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Isabeau

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Posted: May 13, 2025 - 3:54pm

 Steely_D wrote:

HB Stevland (Stevie Wonder). I named my first son after him, srsly.

His greatest piece of writing? The good/evil fight in this song. Listen as he alternates between the two, even to asking nicely "Can (may) I play?" and then bragging "Can I play!"
That's no accident. It's art.


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Posted: May 13, 2025 - 1:41pm

HB Stevland (Stevie Wonder). I named my first son after him, srsly.

His greatest piece of writing? The good/evil fight in this song. Listen as he alternates between the two, even to asking nicely "Can (may) I play?" and then bragging "Can I play!"
That's no accident. It's art.

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Posted: May 13, 2025 - 1:01pm

Stevie Wonder - 75 years old today.  He was only 26 years old when he released "Songs In the Key of Life" - his 18th album.
(2016 article, but still relevant)
Most Americans follow up their 21st birthdays with a hangover; Stevie Wonder opted for arguably the greatest sustained run of creativity in the history of popular music. Wonder’s “classic period”—the polite phrase for when Stevie spent five years ferociously dunking on the entire history of popular music with the releases of Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness’ First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life—is usually placed between 1972 and 1976, but it really begins a year earlier, with that birthday. In May 1971, Wonder turned 21 and gained access to 10 years’ worth of royalties that had been accruing in a trust set up for him by Motown Records when he’d signed his first contract, at age 11. He also allowed his Motown contract to expire, meaning that one of pop music’s hottest stars, on his 21st birthday, was now both financially secure and a free agent. If Motown wanted to keep him, it would require a deal unlike any the label had previously granted.
miamizsun

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Posted: Jan 10, 2022 - 10:04am

 GeneP59 wrote:
MINE!


baked beans for everyone!  


oldviolin

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Posted: Jan 10, 2022 - 8:40am

 GeneP59 wrote:
 Manbird wrote:
 GeneP59 wrote:
MINE!
Happy birthday to you! 
Because if it isn't... 
 
 Thanks and yes it really is.

 
Well then, old man; I wish you large sticky cakes and candles galore
fresh new dentures and a young lions roar! {#Cheers}
because if you doesn't...
GeneP59

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Posted: Jan 10, 2022 - 8:15am

 Manbird wrote:
 GeneP59 wrote:
MINE!
Happy birthday to you! 
Because if it isn't... 
 
 Thanks and yes it really is.

Manbird

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Posted: Jan 9, 2022 - 10:45am

 GeneP59 wrote:
MINE!


Happy birthday to you! 
Because if it isn't... 
GeneP59

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Posted: Jan 9, 2022 - 9:47am

MINE!
Manbird

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Posted: Jan 8, 2022 - 8:38pm

Stephen Hawking



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Posted: Apr 3, 2018 - 3:29pm

 aflanigan wrote:
Happy birthday to John Harrison, the amateur self-taught clockmaker who gave the world the  marine chronometer, saving many lives and revolutionizing navigation on the 7 seas.

 
I was at the Greenwich Naval Museum a long time ago and they had a really interesting exhibit on the subject of determining longitude including a neat demonstration of what happens if you put a pendulum clock on a ship. 
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Posted: Apr 3, 2018 - 1:33pm

Happy birthday to John Harrison, the amateur self-taught clockmaker who gave the world the  marine chronometer, saving many lives and revolutionizing navigation on the 7 seas.
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Posted: Jul 15, 2017 - 9:36am

Listened with tears rolling down my face a few days ago on NPR to a program highlighting Malala Yousafzai's 20th birthday, and how she celebrated it by speaking in Iraq to Yazadi girls.

Malala Yousafzai Visits Displaced Women 
Antigone

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Posted: Jul 7, 2017 - 5:49pm

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” Gustav Mahler, born today in 1860.


lily34

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Posted: Jul 6, 2017 - 8:48am

mine is not mentioned. and i'm offended.
miamizsun

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Posted: Jul 2, 2017 - 7:14am

 SeriousLee wrote:

Bookmarked.

“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”

 

as always everything on any given site isn't for everyone

wading through free speech (some more than others) to get the nuggets/pearls recommended

enjoy


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Posted: Jul 1, 2017 - 8:30am

 miamizsun wrote:
not that anyone cares

so please allow me

Why Bastiat Is As Relevant As Ever on His 216th Birthday

 

Here’s Bastiat’s famous quote on legal plunder (now frequently referred to as “crony capitalism”  "political corruption"):

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.



 
Bookmarked.

“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.”
miamizsun

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Posted: Jul 1, 2017 - 8:03am

not that anyone cares

so please allow me

Why Bastiat Is As Relevant As Ever on His 216th Birthday

 

Here’s Bastiat’s famous quote on legal plunder (now frequently referred to as “crony capitalism”  "political corruption"):

Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.

But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong.See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.


Skydog

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Posted: Dec 9, 2016 - 9:00am

 JrzyTmata wrote:

holy crap! he is still alive. and he blogs

 
Alec Baldwin tells the funniest story about and does a great imitation of Kirk Douglas
start at the 2:33 mark 
.
http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/alec-baldwin-just-a-lazy-shiftless-bastard


JrzyTmata

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Posted: Dec 9, 2016 - 8:30am

 Skydog wrote:

he's still alive? 
maybe he'll escape the wrath of 2016, 22 days left 

 
holy crap! he is still alive. and he blogs
Skydog

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Posted: Dec 9, 2016 - 7:15am

 Proclivities wrote: 
he's still alive? 
maybe he'll escape the wrath of 2016, 22 days left 
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