08/22 - Saint Nessie's Birthday
~~ Saint Nessie
Today we celebrate Saint Nessie's Day, a holiday only partly of my invention. The earliest report of a monster in the vicinity of Loch Ness comes from Saint Columba and is reported in writing by the writer Adomnán. Adomnan's tale has a lot of other embellishments, but, objectively, Nessie was clearly born of the mind and imagination of Saint Columba springing full grown from his head like Athena from the head of Zeus. As Athena was a god because birthed of a god so Nessie must be a saint because birthed of a saint. Lest somebody cry sacrilege, please be aware that minimal research will disclose that many religions and sects have saints and celebrate saints' days. There is seemingly no bar to declaring a person or other entity to be a saint and assigning them a day. In this case, the day is the anniversary of the day in 565 CE on which Saint Columba, ahem, first saw it/him/her.
This saves me from having to address the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. Nobody really desires to hear me rant on that topic, I assure you. Throughout my life, now and then one or more missionaries, willfully and intentionally violating the law of some foreign state got punished for said transgressions, which caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth and howling about how horrible, evil and dastardly those states were to do so. This is notwithstanding the fact that throughout history religious devotees have hideously tortured, murdered, and enslaved vast numbers of heathens, pagans, atheists, free thinkers, scientists and other non-believers, including even those who were co-religionists who merely differed as to one or more details of dogma or ritual, witness the intentionally genocidal Albigensian Crusade. No, I don't want to go there.
~~ Giordano Bruno, Martyr to Free Thought ~~
I should probably mention the Geneva Convention(s), for what it is worth. The First Geneva Convention was signed by 12 countries (not including the US) on this date in 1864, and the even the US eventually signed too. The convention tried to stipulate what could and could not be done to POWs and civilians in time of war and was to be enforced by the Red Cross. To paraphrase Stalin; How many divisions does the Red Cross have? None, and it shows. The perpetrators of such war crimes as Mai Lai and Abu Graib, for example, all combined, suffered a far lesser penalty than Julian Assange has so far for exposing some war crimes. Beside that, it appears that one can do anything one pleases to "unlawful enemy combatants" who are defined as anybody of any nationality that the US President decides to call an "unlawful enemy combatant". So, whatever.
On this day in history:
0565 -- St. Columba reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.
1485 -- The Battle of Bosworth Field, the death of Richard III and the end of the House of Plantagenet
1639 -- Madras (now Chennai), India, was founded by the British East India Company
1642 -- Charles I called the English Parliament traitors. The English Civil War began
1791 -- The Haitian Slave Revolution started in Saint-Domingue.
1831 -- Nat Turner's slave rebellion started just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia
1848 -- The United States annexed New Mexico.
1864 -- Twelve nations signed the First Geneva Convention.
1950 -- Althea Gibson became the first black competitor in international tennis.
1952 -- They permanently closed the penal colony on Devil's Island. Next up, Gitmo
1963 -- Joe Walker reached an altitude of 67.08 mi (354,200 feet) in an X-15
1966 -- The NFWA and AWOC merged to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC)
1971 –- Jedgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
1978 -- The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupied the national palace in Nicaragua.
1992 -- FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi killed Vicki Weaver at her home at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. No hostage was found or rescued.
1996 -- Bill Clinton signed The Clinton Welfare reform CUTS into law
Some people who were born on this day:
If I don't drive around the park,
I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
If I'm in bed each night by ten,
I may get back my looks again,
If I abstain from fun and such,
I'll probably amount to much,
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.
~~ Dorothy Parker
1647 -- Denis Papin, physicist and mathematician, developed pressure cooking
1862 -- Claude Debussy, pianist and composer
1880 -- George Herriman, cartoonist
1893 -- Wilfred Kitching, 7th General of The Starvation Army, pregnant with celestial fire
1893 -- Dorothy Parker, poet, critic, author, wit, member of the Algonquin Roundtable, Hollywood Blacklistee
1902 -- Leni Riefenstahl, actress and director, NAZI propagandist
1908 -- Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer and painter
1914 -- Jack Dunphy, dancer, author, playwright, Capote fancier
1915 -- David Dellinger, pacifist, activist, radical, 1/7th of Chicago 7.
1917 -- John Lee Hooker, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1918 -- Mary McGrory, journalist and author
1920 -- Ray Bradbury, author and screenwriter
1928 -- Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer and academic
1936 -- Chuck Brown, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer.
