I remember “It’s 10 pm, do you know where your children are?” being asked every night before the local news.

‘Stand By Me’ was a movie about four boys disappearing for a weekend and not one parent was arrested.

Click bait that actually makes me glad I clicked???

1996 is 16 years after 1980, when Reagan started it.

Blaming the Act is like saying Harry Truman won WW2 for the Americans.

After Watergate Americans learned that a free press could bring down a tyrannical government. So the Right got to work destroying the free press.

Reagan went after the Fairness Doctrine and made it easier for one company to own all the TV and radio stations in a town. The new tech helped destroy the local newspapers.

lol!

And of course there’s no chance that the US power structure would be involved if the US had a systemic break down.

Blackwater/Academi and the CIA probably already have detailed plans in place. They’ll do what ex-KGB agent Putin did in Russia; let the people throw out the old leadership, then swoop in and buy up the resources for pennies on the dollar.

Thanks for helping me prove my point.

So we agree. The revolution didn’t actually improve things for most people.

How is it ‘beside the point’ when it’s exactly my point?

So, you’re saying that because the Shah was terrible in 1979 it’s okay for the current people to be terrible now?

Right now Vietnam is a very popular tourist destination for Americans. I know people who have been there several times and want to go back.

Blaming the US for the excesses of the Iranians is like excusing Charles Manson because he was abused as a child.

Most of the time when you destroy the system you get a much worse system.

Iran got rid of the Shah and got the current freedom loving regime.

The Russians kicked out the old Communist Party and got a KGB trained billionaire in charge.

Voting is like breathing.

Every election is the most important one of yopur life.

Doc Savage has entered the chat.

Millionaire geniuses were a dime a dozen in the Pulp Era!

[jk, of course you’re right]

Alexas Texas has entered the chat…

Alexis Texas.

Way more daring than Hannah ever was…

Could be.

Off topic but fun.

The book ‘The Carpetbaggers’ became a movie; there was a Western actor mentioned in the story, Nevada Smith. Does anyone else know a daring character named after a state with a five letter last name?

https://youtu.be/Or-4aw41PkM

When Stan Lee created Tony back in the 1960’s he probably took his inspiration from Howard Hughes.

Hughes had been the inspiration for a famous novel of the time, “The Carpetbaggers.”

HH was played by Leo DiCaprio in ‘The Aviator.’

You lazy b##stard!

[jk, enjoy!]

https://temp.larryniven.net/?q=man-of-steel-woman-of-kleenex-by-larry-niven

Back when they made the first movie they literally used WW2 fighter footage to design the final battle with the Death Star.

I can’t remember the author or title, but that was the idea for a story I once read.

God sends an angel and the monkeys to do the job. They get close, but when the angel is doing the final read through he sees "…to be, or not to beee, Damn the ‘E’ key is sticking. " And they have to start over

We’re talking about language! Don’t bring in grammar!!

[jk]