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Another random quote,
i came across. I do not know
who this ‘Carpentier’ is, btw :“…I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute. I discovered it reading novels by Carpentier and poems by Neruda. I discovered it listening to stories over coffee about some old, very old, warrior on the Uruguayan plains who kept his tired eyelids open with orangewood twigs while he speared enemy horsemen on the point of his lance. Asking and wondering, from where did this planet that we inabit come? This planet that spends a million dollars on arms every minute, so that every minute thirty children can die of disease or hunger and no one is accused. Asking and wondering: This world, this slaughterhouse, this nuthouse, is this the work of God or man? What past time gave birth to this present? Why have some countries become owners of other countries, and some men owners of other men, and men owners of women, and women of children, and things owners of people?
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all, and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.”Eduardo Galeano, We Say No 1992
Just curious — Did Georgia have to pay a
Relocation fee back in 95 ? What was it?edit: yes. http://articles.latimes.com/1995-04-13/news/mn-54268_1_rams-owner
TJ Simers – LA Times
April 1995IRVING, Tex. — The Los Angeles Rams are history, officially gone from Anaheim to St. Louis after winning the National Football League’s blessing Wednesday with a $46-million payment.
In addition to a $29-million relocation fee, the Rams agreed to pay $17 million from the proceeds of personal seat licenses, which are one-time fees for rights to buy season tickets.
Twenty-three of the 30 league owners must approve a franchise move, and they voted 22 to 6 in favor Wednesday, with the Los Angeles Raiders abstaining. Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, who had been asked to remain outside during the special meeting, was then called on to cast the deciding vote.
“I thought about it for a few minutes,” she joked.
“My grandmother had a saying: ‘Go little where wanted, go not at all where little wanted.’ And that’s about the way it’s been (in Anaheim). I think they will be better off too,” Frontiere said.
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vNot Utopian at all.
The powerful will always exploit the non-powerful for their own gains.
The film was incredibly sad to me. I’ve never been in those men’s shoes. I’ve never had that few limited options or that sort of hopelessness. While I’ve thought at times that I may have underachieved a bit(just a bit) it doesn’t matter because, I’m doing what I want to do–living a simple life, a secure life(at least as secure as anyone can hope to have)and I’ve provided for my family. They’ve never wanted for anything, never gone hungry, my kids have had the opportunity for higher education. I have no regrets. I’ve been very fortunate.
I have not been in the sort of desperate situation those men are, from where I am now(middle class), to where I’ve come from(and I would consider that lower middle class to borderline poor). I’ve not had bad choices or less bad choices as my options.
These men are affected not just by circumstance, but also by the environment that has emerged from that, a violent Darwinian culture.
I am grateful not to have lived their lives.
Well, as i have learned more about life
and politics in my old age,
I have come to despise…Corporate-Capitalism.
Thats all i’m gonna say.w
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“The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.”
Karl Liebknecht“The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power,
but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law.”
Howard ZinnI saw it. Yup – Road Warrior on steroids and acid.
Its awesome to look at. Fast and furious — much like the GSOT
in the Viking playoff game.Long, long chase scenes. With no humor. Not like Indiana Jones
chase scenes.If Salvadore Dali took some speed, and made a movie, it might look
like this one.w
vThe Raiders should stay in Oakland.
They belong in Oakland.To me, the Oakland Raiders are one of those special
teams, like Dallas, Green Bay. Maybe Pittsburgh.
You just dont mess around with those institutions.The Oakland owner should sell the team to someone
richer, and keep them where they belong. In Oakland.…can you imagine, the Raiders
moving to a midwest town like St.Louis Missouri?
Its anathema.w
vSo what do you propose for the good folks of St. Louis, since you have already moved the Rams to Los Angeles?
I mean…besides, obviously, the MLS.
Promise them the first expansion team,
I guess.Or tell them to do what 99 percent of the rest of us do:
Watch the damn games on tv.w
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