Monday Open Thread; January 29 is nothing in particular, so let's honor Liliuokalani
January 29 is the 29th day of the year, there are 337 days left
Today's number is 29
29 is a prime
29 is the sixth Sophie Germain prime
29 is the sum of three consecutive squares, 2^2 + 3^2 + 4^2
29 is copper
29 Palms is a small town in the California Desert
29 Palms is a large US Marine Corps Base in the California Desert
The Chattanooga Choo Choo departed from Track 29
I-29 connects Missouri & North Dakota. It is not referenced in any known blues song, however.
29 is the maximum age at which one is trustworthy (Weinberg's least favorite dictum).
"$29.00" is a song on the album Blue Valentine by Tom Waits.
29 is a from the album Exit 0 by Steve Earle.
The B-29 was the type ofbomber used to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Title 29 of the US Code is LABOR.
29 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius
Horace wrote the Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen (an ode) and Virgil sarted the Aeneid
29 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus Twins??
On this day in:
1258 -- Dai Viet defeated the Mongols and drove them out of the country.
1834 -- Andy Jackson ordered federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute
1863 -- The Bear River Massacre
1886 -- Karl Benz patented the first successful gasoline-driven automobile
1891 -- Liliuokalani became queen of Hawaii
1907 -- Charles Curtis becames the first Native American U.S. Senator.
2002 -- GW Bush berated the "Axis of evil" in his State of the Union. ***
*** This marked the start of an enormous, outrageous and sustained campaign of lies, deceit, misrepresentation, and propaganda dedicated to justifying a war of aggression against Iraq was begun. It was generally supported, aided and abetted by the press, the pundits and talking heads and the majority of both political parties members of the House and Senate.
Born this day in:
1860 -- Anton Chekhov, playwright and author
1881 -- Alice Catherine Evans, microbiologist
1923 -- Paddy Chayefsky, author and screenwriter
1927 -- Edward Abbey, environmentalist and author
1933 -- Sacha Distel, singer and guitarist
1937 -- Bobby Scott, singer, songwriter and musician
1939 -- Germaine Greer, author, journalist and feminist.
1941 -- Robin Morgan, journalist, poet, activist, political theorist and author.
1946 -- Bettye LaVette, singer and songwriter
1947 -- Linda B. Buck, biologist
1947 -- David Byron, singer and songwriter
1953 -- Peter Baumann, keyboardist and songwriter.
1953 -- Charlie Wilson, singer and songwriter
Died this day in:
0661 -- Ali, cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, principal source of Sunni v Shia conflict
1763 -- Louis Racine, poet
1888 -- Edward Lear, "poet"
1933 -- Sara Teasdale, poet
1934 -- Fritz Haber, chemist
1956 -- H. L. Mencken, journalist
1963 -- Robert Frost, poet
1969 -- Allen Welsh Dulles, criminal, bankster, first CIA head
1970 -- B. H. Liddell Hart, military historian
1992 -- Willie Dixon, bassist, singer, and songwriter
2008 -- Margaret Truman, author and singer
2015 -- Rod McKuen, poet
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
This is the earliest day on which Fat Thursday can fall, except, it's Monday and not at all fat.
So, for music,
Sacha Distel
Bobby Scott
Bettye LaVette
David Byron
Peter Baumann
Charlie Wilson
Willie Dixon
picture is an Image from page 332 of "Hawaii and its people; the land of rainbow and palm" (1899)
It's an open thread, so do your thing
Comments
Thank You, el, I can't see the picture from p. 332
of "Hawaii and its people, the land of rainbow and palms", but my avatar is quite nice too, rainbow colors, waves, dreams through the pipe towards a palm tree. Stole it from an Hawaiian newspaper.
Have a beautiful Hawaiian dream. Their rainbows bent towards beauty. What more can you ask for.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Hi, mimi. Those pictures I refer to down there are visible to
those reading this on Facebook. There's a widget to load them into when you create a post and then it's all out of my hands. I don't Facebook, so I never see them after finding and loading them either. I get most of them lately from the internet archive, so if you are really desperate to see them, you could probably search it using that wording. The art.picture/whatever section is up on flickr too, and that's where I access it.
