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Jack Nicholson's car
I wanted to post this before editorial found it, because when I see something this cool, I like to plant my flag on it.
The following is a segment from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's program "Marketplace," back in 1978. To repeat: Nineteen. Seventy. Eight.
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Delay And Deny Posted 8:28 am
19 Nov 2008
I've been watching old episodes of Columbo on Netflix Watch Now streaming.
In the third season, the episode "Mind Over Mayhem" Columbo is solving a case on the campus of a technological think tank...I think modeled on Rand or SRI.
Everyone on campus has access to a car pool.
At one point early on the mechanic was under a car and talking about the "pilot light". Hmmm...I thought it was just an expression. But no, what it was is that all the cars there ran on natural gas!
Yeah, I know it was just a drama, but I think a lot of Columbo ideas were based on real world things...I kind of made me wonder if there were campuses with cars in 1973 that ran on natural gas.
And even if there weren't, here was the idea being presented on prime time television -- 1973!!
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amazingdrx Posted 2:46 pm
19 Nov 2008
The electrically powered perambulator, patent 1894.
Meanwhile on present day mass delusional media...the democrat answering for our side on Hardball earlier this evening? He was calling for flex fuel chips in cars, in return for the bailout money for the big three. His meatheaded idea, ethanol.
No mass firing of auto execs, no plugin hybrids. Pathetic.
He was arguing against a pub who kept repeating the "right to work state" (union busting talking point) position, that it is all the union's fault. Let them go chapter 11 and move production to his state, he says.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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Biodiversivist Posted 3:29 pm
19 Nov 2008
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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amazingdrx Posted 4:40 pm
19 Nov 2008
Then Colbert had a brilliant segment, his "Word" thing, on free marketeerianism as religion. Some producers and writers just have to be tuning into the blog somehow. The power of collective consciousness in action maybe?
The insect DNA within the human design?
Anyway, someone put the Colbert segment up when it's available? He called it moneytheism, hehey.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin
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