4/24 - International Sculpture Day
~~ USC Mascot
It is International Sculpture Day, though, in the US, one must be careful what one sculpts or displays because we have a plethora of hardcore bluenoses in this country who are always on the lookout for anything that could, by any stretch of the imagination, be deemed to be a representation of or symbol standing for any of the so-called "naughty bits" of any organism that may be deemed to have any such. Ah well, such is life.
On 04/24/1955 the Bandung Conference ended. Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finished a meeting that condemned colonialism, neocolonialism, racism, and the Cold War. The countries had a population of 1.5 billion and costituted 54% of the world's population. Needless to say, that counted for nothing in the eyes and minds of the non-non-aligned nations. Per da Wiki:
A 10-point "declaration on promotion of world peace and cooperation", called Dasasila Bandung (Bandung's Ten Principles, or Bandung Spirit, or Bandung Declaration; styled after Indonesia's Pancasila; or Ten Principles of Peaceful Coexistence[22]), incorporating the principles of the United Nations Charter as well as Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence was adopted unanimously as item G in the final communiqué of the conference:[23]
1. Respect for fundamental human rights and for the purposes and principles of the charter of the United Nations
2. Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations
3. Recognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations large and small
4. Abstention from intervention or interference in the internal affairs of another country
5. Respect for the right of each nation to defend itself, singly or collectively, in conformity with the charter of the United Nations
6. (a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defence to serve any particular interests of the big powers
(b) Abstention by any country from exerting pressures on other countries
7. Refraining from acts or threats of aggression or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country
8. Settlement of all international disputes by peaceful means, such as negotiation, conciliation, arbitration or judicial settlement as well as other peaceful means of the parties own choice, in conformity with the charter of the United Nations
9. Promotion of mutual interests and cooperation
10. Respect for justice and international obligationsThe final Communique of the Conference underscored the need for developing countries to loosen their economic dependence on the leading industrialised nations by providing technical assistance to one another through the exchange of experts and technical assistance for developmental projects, as well as the exchange of technological know-how and the establishment of regional training and research institutes.
Naturally, this was anathema to the neocolonial US, NATO, and Europe's colonial powers. I mean Ike and Dulles? Heh. The US in particular tried to undermine it and immediately formed a working group including the CIA and other usual suspects in order to find some way of dealing with it. Historically, the Western Powers simply completely ignored it except to pay lip service to some of the ideas set forth while violating them on the ground at every turn.
On this day in history:
On this day in:
1479 BCE -- Thutmose III took the throne of Egypt and Hatshepsut took control
1184 BCE -- The fall of Troy.
1800 -- The US Library of Congress was established by law
1877 -- Russian Empire declared war on Ottoman Empire starting the Russo-Turkish War.
1895 -- Joshua Slocum sailed from boston in the Spray
1914 -- The Franck-Hertz experiment was presented to the German Physical Society
1915 -- The arrest of 250 Armenians in Istanbul started the Armenian Genocide.
1916 -- The Easter Rising (Ireland)
1923 -- Sigmund Freud published The Ego and the Id, two fictions
1932 -- The mass trespass of Kinder Scout
1933 -- Nazi Germany started persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses
1955 – The Bandung Conference ended
1957 -- The Suez Canal was reopened
1990 -- The Hubble Space Telescope was launched
1996 -- The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 was signed into law by Bill Clinton
2004 -- The US lifted sanctions it had imposed on Libya in 1986 in order to gull them into complacency before waging war upon them.
2011 – WikiLeaks started publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
Happy Easter Britannia
Some people who were born on this day:
It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.
~~ Anthony Trollope
1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, pianist and composer
1743 -- Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom
1815 -- Anthony Trollope, author
1862 – Tomitaro Makino, botanist
1878 -- Jean Crotti, painter
1880 -- Gideon Sundback, developer of the zipper
1880 -- Josef Muller, entomologist
1899 – Oscar Zariski, mathematician and academic
1904 -- Willem de Kooning, painter
1905 -- Robert Penn Warren, writer
1919 – David Blackwell, mathematician and academic
1928 – Johnny Griffin, saxophonist
1931 -- Bridget Riley, painter (Op Art)
1937 -- Joe Henderson, composer and soxophonist
1940 -- Sue Grafton, A is for author, W is for writer
1941 -- John Williams, composer and guitarist
1942 -- Richard M. Daley, some sort of Capo in Chitown
1942 -- Barbra Streisand, singer and actress
1943 – Richard Sterban, country and gospel bass singer
1944 -- Bernard St. Clair Lee, singer
1944 -- Tony Visconti, record producer
1945 -- Doug Clifford, drummer and songwriter
1947 – Claude Dubois, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1948 -- David Ingram, songwriter and keyboards player
1951 – Nigel Harrison, bass player and songwriter
1963 -- Paula Frazer, guitarist, singer, and songwriter
1963 -- Billy Gould, bassist and songwriter
1966 -- David Usher, activist, singer and songwriter
1982 -- Kelly Clarkson, American Idol winner
Some people who died on this day:
I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.
