Wendell Willkie was the GOP candidate for president in 1940, defeated by FDR of course.

"Which way did he go, George" is in reference to Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

"I'm only 3 and a half years old" is a catch phrase uttered by Baby Snooks, a character made wildly popular on the radio by Fanny Brice in 1936.

An "A-Card" was a rationing measure taken for the war effort, the bearer of which could acquire only a minimum gasoline allowance.

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That's me, but clowning around at the ripe age of 18. I had to crop the whole picture so you lose the whole effect, but my friend had a 1940s Chrysler, and he lived on an old southern plantation. We posed with the props and shot in black and white for vintage look.
Now I wear hats to keep the sun off that thin section.

Well, according to the online IQ test I just have begun, I'm a white female born on February 4th, 1940. More on this when I'm done.

"Absolutely a science sift. Whether or not it's wrong, it discusses science, and more importantly, it gets people asking questions." MarineGunrock

-You know what, you've completely changed my mind, the post should stay and the debate should ensue.


1. These guys aren't scientists of any description whatsoever and I don't know what they're doing on any Science Channel. - Irishman

So unless MIT is some fly-by-night operation handing out jobs to any lunatic off the street, I believe you are mistaken.


-- MIT like all institutions has hosted more than a few fly-by-night cosmology studies.



2. It absolutely, categorically, scientifically does NOT contain one single piece of experimental data to back up the claims. - Irishman

Did you not see Dr. Wong experimenting with lasers and splitting photons, or do you think that was all for show? I'm sure they just let him shoot lasers all day without presenting any data.


-- Yes I did see them shooting the lasers, and I wondered how they were going to measure it over a distance of the light years necessary to get anywhere near as accurate a measurement as was performed in the 1940s. The curvature of space time is an absolute principle which affects all of our modern technology.



3. Is this now the level of the VS Science Channel? - Irishman

If you're so dismayed by the quality of science sifts here, I don't believe anyone's created a ScienceSift.com web site yet. Don't let me stand in the way of your greatness.

-- Not dismayed; surprised, and somewhat amused.




The evidence is not compelling and the flaw in the experiment is easily pointed out. Saying that, plenty of theories have survived for quite some time with misinterpreted results from studies.

Guys, this is how science works. People have to look at what is being claimed and if they don't agree with it they have to be able to back up their reasons why. That's exactly what I'm doing and I'm happy to be swayed to a different opinion. I'm not in the slightest bit swayed by anything so far.

I call Major Bullshit at 2 mins into this clip and I can back it up.

The first experiments done to measure the curvature of spacetime were performed in Africa in the 1940s. During a solar eclipse stars which were occluded by (behind) the sun were actually visible, as the light was bent around the sun by its gravity. There have been many verfications of this first experiment and nowadays astronomers use this bending of light as a tool.

It is a prediction by General Relativity that if space time is curved then light should be bent by gravity. This is what the equations predict should happen and is in fact what happens in reality.

The reason for this is that light has no mass (mass of a photon=0) - so you wouldn't expect gravity to affect light at all. It bends because the spacetime it is travelling through is curved by the presence of a massive object, in this case the sun.

Second part of their bullshit:
It is WRONG to say that a curved spacetime means that you would end up back where you started if you travelled in a straight line. General Relativity doesn't say that at all, and neither did Einstein or any other scientist. It just means that spacetime is curved and warped by matter.

Seriously guys - anyone calling 'flat universe' should be treated with the same contempt as 'flat earthers'.

These guys aren't scientists of any description whatsoever and I don't know what they're doing on any Science Channel. In fact I think they probably work for the production company that made this show.

What on earth TV programme is this? Who makes it? I feel like emailing them a ridiculously verbose WTF.

Aww, he's messing up that bigoted man's nice little club.


For anyone who finds this video especially compelling, they may want to learn about Stetson Kennedy and how he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940's and managed to seriously undermine their recruiting efforts. It involves the Superman radio program. Really.

Stetson briefly recounts the story in an interview here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4663544

USA, Im just glad I dont live there. Its sad to say, but its a growing consensus worldwide, as a traveler I know. People used to want to live there....but now with government corruption at its highest, and a complacent public. Your country is looking like the most fascist country I can think of and have even been too. Looking in from the outside, it looks like you love trading freedom for protection. I hope you enjoy your protection, soon ... it'll be all you have.

It may not be facism by the 1940 definition, but none will ever be exactly like that again. Just look at all the laws your government implements on a daily basis.. if your country was so great why all the new laws? why all the protection? Why not Freedom?

