus. Our charter is federal action and advocacy. We felt we could do all of our work out of the DC office.” He continues, “Our main objective is advocacy for the petroleum industry before the federal government. It made sense to consolidate and strengthen our presence in our nation’s capitol, where the White House, the Capitol and the federal agencies are located.”
Through boom and bust, IPAA has remained on the front lines in support of America’s independent oil and natural gas producers. It has grown to an organization of many thousands today. According to Eshelman, “For more than 75 years, IPAA’s volunteer leaders have skillfully married business savvy with political skills to keep the independent oil and natural gas industry alive and thriving.”
https://gtrnews.com/midcontinentoilandgasassnipaacontinuesignificance-d1/
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The first Oklahoma well was sunk in 1859 by Lewis Ross, brother of Cherokee Chief John Ross, who operated a salt works on the Grand River near what is now Salina,” Dickson said. “Looking for salt water, he dug a well to 700 feet. To his disgust, he hit oil. There was no market for crude oil at that time.”
"In 1897, Michael Cudahy, of Omaha, Neb., made an agreement with the Cherokee Nation and drilled a well on the banks of the Caney River in present-day Washington County.
Among the Cherokee investors in the well was William Johnstone, and the well was named Nellie Johnstone No. 1 after his daughter."
"The first commercial production in the Cherokee Outlet of Oklahoma Territory began in 1904 with the discovery of the Cleveland Field, said Andi Holland, director of the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid.
J. Paul Getty was among the oilmen rushing to the Cleveland Field.
He would become the richest man in the world."
"E.W. Marland succeeded in Ponca City and at his height controlled 10 percent of the world's crude oil production.
The Garber-Covington Field, discovered in 1916, launched the fortunes of Harry Sinclair and gave birth to the Champlin Refining Co. in Enid, owned by H.H. Champlin.
His Champlin Oil became the largest independently owned oil company in the world."
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'Exxon reported one of its largest annual profits of the last decade of $36bn (about £28.4bn) for 2023,
which was the second-highest profit only to its $55.7bn profit for the year before.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Status Quo dictums (2020)
3-19-2020
nonchalance
spread his toxic brand
over dilly dallied regulations
redacted
in private off the books lunches
mostly liquid
as per status quo dictums
adhered to like
germs
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Inundated
poetry of forest bloodgood
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Inundated
I curl up with my back to the wind sawing through the redwood tree
A boiling kettle of branches above
Not a twig drops
Gusts crescendo and murmur and ruffle the fabric i cocoon under l
It's paltry and cold
My tent stake bends as I make a wee roof
The earth packed by a thousand nights tossing my sack of bones down the time slide
Some more dry than others
None so dry as my mother
In a closet box,
Inundated.
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The store's closed for good, that's bad for music
Unless one likes sad music
At least the bums don't leave their Lexus in the truck zone just to fetch dry cleaning
Across the street
I had to chalk No Fires by the former entrance
As some are crazy enough to burn trash for a couple minutes of heat
The awning says Community Owned but the bank is in Wyoming
It looks inundated with poverty all butcher papered up,
A real cutlet.
A simple gift, tax deductible, and bento man is the last guy standing, but most people throw out the rice
And besides
Who needs silverware to eat and drive
And stick it to the stick.
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The cook is sick
He was hale last night, chipper fist bumping the whole band
Will be there
He plays stand up
Bass when he's not sick enough 24 hours later to cancel appearances
So here's a guy on acoustic songwriter and a cello from utopia, beatific
She's covering in every way as they foot in mouth their non event for number 248 per year
It's refreshing as tap water in contacts
Let me tell you about yahacts last month, the best cheese steak in lower mintagilla
Don't sic your hobo fan on us
It's regular refreshments that background stop the ballpark
Never heard of you
There's your two big fans to dish out some shots at finale it's rubby elbow crimes
I'm not watching overtly your cello diva at all
I'm inundated by the mundaccious amateurism calling in well.
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Over our head, don't quit
Breeding. Don't douse supplication by the fryer. We're layers in warm straw.
