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Remarkably, the famous Wall Street charging bull sculpture wasn’t commissioned, but was an act of street art perpetrated in 1989 by Brooklyn sculptor Arturo Di Modica and 40 friends in five minutes while the cops were away. (It’s almost as if Brooklyn artistes depend upon the prosperity of Wall Street chads for their livings.) Since then, Asian tourists have rubbed the bull’s testicles to a high sheen in hopes of financial luck.
In contrast, the celebrated “Fearless Girl” statue facing the bull was commissioned as an advertising project by a Wall Street firm that manages $3.5 trillion. From Wikipedia:
Fearless Girl is a bronze sculpture by Kristen Visbal, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), a large asset management company. The statue was installed on March 7, 2017, in anticipation of International Women’s Day the following day. It depicts a girl four feet high, promoting female empowerment.[2] It is located across from the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Manhattan in New York City.
Fearless Girl was commissioned to advertise for an index fund that comprises gender-diverse companies that have a relatively high percentage of women among their senior leadership. A plaque originally placed below the statue stated: “Know the power of women in leadership. SHE makes a difference,” with “SHE” being both a descriptive pronoun and the fund’s NASDAQ ticker symbol.
The statue was first installed at the northern tip of Bowling Green on Broadway,[3] facing down the Charging Bull statue
“Fearless Girl”? What? A binary cisgendered statue in a woke New York? That’s not who we are! And it’s about time they cut off the bull’s testicles.
Not sure, but Fearless Girl looks like a TG. Judging solely by looks …
Marvelous little metaphor for the whole quota system
The bull arrived unheralded, unordered and untamed. He is in his natural environment.
The girl was ordered and paid for by men – and be assured that behind the facade of “a RELATIVELY high percentage of female leadership” the money behind this is male.
Not so much fearless as a servant designed to show her masters virtue ( virtue derived of vir the Latin for man )
Black man gets fired from job.
As is made clear in a million ways, by either the girl statue or Biden ending an industrial apprenticeship program, they hate prosperity, and the simplest explanation of why anyone would hate prosperity is they’ve got theirs and are bothered by other people getting over.
The two statues represent an arc of prosperity: bull as builder of wealth; girl as indulgence the wealth allows — she’ll grow up to get “a worthless degree from a Marxist educational institution”; she’ll be childless; she’ll advocate and activate on behalf of various under-performing minorities, immigrant grifters, boutique environmental causes, etc.; she’ll be part of, and cheer on, internet media conglomerates that scrub truth and badthink from the bits and bytes flowing onto screens.
Not a good use of excess profits, but there she is, to remind us of what we are today.
“Charging Bull” to be replaced by a meek & masked “Cow Rona”.
“Fearless Girl” to be replaced by “How dare you Greta”
An absolutely no bears, because that be so Russian. We will print all the money that’s needed to keep the bears away!
A statue of Cuomo more fearsome that the statue of Michael Jackson’s HIStory promotion will be added later.
That’s as may be, but per Wikipedia Di Modica was trying to sell the bull, unsuccessfully, since 1993. It’s unclear if he ever did sell it, but clearly he hadn’t been too directly dependent on Wall St. megabux.
Or maybe they all bought his other sculptures once they got a look at the bull.
Anyway: this story is a good clear indicator of the distinction between actual art (aesthetically pleasing, illegal, done by a man) and what passes for such nowadays (PC, fake, gay). I salute Mr. Di Modica and his giant shiny balls
SHE has noticeably underperformed the S&P500 since inception … it’s 54.4% return compared to 89.7% return on the SPX works out to roughly 60.1%, so I guess the gals, gays, and trannies shouldn’t whine about their pay only being 75% of that of the guys
Awesome! We can take a look at State Street Global Advisor’s portfolio to know what not to invest in.
The bull is street art? That is actually pretty cool- funny how often street art ends up being more enjoyable than so much of the commissioned crap.
Without the real art of the Bull, the girl is meaningless. In that respect is like most female/black/gay achievement we are demanded to notice and celebrate: It only has meaning in relation to what White men have created.
To be sure, there are genuine achievements by women, blacks and gays, but those stand as achievements irrespective of the sex and race of the person. “The first woman to….” ‘The first black to…”, “The first gay to…” are entitlement prizes, not worthy of place in the pantheon of human achievement.
“And it’s about time they cut off the bull’s testicles. ”
…and welded them onto fearless girl. That’s who we are, buddy. And don’t you forget it.
The symbolism is apt. The Fearless Girl is fearless in the face of a bronze bull that is bolted to the ground. If the bull was real it would toss her around like a rag doll. If the sculptures were to come to life, it would only be the seconds before it all turned to tragedy. It’s only a feminist fantasy that an 80 lb. girl can confront a one ton bull.
In real life there are humans who stand in front of charging bulls but they are full grown men and have spent years training to be able to confront such risks and even they get gored sometimes.
