08/29 - Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist
~~ Salome by Beardsley
Don't know what that's about and don't want to.
It's also the International Day against Nuclear Tests. WOW, that's an oldie. How about trying to stop the nuclear war that all of the war harks are trying to provoke instead? Maybe try Individual Rights Day instead? Not in this country, we don't believe in them. Sure, we talk about them all the time on the international stage, but, all hat and no pony as they say in Tejas or someplace like that. We could go with Motorist Consideration Monday, but I suspect that to be a sloganism for being considerate to other motorists and that goes nowhere. This is the age of inconsiderateness, nobody has any consideration for anybody else, and why not, that is our founding principle, win everything and beat everybody else at all costs. It is every pereson for themselves and winner take all and god wanted it that way which is why USA, USA, USA! If anything defines predatory rentier capitalism it is "self and selfishness uber alles". So, I guess that leaves us with Potteries Bottle Oven Day which sounds like the kind of word salad that comes out of the mouths of our politicians, so it must really be something profound, at least as much as maybe Fish Peanut Locomotive Day or somesuch verbiage.
/rant
On this day in history:
0708 -- First minting of copper coins in Japan
1756 -- Frederick the Great started the French and Indian War by attacking Saxony
1786 -- Shays' Rebellion started
1825 -- Portugal recognized Brazil's independence
1831 -- Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction.
1885 -- Gottlieb Daimler patented the first motorcycle (& first ICE powered vehicle)
1911 -- Ishi came in from the cold
1916 -- The US passed the Philippine Autonomy Act
1922 -- The first radio ad was broadcast
1949 -- The Soviet Union tested its first A-bomb
1970 -- Rioting cops killed 3 people at the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War in East LA
1991 -- The Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet suspended all activities of the Soviet Communist Party
2005 -- Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast.
Some people who were born on this day:
Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
~~ John Locke
1632 -- John Locke, physician and philosopher
1777 -- Hyacinth, founder of Sinology
1780 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painter and illustrator
1862 -- Maurice Maeterlinck, poet and playwright
1920 -- Charlie Parker, saxophonist and composer
1924 -- Dinah Washington, singer and pianist
1927 -- Jimmy C. Newman, singer, songwriter and guitarist; Opry dude
1938 -- Robert Rubin, economic Shiva
1945 -- Chris Copping, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1951 -- Geoff Whitehorn, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1952 -- Dave Malone, singer, songwriter and guitarist, collaborated with the Iguanas
1958 -- Michael Jackson, singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor. A smoothie
1960 -- Tony MacAlpine, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1971 -- Alex Griffin, bass player
1975 -- Kyle Cook, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1985 -- Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombonist
Some people who died on this day:
... for as the overflowing of water doe at length make the river loose its proper channell, so those that seeke to extend their power beyond their bounds, have ever hitherto lost not only their powers by them usurped, but often even that also which by right belonged unto them …
~~ John (Freeborn John) Lilburne
1533 -- Atahualpa, Sovereign emperor, victim of Spanish/Papal Imperialism
1657 -- John Lilburne, activist, freeborn John, a leveller
1769 -- Edmond Hoyle, author and educator, according to whom ...
1780 -- Jacques-Germain Soufflot, architect who co-designed The Pantheon
1856 -- Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, anti-slavery activist and author
1930 -- William Archibald Spooner, priest, author and Oxford Don after whom Spoonerisms are named
1946 -- John Steuart Curry, painter and academic
1968 -- Ulysses S. Grant III, the guy buried in Grant's tomb
1976 -- Jimmy Reed, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1981 -- Lowell Thomas, journalist and author
2007 -- Alfred Peet, patron saint of coffee, founded Peet's Coffee & Tea in Berkeley in 1966.
2011 -- David "Honeyboy" Edwards, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Christian Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist (I shit you not)
International Day against Nuclear Tests (international)
Individual Rights Day
Motorist Consideration Monday
Potteries Bottle Oven Day
Today's Tunes
Frederick the Great of Prussia, flautist and composer
Charlie Parker
Dinah Washington
Jimmy C. Newman
Chris Copping
Geoff Whitehorn
Dave Malone
Michael Jackson
Tony MacAlpine
Alex Griffin
Achilles Liarmakopoulos
Jimmy Reed
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
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
Comments
Righteous rant, el
More for me (and therefore less for you) is the capitalist way. It is a circular trap that I doubt we're capable of escaping as a society. It is too deeply ingrained. We live in a competitive rather than cooperative culture.
I like Aldo Leopold's concept...
Life is a balancing act. Hope you all find your own balance.
Thanks for the music and OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, thanks for reading.
