Sunday Open Thread: December 10 is Human Rights Day
World History this day
1510 -- The Portuguese conquered Goa
1861 -- Vietnamese anti-colonial guerrillas sunk the French L'Esperance
1936 -- Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication.
1948 -- The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
1979 -- Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations were suppressed by the KMT dictatorship
1984 -- United Nations General Assembly recognized the Convention against Torture, heh
1996 -- The new Constitution of South Africa was promulgated by Nelson Mandela.
US History this day
1817 -- Mississippi became the 20th U.S. state
1864 -- Sherman's forces reached the outer defenses of Savannah, Georgia
1898 -- The Treaty of Paris ended the Spanish-American War
Science & Technology this day
1799 -- France adopted the metre
The Arts this day
1884 -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published
1896 -- Ubu Roi premiered in Paris, followed by a riot
1909 -- Selma Lagerlof became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
1953 -- Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize in literature.
Misc. this day
1520 -- Martin Luther burnt his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine
Birthdays of Note this day
1787 -- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator, founded the American School for the Deaf
1804 -- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, mathematician
1805 -- William Lloyd Garrison, journalist and activist who founded The Liberator
1815 -- Ada Lovelace, mathematician and computer scientist
1830 -- Emily Dickinson, poet
1851 -- Melvil Dewey, a very systemic librarian (filed under 927)
1882 -- Otto Neurath, philosopher (Vienna Circle)
1908 -- Olivier Messiaen, composer and ornithologist
1911 -- Chet Huntley, journalist
1913 -- Ray Nance, trumpeter, violinist, and singer (OK, that's a new combo)
1914 -- Dorothy Lamour, actress and singer
1924 -- Ken Albers, singer and musician
1926 -- Guitar Slim, singer, songwriter, guitarist
1946 -- Ace Kefford, bass player
1948 -- Jessica Cleaves, singer and songwriter
1951 -- Johnny Rodriguez, singer, songwriter, guitarist
1957 -- Paul Hardcastle, composer and producer
1961 -- Nia Peeples, singer and actress
1963 -- Ole Amund Gjersvik, bassist and composer
1965 -- J Mascis, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1974 -- Meg White, drummer
1980 -- Sarah Chang, violinist
Deaths of Note this day
1665 -- Tarquinio Merula, organist, violinist, and composer
1831 -- Thomas Johann Seebeck, physicist
1896 -- Alfred Nobel, chemist and engineer
1909 -- Red Cloud, tribal chief
1920 -- Horace Elgin Dodge, co-founder of Dodge
1946 -- Damon Runyon, newspaperman and writer
1967 -- Otis Redding, singer, songwriter and producer
1987 -- Jascha Heifetz, fiddle player
1996 -- Faron Young, singer, songwriter, guitarist
1999 -- Rick Danko, singer, songwriter, bass player, producer
2013 -- Jim Hall, guitarist and composer
So now some music
Mississippi
Sherman's march
Olivier Messiaen
Ray Nance
Dorothy Lamour
Ken Albers
Guitar Slim
Ace Kefford
Jessica Cleaves
Johnny Rodriguez
Paul Hardcastle
Nia Peeples
Ole Amund Gjersvik
J Mascis
Meg White
Sarah Chang
Tarquinio Merula
Horace Elgin Dodge
Otis Redding
Jascha Heifetz
Faron Young (YeeHaw, Y'all)
Rick Danko
Jim Hall
Photo: is Human Rights Day commemoration, 21 Mar 2015 by GovernmentZA (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/legalcode
Comments
hooray for human rights
Sure would be nice if we adopted and adhered to this declaration
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html
Alas, we must have more profit. The hell with people and the planet. More for me.
I sure hope my state does NOT insure "Moore" for you!
Have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. Ignoring the delicious
irony that the Human Rights Declaration was issued in 1948, coonsider that the US hasn't achieved full compliance with The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which "guaranteed"a small fraction of the set of fundamental human rights to specific fractions of the populace under specific circumstances. Before trying to grant affirmative rights, maybe we should try to start with this later proclamation that we have violated throughout our entire history: the Convention against Torture.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Interesting little article on Alternet
Theological Scholar Explains Shocking Reason Trump’s Supporters Celebrated Armageddon at Florida Rally
Short answer: moving the US embassy to Jerusalem makes Jerusalem Israel's capital, and the Second Coming is right around the corner.
This isn't part of my belief system, so it wasn't on my radar. You don't suppose Trump made this move (it was also to fulfill a campaign promise) to cement relations with evangelicals, particularly in Alabama on the eve of Moore's special election? Could a major policy move like this have been for a very short term political gain?
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
@WoodsDweller If he did, it undoubtedly
If he did, it undoubtedly came from Pence. This is right in his wheelhouse.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
He is such a bizarre clown, one cannot estimate
the extent of his sincerity/insincerity on anything. His commentary on "beautiful babies" in innumerable contexts, however, makes me suspect that there is a real core of evangelical xtian conservative dogma somewhere in his tiny head. After all, he was raised Klan, and it is a cross cultural thing with all those folk.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
@enhydra lutris But thinking that
But thinking that apocalypse is good b/c it will bring Jesus back is solidly Dominionist. Which is what Mike Pence is. He's totally in with the 7 mountains crowd that started the National Day of Prayer.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
That is part of a package of related cultish beliefs
held by a wide swath of US evangelical xtian sects. GW Bush is relatively certain to have become a follower of that "school of thought" when he got "borned again". There is a lot of cross membership and ideological cross fertilization between those folks and assorted haters and hate groups.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning!
Damn, you have great musical taste.
I don't suppose you hail from FL. No chance I might see you at a future Meet-up?
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
Good morning and thanks. I'm in CA in the East Bay.
The odds of me winding up in FL coincident to a meet-up are somewhat scarce to say the least. ;-( Now, If you happen to wander out thisaway ....
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
@enhydra lutris If I wander out
If I wander out thataway, I should really do a tour starting where you are and working my way up toward Seattle. There's a ton of C99ers out there I'd like to meet.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
That does sound like a good idea, time and bankroll
permitting, of course.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hola, ancestry trivia
Ancestry digs up top 3 last names in each state.
Tear down the wall.
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