Monday OT - June 22: Take Your Cat to Work Day

June 15 is day 174 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Pungenday, Confusion 27, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.11.0 mlc mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

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The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was founded in 1542 to defend those points of Christian tradition which seemed in danger because of new and unacceptable doctrines." (isn't "new and  unacceptable"  redundant in this context? Asking for a friend.)  The inquisitors proved their mettle on June 22, 1633 when they forced Galileo Galilei to recant his scary and dangerous heliocentric theory of the universe in favor of their divinely revealed geocentric one. In the decades since, despite the fact that his theory was merely based on actual observation of real phenomena, it has somehow managed to take the ascendancy over god's holy truth.  The inquisitors did, however, put up a good fight.

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On this day in history:

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1633 – The Roman Inquisition forced Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe
1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot were assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice was created by the U.S. Congress.
1940 – France signed the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany
1941 – Nazi Germany invadedhe Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
1942 – The Pledge of Allegiance was formally adopted by US Congress.
1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill into law
1969 – The Cuyahoga River caught fire
1978 – Pluto's moon, Charon, was first seen
1990 – Checkpoint Charlie was dismantled in Berlin.

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Born this day in:

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

  ~Erich Maria Remarque

1000 – Robert I, duke of Normandy
1510 – Alessandro de' Medici, duke of Florence
1684 – Francesco Manfredini,violinist and composer
1757 – George Vancouver, lieutenant and explorer
1837 – Paul Morphy, chess player
1856 – Henry Rider Haggard, novelist
1864 – Hermann Minkowski, mathematician and academic
1887 – Julian Huxley, biologist and academic
1894 – Bernard Ashmole, archaeologist and art historian (
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, soldier and author
 
1899 – Richard Gurley Drew, engineer, invented Masking tape
1903 – John Dillinger, businessman, carver
1906 – William Kneale, logician and philosopher
1906 – Anne Morrow Lindbergh, pilot and author
1910 – Anne Ziegler, singer
1910 – Konrad Zuse,  computer scientist and engineer, invented the Z3 computer 
1915 – Randolph Hokanson, pianist
1920 – James H. Pomerene, computer scientist and engineer
1936 – Kris Kristofferson, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1937 – Chris Blackwell, record producer, co-founded Island Records
1937 – Bernie McGann, saxophonist and composer 
1944 – Peter Asher, singer, guitarist, and producer
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Howard Kaylan, singer, songwriter, and musician (The Turtles; Flo & Eddie)
1948 – Todd Rundgren, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1949 – Larry Junstrom, bass player
1949 – Alan Osmond, singer and producer
1951 – Craig Gruber, bass player
1953 – Cyndi Lauper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1955 – Green Gartside, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1956 – Derek Forbes, bass player and guitarist
1957 – Garry Gary Beers, bass player, songwriter, and producer
1961 – Jimmy Somerville, singer and songwriter
1962 – Bobby Gillespie, musician, singer, and songwriter

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Died this day in:

It's a big club and you ain't in it

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1101 – Roger I of Sicily, Norman nobleman
1429 – Jamshid al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician
1664 – Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet
1874 – Howard Staunton, English chess player
1892 – Pierre Ossian Bonnet, French mathematician and academic
1925 – Felix Klein, German mathematician and academic
1936 – Moritz Schlick, physicist and philosopher (Vienna Circle)
1956 – Walter de la Mare, English poet, short story writer and novelist
1969 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer
1977 – Peter Laughner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rocket From the Tombs and Pere Ubu)
1988 – Dennis Day, American singer and actor
1997 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter
2008 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author
2018 – Vinnie Paul, American musician

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Take Your Cat to Work Day
National Chocolate Eclair Day

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

Randolph Hokanson

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Kris Kristofferson

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Chris Blackwell

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Bernie McGann

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Peter Asher

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Eliades Ochoa

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Howard Kaylan

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Todd Rundgren

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Larry Junstrom

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Cyndi Lauper

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Image is kites

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It's an open thread, so do your thing

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Lookout's picture

My cat isn't interested in going to work. She's prefers napping.

Bet your apricots were good. We can't grow them cause of the fungus among us. We can grow peaches their close relative, but not without fungal sprays, and I don't fool with them. Apples are aggravating enough for me. Blueberries are easiest of all and about to come into harvest.

First on my list today is to weedeat and clean up around the American chestnuts I planted last year. They're doing great, but weedy vines are starting in on them. I'll cure that today. I bought a 40V electric weedeater this year that is great. I'll also mulch them good before replacing cages around them. The deer love to scrape their antlers on young trees.

St George on Death
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Have a good one!

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

enhydra lutris's picture

@Lookout

after a few years had a fungus outbreak. At that point we did a little research and learned that it is in our soil and has infected our tree. We get strange blobs of sap-fungus on certain twigs and branches, which shortly die from that point outward, and sometimes all the way back. Some fruit gets it too. Nonetheless, we get a decent sized harvest of edible ones which we share with a ton of birds who we try to beat to them. The ones on branches and twigs without goop seem to be unaffected.

Thanks for the Carlin, a very good one, much needed in this day and age as in all prior ones too, though I doubt he ever influenced any true believers much. On that topic, btw, did you notice the quote from Remarque, and did it remind you of something or somebody?

be well and have a good one

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Lookout's picture

@enhydra lutris

However no one person sprang to mind. Who are you thinking?

As to brown rot (Monilinia fructicola), there are some organic treatments, but as you might expect they're a hassle.
https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/plant-disease/brown-rot/

Got the chestnuts cleaned up manured and mulch. Surprised to find Jap. beetles on them as well. Knocked them into my bucket of soapy water. Neem oil is due to arrive Wed. and I'll start trying to prevent them. I should also treat the soil under the trees with milky spore.

