bobover3 (imported) wrote: Tue Apr 13, 2010 4:24 pm The Blob, with Steve McQueen. An SF classic.

Yes, but did you know that Orsen Wells played the BLOB?

Ellison best short story, in my opinion, was "Tick Tock Man."

Ellison is around five feet tall. He tells this story about a fan writing him saying that Ellison was wrong to refer to a person in his story as a midget. The fan insists that these short persons be called "little people."

Ellison writes back saying, "I'm a little person, you're just a midget." Ellison has style

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:30 am Ellison best short story, in my opinion, was "Tick Tock Man."

The title is:

"REPENT HARLEQUIN!" SAID THE TICKTOCK MAN

and you can read it at this URL:

http://alexpeak.com/twr/rhstt/

Thank you Dave, I will read it and report back.

River

Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:52 am The title is:

"REPENT HARLEQUIN!" SAID THE TICKTOCK MAN

and you can read it at this URL:

http://alexpeak.com/twr/rhstt/

Thanks, Dave

What ratio of 50's horror films were based on

radiation

y'suppose?

I seem to remember an old B&W episode of, Twilight Zone(?)

done as a parody on radiated bug film production.

Moi

How I miss Elvira night.

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:17 pm What ratio of 50's horror films were based on

radiation

y'suppose?

I seem to remember an old B&W episode of, Twilight Zone(?)

done as a parody on radiated bug film production.

Moi

How I miss Elvira night.

Lots as I recall, moi. One of my favorites involving radiation was X The Unknown.

bobover3 (imported) wrote: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:33 pm Still thinking about DeaconBlues's question - what did it all mean? What were we afraid of?

My guess is it came from a seemingly enviable historical moment: the majority of the American people were starting to enjoy a measure of prosperity and security, such as they never had before; the US had just become a world power, with political and economic links around the world, such as it had never been before. For the first time, many Americans could look up from the struggle to survive, and contemplate their role as free citizens of a global empire. This new freedom and new contact with far away peoples was unnerving, even as it was exhilarating. A man in a new suit of clothes with a pocket full of cash in the big city could work mischief that the rural toilers of the past couldn't. All those foreigners we'd never had to think about before were also threats.

I think that's the core of 50s anxiety. New prosperity, rising education, relocation to cities, work in offices, etc., severed the ties to the stable secure rural communities of the past. Throw in strange foreigners, and the people who grew up on farms they'd left behind were scared. It's a big world out there. Don't forget the "mad scientists" who spoke to the anxiety caused by the explosion of technology.

NO need to GUESS, THIS (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/3 ... 920/646919) is what the CONSERVATIVES were afraid of...

52.38% top marginal tax rate: Eisenhower, King of the Socialists

by mbzoltan

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Only in 1988 and 1989 (Ronald Reagan's final 13 months in office) was the TOP MARGINAL rate down to 28%. It was 69.13% when he went into office, and went from 69.13%-50% from 1981-1986, then 38.5%, then 28%.

Barack Obama has proposed a top marginal tax rate of 39.6%, which was the rate under Bill Clinton. So with the exception of 13 months of Reagan's time in office, Obama's rate is lower than Reagan's.

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Furthermore, really look at those rates. Take the Tax Policy Center's historical top marginal tax rate chart. Under previous Republicans:

Taft: (1909-1913)--income tax began in 1913 at 7% for top rate

Harding: (1921-1923): 56%-73%

Coolidge (1923-1929): 24%-56%

Hoover (1929-1933): 24%-63% (63% after Roosevelt took power)

Eisenhower (1953-1961): 91-92%

Nixon (1969-1974): 70-77%

Ford: (1974-1977): 70%

Reagan (1981-1989): 28%-69.13%

Bush I: (1989-1993): 28%-39.6% (39.6% after Clinton took power)

Low taxes for the TOP RATES are the exception even under Republican presidents, not the norm.

Under all Republican presidents since federal income tax began, NOT including the years where the Republican transfered power to a Democrat (i.e the Republican was only in office for 1-3 months at the beginning of the year), the top marginal tax rate average was 52.38%, a full 12%+ HIGHER than Barack Obama's proposal. I took the 49 years during which the Republican was in power for the majority of the time, added the tax rates, and divided by 49 to get the figure of 52.38%.

Barack Obama wants to raise the top marginal tax rate to Bill Clinton's former rate, which is 12%+ LOWER than the average for all Republican presidents combined.

People get confused about tax brackets as well. 39.6% tax rates aren't going to apply to ALL income--just to the top tax bracket income.

This handy tax bracket form helps you compute your "effective" tax rate--the percentage of your total income that you actually pay in taxes, considering the first $8,025 is taxed at 10%, the next $8,026-$32,550 is taxed at 15%, and so on.

You do not see the TOP marginal tax bracket--currently 35%, proposed to be 39.6% under Barack Obama--until you reach $357,701 in income.

Everything under $357,701 is taxed between 10% and 33%.

Food for thought. 52.38%.

Heh, heh, heh... SOCIALISTS huh?

How can they define that with a mouth full of TEA PEE?

...They probably think that Marx was a toy brand or a band of funny brothers...

A-1 (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:38 pm NO need to GUESS, THIS (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/3 ... 920/646919) is what the CONSERVATIVES were afraid of...

Heh, heh, heh... SOCIALISTS huh?

How can they define that with a mouth full of TEA PEE?

...They probably think that Marx was a toy brand or a band of funny brothers...

I liked the all the Marx Brothers: Harpo, Chico, Groucho, Karl, Gummo and Zeppo though Karl was the funniest

Now that that's over, please try to keep this thread off reality and onto Science Fiction

MacTheWolf (imported) wrote: Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:04 pm I liked the all the Marx Brothers: Harpo, Chico, Groucho, Karl, Gummo and Zeppo though Karl was the funniest

Now that that's over, please try to keep this thread off reality and onto Science Fiction

Well said. After spending entirely too much time in the political section, I must say that reality is often highly overrated, and I am not entirely sure I want to install the latest version of reality.

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