How well does the fund and others like it perform?
Charging Bull, Fearless Girl: Who would win in a fight?
Charging Bull, in all likelihood; Fearless Girl might
if her daddy were there with a shotgun and ammo.
“Oh Daddy, please save me!” “Okay, honey!” Blammo!
Girl wouldn’t be fearless, nor else would a laddie
Without the protection of dearest old Daddy.
SHE has outperformed the Dow and S&P 500 in the last year, but I wouldn’t put put all my eggs in one ovary. My financial advisor earned me a similar return because it’s been a bull year. The real test occurs when the market heads south.
Meanwhile in the real world as opposed to the idealised utopia we learn from online brokerage etoro that upwards of 85% of retail bitcoin traders are men…and though I am extrapolating here I strongly suspect that the 15% of women are massively underrepresented at the bell-curve tail of high lnvestment levels and high risk.
Seems that there are not all that many fearless girls out there. This is purely anecdotal but I am a retail trader. Several of my male friends are. I know no ( Not One ) female who has ever tried it.
Guayaquil, Ecuador has all kinds of charming statues, but my favorite is a British import.
Statues are very much overlooked as a living art form, but I like a world in which children are surrounded by images that become part of their consciousness as they grow up, and I have my home full of an assortment of wall art, interesting objects, and so on intended to be decorative but also inspiring intellectual curiosity.
These children are developing an interest in sculpture, and perhaps 50 years from now they will be looking at the photograph that they were posing for, not the one snapped by me as a bystander with a cheap cell phone.
Not long after State Street commissioned that statue, the news broke that they’re head deep into blatant sex discrimination. So, the statue was “look squirrel.”
Why not a statue of a 6’6″ man pretending to be a girl playing basketball?
Why didn’t they build a grizzly statue in front of the charging bull?
Jack, I thought nearly the same thing. Yeah, sure, stand your daughter in front of an uncaged charging bull. Well, on another note, my daughters learned at an early age about “Charging”, and that’s no bull. Stay safe.
Jonathan, Buffalo has “Shark Girl” and kids love to pose with it. Is it art? Well, it starts lots of conversations about what is art, so it serves a purpose. Maybe some one can post a photo of “Shark Girl.”
Yeah. If you want a sobering and unpleasant visual experience, search for a video with “Juan José Padilla eye.” I wouldn’t recommend it, but there’s a reason for that piratical patch he wears along with his suit of lights.
When I lived in Spain in the 1990s the then ultra-famous (and hilariously dimwitted) matador Jesulín de Ubrique was being interviewed on a TV talk show. An audience member asked if there wasn’t some sort of trick to his bullfighting, implying that it couldn’t really be as dangerous as it seemed etc. So Jesulín stood up, dropped his trousers and indicated the many enormous scars on his legs. And this was a guy who was really good at it.
Buffalo Joe,
Here you go:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/shark-girl
The symbolism is even more apt in another way. The Girl stands athwart and obstructs the path of the Bull. So the symbolic message is plainly that the Girl, representing “women in leadership”, stands athwart and obstructs the path prosperity, represented by the Bull.
Then there is the fact that the Bull was installed in an act of spontaneous artistic generation, while the Girl was installed as part of calculated PR psy-op using funds diverted from their fiduciary purpose.
It ought to be hard to believe that people in charge of managing $3.5 trillion would be so tone-deaf in advertising their incompetence and obstructiveness. But it no longer is.
The family of a friend of mine when I lived in Seville were the Guardiolas, well-known breeders of fighting bulls. On several occasions I was invited to one or another of their ranches to attend a tentadero, which is when they get a bullfighter in to try out the heifers to see which ones have the most fight in them, basically, and will therefore be fit to breed. After the bullfighter is finished practicing and they’ve taken their notes and so on, they let anyone who wants to try have a go. Any adult or adolescent boy, anyway: not little girls.
A couple of times I was shamed into doing it, and it’s hard to convey how threatening it feels to be confronted by even a small cow with horns that come up to your chest when you’re armed only with a piece of cloth and a fake wooden sword. It’s also a deeply embarrassing experience, especially in front of a bunch of people one of whom is a famous matador. At least I never ended up in a chopper on the way to the hospital, as my then cousin-in-law did one afternoon with a heifer-induced head injury.
“Sistahz are doin’ it for themselves” the way a bee hive is populated by female workers blocked from sexual maturity by the parasitic castration pheromones of the queen bee. The statue doesn’t show the hive because its purpose is to parasitically castrate men by portraying them as impotent in single combat with an “individual” castrati.
On his Wikipedia page it tells of how he bought a 3-storey building for his studio, filed for permission to add a basement, was turned down, so he dug it himself, smuggling out dirt at night, a la many bank heist movies. There’s a photo of him looking up through a hole in the floor.
The studio didn’t have room for his big stuff, so he just left it out on the street.