You seem to have conveniently side step the points we both raise, bringing the issue back to whether or not a fetus constituents a human life.

The standard question of whether one sees a fetus as an unborn baby or as a human being is pretty standard pro-life argument, once someone starts to clarify that they don't see fetuses as human beings its easy to call us murders. Its not surprising that such arguments almost always stem from a religious stand point devoid of scientific or medical reasoning.

But who determines when life starts really? The definition of such is murky, some say that its from the point of conception yet scientifically that is preposterous since there is a lack of consciousness when cells simply start to subdivide.

The same analogy is seen in brain dead patients, remember Terri Shavio? Was she technically alive then? She was a human being but totally brain dead. Were we committing murder when disconnecting her from the machine? A fetus is much the same relying totally on the birth mother for life.

For me looking over what it means to be alive from a scientific and philosophical standpoint, a fetus is not a human being, its a forming human, not totally developed until the latter stages of pregnancy. I seen various attempts by pro-Lifers to convince me otherwise but come on do you recall being in the womb? You didn't because the neurons in your brain didn't even form then, your eyes were still developing its a reason they refer to a pregnancy as bun in the oven. But then again I come from a medical family.

But that doesn't matter me much, I doubt I can convince anyone with my own views but what we can agree is on the wider social aspects about what abolishing abortion means.

As I mentioned before if pro-lifers want abortion to be gone then they have to agree to adopt, raise, cloth and educate each child that is not aborted. Or pay the high taxes that result to support a first class foster and social assistance program for these children. Not aborting someone but making them live a incomplete existence through lack of a family, education, opportunities and a good upbringing for me is worse then abortion because then you are really fucking up someones existence.

Furthermore living in a world that is close to hitting a 7 billion population mark, with most of it living in the 3rd world with children who possess no parents through war, famine, disease, poverty and so on. I see no problem in curbing the birth rates through abortion. If Pro-Lifers are so concerned they should really go to Africa and adopt some kids and give them a shot at a normal life, they are already born, trying to make their way in this life. We don't have to argue if they are alive or not.

But simply saying abortion is wrong and not looking at the wider picture of where humanity is as a race in the 21st century on Earth is narrow minded.

Oh, and its not actually flimsy logic its a study that has been conducted in the 1940s, 70s and most recently in 2001 within the US, Canada and Australia that correlates legalized abortion with drops in crime.

I think you'll find that that is actually the most dangerous thing on the internet: A collection of both real and fake ads.

For instance the Puma one: http://www.adrants.com/2003/03/puma-ads-not-for-the-squeamish.php

Fake

The one that you've posted above even has an address to thecitydesk.net, which when you go and look at their site it's described as "Fictional urbanism. Semi-regular items about a city."

I'm going to call fake on this one too.

Look, back in the day there were many amazing claims made about things that we know now to be blatant lies. The Camel ad for instance is real (they had a
whole campaign around the slogan
)

But this one just rings as being a little too unbelievable... much like the 'is it always illegal to kill a woman' ad on there... what is actually supposed to be advertising if it were a real ad?

my favorite Churchill quote;

"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many long months of toil and struggle.

"You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage war with all our might, with all the strength that God can give us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

"You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival."

—First speech as Prime Minister, House of Commons, 1940

They were both children in WWII.

Yoko was born in 1933, John in 1940.

I think that's one of the reasons they took their anti-war efforts so seriously.

