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@Jodi said:

Wow! What a trip!

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I've said this many times but there is no protection for historic building in the US.

Exceptions to this rule need to be on the order of the historic Roosevelt estates in Hyde Park, NY, run by the National Park Service.

There are "historic distracts" but wills can be broken by courts after death (and are) and historic distracts are mandated to participate in "public private partnerships".

The private entity, or the government, can demolish historic buildings and/ or estates (and they do).

It will surprise nobody that I think Trump tower is a monstrosity of a building.

There's the gold everywhere you look. The exterior looks like a giant set of shelves for potted plants. There's the atrium with it's fake water falls.

Nothing redeems it. Even its views of f central park are sub-par given its street address

I deplore cultural desecration especially because once something is destroyed it can never be recreated.

But is anyone here surprised by this?

Please tell me it's-

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All-mechanical

Do I have this right?

I need to finish a list of clothes washer options by around 7 p.m.

Will you please give me the model number of a new all mechanical SQ with no coin box?

Thanks.

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I'll Remember

I'm posting this one because it was used in the soundtrack for the video of her visit with her family.

I like it a lot.

'"I'll Remember" is featured on Madonna's 1995 compilation album, Something to Remember.
Because it was originally recorded as a movie theme song for the 1994 film With Honors, it never appeared on any of her standard studio albums.'

I think it's one of her best songs.

Btw, this was the 'B-side" video to Rain.

I think rain is one of her best videos.

It's easy to find if you want to watch it.

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Ray of Light

One of her best videos.

Frozen

My favorite video from this album-

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Nothing Really Matters

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Japanese costumes, settings, characters, and themes.

Italian interview. Ray of Light album promotion tour.

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I have listened to this one. I won't again.

I'd rather watch music videos she made for Ray of Light.

It was one her best albums.

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Italian interview. TBH, didn't know it existed.

Have no idea what they're saying.

I tried CC. It gave me CC in Italian.

Don't feel like trying to CC into English at the moment.

Including it for relevance to topic.

Matt spoke Italian.

I do what to know what is said in Italian at the end of Turn Up The Radio.

I might put it into some kind of audio translation software one day.

Madonna and her Italian family in Pacentro.

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Btw, I bought her first two albums in cassette form and wore them out.

But I pride myself on never contributing one more cent to her fortune.

I haven't violated IP law, either.

I guess it helps I hate rock concerts.

I mean I would hate going to one.

My lack of interest in financially contributing to her work has of course clearly had zero effect on her.

Well, I know of him, of course.

And I've heard the story about the UM.

I won't mention names. Lol.

Needless to say I thought it was an interesting story.

I was asked once if I would want to meet her.

I've never wanted to meet her, have her autograph, or anything else.

There wouldn't be any point for me.

She's narcissistic and rude IRL by all accounts.

I turned mine on last night and the result was unsatisfactory.

I had trouble choosing between 2 settings. I had to get up and choose the lower one. Then I woke up this morning sweating.

I turned the AC back on this morning and left it at 78.

At this point, I'm think more of my electric bill than my comfort since I can't seem to get comfortable anyway.

My what?

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Turn Up The Radio

Madonna visits Florence and takes a chariot ride (according to her lyrics) in a Cadillac convertible (what else) in the Tuscan countryside with a chauffeur while picking up a cast of characters.

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Madonna "Ciao Italia: Live From Italy"

These might have been the best concerts of her career.

She was at the peak of her dancing ability. She was the right age for herself to be able to dance like this; she had trained her body to a degree she hadn't been able to achieve in the past and obviously could not maintain.

To the point, she clearly loved these venues and the Italians clearly loved her in return.

"Concerts Filmed: September 4, 1987 (Turin, Italy) and September 6, 1987 (Florence, Italy), plus clips from June 22, 1987 (Tokyo, Japan)."

I've heard that sentiment my whole life as have we all.

It was taxpayers who paid dedicated taxes per the Social Security Act. It was taxpayers who funded the science that industry used, who paid for the infrastructure, who paid for the creation of the public utilities, and who paid for the public education system.

It was taxpayers who paid for every asset Thatcher and Reagan stole and sold back to the people at terms that have led to the ruination if the middle and working classes.

We weren't "living off of other people" in any sense of the word. My parents worked a combined 50 years. My mother's parents worked a combined 55 years.

Full time. Year round. For 30 years, 20 years, 33 years, and 22 years, respectively.

Not from these quotes, demonstrating your point, but where did you actually get the idea that when people had a functional government they at the same time lived off each other like a bunch of grifters?

Oh, I just wanted to protect the paint. That's why I put myself through that ordeal. I think it cost me $6. But I like what you said. God washes our cars. Well said @andyd

@jon-nyc said:

I would like to point out the following :

Insofar as some of the rioters are actually concerned with “austerity” and “neoliberalism” it’s worth pointing out that France's level of public social spending is the third highest in the world at 30.6% of GDP and its total public spending is 57.2%, second highest among large countries not at war.

What’s my point? It’s a pretty important one. There is no scenario where the protesters ‘win’. The inevitable result is the protesters get educated by reality. But I’m cynical enough to believe that the educators won’t be their leaders, who are cowards, but some international organization setting conditions for France’s bailout.

Well, is the US, in the grip of actual fascism, going to win, if you will? If supporting privatization was the right thing to do, then how did we get here?

Another economist (and a very reputable one) blames the French people for their woes. Oh, wait. That's not what he does at all.

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Thank you for indulging me. I know we have only a few Madonna fans here.

I think I'll have a good 10 entries and maybe more if memory serves me.

1/2 Italian, with extended family living in Italy, Madonna had an affinity for Italy, and Italians loved her, with the exception of the Catholic Church.

I'll start with my favorite Madonna speech. My personal name for it is- "The Vatican Speech". I've always called it that. I made up the name.

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It hits me harder now than it did even when she gave it.

To think- there was a time when these words she spoke about the US and the right to freedom of speech enshrined in the Constitution could be expressed so brilliantly and without irony.

This was a brave speech for her to give at the time given how many people did not understand her work let alone the fact that she went to the source to give it.