Will the real Crazy-Makers, Energy Vampires, Anti-Intellectual, boorish, mental simpletons Stand up
Who are the real Crazy-Makers, Energy Vampires, Anti-Intellectual, boorish, mental simpletons?
Are we Crazy-Makers, Energy Vampires, Anti-Intellectual, boorish, mental simpletons ...and they are not?
Can Insurance Cover it?
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
I went for a check-up in the hospital this morning. As I drove back, there was a bloke with his hands on his head dancing back and fore between lines of speeding traffic going in different directions. I stopped to let him get to the side, but he waved me on and then went back to dancing in my lane, I wonder was he responsible for the OP.
Really?
I'd a thought that you'd first think of the zeppelin Bombing raids of 31 May 1915.
or say, the sinking of the LusitaniaThe First World War was not confined to formal battlefields. Bombing raids meant that Londoners faced death and destruction on their own doorsteps. The first zeppelin raid on London during World War I took place on 31 May 1915. Raids would continue on the capital until 1917.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu3ABZw-s4k
So ya think that the spat of of head-on collisions is connected to impaired consciousness?The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany. The ship was identified and torpedoed and sank in 18 minutes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinkin..._RMS_Lusitania
I gotz ya Bros beat ... check it! The Man's got a system!
He's got the ticket, a sure thing down to the wire, yeah, that's right.
Check it:
global pharmaceutical industry 2018
Global Pharmaceutical Industry 2013-2018: Trend, Profit, and Forecast Analysis. The global pharmaceutical industry revenue is forecasted to reach an estimated $1,226.0 billion by 2018, with good growth over the next five years (2013-2018). ... ROW industry is expected to witness the highest growth during 2013-2018.
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The largest U.S. companies on the global market are Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Merck &Co. Johnson & Johnson generated around 72 billion U.S. dollars of revenue in 2016, although only a part of it came from the company's pharmaceuticals division.
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Nevertheless, the sheer size of the U.S. market means that imports were valued at over $86 billion in 2015, making it the world's largest importer of pharmaceuticals. With $47 billion in exports in 2015, pharmaceuticals rank as one the top exporting sectors for IP-intensive industries in the United States.
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Who are the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world? (2018)
Gilead Sciences. US $25.65 bn. ...
AbbVie. US $28.22 bn. ...
Novartis. US $33 bn. ...
Merck & Co. (MSD) ...
Johnson & Johnson. US $36.3 bn. ...
Sanofi. US $36.66 bn. ...
Roche. US $44.36 bn. ...
Pfizer. US $52.54 bn. The world's largest pharmaceutical company is multinational pharma giant Pfizer, headquartered in Connecticut, USA.
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...That's what comes to mind...
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As a boy I learnt about the idea that
"If you could become enlightened
within a single second
you would be sickened to death;
or say,
most ultimately disgusted
of your predicament,
or, self-explode"
Something to that effect ... I don't remember where that came from my recollection.
Anyway, what to say of throwing off one's ego entoto.
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Bigdog (10-13-2018)
love the thread title !
YES! So what's up with the vampire diaries milieu?
"Teen Choice Awards TV Winners The Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl"
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2010/08/tee...and-gossip-gir
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After 'Twilight': Where Do Vampires in Pop Culture Go From Here?
In fact, in the long scope of vampire fiction, the most important character in Dracula isn't Dracula; it's Lucy Westenra, a beautiful 19-year-old deciding between three marriage proposals at the start of the novel. "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?" she says in a letter to her chaste friend Mina. But before the novel's end, Stoker ensures that she violently pays for even flirting with the idea of being with multiple men. Lucy becomes Dracula's victim and eventually an undead monster in her own right, until she's staked in the heart and beheaded by her three former suitors, who stuff her mouth full of garlic to ensure that she stays dead. The moral is less than subtle.
Dracula may be forceful in its message of chastity, but it's far from the only piece of vampire lore to crash against the boundaries of human sexuality. ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...m-here/265393/
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Vampires in popular culture - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampir...opular_culture
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Vampires: Why Here, Why Now?
If fiction often reflects a nation’s culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today?
