Sunday Open Thread: February 4 is Rosa Parks Day, but only in CA and MO

Feb 4 is also World Cancer Day.

World History this day

0960 -- The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song started the Song Dynasty
1703 -- Forty-Six of the Forty-seven Ronin committed seppuku
1794 -- The French First Republic's legislature abolished slavery
1945 -- The Yalta Conference began
1948 -- Ceylon became independent (within the Commonwealth)
1961 -- The Angolan War of Independence started
1969 -- Arafat became chairman of the PLO

US History this day

1789 -- George Washington was elected President
1801 -- Chief Justice John Marshall was sworn in
1846 -- The first Mormon pioneers left Nauvoo, Illinois
1861 -- The Confederate States of America was formed
1899 -- The Battle of Manila began the Philippine--American War
1999 -- Amadou Diallo was shot 41 times by NYC's finest because they could, and they walked ***

*** The perps (Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss) subsequently claimed that they thought that he was a previous year's rape suspect or a lookoout or something. Suspicion of having committed rape and being a lookout are both punishable by summary execution in NYC, but only for members of certain ethnic groups. This also applies to suspicion of being a previous suspect and suspicion of being maybe some kind of lookout or somehing, again, depending upon ethnicity.

Science & Technology this day

1967 -- Lunar Orbiter 3 was launched to scope out possible landing sites on the moon
2004 -- Facebook was founded

The Arts this day

Misc. this day

1555 -- Bloody Mary's first victim, John Rogers, was burned at the stake

Birthdays of Note this day

1676 -- Giacomo Facco, violinist and composer
1875 -- Ludwig Prandtl, physicist and engineer
1881 -- Fernand Leger, painter and sculptor
1902 -- Charles Lindbergh, pilot and explorer
1906 -- Clyde Tombaugh, astronomer who discovered Pluto
1913 -- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
1921 -- Betty Friedan, author and feminist
1921 -- Lotfi Zadeh, mathematician and computer scientist, founder of fuzzy logic
1929 -- Paul Burlison, rockabilly guitarist
1941 -- John Steel, drummer
1944 -- Florence LaRue, singer from the 5th dimension
1948 -- Alice Cooper, singer and songwriter
1951 -- Phil Ehart, drummer and songwriter
1962 -- Clint Black, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1977 -- Gavin DeGraw, singer and songwriter

Deaths of Note this day

1894 -- Adolphe Sax, instrument maker, invented the saxophone (you know its coming)
1928 -- Hendrik Lorentz, physicist
1968 -- Neal Cassady, novelist and poet
1974 -- Satyendra Nath Bose, physicist
1975 -- Louis Jordan, singer, songwriter and saxophonist
1983 -- Karen Carpenter, singer
1987 -- Liberace, singer, songwriter and pianist
2006 -- Betty Friedan, author and activist
2007 -- Barbara McNair, singer and actress
2013 -- Donald Byrd, trumpet player
2013 -- Reg Presley, singer and songwriter

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So now some music


Angola War

Amadou Diallo

Rosa Parks

Paul Burlison

John Steel

Florence LaRue

Alice Cooper

Phil Ehart

Adolphe Sax

Louis Jordan

Karen Carpenter

Barbara McNair

Donald Byrd

Reg Presley


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Photo: by Tullio Saba; BE031622 (Rosa Parks riding the bus 12/21/1956 after the Supremes ruled)

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Arrow's picture

Oh boy! A day to dig up my favorite 'Benny Hill' episodes!
Today begs the question: Aren't we all being forced to sit in the back of the economic bus?
Trying to have a good day is both an act of #resilience and real #resistance. So have a good day all!

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I want a Pony!

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@Arrow
weakens our dependency of the system and its control over us. Their game depends on the existence of a permanent underclass kept needy, hungry and dependent, which they audent by creating false needs to the best of their ability. Anybody who can and does get along and drops out, to any degree, reduces the competition among the masses for jobs and wherewithal, and by lowering the desperation level reduces the ability of the elites to control and manipulate us.

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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 --

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@Arrow
the how are you part. Is the treatment going well? Are you sir crazy yet? When do you go home?

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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 --

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@enhydra lutris Well everyone says 'I'm crazy' so I own that..
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Still upin the air how it's going.

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here in the corner of Alabama. I met Rosa a couple of times. I don't think Alabama wants to recognized her with a "day". No their focus will be on football...you know modern day gladiators.

Hope you all have a good day!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout
and for rain. We need it or soon will, but I do wish it would do it at night so we can get stuff done during the daytime. Time to start planting here, but aphids just heavily attacked the winter kale.

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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 --

as warm, dry winter days take hold. Yikes! yesterday after noon got hot on the deck. Another f-bombing warm dry winter takes hold. Fuuuuuuuuudge. Let's grow more weed why not Beee At least consumption won't feel so bad while furniture rearranges up top again. Happy Sunday, have a nice day!

Thanks EL and Bloody Mary for the best word today: Catoptromancy. I love following the links around here. It "is divination using a mirror", for those who don't love following links. heh

Celebrate Rosa Parks, sit down! Take a knee. Be loud in gratitude. Thanks.

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@eyo
practitioners of Catoptromancy and also of other forms of scrying were called "specularii". Today's specularii study "charts" and "invest" in stocks, bonds, currencies and real estate.
Have a great day.

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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 --

we must seem like target practice. Remember being arrested in a hospital waiting area after bringing a friend to the emergency room for some viral infection. They claimed I looked like "the rooftop robber" suspect? wtf. Had to prove my innocence before they let me go. Murkin justice.

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@QMS

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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 --