12/01 Open Thread - World AIDS Day
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~~ AIDS Poster
Today is World AIDS Day. It was first observed on December 1, 1988 to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and to provide information concerning it. It was a WHO prohect until 1996 when the newly founded Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) took over planning and promotion. As I recall, there was a seriously weak response to the increasing number of cases of "Aquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome" aka AIDS and the deaths and suffering caused thereby by governments and peoples, which provided some of the impetus for the creation of this day. Today it is as much a day of mourning for those lost to AIDS as it is an awareness and education day.
Today is also Rosa Parks Day. It is one of two such days. December 1, 1955 was the day of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action spawned the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major event in the civil rights movement and a Supreme Court Decision holding Alabama and Montgomery laws concerning the segregation of buses to be unconstitutional. This is not uniformly celebrated in the various locales which celebrate a Rosa Parks Day. The other Rosa Parks Day is February 4, her birthday.
How about Costa Rica's Military Abolition Day ? I think the whole world should celebrate that. There is one vaguely reasonable country, isn't that good to know? Since 1948 they have had no military. They were almost certainly not remotely as profligate and excessive with their military spending as the US but they have still saved a boatload of money which they could simply not tax their citizenry or else spend for the benefit of their citizenry. They see no pressing need to conquer or attack or "regime change" anybody, they have no parasitic defense contractors that require constant feeding. Some humans might, after all, actually be rational animals.
On this day in history:
1640 – Portugal acclaimed as King João IV of Portugal, ending the union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain
1834 – Slavery was abolished in the Cape Colony (Cape of Good Hope)
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first subway system in Latin America, began operation.
1913 – Crete was annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania united with Romania completing the Romanian Great Union.
1918 – Iceland became a sovereign state, but remained a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) was proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor became the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons
1934 – Sergei Kirov was assassinated paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by Joseph Stalin.
1941 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan gave tacit approval of the decision to start a war against the US.
1941 – Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signed Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1952 – The New York Daily News reported on Christine Jorgensen's sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama, and was arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws
1958 – The Central African Republic attained self-rule within the French Union.
1959 – The opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty
1960 – Patrice Lumumba was arrested by Mobutu Sese Seko's men and eventually murdered
1969 – The first post World War II draft lottery in the United States was held
1973 – Papua New Guinea gained self-government from Australia.
1988 – World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1988 – Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister of Pakistan, the first female leader of a Muslim nation.
1989 – East Germany's parliament abolished the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections from France and England met beneath the seabed.
1991 – Ukrainian voters approved a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
2006 – The law legalizing same-sex marriage went into force in South Africa,
2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in the European Union.
2019 – The outbreak of coronavirus allegedly began in Wuhan.
2020 – The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.
Some people who were born on this day:
There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world.
~~ Nikolai Lobachevsky
1083 – Anna Komnene, physician and scholar
1415 – Jan Długosz, historian
1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, physician and astronomer
1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer and historian
1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer, violinist, and conductor
1716 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, sculptor
1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, chemist and academic
1761 – Marie Tussaud, sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, mathematician and geometer
1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, painter and critic
1886 – Rex Stout, detective novelist
1894 – Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, herpetologist
1895 – Henry Williamson, farmer, soldier, and author
1910 – Alicia Markova, ballerina and choreographer
1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, architect, designed the World Trade Center
1925 – Martin Rodbell, biochemist and endocrinologist,
1931 – Jimmy Lyons, saxophonist
1931 – Jim Nesbitt, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1933 – Lou Rawls, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor
1933 – Violette Verdy, ballerina
1934 – Billy Paul, soul singer
1935 – Sola Sierra, human rights activist
1938 – Sandy Nelson, rock and roll drummer
1940 – Jerry Lawson, electronic engineer and inventor
1942 – John Crowley, author and academic
1944 – Eric Bloom, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1944 – John Densmore, drummer and songwriter
1945 – Bette Midler, singer, songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer, songwriterand pianist
1947 – Alain Bashung, singer, songwriter, and actor
1949 – Pablo Escobar, businessman who copied the British East India Company Model
1950 – Ross Hannaford, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1950 – Richard Keith, actor and drummer
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, bass player, songwriter, and producer
1956 – Julee Cruise, singer, songwriter, musician, and actress
1957 – Chris Poland, guitarist and songwriter
1957 – Vesta Williams, singer, songwriter, and actress
1959 – Billy Childish, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and painter