The rent rises, inundating the newly burntbeak crew. Leaf feathers alone, they're company.
Cage free gonna be, we'll see.
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Brown shirt staff sargent
With his ranger rick get-up is barking some demand for me to risenshine from my weather buttress
Here at picnic in the park
I emerge, forgoing my combat boots, standing in my socks
To hear i'm illegal and could be arrested at which audibly snort, been here three years
Not here he says
Yes, exactly here he waddles back to his city truck i'll be back after brunch and betting online against hometeam
Then off to busk this temperate morning, the melvin gargoyle ambles away pushing his life basket, dispirited from last he said I'm lucky he don't got a bat
I play an hour, one ten, and toss a pile of tin cans over the fence, spilling kidney beans from half finished meals that had been opened with haste and few moment edges
Another hold the piss bus ride toward the east over the volcano all dead and fertile, notably peaceful with carlack
I do my swimming in a rainbow suit as the hot tub brims with retirees and a retarded man of color, my mix
He doesn't want to leave as his guardian calls time to go
His eyes mesmerized making waves in jetting fizz, a magician transforming with perma smile beyond us
He's inundated and center of attention, will he leave? Will patience grow more calm under the variable ennui
I swim a quarter mile, half mile, time laps away who cares, dry off and go pump some blocks of dumbbell
As cellphone drool surrounds the absurd muscle museum full of taxidermy
And exiting, there's the troll, skin like a dog treat from a value pack sized roadkill
Slinking past toward the natatorium with eyes in the back of her knees, trudge trudge
It's quite the flow today, watching reality melt down history into a teeming sewer, up to my muskrat brow
So I inquire squire lee about is We research regarding mom's non estate being subsumed by texas incorporated
I scribe my hardshit waiver sic like melting butter on parking lot inferno, grittyesque with facts and antimath economics
Done, not done. Inundated.
Happy birthday, pops, sell the union and wallpaper the flood stamps, it's life on the river and windy by trial in the wrecked casino barge, high tide catfish that's on my menu of fascination
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All fed up, cuz the pizza from the bench by the theater didn't sell
The movie been seen before it premiered
Pepperoni dejavoo pickemoff
Thick foil triangles inundated so that multiple wraps can't smelter the bounty
Out peeks red sauce, but over sparingly to my tastes
Dough still crusty or vice versa
It'll dry let me get a handful of tissue, that's sad
Don't call it a rerun, fantastic planet from 1956
That groundbreakingly just ten years after WW 2 whisks us away
Let me just tuck away for a rainy day some these still soft restaurant edibles, the barber watches trimming his last cowboy today
He could turn down those heat lamps, jesus it's brite
Specially when we exit the odditorium where they sell cups of grog for a nickel, and the nickels are silver screen, and everyone's handsome or about to monologue
Don't barf mr. hand-me-down
Grocery titan, you can remodel, and tear down the melvin statue, and make Howard again
Just chisel away.
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Sump pump at the community center parking lot,
It's a new crew hosing today
Lake graham cracker crumb from the toddler squads for it all inundated in the grate
Cars blast it six feet out with enough gained speed, the cherry blossom precinct unperturbed by motor boats in the crosswalk and pylons around the waterfowl mannequins wrapped in terrycloth
They're busy ordering order
Filling up fuel catchers
Butcher papering window bricks more secure
I say get an auger size of Detroit and sell it and don't stop
Evict that bad water before it gets into the gas tank with the snorkel and hydroponic hypnosis, that's some lax oversight to build a drain that collects and pools yesterday
Wouldn't you say, mom?
Wouldn't harriet tubman breath easier not needing stilts to get to class?
Deferred maintenance has a waiting list around the block, I've been looking forward to it all day, a little time for me
So tiny time, so clogging it's dander and sediments, mostly human skin they say, and dog stuff.
Lake go-away slough , back to the drawing board, better engineering for a drier parking lot, and learn how to use tape correctly on all four corners, schmucks, it's folding like my potbelly running toward gym.
