The Murder of Fred Hampton!!!

The Shootings at Kent State and Jackson State (nobody seems to recall those…)

I remember lots of my mates in school saying “Nixon is going to declare martial law, suspend the constitution, cancel the elections!”

Instead, it was Nixon that was tossed out.

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Maybe to ’save money’ The O’s will outsource the job to those fresh-faced mid-20s teenagers at AmeriCorps.

This could easily cost over a 100K for many homes, particularly older ones with 2×4 exterior studs…This will decimate the real estate business, home sales and will devalue most residential property drastically.

If this is true, I sense a rise in house fires.

“See, we were going to sell the house (which is why all our stuff was out and we were staying with relatives across town) and we thought we should redecorate a little to make it attractive to buyers. That’s why all those cans of paint were in there. And the oil we were using to refinish the wood floors (unfortuantely they weren’t sustainably harvested, but since they were already there, we thought it best to keep them). Anyway, then we found out we have to do all this extra work to bring it up to eco standards. So we hired some guys to do that. I guess one of the workers must’ve left a cigarette butt smoldering in there (you know contruction workers, filthy beasts, and liars too – none of them admits to being a smoker…). Next thing you know, the whole place is on fire. I tried to put it out with a garden hose, but forgot I’d turned off the water to save, well, water. Plus I thought it might be bad to let all the burning pieces of house drain into the acquifer.

Anyway, someone else must’ve called the Fire Department while I was wondering about what to do, because eventually they showed up. But it was too late and the house was a total loss. Glad I upped the insurance policy in preparation for selling the place.”

This could easily cost over a 100K for many homes, particularly older ones with 2×4 exterior studs and smaller joists that don’t easily meet even today’s standards which need bigger insulation cavities.

This will decimate the real estate business, home sales and will devalue most residential property drastically.

Gee thanks, Buraq! That ’s the change we’ve been looking for! Not.

The cosmic humor being must have inspired the naming of the National Science Foundation.

Anyone who has dealt with a bank branch knows “NSF” means “Insufficient Funds.”

I heard the first of these quotes many years ago but the second only recently:

Albert Einstein: “God does not play dice with the Universe.”

Enrico Fermi: “Albert, quit telling God how to run things.”