July 3, 2017 Open Thread; Iran Air 655 downed by USS Vincennes
July 3 is the 184th day of the year. There are 181 days left.
Today's number is 3
3 is a prime
3 is the first odd prime (but aren't they all just a little bit odd?)
3 is the first Fermat Prime;
3 is the first Mersenne Prime;
3 is the only prime that is both a Fermat Prime and a Mersenne Prime
Simple fractions with 3 in the denominator have infinite repeats of a single digit in decimal form (including zero)
The smallest polygon is the 3 sided triangle
3 points in space determine a plane
3 points in space alse determine a circle
A natural number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3.
If a number is divisible by 3, so is its reverse, like 123 & 321
3 is lithium.
3 was Babe Ruth
3 is the number of spatial dimensions humans can perceive.
Basketball has a 3 point basket and a 3 second rule.
A football field goal is 3 points
3 strikes and you're out
3 outs per team per inning
3 Rs
3 Musketeers
3 Blind Mice
3 Wise Men
In The Hunting of the Snark (A Poem in Eight Fits), the Bellman declares the rule of 3: "What i tell you three times is true." It is proven later in the Poem thusly --
NOW PAY ATTENTION HERE:
"Taking Three as the subject to reason about -
A convenient number to state -
We add Seven, and Ten, and then multiply out
By One Thousand diminished by Eight."
"The result we proceed to divide, as you see,
By Nine Hundred and Ninety and Two:
Then subtract Seventeen, and the answer must be
Exactly and perfectly true."
-- Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark (A Poem in Eight Fits)
The "Rule of Thirds" is an alleged rule of composition for painting, photography and the like.
Somebody who is 3 sheets to the wind is drunk
10-3 is the police and emergency code for "stop transmitting"
"Code 3" means "Emergency response; lights and siren"
And that brings us to the highway
Beyond that -
"Almost all" integers contain the digit 3
Title 3 of the US Code is The President.
3 BCE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Messalla
Seneca was born, also Servius Sulpicius Galba ( a Roman Emperor)
3 CE
was the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Servilius
Pontius Pilate was appointed prefect of Judea.
Tiberius retired to Capri
On this day in:
1778 – British forces killed 360 people in the Wyoming Valley massacre (in Pennsylvania).
1819 – The first savings bank in the US opened
1839 – The first state normal school in the US opened
1844 – The last pair of great auks was killed
1848 – The slaves were freed in the Danish West Indies
1886 – Karl Benz first displayed the Benz Patent-Motorwagen,
1886 – The New-York Tribune became the first paper to use a linotype.
1898 – A US naval squadron won the Battle of Santiago de Cuba "freeing" Cuba from Spain
1979 – Carter signed the first directive for aid to the opponents of the Afghan government, you know, feuding warlords, Bin Ladin, Al Qada, the Taliban, whoever.
1988 – The USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing all 290 people on board
2013 – Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was overthrown by a military coup.
Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air regularly scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai. The Airbus A300 flying on this route was shot down by the USS Vincennes killing all 290 people on board. The attack by the US warship took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters while the plane's IFF was actively squawking in a mode identifying it as a civilian aircraft. Though some of the ship's crew lied about it, the ships combat system verified the squawk mode.
Unable to claim that they thought it was on drugs or reaching for a gun, the US instead claimed that the captain and crew thought that the 290 passenger airliner climbing to cruising altitude at a few hundred knots was really a vastly smaller F-14 Tomcat diving directly at the ship at around Mach 2 with intent to attack it. This preposterous idea was, of course, to be believed because of the "Tonkin Gulf" syndrome. This is the mind set common to US police in black neighborhoods and US troops in the vicinity of non-allied nation states whereby the task isn't to ascertain what is going on, but merely to conjure up any remotely possible justification for launching an armed attack, regardless of how implausible it might be.
(It must be remembered that we were trying to support our good buddy and ally Saddam Hussein in his war against our hated foe Iran, which had had the temerity to oust the brutal fascist rat-bastard that we had hand picked to run their country when we overthrew their elected government.)
Born this day in:
1878 -- George M. Cohan, singer, dancer, actor and songwriter
1879 -- Alfred Korzybski, mathematician, linguist, philosopher, inventor of general semantics
1883 -- Franz Kafka, author
1893 -- Mississippi John Hurt, singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
1908 -- M. F. K. Fisher, author, foodie, founder of Napa Valley Wine Library
1913 -- Dorothy Kilgallen, joournalist and game show panelist
1922 -- Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, aka Corneille, sculpter and painter
1926 -- Johnny Coles, trumpet player
1930 -- Pete Fountain, clarinetist
1930 -- Tommy Tedesco, guitarist and member of The Wrecking Crew, most recorded guitarist evar
1937 -- Tom Stoppard, playwright and screenwriter
1940 -- Fontella Bass, singer and songwriter
1941 -- Gloria Allred, civil rights lawyer and activist
1946 -- Johnny Lee, singer & guitarist
1948 -- Paul Barrere, guitrist, singer & songwriter
1949 -- Johnnie Wilder, Jr., singer
1951 -- Jean-Claude Duvalier, Baby Doc, despot beloved of Reagan and other US honchos.
