But we are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win. Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

The first internal combustion engine was designed in Switzerland; the modern automobile—powered by either a gasoline or diesel internal combustion engine—was invented in Germany. What, now we have to bail out their auto industries, too?

But, hey, I won’t begrudge his economically vacuous rhetoric. It’s really just an excuse to spread other people’s wealth across our fifty-seven states anyway.

Programs were bicycled to stations on 2 inch videotape and played back for extended periods from one to six hours. WPIX-TV in New York played five hours of The Now Explosion surrounding telecasts of New York Yankees baseball games in 1970. Stations in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Sacramento and Boston had also picked up The Now Explosion.
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The special effects were crude but state of the art for the times. Video shot with heavy, non portable studio camers on large rolling tripods. The recordings were on two inch magnetic tape. The cameras and tape machines cost hundreds of thousands dollars. The editing was simple cut or dissolve.

Common special effects included aiming the camera into a monitor. This was called “video feedback”. It created an “infinity” image of the image being fed to the monitor. The image, possibily a dancer, appears to have their image repeated behind them many times and get smaller and smaller as it repeated. If you moved the camera back and forth you could get “trails” on the end of the image.

Then there was the zoom in-out rapidly technique. Other common techniques were using a “mat” and blending images with an electronic video switcher with some basic special effects.

A few years ago, UG-Athens tracked down and restored archives of the show, allowing us to see what music television was like before MTV. . .

Also, Archives II and III.

Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock.[45] There are so many in surplus that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to wounded soldiers on the field.[45]

The FBI agents who actually chased Soviet spies have a very different perspective.
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[Former FBI agent Robert J.] Lamphere (who died in 2002), told me in an interview that agents who worked counterintelligence were appalled that FBI director J. Edgar Hoover initially supported McCarthy. True enough, the Venona intercepts revealed that hundreds more Soviet spies had operated in the government than was believed at the time.

“The problem was that McCarthy lied about his information and figures,” Lamphere said. “He made charges against people that weren’t true. McCarthyism harmed the counterintelligence effort against the Soviet threat because of the revulsion it caused.”

It makes sense, then, that certain writers would defend Sen. McCarthy, despite the harm he did to his own side.

FatDrunkAndStupid
April 9th, 2008 06:27 11
I’d also take exception to the idea that Jefferson’s position on slavery was worse than Hamilton’s on the Central Bank. Slavery, though dreadful, was on its last legs. The centralization of power that the Bank represented was a new, dangerous, and rising threat. Centralization and the Leviathan state are scourge of modern liberty, and Hamilton was an ardent supporter of both.

Good God. If we’re going to excuse TJ–who not only has the slave-owning mark against him, but that of being an open supporter of the Jacobin bloodbath in France–because Cato uses his head in its logo, but demonize Alexander Hamilton for introducing centralized government that I contend actually improved the rule of law, then I’m out.