This is tantamount to inundation, the brimming excess, and repudiation of plumbing.
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"One lovely and useful proverb is “still waters run deep,” which, translated, means
quiet people are often more brilliant, clever or complex than they may appear.
This proverb compares aspects of the human character to hydro- dynamics"
"Of Latin origin, but possibly popularized by William Shakespeare, c. 1590, in "Henry VI," part 2, act 3, scene 1:
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason."
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Residual snowflake, flurry of one, solitary yet wed in dance
Over pavement carless, care dictating each to their own views from windows,
I gambled again last night
Got drunk in deaths clime incubator, after selling my fishman preamp I drank my treble away, boomerang
Three pints of mountain at the park, along with elderberry flavored river, courting nightshade rowed to a rowdy stir the blood
Pool game with paul haul, a sonabitch made me beat him and shed my layers until it was tank top guns
Him hating his dad, 70
Poisoned but wanting the be put in his place, sassy kid
His girlfriend hanging back, fine by me, she chides me about my daughters, she's one too
Wants to give a healing hug no problem, drinking cheapo lite, light food high
The chatter of a party in a long last supper table and two dozen empties get me the bird, and out the door
I'm stumbling, falling
My bike soften the blow, rise and hike, never got my layers reinstalled
"Winter pries it's fingers" in my hammered heart, my pea coat saves me, I awaken to the third ranger in as many sways
Polite on script, older than the usual clocks sent to recite and point hands at dials
I'm warm in 20 degree bag, look out at snow ice lawns and tree bit mulch that has been Cuisinart by chef wind
I toss my foam in the fancy litter jail, after closing off the hefty so dog shit don't besmirch later use
Cuz who knows, other than the queen oracle, the chain off it's sprocket so I walk to shell
-Ter, counter
-ter, store
-age, patterns upon patterns paint the road there
Too beautiful no hangover or frost bite, temperature dropping at 9 am
Keeping it simple, retired, slow and in contrast.
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Between ice and hand warmers in the pocket, my speck not ascendant
Transitory yet barnacled by fellow human clods
Uneager for dissolution from inundation, hot cocoa mix that don't swizzle, paddle as we do with a splinter
Pulled from the cross, red
The gamut of exhaustion bottled, to steep in indoors
I heard nobody pray
I heard sharp howls of pain from one guy, squabbles and cussing, accusations, friendly banter, kind gams at sea, the chance meetings that disaster harbors
Dogs living with cats, society's outcasts glazed sleep, shuffling feet in outdoor clothes, the crinkle of water bottles, forgiving bumps and boundaries, to survive
Unheeded calls for help, forsaken by pecking order bureaucracy
Legless men with smiles
Filling our arms with tents, tarps, instant oatmeal, and brief acceptance
At the base of Mt. Tabor
I better look that up again in my atheist catalogue
Now that i'm on my side
Cheek to the snow and the other inundated with keys and coins unspent
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"Just as Elijah and Moses begin to depart from the scene,
Peter begins to ask Jesus if the disciples should make three tents for him and the two prophets.
This has been interpreted as Peter's attempt to keep the prophets there longer.
But before Peter can finish, a bright cloud appears, and a voice from the cloud states:
"This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him" (Mark 9:7).
The disciples then fall to the ground in fear, but Jesus approaches and touches them, telling them not to be afraid.
When the disciples look up, they no longer see Elijah or Moses.
When Jesus and the three apostles are walking down the mountain, one guy gives him shreds of shelter wool to wrap his feet from the ice: traction.
Jesus tells them to not tell anyone that the supervisor knows that fentanyl was incense in the shit room.
"the things they had seen"
until the "Son of Merde" has risen from the dead."