The capitalist trap and the competition trap are intertwined. We are indoctrinated that competition is the natural form of behavior and achievement in all things from a very early age. Cooperation rarely comes up, except in the concept of forming teams to compete with other teams.
Leopold, yes. Land, yes.
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 --
I am sure there was no insidious reason
for a cop car to be parked with lights on, right at my office's window. Hmmm...an interesting start to the week!
When I think of festivals, I typically do not associate them heads on platters. But, today, I will.
I hope I will be able to listen to some music today.
Thanks, pal!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc, thanks for reading.
well, ... one can hope for non-insidious grounds for said cop car's presence and posture, I guess. Good luck.
I also hope you get some time for tunes, I mean, can't skip charlie and dinah, can one.
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 --
monday monday
Hi all, Hey EL! Hope all are well!
That Michael Jackson was something... I heard Fred Astaire said he had the best moves. Tony MacAlpine is awesome as well. Charlie Parker was great, and I am not just saying that because he composed a song called Ornithology. But it does add to it in my book.
Keeping eyes peeled for the Potteries Bottle Oven Day people, haven't seen any yet. Not sure I would know how to identify them...
Lots of Orchard Orioles hitting the birdbath daily lately as nearing peak wave of them passing through on the way out of the states. Mostly green/yellow immatures and females, but some nice chestnut males, which are one of the sharpest looking birds in America. And dang they are a small oriole.
be well all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good morning Dysto, thanks for reading
Orioles heading south. Hmmm. We rarely get orioles around here, at least not to my notice. I'm mostly familiar with them down around Indio and Anza Borrego and I seriously doubt many of those travel much further south at any time.
Parker is, of course, a legend and ornithology is a great tune, bringing us, perhaps, to
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 --
Not much of a Michael Jackson fan,
but I had to watch to explore the 45 degree group lean gag. Have to admit I enjoyed the whole show more than I thought I would. Dancing and singing has to be even more difficult than playing and instrument and singing.
I did figure out the mechanics of lean. If you watch the right foot of the black suit on the far right as they return to vertical very closely you will notice a bit of a hitch as he disengages from the floor. Still in all a very impressive illusion and performance.
Thanks for the OT el!
“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”
The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963
Afternoon ovals. Never much of a Jackson fan myself,
but he had plenty and one cannot leave him out. He patented the gimmick for the floor lean stunt, actually, 2 different ones iirc.
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 --
Developing! Another foreign policy success story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/world/middleeast/iraq-sadr-politics.html
The situation is far from clear with conflicting reports!
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/08/29/US-calls-for-d...
afternoon humphry. IIRC, Muqtada al-Sadr
and all of his followers were declared to be terrorists and his newspaper and its offices and equipment shut down because he (or his paper) had toe audacity to declare that the US (the primary terrorist force in Iraq at the time) had no business being in Iraq and should leave. How is that terrorism? Well terrorism is what we say it is, like dissing the US, but not, for instance, dropping butterfly bombs on a civilian population center, like we did.
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 --
There could be bargains to be had in coastal properties.
Coastal properties could well include places like Palm Springs
rsn, maybe even Yuma.
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 --
Thanks for the tunes, El
In honor of the holiday I'm roasting a head of cabbage, cut in half, drizzled with Italian dressing, grated mozzarella, and crisp bacon crumples.
I call it "Keep your mouth shut, keep your head". Roasted.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
good earthling1
Thanks for the great & timely recipe. Thanks for reading and listening.
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 --
I used to quarter cabbage heads, core, then stuff them
with butter, garlic powder, salt, then put them on a grill, wrapped in foil. For serving, choose whatever dressing you wish:French, Italian, Ranch, Green Goddess, or cole slaw dressing. I personally developed this thing about pairing cabbage with Green Goddess for this dish, or for cole slaw. YMMV, set everything out for plenty of choice. Bacon crumbles is ALWAYS a great topping! More bacon!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Green Goddess
Will have to look that up.
Thanks for the tips.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Kraft/Heinz product
Likely came on the market in the 70s. There is probably a recipe to make it from scratch out there.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
had a girlfriend in the mid-sixties who was
partial to it --
Wikipedia
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 --
Don't tell me...
you ditched her because she was weird? I mean, green cream? Dear One sticks to cole slaw dressing. So far, he has shown no curiosity. Given guys ditch gals for strange reasons, I do not push it, ya know. Me likey Dear One a WHOLE LOT
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
uhhh, no. FWIW, my standards for weird are,
if definable, either off the charts, unless that term is permitted to encompass and include "hopelessly normal"
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 --