Monday OT - June 29: National Camera Day

June 29 is day 181 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, Confusion 34, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.11.7 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

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Drummer 1940 Paul Klee

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On June 29th, 2006, noting in passing that there was no international recognition of the existence of any such status or thing as "Enemy Combatant", the Supremes found that no competent judicial authority had declared those incarcerated in GITMO to be other than prisoners of war, meaning that they were still covered by the Geneva Conventions. Accordingly, they wound up holding that Bush The Lesser's plan for some cock-a-mamie extra-judicial military pseudo-tribunals violated both the UCMJ and the Geneva Conventions. Further, relying upon the seemingly plain, simple and direct language of Article VI, paragraph II of the US constitution, they contradicted the Court of Appeals and held that the The Geneva Conventiona art too enforceable in US courts of law.

Knowing full well the the Bush Regime's entire panoply of outlandish ideas and procedures violated not only common decency, but both US and international law, Congress had already leaped into action in order to prevent anybody from interfering with it. The Center for Justice and Accountability summarizes their actions as follows:

Before the Supreme Court issued its opinion, Congress passed the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act (DTA), which stripped all courts of jurisdiction to hear habeas petitions or any other action against the government and its agents relating to the detention of a detainee at Guantánamo. To reinforce the DTA, Congress later passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) which added a retroactive component to the DTA and stripped federal habeas jurisdiction from all pending Guantánamo cases. This legislation effectively eviscerated the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hamdan.
~~https://cja.org/what-we-do/litigation/amicus-briefs/hamdan-v-rumsfeld/

That is all perfectly true, but omits the minor detail that this egregious perversion of law and justice was, like all of the Shrub's warmongering and war crimes, fully bi-partisan. They probably assumed that everybody would just take that for granted because USA!USA!USA! and Exceptional! and all that shit. How very, very sad. Perhaps they will find room for it in the Empire's epitaph.

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On this day in history:

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11613 – The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground.
1786 – Over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders left Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1880 – France annexed Tahiti.
1881 – Muhammad Ahmad declared himself to be the Mahdi
1916 – Roger Casement was sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
1927 – A U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completed the first transpacific flight.
1956 – The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 was signed by Ike.
 
1972 – The Supremes ruled that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments,
and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. (Furman v. Georgia ) A bit late in the day it would seem, but who am I to say.
1974 – Isabel Perón became Acting President of Argentina,
1974 – Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada
1975 – Steve Wozniak tested the first prototype of the Apple I computer.
1976 – The Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom.
1995 – The first docking of a Space Shuttle (Atlantis) with the  Mir space station
2006 – The Supremes ruled that GWB's plan to try GITMO detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law in Hamdan v.
Rumsfeld
2007 – Apple Inc. released its first mobile phone. i can't recall what they called it.
2014 – ISIL self-declared its caliphate in Syria and northern Iraq giving the US an excuse
       for its ongoing criminal war against Syria..

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Born this day in:

“If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it's a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you're anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
~~ Stokely Carmichael

1787 – Lavinia Stoddard, poet, school founder
1793 – Josef Ressel, inventor, invented the ships propeller (
1801 – Frédéric Bastiat, economist and theorist
1818 – Angelo Secchi, astronomer and academic
1835 – Celia Thaxter, poet and story writer
1858 – George Washington Goethals, general and engineer who co-designed the Panama Canal 
1858 – Julia Lathrop, activist and politician
1861 – William James Mayo, physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic 
1868 – George Ellery Hale, astronomer and journalist
1873 – Leo Frobenius, ethnologist and archaeologist
1888 – Squizzy Taylor, businessman 
1900 – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, poet and pilot
1901 – Nelson Eddy, singer and actor
1912 – Émile Peynaud, oenologist and academic
1922 – Ralph Burns, songwriter, bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist
1941 – Stokely Carmichael, activist
1943 – Little Eva, singer
1948 – Sean Bergin, saxophonist and flute player
1948 – Ian Paice, drummer, songwriter, and producer
1953 – Don Dokken, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Dokken)
1953 – Colin Hay, singer and guitarist
1957 – María Conchita Alonso, singer and actress
1965 – Tripp Eisen, guitarist
1962 – Bobby Gillespie, musician, singer, and songwriter

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Died this day in:

Well my telephone was ringing
And they told me it was Chairman Mao
Well my telephone was ringing
And they told me it was Chairman Mao
You can tell him anything
'Cause I just don't wanna talk to him now

I've got the apolitical blues
And that's the meanest blues of all
Apolitical blues
And that's the meanest blues of all
I don't care if it's John Wayne
I just don't wanna talk to him now

~~ Lowell George

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0520 – Moctezuma II, Aztec tlatoani 
1860 – Thomas Addison, physician and endocrinologist
1861 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet and translator
1895 – Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist
1900 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, mathematician and academic
1940 – Paul Klee, painter and illustrator
1941 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Poland 
1964 – Eric Dolphy, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1975 – Tim Buckley, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1979 – Lowell George, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1993 – Héctor Lavoe, singer and songwriter
2002 – Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress (