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Refuge in a steel box spared me from obliteration, shhhh wind now a whipsaw velocity that decapitated the picnic manger on Tabor where the pilgrims wear shorts in the snow
Wind sharpened to molecular carbide on Crown Point
Wind pushed the balsa fronds of fir out of the tundra without spite other than the smite of man and his sheetrock lairs
Following channels of cement like a pinball game, no hindrance other than balconies for viewing past the megaTV
Rootballs of trunk lollipops, for to rest parallel invites nature a new lease
This is the only law
Decay, and sublimation to moss, thrush, worm, and badger
Out of storage, the leftovers feed mouths ravenous, molting, hurry in study too occupied to hunt cook and tablecloth, too inundated with progress for the sake of shaping a menu
To serve satin sickness
Go climb a fallen giant and find the nests before they are sold below in thrift stores
Go log a look
Witness the inundation of earth fighting back, reflexive, her kneecap jerk as automatic as a catapult from the rubber mallet of Dr. man
Freezing rain slows the dinosaur glop in our engines, we feast on Old Food from the unpowered fridge, reaching by candlelight and memory of what was deposited last Odin's day
Last Mars day, last Freya's day
Daresay Thorsday
There is no bearing on the compass to guide a lost bloated contagion of capitalism
The wax expends into bee sweat as fire reaps wick
Glaciers peninsula our shallow tastes down to bedrock
Where pilings hold not for long, and launch platforms commiserate escape from our inundation with self destruction, in Latin fairy tales with plastic slabs of lamb, sung with tinsel jingles
Hide behind the sequoia, it melts too under a hiccup from the Gorge
Wy'east and Pashto take it in stride, magma boiling in their cauldrons kept at bay under a loose sternwheeler that glides upstream to memaloose
It's talk, that's All
The wind inundated with power poles and copper lassoes and sturgeon magnets in a maelstrom symphony crescendo
It's sex with beyond death on a tee shirt and sponsor, that tale of cerebus Grendel
It's a high point in sea level mentality, that folded ship made of diplomas
A helado dripping down the fist running from the bull
We run and the caterpillar gazas us in holy pauper view
Sic pay per view, that's how clever drips congregate
If there's any radiating glory, it's Hanford and folly
It's Martin Luther Kaepernick doing knee bends to cheerleaders of every flavor
Sacrilegious sanctimony and silly potion pedigrees
Frost heaves the homeless to safety, from tailback, from rear guard, from tackle
That's religion.
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Frostbit copperhead
Fingerless maestro
Death gobbles charismatic
Tone deaf world
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Frostbit copperhead
Slithering molasses wise
Keep tail sequestered
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Bent tent stake land run
Possession nine tenths of law
Indigenous myth
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Bone flute offering
Breath drills fire evacuation
Music hibernation
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Library shave hurry
Others wait dog---earring
Western theme whiskers
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Shed skin polka dots
Peacoat lapel, haphazard
Snow globe run amok
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Community center shut
Birds bathe harmonious dirt
Cats lick patiently
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Buffalo stoic
Waiting in lines frigid
No passing sermon
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Common needs feather
adornment utility
Beauty flight home
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Bloodgood, first cultivated strawberries
'This house, later known as the
Garretson House, after descendant Eliza Bloodgood's husband, Garret R. Garretson, stood
just north of the project site, within modem Lots 104 and 107, until its demolition in 1911."
http://motes.blogspot.com/2019/03/bloodgood-nurseries-flushing-ny.html?m=1
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"Daniel Bloodgood, the grandfather of the present owner, was the first gardener
to raise cultivated strawberries
in this country;
and tho original Bloodgood pear tree is still standing where he planted lt.
Abraham mood - good (sic, Bloodgood,) was also the originator of the famous amber cherry, which he raised from a pit.
It is still in a bearing and flourishing condition A marvelous apple tree overshadows the ancient seed house.
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-daniel-and-abra/19915677/
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'1793, William Prince Jr. purchased twenty-four acres alongside the original nursery, naming the new property the Linnaean Botanic Garden and Nursery.
In the decades to come, a cohort of nurseries would open in Flushing, including Parsons Nursery and Bloodgood Nursery, both mapped nearby in 1841.
Smith, 1841/Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division"
Bloodgood Nursery was established in 1790.
