02/27 - International Polar Bear Day
~~ Polar Bear Jumping
(Ahem) The Polar Bear, Ursus maritimus is the largest living land predator and the largest living bear species. It is a hypercarnivore, which means that 70% or more of its diet is meat. It has white fur. It Lives above the arctic circle and is considered to be a marine mammal, like the sea otter, because it is dependent upon sea ice for its survival. Because of the impact of global warming upon the sea ice, it is considered to be a vulnerable species. It has many names in many languages, including nanuq, pronounced nanook, and, ya got to be kidding me, Oshkúj, which comes from the Komi oski, "bear"; go Bears.
It is the twenty-seventh. Twenty-seven is cool because it is a perfect cube, 33. It is also self-locating in pi. Counting up from zero, the 27th and 28th digits after the decimal are 2 and 7, respectively. The US Interstate Highway System includes an interstate highway numbered I-27, which runs from Lubbock to Amarillo. Seemingly somebody was unclear as to the meaning of "interstate", but, whatever.
On this day in history:
0380 -- Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors told all Roman citizens to convert to trinitarian Christianity.
1782 -- The British House of Commons voted against further war in America.
1812 -- Manuel Belgrano raised the Flag of independent Argentina in the city of Rosario.
1844 -- The Dominican Republic won its independence from Haiti
1900 -- The British Labour Party was founded.
1922 -- The Supremes ruled in favor of the 19th Amendment in Leser v. Garnett.
1933 -- Reichstag fire
1939 -- The Supremes outlawed sit-down strikes in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical
Corp
1940 -- Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14
1951 -- The 22nd Amendment was ratified
1963 -- Juan Bosch, became the first elected post-Trujillo president of the Dominican Republic
1973 – The American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee
2007 – The Shanghai Stock Exchange fell 9% on fears that the government would crack down on illegal activities, triggering a global drop in markets, heh.
Some people who were born on this day:
The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.
~~ Hugo Black
0272 -- Constantine the Great, superstitious Roman ruler.
1659 – William Sherard, botanist
1689 -- Pietro Gnocchi, composer, and polymath
1799 – Frederick Catherwood, artist, architect and explorer
1807 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet and educator
1859 -- Bertha Pappenheim, activist and author
1869 -- Alice Hamilton, physician, toxicologist and academic
1877 – Joseph Grinnell, zoologist and biologist *
1881 – L. E. J. Brouwer, mathematician, philosopher, and academic
1886 -- Hugo Black, jurist
1897 -- Marian Anderson, singer
1899 -- Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of Insulin
1902 -- John Steinbeck, journalist and author,
1904 -- James T. Farrell, author and poet
1907 -- Mildred Bailey, singer, the Queen of Swing
1914 -- Winifred Atwell, pianist
1923 -- Dexter Gordon, saxophonist, composer, and actor
1925 – Pia Sebastiani, pianist and composer
1934 -- Ralph Nader, lawyer, politician, and activist,
1936 – Sonia Johnson, feminist activist and author
1938 -- Jake Thackray, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
1942 -- Jimmy Burns, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Steve Harley, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1954 – Neal Schon, rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1955 -- Peter Christopherson, keyboard player, songwriter, and director; throbbing Gristle
1957 -- Adrian Smith, guitarist and songwriter; Iron Maiden
1959 -- Johnny Van Zant, singer & songwriter
1971 -- Rozonda Thomas, singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress; TLC
1980 -- Chelsea Clinton, famous offspring
1981 -- Josh Groban, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor
* The Cal falcon Grinnell was named after Joseph Grinnell
Some people who died on this day:
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
~~ John Arbuthnot
1706 -- John Evelyn, author & diarist
1720 -- Samuel Parris, minister, Salem witch hunter & prosecutor, slave owner & general rat bastard
1735 -- John Arbuthnot, physician, mathemetician, satirist and polymath
1887 -- Alexander Borodin, composer and chemist
1936 -- Ivan Pavlov, physiologist, physician, & bell ringer
1937 – Hosteen Klah, artist, medicine man, and weaver
1968 -- Frankie Lymon, singer & songwriter
1977 -- John Dickson Carr, author and playwright
1985 -- Ray Ellington, singer, band-leader, and drummer
1989 – Konrad Lorenz, zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist
1992 -- S. I. Hayakawa, semanticist, linguist, university president and politician.
1999 – Horace Tapscott, pianist and composer
2002 – Spike Milligan, soldier, musician, actor, comedian, and author
2008 -- William F. Buckley, Jr., author and journalist, founded the National Review
2012 – Tina Strobos, resistance member, physician and psychiatrist
2013 -- Van Cliburn, pianist
2015 -- Leonard Nimoy, token vulcan actor
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
International Polar Bear Day
National Strawberry Day
Anosmia Awareness Day
Today's Tunes
Pietro Gnocchi
Marian Anderson
Mildred Bailey
Winifred Atwell
Dexter Gordon
Jake Thackray
Jimmy Burns
Peter Christopherson
Adrian Smith
Johnny Van Zant
Rozonda Thomas
Josh Groban
Alexander Borodin
Frankie Lymon
Ray Ellington
Van Cliburn
Bonus:
Night in Tunisia, because
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
Comments
Good morning...
