01/13 Open Thread - Gluten Free Day
~~ gluten free fries
Heck, if you could live on fries and wine I could even see going vegan. FWIW, it is estimated that about 2 million people in the US and 1% of the global population have celiac disease.
On this day in 1435, the Pope pronounced the bull Sicut Dudum; forbidding the enslavement of Canary Islands' indigenous people who had converted to christianity or who were in the process of so doing (but not the rest of the population). This order, simple and clear as it was, nonetheless had to be repeated even though it was, itself, something of a repeat.
On this day in 1842, A wounded Dr. William Brydon rode into Jalalabad, Afghanistan on a wounded horse, the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers who set out upon the British retreat from Kabul on January 6, 1842.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
~~ Rudyard Kipling - The Young British Soldier
On this day in 1893, U.S. Marines landed in Honolulu to prevent queen Liliuokalani from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. This was a classic US style "Public-Private Partnership" wherein the government allied itself with powerful private interests and oligarchs in order to help the oligarchs arrogate yet more power as well as the property and rights of the citizenry to themselves. As ever, the underlying goal was to force the masses into serfdom or servitude. In other parts of the world this merger of public and private interests is, if extensive and prolonged, quite correctly known as fascism.
On this day in history:
1435 – The Pope pronounced the bull Sicut Dudum to spare select Guanche persons from enslavement.
1830 – The Great Fire of New Orleans started.
1842 - The end of the British retreat from Kabul
1847 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ended the US war on Mexico in California.
1888 – The National Geographic Society was founded
1893 – U.S. Marines landed in Honolulu to prevent queen Liliuokalani from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
1898 – Émile Zola's J'accuse…! was published
1942 – Henry Ford patented a plastic automobile, which, as far as I know, was never built
1950 – Finland established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China
1968 – Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom State Prison.
1993 – The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was signed
2018 – A false emergency alert caused widespread panic in Hawaii. Perhaps they feared another invasion by the US Marines.
Some people who were born on this day:
Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.
~~ G.I. Gurdjieff
1683 – Christoph Graupner, harpsichord player and composer
1810 – Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker
1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr., novelist, mythmaker, propagandist, and journalist
1864 – Wilhelm Wien, physicist and academic, formulated Wien's Law, etc.
1866 – George Gurdjieff, mystic and philosopher
1887 – Sophie Tucker, singer and actress
1902 – Karl Menger, mathematician and game theorist from the Vienna Circle
1924 – Paul Feyerabend, philosopher and academic
1925 – Vanita Smythe, singer and actress
1926 – Melba Liston, jazz trombonist arranger, and composer
1929 – Joe Pass, guitarist and composer
1938 – Daevid Allen, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1938 – Shivkumar Sharma, santoor player
1946 – Eero Koivistoinen, saxophonist, composer, and conductor
1961 – Wayne Coyne, singer, songwriter and musician
1961 – Suggs, singer, songwriter, musician, and actor
Some people who died on this day:
Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
~~ Ernie Kovacs
1599 – Edmund Spenser, poet
1625 – Jan Brueghel the Elder, painter
1717 – Maria Sibylla Merian, entomologist and illustrator
1864 – Stephen Foster, composer and songwriter
1906 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, physicist
1929 – Wyatt Earp, gunslinger
1941 – James Joyce, novelist, short story writer, and poet
1962 – Ernie Kovacs, comedian, actor and writer
2007 – Michael Brecker, saxophonist and composer
2010 – Teddy Pendergrass, singer and songwriter
2017 – Magic Alex, Heh
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
National Gluten Free Day
National Peach Melba Day
National Rubber Ducky Day
Stephen Foster Memorial Day
Today's Tunes
US Invasion of Hawaii
Johnny Cash concert
Christoph Graupner
Sophie Tucker
Vanita Smythe
Melba Liston
Joe Pass
Daevid Allen
Shivkumar Sharma
Wayne Coyne
Wayne Coyne
Suggs
Ernie Kovacs
Michael Becker
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, Gluten Free Day, Retreat from Kabul, Invasion of Hawaii, Joe Pass, Johnny Cash
Comments
Set your Glutens free!
I don't know why they were ever imprisoned!
I've even seen gluten free wheat flour. I've no idea how they could do that, but...
If you're gluten sensitive it is probably best just to stay away from wheat products.
So thanks for the OT!
Foster never saw the Suwannee, but he must have liked the sound of it.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The story goes that Foster was trying to come up with
a river name that fit the meter of the song he was writing. He consulted his brother, who suggested "Yazoo", but he didn't like it (overused, allegedly). Next suggestion was "Peedee", but that didn't fly either. So his brother took down an atlas and found "Swanee" (a misspelling of Suwannee), and that hit the spot.
Needless to say, the song has been heavily censored in recent times, because it was written in minstrel-show dialect and was insufficiently critical of slavery. (Foster, incidentally, was a Northerner who never lived in the South and only visited it briefly once.)
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Good morning Maven. Thanks for that information on
the "Swanee" and the song.
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 LO. Thanks for reading. There do
appear to be people who are actually "gluten sensitive", but the jury is still out on that. In my limited experience, most people who claim to be aren't, even many who seriously believe they are. Then there is Celiac disease, an auto-immune disorder tht attacks the lining of the small intestine and possibly other organs. They can actually test for that and there is a genetic marker.
Foster was a strange bird, but his popularity seriously waned sometime after the forties if not earlier.
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, el!
This morning, I looked up in the sky, observed a chemtrail in the shape of the letter "Z".
Wtf?
