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We have an early 20th century Aladdin as well. Beautiful lamp! Many years ago we had dinner at an Amish restaurant (Yoder's I believe) near Mesopotamia, Ohio. Excellent food and service!

I don't want to sound like I'm gloating. But, I really nailed it when I refused the jab. For my work I researched everything I could find on coronavirus, Fauci's work, related efforts to vaccinate for it...even various remedies against it even as they came to light during the pandemic. Just today I was talking with a young female colleague (who's often sick) about vitamin D3 and arginine - both of which, in spite of the media not covering it, were pivotal in the pandemic. I stood my ground. I was willing to quit and leave California if it came to it. As it turned out, I was recognized for my expertise and ended up being asked to help the state navigate the pandemic. Didn't take it. Instead I exercised "informed consent".

Curious after seeing so many friends come down with cancer and having my work shifted about 50% toward the production of cancer drugs I decided recently to see the cancer rates over the past 5 years in the USA. What did I find from the CDC? Nothing. They are not publishing any such figures as far as I can tell.

If you took that jab two or more times and you watched Fauci plead the 5th over a hundred times...it's normal to be concerned at this point...

Humanoids, no connection to us, creation nor it's creator.
It takes a "Mind", they don't have one and it can't be digitally created either.

Wasting their time and resources they are, I think that electronic data will not survive the solar micro nova at the end of this cycle. Best hope that people like Glenn Beck, Wall Builders and others will have our true documented history preserved and uncorrupted for those born of survivors.

There are treasure troves of accurate history out there that might never be breached.
It's kinda like how one might view the Books of Enoch.

The fall of Babylon all over again . . .

The Aladdin lamp, using a cylindrical wick and a mantle, gives off excellent white light. I have one, a Number 8 model. Unfortunately (?) the power is never off long enough for us to need it. Aladdin lamps, along with all the replacement parts and the lamp oil, are available from Lehman Hardware in Kidron, Ohio. They are popular (as you might imagine) among the Old Order Amish.

Hold On. I believe this was because of a Court Action. The courts basically said, you MUST CONSUME the books to use their content.

I don't recall the full details. But if they could BORROW, RENT, or BUY and then SELL the books back, it wasn't fair to the authors, etc. because the computers have perfect memory. I also believe it PREVENTS them from taking BOOK X, and offering it to another AI company, etc. etc. etc. Meaning the copyright is real.

The argument was basically that a human is SUPPOSED to READ and KNOW the content. That's all we are doing. The courts demanded them to destroy the books so that every company training on them, have to seek, purchase the information.

NOW... If that's part of a deep start conspiracy to burn/destroy old books, and they used the Judges to do this... IDK.

When Google Originally did this, they did not destroy the books. But I am for digitizing everything.
I am not for destroying Irreplaceable books.

We're trying.:)

But "buying up" books is still free market capitalism.

We may not like where they're going, but if someone wants to stop it, they'll have to buy them up, instead.

Great book! So was the movie I saw later both as a young man.
Don't have either but the impressions made on me thedino are permanent.

That information definitely interests me the dino.
It should everybody! Thanks!

Communist Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" came out in 1980 and corrupted at least two generations of history majors. A version for younger students was released in 2007. These textbooks have been in common use across the US, and very likely influenced AOC, Mamdani, et al, and their followers.

Also in my collection, along with more Bradbury, Heinlein, Clarke, Azimov, Brinn, Niven, EE doc Smith, many more. My daughter, now living with me, has an equally extensive collection. We need a bigger book wall.

No problem. Sounds like you have a great library as well. My library started with buying contemporary books years ago. Then started adding vintage books as my wife and I both like 19th century decor for the house and real books of the period are a great addition. I soon discovered the information and unedited and unsanitized stories between the covers is priceless as well as entertaining. Try passing a late 19th century pre-college math or English exam - ouch, I got an education.

Side note: To give an idea of how much we enjoy vintage historical ambiance we've held "candle light dinners" with guests where all electric things are turned off and put away and lighting is done with candles and oil lamp using original 19th century lamps and candle holders. They really come in handy during power failures, too, and we've cooked meals in the fireplace. Hint: If you want to do this make sure you use lamp oil rather than kerosene to avoid much of the odor.

katrina's post reminds me of another story.

"Fahrenheit 451", sometimes "The Firemen"
written by US writer Ray Bradbury.

The story takes place here but in the future-
Books have been banned as people are offended by them.
If a house is found with a book in it, the house is burned down -by the Firemen, a government agency.
A group of dissidents have formed and live in an isolated settlement, each one of them has volunteered to memorize a whole book. One person does the New Testament, another Robinson Crusoe, another Peter Pan, various take on the works of Homer and Adam Smith, Darwin and Dickens, and more.
War starts, ends, the city has been destroyed.
The book people have survived, they take on the task of re-building, and printing books.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fahr...
etc

I know, the videos don't go over too big but these videos do a better job than I can do otherwize.

. . . . and what they do learn is bull shit!

I don't think the problem is convincing history majors to support socialism/communism but the problem is there really aren't any young people that are learning anything about history whatsoever.

Hasn’t all of human history been a clash between those who want to control the behavior and actions of their fellow humans and those who want to be left alone to direct their own lives?

We of the latter group have yet find a way to permanently escape the predatory impulses of the controllers. Any Rand’s Galt’s Gulch was a Utopian, impractical solution, simple because, she did not know how to have her heroes project their sense of life and love of life and accomplishment onto future generations.

Even the controller’s numerous attempts of a Utopian one planet, one government with total domination of Earth’s human population come apart because, as you wrote in a recent post, individuals can decide not to have children. Would they next ranch women on birthing farms?

We humans just have not figured out how to keep something going beyond a few hundred or a few thousand years. Will we ever?

So ..... if the men are doing this, would that be increasing drag?

My apologies, mccannon. You have the correct book. It is Lucifer's Hammer, and I have it in my collection. The Postman was another world falls apart novel, which I also have. My books include some first editions from the 1800's and 1900's, a number of texts on anatomy, geology, archeology, history, poetry (everything from Dickinson to Service), some hardbound, some paperback. Your collection sounds wonderful, especially anything that can be considered as accurate within the time period it was printed.

Up until now, it never occurred to me dino that history majors would represent the hardest group of Americans for the current communist political movement to win over.
It only took a moment of thought before it next occurred to me dino that depended on just who was teaching any kind of "history" to any this or that group of students
Think about how history~~particularly American history~~is currently being taught in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba or in Iran.

LOL, "Healthiness" was the word, shaking my head. (SMH) . . .40 min walk all at once!?!?!? no rest every couple of mins?
I timed out the laughing at 8 seconds for each meme but truly, it doesn't come out even, some-more, others-less
If I made you laugh longer, you'd run out of breath just as you would on a jog.

I recall the same method of hiding books in a novel titled "Lucifer's Hammer". Good story I read a very long time ago. Things are getting erased so I save old books, too. I have a book published/printed in the 1890s titled "Military Heroes of The United States", which includes a chapter on Robert E. Lee and a chapter on Stonewall Jackson. This is well within living memory of the Civil War. That would never happen today.