The Isolated Blurt Thread VII: 7th Heaven
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phantom4533
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Three quarters of the lineup? You are a baseball player. Why wouldn't you say two thirds?
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The ability to hit a curve ball or a 99 mph fastball isn't related to the ability to add, subtract, multiply or divide.
"We're not athletes. We're baseball players."
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It's the anniversary of the Broad Street Riot in Boston, on this day in 1837.
It was a hot, humid Sunday afternoon. Fire Engine Company 20 - made up primarily of Protestant "Yankees," descendants of the original English settlers - was coming back from Roxbury, where they had put out a fire. Most of the firemen went to a nearby saloon afterward to have some drinks. When they left the saloon, they started walking down Broad Street toward the fire station and passed a group of about 100 Irish immigrants on their way to join a funeral procession around the corner on Sea Street. Most of the firemen lived in the working-class districts of Boston where ethnic tensions were particularly high, and some of them were suspected of having been involved in the burning of a convent a few years earlier. But still, the two groups almost walked by each other without incident, except that a 19-year-old fireman named George Fay had a few more drinks than his friends, and he either insulted someone or hit someone, and soon the firemen and the Irish were fighting. In no time at all, it turned into a full-scale brawl, and then a riot. Other Yankees, many of them young men, broke into Irish homes, smashing and looting. At least 800 men were fighting in the streets, with plenty more onlookers.
Finally, the mayor of Boston, Samuel Eliot, intervened and sent in about 800 state militia with fixed bayonets to disperse the riot. Eighteen men were prosecuted, 14 of them Irish immigrants, and three of those immigrants were put in prison; the rest of the Irish men and all of the Yankees were let off.
It was a hot, humid Sunday afternoon. Fire Engine Company 20 - made up primarily of Protestant "Yankees," descendants of the original English settlers - was coming back from Roxbury, where they had put out a fire. Most of the firemen went to a nearby saloon afterward to have some drinks. When they left the saloon, they started walking down Broad Street toward the fire station and passed a group of about 100 Irish immigrants on their way to join a funeral procession around the corner on Sea Street. Most of the firemen lived in the working-class districts of Boston where ethnic tensions were particularly high, and some of them were suspected of having been involved in the burning of a convent a few years earlier. But still, the two groups almost walked by each other without incident, except that a 19-year-old fireman named George Fay had a few more drinks than his friends, and he either insulted someone or hit someone, and soon the firemen and the Irish were fighting. In no time at all, it turned into a full-scale brawl, and then a riot. Other Yankees, many of them young men, broke into Irish homes, smashing and looting. At least 800 men were fighting in the streets, with plenty more onlookers.
Finally, the mayor of Boston, Samuel Eliot, intervened and sent in about 800 state militia with fixed bayonets to disperse the riot. Eighteen men were prosecuted, 14 of them Irish immigrants, and three of those immigrants were put in prison; the rest of the Irish men and all of the Yankees were let off.
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In no particular order, I don't trust anybody
- who wears a suit
- who talks fast
- who makes a living by talking
- who is a politician
- who is a daily journalist (a/k/a a professional gossip/busybody)
- who is a salesperson
- who is a proselytizer
- who appears on television
- who yaps on the radio
- who is a lawyer
- who is connected in any form, fashion or manner with Hollywood
- who is connected in any form, fashion or manner with Wall Street
- who believes in perpetual motion, Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny
- who believes that civilization as we know it is possible without abundant, reliable and affordable energy
- who is connected in any form, fashion or manner with advertising agencies or promotional efforts
- who is a religious zealot
If you're smart, you too won't believe a single word that any of these people utter.
It is difficult to believe the worst of one's fellow man but one is seldom incorrect to do so.
-H. L. Mencken
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Poor lot! *snicker*
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Shall we play a game?
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Throat punching should be an Olympic event.
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U.S. National Debt $ 19,948,440,679,012
Social Security Liability $ 20,914,311,969,173
Prescription Drug Liability 27,671,244,175,978
Medicare Liability 110,041,461,243,574
Total U.S. Unfunded Liabilities $ 158,627,026,020,845
Total Liability Per Taxpayer $ 1,263,018
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