1961 – Raymond E. Goldstein, biophysicist and academic
1970 – Jonathan Coulton, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1971 – Mika Pohjola, pianist and composer
1972 – Bart Millard, singer, songwriter
1973 – Steve Gibb, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1975 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, keyboard player and producer
1977 – Brad Delson, guitarist and producer
1978 – Mat Kearney, musician
1980 – Gianna Terzi, singer
1981 – Park Hyo-shin, singer, songwriter, and actor
Some people who died on this day:
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
~~ Aleister Crowley
1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, goldsmith and sculptor
1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, astronomer and mathematician
1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer
1755 – Maurice Greene, organist and composer
1866 – George Everest, geographer and surveyor
1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, captain and historian
1934 – Sergey Kirov, engineer and politician, Bolshie
1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, optician, invented the Schmidt camera
1942 – Leon Wachholz, scientist and medical examiner
1947 – Aleister Crowley, magician, poet, and mountaineer
1947 – G. H. Hardy, mathematician and theorist
1950 – Ernest John Moeran, pianist and composer
1954 – Fred Rose, pianist, composer, and publisher
1958 – Elizabeth Peratrovich, civil rights activist
1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, geneticist and biologist
1975 – Ernesto Maserati, race car driver and engineer
1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, journalist
1987 – James Baldwin, novelist, poet, and critic
1993 – Ray Gillen, singer and songwriter
1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, violinist
2004 – Norman Newell, record producer and lyricist
2006 – Bruce Trigger, archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian
2013 – Richard Coughlan, drummer
2023 – Sandra Day O'Connor, first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Civil Air Patrol Day (US)
National Fried Pie Day
National Pie Day
Military Abolition Day (Costa Rica)
Rosa Parks Day
Self-governance Day or Fullveldisdagurinn (Iceland)
World AIDS Day
Today's Tunes
Franz Xaver Richter
Jim Nesbitt
Lou Rawls
Billy Paul
Sandy Nelson
Eric Bloom
John Densmore
Bette Midler
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Jaco Pastorius
Jonathon Coulton
Mika Pohjola
Ernest John Moeran
Fred Rose
Stéphane Grappelli
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, World AIDS Day, Rosa Parks Day, Military Abolition Day, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Lou Rawls, Sandy Nelson, Bette Midler, Jaco Pastorius, Stéphane Grappelli
Comments
Hey, good morning
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The Weather Report Birdland piece is fun. Haven't seen
that video before, but did see the group once.
Think Manhattan Transfer also did a version somewhat later?
Today is also the birthday of singer/songwriter Kim Richey.
BWANGO
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning Cap'n. I've always liked the Manhattan
transfer version of Birdland. Don't know when they first recorded it, one of their fairly early albums, iirc. Thanks for the Kim Richey video - new to me.
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...
Rosa Parks was a seamstress. Her refusal to move from her seat was not planned, she was just too pooped to comply that day. She wasn't the first to be arrested for the "crime", but she worked for folks who had some clout in Montgomery. So, it was her case which ignited the bus boycott.
It is really interesting that AIDS is a disease which appeared in our lifetime. I think the so called sexual revolution was curtailed by the outbreak.
Hope everyone had a great holiday. Thanks for the OT and all the music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning LO, thanks for the added info
on Ms. Parks.
One wonders how many times in the past AIDS was caught by humans but failed to spread due to the isolation of its host and its fatality. As the world shrank and populations grew, the spread of zoonotic diseases became ever more and more likely.
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!
My first cousin picked up a woman hitchhiker, and she repaid the favor with sex. she gave my cousin AIDS, which he gave to his wife, and they both died.
My young woman client smashed her finger in a car door, received an injection of blood in the finger to spur nail re-growth. She died from AIDS, but we had to keep it secret, otherwise, she could not be buried in her Baptist Church cemetery.
Good times in Texas, amirite?
Thanks for the OT!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. A couple of classic tales of
AIDS. The global response, and especially in the US, was horribly slow, half-baked and underfunded, no doubt because it was largely sexually transmitted.
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 --
In the 'you can't make this shit up' department
.
Kushner "an informal adviser" met with Witkoff and
Rubio at Witkoff's golf and racket (ball) club in FLA.
What does Kushner represent exactly? Aside from being
married to trumpet's daughter, being a NY real estate tycoon,
I can see no qualification to be an advisor on foreign affairs.
https://www.rt.com/news/628720-ukraine-us-talks-guarantees/
Zionism is a social disease
True enough on all counts. Kushner may be sitting
in to keep up to speed on the potential real estate investment opportunities avaiable to the savvy insider depending upon what deals are struck with whom.
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 --
Wheeler dealers
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I'll trade you Ukraine for Israel and throw-in
a couple of Baltics. Japan is a separate deal.
Zionism is a social disease
I received an invitation from
my county's Democratic Party to attend a party. Local Mexican food restaurant, free appetizers, booze for sale, and that is the location for their "Winter Party". Not Christmas, not Christmas Holiday, just a celebration of winter, as that is politically correct and offends nobody...but me.
We have no Muslim or Jewish population here. There was no need to turn into a word pretzel, but they did. I am not a spokesperson for Christians, but I can't think of another religious holiday that gets masked.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Heh. Kwanzaa, Yule, Bodhi Day, Festivus,
Saturnalia, Winter Solstice and a couple of Zoroastrian holidays come to mind, not to mention gift returning day.
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 --