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Jan 11 2024 04:17AM
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GBD was there to welcome them
What is the classiest way to respond when meeting a celebrity?
My mother was in Los Angeles one day, and happened to see John Wayne on the street. Mom walked up to him and expressed her enjoyment of his work, and respectfully asked for an autograph.
Wayne smiled at her, but said, “Wellllll, little lady. I'd love to accommodate you, but I'm working right now.” Unknowingly, mother had walked onto a working movie set.
Completely embarrassed, she backed away, profusely apologizing all the way.
Wayne called after her. “Little lady? Oh, ma'am? Wait a minute.” With that, he reached into a pocket, pulled out his personal business card, signed the back, and handed mom his card. “Thank you, dear. I always have time for a fan!”
Classy gesture from a classy guy!
In 1915, Effie Hotchkiss bought a new Harley-Davidson and attached a sidecar to carry her mother, Avis, as a passenger. The pair then set out from Brooklyn to see the Panama Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco. Avis had instilled confidence in her daughter, and when asked if she had fears about the arduous cross-country journey, Avis replied, “I do not fear breakdowns, for Effie, being a most careful driver, is a good mechanic and does her own repairing with her own tools.” The pair were the first women to cross America by motorbike, at a time when the roads, where they existed, were simply horrendous. After visiting the Pacific Coast, the pair rode back to Brooklyn, for an epic 9,000-mile journey.
The pair took two months to reach San Francisco, attracting attention on the way. They stayed in rented rooms, travelling light with some clothes, tools and a gun. When they reached their final destination, they were photographed pouring out a jar of Atlantic sea water they had carried from New York, into the Pacific Ocean at Ocean Beach, in San Francisco.
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Jan 2 2024 03:48PM
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A $ 20.00 Big Mac?
Seems kind of steep, but folks in California have a lot of money.
Good thing Ole California is in such great financial shape.
California voters approved 2.6 billion a year for medical on illegal aliens.
One has to love the way they can afford to spend money.
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Jan 1 2024 08:50AM
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Japan gets hammered
Earthquake causes evacuations
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Dec 21 2023 09:43PM
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Go Blue
Star Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto has agreed to join the Dodgers on a 12-year, $325 million contract, sources told ESPN on Thursday, ending a frenzied free agency with the largest deal for a pitcher in Major League Baseball history.
The Dodgers' offer, which does not include a $50.6 million posting fee due to Yamamoto's previous team, the Orix Buffaloes, sealed the second-biggest deal this winter, behind Shohei Ohtani's contract with the Dodgers. Their total outlay: 12 years, $375 million.
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Dec 20 2023 09:18AM
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DOJ of Colorado
They don't like these rules.
The U.S. Constitution states that the president must:
Be a natural-born citizen of the United States
Be at least 35 years old
Have been a resident of the United States for 14 years
Anyone who meets these requirements can declare their candidacy for president. Once a candidate raises or spends more than $5,000 for their campaign, they must register with the Federal Election Commission. That includes naming a principal campaign committee to raise and spend campaign funds.
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Dec 9 2023 12:33PM
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What do you get for 700 million?
Well
Ya get a pretty good Japanese baseball player.
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Dec 3 2023 04:37PM
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The 49ers
They are back
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Nov 25 2023 05:34AM
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Aunt Jemima
They killed her! Why would they do that?
She was the only one that was older than I was.
Fuckin murders.
Aunt Jemima was an American breakfast brand for pancake mix, table syrup, and other breakfast food products. The original version of the pancake mix was developed in 1888–1889 by the Pearl Milling Company
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Nov 15 2023 04:20PM
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Henry Huntington
This is a map of the old Red Car system, based on a 1912 original from the Los Angeles Public Library's collection. Yes, it really went all the way to San Pedro, Santa Monica, Huntington Beach and the like. At the time, the Red Cars weren't exactly popular, because they were owned by Henry Huntington, a classic early 20th century robber baron. The Red Cars, fundamentally, were meant to support Huntington's real estate ventures, and Huntington had no qualms about using old fashioned corruption to get his way.
For example, this meant that Huntington had inside knowledge of the plan to take the Owens Valley's water, and use it to provide water to the San Fernando Valley. In 1904, Huntington joined a real estate syndicate to quietly buy up the worthless semi-desert of the Valley, before the L.A. Aqueduct was public knowledge. Once the L.A. Aqueduct became a reality and got voter approval, he connected the Valley to DTLA using Red Car lines and began developing the land around the stations. When he sold his stake in the syndicate in 1912, Huntington had turned an 866% profit.
In the first two decades of the 20th century, there really was no practical alternative to the Red Cars, because cars were extremely expensive, and the bus and truck hadn't become practical yet. Because of this, the Red Cars held a virtual monopoly over transport of both freight and passengers in all Southern California. It should not come as a surprise that they acted like monopolistic dicks during this time, and they quickly developed a reputation for crummy service and cutthroat business tactics. When the bus and car became a reality, Angelenos were eager to get out from under the thumb of the Red Cars. On the one hand, the Culver City Bus and the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, founded in the 1920s, were both attempts to challenge the Red Cars as transit. Once cars became affordable to the masses, Angelenos bought them in huge numbers, and by 1925 Angelenos had the most cars per-capita in the United States.
Angelenos were loath to spend tax dollars to support the Red Car system when it needed the money. The Red Cars requested public financial support to convert the old lines into modern rapid transit in 1926 and 1948; both times, the proposals got voted down. Instead, Angelenos invested in freeways from 1940 onward, and we all know how that turned out.
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Nov 14 2023 05:41PM
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Which one of you screwed up the 10 freeway ?
So someone torches a pallet company under the 10 at Alameda.
Terrorists or vandalism? 300,000 people a day are affected.
Will it take years to fix? Concrete was so hot it cracked.
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Nov 11 2023 11:31AM
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Thank you for your service.
To all of America’s Veterans, past and present, we sincerely thank each and every one of you for fighting to uphold freedom and democracy at home, and across the globe.
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Nov 2 2023 07:17PM
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A man has three girlfriends
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