The original Bloodgood built his home in 1659 in Flushing.
https://arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/the-prince-family-pioneers-of-american-horticulture/
Frost Giant Cannibals at Multnomah County
Severe weather shelters open as needed when any of the following thresholds are met for any one of the conditions below that are forecasted to persist for four (4) hours or more between the hours of 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.
Forecasted temperature of 25° F (-4° C) or below.
Forecasted snow accumulation of 1.0 inch or more.
Forecasted temperature at or below 32° F (0° C) with driving rain of 1.0 inch or more overnight.
**The County's Chief Operating Officer
or their designee may consider other conditions
or circumstances during a severe weather event
that could increase the risk to the community and activate elements included in this standard operating procedure. "
Monday, January 22, 2024
Jewison Themes
""Drexel's gone under.
Milken's in jail.
Trump's waiting tables". —
Lawrence Garfield (55:30
"Other People's Money is a 1991 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Norman Jewison starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller.
It was adapted by screenwriter Alvin Sargent from the 1989 play "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_People%27s_Money
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'If I Were a Rich Man" is a show tune from the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof.
It was written by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. The song is performed by Tevye, the main character in the musical, and reflects his aspirational dreams.
The title is inspired by a 1902 monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (Yiddish: װען איך בין ראָטשילד; lit.
“If I were a Rothschild”), a reference to the wealth of the Rothschild family, although the content is quite different.
The lyric is based in part on passages from Sholem Aleichem's 1899 short story "The Bubble Bursts."
Both stories appeared in English in the 1949 collection of stories Tevye's Daughters."
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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe explains that the song is based on a monologue from the stories of Sholem Aleichem entitled "If I were Rothschild", in reference to the wealthy Jewish banking family.
The Grammar Devotional likens the phrase "if I were a rich man"
to the Cowardly Lion's
"if I were king of the forest"
in The Wizard of Oz;
both songs involve a tongue-in-cheek comparison between the character's actual condition and the one they imagine. "
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"The screenplay is based on the 1961 Nathaniel Benchley novel The Off-Islanders, and was adapted for the screen by William Rose.
The title alludes to Paul Revere's midnight ride, as does the subplot in which
the town drunk (Ben Blue)
rides his horse to warn people of the "invasion"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russians_Are_Coming,_the_Russians_Are_Coming
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"Judas is worried about Jesus' popularity; he is being hailed as the son of God, but Judas feels he has too much faith in his own message and fears the consequences of their growing movement.
He calls out Jesus' association with the likes of Mary Magdalene (historically accused of being a prostitute), as well as the fact that Mary Magdalene uses sweet oil to soothe Jesus' skin, the money for which Judas thinks should have been spent on the poor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar_(film)
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"2018, Jonathan E. is the team captain and veteran star of the Houston Rollerball team.
Mr. Bartholomew, chairman of the Energy Corporation -
one of a series of corporations that now govern society -
and team sponsor, offers Jonathan a lavish retirement package if Jonathan will announce his retirement during an upcoming television special detailing his career."
"Jonathan goes to a library, where he finds that all books have been digitized and edited to suit the corporations,
and are now stored on supercomputers
at large protected corporate locations.
Jonathan's friend and former coach Cletus, now an Energy executive, warns him that the Executive Committee is afraid of him, though he cannot find out why.,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball_(1975_film)
"Jonathan's popularity and longevity as a player threaten the underlying agenda of Rollerball:
to demonstrate the futility of individualism."
Thinkable
"Think about the unthinkable’: could the US handle an even worse January 6?
The new documentary War Game follows lawmakers and military officials role-playing the response to a political coup"
'The film notes that one in five criminal defendants from the Capitol attack were military veterans."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/22/war-game-documentary-sundance-january-6
Saturday, January 20, 2024
between Scylla and Charybdis , Pashto Loowit Wy'east
" two sons of the Great Spirit Sahale fell in love with the beautiful maiden Loowit, who could not decide which to choose.