There's a polar bear club that goes swimming on New years day.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/ny-coney-island-polar-bear...
I save my swimming ventures for warmer weather.
I have a bit of a connection to Hugo Black. He married into a family I know.
Hope all is well. Thanks for the OT and all the music.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yeah Polar Bear Club!
Hey LO! You probably missed the Polar Bear Club down in the Yucatan?
Actually, I have somewhere here my honorary membership card to the Polar Bear Club. Given to me by the President of said club in Brooklyn N.Y. He owned a business machine company there. I was in the sign biz, working in 'the city' often, '82-84. Met a few times and he was fascinated by this seawatching thing birders did.
I explained how I went to Montauk on the coldest most blustery northeasterlies Dec. to March to count passing seabirds blown in. We would spend 6-8 hours with eye glued to telescope, wearing everything we owned, in zero and sub-zero temperatures and below chill factors. To catch look at a Razorbill, Dovekie, or King Eider flying by, Purple Sandpipers, Thick-billed Murre, Snow Bunting, Snowy Owl, and so on. Which we did. After one weekend watch he knew how bad it was out there, and when I told of our watch, he reached in a desk drawer, pulled out a card and signed it, said I was a Polar Bear!
One of my great achievements in life. Winter of 84-85 wife and I did same at Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which was way better than Montauk for alcids. And had a spot you could park and scope from protection of car.
In my youth every summer we were swimming in the high Sierra in snowmelt near the treeline though, so I do not have a problem jumping into icy water that many do. The swimming hole lots of us used near Big Pine in the Owens Valley, eastern CA, was 35 deg. F, warmed 4dF since it left Palisades Glacier an hour ago...
The native Americans sure had a thing about jumping into cold water, from the hot house!
Have a good one!
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
Hi, Lookout. Those polar Bear Cubs are
found in really surprising placs, but I've never had an inclination to get involved. I once tried jumping in a not yet frozen pond in the Yosemite high country BRISK! doesn't begin to describe it.
Interesting about justice Black.
be well and have 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 --
Not your average bear
thanks for the OT!
question everything
Thanks, great pic and line
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 --
DaBears, amazing and beautiful creatures
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-trump-russia-saga-and-th...
Hedges tells us about the state of journalism in amerikkka
and that story isn't pretty at all. For although the
press is still free, it is free only in that it follows
whatever the narrative it is given by tptb. Russiagate
being the perfect example of purely concocted BS
The press no longer does the job it was once admired for. In
reality the press has become a beacon of fantasy while leaving
facts in the dark hole of space.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Like the song said-
I met a person who told me that they were a journalism major. I told them "you have my deepest sympathy". I'm just not feelin' it, anymore.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
heh, hard to believe that there still
is such a thing.
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 --
Heh...
DaBears and amazing hasn't been used together in a sentence since 1986 or so when they won the superbowl.
Heh, well said, but why dose bears. Cal's
Golden Bears have one of those on-field costumed mascots, a bear, named, of course, OSKI as in
So, what's with I-27?
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 --
Memories sweet memories
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Those were the days, my friend...
Heh, the BYU Bears.
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 --
A team no like other
In todays NFL game they'd be suspended at
the speed of light for touching the QB
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Morning gg. It's been maybe 2 generations of
press folks since they knew their job and wanted to do it. I knew some of the real jornalists from back in the day, a different breed from today's stenographers.
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 --
Exactly, journalism has become stenography in
today's world. Like healthcare has become health insurance,
$2K is only $1,400, Nazi's are heroes, etc.etc.etc.
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Good morning
The future? I think so.
More appropriate to this thread is a cartoon I saw yesterday and failed to bookmark. It was a panda bear arm in arm with a brown bear, each of them carrying their country's flags and wearing signifying coats. the Russian bear had an embroidered peasant shirt on. I'll attempt to find it and post it.
NYCVG
Great video, thanks
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 --
Adios the Saker
I will immensely miss the Saker and its brilliant essays. A few will transfer their work to the Pepe Escobar site, but I don’t have the address. If anyone does please share.
I think Andrei saw what happened to Jerome Armstrong and other writers at strategic culture and decided it’s just not worth the risk anymore. Anyone who denies that government censorship isn’t happening should read why he is closing the site. Do not go against government narrative or else.
Thanks for the tip, snopy.
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 hope Biden’s puppet masters didn’t miss this
I strongly recommend reading the rest because he next talks about how Russia has been building up its defensive capabilities and how outmatched the US is compared to what Russia has done. Then you have to consider whether Europe has any defensive systems at all. France and the uk have nuclear weapons and we have put some in Germany too. I think that Russia is walking softly, but carrying a big stick.
There are many NATO troops in Ukraine that have disguised themselves as Ukrainian soldiers and a few have admitted that. I read that somewhere yesterday and good luck for me to find it again.
"I take off my country’s uniform and put on a Ukrainian one."
