Facebook thinks I’m Swedish now? This came up with no action on my part.
![Telephone Man, 1959.
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Telephone Man, 1959.
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![The Santa of Christmas Past.
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The Santa of Christmas Past.
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I finally got all the disposables from the last year processed.
or:
Kite!
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WOOHOO!
The menorah was lighted and Hebrew prayers chanted, while the officer watched from a distance with his dog. He figured he would let it all go down and then move in when the ceremony was done. The dog sat at attention, watching the ceremony with a peculiar expression on its face, a look of intense interest. When the ceremony was over, the officer approached the Hasidic rabbi.
“I’m Officer John Fosket of the Helena Police,” he said. “This is Miky, our security dog. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?”
Miky, pronounced Mikey, is in a Diaspora of his own. He was born in an animal shelter in Holland and shipped as a puppy to Israel, where he was trained by the Israeli Defense Forces to sniff out explosives. Then one day, Miky got a plane ticket to America. Rather than spend the standard $20,000 on a bomb dog, the Helena Police Department had shopped around and discovered that it could import a surplus bomb dog from the Israeli forces for the price of the flight. So Miky came to his new home in Helena, to join the police force.
The problem, the officer explained, was that Miky had been trained entirely in Hebrew.
” [full article from the NY Times]![There’s something vaguely ominous about the elephant/computer in the upper right.
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There’s something vaguely ominous about the elephant/computer in the upper right.
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![The Pennsylvania Pound: issued by the colony of Pennsylvania from 1723 onward to supplement the limited amount of currency available in the area. Adam Smith actually wrote about it in The Wealth of Nations:
The government of Pennsylvania, without amassing any [gold or silver], invented a method of lending, not money indeed, but what is equivalent to money to its subjects. [It advanced] to private people at interest, upon [land as collateral], paper bills of credit…made transferable from hand to hand like bank notes, and declared by act of assembly to be legal tender in all payments…
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The Pennsylvania Pound: issued by the colony of Pennsylvania from 1723 onward to supplement the limited amount of currency available in the area. Adam Smith actually wrote about it in The Wealth of Nations:
The government of Pennsylvania, without amassing any [gold or silver], invented a method of lending, not money indeed, but what is equivalent to money to its subjects. [It advanced] to private people at interest, upon [land as collateral], paper bills of credit…made transferable from hand to hand like bank notes, and declared by act of assembly to be legal tender in all payments…
![After the start of the American Revolutionary War the Continental Congress needed a way to pay for goods and salaries. They struck upon the idea of minting their own bills. If I may quote Wikipedia:
The second Congress met in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, and… resolved “that a sum not exceeding 2,000,000 Spanish milled dollars be emitted by the Congress in bills of credit for the defence of the America.”
The printed bills rapidly lost their value, due in part to extensive British counterfeiting, but mainly because the Congress printed a whole frigging ton of them. Again, Wikipedia:
By the end of 1775, a total of $6,000,000 in Continentals had been issued. Since the total money supply in the Colonies has been estimated at $12 million before the revolution, this reflects a 100% increase in the supply of money within a single year.
By 1779 they had issued over $242,000,000 in bills — in addition to however many counterfeit bills the British had printed and put into circulation. It wasn’t until the passage of Coinage Act of 1792 that the system was replaced with the dollar standard that would grow into the currency system we know and use today.
…which is just context for the photo above. Look! Old money!
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After the start of the American Revolutionary War the Continental Congress needed a way to pay for goods and salaries. They struck upon the idea of minting their own bills. If I may quote Wikipedia:
The second Congress met in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775, and… resolved “that a sum not exceeding 2,000,000 Spanish milled dollars be emitted by the Congress in bills of credit for the defence of the America.”
The printed bills rapidly lost their value, due in part to extensive British counterfeiting, but mainly because the Congress printed a whole frigging ton of them. Again, Wikipedia:
By the end of 1775, a total of $6,000,000 in Continentals had been issued. Since the total money supply in the Colonies has been estimated at $12 million before the revolution, this reflects a 100% increase in the supply of money within a single year.
By 1779 they had issued over $242,000,000 in bills — in addition to however many counterfeit bills the British had printed and put into circulation. It wasn’t until the passage of Coinage Act of 1792 that the system was replaced with the dollar standard that would grow into the currency system we know and use today.
…which is just context for the photo above. Look! Old money!
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