Beyond that, I love your avatar. A splash of brightness and color plus, at this resolution, sans glasses, it looks abstract and pseudo-random.
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 --
Monday sing along with Todd
This tube recording cracked me up, because Todd forgets the words and has to start over. It was during his "Interactive" phase in the 90s, those shows were fun as hell I danced my ass off. Happy Monday!
"Day Job"
Don't quit your day job
Corporate-cry baby
A bit wiser and a whole lot older, feelin' bolder
Suckin' up to the last stockholder with a
Golden parachute slung over your shoulder
Jacked-up-be-boy
Another fool got stuck in the whirlpool
Lookin' for a fast break, not enough cake to go 'round
Another brother goes down, and he's out of the gene pool
Media-pimp
Day after day, night after night if the money is right
The campaign goes on to make right seem wrong
With computer animation and a hip-hop song
Land of opportunity, this is the
Stop
Don't quit your day job
Cowboy-politician
Suckin' up to the aristocracy
Not even sure if you like democracy
Tryin' to establish an American royalty, a personal dynasty
Priests-of-the-airwaves
Let the buyer beware, it's a jungle out there
So buy my advice and don't think twice
Then me and your money will go someplace sunny
Celebrity-stud-monkey
Kiss and tell, got a book to sell
'Cause you don't excel or do anything well
Since you slipped past thirty, better keep the sex dirty
Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money
--- huelga!
Workers of the world, UNITE! please?
German industrial workers poised to launch massive strikes
solidarity
Gotta love the Todd
Upper Darby Pa. boy...Tower Theater...miss-spent youth.
If you don't have the 'Nazz" album pressed in the red plastic...your collection is not complete.
I want a Pony!
Good morning, eyo. Thanks for the morning wake-up tune :-)
The German strike movement advert is interesting in that it advocates warding off the nefarious plans of the Unions allegedly working hand in hand with the political reactionaries to institute ?? One cannot help but wonder what that's all aboout and to free associatively think of the recent disclosure here concerning the bribing of Union Management by corporate assholes.
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 --
I like it el...nothing in particular day
It is road trimming day here. We use propane gas and the truck driver complained about my road growing in and scratching his truck. He is right- so hi ho hi ho it is off to the road I go...with saw and loppers in hand. There's always something to do around the homestead!
So I'm sorry eyo I've got a job dis-uniting limbs from trees (although I like the link on German workers uniting).
Y'all have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Don't forget the bananas!
I hope you have a lovely day, I'm green with envy. Today I am going to play plumber and replace the broken kitchen sink faucet assembly, it has been broken since I moved in. It takes forever for me to save enough money to fix shit, don't quit your day job! lol
P.S. Fck Sandford Dole, and all of his ancestors! Aloha Oe
Lookout
a song just for you today... out here in the fields...
I want a Pony!
Thanks
Saw The Who years ago do this one. Luckily my fields are more peaceful. Better get out in them. Have a great day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout. I lied, it is actually Kansas Day,
but only in Kansas. Cue the Wiki:
Celebrations involve corn, red shoes & tornadoes.
Hey, speaking of Tornados
Enjoy your sawing and lopping.
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 --
10AM, EST
Site is being wonky for me.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Was, better now.
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 ...
Here's Edward Abbey.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Wonderful picture, Az, thanks and good morning to ya.
Your presence made me suddenly wish I was in Yuma right now, or, actually, a bit upriver camped at that county park on the Colorado just outside of Blythe.
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 --
Never been to that particular park,
but I know it's hot there in the summer. We love Yuma. When I was younger I used to drive straight through from here to L.A., eight hours more or less. I don't do that anymore. Yuma is about the midpoint so we break the drive up and stay a night at the Historic Coronado Motor Hotel. There's a good Mexican restaurant across the street. It's run by a family from Guadalajara so they have my favorite Mexican dish, Carne en su Jugo.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Ugh, black and white.