~~ Daniel Defoe
1731 -- Daniel Defoe, author and spook
1941 – Karin Boye, author and poet
1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, author
1947 -- Willa Cather, author and poet
1960 – Max von Laue, physicist and academic
1970 -- Otis Spann, pianist and singer
1974 -- Bud Abbott, Lou's bud.
1975 -- Pete Ham, guitarist, singer and songwriter
1993 – Oliver Tambo, lawyer and activist
1993 – Tran Duc Thao, philosopher and theorist
1997 -- Pat Paulsen, probably the best presidential candidate we've ever had
2008 -- Jimmy Giuffre, played clarinet and sax
2017 – Robert Pirsig, author and philosopher
2022 – Andrew Woolfolk, saxophonist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
International Sculpture Day
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia)
Fashion Revolution Day, honestly, you can look it up.
Today's Tunes
Joe Henderson
John Williams
Barbra Streisand
Bernard St. Clair Lee
Tony Visconti
Doug Clifford
David Ingram
Paula Frazer
Billy Gould
David Usher
Kelly Clarkson
Otis Spann
Pete Ham
Jimmy Giuffre
Andrew Woolfolk
Bonus:
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...
Acceptable sculpture is the truth. People removed so many of the Civil War statues, as if to erase history, instead of adding sculptures, plaques, and markers to fill out the story. I remember reading somewhere the most common statues across the US are WWI vintage. Honoring war is our stock and trade.
Hope everyone has a good day. Thanks for the OT and music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
You sure got that right:
That's why Armistice Day (celebrating the outbreak of peace) was converted into Veterans Day. We no longer celebrate VE Day and VJ Day, celebrating the end of a war because we are a warfare state and don't want folks to get the wrong idea.
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 --
Last night
we heard a truck door open and close, right on the road beside our home. Later, a pit bull came to the yard gate. This morning, it is still here. We watered and fed her. Until animal control comes to get her, she will stay in the yard. She is sleeping in my chair on the porch.
She has growths on her hind leg, most likely cancer. With luck, she will be taken by the Houston Humane Society and receive proper care, and be re-homed.
Hell is not hot enough for the person who abandoned her.
Have a fantastic day, one and all.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. Sorry for the dog, but she is lucky
in that her owner(s) abandoned her where they did, instead of someplace where she would receive no help. Dunno what's with people like that. Thanks for caring for her.
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 --
Upon reflection, it occurred to me
that the flip side of abandonment is animal hoarding, keeping an animal whether they have the means to care for it or not. So many people are experiencing economic hardship due to policies of both parties and corporations as well. Now people are encouraged to buy pet insurance to pay for illnesses their pet may get. But of course it’s likely that these insurers will do the same as human health insurers do and deny claims out-of-hand.
Some people just hit the wall economically and can’t care for a beloved pet, rather like desperate new mothers who have abandoned their infants where someone could care for the child. A former neighbor told a “funny” story of a friend of his whose mother asked him to take her beloved toy poodle to the vet to be put down and gave him the money to do so. The “funny” part? He just threw the unfortunate animal out of his sunroof on the interstate and pocketed the money. There are worse people than the pit bull’s owner.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Any pet represents a potential
vet bill. And vets can be very expensive. It is an act of animal cruelty to own a pet you cannot afford. The prospect of pain and suffering is always looming.
My two hardest cases are defending someone who harmed or killed a child, or who harmed or killed an animal.
I would refuse to work for anyone who allegedly tossed a dog onto a highway. I would much prefer to be on his jury.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
We are apparently among those who are lucky enough
not to have experienced economic insecurity throughout our lives. But it does happen to otherwise responsible people who suddenly find themselves unemployed, in a long term illness or otherwise burdened by medical debt.
As for the guy who tossed his mother’s dog out of his sunroof, I was appalled by the story. The man who told the story was an airline pilot, so I don’t know where it happened. Georgia now has a law that treats animal cruelty very seriously, since it leads to more and more cruelty.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Anyone can find themselves
without income, and it can happen very suddenly.
What I am referring to is people who do not have sufficient means will still acquire a pet. That can become a tragic situation.