One of the most effective methods was developed way back in the 1930s and distributed to states over the next couple decades. Japanese beetles are susceptive to a disease called milky spore, so researchers decided it’d just be easiest to give the diseases to the beetles—especially in their grub stage before the fully develop into flying adults.

Known in the scientific world as Paenibacillus popilliae, milky spore can be purchased at any basic home improvement store. It’s advised you apply the spore—a white, powdery substance—to your lawn once per year, either in the spring or the fall, for three years. The disease will spread throughout the beetle population and help provide a long-term solution.

https://www.pests.org/how-to-get-rid-of-japanese-beetles/

Interesting that this is the first time in years we've had a problem with them.

Well happy gardening. Have a nice day.

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@Lookout

until several of us n the neighborhood inoculated our lawns with milky spore. Not everyone wanted to pay for it, but those of us who did knocked out the beetles. I never see Japanese beetle traps anymore.

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"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"

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@Lily O Lady

we had a bad infestation in the 90's sometime. Finally treated the problem area with milky spore, and no problem till this year. Time to reapply.

Thanks for your story confirming the treatment!

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@Lookout
thanks for the article on brown rot. Maybe this year we'll try some more of that. We don't water it at all, so that's not the problem, but there is other stuff we can do, I think. As to the quotation from Remarque, I immediately thought of Dylan - "He not busy being born is busy dying".

be well and have a good one.

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magiamma's picture

et al

Interesting column on local history - good read.

Watsonville’s first Black civic leader

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/watsonvilles-first-black-civic-leader-...

Also this... OMG!

Arctic Hits 100.4°F—Hottest Temperature on Record

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/22/scares-me-says-bill-mckibbe...

it "would be the northernmost 100-degree reading ever observed, and the highest temperature on record in the Arctic, a region that is warming at more than twice the rate of the rest of the globe."

Take good care and have a good one.

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Stop Climate Change Silence - Start the Conversation

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@magiamma
read them yet, but the blurb on the second it, as they say, veeeerry interesting. Hard to argue with, but probably "fake news" and hence not widely reportble or a matter of any real concern.

be well and have a good one

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Azazello's picture

Fire visible from the city again last night.
The fire is slowing down, no more trees left to burn, only cactus.
Arizona Daily Star
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Have a nice day.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

enhydra lutris's picture

@Azazello
like the fuel load is gone now.

Thanks for the video, I wish I'd have thought to post that in the column, I never think to check Randy Newman's playlist for anything appropriate to the day, and obviously have to start.

be well and have a good one.

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enhydra lutris's picture

here instead.

Never seen this, but it looks to be just what the doctor ordered somehow

be well and have a good one

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magiamma's picture

@enhydra lutris
She never fails to surprise me.

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@magiamma @magiamma
other thinking Hey, CL with the Goonies, maybe dada, so I went with it, and it came close enough to suit my mood. Eccentric indeed.

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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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It looks like in that Turtles video, they were practicing social distancing already. Mosking

Poor Gigi (my cat) has had to be with me at work for 2 years, poor thing.
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I'm a proud PhD graduate from the George Carlin School of Political Science. (You think that would fly on a resume?) Mosking

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The Ten Commandments was really a marketing decision. Clearly a bullshit list, it's a political document artificially inflated to sell better.

RIP George!

I knew by 3rd grade religion was bullshit. I had a bet with one of my class mates over who was taller, GOD or my father. My father won, he showed up after school to give me a ride home, and GOD was nowhere to be found. Unknw

It's always bothered me that thousands of years BEFORE Christianity, peoples around the world had a better understanding of Stellar Cartography, than many scientist today. New russian

Eighteen is Over the Hill...
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Shifting Sands...
[video:https://youtu.be/9PV2k99nFb4]
Help I'm a Rock... (I wonder if AD/DC got their name from these lyrics?)
[video:https://youtu.be/dkSfdGNuD0c]

Have a good day everyone.

Drinks

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enhydra lutris's picture

@RantingRooster

plenty to keep myself occupied over breakfast.

be well and have a good one.

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@RantingRooster

interesting venture with an interesting goal. It's pretty far out that they decided to cover "Help I'm a Rock" so early in the day

be well and have a good one

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enhydra lutris's picture

stumbling across bizarre coincidences. I find the fact that these two events were exactly one year apart to the day a wonderful tribute to some sort of payback goddess, dunno whom:

1940 – France signed the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany
1941 – Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.

be well and have a good one

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Lily O Lady's picture

We were going to go down to a peach orchard this am, but my husband had a bit of tummy trouble last night. We’ll try again tomorrow.

I’m pretty annoyed by Lucy Worsley’s latest offering on PBS which purported to be about Elizabeth I’s myths and secrets, but ended up with a love fest for Margaret Thatcher! The propaganda never ends and it’s paid for by viewers like me! Grrr

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@Lily O Lady
The last thing the world needs is a love fest for Maggie Thatcher, or her male clone, Ronnie Raygun. They should be ashamed of themselves.

be well and have a good one

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Anja Geitz's picture

And Ziggy likes to climb up on things which I’m sure my boss wouldn’t appreciate.

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@Anja Geitz
both inquisitiveness and creativity.

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@enhydra lutris

Is that your cat?

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@gjohnsit
lunch.

be well and have a good one.

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mimi's picture

night over here. Thanks, I love the many music videos and actually really read about the ones born and the oned that died today.

I just have one question, el, why do you say always before you start posting the music videos..."With apologies"?

I will read your OT now more carefully. Also "with apologies" for not always have I dome so. They are really quite interesting, if one has the time and takes the time to do so. Thanks.

Good night.

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