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Question by Liberalism: Is this piece of anti Republican propaganda right wing…?
or left wing ?

http://elections.harpweek.com/1860/cartoon-1860-medium.asp?UniqueID=5&Year=1860

Abraham Lincoln’s supporters are portrayed as radicals and eccentrics of various stripes. The satire is loosely based on an anti-Fremont cartoon from the previous presidential race, “The Great Republican Reform Party” (no. 1856-22), also issued by Nathaniel Currier.

Here Lincoln, sitting astride a wooden rail borne by Horace Greeley, leads his followers toward a lunatic asylum. Greeley instructs him, “Hold on to me Abe, and we’ll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people.” Lincoln exhorts his followers, “Now my friends I’m almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted.”

At the head of the group is a bearded man, arm-in-arm with a woman and a Mormon. He claims to “represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles.” The woman looks at Lincoln, saying “Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a {grave}passionate attraction’ every time I see his lovely face.” The Mormon adds, “I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality.”

They are followed by a dandified free black, who announces, “{grave}De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect’ I want dat understood.” Behind him an aging suffragette says, “I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority.” Next a ragged socialist or Fourierist, holding a liquor bottle, asserts, “I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property.”

At the end of the group are three hooligans, one demanding “a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco.” The second, a thief, wants “the right to examine every other citizen’s pockets without interruption by Policemen.” The last, an Irish street tough, says, “I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please.”

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Answer by §§pecial Unicorn™
It sounds like it makes fun of the far spectrum of both.

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Question by avalanche: Can u think of some occasions where directors got it all right in some leading science fiction movies?
Here is some that I could think of
1 time machine-the whole cause & effect scenario –“why can’t we change the past?”
“U built the time machine to save u’re love from death. If u could save her from death what would be the cause for u to build the machine”
2 animatrix-matrix is after all a pgm language& is bound to have errors! The way the movie shows the cat flying and the gravity being violated at places where system had flaws, that was cool! When the injured athlete tried to push himself beyond the limit, he just got a glimpse of the real world-because the matrix always try to convince u about what u can & what u can’t. The actual matrix movie was no way near animatrix in these aspects!!

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Answer by Indigo
This question didn’t make a ton of sense in your additional information, but to answer it:

1. Close Encounters: It was visually breathtaking and an amazing storyline to boot.

2. The first three Star Wars movies. George Lucas has a clear vision in mind and held to it.

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Question by Clare †: QUILTERS — help — this isn’t coming out right!?
I’m making a quilt for my niece’s graduation. The pattern alternates large 7 1/2 inch batik squares with four-square patches of black and white. So far, so good. All the batiks are cut, and all of the four-patch squares are sewn with standard 1/4 inch seams.

The pattern called for 3 1/2 squares to make up the four-patches. So now I have all of these four-patches that are 1/2 in larger in both dimensions than the batik squares … and the only way I can figure how to fix this so that they’re the same size as the batiks is to carefully cut off 1/4 inch off each side of the four-patches. We’re talking 50 of them. How best to do this? Time is of the essence; I don’t have a lot of spare sewing time to begin with, and this is now putting me further behind — with quilting and binding yet to be done! (Needless to say, I’ll be machine quilting in-the-ditch if I ever get to that point!)

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Answer by Kacky
I don’t know how it ended up like that, but at this point it doesn’t matter. Time to punt! Use a quilter’s ruler and a rotary cutter to shave off the bigger squares so they match the smaller ones. Good luck. It sounds like a very pretty quilt.

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Question by RoB: Why when you sew on thick material with a zig-zag machine does the thread tend to flag on the right side?
I am a sewing machine mechanic and I run into all kinds of problems but these ZZ machines are tough to figure out ! First of all, our ZZ’s are set up with core edge folders and and we run material anywhere from 1/64 to 3/16 thick. Now combined with the binding thats pretty thick! The thicker the material the more the thread flags and skips on the right side. I know that putting pressure on the foot and rising the needle bar along with timing the hook as close to the eye of the needle as possible helps, but there has got to be a better way. I am looking for any ideas I could try.

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Answer by Claude
Try a thicker needle and loosen the tensions . Some times the needle is too small and bends slightly to miss picking up the bottom thread . You may have a ballpoint need;e in there from doing wool or nits . They are not sharp enough for thick material .

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Question by RoB: Why when you sew on thick material with a zig-zag machine does the thread tend to flag on the right side?
I am a sewing machine mechanic and I run into all kinds of problems but these ZZ machines are tough to figure out ! First of all, our ZZ’s are set up with core edge folders and and we run material anywhere from 1/64 to 3/16 thick. Now combined with the binding thats pretty thick! The thicker the material the more the thread flags and skips on the right side. I know that putting pressure on the foot and rising the needle bar along with timing the hook as close to the eye of the needle as possible helps, but there has got to be a better way. I am looking for any ideas I could try.

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Answer by kay
Thread or needle lubricant, or lower elasticity of the thread might help, too.

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