I would have smacked that pilot in his mouth.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening Lily. It did occur to me that some might
abandon pets due to sudden financial hardship, but it seems to me that they could at least take them to a shelter.
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 once tried to rehome our cat when it attacked our toddler.
Shelters wouldn’t have her and the rescue I contacted shamed me by saying that I had adopted our cat until it became too “inconvenient.” She had severely scratched up both my daughter’s calves with her back claws. I had to take her to the hospital where she was strapped to a backboard while her scratches were scrubbed with Betadine. My daughter cried and begged to be let go. It was a bit more than inconvenient. In the end we ended up keeping the cat. It’s not as easy to rehome a pet as one might think.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
While I might understand the sentiment
over the animal, I am afraid I must disagree with the actions.
I live in apartment and I see the effects of a totally unregulated pet environment. When I chose this apartment it was influenced quite a bit by the pet policy. Breed restrictions based upon size and temperament was an essential part of that. There was a mandatory DNA registration to identify droppings. There is a requirement for all pets to be leashed when outside the residence of the owner. A limit of 2 pets per residence with a total weight limit. The owner is subject to additional fees. Over the last few months there has been little enforcement.
This pet business has become quite a lucrative industry that exploits the unsuspecting victims, both human and animal, and milks them for as much as the market can bear. Easy to get a pet, next to impossible to get rid of.
I'm afraid this industry is as bad or worse than the tobacco or drug industry.
Long ago my wife and I decided that our lifestyle and activities could not support any pet. I have never judged anyone who chose a different path but I have often been judged.
(added) As I thought about it, I think so much of what we are going thru as a society is a direct result of the attitude of so many people who believe that rules and laws don't apply to them, that for whatever reason they are privileged. I think that comes from no one being in charge who cares more about people than profit.
Good evening exindy. I'd certainly wager that the crux of it
is at least mostly as you said;
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 have prepared all the non-profit
LLC documents to form animal rescue charities, and did it pro bono.
I think paying thousands of bucks for some designer dog or cat is just ridiculous. That is my personal judgment.
We all judge everybody. It is in our nature to do so. I no longer have a lifestyle that accommodates pets, and I am trying to use my best judgment, as you and your wife have done.
It is so true that laws are not believed to apply to everyone.I do hope the rules and restrictions at your apartment complex will become enforced.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Bluenoses and naughty bits
When I read your comment about sculptures, a memory popped into my mind from when JFK was president. There were people who wanted Jackie Kennedy to put pants on her horses. There have always been people with some nutty ideas about body parts.
Good morning Granma, good to "see" you. Didn't
recall, or maybe never knew about that, but it isn't the least surprising. Thanks for reading and for that bit of information.
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 --
OOPS, got the wrong John Williams up there, try this one
he does a really slick Asturias, but some sob blocked that and a few other faves,
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 --
AOC got her wish
.
She said that Fox should cancel Carlson….
Did he ever release more of the 1/6 videos after Schumer threatened him not to do so? Dunno since I don’t watch him, but I don’t remember seeing any more. But maybe he will release them if he lands on his feet somewhere else or has his own show? Yes of course the shitlibs are happy as pigs in mud. Some said that Fox News is an addiction…but of course watching MSDNC all day isn’t. Doh!
HMMM!
Morning snoops. They're asking for and wallowing in
ignorance. I was looking for quotes by JS Mill the other night and found several on point to our current censorship and cancellation fetish:
should suffice to cover it. But, just to expand the playing field:
be well and have a good one
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 --
Seems like an interesting day for the MSM
Both Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon got bojoed!
Curious as to where Carlson will land. Lemon not so much.
LOL
Full message:
Lemon is lucky he lasted so long
Seems he was a misogynist and all around jerk going back to 2009 and he had many chances and warnings to clean himself up and just kept pushing boundaries. Remember he thought anyone who didn’t get jabbed should be ejected from society. I’ve only seen short clips of him and that was too much.
Heh, I'm hip to Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bob Lemon, and
Meadowlark Lemon but no Don Lemon. I'm guessing that's just as well.
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 --
Lemon said that he was fired without warning
Who said that Mondays aren’t interesting.
Worth a full read!
An excerpt from the article:
Interesting if true
Maybe he will pull a Rogan and go on Spotify. Except it looks like Rogan has had his wings clipped some. I don’t think this story is going to end soon, but it’s curious how AOC was on the Psakiopath's show yesterday and both of them were calling for him to be cancelled. Industry insider information?
Pat Paulson
My favorite line from him:
I've upped my standards, so up yours.
We are keeping the dog.
She deserves some good care, we deserve a gentle pooch.
She is named, "Poochie".
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981