Plus Biden has sent 10,000 American soldiers to Poland and there are more in Romania and gawd only knows how many were sent during Obama’s reign of terror. Plus Biden has sent more to Germany. I’m just hoping that NATO doesn’t have enough weapons left to actually start a fight with Russia. And how in hell are we going to fight China too? And yes he’s ramping up tensions with China. A few days ago the military flew over the Taiwan strait and then bitched about China sending a plane to shadow it. Plus he’s sending more troops to Taiwan and republicans are set to go there. Meanwhile here at home….80 million people are set to lose Medicaid and millions more are going to have their food stamp benefits cut bigly! And it seems that every other day Biden is sending millions and billions to Ukraine. He’s going to fund the pensions and health care, but Americans aren’t even worth thinking about.
Well the good news is that we aren’t subjected to mean tweets anymore so there’s that.
Yeah, at least one glove if not gauntlet
done been flung. We'll see who is awake in the next few days.
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 its all good out there!
Now THAT'S a bear! A great charismatic environmental flagship species if there ever was one. The Antarctic got Penguins.
The hero on the list today is Grinnell... Joseph is a hero to me. I think his 1915 Birds of California, published as No. 1 in the now famous Pacific Coast Avifauna series was a major breakthrough in state accounts for its detail and comprehensive thoroughness. Then what is called by birders Grinnell & Miller", his 1944 work with Alden, is a birders bible for those interested in status and distribution of birds in California. Long out of print, Artemisa Press in Lee Vining reprinted it in 1986, which is the paperback most of us have.
The 1944 work added habitats at a level probably never prior done, which was Alden Miller's side. He was a habitat guy. Recently a group of biologists have been going to all the major station locations where his incredibly detailed botanic notes are from, and recording everything now, to note changes since Miller's descriptions which were written in first half of last century. Should be fascinating.
There is a similar type of work published by Texas A & M Press I have somewhere here. "A hundred years and 500 miles", or maybe I have those metrics backwards. This was a photographic survey done in the 1980's I think. It went to each site of the photographs taken along the Rio Grande for the U.S.G.S. surveys of the late 1800's and early 1900's, and re-photographed the exact landscape from the same points. One can see why there were still Jaguar on the Rio Grande then, and not now. The orig. photos are largely pre-overgrazing by goats and sheep. Much of the latter stuff is denuded, forever altered, by a generation or two of overgrazing.
Loved Steinbeck's Log from the Sea of Cortez as a teen. Konrad Lorenz was pretty rad too.
Have good 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
Hola Dysto, figured you'd pick up on J. Grinell. Horrible
weather, thunder, sheets of rain, some hail and, of coursse, I had to go pick up a new prescription they want me to try, yaaah!
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 --
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DK coverage of the layoffs.
7 years too late
I guess revenue is down. Ha! There's a reason we left and now maybe a few more will get the picture.
Kos killed his own blog when he kicked off the best writers
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen someone say that there since the great exodus. Lots of people are unhappy with this and the way that kos took action. They are wondering what the difference is between kos and the Starbucks boss who has been attacking unions.
people will believe what they want to
in 2016 the message was clear. Dkos was a shill for the DNC. But a lot of people didn't want to believe it so they stuck around. I still have an account there although I have no clue what my password is. I'd love to see Markos have a hissy fit and threaten people but they'd probably not see that they're pawns. And anyway, if he does have one, I won't see it 'cause I won't be there!
Was 2016 the
last time DK was relevant in any political discussion, or was it closer to 2008?
A few people are seeing that
Some are saying that they won’t write for the community anymore and others say that they stopped writing years ago. One person called Kos out for not promoting anyone who is left of him to the front page. This is from the diary today. A few even question whether they should boycott the site. Not happy campers.
I wonder if he himself made this entry? LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Salvadoran_Americans
I came across this while doing some research on the new mega prison in El Salvador.
I just clicked your link
and visited there for the first time in years.
It was like re-visiting an old bar I used to hang out at, and all the faces were different, the music was strange, but the stench of stale beer was even more overpowering.
Gemme two steps to the door.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Spot on comment
I’m only used to the new names because I visit there so often, but I got blown away with how many people joined up after Russia did its thing. Most people who follow the Ukraine propaganda diaries joined right after. And boy have they picked the silliest names. At first I thought they were bots and maybe they actually are.
Did you pick up on how the guild hasn’t had a contract for 2 years? Right out of the anti worker playbook.
3rd earthquake hit Turkey
Did anyone else read how America warned its people to leave there 5 days before the 1st quake hit and that there was a warning not to travel there? One politician said that the earthquake was man made.
@snoopydawg Where did you read that,
Where did you read that, Snoops? Sounds like people being warned not to fly on 9/11.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
10% for the Big Guy!
Can't let the golden opportunity (gravy train) go to waste.
Fuck that, Biden should leave, he is way too old /nt
https://www.euronews.com/live
well that was impolite, but he has brought much pain
to Germany and probably to many other countries, but I can't follow the news correctly.
anymore.
https://www.euronews.com/live
I just saw Lyle Lovett in concert last week. So, Bears!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thanks otc
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 --