Joe Hredzak

Retired engineer with USAir/US Airways/American Airlines. 40+ beer league hockey player.

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@Lex_Jurgen Strawberry in Up in Smoke.

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@ZitoSalena Unfortunately, the industrialists who supported the arts are long gone. Current corporations don’t support the arts like Carnegie, et. al. did.

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@Lex_Jurgen And with a scarab tattoo on here back. She’s a true multiculturalist.

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@owtahear @Steigerworld2 As a child I was taught it was low class language.

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@ZitoSalena I notice that nowhere is justice for the harmed mentioned, regardless of their race of those who wronged.

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@MarkMaddenX Equivalent to the “Mike Tomlin never had a losing season” boast.

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@Steigerworld2 Clemente would’ve caught the ball.

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@ZitoSalena I remember buying a Peter Max book from Scholastic Books where the pages were to be ripped out and folded into paper airplanes. The old nuns at St. Winifred in Mt. Lebanon didn’t quite understand and it was made clear not to fly them during class.

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@ingelramdecoucy I need to take a road trip up I-79!

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@MarkMaddenX Sign it isn’t is the CCM tag.

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@Lex_Jurgen I always thought of Judy Garland as a drunken pill popper. Then I read a story of someone going into a studio head’s office and saw the young actress on his lap. I realized why child stars become a mess as adults. And a parent was the child’s manager.

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@ZitoSalena I think you know why.

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@Lukewearechange Slovakia.🇸🇰

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FDR is the most overrated president in American history and it is not close.

People treat him like a saint. The reality is he inherited a recession and turned it into the longest depression in the history of the developed world. Every other major economy on earth recovered faster than the United States did under FDR. Sit with that. We had the most resources, the most industry, the most capacity, and we recovered slower than countries that got bombed.

Unemployment was still 19% in 1938. Six years into the New Deal. Six years of "bold experimentation" and one in five Americans still could not find work.

Why? Because his policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.

Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.

A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism.

So what actually saved the economy? Not the alphabet agencies. Not the fireside chats. A world war. Twelve million men shipped overseas and the entire planet's industrial competition reduced to rubble. That is the "recovery." That is the legacy.

Strip away Pearl Harbor and FDR is a guy who took a bad recession and stretched it into a decade of misery with bad economics and a cult of personality. He is not ranked on results. He is ranked on the luck of being in the chair when Hitler invaded Poland.

Greatest marketing job in the history of the presidency. Nothing more.

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@MurrayContracts @Steigerworld2 @S_Oakland_Pgh @Panther49547104 The current PNC Park lease ends in 2030. We’ll shortly see how this scenario plays out.

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@philthatremains Two songs that came after the fall, “Right Here Right Now” by Jesus Jones and “Winds of Change” by The Scorpions, show the optimism at that time. I listen to the lyrics now and wonder how Europe ended up like the Soviet Union.

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@colin_dunlap The schools used to be controlled by each individual parish. Now they are controlled by the diocese.

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@Lex_Jurgen I always wanted what his white adoptive parents thought of his shenanigans.

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@colin_dunlap I’ll make the argument that these “minorities “ are over represented compared to the general population and that white men are being discriminated against based solely on the numbers.

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@BobSmit19657164 @tooninwithmetv Hitting info for the show even says “Memorial Day, Bill and Toony celebrate with a BBQ.”