~~ The map is not the territory ~~ Korzybski
~~ Your model is the only reality you'll ever have ~~ enhydra
Died this day in:
1503 -- Pierre d'Aubusson, Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, cardinal, anti-semite
1672 -- Francis Willughby, ornithologist
1795 -- Antonio de Ulloa, scientist, explorer, general, politician, astronomer, co-discovered platinum
1863 -- Little Crow, Mdewakanton Dakota chief betrayed by the US.
1904 -- Theodor Herzl, one of the fathers of modern day zionism.
1969 -- Brian Jones, guitarist, songwriter and producer
1971 -- Jim Morrison, singer and songwriter buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery
1986 -- Rudy Vallee, singer, saxophonist & actor
2007 -- Boots Randolph, sax player
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Women's Day (Myanmar)
So, for music Karl Benz and the Benz Patent-Motorwagen George M. Cohan Mississippi John Hurt Johnny Coles Pete Fountain Tommy Tedesco Fontella Bass Johnny Lee Paul Barrere Johnnie Wilder, Jr. Francis Willughby Brian Jones Jim Morrison Rudy Vallee Boots Randolph-
Karl Benz and the Benz Patent-Motorwagen
George M. Cohan
Mississippi John Hurt
Johnny Coles
Pete Fountain
Tommy Tedesco has a zillion gold records, all headlined by other groups and singers
Fontella Bass
Johnny Lee
Paul Barrere
Johnnie Wilder, Jr.
Francis Willughby, heh
Brian Jones
Jim Morrison
Rudy Vallee
Boots Randolph
Bonus:
Mississippi John Hurt
Brian Jones et al,
Tommy Tedesco
The other side of Boots Randolph and ...
Comments
They Say...
[video:https://youtu.be/75Bko3EJwus]
Thanks; another group I'm not familiar with
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 --
morning el...
hoping everyone enjoys today and a respite from the grind tomorrow.
Good morning Smiley7. Neighborhood potluck here -
with prep starting today. As a retiree, that's as close to a grind as I get.
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 --
Tiberius had good taste in retirement venues, having
retired to Rhodes before retiring to Capri. Good thing, too, as he apparently also had a habit of (among other things) retiring.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLUnyqVcqc]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius
So, after the chronically cuckolded and e'er unrequited Tiberius retired to Capri, locals who put stock in the salacious sorties of Suetonius, said, "There goes the neighborhood," (ou, en français, capri c'ést fini)(very rough translation).
[video: https://youtu.be/YkB6G4lLCIg?t=2]
In other 3-related news:
In once-French Louisiana, the "Holy Trinity" of diced carrots, onions and peppers is used to start soups and many dishes. In France and elsewhere, however, diced carrots, onions and celery are used for that purpose and are referred to collectively as "mirepoix," while the "Holy Trinity" means something else entirely. And, if you ask a fundamentalist of and to whom God was speaking in this verse (which, btw, is pivotal for Dominionists),
1 Genesis 6 (KJV)
the fundamentalist might say, "The other two members of the Holy Trinity, duh."
At least, that was the answer I got when I asked.
Three shall be the number
God was using the royal We, of course. He talked to himself a lot.
Anyway, that's one of those questions you are not supposed to ask. Just follow along, if you know what's good for you.
Anyone who reads my posts can glean that what is good for me
is seldom, if ever, a consideration for me. So, yes, I did ask. A nun, no less.
Funny you should bring up mirepoix - I have to go start one
to start a red sauce for Lasagna for tomorrow before it gets too hot here.
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 --
Very ambitious! Bon appétit
FWIW, no Italian I know starts either sauce (meatless) or gravy (with meat) with mirepoix, only with oil, garlic and onions. Some do recommend adding one carrot for extra sweetness, but they are in the minority among those I know well enough to discuss such things. No celery, though.
Food trivia: tomatoes are healthier cooked than raw, a rarity in the world of fruits and veg.
Heh - Isle of Capri takes me back to a guy I first heard in
high school - Paul Sykes:
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 --
Three is a magic number...
[video:https://youtu.be/aU4pyiB-kq0]
[video:https://youtu.be/dLBx3g8cowY]
Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.
The phrase "Magic Number" makes me think of baseball
because that's the first application of the term I ever heard. Later I learned that there is one in physics and in programming.
