Posted on 03/07/2019 9:14:23 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
Do you ever get the feeling that news stories come and go faster than they used to? Ask anyone in the news business. It's real. The O.J. Simpson story lasted about a year. Now, it feels like there is an O.J. a week.
Maybe it's the effect of staring at screens all day, jumping from snippet to snippet. Our brains have been rewired to think only in the present tense. Or maybe there is a lot more news than there used to be. Some world historic crisis hits every four days, knocking the last world historic crisis from our collective consciousness forever.
Once upon a time people had a chance to digest their disasters. The Titanic, for example, sank in April of 1912. In 1982, the New York Times wrote a front page feature about Titanic survivors. Seventy years later, people still remembered the story. Can you remember what happened 70 days ago? How about 56 days ago? Think back to that cobweb-shrouded period in our history. It was January of 2019. The federal government had just shut down. The president said we needed a border wall. The Democrats scoffed at him. They claimed the entire immigration crisis was "manufactured." The news media heartily weighed in on that debate. In case you can't remember whose side the media took, they called it, in clip after clip, a "manufactured crisis."
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Rumor on twitter is that PDJT knows he’s going to be impeached and he’s placating the senate rinos(open borders globalists) so that he’s not removed. Who knows what’s going...None of it is good. The GOP is disgusting.
That’s the horrifying reality. The rats are deadly serious about ruling in Amerika forever
Hey ‘rim. I remember that late December ‘68 reading well, but “Bobby Kennedy was shot the previous night”?? (Or maybe my ancient brain is just not understanding your post correctly?). BK was shot in early June of ‘68.
You are correct...the part of the episode where it came up Frank Borman wasn’t orbiting the moon, he was working up and training for the mission in December, his wife, distraught, called him whereever in the USA he was to tell him the news, which he hadn’t heard either.
Okay, I got it now.
I wasn’t clear at all...:)
Seems to be a recurring problem the older I get!
10 or so years ago, the accepted number was 35 million.
Then POOF! it went to 11 million overnight.
right.....
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