I Need a Vacation From My Vacation

Too tired to blog.

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More Geeking Our on Our Vacation

The Thomas Edison National Historical Park.

More pix to follow.

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The Joys of a 16 Year Old Daughter

While packing to head home, she got cross, and let fly, "I am not a bitch, shut the F$&% up!"

I think that this is a classic in the annals of angst and the teenage girl.

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On the Way to the WTC Memorial

And I am hanging out in a little square watching portions and waiting for the time our passes say we can go in, and I am using Google maps to look at things to do while we cool our heels.  (Which is pretty amazing on it's own, that I can look for stuff on my phone.)

I then notice that Zucotti Park is near by, and then I realize that I am in Zucotti Park, and that there are OWS protesters at the other end.

Kewl!

More pix to follow.

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A New York State of Mind

Ran out of juice, so I did not post it from my phone, but we went to the Empire State Building, and walked around the lobby taking pictures of the (now restored to original) Art Deco interior.

The line for the observation deck was too long, and the price for the elevator trip to the top deck was $42 (!) so we did not go up.

After we finished with our impromptu tour, we grabbed pretzels from a street vendor and walked down the East 33^rd street, where we hit the Fashion Museum.

From there, we took the subway to the construction site for the new World trade center, and then the PATH back to where we had parked our car.

Fun time.

Deep Thought

It appears that for women under 30 in New York, at least in July, the brassiere is optional.

I approve.

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Catch Phrases VIII

As I've noted before, this may not as big a deal as one would think, as achieving air superiority comes down to training and tactics, so even with an inferior platform, particularly when backed up by superior numbers and logistics.

^*As I have asked many times, "Is there anything that big finance can't make destructive and evil?"^†
†If the goal is to involve Wall Street in a public service, the effect will harm that service. QED.

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Betteridge's law of headlines, "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

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Corrupt Former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin^™

(יש"ו) (Y.S.) yimakh shemo יִמַּח שְׁמוֹ "May his name be obliterated"

Kung Fu monkey has the final word on Rand and her Randroid followers:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Out Standing!

^*At Naked Capitalism, in the aptly named post, "Neo-liberalism Expressed as Simple Rules," gives two basic rules:

1. Because markets.
2. Go die!

No Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die