08/05 Open Thread - National Underwear Day
~~ Central Park Underwear Run 2009
On August 5, 1735 a person was acquitted of Seditious Libel against the Royal Governor of New York because he was telling the truth. Boy was that ever another world. Today we persecute such people endlessly.
On August 5, 1816, the British Admiralty decided to stick with the semaphore over the newfangled electrical telegraph. We should not mock this, given that the first transatlantic telegraph cable only worked for a week and for many decades I was lucky if I could get through a day without my internet provider crashing.
Japan, copying the earlier accomplishment of the UK, adopted a postal savings system on August 5, 1874. We'll never see that here because the commercial banks own Congress.Not outright, mind you, they share ownership with some other interests,
August 5, 1888 brought us Bertha Benz's historic first long distance automobile trip which doubled as the first long distance automobile trip by a woman.
August 5, 1964 brought us carrier based bombing attacks on North Vietnam in retaliation for alleged events in the gulf of Tonkin that never actually happened, stuff we made up, and the like. Such attacks became an ongoing feature of our war to prevent free elections in Viet Nam. It seems that the shining light upon the hill is simply a targeting beacon, and nothing more.
On August 5, 1974, the U.S. Congress placed a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam. Kind of late in the game, but admirable anyway.
On this day in history:
1735 – John Peter Zenger was acquitted of seditious libel because he told the truth
1816 – The British Admiralty rejected the electric telegraph in favor of the semaphore
1858 – The first transatlantic telegraph cable was finished, it worked for a month
1861 – The US Army abolished flogging.
1874 – Japan launched its postal savings system based on the UK's
1888 – Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back. No steamrollers were involved.
1906 – The King of Iran, agreed to convert the government to a constitutional monarchy.
1925 – Plaid Cymru was formed
1957 – American Bandstand had its debut
1962 – Nelson Mandela was jailed. He would not be released until 1990.
1964 – Aircraft from the USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bombed North Vietnam
1969 – The Lonesome Cowboys police raid in Atlanta, Georgia, which led to the creation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
1974 – The U.S. Congress placed a $1 billion limit on military aid to South Vietnam.
1974 – Pursuant to court orders, President Nixon released the "Smoking Gun" tape recorded on June 23, 1972, clearly revealing his complicity in the Watergate affair.
1981 – Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers
Some people who were born on this day:
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
~~ Mary Ritter Beard
1623 – Antonio Cesti, organist and composer
1681 – Vitus Bering, explorer
1802 – Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician and theorist
1850 – Guy de Maupassant, author and poet
1876 – Mary Ritter Beard, historian and activist
1904 – Kenneth V. Thimann, botanist and microbiologist, isolated auxin
1926 – Jeri Southern, jazz singer and pianist
1934 – Karl Johan Åström, engineer and theorist
1937 – Brian G. Marsden, astronomer and academic
1940 – Rick Huxley, bass player
1941 – Airto Moreira, drummer and composer
1942 – Joe Boyd, record producer
1943 – Sammi Smith, country music singer and songwriter
1946 – Rick van der Linden, keyboard player and songwriter
1947 – Rick Derringer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1947 – Greg Leskiw, guitarist and songwriter
1948 – David Hungate, bass player
1959 – Pat Smear, guitarist and songwriter
1965 – Jeff Coffin, saxophonist and composer
Some people who died on this day:
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~~ Friedrich Engels
1729 – Thomas Newcomen, engineer, invented the Newcomen atmospheric engine
1868 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, archaeologist and historian
1881 – Spotted Tail, Brulé Lakota tribal chief
1895 – Friedrich Engels, philosopher
1929 – Millicent Fawcett, trade union leader and activist
1955 – Carmen Miranda, singer, dancer, and actress
1959 – Edgar Guest, journalist and poet
1968 – Luther Perkins, rockabilly guitarist, the guitar behind Johnny Cash
2008 – Neil Bartlett, chemist and academic, created first noble gas compounds
2012 – Chavela Vargas, singer, songwriter, and actress
2013 – Willie Dunn, singer, songwriter, and producer
2022 – Judith Durham, singer and songwriter
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
International Traffic Light Day
National Underwear Day
Today's Tunes
National Underwear Day
Ms. Benz's long distance round trip
Japan's postal savings system
First open bombing attacks on Vietnam
Jeri Southern
Rick Huxley
Airto Moreira
Rick van der Linden
Rick Derringer
David Hungate
Jeff Coffin
Carmen Miranda
Luther Perkins
Chavela Vargas
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Willie Dunn
Judith Durham
Bonus - Airto and Flora:
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Underwear Day, Bertha Benz, Vietnam, Plaid Cymru, Rick Huxley, Wiile Dunn, Luther Perkins, Judy Durham, Chavela Vargas
Comments
Woke up "not dead"
again this morning.