The bull drop was a little more messy than the post description. The NYSE had it immediately carried away. The city put it in its current position (which is a city park, not the sidewalk) about a week later after public outcry.
Another foreign gaylord statue maker. Down with matriarchy and bulldyke worship.
Why would they try out heifers because female cattle are not used for fighting?
Once you hit $3.5 trillion the money’s in charge of you. Doesn’t matter how brilliant you are.
Because in theory fighting bulls never see humans on foot until they enter the ring, and you certainly don’t want them to have prior experience.
The answer to this question is one with wide applicability. It just might be the key that unlocks your maddening obtuseness. It did mine.
Thanks for that and the clip earlier.
You may enjoy the exploits of Felipe Marlo, only licensed taurine P.I. in late 1950s Spain:
https://www.authorhouse.com/en-gb/bookstore/bookdetails/241615-Felipe-Marlo-Bullfight-Shamus
Very, very funny with plenty of great jokes and “guest stars” including Hemingway and Ava Gardner and the arena superstars of the day.
On the theory that an aggressive female and aggressive male would produce aggressive offspring.
The novel “Blood And Sand” by Vincente Blasco Ibáñez gives a good picture of Spanish bullfighting culture in the early years of last century.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54222/54222-h/54222-h.htm
‘In real life there are humans who stand in front of charging bulls but they are full grown men and have spent years training to be able to confront such risks and even they get gored sometimes.’
Well, there’s also the maid in A Simple Life.
Hey. I saw an opportunity to show off.
Do the bears have any representation in Wall Street statuary? If not, then I nominate this piece for inclusion:
That’s Britney Spears, giving birth on a bearskin rug. The sculptor is Daniel Edwards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Edwards
Here’s his depiction of rapper Jay Z surrounded by a gaggle of Care Bears:
It’s “symbolism” (ok, it’s marketing, but suppose it were symbolism). it’s evidently not to be taken literally.
It’s not as if someone on TV were proclaiming that little girls can take on bulls.
Prosperity comes from production and increasingly more numerous and complex production chains. Including a skilled workforce.
The bull comes from money printing and the expectations that come with it.
Although you are hearing it daily on Talmudvision, these two things are not the same.
World debt soars to record $281 TRILLION in 2020, set to rise again this year – report
Someone is not going to get the daily espresso he expects.
When you are a little girl in the path of a charging bull, the best response is:
a. Fearlessness
b. Feminism
c. Marketing
d. RUN!!!
When I was young, the word “girl” was verboten. “Young woman” or something more like.
Ah, me. Times change.
I thought this post was going to be about the depredations of the fiendish suckers’ shell-game that is Wall Street. No such luck. Not on this website.
“Fearless Girl was commissioned to advertise for an index fund that comprises gender-diverse companies that have a relatively high percentage of women among their senior leadership.”
How has the fund performed relative to it’s non-sexist peers?
A wolf walked across our property last night.
This morning, I examined the footprints it left in the fresh snow, from the bottom of our hill, all the way up, then along our driveway and beyond. It’s been here before. One time it shitted right there in the driveway, leaving an impressive pile.
I know who it is, or at least its close relatives, because I have seen one here in the daytime, and there are very few wolves around here at all. It is gray, and it stalks the plentiful deer here.
Fortunately, our dog sleeps at the foot of the bed. I don’t know what would happen if the two met.
Well, Fearless Girls faces better odds against a bull with shiny balls than Joe Biden off his court mandated Leuprolide.
Okay it’s just a statue, put up by people who have no understanding of the natural world, but having come from a ranching family and spent summers on the ranch, I learned about bulls early and this statue is stupid — you never stand directly in front of a bull because that says, “I dare you to come at me!” And he will. Fast.
Statue girl’s posture is terribly wrong. When dealing with a bull you must be ready to move instantly, so you position your body low, your feet in a running position, one slightly in front of the other, so you can be ready to dodge to either side, jump over or dive under. And you put your hands up high in front of your face, so if the bull comes at your head, you have some protection.
But the little girl is in a stupid “power position” with her hands on her hips and feet spread apart as if she were a speaker at some motivational conference demonstrating how to assert yourself and intimidate rivals, none of whom will ever be more powerful, smarter, more experienced or more ruthless than you.
She is standing in front of an animal that is way faster and much bigger than she is and she’s not ready to dodge and run. If some little girl is truly in front of a bull someday and pops a power position that will be a sad day for the girl and her parents.
And, you know what? Thinking about this, dealing with cow brutes is a good way for a girl to learn about human brutes, too. Males of any species are potentially lethally dangerous and you should not provoke them or behave carelessly around them. You have to recognize your limited ability to control them because they are bigger, stronger, tougher, more violent and more unpredictable than you are or that you can probably even imagine. And you have to understand that some varieties are much more dangerous than others and you need to know which you are dealing with.
That said, I, personally, do like bulls, the bigger and stronger the better, and I like being around them. I just know very viscerally that females-are-equal-to-males feminism is for fools.