1936 -- Dale Hawkins, singer, songwriter and guitarist; swamp rocker
1945 -- Ron Dante, singer, songwriter and producer
1947 -- Donna Jean Godchaux, singer, songwriter
1948 -- David Marks, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1958 -- Vernon Reid, guitarist and songwriter
1959 -- Juan Croucier, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer
1961 -- Roland Orzabal, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1961 -- Debbi Peterson, singer and drummer
1963 -- Tori Amos, singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer, activist
1967 -- Layne Staley, singer, songwriter
1972 -- Paul Doucette, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
1976 -- Bryn Davies, bassist, cellist, and pianist - look her up sometime
Some people who died on this day:
When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.
~~ Jomo Kenyatta
1664 -- Maria Cunitz, astronomer and author
1965 -- Ellen Church, first female flight attendant
1967 -- Gregory Goodwin Pincus, co-created the birth-control pil
1978 -- Jomo Kenyatta, journalist and politician, founding father of Kenya, one of Kapenguria Six, alleged mau mau.
1979 -- James T. Farrell, novelist, short-story writer, and poet
1989 -- Huey P. Newton, activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party, brought gun control to California
2006 -- Bruce Gary, drummer and producer
2011 -- Jerry Leiber, songwriter, half of "Leiber & Stoller"
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Why not Saint Nessie? Saint Columba birthed her on this date
International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief (International)
Today's Tunes
Wilfred Kitching
Claude Debussy
John Lee Hooker, Who deserves his own essay
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Chuck Brown
Dale Hawkins
Ron Dante, who was guilty of -
Donna Jean Godchaux
David Marks
Roland Orzabal
Debbi Peterson
Tori Amos
Layne Staley
Paul Doucette
Bryn Davies
Bruce Gary
Jerry Leiber
OK, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Saint Nessie, Geneva Accord, Bosworth Field, Haiti, Nat Turner, UFWOC, Camden 28, Welfare Cuts, Dorothy Parker, John Lee Hooker, Ray Bradbury, Jomo Kenyatta, Huey Newton, Jerry Leiber
Comments
It is easier to create imaginary monsters...
that to deal with the human monsters common on Earth.
For some reason the US war OF terror excused us from following the Geneva Convention and start torturing prisoners, droning people all over the world, and all sorts of illegal actions. But hey we have demockrazy better than anyone else. USA, USA!
Whatcha gonna to say. At least we have natural bounty which we can currently enjoy.
Hope you all have a good one!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. Ain't it the truth.
There is a room in Madrid's Prado dedicated to some of Goya's works. In it one will find Saturn Devouring His Son, horrible, grisly, and all that:
but not far from it, his Second of May 1808 and Third of May 1808:
This particular arrangement was not contrived on purpose, but, all the same ...
be well and 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 --
Oops! The propaganda didn't work as intended.
Good morning humphrey, thanks for the
humorous entertainment.
be well and 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 --
New Week
Tomorrow is Primary day in NYC. If anything interesting to the country occurs, I'll discuss it here.
For today, this short quote from William Kunstler caught my eye this morning:
"In plain English, we’re exiting the techno-industrial fiesta of the past 200-odd years and entering the uncharted territory of what-comes-next, and that is driving the immense anxiety of the age. Our business model for everything is broken, mostly because the fossil fuel situation has become so uncertain, and it is driving us nuts. Understand that and you will have enough mental equipment operating correctly to stay sane."
Nice if he is right. Staying sane would be lovely.
NYCVG
Good morning NYCVG, thanks for that quotation.
I think it is beyond petro, that is almost a distraction, but all the same it is broadly true. Ruthless competition and social Darwinism is proving not to be such a great model for a society after all. We all need to carry set mousetraps in our pockets to punish the invisible hand when it tries to pick our pockets further.
be well and 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 --
Primary also in Florida
Today Matt Gaetz and Don Jr. are having a rally in Pensacola. Not going. I can't afford to waste gas. The last rally Gaetz had, there were about 50 protesters. He's running against a retired Marine but I still think he's going to win. His family has a lot of influence in these parts. When he was younger, he must have been "arrested" or at least stopped for DUI a dozen times, but never went to court or jail over any of it. There is a different set of laws for the rich.
correct DUI
Good morning Enchantress. The very idea of
a public appearance by Gaetz would be enough to dissuade me from attending. I must confess, however, that even as a child freak shows turned me off. (though I must confess that I might have gone to see Lydia the Tattooed Lady, were she real
)
be well and 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 --
You don't have to
pay to see Lydia- all you have to do is screw your courage to the sticking-place and go to a WalMart during hot weather. Dear Gawd, I didn't think that there was that much badly-done ink in the freakin' world...