Coulda knocked me over with a feather. But that's cause for a minor celebration, just the same.
I suppose that another reason for celebration is that I have no investments in the stock market (or anywhere else, for that matter). Lots of paper "wealth" is going to disappear today...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning UFS. I have noted news items indicative
of a crash of some sort. I feel sorry for all of those driven into the market by the FED's long running pernicious policy of keeping interest rates so low that interest based investments generated a negative return precisely so as to drive granma and granpa to start playing the
poniesmarket lest their retirement savings vanish. Many of them stayed trapped in the market and will now see their retirement savings vanish.Glad you woke up not dead once 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 --
Top of the day mate
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Great bunch of tunes you posted. Sounds like the Japanese market took a beating.
Investors around the globe are freaking. Here goes nothing ..
Whatever that means? Weird science.
Thanks for the OT!
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
Definitely wierd science.
Apparently, the Japanese market crash was largely caused by the Bank of Japan raising interest rates by 0.15 basis points, whatever that means. The net effect is that the spread between the cost of borrowing money to invest, and the potential return on those investments, went negative- and so people who had borrowed to invest were going to lose their shirts, and started dumping as fast as they could go to cut their losses. Or something like that.
Now, I'm just a small-town kid, with no financial savvy whatsoever (as you can see by my bank accounts). But even I know that borrowing money to take to the casino to bet with is a fucking stupid idea. That's why you can't buy a lottery ticket with a credit card.
Here in the States, apparently there are lots of margin calls happening, because our millions of highly-trained and brilliant MBAs have also borrowed lots and lots of money to bet in the casino. Consequently, there are lots of shirts being lost here as well, and the Wall Street circuit breakers have tripped.
Because of my lack of financial savvy, I will decline to point out the inconvenient fact that this is the way the US Government operates as well: borrowing and/or printing lots and lots of money to bet in their very own private casino. But our millions of yadda yadda MBAs say that that is just fine at the nation-state level, because reasons. And who am I to argue with all those MBAs?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/plunge-protection-team.asp
Once again: not a fan...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Good morning QMS. Glad you liked the tunes.
Margin calls are death to overly greedy speculators. Speculation is, of course, bad in many ways and for many reasons, but speculation with somebody else's money can leave you impoverished and whining about fate. Can't say it bothers me a bit when they get hurt, but I do dislike the fact that some ordinary folk simply seeking prudent investments in the face of returns that don't outstrip inflation will also be getting hurt.
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...
Underwear and traffic lights...whatta day. Hopefully no one will get their panties in a wad if they get caught at a red light.
Nicely paired music selections and events, EL. Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning lookout. I guess that both underwear
and traffic lights, appropriately displayed, are capable of stopping traffic, but never made that connection before. Glad you enjoyed the music.
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 is well all over.
Can't wait for the underwear talk... don't be shy ladies.
I was taught they were called traffic signals. Chattanooga TN, Sept. 81, I needed a Ford dealer before closing which was 5 minutes. Ask this guy where the Ford dealership is, obviously in a hurry. This guy whose name I think was Crusty, replied "you'll never make it". Though I appreciated his frank and positive response, I assumed it was based on someone not growing up driving in the Le Mans race that is L.A. driving. I asked which way. He pointed up the road I was on with the most gravelly drawl I ever heard, said I had to go "FIVE RED LIGHTS", and it would be on the left. I was off to the races, wondering if they are green, do I not count them? I made it. I hope they got the memo there that they are called traffic signals.