I get Facebook advertising posts constantly from a Save the Wolves organization that cries constantly about state governments killing wolves to protect livestock and people.
The thought comes up that the US government doesn’t need to bother with the Harriet Tubman 20 dollar bill and can just move immediately to the USD 200 dollar bill.
Did the NYT approve of the stunt? Yes? Then it was a success.
Off Topic:
Denmark has reversed itself on immigration. Fascinating article. I can’t help but feel sorry for the Iranian girl who feels like she is living in a different country. Kind of like the people of Hazleton PA, which went from few Hispanics to being about half Hispanic now.
This is priceless and a shock to the system to read; it is so unlike what we hear in America:
“Good behaviour alone is not enough. If you want to be a Danish citizen, you must have taken Denmark in,” the Liberal party spokesperson for citizenship, Morten Dahlin, explained to the conservative Jyllands-Posten newspaper. “Integration is not about building bridges. Integration is about the people who come to Denmark going over the bridge that is already here.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-denmarks-immigrants-losing-hope-140603069.html
1. Bill the goat, USNA sculpture, has shiny balls. They are Brasso-ed occasionally at night in “recon raids” by the Mids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Bill
2. Animals, along with children and cleavage, are primal signals for advertisers (regardless of product). I learned this in a marketing class.
3. Somehow we have to discuss the “red wolf” and its uncertain speciation, along with its miscegenation with coyotes. Interesting example of people trying desperately to prevent racial mixing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_wolf#Coyote_%C3%97_re-introduced_red_wolf_issues
Of course, it is actually arguable if wolves, coyotes, AND dogs are really different species. They reproduce readily and frequently, creating viable hybrids of various admixture amounts. Speciation is really a human abstract distinction. But functionally, it maybe makes more sense to consider canis a species and the various types within it as subspecies.
Yes. Also the Bull is there to express optimism. Feminism will have none of that. The Girl is just another ball-buster.
But they weren’t “tone-deaf”; they struck just the right tone for the Megaphone.
Wolves will be all right. They don’t need our help. As the deer population grows here, as it is everywhere else in America now, the wolves will follow and keep things in balance. That is as it should be.
I love the wildlife we have here. I love the wolves and the deer they eat.
It is my belief that we all would be better off if only those who write for the New York Times and other things would just live out here for a while, and if they would make friends with a few farmers. Then it wouldn’t be news when a black dumbass suddenly discovers plants and gets to write a published article about it.
Life is nature. It IS species, and hunting, and killing, and eating, and stalking, and working, and working, and working… It is balance, always.
It does not really exist — except in perverted form — in the urban environments that produce the propaganda and garbage Steve reads every day.
Today, my wife and I bought our usual Sunday copy of the New York Times at a gas station down the road, on our way to Trader Joe’s in town. She insists of reading it, and I insist on using it to light fires in the fireplace.
The front page this Sunday, right across the top:
“U.S. VIRUS DEATHS NEARING 500,000 IN JUST ONE YEAR”
“The Toll: America Approaches Half a Million Covid Deaths”
“Garland Faces Resurgent Peril Of Extremism”
“STORMS EXPOSING A NATION PRIMED FOR CATASTROPHE”
“CLIMATE CHANGE WRATH”
Crap, crap, crap.
Alternatively, the statue represents Moloch, the True God of Wall Street, and the young girl represents a child sacrifice to the pagan bull god.
I suppose you cannot breed successful fighting bulls because they all die in action.
For those who don’t know Matador means killer.
I still don’t really know the answer to the question but I suppose it has something to do with Oedipus and Jocasta.
1) Steve should be commended for recognizing the statue and the man who made it.
2) There should be a permanent BEAR statue there too, facing down the ridiculous bull.
The stupid, little girl was only a subtle piece of Wall Street propaganda.
We BEARS are real, and we provide balance to the phony fantasies of investors in equities and those who profit from selling BULLshit to them.
“Fortunately, our dog sleeps at the foot of the bed. I don’t know what would happen if the two met.”
Your dog knows. That’s why he sleeps inside. (Unless that was a picture of your dog, in which case I call it even.)
And how better to maintain that balance than…………….snorting a little smack!
This same professor said that George Floyd most definitely did not die of a drug overdose:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/opinion/george-floyd-toxicology-report-drugs.html
A German Shepherd, he is inside at night, at the foot of our bed, because I make it so. He obeys me. It is not his choice.
I assume the wild one would win, because he is wild. Same size, though. I don’t want to find out, and I won’t ask my dog to. My best guess is they both would come out worse and it’s best not to let it happen, ever. I respect both of them, and I don’t realistically even imagine they would ever meet. I wouldn’t be surprised if the two would purposely avoid each other the way humans sometimes do. In fact, I secretly sense the wolf would run away. My dog owns this property. It is his, and he knows it. The wolf knows he is only passing through.
