Monday OT: March 16 is Black Press Day
March 16 is day 76 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Discord 2, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.5.11 by the Mayan Long Count
On this day in history:
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1190 – A massacre of an unkown number of Jews took place at Clifford's Tower, York, merrie Engelond
1244 – A Massacre of over 200 Cathars who who were burned to death after the Fall of Montségur (in France) took place
1827 - Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper published by black Americans, was founded. The FBI did not yet exist and hence could not interfere or arrest anybody. neener, neener.
1898 – Representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution In Melbourne which became the basis for the Commonwealth of Australia.
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, Crete.
1926 – Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket.
1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm.
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany, was destroyed in only 20 minutes by bombers, killing in around 5,000
1968 – The My Lai Massacre occured; between 347 and 500 unarmed Vietnamese villagers were killed
1978 – The supertanker Amoco Cadiz split in two after running aground off the coast of Brittany. That's Amoco(tm), folks
1988 – Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter were indicted
1995 – Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment. "Go slow, they said, go slow".
2003 – Activist Rachel Corrie was killed in Rafah by being run over with a bulldozer.
2014 – Crimea voted in a referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
Born this day in:
1609 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter
1750 – Caroline Herschel, astronomer
1774 – Matthew Flinders, navigator and cartographer
1789 – Georg Ohm, physicist and mathematician
1799 – Anna Atkins, botanist and photographer
1822 – Rosa Bonheur, painter and sculptor
1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, mathematician and academic
1846 – Rebecca Cole, physician and social reformer
1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, book smuggler
1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, physicist and academic
1906 – Henny Youngman, violinist and comedian
1918 – Frederick Reines, physicist and academic
1929 – Betty Johnson, singer
1930 – Tommy Flanagan, pianist and composer
1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, inventor, invented the MRI
1936 – Fred Neil, folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1940 – Keith Rowe,guitarist
1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1948 – Michael Owen Bruce, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1948 – Richard Desjardins, singer, songwriter, and director
1949 – Elliott Murphy, singer, songwriter, and journalist
1951 – Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Jimmy Nail, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1954 – Tim O'Brien, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1954 – Nancy Wilson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
1958 – Phillip Wilcher, pianist and composer
1959 – Steve Marker, musician
1967 – Tracy Bonham, singer and violinist
1967 – Ronnie McCoury, bluegrass mandolin player, singer, and songwriter
Deaths[edit]
Deaths
Died this day in:
1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, organist and composer
1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, captain and mathematician
1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, author and illustrator
1936 – Marguerite Durand, actress, journalist, and activist
1955 – Nicolas de Staël, painter and illustrator
1965 – Alice Herz, activist
1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, pianist and composer
1970 – Tammi Terrell, singer
1975 – T-Bone Walker, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2003 – Rachel Corrie, activist
2016 – Frank Sinatra Jr., singer and actor
2019 – Dick Dale, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Black Press Day
Freedom of Informtion Day
Act Happy Day
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** Please note that is says ACT happy, as in pretend you're happy, not BE happy.
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Tommy Flanagan
Fred Neil
Keith Rowe
Jerry Jeff Walker
Michael Owen Bruce
Ray Benson
Tim O'Brien
Nancy Wilson
Tammi Terrell
T-Bone Walker
Dick Dale
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Comments
Don't worry, act happy!
Good luck
I just got a text message
that court is suspended for the next 30 days!
How in hell will I get in front of a judge to have a hearing to get some guy out of jail? Video????
Omigod!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. That comment fails to maintain the
appearance of happiness. Five (5) demerits. Remember, all the world is a stage, so you get shotgun; smile and buck it up. Take two shots of whiskey, and then:
have a good one.
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 earn all five demerits.
I was a bit snippy with a client just now.
Good grief, I can keep a straight face while looking at autopsy photos.
Surely I can act happy!!!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
They should clear the jails as much as possible.
A majority of inmates don't need to be there right now. They can come back later to complete their stupid incarceration — a lose-lose arrangement that continues to degrades our society and civilization.
I worry about the uncommon silence coming from our savage and soul-crushing prison system. The grip of the pandemic-run-amok will rapidly turn these overcrowded hellholes into viral freak factories. The corrupt prison health contractors will allow the coronavirus to concentrate and mutate as prisoners are infected, reinfected, and cross-infected again and again — until, finally, a monstrous mutation evolves into an extinction-level epidemic that is worthy of our national dystopia. Jesus wept.
Populations don’t like wars. They have to be lied into it.
