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Ranulf de Glanvill's avatar

Thanks for the update on Musk's securities fraud trial. That one slipped off my radar, likely because I confused it with some other corporate litigation involving him.

At the risk of showing that I'm in the Old Geezer part of the population, I recall that when television channels signed off at night, the three stations where I grew up played the Star Spangled Banner. (Yes, Virginia, once upon a time, television stations turned off at midnight or 1 am.) Dante should have thought of more circles of Hell because the ones he listed aren't enough for the current administration.

TCinLA's avatar

Personally, I liked the "High Flight" poem reading with the F-104 flying through the "footless halls of air where neither lark nor eagle dare."

Ranulf de Glanvill's avatar

The station managers where you grew up had better taste than those where I grew up. In any event, at age 9 or 10, poetry would have been lost on me.

TCinLA's avatar

That particular poem would have got you - it got me at 10.

High Flight

By John Gillespie Magee Jr.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

of sun-split clouds,—and done a hundred things

You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung

High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,

I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung

My eager craft through footless halls of air ....

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

Where never lark, or even eagle flew—

And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod

The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

IanWilliams's avatar

I recall from 1960s Australia - we had three B&W stations - at the midnight close there would be a kangaroo emerging from a map of the nation - a bit like the MGM Lion, but a marsupial version.

Sharon Stearley's avatar

And because Trumpty Dumpty is trying to make it such a big deal about him....it is really turning me off.....it is our 250 year anniversary and he is trying to trash our history!!!!!!

Maggie's avatar

I'm that part of the population too. And there were only three - count em - three stations!!

Ranulf de Glanvill's avatar

If you lived near Chicago, you had a choice of 4 stations: the three network stations and WGN. We didn’t live close enough to Chicago to get WGN.

Maggie's avatar

In small town of NY - it was three - black & white of course.

I also remember our phone being on a party line! Picture that these days.

Judith Matlock's avatar

Here's the TV signoff that I loved because it was emotionally transporting. USAF. In those days we said the Pledge and played the "Star Spangled Banner" everywhere and for all occasions. We did it even though we knew in our bones that Ray Charles' version of "America, the Beautiful" was the one we wanted to hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoL-KCFbIpA&list=RDIoL-KCFbIpA&start_radio=1

Peggy Hendrickson's avatar

I love and depend on your posts, but KarenRN’s photos always stop me in my tracks! They are simply wonderful.

TCinLA's avatar

And she sent me some more last night. Where this one came from.

Dave Conant - MO's avatar

"“starting each broadcast day with the ‘Star Spangled Banner’" I could go with that if they used Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock version.

Art Weber's avatar

“starting each broadcast day with the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ or Pledge of Allegiance,” How very Soviet. These, blaring from the radio as you get the kids packed up and off to Young Pioneers camp.

Yes to Jimi Hendrix! Lots of possibilities.. .

Ray Charles’ ‘America the Beautiful’, Ritchie Haven’s ‘Freedom’ . . . Tom Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’

TCinLA's avatar

Ray Charles' version or "America" should be the national anthem.

Judith Matlock's avatar

Canada will be the winner as power plays work themselves out over the next few years. Their people are educated and unafraid to tackle more than one language. Their current leader, Mark Carney seems to be laying the groundwork for their emergence as a cool, calm, and collected powerhouse of the Western Hemisphere, while we will be left in the Trump rubble wondering whether to use shovels and pickaxes or just pave over the entire country.

It's not surprising that it's difficult to empanel a jury to deal with cases involving ego-manical attention fiends. I'd like to think I could be impartial with Musk, but there's just no way. My staredown might be intense enough for me to go out the way the drummer in "Spinal Tap" did.

Michael Green's avatar

I want to make sure I put this as elegantly as possible. The Wall Street Journal's editorial writers can fuck themselves all the way to hell and back.

Maggie's avatar

That sure covers it - but elegantly??? Perhaps.

Sharon Stearley's avatar

Thank you, TC. ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once.’ And that can be exhausting, numbing, and overwhelming.” It sure is! You all have a restful....hopefully.... rest of the weekend! Gotta get ready for next week. I will not be watching the "State of the Union".... with the lying Trumpty Dumpty! I can't do it and remain sane! Sending lots of hugs to all that need them!!!!!

TCinLA's avatar

Go join Defiance.org and sign up for the streamng of their "State of the Swamp" show Tuesday - much better.

Victoria Brown's avatar

Thank you Tom.

Taking bets on the

Musk jury ruling. LOL

I have a new phone -

Galaxy Ultra 25. Every

time I turn it on,

something new has

happened. My keyboard

today has been

minimized.

Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

Makes me feel all the more content that I opted for the very basic Galaxy A15 which does all of the things I want it to do and little extra.

Carol Stanton (FL)'s avatar

"Yes, let’s use the book of lies to justify anything)"

Are you referring to the Bible as " the book of lies"?