Islam will eventually overtake Christianity in numbers and become the largest monotheistic faith in the world. I welcome the opportunity to replace my pants with robes. Unlike iSteve cultists, Muslim men are not nude under their robes.
I was curious about Arturo di Modica. Here’s an obituary for him. It talks about the bull in greater detail.
https://hosted.ap.org/theskanner/article/36193faf1857c174b942355611713653/arturo-di-modica-sculptor-wall-street-bull-dies-80
It ends with this. I have to wonder if he would have found the money and gotten approval for his proposed final work.
“At the time of his death, he was working on prototypes for a twin horse sculpture he planned to make for the Sicilian town. It was envisioned as a 40-meter-high (132-foot-high) work to be erected on the banks of a river.”
Sorry, I failed to hit Reply… See my comment below: https://www.unz.com/isteve/wall-street-charging-bull-sculptor-arturo-di-modica-rip/#comment-4483103
This is a viable interpretation. Although Mithraism, the Roman mystery system that was eventually supplanted by Christianity, works as well. Sacrifice is required in every religion. Significant religions usually begin as cults. Will the iSteve cult develop beyond its naked-men-in-a-clubhouse origin and expand into a major religion?
I think you’re right. Is that statue still there?
He should have sais that “Islam would invite the world” instead.
Aaaah! Praise be!
OT – the RINOs and their house organs (now including the Guardian) are plotting to de-Trumpify the GOP.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/21/republican-donors-aim-move-party-away-trump-influence
Bardon, she looks like the little scold, Greta Thunberg. By the way, when do they resurrect her?
Yeah, I remember that. Now it looks like they are suing the girl who made it. Nice guys over there.
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2019/02/20/fearless-girl-suing-lawsuit-state-street/
Also, this was a thing.
Made by another sculptor to show his annoyance at the fake PR move by SSA.
https://nypost.com/2017/05/29/pissed-off-artist-adds-statue-of-urinating-dog-next-to-fearless-girl/
It’s a shame no one erected a guerrilla protest statue of Epstein next to fearless girl to show how screwed up wall street and everything is.
At that age, kids look somewhat alike. Nothing to worry about.
You must keep up with the news!
Indian climate activist arrested & accused of circulating farmers protest ‘toolkit’ shared by Greta Thunberg
There was some trouble with the independentist Sihk movement managed from Canada instrumenting Miss Thunberg. It was too foreign to me, so I didn’t follow up. The subcontinent can solve its probems alone.
Now, this is one Sarah that has balls.
Current Nobel avoided her, but never say never ….
By the way, “art” has been metooed for some time, without most of the world noticing it. It’s feminism, not the bull, on rampage….
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/florence-italy-change-carmen-1.4482413
Plot twist: opera Carmen altered in anti-violence protest
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In the classic opera, first performed in Paris in 1875, the feisty gypsy Carmen is murdered by Don Jose in a fit of jealousy. But those in the cast thought the time was ripe for a new finale given Italy’s recent, burgeoning movement to combat male violence against female partners or relatives. And so this production’s ending has the heroine shooting to death Don Jose.
“It’s a way to say to all, men and women, ‘enough of the violence,”‘ soprano Veronica Simeoni told The Associated Press before Wednesday’s performance.
“In this case, there’s a precise message against violence targeting women, a plague that has concerned all of us always, and in this moment is before the eyes of everybody.”
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Awwwright …… I am waiting for Russians to join in & give us old lady axing Raskolnikov….
I like the bull. It’s not great art, but I like what it symbolizes.
The fearless girl is kitsch and not attractive kitsch at that.
Gary, there are videos out there of sheep dogs of many different breeds taking on wolves and winning handily. The biggest one I saw was from the Caucaus (sic) Mountains IIRC. Just trashed the wolf, but I don’t know if European wolves are as big as the NA wolves.
Daniel Edwards:
It’s time for a Dark Drone.
Pres Jackson is more ladylike than Mrs Tubman.
Specifically, Bette Davis. Robin Williams likened George Washington to Barbara Bush.
Well… this has carried us on. What’s next, Steve? I realize this is your livelihood.
Yes. That is correct. We out here are working and living in the shit you write about in your closet — there in Studio City or WHATEVER.
You are now so far removed from American reality that it is no longer funny.
Isn’t Dahlin a Swedish name?
What’s your opinion of Rolls Royce, Is there a good reason it’s about to go out of business or would you buy?
In that case the black dude is right & the Pope the cuck…..
Since 2016 I’ve felt that the 2 sculptures should be modified so that the bull has Hillary’s face and the child has Donald’s.
Charging Bull, Fearless Girl: Who would win in a fight?
The Bull; at least in one instance.
For many years we lived in a house adjacent to farmland which most often was let out for summer pasture to local farmers fattening cattle for market. When exercising our German Shepherd there we were careful about ensuring that the farm beasts were in the furthest of the three linked fields being grazed because, as you say, these are big, heavy animals which can move extremely fast.