11/10/2009 05:12 am ET Updated May 25, 2011
It’s not a myth. They are among us — in book stores, on movie screens, TV sets and billboards, in graphic novels and video games all across the land. The vampire genre has been with us since Dr. John Polidori’s 1819 The Vampyre, followed by Bram Stoker’s 1897 neck-biter, through the silent screen’s Nosferatu (1922), the Bela Lugosi movies from the 1930s and ‘40s, Hammer Horror films (‘50s and ‘60s,) TV’s Dark Shadows (1966-1971), Anne Rice’s best seller Interview with a Vampire (1976), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (1997-2001).
While each had singular popularity, vampires’ fictional presence has never been greater than it is today. Stephanie Meyer is the current queen of vamp-lit with a reported 70 million copies of the Twilight series sold, followed by the super-hit Twilight movie. Tanya Huff, Charlie Huston, Rosemary Laurey and Drew Silver are among many other successful writers working the genre. Tracey Bateman adds a redemptive angle with a vamp series from WaterBrook, the evangelical Christian division of Random House. HBO’s hit, True Blood, based on Charlaine Harris’ The Southern Vampire Mysteries, is back for another season and this week, The CW Network airs The Vampire Diaries, based on the young adult books of L. J. Smith. And a ‘vampire’ Google click yields almost 18 million sites.
If fiction often reflects a nation’s culture, why, oh-why-oh, do we have so many vampires, in so many places, sucking up so many entertainment dollars with such blazing success today? Feature writers tend to tie the current blood draining craze to two wars, terrorism and financial hard times.
“Times are always part of the pop culture recipe,” says Robert Thompson, professor of television and pop culture at the University of Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, but it’s more about the modern media’s creative skill to broaden the genre. “There’s much more narrative opportunities if vampires can be evil monsters as well as romantic heroes,” he continues. Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire was the pivot point. Thompson calls it, “ground zero of the modern iteration of the vampire and expands the mythology into its modern iteration.” Before Rice, the vampire story was a costume drama with limited literary scope. Rice, followed-up by Stephanie Meyer, “...modernized and domesticated the vampire, ripping away the traditional narrative from the black-caped, thickly Euro-accented, terror guy you run from, to the handsome, seductive bad-boy next door you want to sleep with,” says Thompson. “Once you can let vampires next to us, and with us in our bedrooms, that opens up an extraordinary amount of narrative territory that we didn’t have before,” says the 50-something pop culture professor.
It didn’t take 9/11, or a bad economy for us to be attracted to bad boys, he points out. We’ve always been drawn to them — from Cagney and Coppola’s gangsters, Brando on the motorcycle, Beatty and Dunaway’s Bonnie & Clyde, Nicolas Cage’s Con Air and Colin Farrell in most anything. They’re the bad-boy archetype, so incredibly attractive, we can’t resist them even though we know they’re not good for us and will drain us — literally. They’re “mad, bad and dangerous to know,” (Lady Caroline Lamb, refering to Lord Byron following their 1812 affair) True Blood’s Bill Compton would like to drink his human love interest, Sookie, dry but he loves her so much he won’t. “Doesn’t everyone at some point want to be in a relationship that’s that passionate?” asks Thompson.
While 1976’s Interview with a Vampire was the literary shift from horror to hero, there was a major, and often overlooked, turn before then that made it easier for the public to accept Anne Rice’s make-over. We’re talking about Sesame Street and General Mills.
Starting in the early 70s, a new generation of kids learned to count from the helpful, vamp-fanged Count on Sesame Street. He may have looked and sounded like Bela Lugosi, but he had the heart and soul of a friendly teacher. Ca-ching! Just about the same time, General Mills put out its popular and very sweet kid’s cereal, Count Chocula, featuring a guy with chocolate and marshmallows running through his tasty veins. Ca-ching, ca-ching. Let the morphing begin. Because vampires are so domesticated and appealing now, perhaps it’s time to put True Blood’s hunky vamp, Bill Compton, on the Wheaties Breakfast of Champions box. Ca-ching-ching-ching!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-a..._b_282099.html
Bigdog (10-13-2018)
vamp-fanged Count on Sesame Street.
Why not use Masai Natives? Or Priests on Sesame Street?
Too many transvestites with guild cards already on the roster?
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