Posted on 09/21/2007 1:59:19 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
Is this a CREVO thread?
I'll guess you're questioning the availability of the Selectric in '61, yet it was marketed for the first time that year.
It took a bit of time to get used to because, instead of type keys, the characters are embossed on a metal ball which twists and turns during typing. It doesn't have the movable carriage of typewriters which preceded it.
As I said, General Electric MSVD agreed to "try out" this new-age typewriter with a few employees.
I'm curious as to why you doubt it, ladyjane.
BTW, my dear Dad, who died on December 4, 1992, would address me as "Lady Jane" when he was annoyed with me in my younger days. LOL
That will happen about the same time that Rabble 1 & Rabble 2 apologize. We will have to wait awhile however as they are kind of busy right now.
W flew the F-100, I believe. Some Guard units had the step aside policy, depending on how many airplanes they had available.
Freepers can multitask :)
No, you are right. The moving ball one was a Selectric.
Re the Lady Jane name. My mother also called me as Lady Jane when she was annoyed with me. (I wonder if they got the name from some television or radio program? )
When signing up here I decided to choose a name that I could remember easily because I figured I wouldn’t sign on much. LOL
Dan Rather is mentioned several times in B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley’s “STOLEN VALOR—How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and History.” Rather helped shape the popular image of the Vietnam veteran as psychotic misfit. He did a “documentary” in 1987, “The Wall Within,” which was later factually discredited. I don’t doubt that Michael Moore as a youth was inspired by 60 Minutes, which has always been 10 percent news and 90 percent entertainment.
Anyway, I quote verbatim from page 107 of Stolen Valor:
“Rather certainly has experience with the military. During the Korean War, when men could be drafted out of college, Dan Irvin Rather joined the Army Reserves while attending Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas, thus avoiding the possibility of being drafted. On graduating in 1954, well after the Korean War was over and the killing had ended, Rather quit the reserves and enlisted in the Marine Corps. (This is the same national broadcaster, who night after night during the 1988 presidential campaign, hammered Republican vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle for avoiding Vietnam by joining the National Guard.) Although the press often refers to Rather as an ‘ex-Marine,’ he did not finish Marine recruit training. He joined the Marines on January 22, 1954, but was discharged less than four months later, on May 11, for being medically unfit. (As a boy, Rather had suffered from rheumatic fever.)”
There has never been anything wrong with serving in the reserves. What has been dishonorable is the way Rather, the news media and later, John Kerry, denigrated reserve service for political effect.
Kerry got a six-month early discharge from the Navy. When you add up Kerry’s active duty time and compare it to Bush’s active duty time—OCS, flight training, summer activation—Kerry didn’t do much more time than Bush.
Sure. But we would eat that up, too. Do you honestly think CBS will put itself in that position?No, CBS' problem is that, as part of its business plan, it routinely hires loons to go on-air and bay at the moon. The whole business plan of journalism is to criticize everyone but journalists and fellow travelers, thereby attracting an audience and promoting journalism. "See how important we are - if you didn't listen to us you wouldn't know that . . (fill in the liberal criticism du jour here)."
Promoting oneself by criticizing everyone else is the whole "liberal" game plan. And it crucially depends on control of journalism, which implies that anyone who criticizes them must be attacked ruthlessly and marginalized. Thus, a nonfiction book cannot cannot be the simple testimony of the people who knew John Kerry in Vietnam, and were unimpressed with him. No, "swiftboating" must be coined a word of disrepute just as "McCarthyism" had to be, and was.CBS will not be proving that Rather is a loon, because for decades he was their loon, and they always a loon in that position, as the face of their organization.Note that this implies monopoly media power, which ultimately derives from monopoly control of the quick and economical nationwide transmission of propaganda. That is, it ultimately derives from the telegraph, and from the Associated Press.
When I went to law school in 1988, I had PC clone that would not kern. Each character printed used exactly as much space as every other character. How I envied the people with Macs. Macs would kern, so they could fit 20-30% more text on a page. That makes a big difference when you are being graded on a writing assignment that has purposely been limited (in order to train to write succinctly) to one or two pages.
I’m betting CBS will settle out of court..but praying they won’t..
The way I see it — Blather has to prove he was a simple dumb ass “news reader” with no journalism or professional responsibility for the crap he spewed each evening...and that CBS was force feeding him all the erroneous information and forged documents. This would seem to give CBS MORE grounds for firing the overpaid lying sonuvabitch...
CBS will have to refute this by revealing the source for the false documents — pretty widely already known — and tie that directly to Mapes and Blather, I would think a rather simple task.....
If this goes to trial, and we have a vicious Mongoose vs Cobra encounter -— CBS loses.
Too much of the unprofessional and agenda biased nature of the “news” will by necessity and “discovery” be revealed..
Either way, CBS comes out of this with a perpetual black eye to match their logo!
I’ve already purchased a full case of microwave popcorn, and await “the games”....
John / Billybob
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