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Hug Holiday Day (hug your holiday? I appreciate the sentiment, but gibberish, really)
National Camera Day
National Waffle Iron Day
World Scleroderma Awareness Day

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

Ralph Burns

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Little Eva

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Sean Bergin

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Ian Paice

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Colin Hay

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María Conchita Alonso

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Tripp Eisen

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Ignacy Jan Paderewski

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Eric Dolphy

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Tim Buckley

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Lowell George

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Héctor Lavoe

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Is now resting at home on pain meds and anti biotics.
From the size of the tooth marks I would say it was the Bear Cubs that attacked him.
Nice Frankenstein looking stitches from the emergency vets.
Glad he lived through it!
Photos below for camera day.

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@jbob

My indoor orange boycat weighs 9lbs, hides under the bed whenever it rains, and is nonetheless certain he is a ferocious jungle predator. But this guy, wow! Goodonya Ringtail, hope you heal up quick.

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@jbob
wonder cat. Give him all the best from all of us I'm sure.

be well and have a good one, both of ya.

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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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@jbob I'm glad he made it home. Give him some cat caviar. He deserves it.

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1953 – Don Dokken, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (Dokken)
1953 – Colin Hay, singer and guitarist

There's a weird little shared birthday for 80s MTV bands frontmen. Almost everyone knows Men At Work but I wonder how many people besides the metalheads of 1983 actually remember Dokken? I love this acoustic solo version of Overkill Colin Hay recorded. Ghosts appear and fade away...

Enhydra lutris, I keep meaning to say thanks for these rich little platters of hors d'oeuvres you put together (I dig the Evening Blues too but I'm keeping old lady hours these days so I'm never around to comment then) because the content is always so interesting. All the best to you!

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@Reverend Jane Ignatowski

I've never been much of a metal head, so I didn't include any Dokken, but it would be somewhat heinous not to include Hay. Thanks for suggesting the tune.

be well and have a good one.

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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’s all righteous, history-making fun and games until you hit that red line which is taking a non-approved stand re the Israel–Palestine mess …

‘You cannot fight prejudice with prejudice’: UK Jewish group accuses ‘supposed anti-racist’ BLM of anti-Semitism

Also, homicides are spiking as cities pull back on policing while debating the way forward …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/nyregion/nyc-shootings-surge.html

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@lotlizard

shootings, and certainly not as a reflection on any decrease in policing. Some factors = major societal stressors, mass unemployment and related hardships, summer heat and all that, the existence of a pandemic, and, as even the NYT feels compelled to note:

Homicides rose nationally in the aftermath of the unrest ignited by the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. It went up 15 to 20 percent in the largest cities before subsiding again after two years, Mr. Rosenfeld said. When discontent with the police ran high, people were less likely to call them, deciding to settle matters themselves and driving violence up, he said.

I don't know if there was any link to violence, especially gun violence, but I do clearly recall that the watchword in Berkeley-Oakland and parts of S.F. during the sixties was "no matter what happens, don't call the pigs, they'll only make it worse".

The article also notes some standing gang rivalries. Any such may be being exacerbated by everything going on, dunno. I do recall that there was once a "police strike" of sorts in New York, and that did not lead to a crime spike or a gun violence spike, much to nobody's surprise except for the pundits and such, wee it was much to everybody's surprise.

The first article isn't worth addressing, though, it must be, but that shit is beyond tiresome. What kind of fucking moron cannot distinguish between Israel, the nation, and "jews" the people/religion? There are no doubt some true believers, but that also is the knee-jerk reflexive reaction of the Israel! Israel! Israel! crowd which, much like the USA!USA!USA! crowd is simply an unpaid propaganda arm of the nation state and its elites.

be well and have a good one.

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et al

Blue jay grabbed finch flying out of my feeder and few away with bird in mouth wings flapping. Now I know why all those birds have been disappearing. Sigh.

And then there is this... Sigh...

Siberian fires increase five-fold

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/27/warning-sign-major-proporti...

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@magiamma

thikint that you could maybe civilize/sate it by feeding in shell peanuts that nobody else can get to (that's the hard part) but they are somewhat prodigious eaters and also cache food, so it can get costly. Trust me, I know, we have a resident pair.

Thanks, I guess for the news on Siberia, and the link. At least the link reminded me to send them some bux.

be well and have a good one.

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available to the public.

https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/137/lot/95067/Lieu...

Title: Lieutenant LSD
Author: Creston, Lan
Place: [Richmond, CA]
Publisher:
Date:[1971]

It was quite a document and mirror of the war and the times. It would be a shame if it were to be lost to posterity forever.

I had a copy once but it wound up being part of a CARE package I sent to a friend serving in Vietnam.

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@lotlizard

Never heard of it before. Published in Richmond too. Dang.

be well and have a good one.

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