That means we can be “truthed” into peace. — Julian Assange
Sadly that is not a far fetched scenario. What is far fetched
is the idea that they might release some of them early. And jails too, which also contain shocking numbers of people who've never had a trial.
have a good one.
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 QMS. Yes! Act Happy! Emphatically!
Dance a dance to spring and sing with the birdies, for soon enough we sleep with the worms. Think happy thoughts. Coffee!
have a good one.
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 --
Grind our own coffee
dancing with the daffodils
spring birds playing the sound track
in some cultures worms are brewed
with the caffein
gives it body
Black press day everyday for Julian...
We live in the boonies. We don't have much in the way of road noise, but normally have plenty of air traffic. I realized this morning the sky is quiet...another reason that this reminds me of 9/11.
Good news about Chelsea. Her go fund me raised enough to pay her absurd fine and she is out of jail just in time to self quarantine.
Y'all take care. I'm focusing on the garden this week - starting summer crops in flats. Early crops are already planted. Need to weed a bit...mainly wheat coming up through the straw mulch. Heard an interview with an ex-pat that was in China recovering from COVID. He was using his quarantine time to paint, learn Russian, and catch up on reading. Sounds wise.
9 min
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuWo5lmWuZI]
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. Too rainy to work in the garden, and
I have a semi-brown thumb, so I start with starter plants which, of course, I'm not supposed to go out and procure. My spinach chard seeds, which I did have a little success with once, say to plant from April through June, and we're determined to take our spring camping trip in April come hell, high water, common sense or Gavin Newsome. It isn't like it will be crowded in our camp sites and we can self-isolate fine except at check in. {Hey, use gloves to take the campsite sticker and hook up any hook ups, etc.)
Ah well, more rain today so maybe I'll make lentils. My menu this week called for a tiny bit more shopping for Monday and Friday, to be done today, so time to wing it.
have a good one.
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 --
There is a new go fund me for Chelsea
friends are asking for $30,000 for living expenses and to give her time to heal from her heinous ordeal. But one thing that wasn't mentioned on the original fund was that she needed 3% more than the amount because GFM keeps that amount for running unless they got the fees waived. I am betting she will meet the new amount today and then some. At least I hope so. What a remarkably strong woman she is. She failed to do their bidding and I don't know if I could have taken what has been thrown at her through the last few decades. I wish O had pardoned her, but at least she is out of hell.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Thanks for the info, snoopy.
have a good one.
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 --
From yesterday's Castro Valley Patch
Of course we are not testing because we have no tests because we can't use the WHO's tests because it isn't proprietary or something, and ergo we aren't contact tracing, so the epidemic will spread just as fast as otherwise. We are, in effect quarantining a random selection of the population and won't flatten the curve. Our plan appears to be to let it spread, but sequester those most likely to need medical care, since we aren't prepared or ready to provide any. With that in mind, we will also try to find some way to help the homeless ride it out.
NO snark, April Fools' Day is still 2 weeks away.
have a good one.
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 --
This fellow makes lots of sense...
a little long at 45 min but full of good info
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efaDuE-XEi4]
and one more from today ... John Campbell (16 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSwYGhmnwo
Let's put it bluntly: Stay The Fuck Home!
https://staythefuckhome.com/
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Contact tracing
It seems to me that is key. Without testing and tracing contacts, I don't see how we can ever stop it in this country. As slow as we are in getting to that, it my take thousands of people to do the tracing by the time we start.
Human nature being what it is, there is only so long people will cooperate with staying home and avoiding contact. People will get tired of it and start doing things they shouldn't.
Good morning Granma. You hit the crux of it.
If they were doing testing and cntact tracing in order to sequester the infected and those they had contact with who aren't yet symptomatic, most of society would pitch in, if only reluctantly, for the duration, I think. But when it is mostly theater people are a lot less likely to do so.
The current "plan" of accepting that there will be a full blown epidemic until there is treatment available and the wealthy have all received all the treatment they need by trying to keep those most likely to need medical care if infected ISOLATED will rapidly erode good will and "community spirit". TPTB aren't remotely trying to ease the situation at all and haven't been since day one, so people will be getting very testy very soon; well before five weeks from now I suspect.
have a good one.
Edited to fix omissions and duplications
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 believe the plan is to allow the disease to
spread to develop “herd immunity.” In other words, let nature take its course. Who’d a thunk that the Masters of the Universe would suddenly develop a respect for nature?
I suspect that guys like Dick Cheney already have respirators for their own private use should they need them as well as concierge doctors and stand-by nursing. An article in The Guardian reported that the wealthy are securing private health workers and looking to Harley St. for testing and other supplies.
