02/26 Open Thread: Today is Most Holy Immobile Earth Day
~~ Galileo
On this day in 1616 in a desperate attempt to prop up sacred superstitions, the church banned Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei from teaching or defending the nefarious heretical idea that the earth orbited the sun. They did this, mind you, for his own good, for his and for ours, and it was a blessed and holy event. Without such vigilant policing of ideas and speech we are at risk of being exposed to FAKE NEWS like heliocentrism, women's equality, or worse.
On this day in history:
1616 -- Galileo was banned from teaching or defending heliocentrism by the Roman Catholic Church **
1876 – Japan and Korea signed the Treaty of Kangwha
1919 -- Woodrow Wilson establised the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 -- Calvin Coolidge established the Grand Teton National Park
1935 -- Adolf Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe to be re-formed
1935 -- Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated radar's possibility
1971 -- U Thant signed a UN proclamation declaring the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
1987 -- The Tower Commission rebuked Reagan for not controlling his national security staff. ***
1993 -- 1993 World Trade Center bombing (you know, the truck bomb)
1995 -- Barings Bank collapsed after a broker lost $1.4 billion gambling on futures. (This in no way discouraged Clinton from passing laws (plural) designed to encourage US banks to engage in such gambling)
2012 – Trayvon Martin was shot to death by George Zimmerman
** It is heretical for anyone to think for themselves, let alone encourage others to do so.
*** Something nobody since has ever done either
Some people who were born on this day:
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
~~ Claude Adrien Helvetius
1564 -- Christopher Marlowe, playwright "This is hell nor am I out of it"
1677 – Nicola Fago, composer and teacher
1715 -- Claude Adrien Helvetius, heretical philosopher
1786 – François Arago, mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician,
1802 -- Victor Hugo, author, poet, and playwright
1842 -- Camille Flammarion, astronomer and author
1846 -- Buffalo Bill, showman
1861 – Nadezhda Krupskaya, revolutionary and politician
1877 – Rudolph Dirks, illustrator
1893 -- Dorothy Whipple, author
1918 -- Theodore Sturgeon, author
1921 -- Betty Hutton, actress and singer
1928 -- Fats Domino, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1932 -- Johnny Cash, singer, songwriter, and guitarist,
1943 -- Paul Cotton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist (poco)
1943 -- Bob "The Bear" Hite, singer, songwriter, and musician
1945 -- Mitch Ryder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1947 -- Sandie Shaw, singer and shrink
1950 -- Jonathan Cain, singer, songwriter, and keyboard player (journey)
1958 -- Susan Helms, general, engineer, and astronaut
1968 – Tim Commerford, bass player
1971 – Erykah Badu, singer, songwriter, producer, actress
1979 -- Corinne Bailey Rae, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1984 – Natalia Lafourcade, singer and songwriter
Some people who died on this day:
"... the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth....Philosophy means to be on the way. Its questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.”
~~ Karl Jaspers
1548 -- Lorenzino de' Medici, writer and assassin
1903 -- Richard Jordan Gatling, gencidal massacre enabler, invented the Gatling gun
1969 -- Karl Jaspers, shrink and philosopher
1989 -- Roy Eldridge, trumpet player
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Pistachio Day
Tell a Fairy Tale Day
Today's Tunes
Galileo
Barings Bank
Fats Domino
Johnny Cash
Paul Cotton
Bob Hite
Mitch Ryder
Sandie Sahw
Jonathan Cain
Tim Commerford
Erykah Badu
Corinne Bailey Rae
Roy Eldridge
The only one true dogma any of us ever needs
Bonus Antoine
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, Galileo, heresy, Fats Domino, Bob Hite, Mitch Ryder, Paul Cotton, Boogie Music
Comments
Hey good morning
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Keeping us safe from inconvenient truths the old fashioned way.
Proven effective for over 400 years! Count on it.
Thanks for the OT
question everything
Good morning QMS. You know, if it works, why fix it.
Galileo got off lightly, perhaps because he recanted. Now Bruno ...
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 --
Good morning...
I like the idea of fairy tale day, guess I'll celebrate reading the paper or watching a bit of MSM news.
Almost done with the pruning, and a little road maintenance is on the docket today.
