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Good morning, Mr. Glass.
Your sick-voice kind of sounds like your Bill Clinton voice. Just thought I'd note that.
Be seeing you.
Art museums can be transformative. The first place I got to go after I got home from rehab from my stroke was the Frida Kahlo exhibit at the SFMOMA. I was walking with a quad-cane, but not very well yet, and they lent me a wheelchair for my visit.
It was the first contact I had with people not connected with me or my recovery as a disabled person, and I learned a lot about how that plays out in the real world that day, all the while taking in the contents of the SFMOMA.
Even the crowds, and it was crowded that day, made room for the guy in the wheelchair with the leather coat and ponytail to see the paintings.
After lunch, I traded the wheelchair back for my cane and tried getting around that way, but only lasted less than an hour before having to find somewhere to sit again.
I hadn't thought about that trip for a while, until you mentioned the art museum in the podcast, and it made me thankful for not just the SFMOMA and their ease of access, but all of my housemates who drove me there, helped me cross the street from the parking lot, and had the idea to catch the exhibit while it was there.
When it was done I had a much better idea of what I was up against for the rest of my life than before, and I can't think of a more perfect environment for that to have happened in.
Thank you again for the podcast, and I hope Driftglass is over his cold by now. The winter colds are bad this year, and thankfully I have avoided them so far.
-Doug in Oakland
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Lincoln sold the lands of 2-year-old Oregon,
(where never a Euro was, except Russians and Spaniards),
to whomever would build a railroad (from Baltimore & Ohio) to, and thru, those lands.
And lakes where beavers dammed the end of the Trail.
Three 'entities' bought in, (robber barons generation), and Edward H. Harriman was one of them.
Then Lincoln leveraged their bonded values as collateral financing greenbacks to pay Union army, which went on to win.
One was the Southern line to the Pacific.
Two (Harriman) went for the Central.
Three was Burlington Northern thru Whitefish.
BNRR ended on the north bank of Columbia R.
The Rock Island Line merged with the Atkinson Topeka & Santa Fe and was the Central & Southern Pacific RR that ended on the south bank of the Columbia R.
Which is the point of Portland in this comment. If you leave the cornfields you're a trailblazer.
Portland remains today the Northern - Southern border war.
Northern trains in Vancouver in order to cross Columbia to Portland first must decouple their locomotives and retain a tender to pull the cars to Portland. Then the tender decouples, Southern's locomotives hook up and take the cars from there.
Southern trains in Portland in order to cross Columbia to Vancouver first must decouple locomotives, retain tender, be taken over, undone, re-coupled, and finally get underway on the Northern lines.
And that's why I brought this link here in the cornfields. resistance is futile against the call of the wild
https://www.opb.org/news/article/columbia-gorge-model-railroad-club [ VIDEO ]
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Now, in the course of getting to my Portland point a couple of supporting exhibits were enlisted. Here are those links introduced.
First link is a chapter of Oregon History which explains that America never was and still is not one sovereign nation from sea to shining sea.
Rather, America is a railroad business along tracks laid across multiple sovereign nations. It's a railroad barons' Thing. The nations hogtied and hostaged together don't like each other very much.
That's why your Federal Tax Form 1040 curiously asks you if you are now or your ancestors ever were workin' on the railroad sll the livelong day. Dinah heats it up in the kitchen; someone's in there with her, others can't stand it and get out.
On New Year's Day you may see the Tournament of Roses Parade from Pasedena float a reminder that this year is the sesquicentennial celebration of driving the Golden Pike joining our nations in the Mormon zone.
This land is my land. That land is your land.
to be continued ...
... continued
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The backstory is here:
https://books.google.com/books?id=nfoXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA678&lpg=PA678&dq="history+of+oregon"+coming+of+railroad&source=bl&ots=cs_iaqtpFe&sig=dwt1kEUidBVFmHG_McleDS14p2M&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi4iZC8hcbfAhXLHDQIHSpFCQ04ChDoATABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q="history%20of%20oregon"%20coming%20of%20railroad&f=false
History of Oregon by Charles Henry Carey
Chapter XXXVII
The Coming of the Railroad
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Now and ultimately onward Christian soldiers for the adventures of Edward H. Harriman.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/28/the-totem-thieves-2/
The Totem Thieves by Jeffrey St. Clair
Counterpunch
and:
http://modernhistoryproject.org/mhp?Article=BushBook&C=1.0
" We will begin the George Bush story about a decade before his birth, on the eve of World War I. We will follow the career of his father, Prescott Bush, through his marriage with Dorothy Walker, ...