The is the end result of all the rugged individualism BS. Drain us dry and use all that wealth to take care of the “betters.” I expect they are looked forward to a world with millions gone. Makes me want to go and die in their favorite house, the ultimate die-in.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Do nothing, at least for the masses, is always the preferred
option of the elites, especially when not doing nothing costs money.
Ultimate die-in, ROFL
have a good one.
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 --
Report are that there is no immunity being built up
with this virus. It has some aspects of the HIV where it is shifting and adapting to what people's system throws at them. This might have changed since I first read about it, but many people who have recovered have been reinfected and gotten even more sick. After it attacks the lungs it then attacks the heart.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Hadn't heard that, only that there have been some relapses
which hold out the possibility of them being reinfection instead. Thanks for the info, though.
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 --
john campbell thinks we develop immunity
John Campbell (16 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSwYGhmnwo
Seems like it is near the start.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
No profit in the WHO tests, Kushner's involved.
All stocked up with thee major exceptions, no booze, no smoke and no money. Damn.
Do have plenty tasks and chores to do in this apt, if the motivation comes. Call from ski resort, they are closing, haven't been there since jan. 17th, and have to go and get my gear; a project for tomorrow.
Son sent me a beautiful poem about Willow, the doggie they sadly had to return to the pound; a bittersweet memory of kindness. Filled my heart.
Thanks, el, for this OT and great tunes from memory lane, a convertible, top down, and a drive in grill.
Good morning smiley.
gave up smoke, but I should've gone out and got a boatload of edibles, I suspect. Ah well, booze we gots.
Take care of yourself, especially on your run to fetch your gear.
Have a good one.
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 EL
Well, yesterday was the first day in nearly a week where we didn't have people lining up around our store waiting for us to open. For those who just didn't want to face the crowds and stayed away for the last couple of days, seeing the empty shelves as they entered the store prompted a lot of head shaking. One scandavian women went so far as to say that people need to stop being so selfish and pull together as a community. Couldn't agree more.
While we are still getting deliveries, right now everything is on a cap. So things like meat, eggs, and frozen food disappear early. By the time dinner time rolls around, all the perishables are gone. In the evening we get our delivery of shelf stable items. The other night, as I am bringing out a stack of boxes filled with potato chips and other snack items, a woman asks me if we are bringing out more food.
Me: Only the non-perishables right now.
Customer: You mean like the meat?
Me: Um, er....not really.
Yesterday, one of the delivery trucks was 8 hours late. When people saw us bringing out stacks of bread, a crowd began to gather. To prevent confusion, our manager had 5 people working the stacks, and 2 people asking customers what they were looking for. Good call on the manager's part and fortunately we avoided what I've seen happening at other stores happening at ours. So far, the only testy exchanges I've seen is from people not wanting to be in the picture frame of others taking pictures of the empty shelves. Fair enough, I guess, what with social media these days. Other examples of testiness come from customers after hearing we don't have whatever they want, and it's getting old, real quick.
Customer: You don't have any more meat in the back?
Yeah, lady, we're all just scrubbing the empty shelves down because we can't be bothered right now to fill our bare shelves with the food we have hidden in the back unless asked. You know what we have in the back? Absolutely fucking nothing. And some woman actually poked her head into our back room just to make sure when she was looking to see if we had more toilet paper.
Sigh. A lot of things have changed in our day to day operations. Our store hours have shortened, our shelves are bare, and we now have someone greeting customers at the door with sanitizer wipes.
Strange times.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Strange times indeed, and no doubt very trying too. Hang in
there and, as always
have a good one (Oh, and with wine)
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 --
Federal judge blocks Trump from throwing 700,000 people
off SNAP during the epidemic.
This is great news. The court has also stopped him from requiring work requirements on Medicaid even before the CV epidemic hit.
Now we need them to block his many deregulations that he has been doing right and left for his friends.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Damn! Good news for a change. Thanks.
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 --
Afternoon el
Et al
Very low key here. Got lotsa rain. That’s a happiness. People here are all staying calm and staying home. Getting home things off the list. Stuff I don’t normally get around to.
Stay well and have a good one.
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Afternoon magi, been raining here too. Not getting much done
however, need to pick that up, but whatever.
have a good one.
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 --
How do the judges say
In some funny way
It is an ill eagle
from which we will weigh
(meant for o t c)
Alameda County just joined some other
Bay Area counties in ordering a lock-down for 3 weeks starting tomorrow. Essential services, essentially retail, are exempted with restrictions.
Whatever, we have a very large supply of wine and plenty of dried legumes, so on with the show
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 --