Arcata Plaza GIF - Driving Around and Around and Around and Around Downtown Arcata, California... and then we go around again!

I'm a big fan of JEOPARDY!

"What are Pixels?" is the WRONG Question about Roy Lichtenstein's Artwork. The Correct Question is actually "What are Ben Day Dot Patterns?" 

Pixels had not been invented when Roy was Painting in the 1960s... 

This is the only time the Show JEOPARDY was WRONG! That I've Noticed... 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Lichtenstein "His first work to feature the large-scale use of hard-edged figures and Ben-Day dots was Look Mickey (1961, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.).[20]"

Pixel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel

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And Some Guy on FaceBorg Said:

Hey everyone. Figured I could get a chance to talk to any hippies from "back in the day" here. This has been bugging me for years, but I wasn't there, so I don't know. How did we lose the culture? I mean seriously. Directly following the "Summer Of Love" we had Nixon, and then the Reagan 80s, the Clinton 90s, and today. What happened? I'm sorry, but the hippies were right. How did we become a footnote in history, rather than the societal change that was hoped for?

And I Replied: Well... In 1976, I got married to a Woman that didn't smoke marijuana or eat psychedelics... But She was Great at Sex... and I Got a Wonderful Job as a Draftsman in a Computer Factory... and about then I started TO HAVE DOUBTS about my Hippie Beliefs... Since the Quality of My Life was Much Better! After Five Years We Got Divorced and I REGAINED My Hippie Beliefs... Got a Guitar and a Synthesizer - Joined a Band - Started to Go to a Lot of Anti-War Protest Marches in Downtown Washington DC... Changed my Job from Working for the Air Force to Working for the Postal Service... NO LONGER Was I Designing WEAPONS... anyway... I bet a LOT of Hippies Tried The YUPPIE WAY for a few years... But Eventually It Just Didn't Work... 

and Some Other Guy Said: The masses weren't ready for the beauty that hippiedom was bringing. Even John Lennons Imagine didn't pan out. At least those of us that understand continue to live and love. The old saying is "be the change you would like to see." I will continue to do that.

Trump deregulates Banks setting up US Economy to Fail again. Anti Dodd-Frank Executive Order puts nation at risk.

Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Watered Down as Trump Signs Executive Orders.  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday scaling back the sweeping 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulatory framework enacted under his predecessor as a direct response to the financial crisis.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-signs-executive-orders-watering-down-dodd-frank-financial-regulations-n716481

The Dodd-Frank was designed to ensure that a financial crisis like that in 2008 won't happen again. As such, it sought to attack the principal problem that policymakers believed had caused the crisis in the first place -- the growth and proliferation of too-big-to-fail banks. [Motley Fool]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Minsky
Hyman Philip Minsky (September 23, 1919 – October 24, 1996) was an American economist'
His research attempted to provide an understanding and explanation of the characteristics of financial crises, which he attributed to swings in a potentially fragile financial system. Minsky is sometimes described as a post-Keynesian economist because, in the Keynesian tradition, he supported some government intervention in financial markets, opposed some of the financial deregulation policies popular in the 1980s, stressed the importance of the Federal Reserve as a lender of last resort and argued against the over-accumulation of private debt in the financial markets.^[1]
Minsky's economic theories were largely ignored for decades, until the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 caused a renewed interest in them.

https://www.amazon.com/Stabilizing-Unstable-Economy-Hyman-Minsky/dp/0071592997

Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 per hour.

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