Ha ha ha
Is that a 29"?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Your picture of Abbey ...
... reminds me of this piece I've been doing lately, 3 minutes.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmG9wCE440]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Red beans and rice cure, yay for food combining
I rode my bike to the store the other day, woo strong! For those following along, after I made that hamburger helper thingy, I went back for more beef and made a pot of stroganoff but it flopped. Ick, grass fed beef is an acquired taste I forgot I didn't like. And Eddie Murphy fell out of the lint trap again, this time it was Beverly Hills Cop I think? The part where one of 'em says it takes three years to digest beef or something like that, I didn't look it up.
Yesterday I had a big bowl of red beans and rice, and wow it was good. Still craving garbage meat, or some kind of fat maybe, not sure. I went back and got pork sausage, celery, garlic, and made a concoction that reeks of holy heaven and tastes pretty good too. I've gained two pounds since crashing, and y'all talked me through. thanks
I also added a quart of cow milk back in to the mix, in my tea and coffee, to satisfy a crave. Meat and dairy are not exactly my idea of a healthy diet, I am just going with my guts. Feels better, so what? I don't know. My leg cramps have almost disappeared for the first time in months, doing daily calf stretches and minding the diet.
thanks
A bath in Epson Salts?
According to Some, we can suck up Mg from immersion.
I got a 4-pack of toilet paper today! More than one roll for three bathrooms finally. I did have a back stock of Kleenex.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Multi-purpose epsom salts
thanks I've done it and it is true I think about soaking up minerals through the skin. I use epsom salts to clean my bong too, 'cause they don't dissolve in alcohol the abrasive crystals scrub the sludge when shaken. lol dessert topping or floor wax? lol
In fact my neighbor gifted me a fancy bottle of Pure Magnesium Oil "from the ancient zechstein seabed", I spray it on and leave it for twenty minutes, thought it helped me a lot last summer. There's a limit to how much water I can use so I rarely take baths, just short showers or even "navy" showers is plenty compared to living in a tent. I'm not complaining.
I order cases of T.P. online since selling my car, bulk is cheaper too. Becoming poor has really opened my eyes, I cannot stop remembering "looters" on the TV machine, inevitably someone has armfuls of T.P. and water as they escape the cops. Criminals for wanting to stay alive and wipe their asses. sheesh I hope it never happens to anyone else. good luck
Beans and rice monday
It's a tradition in new orleans and environs. something about doing the laundry on sunday and cookin down the beans. remembering the hot plates served in the joints around the street car line. big dollop of red beans on white rice, a little sausage and couple of crunchy slices of french bread, all in a styrofoam sectional covered takie outtie for about $3.00. Good times.
Beans and rice is Cosa Rica's national dish, but black beans
iirc. They toss in just a little shredded chicken, maybe a little onion, etc. I like to cook up a little for breakfast, beans, rice, just a little stock and crack an egg into it, then stir it into a porridge.
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 --
Could the community help me find an article?
My employee understands most of the Russian ads, etc... came before the election, and I understand they came afterwards.
Can anyone please steer me to the best info out there to resolve our misunderstandings?
Much appreciated. I am covered up with clients in the office!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
USAToday says 44% ads SEEN before election, +25% NEVER seen
the rest seen post mortem. If you believe Facebook: 10 million people saw Russia-backed election ads
HTH
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/10/02/facebook-hire-1-000-monitor-ads-after-russia-election-meddling/723507001/
@eyo Thanks, eyo.
Thanks, eyo.
My employee watches Rachel.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
You're welcome, and sorry I shouted in the Subject
and I feel sorry your employee watches Rachel. Y'all must have interesting talks on current events. Anyway, I did not dig up the original testimony but thought their choice of words very interesting. Seen versus unseen. I wonder how many ads were purchased, how much profit did Facebook take? Page views are one thing, ad buys are something else. That's all. cheers