For those unfamiliar with them, cattle encounters can easily become very frightening and dangerous. See
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/sep/23/farmers-union-issues-warning-after-teacher-trampled-to-death-by-cows
“Carmen” is obviously vastly flawed and contemporary SJWs couldn’t help but improve it by making changes in it.
We could do without the penny nickel and quarter. Dimes and a smaller half dollar would be fine. Make it the approximate size of a nickel but heavier so vending machines can be reprogrammed but won’t need to be physically expanded.
The US has already shrunk dollar coins and pennies from their original sizes.
I rarely spend more than $100 in cash, I’d never use a 200 bill.
A large share of $100 bills are used by foreigners and criminals, as Americans tend to use payments cards for transactions above $50.
So not only is math racist, but also sexist?
Wolves eat dogs. Also the title of a very good Martin Cruz Smith Arkady Renko Moscow detective crime novel.
Somewhere in the past I read an account of some Nordic hunter who for some reason set his Norwegian Wolfhounds off in the Swedish forest to track down some wolves.
The wolves tore the hounds to bits.
That’s what would happen. So if the dogs wake you up from wolves, find another defense.
Hyperinflation is coming. After a few more years of the Biden/Harris regime, Dollar Tree will have to change its name to 100-Dollar Tree.
Incidentally, I visited Dollar Tree today on my usual Sunday constitutional. They sell the dead-tree weekend edition of the Miami Herald for a buck – three dollars cheaper than the retail price. They also sell Snickers ice-cream bars.
The once-mighty Sunday paper is a pathetic creature nowadays, with a total page count lower than that of the A section alone 15 or 20 years ago. The main article on today’s front page is yet another tedious ass-licking piece on black – sorry, Black – history. The travel section is now a travel page.
And yet I went ahead and bought it. If nothing else, I could justify my purchase by turning to the comics section, including the obligatory “Peanuts Classic” strip from 1974.
Spergy trivia: In 1974, the standard width of a newspaper page was 14.5 inches. I have some papers featuring Nixon’s resignation and they’re all about that width. In the early twentieth century, the standard was 18 inches; by the World War 2 era, it was 16.5 inches; by the ‘90s, it was 13.5 inches; now it’s 11 inches. So the old Peanuts strips are squashed and distorted to fit in the smaller space.
For many years, the Doonesbury guy – Jane Pauley’s husband, what’s-his-name – insisted that his strip be printed at the larger size. And Bill Watterson (the Calvin and Hobbes guy) once demanded that his Sunday strip be sold as a half-page feature to give him a larger canvas and more control over the layout. The syndicate was unable to enforce the size requirement, but Watterson was able to ensure that his desired layouts were printed intact. Unlike most strips, which were (and still are) drawn in multiple rectangular panels that could be rearranged to run vertically if necessary (with the first two panels optional), his Sunday strip was sold as a one-panel self-contained entity.
Why is Peanuts still featured so prominently in the comics section? Who still reads it? Who ever did? Even as a kid, I preferred Calvin and Hobbes. Hell, I preferred Garfield over Peanuts. (Garfield was never a great strip, but 30 years ago it was a lot better than it is now.) In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, Peanuts was silly and often stupid (“Snoopy wants cookies!”), only slightly more tolerable than Marmaduke and Family Circus. But purportedly it was pretty good back in the ‘60s.
Supposedly Lucy – the raging bitch who never let Charlie Brown kick the stupid football – was based on Charles Schulz’s ball-busting first wife. Lucy was a real fire-breather in the strip’s early days. But then Schulz got divorced, Lucy lost a lot of her punch, Snoopy started walking on two feet, and the once-biting strip devolved into a cynical merchandising machine.
When Schulz proposed to his mistress, she refused, saying that she did not want to destroy the innocence of the Peanuts characters. He replied, “What innocence? They’re all nasty little bastards.”
I used to read Dilbert religiously. I haven’t checked it out in quite a while, though.
“In contrast, the celebrated “Fearless Girl” statue facing the bull was commissioned as an advertising project by a Wall Street firm that manages $3.5 trillion. From Wikipedia:”
Wait, is that Greta Thunberg? Her question full of outrage has become a symbolism of the pain of all children that are ignored by their high-achieving, hyper-competitive parents:
“How dare you?!”
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Yeah, “Carmen” is flawed. (guffaw). And let’s not even think about “Don Giovanni”. (“Tosca” passes muster: Scarpia gets the dagger…)
A guerrilla protest statue of President* Joe Biden sniffing her hair would be epic!!
I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Even Google didn’t help.
As A.M. points out, if you view it as symbolism it’s even worse. The “bull” on Wall St. represents optimism – the little girl (symbolically womanhood) is fearlessly blocking the progress of optimism. Why would you want that?
We don’t normally see wolves next to dogs or objects that illustrate scale so it’s easy to forget that wolves are generally much bigger than dogs. Here is a wolf next to a husky. A northern male timberwolf can weigh over 150 lbs.
The funny thing is that dogs usually have no sense of their own size and are ready to take on all comers. They are like the females who have watched too many female superhero movies and believe that they could kick a man’s ass. I once babysat a niece’s dachshund and she tried to go after a pit bull.
So much this. A wolf is to a dog as an elk is to a deer. If you do not see them together, it is easy to think that they are really quite similar, and indeed, in many ways they are. However, the size difference, it’s just astounding.
“Gary, there are videos out there of sheep dogs of many different breeds taking on wolves and winning handily.”
Not surprising, as domesticated doggies are well fed and healthy, whilst wild dogs are burdened by hunger and parasites.
Yes. A block from what used to be the Alexander Hamilton Custom House, which has been the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court for about 40 years and also the Indian museum for about 15. And there’s tons of empty unused space still.
The East Coast Memorial to servicemen who died in the North Atlantic during WWII is nearby in Battery Park.
Peak Woke MBA culture: Xinjiang enthusiasts giving moral lectures. Well, OK, the Treasury is going to continue to abet intensified oligarch looting of America while cracking down on people who try to subvert them. But hey, they at least have their first woman in charge! And as the White House makes clear: Our First Female Secretary is a solution to our problems, all on its own.
2021 is really gonna put my sobriety to the test if I don’t get somewhere without a TV for a while.
The old world is ending. People are sensing it and are beginning to think about what might come next. 🙂
Perhaps Fearless Girl should be renamed Futile Feminist About To Be Trampled. Or College Grad vs the Wall Street Job Market.
“Peanuts” was amazing for the 1950s – a comic strip about children that was mostly about mental health (without being terribly Freudian).
‘I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Even Google didn’t help.’
I may have the title wrong. Some nineteenth century French novel about a family servant. In one scene, she faces down a charging bull, throwing dust in its eyes to make it veer off.
My wife’s former sister-in-law’s ex-husband David Michaelis wrote the probably definitive biography of Charles Schultz some years ago, which may be of interest:
You mean not on his childhood neighbor Midge Decter?
Breeding is both mom and dad or bull and cow. Aggressive moms breed aggressive bulls. This herd would be bullfight bulls, not peaceful dairy or even beef cows. Scary
There’s the Zola novel Terre all about how dreadful French farmers are. There’s a young woman who inherits a bull. I believe she walks by herself with the bull to other farms to breed. Horrible, typical Zola, all the characters are greedy and cruel.
The company who commissioned the statue of Fearless Girl is due for attacks from The Woke. First titling it girl instead of Fearless gender assigned female at birth. And then referring to it as a she. It’s kinda cute with the swirling skirt but the face is ugly.
My brothers a dairy farmer. His cows seemed pretty docile to me. But all I ever did was attach and remove the milking machine to their teats , watch them have their babies and squirt pinkeyes medicine into their eyes.
Once he had to rescue a pig that got into the field. The cows were butting it with their heads and feet like kids playing kickball.
Brother says steers are not to be messed with.
Yes, exactly. When I was growing up, we had a mongrel who weighed in at about 12 pounds. He was half Chihuahua, and we figured the other half might have been a terrier of some sort. He would charge any other dog that came near our yard. It was comical when he stood down one neighbor’s obese Dalmation cross — but then not quite so funny when he was tossed around and torn up by another neighbor’s collie mix.
He survived all of his showdowns, though, and lived to be 18.
not sure. Gold is safe..so he is in for the Phase of Purity.
seems to have modestly underpeformed
https://www.ssga.com/us/en/institutional/etfs/resources/fundcomparetool#?idType=msid&securityIds=F00000WOX5%7CFEUSA00001
more importantly, at only $200 million in assets, SHE is tiny for an ETF and has failed to attract meaningful inflows.
Fearless Girl with Epstein on one side and Clinton (either one) on the other (each with a hand on her shoulder) and Joe sniffing from behind would be absolutely terrifying. Put a pistol in her hand or something and it might be a hit though.
(If a Kamala statue goes up anywhere, I hope a guerrilla Willie Brown statue is not far away.)
I saw a new one yesterday — Commie La Whorish.
Of course they use an attractive, extremely White-looking immigrant as the poster girl for immigration. Physical looks like hers should be a requirement in considering immigrant candidates: Could they be mistaken, on sight, to be actual Danes? Okay then: Grant them citizenship after they’ve proven cultural compatibility and national loyalty.
Pictured below: Short-waisted Kurdish refugee Jino Victoria Doabi.
(Note: Her hair is artificially lightened.)
Not surprising, they were consistently the least stupid Scandinavians, and years ago already had serious language requirements, while Swedes let their police stations get blown up.
‘“Good behaviour alone is not enough. If you want to be a Danish citizen, you must have taken Denmark in,” the Liberal party spokesperson for citizenship, Morten Dahlin, explained to the conservative Jyllands-Posten newspaper…’
Why any nation feels obliged to admit any immigrants at all escapes me. I’ve done various good deeds in my life — but I’ve never felt compelled to let anyone move into my house.
There are those who may feel differently, of course — and if they have indeed set such an example, they can urge the equivalent on the larger community. Go ahead: put a vagrant in the second bedroom. Then come to me about how we should admit immigrants.
Males are likely massively overrepresented among the 15% of women.
I know what would happen.
Keep your dog inside.
Just unbolt the bull, turn it round, and back it up to about a foot/six inches from the (very White) girl’s face.
You may very well be right. As we know, for a variety of reasons ( mostly due to sexual kinks but there are others ) many men online choose to pretend to be female.
I seriously doubt if more than 10% of the retail trade volume ( volume as against simply having an account ) is due to women.
As I said above I am involved in retail trading and have NO female friends/acquaintances who do so. Fact is there are not all that many fearless girls out there. Winning is a rush but losing can be a real downer nd frankly the vast majority of women prefer to avoid risk preferring if possible to fish for and monkey branch to a high-status male who has passed the risk taking shit tests.
Word is the Disney Pope, while drinking a Coke, warned him to ‘Be less Catholic.”
Bill Burr explains it perfectly around the 2 minute mark.
Are her eyes artificially blued?
“fearless girl” ought to be “Girl facing certain death” I once knew a female law student sure that men and women weren’t really that different. I asked her to imagine walking across a field in the country and suddenly noticing that there was a large animal watching her. I asked her if her reaction would be the same whether it was a bull or a cow. She didn’t think there would be a difference! (not that cows can’t be dangerous.)
That combination of statues is sadistic and horrific for anyone with an imagination and any knowledge of animal behavior
About this, an incomprehensible problem-article by
Forget the utopian stereotype… recent events show that something is rotten in the state of Denmark
What exactly is rotten is not said. It has something to do with:
or this:
But I still don’t know what’s wrong.
I tried to share your article via Facebook Messenger with a friend who is a Brooklyn-based, Italian-American sculptor, and got a message from FB saying:
You Can’t Go to This Link From Facebook
The link you tried to visit goes against our Community Standards.
CLOWN WORLD!
If she’s really Kurdish then likely her genitals are mutilated to some degree. If so I’m sure it’s a secret and will remain so, because that would take away from the “just like us” talking point.
Go ahead: put a vagrant in the second bedroom. Then come to me about how we should admit immigrants.
Well…do you remember the “Welcome Refugees” signs with little hearts on them a few years back? Remember who was holding them up at the airports and train stations? Eagerly so?
The famous Reddit thread “This is what humanity at its best looks like” where a German couple offered to take in a Syrian refugee is closed, but still resident.
The pic says it all. Maybe not 1,000 words, but it definitely says it all.
It’s more or less a referendum on how long the Coronavirus Circus will continue. RR is one of only a handful of companies that can make great jet engines for example. If “The New Normal”™ is to include things like aviation, civil and military, then RR is probably not going to disappear. It’s a truly great company. If you want to buy shares of it, they’re on sale now.
There were similar questions about GE a dozen years ago, when it’s stock fell below ten bucks and became a bargain. GE wasn’t going away either, but it’s back down in the dumps now. For how long, nobody knows.
I am not giving investment advice, and I am completely out of the stock market personally. It is grossly overpriced (with exceptions like what we are discussing.) Primarily an indexer, I have sold out of it, probably forever at this point in my life. It’s your money. Good luck.
I think they’re natural. She should cite that in her application for citizenship. 🙂
That didn’t come out right. Sorry Steve. Keep up the good work. We notice it.
Thanks.
The diverse geniuses behind the SHE index fund are doing a terrific job of NOT growing the wealth of their socially conscious investors.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SHE
Significantly trails the performance of the S&P.
Art of the whitewash.
I remember that sidewalk having a
leech not a bull and a tick not a girl.
The Last, Wimpy guy walks into a biker bar and asks..”Who owns the Rottweiler out front?” Beefy biker slides off his bar stool and growls…” I do. Do have a problem with that?” Wimpy guy replies..”Not really but my dog just killed your dog.” Biker spits out…”WTF? What type of dog do you have?” Guy replies…”A Chihuahua.” Biker is incredulous. “How the hell did a Chihuahua kill my Rottweiler?” Guy shrugs and says…”Dunno, I think he choked on him.”
wren, on the Berkeleyside web page they are selling tee shirts with harris’ likeness on the front to raise money for the school district. On the back I think it says I prefer if you come around to the front. Could be wrong.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/andrew-jackson-used-be-10-bill-180955633/
Schlitz Malt Liquor Commercial featuring Alex Karras
SCTV – The Cow Malt Liquor
Basically a half-ton rooster. Same FU mentality. Except a rooster will just scratch up your legs not toss you 10 foot in the air.