[daughter of Herbert Walker, landed of Walker's Point, Maine, renamed 'Kennebuckport.' ]
Prescott Bush's first college year, 1913, was also the freshman year at Yale for E. Roland "Bunny" Harriman, whose older brother W. Averell Harriman had just graduated from Yale. This is the Averell Harriman who went on to fame as the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union during World War II, as a governor of New York State, and as a presidential advisor who was greatly responsible for starting the Vietnam War.
The Harrimans would become the sponsors of the Bushes, to lift them onto the stage of world history."
[ Giving new meaning for 'the overland stage of the rolling stock of America's railroads' ]
"... stock broker E.H. Harriman, had gained control of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1898 with credit arranged by William Rockefeller.... In return for their backing, E.H. Harriman deposited in City Bank the vast receipts from his railroad lines. When he issued tens of millions of dollars of "watered" (fraudulent) railroad stock, Harriman sold most of the shares through the Kuhn Loeb company."
[... from the cornfields of Ohio ... ]
"This was an unusual appointment, as Prescott's father seemed to have no background in munitions. Samuel Bush had been president of the Buckeye Steel Castings Co. in Columbus, Ohio, makers of railcar parts. His entire career had been in the railroad business-- supplying equipment to the Wall Street-owned railroad systems. (see note [E1])"
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Some New Year's holiday reading for folks.
Coiling the spring around Springfield.
Notice the OPB video overlooks that the Portland Model Railroad Club reconstructed only half of the Columbia R. Gorge -- the south half.
Happy holidays, y'all.
Rothko is awesome. Just stand in front of one and gaze at it for a while. It will begin to become three dimensional. Those colors play with our perceptions. They will float up off the canvas and retreat back into it. It's really quite meditative and beautiful. Rothko is using the medium to play with our minds and our perceptions.
Trust me, try it. It will change you.
Oh, and you have look at the actual canvas. Prints don't work so well.
You hit it smack on the nose.
The networks (most media in gerneral) are all out on this kick over insane nonesense.
* Can't the democrats find a way to work (submit) to president Art of the Deal?
* Going to Alternative facts Queen, who ignores that Trump and GOP house and Senate did nothing about the wall for 2 years. It was GOP Senate that stalled funding and why are the republicans voting to help Trump break one of his more popular campaign promises of making Mexico pay for it?
* Cannot ask the KellyGirl about why her Lord Trump decided during a shutdown to sign an executive order to chop these workers pay?
* How any pissing on these out of work Government employees is really good because, Because, "they are all Liberal Democrats".
* Why can't the Democrats work out a deal? When Republicans are still the majority rule?
* Pelosi is on vacation and caused all of this. Now illegal aliens are coming in from outer space and Democrats will not fund Space Force or a Space Wall.
8 What about the Democrats lack of 2020 candidates? They have noone to run against and beat Trump. And, their presidential ambitions are causing them to obstruct the MAGA King. Why do they hate America?
* How ;iberal democrats want MS13 to freely enter the country to vote for them and to eliminate republican voters.
here is a favorite, those wascally liberal and their sanctuary cities allowing murder and crime. While those Conservative farm counties dependence on cheap undocumented workers aren;t allowing in MS13 and other criminals.
Note; It was not MS 13 that shot 500+ in Las Vegas. it wasn't Guatemalan asylum seekers who shot those kids at the Florida School. nor the Carolina church shooting.
Nope. they weren't immigrants.
In the meantime, Malania and her Anchor babies got special treatment for her chain (parents) migration to come in. Not excluding Trump business falsifying illegal immigrant documents for his slave labor , Taking those great Jobs at Mar A Lago working for the greatest company in the USA. Which is the Trump Or*Not much talk about Trump outing a SEal team. Like Cheney outing his undercover CIA agent. This is a good thing if you are of the GOP and the republican Russian Brotherhood.
** My favorite never mentioned.
How the Taxed Enough Already dudes (TEA Party), Spent so much of other peoples money. How the TEA Party partied and swam in government money.
How the debt went up with the T-potters blessings.
Thank you for sharing your experiences, Doug in Oakland. As a survivor of a minor stroke some 3½ years ago I have often contemplated how fortunate I have been warned about needed lifestyle changes without major lasting consequences. Be well and again, thank you for sharing…
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