1. What's Opera, Doc? (Warner Bros./1957)
2. Duck Amuck (Warner Bros./1953)
3. The Band Concert (Disney/1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (Warner Bros./1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (Warner Bros./1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay/1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (MGM/1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (Warner Bros./1938)
9. Gerald McBoing Boing (UPA]/1951)
10. King-Size Canary (MGM/1947)
11. Three Little Pigs (Disney/1933)
12. Rabbit of Seville (Warner Bros./1950)
13. Steamboat Willie (Disney/1928)
14. The Old Mill (Disney/1937)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (MGM/1949)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Warner Bros./1946)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Fleischer/1936)
18. The Skeleton Dance (Disney/1929)
19. Snow White (1933 cartoon) (Fleischer/1933)
20. Minnie the Moocher (Fleischer/1932)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (Warner Bros./1943)
22. Der Fuehrer's Face (Disney/1943)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (MGM/1949)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (UPA/1953)
25. The Big Snit (National Film Board of Canada/1985)
26. Brave Little Tailor (Disney/1938)
27. Clock Cleaners (Disney/1937)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (MGM/1946)
29. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (Disney/1953)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (Warner Bros./1952)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (Warner Bros./1950)
32. The Cat Came Back (National Film Board Of Canada/1988)
33. Superman (Fleischer/1941)
34. You Ought To Be in Pictures (Warner Bros./1940)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (Warner Bros./1957)
36. Feed the Kitty (Warner Bros./1952)
37. Bimbo's Initiation (Fleischer/1931)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (International Rocketship/1969)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (Warner Bros./1941)
40. Peace on Earth (MGM/1939)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (UPA/1952)
42. The Cat Concerto (MGM/1947)
43. The Barber of Seville (Lantz/1944)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (National Film Board Of Canada/1987)
45. Book Revue (Warner Bros./1946)
46. Quasi at the Quackadero (Cruikshank/1975)
47. Corny Concerto (Warner Bros./1943)
48. Unicorn in the Garden (UPA/1953)
49. The Dover Boys (Warner Bros./1942)
50. Felix in Hollywood (Sullivan/1923)

1: The Great Global Warming Swindle was on tv, so not really a "lolol only pro global warming on tv lolol"
2: Seems you're not just a global warming denialist, but also a greenhouse gas denialist: CO2 is a greenhouse gas. It, in addition to water vapor and other gasses (others which only amount for 8% of the greenhouse effect), holds infrared radiation in the atmosphere which in effect heats the surface of the earth. It's why we have a climate and there is any life on this planet in the first place. You increase the concentration of it and you hold in more radiation, causing temperatures to go up. This was all taught in any middle school science class across the country. Now that we have that little misconception cleared up, please continue.

3: and another thing: The Great Global Warming Swindle was made in the UK, shown on UK, and debunked in UK. It got debunked so hard Mr Durkin admitted that his graphics team had extended the time axis along the bottom of the graph to the year 2000. 'There was a fluff there,' he said. If Mr Durkin had gone directly to the NASA website he could have got the most up-to-date data. This would have demonstrated that the amount of global warming since 1975, as monitored by terrestrial weather stations around the world, has been greater than that between 1900 and 1940—although that would have undermined his argument. 'The original NASA data was very wiggly-lined and we wanted the simplest line we could find,' Mr Durkin said: The original, and corrected versions of Temperature data from TGGWS, along with NASA GISS data
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This made me curious to see how many voices he does, so via wiki:

1. Porky Pig (1936-1989, assumed from Joe Dougherty)
2. The Maxwell (Jack Benny's car)
3. Daffy Duck (1937)
4. Happy Rabbit (a.k.a. Bugs Bunny's prototype) (1938)
5. Bugs Bunny (1940-1989)
6. Woody Woodpecker (1940)
7. Cecil Turtle (1941)
8. Tweety Bird (1942-1989)
9. Private Snafu, numerous World War II related cartoons (1943)
10. Yosemite Sam (1945-1989) ("Hare Trigger")
11. Pepé Le Pew (1945-1989)
12. Sylvester (1946-1989) aka Thomas (1947) in some films
13. Foghorn Leghorn (1946-1989)
14. The Barnyard Dawg (1946-1989)
15. Henery Hawk (1946-1989)
16. Charlie Dog (1947)
17. Mac (of Mac & Tosh) (1947)
18. K-9 (1948) (sidekick to Marvin the Martian)
19. Marvin the Martian (1948)
20. Road Runner (1949)
21. Beaky Buzzard (1950)
22. Elmer Fudd (1950, 1958, 1970s and 1980s)
23. Bruno the Bear (1951)
24. Wile E. Coyote (silent until 1952, first spoke in the short "Operation: Rabbit")
25. Speedy Gonzales (1953)
26. The Tasmanian Devil (1954)
27. Barney Rubble (1960-1989)
28. Dino (1960-1989) (Fred Flintstone's pet.)
29. Cosmo G. Spacely (1962)
30. Hardy Har Har (1962-1964)
31. Secret Squirrel (1965-1966)
32. Bubba McCoy from "Where's Huddles?"
33. Chug-a-Boom/The Ant Hill Mob/The Bully Brothers from "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969)"
34. Speed Buggy (1973)
35. Tucker the Mouse from "A Cricket in Times Square (1973)"
36. Captain Caveman (1977)
37. Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
38. Heathcliff (1980, appeared in syndication from 1984-1987)