Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 19 Sep 2025 04:18:49 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> <10aefnf$38gjp$3@dont-email.me> <10aevsr$3d66v$1@dont-email.me> <10ag041$3ka79$1@dont-email.me> <10ahvkn$52l5$1@dont-email.me> <10ai7ar$6qom$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net oeVitwvPz6lms2B1xsEF0wZbBcK+tCEGI2jmcWP+CUxl3fo5Pg Cancel-Lock: sha1:32T9wrjqhobRSiGVSt/VUonTvTM= sha256:GLFe/5Ep3r55abeg9zGYyPQTvwGJobKkA+EjoKWlPl4= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74522 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24392 On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:15:21 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Possibly.... I just got in for the last half hour. The local rerun > channels do not provide continous information. A local had been attacked > and the local LEOs were bent on persecution of the immigrants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvnpprHIK24 The original final scene was Tom Joad's speech before he left but that was a little too radical. Zanuck is supposed to be responsible for the upbeat ending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUEtixBQCLM The book ends with Rose of Sharon feeding a starving man with her breast milk but that wasn't going to fly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-c6GphpAeY 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' Springsteen can be an asshole but he does write good songs. I recently read an article by a right wing commentator who apparently finally listened to 'Born in the USA'. I've wondered about that for years. I think even Reagan used it. At least Limbaugh had the twisted sense of humor to use 'My City Was Gone' for his intro, paying royalties to Chrissie Hynde who donated them to PETA.