09/10 Open Thread - World Suicide Prevention Day
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~~ The Seamstress, public domain by Jaci XIV
On this day in:
1573 – German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew were beheaded in Hamburg.
1823 – Simón Bolívar became President of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe got a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora but didn't open any boxes
1897 – A sheriff's posse murdered 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, because that was, essentially, their real job according to their real masters and bosses.
1937 – Nine nations attended the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1960 – At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila became the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961 – In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash caused the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who were hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history
2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
Born this day in:
It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
~~ Charles Sanders Peirce
1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer
1801 – Marie Laveau, voodoo queen of New Orleans
1839 – Isaac K. Funk, minister and publisher, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls
1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, mathematician, statistician, and philosopher
1892 – Arthur Compton, physicist who discovered Compton Scattering
1925 – Roy Brown, singer and songwriter
1940 – Roy Ayers, singer, songwriter, keyboard player, vibraphonist, and producer
1941 – Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, author
1941 – Christopher Hogwood, harpsichordist and conductor
1942 – Danny Hutton, singer
1945 – José Feliciano, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Barriemore Barlow, drummer and songwriter, friend of Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond
1950 – Rosie Flores, singer and guitarist
1952 – Medea Benjamin, activist
1960 – David Lowery, singer, songwriter, guitarist, co-founded Camper Van Beethoven
Died this day in:
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
~~ Mary Wollstonecraft
1797 – Mary Wollstonecraft, philosopher, historian, author and activist
1931 – Salvatore Maranzano, businessman
1935 – Huey Long, actual bona-fide progressive and arguable moderately socialist Democrat, advocate of redistricuton of the wealth to eliminate poverty, infrastructure, taxing oil production, and similar things. Assassinated on the evening of 9/8, he died early in the morning of 9/10.
1961 – Leo Carrillo, Pancho
1976 – Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter, author, member of the Hollywood Ten.
2005 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, singer, guitarist and fiddle player
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
World Suicide Prevention Day
Sew Be it Day
National Hot Dog Day
National Port Wine Day
Today's Tunes
National Port Wine Day
Henry Purcell
Marie Laveau
Isaac K. Funk
Roy Brown
Roy Ayers
Christopher Hogwood
Danny Hutton
Barriemore Barlow
Rosie Flores
David Lowery
Leo Carrillo
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
It's an open thread, so do your thing
I won't be here when this posts
Open Thread, September 10, Suicide Prevention Day, Marie Laveau, Henry Purcell, Stephen Jay Gould, Clarence, Rosie Flores
Comments
Gatemouth is good
Met him one time in a little joint in NOLA
just chillen' not playing music. Cool as a cucumber.
Thanks for filling in for the missing link. There must
be someone out there willing to pick-up the Thursday slot?
Sima was good, didn't respond till much later but no matter.
Gave us a platform to launch from.
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning Cap'n Q. I lied, I am here, for a bit.
got up to 106 here yesterday; we seem to be consistently 10 degrees above weather service projection. Today shuld be "88" meaning that it will be 98 here, so we're gonna let the cross bay commute die down a bit and then head on over to the coast. There's a small working harbor by Half Moon Bay with a little seafood shack right on the water over there that we like, so we'll run over for lunch and then walk some of the coastal/shoreline trail a bit south of there to work it off.
Glad you have a 'puter again, sorry about the back, though. Backs are a horror, you go along minding your own business and then the damn thing goes out on you with no warning.
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 --
god it's good to get reconnected
music, news and entertainment plus C99
is all I need at this stage. Enjoy the ocean breeze!
Zionism is a social disease
Yeah, I have been there and know the feeling.
Thanks for that Parsons Project clip.
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, et al!
A lawyer pal flew out to Florida for 3 days to hang out with the fun women in her family. I chatted with her while she was waiting to board for the flight back to Houston. She said she had made the decision to do exactly what I am doing, which is to take on no new cases, finish up all remaining cases, then work from home doing deeds and wills.
I have 2 of my 5 remaining open cases set for final hearing this month, and may be able to slip in the final 3, as well. I will work at the office today destroying all case file contents of cases five years old or older. I will have a crew move office furniture in the next 2 weeks. The city will buy whatever furniture I leave behind.
The surveyors came and did their thing, so the title company can do theirs soon. The title search should be simple. The property has changed ownership 4 times in 100 years since the original plat.
Enjoy an afternoon on the coast. Sounds like a fun way to avoid the extreme heat! Thanks for filling in with the OT, 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, sounds good, steady progress and all that.
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 --
Hola everybody. As to 3 Dog Night --
Raise your hand if you.ve been to both Spain and Needles
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 --
Hand went up...
n/t
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Figured you were a likely candidate. n/t
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 --
Back in the wandering days
OK, AZ, CA, UK & Heaven I've visited. Not Spain, so I can't raise my hand.
Portugal was as close as I got.
Zionism is a social disease
Pretty close, all the same. n/t
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 --
My hand is up
as well. Needles is cool, but if I had to choose, I’d choose Malaga- Barcelona is too crowded. Ohmigawd the food…
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Yeah, Spain tops Needles in my book except for access to
my medical provider, though It's a serious drive from Needles to anywhere I might find what I need - no Kaiser on the central coast, Barstow is out, maybe Bakersfield or Palm Springs.
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 --
Needless to say, my hand's up, Spain once, Needles too
many times to even try to remember.
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 --
And included here,
as a response to Trump's promise to write a check for $5000 to every adult in the US if the rethugs win the midterms, I present the following clip featuring President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho:
https://x.com/FinanceLancelot/status/2097886432643760615
Sorry if this has already been posted. But I find that Idiocracy was so eerily prescient...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Thanks. n/t
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 --