The two braves, Wy'east and Pahto (unnamed in his novel, but appearing in a later adaptation), burned forests and villages in their battle over her.
Sahale became enraged and smote the three lovers.
Seeing what he had done, he erected three mountain peaks to mark where each fell.
He made beautiful Mount St. Helens for Loowit, proud and erect Mount Hood for Wy'east, and the somber Mount Adams for the mourning Pahto.
There are other versions of the legend.
In another telling, Wy'east (Hood) battles Pahto (Adams) for the fair La-wa-la-clough (St. Helens).
Or again Wy'east, the chief of the Multnomah tribe, competed with the chief of the Klickitat tribe.
Their great anger led to their transformation into volcanoes.
Their battle is said to have destroyed the Bridge of the Gods and thus created the great Cascades Rapids of the Columbia River."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hood
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" Being between Scylla and Charybdis
is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils".
Several other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings.
The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which
seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes
is seen as leading inevitably
to disaster."
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"An Exxon spokesperson said:
“The breakdown of the shareholder proposal process, one that
allows proponents to advance their agendas
through a flood of proposals,
does not serve the interests of investors.
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'It’s been a master class in corrupt governance:
Choke transparency
while surrounding yourself with subservient institutions
that give the appearance of accountability
while providing a fig leaf
for those who use their power
to line their pockets."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/clarence-thomas-ethics-inquiry-underway.html
Friday, January 19, 2024
Monday, January 15, 2024
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Saturday, January 06, 2024
Biden, Anita Dunn adviser of Rapists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/06/obama-biden-meeting-campaign-2024/
"the president’s top political advisers — Anita Dunn..."
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"Anita Dunn, co-founder of the communications firm SKDK and widely considered a member of the president's inner circle, provided "crisis communications"
assistance to Michael Madigan, the then-Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, from 2018 to 2019.
That work netted Dunn and her firm more than $200,000, according to campaign finance disclosures."
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"2017, Dunn provided unpaid public relations advice to
Harvey Weinstein
just before the New York Times and the New Yorker published investigations into pervasive allegations of sexual misconduct and assault by Weinstein,
BuzzFeed News reported. At the time, SKDK released a statement saying that Dunn had spoken to Weinstein at the request of an unnamed friend and
SKDK had no relationship with Weinstein"
NPR asked SKDK specifically about what Dunn told Weinstein. The firm did not respond.
Weinstein is currently serving a prison sentence in New York following convictions in both New York and California for rape and sexual assault.
In 2019, Dunn also faced criticism for giving an interview to the journalist Mark Halperin for a planned book titled How to Beat Trump.
Two years prior, Halperin had faced multiple accusations of workplace sexual harassment. "
Fascist Status Quo
"The European Court of Justice's General Court on Wednesday, September 14, mostly confirmed a decision by the EU's executive Commission to
slap Google
with a fine of more than 4 billion euros
for stifling competition through the dominance of Android.Sep 14, 2022 "
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"Google settles $5 billion privacy lawsuit
over tracking people
using 'incognito mode'
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1222268415/google-settles-5-billion-privacy-lawsuit
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"More than two dozen Black civil rights leaders in the south-east have been high-value targets in power companies’ battle for market dominance,
courted and at times even co-opted by the industry,
according to an investigation by Floodlight and Capital B."
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"Florida School District Pulls Dictionaries,
Encyclopedias
From Library Over 'Sexual' Content"
"Escambia County School District allegedly removed five different dictionaries,
eight encyclopedias
and the “The Guinness Book of World Records” from its collection after determining the titles could run afoul of
Florida’s HB 1069 bill, which restricts sexual content from being taught in schools.
The books were among the 1,600 titles the public school district took out of circulation last summer, according to a statement from free speech advocacy group PEN America.
Decommissioned titles also include biographies of Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey, Nicki Minaj and
Thurgood Marshall."
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"New research found that poorest fifth pay a tax rate 60% higher,
on average, than the top 1% of households"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/states-wealth-inequality-taxes