There is, I eventually learned, one in math too, but it isn't 3, and is often called the Ramanujan number instead: 1729> It's the only number that is the sum of the cubes of two different sets of numbers. There's at least one numberphile video on it.
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 --
Ohhhh noooes...
I just had a Benny Hill flashback...
Have a nice day all and remember Flight 655.
I want a Pony!
Hope you enjoyed it. I remember, when I first discovered Benny
Hill, having a music flashback. Have a good day and a good week.
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 --
Now I can't....
get 'Yakity Sax' out of my head. Ugh!
I want a Pony!
My usual earworm cure is Brenton Woods'
Oogum Boogum, drives out the ear worm without becoming one itself
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 didn't remember Flight 655 and your headline
just made me shout: 'Oh, no.'
So, ahem, please have mercy with the little people's bad memory. Never needed the great music offerings you posted more than right now. Ok, I dutifully remember the downing of Flight 655 now.
Thanks.
Me too, Mimi.
I thought oh no, WTF have we done now.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
me three
I thought it happened today....cause it probably could happen today! Glad it is a blast from the past (1988)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
Hope you all have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
@Lookout I thought,did those
I thought,did those dumbasses do it gain? My heart raced.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I didn't know about that incident
1988 was during my approximately decade-long news boycott, during which time I actively avoided all mass media news coverage including tv and newspapers. There was no internet in those days, and I had come to the conclusion the "news" was inaccurate and sketchy at best, and a lot of it was simply outright lies and propaganda -- overall, better avoided than willingly consumed. And there was the incessant advertising, which I can't tolerate well. So I turned it off and tuned it out. I became good at screening and keeping my focus on other aspects of life.
So this incident where the US shot down a passenger jet full of people over another country was one of the many things I avoided knowing about during that time.
Wow. I'm really not sure how I feel about that. At the time, avoiding news and being intentionally out of the know was in my best interests on a personal level, I know that. But it's pertinent because in today's media environment sometimes I want to unplug again.
I think about how much harder it would be now, with the internet being so vital to daily life, to actually unplug and tune it out. And I don't know if it's a good idea or not. When all we hear is how everything is a lie, and it's impossible to know truth from fiction, I sometimes get tempted to go back to just reading fiction, that is stories that are honest about being stories. But I no longer feel comfortable with choosing to not know what is happening in the real world. I just wish for reliable information... sigh, yeah, and a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow too.
Happy Monday everyone.
Of course, it is hard to go anywhere today without encountering
TV on the way or at the destination, plus other people always talking about the latest "News", sometimes actual and sometimes personalities.
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 --
Sorry.
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 --
Sorry about that mimi. Ya gotta remembe that my Monday OT
is done in advance and is, hence, historical. I guess I could edit in breaking news, but I'd definitely identify it as "Breaking !!"
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 --
@mimi
Me, too! Skimming down the side menu, my eye just caught that an Iranian passenger plane had been downed by the US and my heart nearly stopped while I scrambled to get the page to come up to find that at least it wasn't, after all, another new mass murder of civilians. Bet that nasty scare blew some carbon out of my system!
You'd think that the PTB/military could be happy with all of the men, women and children they're already murdering around the globe and that perhaps they could stop now and live in their gory memories...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
They're ghouls, there can never be enough dead to
satisfy them.
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 --
Three is a Magic Number.
...my favorite Schoolhouse Rock song.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Completely unfamiliar prior to the posts today - we got our
first TV when I was about 8 or so, and that program most definitely did not exist - not that many did, especially that we could pull in with our antenna. I wouldn't have watched anyway, by that time, there was some "children's TV", but there was also tons of stuff to do (and read) and a fabulous climate where I grew up.
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 --
Oh, THAT time — when one of our rulers’ gunboats did a Lockerbie
on a civilian airliner, because that’s what we do.
I seem to recall having seen German TV news at the time, where there was this man from Dubai wailing and lamenting because eleven members of his family had been on Flight 655 and wham! just like that he had lost them all, at a single stroke.
Yep. "Wahl. we thunk it had a hostile look about it
so we shot it down. Ya gotta problem with that?"
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 --
If it had happeded during Obama's tenure, he would say
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Sadly true.
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 --
nah, he just would do this
[video:https://youtu.be/1Hq8awi9Oaw]
That was the first time I got my doubts about him, very early on. As it turns out my guts told me the right stuff. In the comments beneath the video, someone said seven years ago...
What the heck it's over and done with.
Major internet problems today. My DSL connex stops
after every post. Now by letter input. Summer!
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Sorry to hear it, that is maddening.
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 --
Angela Merkel writes in her diary — Deep State crew quite amused
— cartoon by Gerhard Seyfried
Translation: