Has anyone ever noticed?
Anyone else old enough to remember the old black and white TV show “I Led Three Lives” that ran 1953-1956? The show was loosely based on the life of Herbert Philbrick (Richard Carlson), a Boston advertising executive who infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940’s. The "three lives" in the title were Philbrick's everyday life role as a white-collar worker, his secret life as a Communist agent, and his even more secret life as an FBI operative helping foil Communist plots.
During secret communist "cell" meetings, Philbrick would attend the meeting as a faux participant and gather intelligence information for the FBI, thereby allowing the FBI to foil the various "schemes" that the cell had cooked up. The plot lines followed the same pattern, episode after episode, but got more and more far fetched near the end of the show’s run. But, the good guy’s always ended up rounding up the bad guy’s — all the way to the last episode...
In 1960, when Bob Newhart recorded his popular LP (remember those?) “The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart”, one of Newhart's many monologue skits involved the old “Three Lives” show. The imaginary scene was supposed to be a communist cell meeting where the cell ‘leader” asked the group the obligatory “are there any questions", one guy raised his hand and asked:
Which brings me to my question; has anyone ever noticed that when the government gets involved in a "clean up", we wind up with a big mess?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that a cleanup team was working with heavy equipment Wednesday to secure an entrance to the Gold King Mine. Workers instead released an estimated 1 million gallons of mine waste into Cement Creek, which flows into the Animas River.
UPDATE: The EPA has now released new figures, and its now 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater and climbing
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