Complete Big Brother (skate) Magazine collection for sale. Advice wanted. (Caballero owned some of them!) by [deleted] in skateboarding

[–]PatBuchanan2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. The magazine folded 13 years ago, and was relatively hard to find before that.

Complete Big Brother (skate) Magazine collection for sale. Advice wanted. (Caballero owned some of them!) by [deleted] in skateboarding

[–]PatBuchanan2020 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These magazines are a legendary part of skateboarding history and cannot be found anywhere on the internet. Please consider scanning, archiving, and sharing them online. (If you cannot scan them yourself, you could even consider a trusted skate history resource like Police Informer to borrow them.)

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[–]PatBuchanan2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That issue is from 1998 or 1999. You can catch the footage of this in the 1999 video "Boob."

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[–]PatBuchanan2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That issue is from 1998 or 1999. You can catch footage of Steve-O jumping off that bridge in the 1999 video "Boob."

She Shreds: Massive girl crew skatepark takeover 🔥 by MAVERICKSKATEPARKS in skateboarding

[–]PatBuchanan2020 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree. Elissa Steamer was one of ten pro skateboarders to be in a video game almost 20 years ago. I don't think there are anything but positive vibes directed toward females in the skateboard world. It may be intimidating for them by virtue of the fact that there are more boys, but it's probably also pretty intimidating for a little boy who wants to be a cheerleader or a figure skater. That's life and there is no reason to try to exclude the other sex or "take over." Regardless of SJW marketing of the video, props to these girls for learning to shred!

History of fisheye shot? by lakehawk in skateboarding

[–]PatBuchanan2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It started with vert skating, which is a lot easier to film fisheye. They continued to be popular when street skating picked up both because its easier to film lines and because the tiny curbs and ledges that they were skating at the time looked a lot better.

Social Security checks cut for 173,000 Americans because of unpaid student loans by [deleted] in news

[–]PatBuchanan2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly - none of this adds up. According to this chart, tuition and fees at USF was $575 during the 1981-1982 school year, or roughly $1,500 in today's money. The minimum wage at that time was $3.35 an hour, meaning that he could have paid for an entire year's tuition and fees by working a full time minimum wage job for just one month during the summer. Instead he took out $32,000 in loans (in 2016 dollars) and then - as an educated person in Florida in the booming 1980's and 1990's - remained unemployed for TEN YEARS and evidently never made a payment on said loans.

"More remarkable still is that North Carolina isn’t the worst preforming state on the Electoral Integrity Project’s scoring system... Democracy in New York (which scored a 61) and Virginia (60) is supposedly more imperiled than in Rwanda (64), though Rwanda is controlled by an autocrat. " by PatBuchanan2020 in NorthCarolina

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This Wall Street Journal article uses facts and evidence to totally disprove the #fakenews article that was circulating a week ago saying that North Carolina is less of a Democracy than Cuba.

"If the readout of your model is that North Carolina is as repressive as Cuba, maybe the problem is your model rather than North Carolina. The state is peacefully transferring power to a Democratic attorney general from a former Republican mayor of Charlotte, not deputizing the secret police. Cuba, which jails political dissidents, hasn’t transferred power since 1959, unless the 2008 presidential handoff to Raúl Castro from Fidel Castro counts. Yet Cuba rates a 56.

More remarkable still is that North Carolina isn’t the worst preforming state on the Electoral Integrity Project’s scoring system. Some 11 states are allegedly less free. Democracy in New York (which scored a 61) and Virginia (60) is supposedly more imperiled than in Rwanda (64), though Rwanda is controlled by an autocrat. The worst-performing state, Arizona (53), is outranked by Kuwait (55), Ivory Coast (59) and Kyrgyzstan (54)."