That is a fashion trend by which I'm happy to have been left behind. Even all those years of rock&roll and no ink on this reporter. But hey- I met a guitarist this weekend who is another GHOF like me and is looking for a drummer. So I may just go buy a cheap used E-kit and get back to scratching the skins, since all my gear burned up. That'd be a hoot: classic rock played by people who are old enough to have been there for the first release...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning usefewer. Problem is that I suspect
Walmart lacks a Groucho class barker, which is/was, of course, at least half of Lydia's attraction. The Drum kit sounds like a worthy expenditure of time. I still have a guitar laying around, but seem to have misplaced my hands and fingers, alas.
be well and 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 --
The sanctions applied by the West seem to be backfiring.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-22/europe-gas-jumps-as-s...
The genius's from the US and NATO seemed to have missed the unintended consequences of their actions
Funny how they blame Russia...
when it was the EU, et al that imposed the sanctions which are killing their economies. Not bit of self reflection.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
"seem to be" = understatement of the year ;-) /nt
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 --
U.S. still stealing oil from Syria
link
good morning gj, thanks for that update
on that aspect of US criminality in Syria. One might hope that the Iraqi's would stop those shipments at the border, but we'd probably go all shock and awe on them again.
be well and 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 --
The US isn't the only country to play that game.
https://thecradle.co/Article/news/14584
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/08/21/687785/Yemen-French-troops-gas-...
same shit, different venue. Pretty sad. n/t
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 --
The MIC just keeps on smiling!
Empire = Grift
Two synonymous concepts
NYCVG
Fauci quit
Way past due. Criminal charges would be in order IMO.
White House coronavirus czar resigns
https://www.rt.com/news/561325-fauci-resigns-/
Thanks for the OT EL!
I know in american government
Things like lying to the public, making money off of positions of authority and the like are
not considered crimes, but he didn't invent Teflon. This corrupt administrator should at
least be made accountable for some of the damages he orchestrated on our health.
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not that whoever replaces him will be an improvement.
NYCVG
I assume it will be some big-wig
representing the pharmaceutical industry to *replace* him.
There are not term limits on any of these appointed scammers.
But is health of the citizens that is being ployed here.
I think we should have some say-so in the matter?
My pleasure, thanks for the news on fauci
be sell and 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 --
IM Doc has an interesting theory on his retirement
She notes that lots of scientists and doctors working in the health agencies have also quit and she wonders if they are doing it for nefarious reasons. Check out the comments too. People post great links.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
What part of inalienable does government not understand?
Here’s one short essay on how government has decided that it can rescind the constitution, posse comititas and the bill of rights.
The author has other essays that covers much bigger lists of acts and executive orders that do the same. I didn’t see where the founders said that our inalienable rights could be rescinded in times of emergency, but even the great Abe Lincoln suspended habeas comitatus during the civil war. Other presidents have taken it upon themselves to do the same.
I remember when congress was debating the FISA bill to give Bush immunity for spying on us and the saying then was that secret meetings and secret courts don’t nullify the constitution, but when they suspend posse comitatus and have the military enforce the orders what can we do?
The one above is short on links, but this one is more detailed with lots of links to the orders and acts. It’s a must eye opening read.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
I skimmed the short essay and consider it to be
your choice of bunkum or hokum. Examples:
Regs aren't laws, they are not passed by Congress or signed by the President and are subject to court review only when challenged in, of all things, the courts.
That, as written, is completely false and egregiously misleading as well.
Somebody pawed through a huge database looking for something and found a relatively short segment of dna in a Moderna patent that contained A Mirror Image of something in SARS-COV-2 On The Non-Coding Strand. Simply put 123456 is not the same as 654321 and it is a lie to imply otherwise. Beyond that, even if it was a real match and not reversed, it is meaningless, because 1) non-coding and 2)only a snippet.(331234567 and 321234567 are not the same even though they both include 1234567)
1) Where is the PROOF that SARS is lab modified weaponized common cold?
2) Needs to cite specific statutory language which
that little bit of totally unsupported hyperbolic verbiage pops up more than once.
be well and 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 --