Have a great day and thanks for the OT and all the music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. I, of course, didn't miss the
relevance of Fairy Tale Day to today's so-called news and history. When I was a kid, my parents' book collection included the collected works of the brothers Grimm, so instead of "The Cat in the Hat" and such, my brother and I were raised on brutal and macabre tales of witches who ate little kids and stuff like that. We suspect that it might have something to do with our sense of humor and outlook on life later on.
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! It looks like there is more "egg on the face" of the
latest propaganda with regards to the death of Navalny.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/16/biden-blames-put...
Now we get this information throwing a monkey wrench into the narrative!
https://www.barrons.com/news/navalny-team-says-prisoner-swap-was-close-b...
Additional information is seeing the light of day.
Edited to add:
I wonder if the latest revelations will lead Genocide Joe cancelling the recently introduced sanctions on Russia?
Not hardly!
Dopey Joe will just double down and make some other excuse for what his Lords and Masters want him to do anyway.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Heh. I was talking to my little sis on the phone Sunday and
suggested a variant of Bullshit Bingo involving what media outlets and politicians would issue retractions and when. I have noted none so far.
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 it's good all over out yonder!
Galileo was one of the original free thinkers. After what they did to Copernicus, it's not like he was unaware of the risk he was taking. A victim of his own brilliance in a land of dummies.
How dare you have your own mind and think what you may with it!
I guess every day is Fairy Tale Day at the main western media outlets?
Turns out those Grimm's we were raised on were pretty, grim. Yet they wondered why kids had nightmares.
What a great voice Sandie Shaw had, thanks for that!
We are in upper 80's, and had 2.5" of rain last week so seeing some few wildflowers opening, and many have leavens breaking ground now. Still waiting for the first migrants to return. The next week should see Turkey Vulture (late already), Barn Swallow, Vermilion Flycatcher, and maybe Purple Martin and Black-chinned Hummingbird.
Some good vids at this rabbit hole...
Colombian Tanagers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tswRl_vh28
Thanks for the OT EL!
Have great ones 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
We came upon a cara cara
last week. They are supposedly getting common in Texas, but this was my first sighting.
Vultures can be attractive! Who knew?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
caracara
Hi OtC! Yeah, they really have become more common the last few decades here. GREAT you got to see one. Very neat bird the Caracara is! They get scarce when you get to the woods. More an open country species. Up to the 70's and 80's at least, most non-birders here in Texas called it Mexican Eagle. But it is not an eagle, so that was a problem. They are actually a FALCON. A true falcon. Though, no other falcons look like Caracara with those long legs and bare skinned face. Caracara take live prey themselves, but often as not feed on carrion with vultures. They are great scavengers. They can be common in coastal prairies, and central and south Texas. They are also found in FL and AZ. They have a propensity for vagrancy and the last two decades strays have been found in most states in the U.S., and some in Canada. There are other species of Caracara from southern Mexico or central America southward. Ours is called Northern Caracara, and formerly Crested Caracara was the proper name. A cackled out 'caracara' can approximate one common call. If you can cackle well, like say ol' sore loser still squawking about Russia, hellabitch.
Adults allopreen (mutally preen) like parrots! The red facial skin can be flushed with blood and turn nearly neon, in an instant. They nest near us so we see them regularly, and never get tired of them. Very neat birds.
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
Lucky you, great bird,
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 won't have to wait long
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for the migrants to arrive.
Flooding urban areas, heading out
to small town 'murica in flocks
good luck
question everything
migrants
Hi QMS,
I was speaking of avian migrants, rather than hominid.
Of which BTW, sitting here 100 miles from the river/border, with eyes peeled at all times lest bird or bug sneak by, I have recorded exactly zero. I also know of zero nearby apprehensions. EVERY one here is more than well-armed, which I presume is well-known. I know it is a nightmare in Eagle Pass though. And surely in a lot of other places as well. We did have folks stuck in town a couple weeks ago due to a law-enforcement action. It was state, feds, county, dump road was blocked, and near hundred people live out it. It was a) meth raids, b) at rundown trailers, c) with white people. Whooda thunk?
Have a good one Capt.!
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
Thanks Dysto. Central American tanagers are great, I miss
seeing them from the good old days when we went birding down there relatively often. They rival African Starlings, actually outdo them I think.
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 --