Investors are swooping down on the glowing embers of the Palisades.
Bastards.
If there is no option other than to eat fast food, the only thing I can stomach is French fries. This only happens once or so a year.
I am going to start planning a trip to Big Bend National Park for the summer vacay. I need to study upon the sections that are closed to the public due to dangerous immigrants, and read the warnings about the possibility of fentanyl being in and on trash and back packs on the ground. Touching them can cause death. Fun times?!
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
Good morning otc. Well, z could be (Z)elinsky or
Z from the Rus armored vehicles, or just the 26th letter, maybe there's a giant A up in the panhandle somewhere.
Fast or at least pretty fast food around here can include some damn good sausages, brats, polish, hot-links and plain old dogs, fish tacos, rolled tacos (mostly down SoCal way, but some up here) and here and there some really good deli sandwiches. I recall one lunch break where one of our group showed up in the morning with a really good fresh baked sourdough bagette and another brought a really good sangiovese and 4 cups. We wandered up to a North Beach deli and gave them the baguette and each of us picked something like 2 toppings and we wound up on a park bench with 4 terrific sandwiches for twenty some odd bucks.
I've never been to Big Bend, maybe some day, dunno. Right now prepping for Mazatlan, etc. and ditch this cold weather for a bit.
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 don't blame you for
going somewhere fun and warm!
It is a ten hour drive to the park from home. I never wanted to go alone, so it is one of the few national parks around the country I have never seen.
It is more than scenic. It has historical missions and monuments. Somewhere mid-way there, we will pass by an observatory. I have a friend that took his boy scout troops to camp out.
Around these parts, delis are in the grocery stores or truck stops. You have to be in a city to get the good meals and deli deals you describe (she types with jealousy in her heart...).
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
What did you decide about the trailer?
Are you gonna join the money pit world?
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
We considered it,
but it needs some work done on it. We passed on it.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
@on the cusp Wow! Big Bend in the
Wow! Big Bend in the summer. As a regular to the park, summer is hot hot hot there. Camping for me was not an option. Stayed in hotel option in Chisos Basin and went out during the day but not during the heat of the day. Staying in Alpine or Marathon is a 60+ drive just to get to the entrance and then even further to start driving and exploring some of the areas. Do your research is the best advice I can give and love it. Never worried about the illegals coming in through the park but the only ranger I even saw with a weapon was at Castelon campground.
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
My friend told me
to go now, not when snakes were out!
I must research, chica!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Try to pretend you care!
A tradition is appearing among US diplomats that appear to have been unsuccessful in pursuit of US Korean policies to refresh their creds with the Korean community by affecting a fond interest and taste for Korean food culture. So I take it as a desperate last ditch effort to somehow, someway, prove they really aren't "ugly Americans." First former PacCom and US Ambassador Harry Harris, who took his President Moon/ South Korean democratic party bashing job quite seriously, recorded a video of himself in the kitchen preparing some Korean dish. At about that time Stephen Beigun who had tried to get something going on the denuclearization talks with North Korea as the US special envoy for that purpose, led the so called "working group," for the negotiations. Actually, he spent more time, acting as the South Korea control officer, trying to hinder any more positive moves by South Korea toward the North. After the "negotiations" effort, such as it was, crashed and burned, Beigun too, also recorded a video showing himself at work in the kitchen on a Korean dish.
This genre of video in South Korea is known as "meok bang," and is quite popular viewing in South Korea and among the diaspora abroad. Most Korean videos of a general nature, popular shows, travelogues, family bios, youtubers, etc., inevitably end up in the kitchen or restaurant at the dinner table either preparing or eating or both, reminiscing about the good old days, or trying times as the case may be, where parents and grandparents, and now children made great sacrifices for the family and acknowledged the obligations and hardships of the respective beloved members. So these State Department videos seem to be trying to exploit this sentiment for state purposes in an attempt to salvage some credibility. So eat your kimchi and nengmyung and give us a little love, Kurt. He looks nasty. (Maybe he needs some American Pie).
Troops Captured by Ukraine Provide Rare Glimpse Into North Korea’s Military
New York Times has an article today about the North Korean pows "captured in Kursk" which isn't behind a paywall (at least for me). It's interesting that the title says something about a "rare glimpse into North Korea's military", but I didn't see or hear a shred of evidence in the article. So the NK soldiers didn't know they were being sent to a battlefield in Russia to fight Ukrainians, but they were told they would be honored as heros. Which is it?
Thanks for OT EL!
語必忠信 行必正直
Thanks for the info and insights, Soryang
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!
Thanks for the history, and great sounds. Joe Pass was amazing.
Spent the last week here with 25f or so lows, lowest about 20f. Making the now THREE geographically challenged Anna's Hummingbird here now more amazing. A pile of red feathers indicated a male Cardinal plucked by an Acciipiter this afternoon. Bird song is increasing though with a half-dozen of the resident species which start early already getting going with a bit of nature's music.
About that 'clean your desk day' malarkey... Was it Einstein that said something to the effect of... If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk indicate? To paraphrase. Mine frightens people... I know where everything is...
Thanks for the OT EL!
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
Good morning Dysto. Heh. Anna's are plucky little monsters.
They seem ready to take on any and every challenge.
There is an accip in our neighborhood who has a good sized local territory, including oour yard. One can often go several days without seeing any sign of it and then ,amy days of it hanging out. Our little valley has crows aplenty, so they keep it moving around. We had an overdose of birdsong a few days back, coincided with an unusually large mixed gob of goldfinches hitting the feeders and fountain.
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 --