u/SammaJones

My wife wants to know

Hard to believe though it may be, Victor Willis, lead singer of the Village People was, according to all published reports, heterosexual.

He was married twice - Once to Phylicia Rashad (nee Ayers-Allen) of Cosby Show fame. She played Bill's wife Clair Huxtable.

RIP Macho Man.

Sorrell Booke was the son of a prominent Jewish physician in Buffalo, NY. He graduated valedictorian of his High School at 16 years old and enrolled at Columbia University. He graduated from Columbia with a BA at 19 years old and went on to receive his MFA from Yale University. /

Sorrell Booke was fluent in 6 languages, and conversant in 6 more; and He was a highly accomplished Broadway stage actor. He was also a versatile character actor who appeared in countless TV shows and Movies.

He didn't land the role the is remembered for until 1979 when he was 49 years old.

There 2 situations when all ethical considerations seem to be completely ignored.

1. A people have a legitimate reason to believe they face an existential threat. Ethics be damned, they will do whatever it takes to survive.

2. Gold is discovered.

Those 2 realities ran headlong into each on other in the Black Hills. These days the Union Army is seen as cruel and villainous and the Sioux are portrayed as the victimized righteous owners of the land.

The truth was more complex. Those telegraph lines had to cross the country and had to be unmolested. The trains had to travel through without being threatened. The Sioux were not subject to American justice. It was a real problem. The 2 sides did try to sit and hash it all out and did arrive at a solution that seemed to address the needs of both sides.

Then gold was discovered. What a problem. It had to be mined, of course, not a question of "if", only "when" and the answer to the question of "when" had to be "immediately, if not sooner".

It all came to a head at Little Bighorn.

It's hard to defend the Union Army's actions. They were very cruel very often. They were, in fact, only trying establish and maintain law and order. The Sioux were not easy to control. Psychologically, there would be the concept that repressive cruelty would control a people. We don't believe that today largely because of psychological experiments done in the 1950s - most of which are also considered unethical by modern standards.

For at least a century Little Bighorn was seen as a tragedy. A mournful day in American History. Today it is celebrated as a win for the good guys.

The truth is that it was a battle. It changed nothing. Some men lost their lives. Nothing else happened. That is the one lesson we can take from it.

Neither Connecticut nor Pennsylvania has any coastline.

It wasn't originally called "Tom Sawyer". It was originally called "The Lawyer"

Edit: I guess I'm being force to provide a source. That stinks. My facts aren't always easily sourced. Can't I be the source? Link below. I offer no claim as to the veracity in anything written in that article, with the exception of the fact that I too quoted.

Rush-M-JulyAugust-2011.pdf

Wouldn't have ever been able to guess.

Maybe everyone knew that except me

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I pulled the chain I wore in High School out of a box. I'd like to give it to my teenage son. Can it be rehabed? Any advice? I'm not a jewelry wearing guy.

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Hi - a couple of notes. Mom has not been diagnosed with dementia. She has an appointment in September with a Neurologist. She lives independently. She is 81 years old. I am not her caregiver at the same level that I care for my father, but I am, nevertheless, still her caregiver and as she ages my responsibilities will expand.

Mom went downtown yesterday and was walking past a beauty store. They pulled her inside, gave her a makeover and talked her into buying 10 THOUSAND dollars worth of stuff, including a $9000 red light device.

Mom is middle-class. She has no pensions and a little under 1M saved. She's not indigent.

Mom has never made this kind of purchase before.

I'm not sure if I should intervene now or just let this slide and see if this pattern continues.

Just looking to hear other people's stories.

I should add - I am mom's POA/Medical POA and have been for many years. There are no siblings or other loved ones involved at this level.

How can I make sure that they're sterile?

Ok - so the plane takes off and everyone is ready to jump. Then the plane has power trouble and so it turns back but doesn't make it back so all the skydivers die.

I'm trying not to make a joke out of this in my mind, but HTF does this happen?

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Do Australians sing along with pride when they hear Land Down Under?

Do they remove their Australian hats?

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Credit Card companies know the name, address, phone number etc of the people who committing fraud. Should the be required to reveal that information to their customers who are being defrauded? Should the insist on a visual image and post it on their site?