Great tunes man. I am all in on Bertha, Phil Ochs (what a great song that was), and Judith Durham, what a voice, and song. Seems we should by now have had an army of Phil Ochs and Tom Lehrer types out there. Then again, if there were, how would we know? They would not dare let guys like that on legacy TV today.
There is a Slate-throated Redstart, first CA record in SFO right now, 5 days so far. I saw them in Mexico, in the Durango Sierra Madre. No Bogey though. Furthest north record of the species ever. AZ has been getting them annually lately in those awesome SE sky island mountains. There was a Short-tailed Albatross photo'd last week on a boat out of Half Moon Bay. One of the rarest birds in the world. Here, our migratory breeding birds here have mostly departed already. Dawn chorus sounds like a morgue. Fall migration is getting underway. AZ this weekend had its first ever Curlew Sandpiper, an adult in breeding plumage in Maricopa Co. (PHX area).
We have a flower patch of natives mostly in front around porch and the annual butterfly invasion from Mexico northward is starting so we have a decent show of so far just a few species outside. Mostly sulphurs, big yellow and orange jobs. Migrant Ruby-throated Hummingbirds should show up any day, the breeding Black-chinned are almost all gone. This concludes the nature news and bird report...
I think no one is talking about the underwear because they all know they can't come close to OtC's lingerie litigation stories.
Happy trails 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
Dysto,
if Sex Toy Day comes around, I have a couple of litigation stories about those, too.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Maybe we'll have to invent such a holiday to hear the tales. 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 --
So, let us take a poll, cause, hmm
who is really interested in underwear ?
If at all, I am interested in what is under the underwear... well better not thínk about the surprises that would wait there for me...
Heh, a jolly good day for all of you. Nice to learn who is still alive and kicking. I do my duty with the garden. I let them trees grow how ever they like. My garden: the best green jungle in Northern Germany evah. Some animals, I have never seen anywhere around here before, seem to agree with me. Nice neighbors to have.
Be all good people, you good people.
It's still me favorite place to come to. Be well, you guys .. oh of course you gals too... as if that would make a difference.
Good morning mimi, good to hear from you. I hope you're doing
well. Sounds like you have a wonderful garden, wild and alive, the way things should be, A new neighbor commented on our yard's abundance of butterflies, lizards and unfamiliar plants (weeds). I had forgot how sterile so many places are today.
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 --
Hey Mimi!
Hi Mimi,
GREAT to hear from you!
You make an excellent point on the undies... I think it was said that it was amazing what the bikini revealed, and even more amazing what it covered up!
Wonderful to hear how your garden grows as well! Sounds fantastic! Enjoy that nature!
be well, thanks for the comment!
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 afternoon, El, et al
I didn't figure on worrying about a war and an economic crash looming while on vacation.
A practical concern is availability and cost of fuel. It takes 3 full tanks to get us back home. Will my credit cards and debit cards work?
Well, the longer it takes Iran to strike Israel, the more response plans can take shape. Funny how we will not be caught unaware. I am pissed that I used the word "we".
I am curious about what the allowed exemptions to being drafted into the military might look like. I am sure rich kids will respond accordingly.Have a great day, and many thanks for the OT, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I suspect that you're cards will be ok. Bank stocks are down
so banks become targets and those accounts, in the aggregate, are major assets. As to wars, it is simply a question of "how hot". The US is already at war with about 1/3 of the world, it's just not US shooting wars yet.
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 Dysto. Phil Ochs was really something
else, we've needed a steady stream of many more like him, ubt no luck there. I had forgotten Durham's voice, working up this OT led me to spend a moderate amount of time on YouTube refreshing my memory.
Thanks for the bird report. Don't think I'll charge over to SFO to look, it's a madhouse and so is the traffic.
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 --